Sentences with phrase «create opportunity gaps»

This issue will explore how educators can address the barriers that create opportunity gaps for students on the basis of their socioeconomic level, race, ethnicity, and gender.

The report also describes the need to address «white - washed» teaching of our history of oppression, and the importance of building a common understanding of how we have historically created opportunity gaps.

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Important Note For Energy Investors: The widening gap between WTI and Brent continues to create opportunities for traders.

«The repairs and refurbishment market in India is highly fragmented and unorganised, and there is a significant opportunity for a company like Gadgetwood to create a scalable business servicing a large gap in the industry,» said Abhishek Sharman, founder and MD at Carpediem Capital.

By doing so, you will identify future talent needs (and gaps in existing leaders) and create opportunities for emerging leaders to step up and lead by taking on key growth or operational initiatives.

Financial data can help you create forecasts, identify upcoming cash gaps, spot threats and seize opportunities.

New Roadmap for Tourism Investment: The governor said a gap analysis will help identify transformative tourism infrastructure and marketing challenges and opportunities, and create a roadmap for public and private investment in the tourism sector.

At 11:25 a.m., U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will host a roundtable with local businesses and advocates to discuss bolstering efforts to help close the broadband gap in rural areas and create economic development opportunities to bring more good - paying jobs to the North Country, Indian Lake Chamber of Commerce, 6301 NYS Route 30, Indian Lake.

Clegg said: «The prime minister and I will be making some announcements shortly on how we will use this opportunity of a gap, an unexpected gap in the legislative timetable, in order to push forward things which will help to create growth and jobs in our economy.»

Investing this settlement money in education will allow us to eliminate the Gap Elimination Adjustment once and for all, providing the opportunity for property tax relief and creating a brighter future for Upstate families.»

PowHer New York applauds the Governor for taking this next major step toward eliminating the wage and opportunity gap and is committed to advancing these recommendations to create economic equality for all women.»

We created the Business Stimulus Loan Fund at the ECIDA to help fill some of that gap, giving established local companies the financial support they need to grow and create economic opportunity in our community,» said Erie County Executive

I have spent more than half of my life creating opportunities for people like you (and me) to fill these gaps.

This year, the prize was awarded to not one, but six designers, who will also have the opportunity to create pieces for a limited - edition collection for high street retailer Gap.

Broadening our ideas about where, when, and how learning happens helps communities to create richer learning pathways that have the potential to include more nonacademic opportunities to help youth gain the skills necessary for a healthy adulthood, offer a seamless learning environment that can help stem summer learning loss, and tap resources outside of schools for additional opportunities to help close the achievement gap.

The writing holds no connection to those students and creates a gap between those who have taken this kind of vacation and those who don't have the means or opportunity.

They should then create a plan to build on strengths and address gaps or opportunities.

«When opportunities are created for our girls to explore the world of science around them and encourage teachers to be creative in their practices, we then have the power to eliminate the gaps that exist between genders.»

With care and planning, the play opportunities that schools provide can help to fill the gap created by local authority budget cuts to play provision.

He has participated in the design of multiple innovative new school models expressly created to close the opportunity gap.

I plan to change the current conversations regarding strategies on narrowing the achievement gap and create more opportunities for the academic and social advancement of black male students.

While a student - centered, self - paced, mastery - based system should create opportunities to advance equity by putting all students on the path to postsecondary success, including at - risk youth, CBE done poorly and without the appropriate resources and supports could exacerbate already existing achievement gaps and inequities.

Pinpoint knowledge gaps and create opportunities to coach 1 - on - 1 with contact center employees to make sure everyone understands essential information.

Education Week, To Fight Inequity, Empower the Families It Harms Most At RISE Colorado, an education nonprofit founded in 2012, we've created a model in which we train school leaders and teachers to educate families about the opportunity gap and their role in overcoming it.

Boykin, A. W. & Noguera P. (2011) Creating the opportunity to learn: moving form research to practice to close the achievement gap.

The vision was to create a public school that would close the educational opportunity gap afflicting the mostly poor, immigrant families living in East Boston and Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Creating positive school climates for every student is instrumental in closing opportunity and achievement gaps in our system and improving student outcomes.

«Certainly, Michelle, I really admire the things you are doing in LA and your commitment that LAUSD has to continue to get better and close gaps and create better opportunity.

The new initiative, however, is specifically designed to create conditions for high - performing charter schools — schools with a proven track record of student achievement — to help with one of our state's most pressing issues: closing the opportunity gap.

NewSchools Venture Fund is a not - for - profit organization working to close the achievement gap by funding and supporting entrepreneurs who are creating innovative solutions to the problems in public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in college and beyond.

Throughout the reauthorization process, NEA's focus has been threefold: decouple standardized testing from high - stakes decisions, create an «opportunity dashboard» to help close opportunity gaps in needy schools and elevate the voices of educators in the policymaking process.

«This paper fills an important knowledge gap by helping leaders see what it looks like when school systems take up these challenging ideas — the challenges they confront and the opportunities they create — to ensure principals have the support they need for success.»

Where they have the opportunity to act on expectations, we see instead deteriorating infrastructure, inadequate staffing, disrespect for the teaching profession, highly disparate funding levels for schools, and an unwillingness to even acknowledge the systemic racism that creates and ossifies the gaps.

Children from low - income families typically have fewer opportunities to develop language skills than middle - class children, which creates learning gaps evident on the first day of kindergarten.

I have spent my career working to narrow the opportunity gap that creates the sub-standard conditions for teaching and learning that so dramatically impact the achievement gap.

«Students in Utah's rural communities deserve the same educational opportunities as students in urban areas,» Conine said, «USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program, with local educational institutions, helps bridge the gap that distance creates, ensuring rural students achieve their goals of higher education.»

WHEREAS, at a time when the nation's K - 12 students are now «majority — minority» and racialized gaps in student achievement, income, wealth are on the rise, the continued opportunity gap in schools has created a climate where communities are restless for alternatives.

By focusing solely on the achievement gap, we have neglected the opportunity gap that creates it, and have allowed the re-segregation of our schools and communities by class and race.

Because asynchrony often creates these developmental gaps, it is crucial to provide appropriate resources and opportunities that best identify, challenge, and assist each gifted child's specific needs.

For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

Further, particular aspects of teachers» professional community — a shared sense of intellectual purpose and a sense of collective responsibility for student learning — were associated with a narrowing of achievement gaps in math and science among low - and middle - income students.14 Strong professional learning communities require leadership that establishes a vision, creates opportunities and expectations for joint work, and finds the resources needed to support the work, including expertise and time to meet.15 Collaborative teacher teams can improve practice together by: 16

«This partnership with AASA is an invaluable opportunity to prepare the next generation of district leaders to identify and close those gaps, and to create a bench of high performing leaders for sustainability across school districts.»

Ending achievement and opportunity gaps requires implementing a variety of desegregation methods — busing, magnet schools, or merging school districts, for instance — to create a more just public education system that successfully educates all children.

Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap (Alexandria, Va.: ASCD).

The funding and opportunity gaps created by Pennsylvania's state funding system have created racial and economic achievement gaps in our public schools that are among the largest in the country.

Teachers from four middle schools and four high schools met for a 3 - day NCTAF facilitated Design Session where they mapped curricula across their respective disciplines and collaborated with Workforce Partners to create opportunities for students to bridge the gap between the classroom and the real - world.

Connecticut's broken system has created one of the largest achievement gaps in the nation, denying students of color and those from low - income families the equal opportunity they deserve.

If we're serious about closing the opportunity gap, we must work to create seamless learning standards, smooth school transitions, and equal opportunity for all students and their families.

I have increasingly focused my work on finding ways to create high - quality opportunities at scale and have learned that strategic partnerships across sectors are essential if we are to identify and implement solutions where significant educational, economic, and social challenges or gaps exist.

Those equal opportunities, created with clear intention and purposeful action, are key to closing the stark achievement gaps that continue to persist in our nation, say the CEL leaders dedicated to closing those divides.