PTOs can make even more of a difference for schools with good planning, good communication, and a focus on
building student achievement.
Common Core Problem Types: This series of workshops focuses on the word problem types as noted in the CCSS and their importance in
building student achievement.
Reading Achievement
Building student achievement is at the top every principal's list.
Our flagship professional development program challenges teachers of all academic subjects to
build student achievement and meet rigorous standards in creative and effective ways.
Effectively managing financial resources helps support areas that are need to
build student achievement.
Policy attributes theory guides the work, the SEC is being revised and updated to better capture the content of college - and career - readiness standards (already completed) and used to provide feedback to teachers participating in our FAST intervention, and to
build student achievement assessments highly aligned to college - and career - readiness standards to test the effects intervention.
Not exact matches
Among
students of business, PayPal may be known less for its own success than for the subsequent
achievements of the people Thiel helped attract to
build it.
He has a position on the board of the
student achievement and has the vision to start
building smaller high schools to alleviate some of the stress that is placed on the public schools due from overcrowding and a shortage of money.
The Kitchen Community
builds Learning Gardens in schools around the U.S. reaching hundreds of thousands of
students every school day, improving their vegetable intake and academic
achievements.
Find classroom management strategies that help
students build community, prepares them for successful living, and increases academic
achievement in the classroom.
And the recent results of the
achievement levels in small schools suggest that a smaller
building environment has more to do with
student achievement that teachers themselves.
Next he produced an exhaustive analysis of Buffalo public schools, tracking disparities in
student achievement and detailing the deplorable condition of many school
buildings.
Cash noted through the bargain, the district is «working in close partnership with our teachers and principals to
build a solid track to run on to more rapidly grow
student proficiency and overall
achievement well into the future.»
«We applaud this latest
achievement of our many Penn State scientists and
students who have helped to
build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system of international collaboration among many research teams worldwide,» said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.
It is such a humbling, cool experience to witness confidence
building, bodies getting stronger, healing, forgiving, self - pride and countless other
student achievements.
Instead, it means that we lead our staff collaboratively to
build the school's vision around
student achievement.
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 leadership.
A 1999 study by Lisa Heschong, principal of the Heschong Mahone Group (and expert in daylighting, lighting energy use, and human factors in
building design), illustrated the relationship between natural light and
achievement by looking at more than 21,000
students across three states.
Too much of the assistance that was provided through the law was spread too thinly to have the kind of impact to help schools
build the capacity that they needed to improve instruction and see long - term gains in
student achievement.
We meet regularly in this room to examine data, celebrate
student achievement, plan for
student needs, acknowledge each other's talents, and
build additional skills.
On four items — school discipline, expectations for
student achievement, school
building and facilities, and the racial and ethnic diversity among
students — we find no significant difference in the variation in satisfaction across sectors.
Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have
built up the academic
achievement and self - esteem of these rural Louisiana middle school
students.
The aim is to identify promising school - based initiatives that
build social and emotional learning and resilience skills in Victorian
students, and which also improve academic
achievement.
In «Game Plan for Learning:
Building on Coleman's early theories, new academic competitions motivate
students to achieve,» USA Today's Greg Toppo revisits James S. Coleman's oft - forgotten findings on teen culture, exploring how educators today can use academic competition to foster engagement, motivation, and
student achievement.
A new research center at Rutgers University intends to
build on evidence that well - equipped school library media centers can boost
student achievement.
«SDP represents a unique opportunity to
build on this foundation, by working even more closely with districts and states to impact
student achievement on a large scale.»
Reflect, stretch, and strengthen your leadership skills, examine challenges to raising
student achievement, and work with experts in school leadership to master effective strategies for
building successful schools.
Evidence of
student growth that goes beyond academic
achievement drives home what so many of the Match leaders and corps members underscored as central to understanding Match Corps: tutoring Match - style is about human capital, relationship
building, and providing
students with the confidence to succeed, not only in school but in life.
Does requiring
students to wear uniforms directly affect school environment and
student achievement, or is it the equivalent of painting the walls of a crumbling
building — merely cosmetic?
Indeed,
building student persistence may be an effective strategy for raising
achievement on state tests.
The latter is one of nine principles of learning formulated by the Institute for Learning that I direct at the University of Pittsburgh to provide assistance to school systems in
building organizational and instructional practices that will enable their
students to meet higher
achievement standards.
The articles below from Education World's archive share stories about how data can be used to raise
student achievement, plus practical tips for
building your data - handling skills.
One important goal included
building leadership by identifying roles and styles required to improve the «instructional core»; considering beliefs, cultural changes, and education strategies to promote high
student achievement; reflecting on the effects of race, class, and culture within the district.
«In every class in this
building, you have kids of all levels of prior academic
achievement,» says Principal Dan St. Louis, including kids who are «high flyers,» kids with Individualized Education Programs who are receiving special education support,
students with disabilities, and English - language learners.
This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has
built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and
student achievements at The English High School in Jamaica Plain; Christopher Tsang, a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities teacher at The Harbor School; and Tanya Milner, an eleventh grade United States history and freshman Advancement Via Individual Determination teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
You'll see an evaluation system for teachers and principals, with
student achievement built in as a meaningful component.
The progress data would provide the school leader with a guide to the staff changes that would further improve
student learning, and the
achievement of early goals would help
build support for such changes.
Outside observers are better, on average, at identifying teachers who are effective at boosting
student achievement than in -
building administrators.
Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the
building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual
students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in
achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.
The articles in this archive share stories about how data can be used to raise
student achievement, plus practical tips for
building your data - management skills.
Icahn Charter Schools
build background knowledge to drive learning
Student achievement places Icahn among NYC's top performing charter networks
And
building test - score - based
student achievement into teacher evaluations, while (in my view) legitimate for some teachers, has led to crazy arrangements for many teachers whose performance can not be properly linked to reading and math scores in grades 3 — 8.
If present evidence is to be used, two potent contributions to raising
student achievement will be widespread: effective preschool programs for all children and intensive interventions that
build capacities of families to support the education of their children.
Headteacher Nick Wergan said: «We are delighted that the hard work, ambition and
achievement of our staff and
students is being recognised, and that our
building provision will now reflect the innovation and high aspirations of our teaching practice.»
The unpacking process led to
building teacher capacity and understanding, and the development of plain language statements that classroom teachers could use to make accurate, fair and consistent judgements about
student progress and
achievement within and across teams in the school.
Here, we outline a workable, balanced strategy that
builds on what has been learned in the last decade, improves teaching, and thereby improves
student achievement.»
The library here is a far cry from the kind of warm, inviting, fully stocked resource center experts say can help
build literacy and research skills, raise
student achievement, and foster a love of reading.
This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has
built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and
student achievements at The English High...
It's through concepts that
students will be able to go beyond passing the weekly math test and
build to a sophisticated understanding of the language of math; hence taking
students to the level of
achievement needed in fast tech times.
The
Build SF program invests in components we've found critical for long - term
student achievement — project learning through class curriculum and community interaction with mentors.