Sentences with phrase «challenging student populations»

We have aimed to provide insight into the «habits of mind» that characterize teachers who are able to combine high content knowledge and good pedagogy into forms that engage challenging student populations.

Massachusetts charter schools bill themselves in television ads as golden opportunities for disadvantaged students trapped in failing district schools, but charters often leave behind one of the most challenging student populations to teach: those who lack fluency in English.

In those cases where the self - governed schools are beating the odds with challenging student populations, the answer might have more to do with the teacher - leaders» ability to select an appropriate approach, such as language immersion, or to fine - tune their tactics in the classroom.

Charters are doing amazing things with some of the most challenging student populations in the state.

While far from the reality in far too many states, accountability systems at least have the potential now to accurately and fairly capture these differences — ensuring that schools with challenging student populations are not automatically penalized for the students they serve.

The more innovative a school and outstanding its results, the more impossible replicating it looks to educators elsewhere who are struggling with challenging student populations, limited resources, and unimaginative administrations.

Our schools have made these gains while serving a more challenging student population.

She has authored or co-authored publications regarding technology for the learning challenged student population, co-developed a model for researcher - teacher collaboration and co-developed a coaching model to foster differentiated instruction in the classroom setting.

Milwaukee Public Schools is a large, urban district with a diverse, largely economically challenged student population and its achievement scores have historically lagged state averages in both mathematics and reading.

The resulting revenue gap between the districts exceeds $ 900 per pupil even though Mesquite puts forth slightly greater tax effort and has a significantly more challenging student population.

NISL - trained principals led schools with more challenged student populations than the comparison schools including higher percentages of English Language Learners, students eligible for free and reduced - price lunch and students with special needs.

Not exact matches

One challenge is that Upper Manhattan's schools serve a large population of students learning English as a second language.

«We knew it was important to understand the viral populations driving the epidemic, which motivated us to tackle the challenges of sequencing Zika,» said study co-first author Hayden Metsky, a graduate student in the Sabeti lab.

With the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments 9 December on a case challenging the use of race - conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin, a top AAAS official said there is convincing research on the benefits of a diverse student population in science - related fields.

The charter schools in D.C. that serve a highly diverse student body face a challenge in preserving their diversity, Chandler notes, as these schools become increasingly popular with the growing population of gentrifiers.

With schools today facing an array of complex challenges — from working with an increasingly diverse population of students, to integrating new technology in the classroom, to meeting rigorous academic standards and goals — observers...

Even with those broader classifications, we still are aware of a large population of «at risk» students — those who clearly have challenges, but because they don't fit easily into a diagnostic profile, are left without any assistance whatsoever.

However such challenges are addressed, one thing is certain: colleges and universities will have to start adapting to the needs of a dramatically different student population.

Thats because even with a constant influx of new students and the challenges of a population with limited English proficiency who also need remediation in basic skills, the school has seen success.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

This special report dives into the toolbox available to those looking to boost school quality, approaches that may show promise in specific schools and with particular populations, and the opportunities and challenges posed by the new Every Student Succeeds Act.

Cocreated with a former colleague, the database allows administrators to capture data that is particularly relevant when serving challenged populations of students, many of whom enroll at BDEA after unsuccessful starts in traditional district high schools or local charter schools.

Flexible funding enables schools with more challenging populations to gain access to more resources so they can take needed steps such as reducing class size, hiring more experienced and effective teachers, and implementing other programs and services to support students with greater needs.

But most of these efforts don't address the fundamental challenge urban schools face: The diversity of their student population.

The result of that survey is the National Education Technology Plan, which highlights the challenge of improving test scores among an increasingly tech - savvy student population while using traditional teaching methodologies, and emphasizes what it calls «e-learning» and virtual schools.

«Our school population has a majority of its students coming from challenged social and environmental backgrounds, so they need much more than what the average public school can provide for them given the legal mandates of what must be taught in these schools,» Johnson explains.

Our major challenges are the same as those that face many schools that serve similar populations across the country: Helping our students get to grade - level proficiency and to pass standardized tests.

Even with a school - within - a-school environment and low student - teacher ratio, teaching a «rough and tumble» population when he'd come from a school where, he says, «students stood up when a teacher walked into the room» was challenging to say the least.

As a rural school in Murphy, North Carolina — in Southern Appalachia — we have become acutely aware of the challenges facing our student population: They live in a historically isolated community with little access to cutting - edge, well - paid jobs.

Educators can reexamine their makerspaces (often wild and creative spheres) with an eye toward mitigating this potential challenge for a neurodiverse student population.

Students can participate in activities that will challenge their abilities to plot latitude and longitude, calculate population growth, and convert temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius.

As an increasing number of schools and school districts adopt online learning as a way to boost graduation rates, address multiple student populations, expand their course catalogs, and personalize learning, understanding the challenges and obstacles that educators face as they introduce new programs is key.

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However, with the increasing diversity in student populations and rapidly changing technology, defining and supporting learning styles for all students is becoming more challenging.

The resources challenge students to use real population data to learn about the history of the African - American population.

Three Leaders at Arts - Based Schools Three administrators provide instructional leadership and solve day — to — day challenges at arts — based schools serving diverse student populations.

This report, co-authored by Safal Partners and Public Impact for the National Charter School Resource Center, examines federal requirements under civil rights laws and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and state laws governing charter school recruitment, retention, enrollment of EL students and their accountability for EL student performance; requirements and current challenges related to EL data reporting; and whether existing laws are adequate to address the needs of this growing population of ELs in charter schools.

With five comprehensive high schools, more than 13,000 students, an 80 - percent - and - growing Hispanic population, and a large number of economically disadvantaged families, Thorstenson was faced with the challenges of increasing student achievement, making curriculum relevant, and promoting equity of opportunity for students when she first took office in 2000.

San Francisco — Secondary - school principals, challenged by dramatic changes in the character of their student populations, appear to be increasingly concerned about improving their schools and dealing more effectively with student «learning styles.»

But, it raises profound challenges to the interpretation of score trends on high - stakes tests, to the meaning of achievement trend and gap reports in terms of percent proficient, to the interpretation of crossnational achievement comparisons, and to popular assumptions about testing of students in special populations (including some assumptions written into law).

CPS faces the challenges of high student poverty and dismal test scores — though its selective - enrollment schools have posted some of the highest test scores in Illinois — and the district believes it needs more money to help its low - income population.

The population of transgender students is a vulnerable one that has many challenges and hardships.

Funding is typically tied to the size of the student population, creating severe operational challenges for districts with smaller student pools.

The idea for the study came from the realization that basically every student needs to master challenging mathematics - and that students from special populations may not be able to meet national and state mathematics standards.

The high poverty population adds an extra challenge for educators as they must grapple with the reality that most students don't have the support and structure they need to continue their learning at home.

Although the idea of opening a public school serving students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds would deter some educators, White and Suggs stared down the challenge and sought to figure out how to succeed with that population.

The results, largely based on standardized test performance with graduation rates and advanced course enrollment factored in, are praiseworthy given the district's challenges, high poverty (70 percent of its 345,000 students qualify for free or reduced - priced lunch), and large population of English language learners.The Education Village «includes all of the elements that make sense,» Miami - Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in the Miami Herald.

Many community charter schools have innovative program models similar to the Mayor's PROSE with student populations that may be more challenging.

We identified several specific solutions to meet challenges faced by teachers and schools trying to best serve these unique student populations (USPs).

The National Association of State Boards of Education released their August Policy Update Series on strategies that states can use to «address the challenges and educational inequalities facing some of the most disenfranchised, at - risk student populations in the country.»