Sentences with phrase «comprehensive high school curriculum»

We offer a comprehensive high school curriculum taught by highly qualified and caring teachers.

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Knowing there was a need for a high school reading list, Pam created a team with editors Anne Greer and John Wulsin, Jr. to develop a comprehensive reading list which would reflect a multi-disciplined, arts - integrated curriculum and, at the same time, meet the developmental needs of adolescents.

As we reimagine curriculum at Sammamish High School around a comprehensive problem - based learning approach, we find ourselves reimagining the bounds of the classroom and the singular nature of The Teacher.

A case study by Meredith Liu titled «Cisco Networking Academy: Next - generation assessments and their implications for K — 12 education» released yesterday by the Clayton Christensen Institute profiles how the Academy, a comprehensive online training curriculum offered to third - party education institutions to help high school and college students acquire the fundamental skills needed to design, build, and troubleshoot computer networks, uses technology today to deliver assessments in ways starkly different from our current education system.

Implementing it in high school requires six strong academic departments working together, comprehensive curriculum development, and extensive teacher training — almost retraining, sometimes abroad.

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk called out comprehensive American high schools for their «smorgasbord» curricula that were «homogenized, diluted, and diffused to the point that they no longer have a central purpose.»

Inside, readers will find a comprehensive curriculum that extends from kindergarten through high school.

Under the leadership of Charles Eliot, president of Harvard University, the committee undertook a broad and comprehensive exploration of the role of the high school in American life, concluding, significantly, that all public - high - school students should follow a college preparatory curriculum, regardless of their backgrounds, their intention to stay in school through graduation, or their plans to pursue higher education.

team endorsed a new institution, the «comprehensive high school,» which would offer students a wide array of curriculum choices.

High - stakes, summative tests that assess content mastery and learning skills (BASIS Curriculum Schools Comprehensive Exams and the College Board Advanced Placement Exams for example) are foundational for learning.

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.

«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inschool integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool in Little Rock, AK in 1957.

Three years later, his foundation abandoned its small - school initiative, having spent $ 2 billion to persuade districts to replace their comprehensive high schools with schools too small to offer a balanced curriculum.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

PR2TA offers comprehensive online curriculum that allows students to earn a High School diploma authorized by the State of Idaho.

Phineas Banning High School students (PBHS) are effective communicators who have read widely across the academic disciplines and evaluated and interpreted written and media materials throughout a rigorous, comprehensive curriculum by developing the ability to respond appropriately in speaking and writing.

The top public district high schools are not comprehensive high schools, but «choice» schools which focus on high - achieving students and offer an AP - oriented curriculum.

Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, a robust offering of Advanced Placement (AP) courses, and comprehensive college counseling support for students and families, Brooke High School will ensure that each student is prepared to succeed in college and beyond.

A Senate companion bill (SB 340) was introduced to AB 427, which would create a comprehensive firearm education curriculum to be offered as an elective to high school pupils.

In this Best of Dropout Nation, Editor RiShawn Biddle points to the economic reasons why we must commit to providing all children with strong, comprehensive, college prep curricula and nurturing kids through high expectations (along with improving teacher and school leader quality, and expanding school choice and Parent Power).

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The Comprehensive Assessment Committee has representatives including curriculum coordinators; program directors; special education administrators; school administrators from elementary, middle school, and high school levels; representative teachers from each grade span; and union representatives.

The promise of CSR models — such as Accelerated School Project, Core Knowledge, Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, School Development Program, Success for All — and the comprehensive reform that they support is that they are research - based and provide the training and other supports needed to encourage a coordinated approach to improvement that addresses curriculum and instruction, professional development, leadership, parental and community involvement, and other components needed for student success.

For decades there was no real comparison between what the ELA curriculum in the regular comprehensive high school offered and what the colleges wanted... Read More

The comprehensive high school, on the other hand, had a curriculum designed to provide students with «end of formal education» sets of skills.

Agile Mind offers comprehensive programs — encompassing job - embedded professional development, course curricula, student practice, formative assessment, and data analytics and reporting — for middle school mathematics through AP Calculus and Statistics, as well as high school Biology and a unique family of programs designed to enhance students» persistence, effective effort, and growth mindsets.

For decades there was no real comparison between what the ELA curriculum in the regular comprehensive high school offered and what the colleges wanted and tested for.

We are teaming up once again with Illustrative Mathematics to develop a comprehensive curriculum for high school Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2.

First - year teachers often feel underprepared when they first enter the classroom, and are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well prepared to implement state or district curriculum.45 As a result, nearly one in seven new teachers leaves the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest stressors.46 Too often, teachers begin their careers in a sink - or - swim situation, with little to no formal induction or support system and inadequate professional learning.47 By providing new teachers with evidence - based professional learning — including through comprehensive, high - quality induction programs — schools and districts can create a more supportive pathway to success in the classroom.

Comprehensive curriculum lessons for elementary, middle and high school students to educate youth about cyberbullying.

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The comprehensive lists are designed to complement a general high school science curriculum.

Instead of providing all kids with college - oriented learning (as Eliot supported), these educators pushed what would become the comprehensive high school model, with middle - class white kids (along with those few children of émigrés deemed worthy of such curricula) getting what was then considered high - quality learning, while poor and minority kids were relegated to shop classes and less - challenging coursework.

Whether the goal is to become a teacher at the elementary, middle, or high school level, we offer a comprehensive curriculum that integrates current theory, research - based practices, and field - based practicum work.

«I have found The Write Foundation's Essay Writing course to be very comprehensive, easy to use and a great curriculum to teach your high school students the basics of essay writing even if you are not a great writer yourself.»

Participating high school STEM educators will develop an Applied Research STEM Curriculum Unit Portfolio that integrates components of their research into a comprehensive unit plan that utilizes NASA education resources and aligns NASA Science and STEM curricula to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.

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These 11 lessons scaffold seamlessly from the knowledge gained in the middle school curriculum, yet the high school curriculum can also stand on its own, as a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for ninth or tenth graders.

Developing a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for middle schools and high schools that is now in 131 schools and reaching over 30,000 students.

The health goal of the curriculum is to promote positive sexual health behaviors and beliefs among students who have participated in the Get Real middle school comprehensive sexuality education curriculum, resulting in a delay of sexual initiation, a reduction of unintended pregnancies, and higher use of protection methods.

Get Real: Comprehensive Sex Education That Works is a unique curriculum designed for implementation in both middle and high schools.

«This poll also supports the need for school - based programs like Get Real, our comprehensive sexuality education curriculum designed for middle and high school aged youth,» said Slonaker.

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Richard is the author of the Start Smart comprehensive premarital program, author of the Champions curriculum for High School Boys, and the co-author of the Adventures in Marriage curriculum.

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