Sentences with phrase «increased focus on student achievement»

In the NCLB era, we got an increased focus on student achievement.

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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 leadership.

The Palisades Cyber Academy launched this year, driven by a demand for e-learning options, an increased focus on global connections, fiscal responsibility, and a desire to enact change that will impact student achievement.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

Thompson: The council was one of the few education organizations in Washington to support the No Child Left Behind Act and we believe the federal law deserves credit for focusing the attention of urban schools more sharply on student achievement, and increasing the national focus on educating our neediest children.

She claims that Ferguson found that «every additional dollar spent on more high - qualified teachers netted greater increases in student achievement than did less instructionally focused uses of school resources.»

While reducing class sizes and increasing teacher quality have also been estimated to increase student achievement by roughly 0.1 standard deviation, the costs of such programs far exceed those of the literacy hour program, which focuses only on changing teachers» practices.

In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever - increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement.

SBA is leading to an increased emphasis on student achievement, and many educators laud this focus, but a single - minded emphasis on student proficiency on tests has some potentially negative consequences such as narrowing curriculum and declining staff morale.

The Marzano Causal Teacher Evaluation Model has been chosen by Washington's Superintendent of Public Instruction and Washington's Teacher / Principal Evaluation Pilot as one of three preferred evaluation models, not least because the focus of the model is squarely on teacher development and increased student achievement.

Through relentless focus on student achievement, instilling a culture of success and college readiness, and leveraging instructional technology, Fannin County High School has increased its graduation rate by 25.2 %.

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

We distributed school leadership between specialists and grade - level team leaders; and we discussed increasing students» achievement in a collaborative team setting where teachers internally focused on what actions they could take to make improvements.

As the only CDFI in the country focused exclusively on the facility and financing needs of charter school organizations, CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school facilities with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American public education system

Next school year, Cheatham said, in addition to building on student achievement gains, the district plans to put special focus on middle schools through steps including increased teacher training and more student mentoring and career development opportunities.

What hiring a Director of School Operations will do is to clarify roles and responsibilities for students, staff, and parents; increase opportunities for direct coaching and management to support staff; allow Principals and Assistant Principals to focus on teaching and learning, all of which create a healthy school culture, and ultimately drive student achievement.

And Marc Tafolla, GO Oakland Director of Policy, focuses on the need for the next superintendent to put into place the systems and infrastructures which ultimately increase student achievement.

A $ 16.5 million, five - year program supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund, Learning Leaders sought to increase student achievement in eight of Henrico's lowest performing schools by focusing intensively on instructional improvement.

As I travel and work with teachers to improve practice and increase student achievement, classroom management is often a topic we focus on in professional development.

Focused on accelerating learning gains for students and building capacity for educators, Dr. Fisher is working alongside Achieve3000 on new blended professional learning models and instructional routines to increase student achievement through improved classroom instruction.

A $ 10.9 million, five - year program supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Teacher Incentive Fund, TIPA sought to increase student achievement in PWCS's 30 lowest performing schools by focusing intensively on instructional improvement.

As a 2nd grade teacher, Ms. Perez establishes a shared approach to each student's learning by achieving close to 100 % parent conferences annually, and establishing learning goals with each student and family to focus on increasing achievement based on each student's input.

With the pendulum poised to shift away from a narrow focus on high - stakes accountability and rigid standards toward a more balanced «systems» approach to increasing student achievement, school leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to become what education theorist and author Michael Fullan terms «motion leaders.»

Collaborate on oversight of all student progress data to implement focused instructional strategies that promote student achievement and increases course completion rates.

Andy Hargreaves, a Boston College professor and one of the six - member NW RISE technical assistance road team, says that the ultimate aim of increasing engagement is to raise student achievement, and that the NW RISE strategy focuses on teachers.

The P - 16 is also focusing on ways to improve academic achievement for students performing two or more grades behind and increase public awareness of the link between education and a healthy economy.

Under ESSA, states must reserve at least 7 percent of their Title I, Part A funds for school improvement purposes, beginning in fiscal year 2017.61 Going forward, states and districts should focus on students» learning mindsets and skills as a lever for increased student achievement.

The VSBA has developed a facilitated self - evaluation process that will assist your board in its continuing commitment to focus on and increase student achievement.

When a school has it's Organizational Structures and Procedures in place to support excellent performance, one finds a shared vision, shared leadership, collaboration, and a professional learning community focused on increasing student achievement.

I argue there are three distinct, yet overlapping, logics of instructional leadership most relevant to the principals in this study: the prevailing logic, a broad and flexible set of ideas, easily implemented across a wide variety of school settings; the entrepreneurial logic, which emphasizes specific actionable practices that lead to increases in student achievement as measured by standardized test scores; and the social justice logic, focused on the experiences and inequitable outcomes of marginalized students and leadership practices that address these outcomes through a focus on process.

With a focus on increasing achievement for city students, the Abell Foundation supports efforts to provide quality instruction in all content areas, provide a broad portfolio of effective schools, create successful transitions to and through college and work, increase family engagement, and promote literacy enrichment.

Attendance Works is excited by the opportunity that the increased focus on chronic absence provides because it has the potential to increase student achievement substantially.

The Adaptive Schools model empowers schools to identify their unique barriers to change and to work together to create a professional learning community focused on increased student achievement.

The approach focuses on increasing student achievement and creating a schoolwide culture of continuous improvement through collaboration and shared leadership.

The state's shift to higher standards and increased accountability has brought about a much - needed focus on student achievement.

Armstrong's focus on formative assessment has led to increases in achievement, motivation, time on task, and engagement for students working with participating teachers (Brookhart, Moss, & Long, 2008).

As a school leader Daneen's strengths were uniting people around a student centered vision and creating school wide systems and structures focused on improving adult practices that in turn increase student achievement.

· Increase student achievement results, in areas including PSAT / SAT, AP Exams, and State of Illinois required exams, and other high stakes assessments scores, through coaching focused on improving the quality of classroom instruction.

To best prepare students for postsecondary success, the right data must be captured, easily understood, and focused on dramatically increasing student achievement.

that focuses on how to work productively with families and use the assets of the community to increase student achievement.

One is that programs without an academic component can nevertheless demonstrate increases in student achievement, whereas many programs focused on achievement fail to do so.

This report explores how states are using their authority to increase the supply of effective principals focused on raising student achievement.

lose the student achievement gap, she worked with nonprofit LEAP Innovations last year to increase personalized learning practices, with a focus on professional development to prepare teachers for the new instructional approach.

Faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of a diverse student population, district administrators are focused on increasing student achievement and ensuring all students are graduating ready for college, work, and life.

Beginning in spring 2016 and continuing through the 2016 — 2017 school year, Catapult Learning partnered with Saint Joseph Catholic School to implement Focus on Achievement, an integrated program of formative assessments, professional development, and print and online teacher resources that helped teachers identify challenges and make instructional improvements to increase student aAchievement, an integrated program of formative assessments, professional development, and print and online teacher resources that helped teachers identify challenges and make instructional improvements to increase student achievementachievement.

While there is a clear need to increase the participation of minority students in gifted education programs, there is an equally important need to focus on issues of achievement and underachievement.

In this role, she identifies strategies and communication platforms that shed light on and promote Flamboyan Foundation's mission and key focus area — family engagement and its unparalleled success in increasing academic achievement for students in Washington, DC and across the country.

While the 2016 election brought a renewed interest in engagement among youth, 4 only 23 percent of eighth - graders performed at or above the proficient level on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) civics exam, and achievement levels have virtually stagnated since 1998.5 In addition, the increased focus on math and reading in K - 12 education — while critical to prepare all students for success — has pushed out civics and other important subjects.

Language Acquisition in Diverse Classrooms Focusing on Language and Academic Instructional Renewal (FLAIR) Increase cognitive growth and academic achievement in reading for all students, including linguistically diverse students, through an intensive language - across - the - curriculum program.