Sentences with phrase «hold high expectations of»

When we hold high expectations for all learners, we must hold high expectations of ourselves.

I'm not going to lie: bedtimes in our house can get quite frantic so I didn't hold high expectations of the book's magic.

Educators hold higher expectations of students whose parents collaborate with the teacher.

According to Buamrind, this is a more balanced parenting style that is specifically centred on holding high expectations of maturity in a child.

Not exact matches

Part of what seems impossible about being a leader is holding people to the highest expectations while also understanding and accepting their failings.

Trump's victory could temporarily derail stronger growth, higher rates narrative by raising expectations of a) protectionism, b) the Italian referendum following Brexit and US election as repudiation of elites and c) the Fed keeping rates on hold in December.

The Fund currently holds primarily Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (which currently price in expectations of zero inflation for the next decade or more, while reflecting reasonably high inflation - adjusted yields to maturity).

General Electric has been a very frustrating holding during 2017, as business fundamentals have lagged behind our expectations, but we believe a fresh look reveals an attractive opportunity to own a high - quality, improving business with a strong new management team at just 12.5 x our estimate of forward earnings.

His point was not to say that you must choose Christianity or Empirical Humanism — rather that people should choose to believe in something: either a traditional religion that puts upon you a set of expectations to meet or a rejection of divinity that gives you a form of Atheism / Agnosticism that holds to reason as a higher truth.

This sort of fallacy might be accepted in a grade - school research paper on the grounds that it's «pretty close to accurate» but I for hold far higher expectations for a company like CNN.

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

On the other hand, while providing all of those supports, we understand if teachers and principals are not held accountable to high expectations for these children.

A balanced parent explains the rules / decisions / boundaries, provides consistency and holds high, but appropriate expectations of their child.

«We're saying, yes, put the money in, but let's have... high expectations for these schools, and let's have the state Education Department be required to hold them to the standards, including a standard that parent and community engagement must be robust,» Billy Easton of the alliance said.

Images as sumptuous as these ought to be held to the highest standard, which is perhaps why Criterion's hotly anticipated Blu - ray upgrade of one of their best - looking catalogue titles seems to fall short of expectations.

A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

If teachers of color hold higher expectations for minority students — stemming from their perceptions about student ability, effort, and behavior — they might be more likely to push students to work hard and to insist on their best effort in all assignments.

By embracing the report of his Common Core task force, which calls to «revisit» the standards and «right the ship,» Cuomo is showing he lacks — forgive me — the cojones to hold the line on higher expectations.

And the people of the United States would be better off if all our kids were held to the same high educational expectations.

Again, this is something I never doubted — but I know there are many in this country that seem to believe as long as we «hold high expectations,» add hours to the school day, deliver rigorous lessons and insist that students rise to the challenge, they can overcome everything and go on to college and the career of their choice.

It's a legitimate concern, and one I share... the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

While most teachers believe in the importance of holding high expectations for students, many appear to fall short of doing so in practice, according to a new nationwide survey of educators.

In a January 2014 speech, Arne Duncan, the U.S. secretary of education, urged parent leaders to hold high expectations for schools.

She holds high expectations for him, and she lets him know that she thinks he is capable of living up to those expectations.

Ray Pasi, in his book, Higher Expectations: Promoting Social Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement in Your School, tells how he has intra or extra-mural athletes in his schools create contracts, where they set and are held accountable to three goals in each of three areas: how will they make themselves better, how will they make their team better, and how will they make their school or community better.

Challenging Ensuring that every student learns and every member of the learning community is held to high expectations.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) leads a statewide coalition of educational and advocacy organizations and families who have come together to urge the creation of multiple pathways to a diploma in New York State, each of which holds all students to high expectations, provides them with quality instruction, and opens doors to career and post-secondary education opportunities.

We created it after I realized how many school leaders just weren't clearing the space for teacher coaching to happen at the highest level: foundational things like creating a vision for their schools, holding adults accountable to meeting schoolwide expectations, designing and holding weekly leadership team meetings, creating and sticking to a daily calendar; and more advanced things like using data to inform the design of responsive PD.

But I can also imagine that the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

[iii] To the extent that students attending schools with more demanding expectations for student behavior hold themselves to a higher standard when completing questionnaires, reference bias could make comparisons of their responses across schools misleading.

Given that we do not yet know how to measure students» discipline, motivation, and social skills directly, setting high expectations for skills we are able to measure and holding students accountable for meeting them may well be the best ways to improve all of the above.

In «Navigating the Common Core,» Michael McShane of AEI argues that while Common Core holds much promise for creating common expectations for students, successful implementation is contingent upon navigating «a field of mines, any one of which could blow the enterprise sky - high.»

To be sure, Great Minds holds high expectations for what teachers are capable of, and teachers have rewarded it with their enthusiasm for its curriculum.

They have this sort of philosophy which is high expectations and accountability, which is they hold students and teachers and principals to really high levels.

«When teachers are fully informed and empowered, they hold themselves and their students to high expectations,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director of the Los Angeles chapter and a former New York City teacher.

In these schools, the crisis has been overcome, because the educators sought to control what they could, held high expectations for student learning, and supported their students in surmounting the debilitating effects of poverty on learning.

Research shows that black teachers connect more deeply, hold higher expectations, and provide stronger role models for black children, who make up nearly 90 percent of the city's public school students.

«As we move this work forward, we will continue to embrace a culture of excellence with equity — one where we insist on holding high expectations for every child and every adult no matter the circumstance, while providing the unique support they need to meet and exceed those high expectations,» they wrote.

«Great Expectations is about holding yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you,» Flurry said.

Application of Common Core State Standards for English Language Learners [PDF] The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers strongly believe that all students should be held to the same high expectations outlined in the CCSS.

Teachers may discover they are a «4» in holding high expectations for students, but a «2» in pushing for depth of understanding in struggling students.

Even if the curricula is aligned with the standards, the curricula won't work if teachers are not capable of improving student achievement, if school cultures damn some kids (notably those from poor and minority backgrounds) to low expectations, and if school operators aren't held to high expectations (as well as rewarded and punished accordingly).

We provide an unparalleled program that emphasizes community and responsibility and holds students to high expectations in every area of school life.

Good teachers have always held students to high expectations and showed sincere concern with the individual needs of students, however, as technology advances, more tools have become available to support teachers and students in constructing a more personalized experience.

Instead of setting high expectations for student learning and holding students and educators responsible for meeting or exceeding them, we've eased graduation standards and made them optional.

Teachers of color have a particularly positive effect on students of color: They have been found to hold higher expectations for students of color and to be both more likely to refer students of color into gifted and talented programs and less likely to refer them for suspension and special education (Ford, 2010; Grissom & Redding, 2016).

Though 95 % of the students at Aspire's charter schools in Los Angeles are from low - income families and most are English - language learners, Aspire holds all staff and students to the highest expectations, says Roberta Benjamin, LA Superintendent for Aspire Public Schools.

This leads to another problem with Petrilli's argument: The belief that somehow demanding states to hold districts and schools to high expectations (and expecting the adults who work within them to take on the kind of reforms needed to achieve those goals) is a bad thing.

Teaching to the middle has been considered a poor practice for decades; however, the diversity of the population and the need to hold high expectations for individual students makes small group instruction a significant priority in an increasingly low - income community.

This teacher explains that they hold high academic expectations from the very beginning, wanting their students to believe that they can go on to any school or profession they wish, and it's never too late to start seeding that level of ambition and hope.