Campus and district leaders attribute these outcomes to academic gaps compounded throughout K - 12 and low levels of academic ownership and agency.Spring Branch leaders believe that shift to student - centered blended learning will improve the outcomes in both areas, therefore
improving postsecondary readiness.
Not exact matches
Other initiatives in their school improvement plan (PDF) included Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), an operational framework for implementing practices and interventions to
improve academic and behavioral outcomes, and Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID), a college
readiness system with research - based methods for elementary through
postsecondary students.
Since 2002, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has funded a groundbreaking initiative designed to
improve the college
readiness and college completion rates of students underrepresented in
postsecondary education.
Prior to serving as a reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education in the 2010 and 2012 Race to the Top competitions, he served on the department's Working Group for
Postsecondary Linkage Efforts to
Improve College
Readiness and on the independent Annenberg Commission on Public Schools for their Institutions of Democracy Project.
Establishing institutionalized college advising positions, increasing existing college and career
readiness staff positions, and
improving student access to
postsecondary education counseling services.
«These grants are intended to ensure that we
improve postsecondary completion and
readiness, because college truly is for everyone,» MCAN Executive Director Brandy Johnson said.
This strategy accelerates students» time to
postsecondary degree completion and
improves career
readiness for in - demand jobs.
SREB's recommendations to
improve readiness cover standards, assessments, transitional courses,
postsecondary placement and remedial education.
By assuming a comprehensive approach to academic content that holds students to high expectations, institutions of education can expand student learning and subsequently
improve readiness for, and success in, a wider variety of
postsecondary and career endeavors.
At the time, we called for drastic change to dramatically
improve student achievement and
postsecondary readiness.