Sentences with phrase «beyond schoolhouse»

Our hope is that these resources can help states and communities build on their successes; identify further opportunities and priorities for improving the prospects of their students; spur collaboration and coordination beyond the schoolhouse doors; and promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence learning and truly prepare students for success in college, career, and citizenship.

Since children spend most of their time — and do much of their learning and developing — outside of the classroom, what happens beyond the schoolhouse obviously shapes how they fare in class.

The legislation also indicates that one purpose of the recognition program is to help spur systemic collaboration and coordination within and beyond schoolhouse doors and to promote a shift from narrowly defined student achievement and traditional education reform to broader, more comprehensive efforts that recognize the crucial out - of - school factors that influence teaching and learning.

When teachers seek to have an impact beyond the schoolhouse, however, they've often gone about it in a manner that seems calculated to deliver disappointing results.

The 23,500 - student district is in the third year of a collaborative project with the nonprofit Providence After School Alliance that enables students to earn digital badges and even course credit for experiences that take place beyond the schoolhouse doors.

But the world beyond the schoolhouse is crucial to education; and both traditional and new media are more important than ever.

Not exact matches

Salman Khan, the former hedge fund analyst who founded the popular Khan Academy series of educational videos, spells out the virtues of blended learning in his new book, The One World Schoolhouse (see «To YouTube and Beyond,» book reviews, Summer 2013).

As Salman Khan, the media's personification of the flipped - classroom, observes in The One World Schoolhouse, «Although it makes class time more interactive and lectures more independent, the «flipped classroom» still has students moving together in age - based cohorts at roughly the same pace, with snapshot exams that are used more to label students than address their weaknesses» (see «To YouTube and Beyond,» book reviews, Summer 2013).

The ultimate measures of success happen beyond the classrooms of any given K - 12 schoolhouse.

For that, too, it would have to shut a treasured public attraction every Saturday in July, all so that it could put on a concert, in MoMA's one addition to the red - brick schoolhouse beyond a coat room — a sculpture garden without sculpture or a garden.

When it comes to the rest of the year and beyond, start planning ahead for the best bargains on clothing, books, pencils, notepads, and all other schoolhouse necessities.