We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful
ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.
Not exact matches
The
idea that there's always
more than one way to
reach agoal is also integral to what Tricia Downing teaches, regardlessof her
students» abilities.
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.
The
idea is to provide
more funding and
more services for these
students so they can
reach their educational goals.
The Massachusetts Expanding Learning Time to Support
Student Success Initiative takes as its inspiration the common sense
idea that if
students are expected to learn
more — the core premise of the No Child Left Behind Act — they must have
more time in which to
reach these expectations.