Sentences with phrase «approaching academic expectations»

Kimberly Friedman, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas education department, said that officials are «preparing follow - up information to parents and the state» that clarifies that students who score a 3 have only «approached academic expectations,» according to PARCC.

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Dr. Jerry's popular speeches, lectures and seminars have presented assemblies of students, teachers, parents and administrators with practical approaches on how today's teens can overcome the trials and tribulations of growing up, from coping with bullying to meeting parental academic expectations to walking away from drugs and other self - destructive behaviors.

This series — launched in September 2004 — examines the new approaches to leadership in education at a time of increasing academic expectations on schools.

Our first approach measures the relationship between student outcomes and one teacher's expectation, controlling for the other teacher's expectation as well as the student's home background, academic ability, and past grades.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

Approaching new ideas for programming assignments, blogging, video essays and collaborative planning tasks, Berry looked at how expectations of academic rigour and criticality can be balanced with professional relevance and cutting edge technologies.

Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

Competency - based education combines an intentional and transparent approach to curricular design with an academic model in which the time it takes to demonstrate competencies varies and the expectations about learning are held constant.

«In the United States, most standards - based approaches to educating students use state learning standards to determine academic expectations and define proficiency in a given course, subject area, or grade level.»

The IMA proposal fails to meet the district's expectations in four areas, including in its approach to budgeting, staffing and measuring academic growth.

We are proud of our challenging approaches, insistence on accountability, high academic expectations and relentless emphasis on college completion.

Our innovative approaches have raised academic expectations for more than 135,000 students and have also helped more than 12,000 teachers transform their teaching philosophy and practices.

By assuming a comprehensive approach to academic content that holds students to high expectations, institutions of education can expand student learning and subsequently improve readiness for, and success in, a wider variety of postsecondary and career endeavors.