Sentences with phrase «from extended learning opportunities»

Of all school factors — from extended learning opportunities to family and community engagement to smaller class sizes — teachers exert the largest impact on student achievement.

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It's an opportunity to earn the required CEUs to extend your CYSA for another 2 - year cycle — but more importantly it's an opportunity to network, share and learn from others from across the country who have similar roles in their communities.

Learning a foreign language has been compulsory since the times of the Soviet Union, but the recent reform of school education demands more from today's students, giving extended opportunities to young Ukrainian women and men to perfect the knowledge of their chosen overseas dialect.

Pupils and staff need to be able to access school systems from home and elsewhere from a range of devices, in order to extend learning opportunities and support administrative functions.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

So the message is: the IAAS network can help schools and academies to learn from each other, to share what works best in teaching and learning and, crucially, to embed change and practice to make a real difference to our children and young people — supporting great teaching, extending opportunities, enriching learning and creating the time to learn.

Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel have written for Ed Next on how schools can extend the reach of excellent teachers so that more children will have the opportunity to learn from the best teachers we have.

Programs range from Stanford Online High School to specialized dropout prevention high schools run in partnership with community - based nonprofits toRocketship, which plows savings from technology into extended learning opportunities and higher teacher salaries, to the North Carolina Virtual Public School, a signature program of Democratic Governor Bev Purdue (launched when she was the state's Lt. Governor).

From that line of thinking was born Opportunity Culture, an initiative to try this idea: Let school teams with teachers on them redesign jobs and use age - appropriate technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to many more students, for more pay, within regular budgets, adding more planning time, and having them take full accountability for the learning of all the students they serve.

By embracing the opportunities presented by the natural environment, students can benefit from outdoor learning activities and extend these projects to class - based activities and further learning.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee (at right), led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

Aside from their role serving as a «safe space» for students after school hours, today's Out - of - School - Time (OST) programs - which include after - school, summer, and other holistic extended - learning opportunities - are innovative, outcomes - based, and surprisingly diverse.

The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and an extended school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

Additionally, the department provides extended and accelerated opportunities in arts - making and arts learning, and to enhance the bridge from elementary school to college and careers.

While no child wants to extend their classroom day, these programs can play a crucial role in closing the learning gap and opening up lifelong opportunities for children from underserved and underrepresented communities.

Hence, an expansion of the portability provisions for private schools would constitute a voucher program and divert investments from our public schools, thereby affecting resources such as those for classroom instruction and curriculum, intervention services and extended day learning opportunities.

Suggestions range from offering students an array of extracurricular activities and extended - day learning opportunities to establishing more meaningful accountability systems that encompass a variety of subjects and use multiple measures of student performance.

Expanding learning - time programs that focus with all good intentions on remediation and tutoring, but that extend traditional school structures into afterschool time, may experience weak attendance and missed opportunities because these efforts are too often disconnected from the rich learning lives of today's youth.

Teachers seldom have the experiences other professions provide — regular, focused support from experts in their field; extended time to learn and practice new methods; consistent opportunities to use fine grained evidence to inform their work.