Sentences with phrase «assessments meet higher standards»

This includes training principals and teachers on the new standards, designing and purchasing high - quality curricula, making sure assessments meet higher standards, and securing technology for the new state exam.

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Specific policies include researching methods to improve indoor air quality; instituting a Clean Water Act to ensure Albertans have safe drinking water; protecting provincial parks and ecological reserves; requiring government to meet high environmental standards in their operations; requiring Ecological Assessments for all large projects in the province; and establishing an Alberta environmental ombudsman and elected Ecological Impact Assessment Review Panels to monitor environmental impacts and halt projects.

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

Each 10 week project called a «Capstone» is designed thematically to meet the Ohio state standards, make connections to Higher Ed and be relevant to industry needs and includes one to two deliverables for assessment.

AUGUSTA — As Maine shifts to a proficiency - based system by 2018, the 2014 - 15 Smarter Balanced Assessment scores in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 through 8 and the third year of high school are the first statewide assessment of our students» accomplishments in meeting Maine's college and career readiness standards.

Helping states meet Title I's requirement that they have challenging content and performance standards in at least math and English / language arts by the fall of 1997 and high - quality aligned assessments by 2000 - 2001.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your South Dakota Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet South Dakota's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SBAC assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Hawaii Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Hawaii's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SBA assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Alabama Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Alabama's grade - level standards and provides practice for the AL - Scantron and AL - ACTA assessments.

High - quality standards - aligned item banks with the breadth and depth to meet both formative and benchmark assessment needs.

Risk Level Summary Utilizes state - of - the - art statistical analyses to identify the number of students who are On Course or at Low, Moderate, or High Risk for not meeting standards on the statewide assessment.

National Board Certification, that complements, but does not replace, a state's teacher license, is achieved upon successful completion of a voluntary assessment program designed to recognize effective and accomplished teachers who meet high and rigorous standards established by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Kentucky Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Kentucky's grade - level standards and provides practice for the K - PREP, KY - ACT, and KYOTE assessments.

Dian Schaffhauser reports that, as states sort out their science standards «all of them are expected to adhere to «high - quality» summative science assessments that meet federal requirements» as defined under Title 1 Part A of ESSA.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Oregon Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Oregon's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SBAC assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Michigan Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Michigan's grade - level standards and provides practice for the M - STEP assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your New Hampshire Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet New Hampshire's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SBAC and NH - SAT assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your North Carolina Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet North Carolina's grade - level standards and provides practice for the NC READY assessments.

Our careful development of CBMreading in Spanish has led to a set of assessment materials that meet high standards from technical and linguistic perspectives.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Rhode Island Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Rhode Island's grade - level standards and provides practice for the RICAS ELA, RI - PSAT, RI - SAT assessments.

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that every student has access to an equal, fair, and high - quality education that meets, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Louisiana Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Louisiana's grade - level standards and provides practice for the LEAP and EOC assessments.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your U.S. Virgin Islands Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet U.S. Virgin Islands's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SBAC assessments.

There are two main areas of the DOE requirements that Indiana is not meeting: Monitoring (following up with low performing schools) and implementing college and career ready standards with a high - quality assessment to test them.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Massachusetts Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Massachusetts's grade - level standards and provides practice for the MCAS - ELA assessments.

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Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Utah Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Utah's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SAGE assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your New York Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet New York's grade - level standards and provides practice for the CC - ELA and Regents assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Pennsylvania Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Pennsylvania's grade - level standards and provides practice for the PSSA and Keystone assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Nebraska Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Nebraska's grade - level standards and provides practice for the NeSA - ELA and NE - ACT assessments.

About 56 percent of high school juniors met or exceeded the standard in English language arts as defined by the Smarter Balanced assessment.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Wyoming Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Wyoming's grade - level standards and provides practice for the WY - TOPP and WY - ACT assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Alaska Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Alaska's grade - level standards and provides practice for the PEAKS assessments.

Increasingly, students with disabilities have been included in state assessments, with the expectation for students with disabilities to meet the same high standards as their grade - level peers.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your California Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet California's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SBAC assessments.

With the advent of the Common Core standards and the SBAC assessments, the bar for «meeting the standard» is clearly higher.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

Despite differences in standards, assessments, testing methods, and benchmarks for meeting the standards, there is some overlap between high - performing districts on the SBAC and CST.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Maine Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Maine's grade - level standards and provides practice for the MEA and ME - SAT assessments.

«Well - prepared teachers possess strong content knowledge; they understand how students learn and demonstrate the teaching skills necessary to help all students meet high standards; they can use a variety of assessment strategies to diagnose student learning needs; and they can reflect on their practices to improve instruction in collaboration with their colleagues.»

To meet the nation's growing need for information about what students know and can do, the NAEP assessment instruments must meet the highest standards of measurement reliability and validity.

To be sure, state adoption of college - and career - readiness standards — such as the Common Core State Standards, as well as their aligned, high - quality assessments — meet this requirement.14

States and districts should work together to build the capacity of principals and all teachers — especially content area teachers and career and technical education teachers — to align curriculum and assessments with the expectations of colleges and employers; to offer counseling services that prepare students for high school graduation, college admission, and career success; to engage and motivate students to meet higher standards; and to create positive relationships with parents and community members.

Strong academic standards and an assessment that measures how well students are meeting our high expectations will help Tennessee students graduate ready to take on the world and win.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your International Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet International's grade - level standards and provides practice for the SBAC assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your Kansas Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet Kansas's grade - level standards and provides practice for the KAP assessments.

One approach emphasizes holding all students to the same high academic standards, delivering research - based instruction and rigorous assessment with accurate feedback, and giving students multiple opportunities to meet standards.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your New Mexico Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet New Mexico's grade - level standards and provides practice for the PARCC assessments.

Through deeply differentiated instruction, your North Dakota Edition of Pro helps all students, including high - achievers and struggling readers, meet North Dakota's grade - level standards and provides practice for the NDSA assessments.