Sentences with phrase «initiatives focus on literacy»

The winning initiatives focus on literacy, equal access to education, STEM learning and skills for future employment.

Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this initiative focuses on literacy and math coaches providing support to teachers from across the major subject areas to create literacy - rich classrooms in which students actively engage in learning tasks that deepen their content knowledge and strengthen their abilities to think critically and communicate well.

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My work focuses on our digital literacies initiatives.

Instead, we've devoted most of our instructional resources and energy toward early literacy initiatives and supplemental interventions that have focused on reading print.

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«Readiness for school is delivered through a focus on literacy and numeracy foundational skills, familiarity with the school programs in which the students will participate in the future, and it provides initiatives that engage parents and other family members with school staff, including the school principal,» the report explains.

«The strategy for supporting Priority Six focuses first on identifying four pillars to guide the goal of technological literacy and then pursuing initiatives to support them,» according to the document.

In contrast to statewide initiatives on portfolios, several school districts have tried to implement literacy portfolios with the dual focus of accountability and improvement of instruction.

Across the country, states are adopting a number of different strategies to improve outcomes for students: third grade reading requirements, literacy initiatives, new assessment and accountability systems, plus an increased focus on data - driven decision - making are changing how districts approach teaching and learning for all students.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

The initiative entitled «Adolescent Literacy Partnerships: Meeting the Needs of All Students» focuses on promoting the replication of the initiative throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia.

By removing science from accountability measures and promoting a «STEM» initiative that focuses on technology, Pennsylvania's students are likely to see decreased resources devoted to the development of scientific literacy and the practices of science and engineering.

She has been instrumental in facilitating professional development initiatives focused on standards - based learning and teaching, improved understanding and utilization of assessment data, interventions and differentiation that meets the needs of all learners, and strengthened efforts to ensure K — 12 literacy.

Chris is currently focusing on flipping classrooms, implementing digital literacy metrics, exploring LMS initiatives, creating online PD content, and researching the latest and greatest in the field.

The support focused on the Alabama Strategic Teaching Framework, a K — 12 initiative promoting instructional strategies that foster literacy and active learning.

The authors suggest that the literacy coach begin by connecting a new initiative to current practice to validate teachers» prior efforts, choose generative practices that raise important questions about teaching, establish teaching credentials by spending significant amounts of time teaching in the classroom, focus teacher training on student learning, use a repertoire of coaching strategies, and get into the habit of regularly videotaping and reviewing lessons and demonstrations.

One of the major focuses for the recent event was the emphasis on government spending on education, which translates into higher literacy rates, a better level of English - language instruction which will allow more readers to enjoy English pleasure reading, and a growing interaction with tablet computers thanks to spending initiatives to put more tablets in schools at even the primary levels.

ESSA requires local grants that focus on children in grades 6 — 12 to provide training for school librarians and other school district personnel to support, develop, administer, and evaluate high - quality comprehensive literacy instruction initiatives.

Inspired by the outreach work of the Black Panther Party focused on literacy, poverty, and hunger, and radical self - care initiatives rooted in non-traditional health practices, such as herbalism, meditation, acupuncture, and yoga, these free workshops empower visitors to take back the care of their bodies from agents of capitalism.

The DRAW (Discuss / Read / Analyze / Write) initiative focuses on student literacy across the 4 core content disciplines and has made a remarkable difference for our kids.