Sentences with phrase «children achieve at a high level»

I like working with administrators to help them learn about the power of an evaluation system that can support change, develop their aspirations as leading learners, and ensure our children achieve at a high level.

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According to the November / December Child Development Reports, children that are sleeping through the night achieve at higher levels in skills including attentiveness, self - discipline, organization, memorization and the abilities to plan, think and work with others.

Notably, while baseline antibody levels among children in this trial were about 10-fold to 50-fold lower than pre-immunization levels in adults at this same site, children achieved post-immunization AMA1 antibody levels that were at least as high as those seen in vaccinated adults [17], [20].

Throughout the period there was always an expectation that some children, both rich and poor, would excel academically, but never was there an assumption that all children would achieve at high levels, as we now insist.

Innovative schools in urban areas show that all children can achieve at high levels given the chance, building on the promise of the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said while visiting the Amistad Academy charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2004.

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

She embodies the values of courage and commitment that are required to meet the daunting challenge that confronts urban school districts, making good teaching happen for every child, every day, in every classroom, to enable all children to learn and achieve at high levels,» said Professor Robert Peterkin, director of the Urban Superintendents Program.

The teacher believes that all children can learn at high levels and persists in helping all children achieve success.

Many of us have unacknowledged fears about our children not achieving at a high level.

That newly strengthened self - confidence makes Guter more sure than ever that her dream career — one in which all children are provided with the opportunity achieve at their highest levels — is right around the corner.

She talks passionately about her belief that school improvement is possible, that educators can feel empowered instead of hopeless, and that every child can learn at high levels and achieve success.

It was inspirational, and it was an opportunity to learn more of what it takes to prepare and support the kinds of outstanding leaders our schools need to ensure every child receives a great education and achieves at high levels.

When children are interested in what they are doing and are able to use their areas of strength, they achieve at a higher level.

When the children at risk were placed in high - quality classrooms, these gaps were eliminated: children from low - education households achieved at the same level as those whose mothers had a college degree, and children displaying prior problem behavior showed achievement and adjustment levels identical to children who had no history of problems.

You will return home ready to implement concrete strategies for building a more inclusive school community where all children can achieve at high levels.

All children will learn and achieve at high levels if given the opportunity.

supporting higher student achievement for all children and destroying the belief that some groups of children can not achieve at high levels.

If the American dream is to mean anything for children from low - income backgrounds, they need access to a public education that helps them overcome economic and social barriers and achieve at high levels.

There are schools across the country — some are charter, some are private, and many are traditional public — that have shown us that it is possible for poor children to achieve at high levels when we respond to their needs and create conditions that are conducive to learning.

As is well known, the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002 (NCLB) required states to test students annually in grades 3 - 8 (and once in high school), to report the share of students in each school performing at a proficient level in math and reading, and to intervene in schools not on track to achieve universal student proficiency by 2014.

Commonsense and research tell us that children must be healthy to achieve at high levels.

Thomas Jones Primary School in Kensington and Chelsea had the highest proportion of children on FSMs (77 per cent) in our group, but all of its 30 pupils achieved a level 4 in each of the SATs, and made at least two levels of progress.

«Through the charter school movement, all children have the opportunity to achieve at high levels and to receive the high - quality education they deserve.»

The focus was put on helping low - income children in inner cities to achieve at higher levels.

The research was carried out in a comparatively large number of classrooms (39) and examined 156 children, ranked at four levels: learning disabled, low achieving, average achieving, and high achieving.

Historically, public education has played a key role in growing the middle class and ensuring that all children, regardless of their backgrounds, have an opportunity to achieve at high levels.

Every child is capable of achieving at high levels.

KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools is a network of public charter schools dedicated to the belief that all children can learn and achieve at high levels.

The aim is for it to provide a highly academic and rigorous curriculum to stretch and challenge the most academically able children in Swindon, free of charge, to pupils who consistently achieve at Level 5 or higher in Primary School and who are hardworking and committed to the additional homework and prep needed to achieve outstanding academic results.

Such strategies align with ASCD's work to promote whole child education, which asserts that children must be safe and healthy to learn and achieve at high levels.

Not only does this describe an uphill battle, but it serves to illustrate the puzzling priorities we often emphasize — one half of minority children don't complete high school, over one half of third graders can not read at grade level, and our policy and media attention are focused on affirmative action to achieve diversity in admissions as a compelling objective at our two flagship universities!

Three cheers to a front - line educator for kicking off a new genre of non-fiction writing in education: a practical guide for dramatic school improvement that proves that children from every background can achieve at high levels when we as adults get our part right.»

But as the ETS report points out, the effects of poverty do influence a child's chances to achieve at the highest levels.

«What will continue to make the charter school movement grow is the fact that we have empowered parents and communities to have a direct say in their children's education, and we have discredited the notion that some kids can not achieve at high levels.

The letter said children who entered school at six or seven «consistently achieve better educational results as well as higher levels of well - being».

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantagesChildren whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantageschildren without these educationally relevant advantages.»

Inherent in BVP's mission is the belief that all children can achieve at high academic levels, and those demographics do not, and more importantly should not, determine their level of success.

FCPS is committed to developing excellence and recognizes that children identified for advanced academic services have the potential to achieve at high levels in one or more academic areas.

Why is it that teachers could not expect that some children can achieve at higher levels?

Reading at grade level by the third grade is a leading indicator of school success and high school graduation, but despite steady gains in grade - level reading in Miami - Dade County, too many children fail to achieve this critical benchmark.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

In the past, numerous studies of high - performing high - poverty schools have pointed to important building - level factors that must be in place in order for all children to achieve at high levels in reading.

There are examples, past and present, of schools where children of color, regardless of family income, have achieved at high levels.

Divided into four sections, this book: * looks at large scale studies that have recently examined characteristics of effective schools and teachers; * provides case studies of five schools in which children are achieving at high levels in reading; * deals with case studies of effective teachers of reading; and * contains a summary of research on effective schools and teachers.

Martin Ackley, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Education, said the state believes that all children can achieve at high levels and that students should be held to the same high standards.

All children should have the opportunity to achieve at a high level, and charter schools are meeting that need:

As a Broad Resident, I have the unique opportunity to effect change in urban education at a high level, and in so doing help give each child the opportunity to achieve.

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All children will learn and achieve at high levels if given the opportunity.