Sentences with phrase «create new models of education»

What excited many of us with the charter statute was its purpose to encourage innovation because it was so hard (impossible) to create new models of education inside the system.

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Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

When I was with the New York City Department of Education and responsible for our secondary - school reform strategy, we created models of 6 — 12 and K — 8, where this was feasible.

Conference discussions explored new procurement and funding models for all types of education establishments, how to improve existing stock and adapt existing buildings to create quality education spaces.

In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state - based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»

What they created — first seeking buy in from the government, school leadership, teachers, and parents — was a «new» model for primary education that was child - centric, focused personalized learning, and imagined a new role for the teacher in which lectures were de-emphasized in favor of facilitation of classroom discussion and cooperative learning.

Design a school that pays more and reaches all with excellence — October 10, 2013 Public Impact Co-Directors Refresh Vision: Opportunity Culture for ALL — September 25, 2013 Report shows promising alternative to closing failing charter schools — August 14, 2013 Rocketship Education: Bringing tech closer to teachers — July 24, 2013 Case study: New charter pays more, extends teachers» reach, gets strong results — July 9, 2013 Case study: How Charlotte zone planned Opportunity Culture schools — June 27, 2013 Case study: How one Leading Educators fellow extends her reach — June 17, 2013 Opportunity Culture district creates paid role for student teachers — May 22, 2013 Reports: City - based organizations» roles in quality digital learning — May 15, 2013 Nation's fifth - largest district explores extending reach of excellent teachers — May 9, 2013 A Better Blend: Combine digital instruction and great teaching to dramatically improve learning — April 30, 2013 Indiana Encourages Dramatically Different Models in New Charter Schools — April 18, 2013 Charlotte Flooded with Teacher Applicants Seeking Roles to Extend Their Reach — April 11, 2013 New charter school study shows the steps to great schools — March 14, 2013 Nashville Joins Sites Extending Excellent Teachers» Reach — March 7, 2013 Opportunity Culture Network to Link Charter School Organizations — February 6, 2013 Share Opportunity Culture with Your Teachers: New Slide Deck and Two - Pager — Dec 13, 2012 Career Paths That Respect Teachers» Time and Talent — Nov 15, 2012 You Know Who Your Great Teachers Are — Now What?

About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washington, DC.

It also includes innovative new models like Louisiana's «course choice» program, which allows students to take a portion of their school funding to go to outside providers for individual classes and Arizona's Education Savings Account program, which creates a Health Savings Account - like restricted use fund that families can use to pay for eEducation Savings Account program, which creates a Health Savings Account - like restricted use fund that families can use to pay for educationeducation.

Those six words, if taken seriously and implemented with care, hold the potential to create and provide resources to sustain a new model for decision - making within state education agencies and school districts — a model that benefits students and taxpayers and, over time, enhances our knowledge of what works in education.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

Said Mieka Wick, Executive Director of CityBridge Education: «At CityBridge, we believe that our calling — for at least the next decade — is to focus on creating the pipeline of new schools and new school models that will deliver vastly improved results for our students.

At the request of the DC Public Charter School Board and with support from NewSchools Venture Fund, AppleTree creates its AppleTree @ model, where AppleTree collaborates with with a turnaround or high - performing new partner, to operate AppleTree preschool allowing the host school to focus on kindergarten and above, while AppleTree provides a high quality preschool education.

Model school library standards were approved Thursday by the California State Board of Education, creating new benchmarks for K - 12 resource management in a world dominated by electronic communication.

The emphases of student involvement and meaningful engagement in the learner - centered education model have created a new paradigm in an effort to generate a more engaging learning environment.

According to the Kentucky Department of Education, their new accountability model is a more robust — next generation model that holds all schools and school systems accountable for improving student performance and creates four performance classifications that determine consequences and guide interventions and supports.

E3 is working to educate citizens on the benefits of legislation to create ESAs in New Jersey modeled after the first near - universal education savings account program in the nation enacted by Nevada in 2015.

At the same time, his organization is creating a brand new graduate school of education that he said is intended to serve as a model for other teacher - preparation programs.

HCZ Promise Academy students do perform better than students of their backgrounds attending a New York City public school but the charter school at the top of the list is a KIPP school [18] which calls into comparison two different models of education and their abilities to create achievement for historically marginalized groups.

Pearson and McGraw - Hill Education are going to be rolling out a new distribution model very soon: creating online versions of their texts, often loaded with interactive features, and selling students access codes that expire at semester's end.

Or should an entirely new, market - driven model of legal education be created, a scheme that would abolish articling altogether?