Sentences with phrase «improving early grade»

The learnings presented in this report not only point to the efficacy of the e-reader intervention for improving early grade literacy skills and increasing access to books, but also provide insights towards a way forward that will allow Worldreader and partners to reach more students, in more corners of Ghana and sub-Saharan Africa, with cost - effective and impactful digital reading programs.

A parent - teacher partnership for improving early grade reading skills is measured by a stretch indicator.

Along with USAID and World Vision, AusAID partners with Worldreader to improve early grade reading in Ghana.

Not exact matches

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

«I know that he really wants to improve things at the local schools, but I would have liked to hear more about his process of how he'll do it, especially for the early grades,» said Moore, who is in her 40s.

The topics range from early grade reading and assessment, to improving the school staffroom and targeting big ideas in maths.

The DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has awarded a three - year, $ 1.1 - million grant to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Early Adolescence to help improve the preparation and training of teachers and staff members in the middle grades.

Class Size: Reducing class sizes in the early grades has emerged as a popular policy initiative across the country as states look for ways to improve student performance.

Students themselves and the United States as a whole benefit from improved performance in the early grades only if that translates into measurably higher skills at the end of school.

«By the beginning of the millennium, a lot of people were aware that we made progress in improving reading instruction in the early grades, but that did not — as the No Child Left Behind rhetoric would suggest — solve all the problems,» says Professor Catherine Snow.

In GPE partner country Nepal for instance, enhancing early grade reading competency is now one of the country's key priorities for improving the quality of education.

The Commission will examine factors in raising student achievement from prekindergarten through high school including: state accountability and curriculum requirements; model programs to improve student achievement beginning in early learning programs and continuing throughout high school; strategies for every student to achieve at grade level such as intervention and support systems; and policies to improve student attendance and retention.

It is her hope that the Lead Early Educators for Success series will follow the same path as her prior set of briefs, Lead for Literacy, currently being used across the nation for literacy planning, including underpinning a statewide plan to improve third - grade reading outcomes in Arizona.

[vii] Certainly there is evidence that class - size reduction improves student outcomes in the early grades, [viii] though many will point out that it is an extremely expensive intervention that involves tradeoffs.

The Attendance Awareness Month convening partners call on Superintendents across the country to raise their voices and lead the effort to improve attendance starting in the early grades in your community.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

If educators are empowered to incorporate lessons about the positive impact of reflecting on their learning and using specific strategies to improve academic performance from the early grades on, students will be better equipped with the skills they will need to thrive in school, in their personal lives and in the working world.

The Early Childhood Education (ECE) Collaborative is dedicated to supporting states as they work to improve standards, instruction, assessment, data systems, and program design and accountability for children from birth to grade 3.

We support policies, practices, and funding to strengthen the state's early childhood system, with the goals of dramatically increasing school readiness, improving third grade reading and math proficiency, supporting families, and ultimately building a strong workforce for Kentucky's future.

This network is a collective effort of superintendents, local school districts, and intermediate school districts in West Michigan to improve early literacy across grade levels.

Since 2016, our focus has been new classroom strategies, practices, and curriculum to improve reading in the early grades.

This webinar provided participants an opportunity to identify the opportunities of SRCLP program to increase language and literacy skills of young children and improve practice of educators; share evidence - based research to improve reading comprehension of children preschool to third grade; and discuss considerations for state leaders in designing policy and professional learning to increase effectiveness of early language and literacy instruction, particularly for dual language learners, and children with special needs.

Event organizers say ideas for those workshops might include how best to organize project - based learning, how to improve spoken language in early grades, and how to help students develop more persistence.

First, we are working to more strongly connect our turnaround practices to our statewide strategy for improving curriculum and instruction, in particular by focusing on early grades literacy and middle grades mathematics.

Three years ago, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan created a dedicated Office for Early Learning with the ambitious goal of «improving the health, social - emotional, and cognitive outcomes for children from birth through third grade.»

The Attendance Awareness Month convening partners are calling on Superintendents across the country to raise your voices and lead the effort to improve attendance starting in the early grades in your community.

Improve algebraic thinking in early and middle grades.

Use this as an opportunity to build awareness about reducing chronic absence and invite key stakeholders to join local efforts to improve school attendance, starting in the early grades.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) The nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.

That we are continuing to improve literacy in the early grades.

It places emphasis on individually administered assessments in the early primary grades, but graduates to a computer - administered and scored measures in the later grades (AUTOreading, aReading) for improved efficiency.

The study's findings suggest advanced course enrollment rates for English learner students can improve in Washington, especially if efforts to accelerate Spanish - speaking students» mastery of academic content in early and middle grades are successful.

Providing grade - specific guidance, FASTreading emphasizes individually administered assessments in the early primary grades, and graduates to computer - administered and scored measures in the later grades (e.g., aReading, AUTOreading) for improved efficiency.

It suggests that many recent reform efforts — among them improved developmental conditions from birth to age five, universal prekindergarten, reduced class sizes in the early grades, and standardized curricula — are succeeding in keeping Baltimore...

They put a stake in the ground around third - grade reading and made some «big bets» to improve the odds for early school success,» said Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading.

«Earlier this year, the Education Endowment Foundation found that awarding grades for every piece of work may reduce the benefit of marking, particularly if pupils become preoccupied with their grades at the expense of teachers» comments, and some forms of marking are unlikely to improve pupil progress.»

Students in 4th - 6th grade who went to bed an average of 30 - 40 minutes earlier improved in memory, motor speed, attention, and other abilities associated with math and reading test scores.

Early first grade through fifth grade students are very independent using these strategies to improve their fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills while enjoying and learning using nonfiction stories.

Improve the performance of participating students in kindergarten through grade 2 on early reading assessments

Research examining the use of probability indices and other approaches to improving screening are underway, especially for the early elementary grades.

Early education addresses schools» biggest challenges, from improving 3rd grade reading levels to raising graduation rates.

DAY 2 — FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT FOR CHILDREN BIRTH THROUGH THIRD GRADE: how to provide guidance to early learning staff in the use of assessment information to meet individual needs of children and improve practitioner / teacher practice and instruction.

Sharpening the Focus: State Policy to Promote Effective Teaching that Improves Learning: The BUILD Initiative and the Center for Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) have been working together with state leaders and national experts to strengthen policy that promotes effective early childhood teaching, birth through 3rd gEarly Learning Outcomes (CEELO) have been working together with state leaders and national experts to strengthen policy that promotes effective early childhood teaching, birth through 3rd gearly childhood teaching, birth through 3rd grade.

Taking Stock: Assessing and Improving Early Childhood Learning and Program Quality provides recommendations from the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force convened to address a comprehensive vision for a state accountability system for early education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grEarly Childhood Learning and Program Quality provides recommendations from the National Early Childhood Accountability Task Force convened to address a comprehensive vision for a state accountability system for early education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grEarly Childhood Accountability Task Force convened to address a comprehensive vision for a state accountability system for early education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grearly education programs for prekindergarten children and for linking such efforts to standards - based assessment efforts in kindergarten and the primary grades.

Promoting Holistic, Shared and Consistent Birth - 3rd Grade Pedagogy and Practice explains why improving early learning opportunities birth through third grade is an urgent priority, describes how young children are doing in birth through third grade, and explains what we know about birth through third grade pedagogy and practice.

Boston Educational Development Foundation; Boston, MA $ 150,000 over one year to create and disseminate materials to publicize their preschool through second - grade program model by highlighting instructional practices, professional development, and assessment systems to improve early childhood programs, locally, and nationally through successful replication.

Enhancing Early Learning in Rural States details how to prevent / minimize achievement gaps and shortfalls for children birth through third grade and offers guidance on how rural Chiefs can lead to improve early learning opportunities and outcEarly Learning in Rural States details how to prevent / minimize achievement gaps and shortfalls for children birth through third grade and offers guidance on how rural Chiefs can lead to improve early learning opportunities and outcearly learning opportunities and outcomes.

It highlights four strategies to improve third grade reading success: convince parents and early childhood teachers that there's an urgent problem, invest in high - quality early childhood programs, reduce chronic absenteeism, and combat summer learning loss.

School district leaders trying to improve 3rd grade reading scores and high school graduation rates are increasingly implementing strategies that include early education.

Gordon MacInnes shows that it's possible for high - poverty schools to do a much better job of teaching low - income youngsters to read, through the tale of how a package of reforms, including high - quality pre-K and intensive, data - driven literacy instruction in the early grades, dramatically improved reading performance for children in some of New Jersey's highest - poverty, most troubled districts.