Sentences with phrase «challenging curriculum based»

The Davidson Academy focuses on the individual student and provides an appropriately challenging curriculum based upon each of their abilities.

Palmetto Scholars Academy will be established for and dedicated to intellectually gifted students with a challenging curriculum based on best practices in gifted education and well - trained teachers.

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While mainline publishers of religious books and church - school curricula have been virtually silent on the subject, there are currently in print more than 350 books challenging evolutionary science and advocating a «creation science» based on six 24 - hour days of creation, a «young - earth» dating, and a worldwide «flood geology.»

We pride ourselves on a play based curriculum this is challenging, creative, exciting and fun.

Some schools create custom curriculum based on the child's learning abilities so that they can excel in the subjects they're really good at while at the same time become stronger at the subjects that are more challenging to them.

The review of existing research on the AP program was undertaken by Denise Pope with Madeline Levine, both co-founders of Challenge Success, a research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other programs for parents, schools and students.

EL Education is a research - based program that helps schools work with emotionally or behaviorally challenged students in therapeutic ways, then provides curriculum allowing students more autonomy and challenge.

A 2013 white paper by Denise Pope and Madeline Levine, both co-founders of Challenge Success, a research - based organization at Stanford University that develops holistic curriculum, conferences and other programs for parents, schools and students, suggests that isn't always the case.

Zan currently serves as the Director of Language Arts, History, Bible, and Press for Apologia Educational Ministries, where her goal is to produce inspiring, challenging, biblically based resources and curriculum for homeschooling families.

Brain Quest workbooks are jam - packed with curriculum - based activities, exercises, games and challenges, all in full color — plus a pull - out poster and stickers in each book.

It blends the decades of experience from CIMIT's pioneering work facilitating innovations and innovators with programs including the Coulter Foundation C3i Program and the NSF I - Corps Program as well as university based curricula from MIT, Yale, and others to deliver a program that addresses the unique challenges in healthcare commercialization.

As standardized - test pressure bears down on even the youngest learners and their teachers, Lilli Land challenges other principals to adopt AEEC's project - based - curriculum approach.

When I started looking at the new primary curriculum as a whole, it appeared that the challenges are mostly based on the need to re-structure the teaching plans, learning and assessment.

I was asked by Principal Joe Kelly to perform an independent curriculum review of the materials and found that students are not being challenged to think independently as the vast majority of tasks are based on what we in the profession call busy work.

As Pancic has gotten more comfortable with the problem - based approach as a teacher, he has expanded his curriculum with new challenges.

The UrbanPlan curriculum is an academically challenging, classroom - based, fifteen - hour study unit.

This challenge is coming in part from the introduction of new learning technologies, but also under challenge are traditional ways of organising learning, such as timed, lock - step courses and age - based curricula.

In «High Scores at BASIS Charter Schools,» June Kronholz wrote about two BASIS charter schools in Arizona, open - admission public schools that offer a challenging curriculum to all students.

A CTE curriculum is often problem - based; it challenges students to evaluate a problem, devise a solution, and present evidence to support the solution.

Queensland - based father of four Mark Gallen says many school students face challenges understanding the complete Maths and English curriculum and could fall behind, become discouraged and lose interest in learning.

Since the standards represent grade - level learning, curricula and assessments based on them will, by definition, not challenge students who are already surpassing these expectations.

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DreamBox has a challenging, standards - aligned curriculum, available in English and Spanish, that is evidence based to promote student growth and deeper conceptual understanding by encouraging different pathways to solving problems.

This model curriculum would be rigorous and challenging, based on the mastery principle that a carefully planned, skilfully delivered and accurately assessed curriculum enables all students to gain a secure understanding of each subject.

Plan effective curriculum by designing evidence - based units and lesson plans that support students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, strengths, and challenges using principles of differentiation and universal design

As teacher educators, we can work alongside teachers as they navigate these challenges and determine which digital technology tools and resources are best aligned to disciplinary skills and support students» curriculum - based learning needs.

The result is a well - balanced academic qualification upon which a challenging curriculum for bilingual students is based.

(The schools, including some touting a Bible - based, creationist curriculum, received a down payment of funds in 2011, but the program is on hold pending court challenges.)

Data - based inquiry with an equity lens is at the heart of our work, with a particular focus on the challenges that most impact curriculum design, instruction, and assessment.

With each of the five core values, Pahomov addresses common challenges teachers face while implementing personalized, inquiry - based curriculum and offers advice on how to avoid roadblocks before they appear.

Providing embedded professional development within curriculum materials is a necessary and transformative educational mechanism to counter professional development constraints that challenge teachers who adopt and implement reform - based science curriculum in urban school systems (Fishman, Marx, Best, & Tal, 2003).

Together, Renaissance assessment tools and HMH curriculum will offer ongoing recommendations for flexible grouping based on areas where students require additional support or have achieved mastery and need new challenges.

Through a project called Algebra by Design, funded by Lucent Technologies, we are working with teachers in grades 5 - 12 in the Syracuse City School District to (a) increase significantly the number of students who are successful in learning the core ideas of algebra, (b) increase the depth of algebraic understanding of all students and enhance their problem - solving skills in mathematically challenging design projects and activities, (c) provide teachers with experience and collaborative support in the use of Standards - based curricula, design projects, and current and emerging technologies, and (d) prepare new teachers in partnership with practicing teachers through observations, field placements, and semester - long internships.

«Specialist units that help schools to strongly challenge bullying around LGBT issues and support teachers with supporting students are a great idea... perhaps even a few centres where some vulnerable students can spend some of their curriculum time, on a temporary basis, to support them back in to mainstream school.

Establish a program that includes research based practices in gifted education, including acceleration, enrichment, curriculum compacting, and flexible grouping so that each student is challenged to perform to his or her potential.

In our monograph entitled Building Towards Mastery, which is part of a series capturing practices and tools that support deeper learning for overage and under - credited adolescents at transfer schools across New York City, we share how Bronx Arena High School developed a mastery - based curriculum that empowered students to take ownership over their own learning, overcome their challenges, and achieve success in college and careers.

She has eluded to perhaps the best suggestion to date to fix our schools, a comprehensive and challenging curriculum in every discipline at every grade, but somehow this message has been lost in all the hoopla over merit pay, charter schools, evaluating teachers based on their students» test scores, collective bargaining rights, etc..

Register said leaders from the Priority schools and several different departments will work together to develop comprehensive plans based on every aspect of each school's operation — including curriculum, instruction, leadership, student assignment and central office support — and has already mobilized and challenged administrators to begin this work.

«Working with a trusted partner, one who knows Killeen ISD and the unique challenges we face in serving the students outside one of the largest military bases in the world, was important,» explained Killeen ISD Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Diana Miller.

Learn how to develop a standards - based and student - centered curriculum that will challenge students to demonstrate and communicate the depth and extent of their learning and save schools and staff money on purchasing instructional materials.

In what ways did PTP teachers use culturally relevant materials, meaningful and challenging curricula, and project - based learning in their classrooms?

Working closely with nine science teachers at participating schools, the Ingenuity Project designed the program to meet the potential of academically talented youth through curriculum - aligned challenges that include team - based, above - grade level math skills, and the application of technology, innovation and complex problem - solving.

One area receiving a great deal of focus and investment that could potentially address part of this challenge is adaptive learning — digitized curriculum and courseware that can adjust or adapt what comes next for each student based on their degree of mastery with previous work.

As students and schools nurture this curiosity, place - based frameworks connect curriculum with authentic, extended challenges.

As they grapple with curriculum and instruction challenges, districts must also prepare for computer - based testing.

This webinar discusses the challenges facing students and educators, and highlights the ability of rigorous, standards - based digital curriculum to help students improve their reading comprehension while earning credit toward graduation.

As teachers are pressed to extend their craft to prepare more diverse students for the challenge of work and life beyond school, they are challenged to provide more authentic instructional contexts and activities than traditional knowledge - based curricula.

This set conforms to national curriculum standards, and contains challenge and learning missions based around the theme of space.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

Our Character Based Literacy Curriculum (CBL) offers easy - to - use lesson plans for more than 200 titles, ranging from high interest and engaging reads to traditional and challenging pieces of classic literature.