Sentences with phrase «curricular choices»

A wide range of forces — including digital innovation, the advent of the Common Core State Standards, the push to devolve some of the authority over curricula to districts and classrooms, and the open educational resources movement — have combined to yield a bewildering array of curricular choices for the classroom.

And a small but rigorous body of evidence confirms that curricular choices matter.

With the distance between schools and small classroom size, we face many of the same challenges that affect rural schools all over the world when it comes to the provision and breadth of curricular choices.

Unlike some platforms that relay that information to the consumers, CourseSmart intends for the data to help those stakeholders higher up to make informed curricular choices.

At HITE, discussions and activities focus us on a fundamental objective: to prepare teachers to make curricular choices that best serve their students.

These are not people for whom curricular choices are being made out of longstanding habit, out of never having experienced any other materials.

In the face of multiple curricular choices, they opt for their own denomination's educational materials.

I like national norm reference testing as a light - touch method of providing transparency while leaving curricular choices up to schools.

Keep me interested: As an alternative school, BDEA has more autonomy over curricular choices; teachers can develop courses in unique topic areas designed to reengage off - track students.

Charter public schools in Idaho already have some opportunities for flexibility, through curricular choices and their performance certificates, and this option opens the door for traditional public schools to have the same opportunities to make governance decisions at a local level.

To support districts with curricular choices, Louisiana facilitated reviews of materials and benchmark assessments for English language arts and mathematics.

As ESSA requires states to focus on evidence - based practices, state education agencies and school districts must make important evidence - based curricular choices.

Other career field, such as auto mechanics, could require other curricular choices beyond the 10 hour days of test prep, yes.

Offers expanded curricular choices for individual interest through elective course selections in fine arts and technology

• «Rigorous research confirms that curricular choices matter.»

It was intentionally designed to elicit meaningful data that could inform curricular choices and student learning across grade levels and content areas.

They also found «that competitiveness varies strongly and significantly across [the curricular choices], with students that are more competitive selecting more prestigious» programs, write Thomas Buser and Hessel Oosterbeek of the University of Amsterdam and Muriel Niederle of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, the study's authors.

These schools maintained strong academic programs, but they also offered enough vocational and elective courses for students to have some curricular choice.

• New York has been a hotbed of restiveness over Common Core (and Common Core tests), but Sahm's study shows that principals are largely satisfied with the standards, their curricular choices, and implementation.

In this special report, Education Week focuses on helping educators navigate an increasingly diverse marketplace of new — and often promising — curricular choices.

But let me ask you, Jay: Is anyone proposing that states hire Common Core Cops who go to school districts and inspect their curricular choices?

More than 64,000 Idaho students are enrolled in a school of choice (charter, private, home, curricular choice), according to theIdaho Charter School Network.

They are available to help with planning, curricular choices, and the overall educational journey of your child.

We also have a reimbursement policy that allows for curricular choice, purchase of technology, and the subsidizing of extra-curricular activities.

Research continues to demonstrate that curricular choices matter.

Additional options for curricular choices that move you closer to being prepared to practice include courses that expose you to advanced civil and criminal procedures, evidentiary rules, and administrative law processes.