Sentences with phrase «challenging academic expectations»

The Common Core State Standards arose from a simple idea: that creating one set of challenging academic expectations for all students would improve achievement and college readiness.

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And it's not just about social expectations — a new school can also cause challenges in academic and extracurricular arenas.

However, Mendick proposes that to challenge the ever - increasing pace and expectation of the Higher Education sector, academics could treat their work more as a job and less as a vocation.

Such a curriculum would, I thought, challenge the child - centered orthodoxies and raise academic expectations.

But a child who feels supported is more likely to be excited for school; she will persist amid challenges and make strides toward following expectations and absorbing academic content.

Below are three collaborative processes that will help students reset expectations and rethink outcomes when they face an academic, emotional, or social challenge.

As schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards, district officials face a major challenge: How do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?

I believe our nation's schools need a challenging and common set of academic expectations that is consistent with the demands of the knowledge economy and global competition.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

«The academic prop they got [from preschool] fizzled because they probably weren't challenged and were just treated like poor kids without expectations.»

The biggest academic challenges she is likely to face are course expectations and — depending on where she goes to school — exit exam requirements, and those are largely independent of Common Core tests.

Insights from the three educators» stories reveal how coupling feedback with expressions of high expectations and faith in students» capabilities can influence student motivation, particularly in the level of support felt by students when tackling challenging academic work.

Ceesay, a student of color, said in her experience, students of color were not challenged in school and operated under low academic expectations.

As the work becomes more challenging, expectations are higher, which means that 3rd - grade is the first time students learn to be accountable for their academic progress.

Advisory makes sure every student is known, heard, believed in, and on that basis, challenged to exceed their own academic expectations.

We are proud of our challenging approaches, insistence on accountability, high academic expectations and relentless emphasis on college completion.

Graduate faculty ensure students are challenged by rigorous academic curriculum and hold students to high expectations in their master's degree work.

Outstanding local teachers will prepare you to manage a classroom, to deliver the content your students must learn, and to support students in meeting high expectations by building bridges between challenging academic content and students» unique values and experiences.

Graduate level faculty ensure students are challenged by rigorous academic curriculum and hold students to high expectations in their academic work.

«The challenges ahead are immense,» but recent history showed that when academic expectations go up, teachers and students rise to meet them, White said.

Bridgeland, Dilulio & Morison (2006) indicate that reasons students drop out of school include being bored in the classroom, feeling a disconnect between their life and the academic program they have been exposed to, and simply not being challenged by educators who have low expectations of them.

The standards were an attempt to raise expectations by establishing a new set of rigorous K - 12 academic benchmarks, and the CAP analysis underscored the need for more rigorous standards, Read more about Do Schools Challenge Our Students Now?

A much welcomed academic challenge, unreal freedoms not seen at other universities, athletic achievements well beyond expectations, and incredible long - lasting friendships.

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