Sentences with phrase «core things students»

Are they focused on the core things students need?

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One thing seems clear: yoga students — the brand's hardest - core fans — have largely turned on Lululemon, says Stefanie Byrne, who co-owns the Ashtanga Yoga studio in Toronto with her husband.

Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. said during a televised forum in Buffalo that the state will continue to lead the way in implementing the Common Core standards because «it's the right thing for students.»

Mr. King continued to defend New York's implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which requires, among other things, instructors to teach more non-fiction and rigorous math to students at a younger age.

But Connelly changed things, reducing English and math class sizes to an average of sixteen students, hiring more teachers for core subjects («I buy teachers — I don't buy test coordinators,» she states), and switching to mastery grading.

Among other things, this authenticity addresses the call in the Common Core State Standards for students to «learn to appreciate that a key purpose of writing is to communicate clearly to an external, sometimes unfamiliar audience» and an emphasis in the Michigan second - grade social studies standards on the local community context.

So let's shift the conversation from the Common Core to the common context and make student apathy a thing of the past.

As debate rages on about Common Core and its implementation across the nation, students are sitting in classrooms waiting for things to change.

Its major finding was that most parents actually want pretty much the same things from their schools: a solid core curriculum in reading and math, an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.

So, while I think they always work for college - and career - readiness for all students, the Common Core begins to make that more concrete, it begins to give that shape as to what kinds of things that might mean in K - 12.

So, we wanted to have things like common unit lesson plans, we also wanted to develop more of a team culture so that there's more sharing of ideas and more collaboration... But we also wanted to develop resources that could be used within the school and beyond the school, because a lot of our students, we find when they leave us they don't return to any other education environment, they're sort of outside the education system... As part of our intervention we developed a suite of teaching materials around the Certificate I in Core Skills for Employment and Training that can be used widely.

Assumption of positive intent is a choice to believe that, at our core, most people want the same things that we want for our students.

It is indeed a good thing that we have those other measures because it's true that the Common Core era has failed to deliver on what many of us saw as one of its most valuable and important features: a platinum meter stick to be used to measure, monitor, and compare student achievement, not just between states but also among districts, individual schools, even individual classrooms and children.

JP: One of the things that NRC framework did was identify these core ideas in these disciplinary areas — life science and physical science... And one of the things that makes them a core idea is that... you can start teaching students about them early and develop increasing sophistication with respect to the understanding of that idea.

The Institute's CEO Jim Davies recommended that school communities create space for principals to get to the core business — leading quality teaching and learning in their schools — and find ways the principal can put effort into the things that account for students in classrooms.

Petlak, for example, suggests using student examples as a jumping - off point to talk about things like Common Core standards with parents.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

While the teachers, districts, and the folks in Sacramento all have the luxury of five years (as Michael Kirst likes to say) to figure things out with Common Core and the new wave of standardized tests, what about the 6 + million students in school right now?

For one thing, whether students are identified as «below grade level» depends at least as much on the Common Core tests — and associated cut scores — as it does on the standards themselves.

and reminding us the affective needs of the students are just as important as the cognitive needs, are things that are often left out of the discussion around the Common Core.

When the California State Board of Education voted last week to once again delay holding schools accountable for their students» performance on new Common Core - aligned assessments, they had one thing right: Schools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meet them.

Things have reached a new low when a teachers» union is willing to abandon its core responsibility and jeopardize student safety for its own gain.»

We have successfully measured one thing and that is compliance, otherwise the only thing common core states have in common is the labeling majority of their students as failures.

A big part of Common Core's true value is that our teachers will see textbooks and materials better aligned to curriculum, and students coming to our state from another state will hopefully be able to transition in easier because they'll be learning the same things.

The nine districts, known as California Office to Reform Education (CORE), are still in the dark as to if and when they might be exempted from some of the more stringent requirements of the federal NCLB law that among other things requires all students to be proficient in English and math by 2014.

The report recommends that colleges add the results of Common Core assessment tests to the measures by which they gauge students» eligibility for admission and financial aid; that they help make sure primary and secondary schools teach the things needed to succeed in higher education, and that the Common Core tests measure them; and that schools of education show future teachers how to prepare their students for college and careers.

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.

Personalization is not «doing your own thing» or altering the core; it is the core experience with a variety of options based on student interest and competence.

experts, often from nonprofit groups, proclaim that all students can follow the Common Core State Standards — that every child can and should learn the same things.

But things become much clearer if we use resources like Achieve the Core's Instructional Practice Guides to transform the idea of «text - dependent questions» into a concrete and observable priority such as, «Teachers ask text - dependent questions that address challenging areas of the text, and scaffold students toward key understandings, leading to discussion and student writing.»

Many of the foundation's core ideas — which revolve, among other things, around figuring out the best way to evaluate teachers and reward them for success in boosting student achievement — have been embraced by the U.S. Department of Education and its secretary, Arne Duncan.

Like the other resources mentioned, it is also free, and for teachers, it includes a lot of classroom resources for things like homework management and tracking students progress with the common core standards

«Wright hailed the state's work to adopt Common Core standards, saying the standards are the best thing for students and teachers...» They are empirically superior and age - appropriate — developed by educators,»»

ALSO: Add New Fairfield to school districts engaging in the inappropriate and abusive «Sit and Stay» bullying policies, but West Haven comes off the list after deciding to do the right thing and move students who have been opted out of the Common Core SBAC testing program out of the testing rooms

The fact that we have scored this resounding victory against Common Core testing, before the mass flunking of our students with an invalid test, is a wonderful thing.

And when teachers use these kinds of things, they can engage students in the kinds of learning that absolutely reflect the common core — that require analysis and conjecture and move away from rote learning.

He concluded that it was a good thing to see small improvement in the second year of Common Core testing, but that it's going to be a «hard, slow slog» to get the majority of students to the proficient level with only about a third hitting that threshold now.

So to me, the value of the Common Core State Standards — which encourages students to do precisely those things — is crystal clear.

Thus I understand and sympathize if beleaguered teachers view Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as just one more damn thing imposed on them from on high, interposed between them and their students.

The Common Core encourages things like teacher websites and blogging instruction for elementary school students.

And accomplish these things in part through providing students with a strong education in their core legal duties as lawyers.