Sentences with phrase «curriculum in schools across the country»

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(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

Lecturer David Rose, Ed.D.» 76, hopes and believes that he and his colleagues are part of a revolution — a revolution called Universal Design for Learning (UDL), which is increasingly taking hold in schools and school districts across the country and seeks to design curriculum from the outset that can accommodate all types of learners, rather than retrofitting existing curriculums on an ad hoc, as needed basis.

But in too many schools in the U.S., over-testing and under - funding are narrowing curricula, as public schools across the country become increasingly re-segregated.

Great Minds tested the drafts in 12 public and charter schools across the country and created Wit & Wisdom, a K — 8 coherent curriculum based on the same principles.

The four lessons were taught in selected schools across the country, as part of the PSHE curriculum for 14 - year - olds, reaching 650 pupils.

From increasing your free school meal take up, to engaging your parents and pupils with healthy food; creative marketing for your school meals even if your budget is limited; using cooking in the curriculum and developing flexible menus whilst still meeting the national standards for school food, you'll walk away with practical actions and ideas that have been tried and tested in schools across the country.

«Educators across the country have struggled to identify a rich, engaging, and rigorous curriculum that will help them support students in meeting dramatically higher expectations,» said John E. Deasy, former superintendent of Los Angeles public schools.

Leading education resource provider Focus Education has announced that it is to host a total of 10 Mastery in Maths events over the coming six months following «unprecedented demand» from subject and primary school leaders across the country as a result of the introduction of «fundamental changes» to the mathematics curriculum.

Get a closer look at how the Second Step curriculum has been successfully and creatively implemented in schools across the country.

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.

«This is what is going on in schools across the country: It's not an option to do anything else than retake the class with the same book and same curriculum,» said Anthony B. Fong, the lead researcher at WestEd who conducted this November 2014 study, «Who Repeats Algebra I, and How does initial performance related to improvement when the course is repeated?»

The purpose of this course is to prepare licensure candidates with the knowledge and skills to effectively shelter their content instruction, so that the growing population of English Language Learners (ELLs) in schools across the country can access curriculum, achieve academic success, and contribute their multilingual and multicultural resources as participants and future leaders in the 21st century global economy.

This kind of informational learning can be found in collaborative teacher teams in schools across the country as well: an ELA teacher team discusses incorporating a new book into the curriculum or a grade team learns how to use a new software program to input grades.

Imagine Learning, leading developer of award - winning digital language, literacy, and math curricula, today announced the winners of its 2017 - 2018 Imagine Nation Awards in which select schools from across the country were honored for their exceptional use of Imagine Learning programs.

Founded by two educators in 1926, Perfection Learning provides high - quality, innovative curriculum solutions to K - 12 schools across the country and internationally.

As the oldest teacher recruitment program in the country, South Carolina's Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, or CERRA, facilitates a variety of programs that aim to recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend college.68

Large and small districts across the country have worked to improve infrastructure and connectivity in schools as curriculum and statewide testing continue to migrate to web - based platforms.

«Even in the most challenging educational settings, our internationally benchmarked curriculum is making a real difference for school leaders, teachers and students across the country.

Based on his work with more than 300 schools across the country, this curriculum shows educators how to build student voice in their schools today.

More than 50,000 public schools across the country use Title I funds to provide additional academic support and learning opportunities to help low - achieving children master challenging curricula and meet state standards in core academic subjects.

Pearson, with headquarters in Great Britain, owns the publishing companies Scott Foresman, Penguin, Harcourt and Prentice Hall, setting text book prices, controlling content, and «franchising» the curriculum in thousands of K - 12 schools and colleges across the country.

Inquiry continues to play an important part in curriculum and standards in schools across the country.

And we also believe that the wisdom of caring for animals involves early stage education, so we're thrilled to know that Animal League America spends significant time in schools,» says Carmen, referring to our Mutt - i - grees ® Curriculum, now implemented in more 4,000 schools, libraries, and afterschool programs across the country.

That body of work has been widely published in books, discussed by school - children in curriculum across the country, and featured in monographic and group exhibitions both nationally and internationally.