Sentences with phrase «educators at achievement»

Ms. Mills is looking forward to working with families and educators at Achievement Prep to close the achievement gap.

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The County Legislators also proclaimed October 19th, «Tony Dofat Day» for his outstanding achievements and contributions to society and accolades in music for 27 years, also as an educator and appointment as Associate professor at LIU, world lecturer, and the author of 2 music reference books and currently working on his third and fourth books.

State senators questioned New York's top educator and other education professionals Tuesday at a hearing in Syracuse looking at new Common Core assessments and student achievement.

The issue is gaining increasing attention as more educators eager to motivate students, especially those at the low end of the achievement gap, are, like Shakur, experimenting with financial incentives for kids.

Naace, the community of educators, technologists and policy makers has announced a focus on raising achievement through technology at...

Three educators, recognized for their efforts to integrate technology into schools or to raise academic achievement for students deemed at risk of failing, were awarded the Harold W. McGraw Jr..

Assiduously collect and report the numbers of advanced learners as well as gaps between subgroups, and hold educators accountable for ensuring that gaps are closed at every level of achievement, including advanced.

While some experts, educators, and writers dispute the existence of an alleged «boy crisis,» calling it a myth at best, other experts and indicators tell a different tale, one that includes compelling statistics pointing to a downward, multiyear trend in young male achievement.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

The groups represented at the expo included Alumni Relations, the Annual Fund, Career Services, the Field Experience Program, Gutman Library Research Services, Human Resources, the Achievement Gap Initiative, the Change Leadership Group, the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, Harvard Education Publishing Group, Harvard Family Research Project, the Office of School Partnerships, Programs in Professional Education, Project Zero, the Usable Knowledge website, and WIDE World.

Yet speakers at the third annual Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, «Structures, Cultures, and Achievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issAchievement Gap Initiative Conference, «Structures, Cultures, and Achievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issAchievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issachievement gap issue as well.

Educators at Longfellow Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa, have worked hard to raise achievement of at - risk students.

Price, a nonresident Senior Fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institute and John L. Weinberg / Goldman Sachs visiting professor of public and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, wrote Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible «for educators who wish to mobilize their own communities to support student success,» he wrote.

An «Income - Achievement» Gap Within Kids» Brain Structures Boston Globe, 5/4/15 «As educators explore ways to shrink the income - achievement gap, programs that improve the quality of education, particularly for low - income students, may help, says Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of EducatAchievement» Gap Within Kids» Brain Structures Boston Globe, 5/4/15 «As educators explore ways to shrink the income - achievement gap, programs that improve the quality of education, particularly for low - income students, may help, says Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Educatachievement gap, programs that improve the quality of education, particularly for low - income students, may help, says Martin West, associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Chenoweth, writer - in - residence at The Education Trust, discusses her book and the ways in which educators can break down the link between academic achievement and socioeconomic status.

REVIEW: The Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) represents a consortium of educators from five universities and receives support from the Department of Education for research on the learning and teaching of effective reading skills to children at an early age.

At Forest Lake Elementary School, in Columbia, South Carolina, achievement has soared since educators started using new technology to personalize the learning experience for each student.

The ADP benchmarks come at a critical moment, as educators and philanthropists focus new attention on the American high school and as states are challenged to raise student achievement to the «proficient» level demanded by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Communities and educators that want to improve student achievement should look closely at increasing the length of the school day or year, a report by the Center for American Progress says.

School letter grades have a distinct advantage for educators as well: they are very effective at focusing educators on the goal of maximizing academic achievement.

Canadian educators find inspiration and new direction at the Closing the Achievement Gap professional education program.

The Executive Leadership Program for Educators at Harvard University in association with The Wallace Foundation will emphasize midcareer development of teams of high - level education leaders that share responsibility for making changes in their organizations and across their states to broadly improve school leadership and its impact on student achievement.

A team of a dozen or so educators, including teachers at KIPP and Achievement First, are working on our product to ensure that it meets the needs of our targeted end - users: teachers who work in schools in impoverished neighborhoods and the low - income students they serve.

To that end, the Department will leverage Title II, Part A funding to support current and future educators at multiple points through their careers to ensure that they have the skills and tools needed to support student achievement and advance equity.

Developing a growth mindset can happen at any grade level, as Dweck's research has shown that student ideas about intelligence can be manipulated in schools by educators in order to have a positive impact on academic achievement.

At Edmentum, we work hard each year to invest in our products in ways that will have the greatest impact for educators and the most achievement gains for students.

I was fortunate enough to present on Game - Based Learning at Follett's New Leaf in Learning Conference, an annual practice that arms educators with tools and best practices to increase student engagement and achievement.

Other groups such as Educators4Excellence, Teach for America and Achievement First have more distinct niches including operating public charters and training educators to advocate for change at the state level.»

If passed, this will take what was the state's teacher evaluation system requirement that 20 % of an educator's evaluation be based on «locally selected measures of achievement,» to a system whereas teachers» value - added as based on growth on the state's (Common Core) standardized test scores will be set at 50 %.

With a quickly growing national network of over3, 500 educators united by the E4E Declaration of Teachers» Principles and Beliefs, E4E teachers can learn about education policy and research, network at E4E's event series with like - minded colleagues and important education policymakers, and take action by advocating for teacher - created policy recommendations that lift student achievement and the teaching profession.

The recipient of the 2008 Early Career Achievement Award from the National Reading Conference, she is also a teacher - leader at Health Sciences High & Middle College and a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California.

Reports are available at the group level for quick overviews of student achievement, or educators can zoom in at the individual level to pinpoint specific opportunities for improvement or enrichment.

Attend this web seminar to learn from educators at St. Martini Lutheran School, an innovative school with an 85 percent Latino population in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about the success they've had combining face - to - face instruction with online learning to drive math achievement for their ELL students.

Educators at nearly 14,000 schools nationwide use Illuminate's Education Intelligence Platform to improve student achievement.

Sanders thought that educators struggling with student achievement in the state should «simply» use more advanced statistics, similar to those used when modeling genetic and reproductive trends among cattle, to measure growth, hold teachers accountable for that growth, and solve the educational measurement woes facing the state of Tennessee at the time.

Achieve3000 launches its new Leadership Edition, an at - a-glance dashboard that provides educators with the reliable, actionable data needed to best support student achievement.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

Available directly from within DreamBox, MyFlexPD uses real - time student achievement data to surface corresponding professional development options that will empower educators to guide student success based on what students are learning at the time.

No doubt academic achievement concerns students, parents, educators, and the community at large where you live.

Join Dr. Nelson and Dr. Theodore J. Christ on Wednesday, December 2nd at 3:00 p.m. CT for a free «Ask the Experts» webinar «Communicating Data About Achievement and Growth to Parents» for a deeper discussion and additional guidelines for educators.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

Dr. Saroja R. Warner, NBCT, is the Director of Educator Preparation Initiatives at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) where she directs initiatives that support state authorities to ensure educators enter the workforce ready to advance student learning, represent the demographic diversity of K12 students, and lead schools that support student achievement.

The hard work and dedication of educators and school leaders at Oak Hill Elementary School in High Point, N.C. received much - deserved recognition for closing its achievement gaps between students by significant margins.

* We should fully define «highly qualified teacher» for Texas not just in regulatory terms, but in terms of the qualities and performance that are expected, which will necessitate a re-evaluation of the strategic policy document, «Learner - Centered Schools for Texas: A Vision of Texas Educators», adopted in 1997, as well as the transformation of educator employment terms from «contract» to «at will», with enhanced compensation based on performance tied to student achievement.

At Leadership Prep School in Frisco, Texas, leaders say they're better empowering student achievement since implementing the Educators Professional Inventory (EPI) ® — a tool that uses predictive analytics to determine teacher candidate effectiveness.

Perhaps the most important facts for educators to acknowledge today are these: that we know, right now, how to significantly improve schooling in almost any setting, and that we know how to do this for students at every point in the achievement spectrum, from low to high.

July 2018 Teaching at Achievement First: Achievement First invites passionate educators to apply for the position of History Teacher for the 2018 - 19 school year.

Through a grant from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Education Alliance at Brown University developed the Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders (CALL) program to assist educators with delivering more effective instruction in the content areas and closing persistent achievement gaps among their students.

Research and Practice The 2014 study, «Using Technology to Support At - Risk Students» Learning,» published by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy, reinforces what McGlone and other astute school leaders already know: Technology can be a powerful force for closing the achievement gap, but it's only as effective as the educator who uses it — and professional development is key.

Interesting for any educator, but would be extremely practical for administrators who truly want to impact achievement at their schools.