Sentences with phrase «by reaching more students»

Advancement must be meaningful, letting teachers increase their impact by reaching more students and leading while teaching.

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Inspired by the students who survived the Florida shooting and are demanding more be done to keep high - powered guns out of the reach of killers, about 80 teenagers, mostly students and recent graduates of Clarence High School, gathered in a Clarence park to send a message: «Enough is enough.»

As he prepares to make his pre-K pitch in Albany, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio released a report that says his plan to expand the program by taxing the rich would reach 53,000 students by September — more than 70 percent of the children who need it.

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

It is a field enriched by active discussion group lists like Kinema Club (6) which reach out for numerous motivated students of Japanese cinema worldwide, and, no less importantly, by the fact that there are more academic positions held by Japanese film specialists than ever before.

And if that is the approach taken by schools, then she's right to question the validity of making more of a push for technology in schools, to fall in line with President Obama's call to prepare students for an «increasingly competitive world,» through «a free and open internet» that «extend [s] its reach to every classroom and community.»

By the time students reach KS4 they are much more focused on exam syllabi, and many access - specific activities (such as climbing, kayaking and hill walking) as part of their GCSE PE course.

The bottom line is by offering the program to the entire student body, I am reaching more students and providing them an opportunity to engage in much - needed enrichment.

• Opportunity for career advancement and rigorous, on - the - job learning becomes possible when great teachers advance by collaborating with, leading, and developing other teachers in teams to reach more students (without forcing class - size increases).

When we launched Opportunity Culture, our goal was to boost student learning by extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within schools» regular budgets.

Additionally, Forbes recently reported that more than four million students are now educated in international schools, which makes the market worth around $ 39 billion in fee income, and this figure is forecast to reach $ 89 billion by 2026.

Beginning in 2009, we presented a vision for addressing the challenge of reaching every student with excellent teachers, using job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

It measured students» ability to work with two or more people to reach a solution by pooling their knowledge, skills and efforts.

Any backlash we feared was apparently quelled by the designs these teams chose: They focused as much on developing excellence among peers as reaching more students with excellence directly.

As they reach more students, they should earn more out of the per - pupil funds generated by the expanded number of students.

Despite moves to ease limits on bilingual education in California and Massachusetts, more ELLs are now learning in English, taught by teachers who use an array of strategies to reach nonfluent students.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

The report also explains how more than three hours went by before paramedics reached teacher Dave Sanders, who bled to death while students tried to help him.

For example, to add 38 + 35, the student could start at 38 (by placing a pencil or finger to the left of 40), jump by 10 three times: 48, 58, 68 (placing the pencil to the left of 50, 60, and 70); jump 2 to reach 70; and then jump 3 more (ending about 1/3 of the distance between 70 and 80).

Teachers are redesigning their schools» roles and schedules so that great teachers reach more students, and most teachers work in teams led by excellent teachers.

Use of these digital books is still limited (Kinetic Books, funded by a Florida venture capital firm, doesn't disclose how many schools are enrolled in its program), but Jacobsen and his team are working hard to reach more teachers and students.

As the report states, by the time they reach 6th grade, «middle - class students have spent 6,000 more hours in learning activities outside school than students born into poverty.»

The recent report by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley on the «baby boom echo» describes an unparalleled enrollment increase in the public schools: Last fall, school enrollment reached 51.7 million students, more than the 51.3 million record set by the baby boomers 25 years ago.

Teachers who reach more students directly or by leading teams can earn more within recurring budgets, advancing their careers while continuing to teach.

By the time she reached 2nd grade, Erin Peacock, a student in the Chicago Public Schools, had been taught by more than a dozen teacherBy the time she reached 2nd grade, Erin Peacock, a student in the Chicago Public Schools, had been taught by more than a dozen teacherby more than a dozen teachers.

By recording a lesson and then enhancing it with text, images, audio, and interactions, you are likely to reach more of your students in a way that appeals and makes sense to them.

Lest anyone doubt the reach of America's after - school woes — more than 14 million K - 12 students, including 40,000 kindergartners and almost 4 million middle school students, take care of themselves after school — it appears even the economy is suffering: A new study by Catalyst and the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, shows that the workplace productivity of U.S. parents suffers when they are worried about what their kids are doing after school.

In the NCLB era, schools could narrow the proficiency gap by helping students reach a relatively low bar, even if more affluent students were achieving well over that bar.

And while they continued to ignore it, the misuse of tests became ever more extreme, in some cases reaching truly absurd levels — for example, «evaluating» teachers based on the scores obtained by teachers in other schools or teaching other subjects to different students.

Now Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue and former governor of Indiana, wants to reach more high school students and hopes to expand the model established by Purdue Polytechnic High School, Caitlin Emma reports in Politico.

According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), there are more than a dozen other nations where, by the time children reach 15, math problem - solving scores are higher than for white students in the United States.

A more unified theory of assessment might begin by observing that the fundamental purpose of assessment in education is to establish and understand the points that students (either as individuals or groups) have reached in their learning at the time of assessment, and that there are then different ways to use this information.

Chetty's team tracked down 95 percent of those tested to see if students who scored well on kindergarten tests were earning more than their classmates by the time they reached their mid-20s.

By including a regional qualifiers round, we were able to include more schools with the competition this year and reach even more students to engage them with computing.

But at the same time, those numbers are tainted by some districts who, under pressure to meet federal standards, simply lowered the academic bar to help more students reach it.

Advanced roles can include more teamwork, conducting complex planning and instruction on teams, reaching more students directly by partnering with paraprofessionals, and leading teams of increasing size and challenge.

The report shows how to turn the great majority of federal funding distributed to states and districts — Title I and Title II grants — into investments likely to pay off in educational and economic benefits, by reinventing such formula grants as targeted tools that extend excellent teachers» reach in financially sustainable ways, and more effectively direct funds to the students who need them most.

KIPP helps its communities, the report says, «by transforming the lives of the kids we serve in our current network of schools; and [b] y inspiring others — as we continue to reach more students in more communities — to reconsider what is possible in public education.»

By extending the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to many more students — for much higher pay, within available budgets, and adding time to plan, collaborate, and improve — the schools saw a way to address their dilemmas using the Opportunity Culture formula.

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To make the system more efficient, and to ensure that more revenue generated by those students actually reaches those students, IDRA recommends that the allowable indirect costs be decreased.

This was the conclusion reached by one study that analyzed the math scores of more than 4,000 children in the United States (ages 10 — 12) and the United Kingdom (age 10 only) to identify the types of mathematics content knowledge that best predicted students» long - term learning.

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They reached their conclusions by analysing decisions made by 62 heads who saw the C grades their students earned at GCSE increase by 45 per cent or more over eight years at failing schools.

By 2015, when the majority of those same students likely had reached sixth grade, the percentage of proficient black sixth - graders had inched up 2 points while that of white sixth - graders had increased more than 4 points.

By the time students reach the end of the second grade, though, they should be able to add as large of numbers as they want together and even add more than two three - digit numbers to one another by following the same ruleBy the time students reach the end of the second grade, though, they should be able to add as large of numbers as they want together and even add more than two three - digit numbers to one another by following the same ruleby following the same rules.

In our quest to reach all students with excellent teachers by 2025, the Public Impact team previously published several detailed models that use job redesign and technology to reach more students with excellent teachers, for more pay, within budget.

ILTexas has an aggressive growth plan to accommodate for the high demand made known by wait lists numbers reaching more than 5,000 students in just its third year of operation.

The more intractable issues hindering student achievement have not been reached by the reforms and a much more difficult phase of reform lies ahead if we are to truly improve Texas public schools for all children.

Invest in strategies that fully use existing talent by offering education entrepreneurs opportunities, such as paid fellowships, to develop new, groundbreaking school models that allow the best teachers to reach more students.