Topics of discussion include: • Creating, executing, and evaluating measureable goals and benchmarks to ensure TRUE college and career readiness • Scaling implementation of programs to assess student growth and
close math learning gaps • Building teacher capacity through TRUE professional learning communities and collaborative internal support systems • Leading a district - wide mindset shift toward ensuring lifelong learning for both adults and students All school and district - based leaders, and K - 12 educators are invited to attend.
What's new and exciting is how blended learning in the classroom is being integrated with OST activities to
close math learning gaps.
Not exact matches
Working on just a few problems daily (or more, if your child enjoys
math) can help students of all ages
close the gaps in their
math skills, preserve what they
learned during the previous school year, and prepare for the next.
When they calculate the simple correlation between income and
math achievement, Helen Ladd's approach, they find that a $ 4,000 increment (a 50 percent increase in the $ 8,000 average income reported by the families in this study) in the income of the poor family will lift student achievement by 20 percent of a standard deviation (
close to a year's worth of
learning in the middle years of schooling), a substantial impact that seems to support the Broader, Bolder claims.
Games Add Elements of Fun, Much More, to
Math Learning As this years
Math Awareness Month celebration draws to a
close, share with parents news of a study about the benefits of
math games.
When charter students moved to higher - quality schools, they gained an additional fifty - eight days of
learning in reading and eighty - eight days of
learning in
math by the third year after their school
closed.
Displaced students from district schools that
closed in urban areas gained, on average, forty - nine extra days of
learning in reading relative to the comparison group; in
math, it was thirty - four days.
They'll discuss national trends emerging around blended -
learning math programs, as well as take an up -
close look at the challenges and successes one school has experienced with the blended
math model.
When youcubed offered «How
Close to 100» as an activity for
learning math facts with visual representations, teachers across the world were thrilled and responded with thousands of tweets showing students
learning by playing the game.
The researchers found that «displaced students from district schools that
closed in urban areas gained, on average, forty - nine extra days of
learning in reading» and «thirty - four days of
learning» in
math by their third year in a new school.
Board members
learned Tuesday afternoon that Mayor Greg Ballard intended to
close the school after just 29 percent of students passed the spring ISTEP + test in both
math and English.
Our Response to Intervention (RtI) Team and Behavior Instructional Leadership Team (BILT) paid
close attention to individual student data through our school's RtI framework, providing flexible, «just in time,» high - quality,
math, reading and social emotional
learning interventions implemented with fidelity.
We use Expeditionary
Learning (reading), Eureka
Math (
math), McGraw Hill - A
Closer Look (science), and Houghton Mifflin (social studies) as our core curricula.
Most notably, students are gaining an additional 17 days of
learning in reading and have
closed the gap in
math.
The book is orchestrated beautifully, encompassing critical components: challenges,
learning progressions,
math content, pedagogy, and practical next steps to
close the achievement gap.
In
math, reading, English Language Arts, science, special education and professional
learning, Cambium solutions
close performance gaps and transform struggling students into proficient, confident learners.
At both the elementary and middle school, the team is increasing data transparency to drive personalization of instruction and purposeful student choice so that students can simultaneously
close academic gaps in
math and reading and develop the necessary student agency skills to drive their own
learning.
And despite a recent finding by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University that Latino students in poverty experience an additional 6 months of
learning in
math and an extra 3 months in English Language arts for every year enrolled in a charter school in L.A. Unified, Mr. Kayser has fought to
close nearly every charter public school that has sought renewal.
There already exist model catch - up programs and policies that systems and institutions can
learn from: California State University at Long Beach has pioneered a partnership to deliver bridge courses to
close student - readiness gaps; Illinois has passed legislation requiring the development of transitional
math courses across the state; and Tennessee has increased the scale of its Seamless Alignment and Integrated
Learning Support, or Sails, program from a single district in 2012 to over 17,000 students statewide in the 2016 - 17 school year.
Are you confident that your
math intervention program is putting your students on track to successfully
close learning gaps and meet state standards?
Two years ago, numeracy coach Colleen Dorsey and her team set out to
close learning gaps for K - 5
math students in Westport Elementary and get them on track to meet state standards.
The key aim was to improve outcomes in English and
maths with
close tracking of progress and intervention, working with families to engage them in their child's
learning and, remove barriers to
learning such as bullying, behaviour or emotional problems.