Sentences with phrase «expanded learning choices»

«Over the years we've collaborated on new learning models that have expanded learning choices for students and dramatically changed the course of thousands of futures,» said APS Superintendent Raquel Reedy.

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The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation is helping AMM to expand its community garden, through which it provides patients and community members access to fresh fruits and veggies, control over healthy food choices, and the opportunity to learn how to garden themselves.

Principal investigator Cari Herrmann - Abell and her colleagues plan to expand on their previous efforts to develop multiple - choice test items by developing a set of constructed or open - ended response items that can be used in combination with the multiple - choice items to measure students» understanding of core disciplinary ideas, science practices, and crosscutting concepts — the three dimensions of science learning that are central to the vision of NGSS.

Digital learning that exploits online courses and broadband capabilities can expand choice for students, ensure transparency and accountability for courses offered online, and create opportunities for many more students to come into contact with the very best teachers.

* Expand access to the best content, resources and learning opportunities, thereby increasing choices available to students, regardless of location.

No one knows the ideal political strategy or regulatory scheme, so having a variety of different approaches allows us to learn about how these different methods for expanding choice are doing.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

Washington can also include waivers and incentives in the education bill so it can encourage states to expand educational choice and digital learning.

As targeted school choice programs continue to expand, so does the number of students who can signal dissatisfaction with outdated or ineffective teaching and learning strategies by choosing to attend a different school.

Expand true parent choice and opportunity by considering a proposal for racially and economically diverse, district - operated charter schools that aim to ensure high quality, equal educational opportunities in a diverse learning environment.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

As policymakers seek to expand educational choice in their states, they should learn from the experience of other states and be prepared for potential challenges.

Whittle School & Studios is building a global system of schools — launching Fall 2019 in Washington DC, USA, and Shenzhen, China, and expanding to other countries in subsequent years — that will incorporate learning by doing, creating and making, student choice and voice, collaboration and teamwork, and global connections with local roots.

One of the Eight Big Ideas, «Educate the Whole Child,» has four lines of effort: providing social - emotional learning supports, promoting healthy choices, strengthening student - teacher relationships, and expanding early childhood opportunities.

CINCH Learning is the choice of educational leaders who are actively choosing technology to expand the scope, quality, and richness of their educational systems.

Snyder will also have to push hard to expand the number of charter schools and online learning opportunities in order to provide the wide array of choices that families will seek if the plan is passed.

Widespread use of multiple - choice tests as predominant measures of learning must give way to an expanded use of performance assessments tasks that engage students in applying their learning in genuine contexts.

Giving students real choices of what and how to learn makes a great deal of sense in the context of this expanding neuroscience knowledge base.

Added to the expanding list of school options available to parents and children are a growing number of course choices, dual - credit opportunities and other alternative learning options that go well beyond the traditional offerings of brick - and - mortar classrooms.

Expanding student choice is a democratic practice that unfetters creativity and promotes student ownership of learning, while building self - responsibility and contribution to others.

The Peach State has a chance to expand personalized learning options to all K — 12 students in the state, and we here at EdChoice think the legislators who are paving the way for Georgia to become a leader in educational choice have a whole lot of gumption.

If you think engineering might be a good choice for you, a summer engineering program is a great way to learn more about the field and expand your experiences.

The 2016 - 17 Creative Compass Program helped assistant principals expand their leadership skills and arts experience, while scaffolding their professional learning on how to make healthy arts choices that impact achievement for their schools and to move up the Creative Schools Certification ladder.

We support expanding course choice in Texas to provide innovative and individualized learning experiences for children based on their unique needs.

About the choice to expand Flamboyan's efforts into college readiness and persistence, Stevenson added, «Most of our work to date has been focused on building the capacity of educators in elementary schools to help families support learning.

We're cutting administrative waste and inefficiencies in order to protect investments in programs that boost student learning such as full school day, early childhood development and maintaining class size, while at the same time expanding high quality school options across the district to give parents more choices.

The combination of course choice and online learning can be an especially powerful tool in rural areas because it expands the subject matters, including foreign languages, available to students.

We created the nation's first statewide voucher program and then created three more broad choice programs, in addition to expanding virtual learning.

Expanding school choice and Parent Power (including blended learning options) must also happen.

In Happiness Is a Choice You Make, John Leland expands upon his popular New York Times series to explore aging, happiness and the lessons that can be learned from those 85 and up.

A good choice if you want to expand on skills learned in class, such as recall or polite leash walking.

- the 18 returning classes were chosen by seeing which popular classes would fit with the game - they also wanted to include classes to cover roles that the roster was lacked - the Pugilist class was added because the first group of classes selected did not include any with bashing and binding attacks - War Magus was added because the Medic was the only healer class in the roster at that point - they couldn't simply include all popular classes as that would have skewed the balance of the game - as for the Hero class, they with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, but this made things to similar to other classes - this was rectified by adding after - images and other skills with good synergy - when an after - image appears, it does the same skills as the Hero, except on the following turn - it becomes possible for skills that usually can not be used multiple times in a row to be activated multiple turns in a row - it also means skills that only have an effect for one turn can be extended to two - after - images use not only the Hero's own class skills, but also their subclass skills - if the subclass is an Imperial, the Drive skill can be used multiple times in a row - when using Hero as a subclass to Nightseeker, the character can cover the Nightseeker's weaknesses of having low defense - after - images can also help increase the chances of inflicting status ailments - subclasses can be used to make up for weakness - Swordsman, a class that can learn speed and accuracy boosting skills, would be a good subclass for the Gunner - Reaper as a subclass for War Magus would allow that character to use the scythe's skills to inflict status ailments - the skill tree is slowly unlocked as a character grows - there are more skills that make jobs» individual styles stand out more, or expand the player's choices - the skill tree is also made so that there are less requirements to learn specific skills as compared to 5 - this makes it easier for players to get the skill they want without spending large numbers of skill points on lower skills - it's now easier to put points into skills, which makes re-specing easier - the team faced difficulty in balancing classes that were never meant to be alongside each other - they are doing their best to ensure that they keep the individual classes» identities intact

By joining the Collaborative Family Law Group of San Diego, they can work with and learn from like - minded colleagues, and expand the range of choices for families who come to them for legal, financial, and mental health services,» said Fentin.