Sentences with phrase «grades reform initiative»
Academic, social, and emotional needs in a middle grades reform initiative.
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Building off of Boston Public School's (BPS) successful PreK initiative, this project aims to operationalize the recommended PreK - 3rd grade reform strategies and pioneer their implementation at scale, all the while examining this particular case of education reform and its incremental progress towards better meeting young children's needs.
When Spillane and Jennings (1997) looked more closely at nine second - and fifth - grade teachers in the suburban district, they found that the extent to which teachers» practices reflected the district's literacy initiative depended on how well the reforms were elaborated by the district.
High School Allotment: Provides $ 275 per high school student in additional funding to districts to prepare students to go on to higher education, encourage students to take challenging course work, increase the rigor of academic courses, align secondary and postsecondary curriculum, and support promising high school reform initiatives in grades 6 through 12.
As part of a high school reform initiative, 10th grade English language arts teachers and literacy coaches worked with a data coach to define essential questions about students» reading performance.
The high school reform initiative also involved using data - warehousing technology to follow the progress of three cohorts of students from grade 9 to grade 11 on one particular subskill of the state assessment.
Schools to Watch ® is an initiative launched by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform in 1999.
The Department of Education through Investing In Innovations (i3) initiative granted funding to the National Forum to Accelerate Middle - Grades Reform to implement a Middle - Grades Leadership Development process in 2013.
Collegial work groups (e.g., grade level teams, school improvement teams), sharing of expertise, networking of teachers and principals across schools, cross-role leadership and school improvement teams at school and district levels — all these and many other configurations of professional educators collaborating with one another on student achievement - focused district reform initiatives are indicative of a common emphasis on teamwork and professional community as one of the keys to continuous improvement.
Unlike many education reform initiatives, the solutions that directly address student learning through the provision of new or improved forms of instruction have had significant positive impact on student achievement in grades 7 through 11 in mathematics, language arts, social studies and science and on the development of early reading skills.