Sentences with phrase «college readiness shifts»

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These are the places where charters are significantly and consistently shifting outcomes for children in terms of academic achievement, college readiness, and, one hopes, upward mobility.

Grier promoted Cruz to assistant superintendent for college readiness, allowing him to shift from a small nonprofit effort at a couple of schools to a role where he could help more than 200,000 students across 300 schools.

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.

As Illinois schools shift to a new set of state mandated exams next year, the state board of education plans to keep asking schools to give the ACT, using the test to gauge college readiness for high school juniors.

AUGUSTA — As Maine shifts to a proficiency - based system by 2018, the 2014 - 15 Smarter Balanced Assessment scores in English language arts and mathematics for grades 3 through 8 and the third year of high school are the first statewide assessment of our students» accomplishments in meeting Maine's college and career readiness standards.

Evidence concerning the demands of college and career readiness gathered during development of the Standards concurs with NAEP's shifting emphases: standards for grades 9 - 12 describe writing in all three forms, but, consistent with NAEP, the overwhelming focus of writing throughout high school should be on arguments and informative / explanatory texts.2

In this way, the state shifted the college readiness interventions into 12th grade, rather than waiting to «remediate» students when they arrived on campus.

While the goal of a K — 12 education was once high school graduation, the focus has now shifted to college and career readiness.

Plus, college and career readiness standards promote academic language and literacy instruction in every classroom so we support this shifts in our work.

There is great promise in College - and Career - Readiness Standards (CCRS) to prepare students for success beyond graduation, but teachers need deeper support to shift instructional practices and implement them effectively.

Given that we work with an at - risk population, the CCSS required us to significantly shift our instructional strategies in order to ensure that our students were mastering content and on track for college and career readiness.

The CCSS represent a real shift in instructional intent from high school graduation to college and career readiness.

To aid in this transition, we are providing sample 3 — 8 math and ELA questions to help students, parents, and educators better understand the instructional shifts demanded by the Common Core and the rigor required to ensure that all students are on track to college and career readiness...»

In three short years, the 45 states and the District of Columbia that joined the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Initiative have not only implemented new college - and career - readiness standards for public school students, but also required teachers to make dramatic instructional shifts as they align their curriculum to these more rigorous standards (Common Core State Standards Initiative, 2012).

Mathis acknowledges that debates will continue over the new Common Core curriculum and assessments, but he believes that the new K — 12 shift toward measuring students» college and career readiness beginning in grade 3 is the «right thing do for students.

Going forward, CSU and state officials plan to measure all juniors for college readiness as part of the shift to the Common Core State Standards, which list as a primary goal preparing more students for college and careers.

While the consortia develop their own tests, they will also collaborate to ensure scoring comparability across both assessments (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, 2012) to allow student proficiency comparisons across states, marking a significant shift in how an individual state as well as the country benchmarks students» readiness for college and careers.

The changes to the Democratic platform abandon where the mainstream of our party is, and that's precisely what motivated our denunciation of this shift, which would deny families of color critical data about whether their children are meeting college - readiness standards.

Maryland should specifically address the instructional shifts toward building content knowledge and vocabulary through increasingly complex informational texts and careful reading of informational and literary texts associated with the state's college - and career - readiness standards for students.

Although Maryland has coursework requirements for both elementary and secondary special education teachers regarding various methods of acquiring information from various texts, these coursework requirements do not address the instructional shifts associated with college - and career - readiness standards toward building content knowledge and vocabulary through careful reading of informational and literary texts.

The day was highlighted by a keynote address by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dale Erquiaga and breakout sessions around the NACS, the instructional shifts, and College and Career Readiness.

Shifts in education and the workplace are changing how we must think about college and career readiness in America.

States and schools are shifting their focus to ensure college and career readiness is a realistic and attainable goal for all students.

This shift in responsibility creates the opportunity for states to reimagine new accountability models that align to goals of college and career readiness for all students and to move from a culture of compliance to one of continuous improvement.

While the goal of a K — 12 education was once high - school graduation, the focus has now shifted to college and career readiness.

This report details how personalized learning initiatives have sparked transformations in student learning through shifting the role of teachers, using technology to increase access to resources, restructuring assessments to provide meaningful information, and increasing college and career readiness exposure.

The ESEA Flexibility initiative has encouraged states to shift away from high school accountability systems based solely on standardized testing to ones that incorporate a wider range of college and career readiness indicators.

Minnich argues that state licensure standards must shift from setting the minimum qualifications that educators need to enter the classroom to establishing higher expectations that indicate readiness to prepare students for college and their careers.

Discussion of the shifts, challenges, and opportunities that all students, especially English language learners (ELLs), face as they engage with the college and career readiness standards.

College and career readiness, now a commonplace expression, represents a massive shift in the expectations of K — 12 schools that we are continuing to unpack and understand.

«In early 2016 we released findings about students» perceptions of college and career readiness, and students» perceptions of their own readiness have not shifted dramatically since then.

How the above shifts in federal policy will affect the fate of the college - and career - readiness standards that C - SAIL is studying remains to be seen.

Washington requires secondary English teachers to pass the NES English Language Arts assessment, which includes some of the instructional shifts toward building content knowledge and vocabulary through careful reading of informational and literary texts associated with the state's college - and career - readiness standards for students.

The white paper on Leadership for College and Career Readiness outlines the leadership shifts necessary in schools.

Many states are now in their sixth year of implementation of college - and career - readiness standards and C - SAIL's interviews of a handful of these states reveal that indeed, there is excitement around the instructional shifts aligned with the standards.

Including a Parent Handbook for Today's College and Career Readiness Standards, this resource also addresses key features and shifts of today's standards which prepares parents to help their child successfully navigate Common Core and other state standards.

This webinar focused on the key teaching and learning shifts that occur in successful personalized learning settings over time, including how these shifts can help improve students» college and career readiness.

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Her proudest accomplishments in SRCS includes an empowering district culture shift to restorative justice for the entire school community as well as creating a strategic plan that included all community stakeholders with a commitment to college and career readiness for each student.

KnowledgePoint transforms the digital reading experience for students and can help districts prepare students to build college and career readiness skills to succeed, align to the instructional reading shifts for text complexity mastery, provide personalized reading libraries of lexiled nonfiction and fiction text for citing text - based evidence, and more.