Sentences with phrase «breakthrough schools»

We expect breakthrough schools to put all children on a path to higher education, meaningful work, and rewarding lives.

Breakthrough schools embrace this design challenge, where educators no longer teach to a standardized average; they no longer move the class forward on a predictable path or pace.

Breakthrough schools directly address the effects of poverty and adversity, and they provide enrichment, high expectations, and the deep relationships that all children need to thrive.

The first grant opportunity for Breakthrough School Models for College Readiness launched in October 2011 and awarded grant funding to 20 districts and charter school operators developing new, whole school models.

Overcoming Obstacles will also sponsor the participation of Breakthrough Schools principals in the McKinsey Management Program for School Leaders, an innovative new online executive leadership development program for principals and school leaders.

FLVS has helped districts create a variety of blended - learning models; it was recently awarded one of the Next Generation Learning Challenges planning grants for breakthrough school models.

Learn about NASSP Breakthrough Schools program, which recognizes middle level and high schools that serve large numbers of students in poverty and are high achieving or dramatically improving student achievement.

Within the partnership, Overcoming Obstacles will serve as the exclusive sponsor of NASSP's nationally recognized Breakthrough Schools program, which recognizes successful school leaders who have demonstrated real impact on student outcomes.

The Rogers Family Foundation helps catalyze the design, development, and delivery of personalized learning in breakthrough schools for the Oakland community.

«Breakthrough Schools Chicago reaches public schools all across our city to prepare our kids to succeed with 21st century skills,» said Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The grants were awarded through the Rogers Family Foundation's NGLC in Oakland, one of six sites in the NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools initiative.

Interview with Principal Thomas Dodd 2012 MetLife Foundation - NASSP Breakthrough School principal Thomas Dodd discusses how Lesher Middle School's transformation and very survival was built on the belief that in order to «break ranks» every adult needed to commit to the success of every child.

In Chicago in particular, Leap Innovations is trying to spur the creation of a cluster by not just working on building breakthrough schools, but also on supporting education technology companies by helping them pilot their tools in its schools and collect research.

that inform the work of Breakthrough Schools teams is the concept of student agency, and a belief that students should «take ownership for the pace and pathway of their learning.»

The tools of that three - hour workshop — empathy, prototyping, testing, creativity — are the same tools that teams at Breakthrough Schools will apply to the hard work of school design and redesign.

Since launching Breakthrough Schools: D.C. in 2013, CityBridge has invested in 29 new and existing schools committed to radically transforming education in the District, including Washington Leadership Academy — a new D.C. high school that was also named a winner of the highly competitive XQ Prize in September 2016.

The following design principles guide educators in our portfolio in creating breakthrough schools:

NASSP has identified a number of high - achieving middle and high schools that are serving large numbers of low - income students in a program called Breakthrough Schools.

The meeting includes visits to some of NGLC Breakthrough Schools: Chicago grantee schools.

Cleveland has embraced the nascent Breakthrough Schools coalition, which united several high - performing charters within a common organizational structure.

Candidate Cross-Sector Collaboration to Design Breakthrough School Models: Strategic Community Building for Transcend Monday, April 10, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m., Gutman Conference Center, Area 3

The Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools focused initially on two locations — Washington, D.C. and Chicago — and expanded to include four additional regions in 2014 and one more in 2016.

The NGLC Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools accelerates innovative school redesign at the local level.

Interview with Head of School Mickey Landry 2012 MetLife Foundation - NASSP Breakthrough School Head of School Mickey Landry discusses how his school overcame the challenges of Hurricane Katrina and earned the state's top designation as a «Center of Excellence.»

We work together deeply, often over multiple years, to imagine, design, build, study, codify, and / or spread breakthrough school models.

«It is a privilege to sponsor the highly - regarded Breakthrough Schools program and partner with NASSP on recognizing high - achieving schools and advocating for life skills education in the classroom» said Overcoming Obstacles Chief Executive Officer, Susan Dawson.

NGLC defines breakthrough schools as those that commit to helping students develop genuine college and career readiness by personalizing learning to match student needs; incorporating mastery - based student progress toward rigorous Common Core - linked learning; enlisting students in managing their own learning, in part through the use of technology; and using financially sustainable models capable of serving a growing number of students over time.

Here are a few more breakthrough school grantees working on their elevator pitches and «telling their story:»

Introduce Breakthrough Schools: DC applicants who will share their emerging ideas for school design and redesign and receive feedback from educators throughout Washington, D.C.

Other Breakthrough Schools are exploring multi-age classrooms with student groupings based on skill level; community partnerships that give students real - world, interest - driven education opportunities; and accelerated pathways, allowing students to complete high school content by grade 10, granting them access to college credits in grades 11 and 12.

Ketcham Elementary has won two Breakthrough Schools Bold Performance Awards, in recognition of the high academic performance of the student body and the challenges overcome despite the school's serving an economically disadvantaged demographic.

In 2013, Aylon pioneered the Chicago Breakthrough Schools Fellowship in conjunction with New Schools for Chicago, NGLC, and the Broad Foundation.

The same year, Perry co-founded Breakthrough Schools, a charter management organization comprised of Cleveland's three top performing independent charter schools.

Venture is 1 of 20 winners of the national Next Generation Learning Challenges Wave IIIa competition to identify breakthrough school models, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mark Hennes, Special Projects Supervisor of the Capital Area Intermediate Unit (CAIU) in central Pennsylvania, reached out about a year ago to learn everything he could about the design of NGLC's Breakthrough Schools competition.

We now have active partnerships on track to launch and codify multiple breakthrough school models, each in a different region of the U.S..

What if the key to breakthrough school improvement is not mandating new solutions built on an elusive combination of the right standards, pedagogy, and assessments but removing entrenched bureaucratic barriers and rethinking restrictive norms and routines?

The New England Secondary School Consortium (NESSC) NextGen Personalized Learning Initiative is part of the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools initiative.

Breakthrough Schools Chicago is a regional initiative of the national Next Generation Learning Challenges program, and it is funded by EDUCAUSE, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Chicago Public Education Fund, The Joyce Foundation, and Northern Trust

Breaking Through With a Low - SES Population MetLife Foundation - NASSP Breakthrough School Principal Judith Marty of Mater Academy Charter School in Hialeah Gardens, FL, discusses the importance of analyzing data, bringing parents into the process, and — most important — being present in classrooms regularly.

We're excited to announce the second cohort of Breakthrough Schools: New Orleans personalized learning fellows.

In 2013, in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges, CityBridge launched Breakthrough Schools: D.C., a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition for educators and school leaders to completely redesign and launch schools for the next generation.

Together with many partners, our goal is to create breakthrough schools that are accessible and available to all children in Washington, D.C.

The other initiative, called Breakthrough Schools: DC, is a competition for new or existing schools that are devising new personalized learning models.

Embedded within the Design Principles that inform the work of Breakthrough Schools teams is the concept of student agency, and a belief that students should «take ownership for the pace and pathway of their learning.»

Established in 2007, NASSP's Breakthrough Schools program recognizes middle level and high schools that serve large numbers of students in poverty and are high achieving or demonstrate dramatically improving student achievement.

In breakthrough schools, teachers set clear and challenging learning goals, but then they distribute the work, making individual students» own effort and struggle a part of the formula.