Sentences with phrase «high performing schools focused»

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Some parents come specifically for the religious instruction, but others seek an alternative to the utility - focused aims that typify many high - and low - performing schools in the United States.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

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Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

The Gates grantmakers created seven «attributes of high - performing schools» that would guide its giving to those who wanted to create small high schools: a common focus; high expectations; personalization; respect and responsibility; time to collaborate; performance - based instruction; and using technology as a tool.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

In the state under study, public schools that had failed to make AYP focused instruction on the entire range of low - performing students in the subsequent school year, and did so without negative impact on high - performing students.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Early graduation is focused on higher performing students, many of whom will receive scholarships, etc. and use the last year or two of high school to take A.P. classes that they can receive credit for in college.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

Yet you focus on the negative finding: that higher - performing Texas schools were more likely to keep their low - performing kids from taking the test, and those kids did worse over the long term.

There are a panoply of «jobs» we might «hire» a pre-K program to perform for families: the job of providing dependable custodial services for working parents; the job of preparing students for elementary school by focusing on high impact areas like early vocabulary exposure; the job of keeping young children healthy during their early years of development.

The state Department of Education may consider investing in high quality formative assessment and data analysis programs as a tool for low performing schools to use in focusing instruction and preparing students for the MCAS.

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

The project - Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better - focused on identifying middle grades policies and practices that differentiate higher - from lower - performing sSchools Do Better - focused on identifying middle grades policies and practices that differentiate higher - from lower - performing schoolsschools.

Join the director of technology at Del Mar Union School District — a high performing school district in San Diego, Calif. — along with Google in Education for an instructional webinar to see how they use Chromebooks in the classroom to support their curriculum focus, both in writing and the Common Core State StanSchool District — a high performing school district in San Diego, Calif. — along with Google in Education for an instructional webinar to see how they use Chromebooks in the classroom to support their curriculum focus, both in writing and the Common Core State Stanschool district in San Diego, Calif. — along with Google in Education for an instructional webinar to see how they use Chromebooks in the classroom to support their curriculum focus, both in writing and the Common Core State Standards.

While many high - performing charter schools increase instructional time, the shared systematic model is unique in its focus on continuous personalized support.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education, which focuses on high school reform, says that there are simply not enough good charter school providers to take the place of all the low - performing, large urban high schools.

We focus on the scores of students at the 25th percentile of the distribution of achievement for each group, because it is low - performing students who are at greatest risk of not graduating from high school.

The ESSA also requires that, if students fall behind in meeting these standards, States and local educational agencies (LEAs) implement evidence - based interventions to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the lowest - performing schools, high schools with low graduation rates, and schools in which subgroups of students are underperforming.

He has worked to focus the state agency on his four priorities including: Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Teachers and Principals; Building a Foundation of Math and Reading; Connecting High School to Career and College; and Improving Low - Performing Schools.

This group might include high - performing suburban schools, magnet schools, and schools focused on the highest - need students.

The 44 higher - performing schools (those with average school - wide math and English test scores a full standard deviation above the mean) «create a shared, school - wide intense focus on the improvement of student outcomes,» it says.

The highest - performing schools never focus exclusively on student achievement.

Consider the fact that some high - performing education systems, such as that of Japan, do not stress formal higher - order skills - such as «learning how to learn,» or focusing on problem - solving skills - in early schooling.

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

High - performing schools are waived on some performance standards to allow our office to focus energies on schools in need.»

Bellwether's report focused on the law's requirements for holding schools accountable: whether the state sets high academic standards, how it will use federal money to identify and raise achievement for the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools and the lowest - performing groups of students in all schools.

This required focusing on specific areas of leadership practice separately (e.g., methods of clinical supervision, school - improvement planning, classroom walk - throughs, uses of student performance data), or within comprehensive guidelines or frameworks for leadership practice.240 In one of the higher - performing urban districts in our sample, district officials organized a three - year principaldevelopment program based on Marzano «s balanced leadership program.

In one high - performing midwestern urban district, for example, two schools became a focus for district intervention during the final year of our study because they failed to meet AYP targets (the first two schools to be designated in that status).

«What we've always been focused on is the fact that we're a high - performing, high - achieving school district, and we constantly strive for world - class standards,» said Superintendent Randy Poe.

Five of the approved schools belong to the high - performing Success Academy network, run by Eva S. Moskowitz, who having led the protesters upstate chose to focus not on her win, but rather on the fact that three of her schools were rejected.

LPS pursued a districtwide turnaround that focused on improving schools within the existing structure, but nonetheless employed the high - performing charter best practices.

A plan unveiled today by Great Public Schools Now identifies 10 low - income neighborhoods where the nonprofit will focus its efforts on expanding access to high - performing schools for kids close to where theSchools Now identifies 10 low - income neighborhoods where the nonprofit will focus its efforts on expanding access to high - performing schools for kids close to where theschools for kids close to where they live.

That created an environment for the Tennessee Charter School Incubator and the Charter School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and NashSchool Incubator and the Charter School Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and NashSchool Growth Fund to carry out unique philanthropically supported strategies focused on identifying and developing promising new school leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nashschool leaders and expanding high - performing CMOs in Memphis and Nashville.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

Greenhouse Schools in Boston: School Leadership Practices Across a High - Performing Charter Sector — NewSchools Venture Fund and TNTP recently published a report that showcases Brooke's focus on developing and supporting great teachers.

Now much of the school's programming is up for consideration as the high - performing network is focused on balancing its budget.

By pushing new school board members to pick on a top performing charter school whose focus is to graduate seniors and encourage higher education is ignoring the real issues public schools are facing.

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All school improvement strategies — particularly interventions focused on the lowest - performing schools — must inform and engage all stakeholders; support enriched curriculum; enhance the school culture; provide high - quality teaching with ongoing professional learning to improve the quality of instruction; be commensurate with the need; and offer engaging learning opportunities that involve all students, families, and staff.

Hess explains that previous research on high - performing schools suggests that the best schools are characterized by focus and by an ability to develop expertise in specific approaches to teaching and learning.

As Chief Executive Officer of InspireNOLA, a new charter management organization in New Orleans focusing on educating the youth of the city, Jamar currently manages two of the highest performing open - admission schools in New Orleans.

We believe that focusing our joint efforts on attainable outcomes will lead us toward high quality schooling for our kids in the lowest performing schools.

Ensuring accountability by guaranteeing that when students fall behind, states redirect resources into what works to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the very lowest performing schools, high schools with high dropout rates, and schools with achievement gaps.

First, he or she could encourage the states when they develop their new accountability systems under the Every Student Succeeds Act, to focus as much on recognition of their high - performing schools as they do on punishments of their worst.

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Lessons learned and practical advice from seven of these high - performing, high - poverty (HP / HP) schools, along with hundreds of others that have been the subject of intensive research, are the focus of this book.