Sentences with phrase «as high performing schools»

Recognized by California Honor Roll as a high performing school, distinguished for academic achievement and closing achievement gaps.

One of his Los Angeles schools, which uses a lot of technology in the classroom, recently posted test scores so high (API = 991 *) that it not only ranked as the highest performing school in the Los Angeles school district, but also the 10th highest performing elementary school in the State of California.

Not exact matches

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I went to a performing arts high school, pursued biotech in university and landed in software as a professional.

The Bears start their pregame routine by performing the HAKA (Warrior Dance) led by # 53 Moala Tautuaa who transferred from Tonga as he went to Toloa High School known for their rugby traditions.

The Angelo State grad performed well in his roles — 2010 5A II state champion at Steele High School, 2011 state runner up, mentor for Tech RB DeAndre Washington as he rushed for 2,500 yards in 2014 - 15 — but if nothing else, the geography was confusing.

Newbury Park High School, our most consistently performing boys team, was as always, a force to be reckoned with.

She pointed to one patient, a high school athlete, who had clearly recovered from his concussion - to the point that he was performing in the superior range on neuropsychological testing and getting As in school - who was nevertheless so worried, anxious, and paranoid about hurting his head again that he thought he'd suffered another concussion when he happened to turn his head quickly from side to side!

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation has selected 578 top performing high school seniors with financial need to advance as semifinalists for its College Scholarship Program, the largest undergraduate scholarship in the country.

This was during the first few years of the Harlem Children Zone's middle school, which were a struggle, and those KIPP schools, which had very good test results, were for the Promise Academy administrators both a standard to be aspired to and a frustrating reminder that their own students weren't performing at the same high level as KIPP's students.

Five high - school seniors will take that extra step Sunday when they perform as part of the annual Élan Dance Company Showcase in Naperville.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

«If we had higher performing and safer schools, I wouldn't be calling for such dramatic action as mayoral responsibility of the schools,» Lavine said.

Connor Sick of Rocky Point High School wanted to know «why failure is being used as a weapon» to try to get children to perform better in sSchool wanted to know «why failure is being used as a weapon» to try to get children to perform better in schoolschool.

One commonly used definition of a «good» school is one that has high academic outcomes in absolute terms - its students don't drop out, frequently go to college, frequently go to selective colleges if they do go to college, frequently find decent jobs if they don't go to college, perform well on standardized tests, take more advanced classes such as advanced placement, international baccalaureate, honors and college classes, etc..

Cuomo included $ 75 million in the budget for reform initiatives, including expanding pre-K as well as creating community schools, extending the school day or year, and rewarding high - performing teachers.

None of the schools in the City School District of New Rochelle were designated as «high performing» or «high progress».

He is helped by the fact Success» so - called #SaveOurPreK campaign has failed to garner anything approaching the amount of attention as the school space battle, when Moskowitz was making front - page news regularly for declaring that de Blasio was effectively shuttering high - performing charter schools.

Seven years later, Malkin launched Global Public Service Academies, which trains high school students to perform 117 simple tasks such as changing batteries, replacing blown fuses, and swapping out faulty plugs.

NAATs are too complex, however, to perform in point - of - care settings such as physicians» offices, health fairs, school clinics, or other sexual health outreach venues, and they also have a high per - test cost.

In the nine countries that agreed to participate in that third test, students taking the most challenging math and science courses in their senior year were found to have performed progressively worse as they moved from elementary to middle to high school.

Similarly, the team found that children with lower executive function were not at a disadvantage in Montessori schools, and performed as well as those with higher executive function.

Strikingly, children from low - income families, who typically don't perform as well at school, show similar academic performance as children from high - income families.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

As a new extension of our CLOµDS teacher professional development program, we've recently initiated a club at Trenton Central High School that gives students the opportunity to build an experiment that will be performed in microgravity.

Biography: Born in Korea and raised in San Jose, California, Linda Park began performing in theatre productions in high school and went on to study acting at Boston University where she received a B.F.A. Only one year after graduation, she joined the cast of Enterprise as Ensign Hoshi Sato.

Brewer seems to understand that youth culture, both as performed and as consumed, is no longer hierarchical in quite the same way that Hollywood has been portraying it as since the»50s — that high school, like so much else on the planet, no longer operates according to the traditional power pyramid.

If fame is as fickle as winning a lottery, then maybe the best ticket to the top is acceptance into the New York City High School of Performing Arts.

A former Saginaw High School drama teacher hopes to reopen it under the name Downtown Cowtown at the Isis as a performing arts auditorium in the middle of new hotels at the gateway to the redeveloping Stockyards.

Sutter, a senior who is the self - proclaimed life of every party, actively performs this nostalgia even as his high school memories are still forming.

The film finds dramatic visuals, an invaluable and often challenging part of any documentary, for its conclusion, as the profiled families attend public lotteries where they hope to beat the long odds of getting into a high - performing charter school whose applicants may outnumber its vacancies by more than ten times.

A docudrama mapping the trials of real - life teacher Francois Begaudeau over the course of one year in a rough Paris high school, work shopped and performed by actual students, any concerns of gimmickry or over-earnestness dissipate as the film's searing insight and joyful wit carry the viewer through an all - too - brief 130 minutes.

Fame Rated PG for thematic material including teen drinking, a sexual situation and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray This update of the original 1980 film follows the lives of a group of students at the New York City High School of Performing Arts as they go through their Freshmen through Senior years.

Jonathan has sex for the first time with Elena, and at this point «Jonathan» feels like David Cronenberg's «Dead Ringers» (1988) as performed by cute young high - school kids.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

According to a 2003 report in a Maryland newspaper, a local high school English teacher, as part of a lesson on Henry David Thoreau, urged his students to perform a «nonconformist act.»

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

«With more than 80 per cent of council maintained schools currently rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted, and only three of the 20 largest academy chains viable to take on additional schools, high performing maintained schools should also be able to sponsor struggling schools, without having to go through academy status first.

High school students using PBL in American studies performed as well on multiple - choice tests as students who received a traditional model of instruction, and they showed a deeper understanding of content (Gallagher & Stepien, 1996).

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

The bottom line is that Florida high school students taking Algebra or English I online perform at least as well on state math and reading tests as do students taking the same courses in a traditional format.

As I visit schools throughout Finland this week, I'm wondering if this notion of student voice transcends cultural boundaries and exists in high - performing countries such as FinlanAs I visit schools throughout Finland this week, I'm wondering if this notion of student voice transcends cultural boundaries and exists in high - performing countries such as Finlanas Finland.

Our version of PBL did work to improve achievement as compared to business - as - usual instruction in high - poverty, low - performing school districts.

Currently employed as a Subject Leader for ICT at a high performing secondary school in Yorkshire, England this management role involves him in not only leading a department, managing the staff, teaching 11 to 18 year old students in the study of ICT and Computing but also responsibilities whole school and to feeder primary schools.

Of particular note is the North East, which as a region has virtually no high performing schools.

Amongst secondary schools, 33 per cent were identified as high - performing and 17 per cent were noted as «in need».

In just two years, Revere High School (RHS) went from a low - performing school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School (RHS) went from a low - performing school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San school as classified by the Massachusetts Department of Education to winning the 2014 High School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School Gold Award at the National Center for Urban School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San School Transformation (NCUST) conference in San Diego.

As a young man Michael Wamaya was forced to drop out of high school for financial reasons, but a chance audition with the visiting Kenya Performing Arts Group allowed him to move to Nairobi and study dance.

Just six months later, the school had jumped up three levels, from being labeled by the state as a «performing» school to the highest label, «excelling.»

As a leader who co-founded a high - performing charter school network and charter support organization, and who now leads Chiefs for Change, an organization of state and district leaders committed to educational excellence, I'm an ardent charter supporter — and I'm arguing for taking a look in the mirror.