Sentences with phrase «instructional program in a school»

Title I of ESEA provides financial assistance to support instructional programs in school divisions and schools with high numbers or percentages of low - income students to ensure that all children meet challenging content and achievement standards.

As documented under Section 1114 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESEA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «that desires to operate a schoolwide program shall first develop (or amend a plan for such a program that was in existence on the day before the date of enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001), in consultation with the local educational agency and its school support team or other technical assistance provider under section 1117, a comprehensive plan for reforming the total instructional program in the school that describes how the school will implement the components described in paragraph (1)».

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Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

It's worth noting that these complaints tend to come from parents at schools in which the free / reduced lunch population is low — most of these children are eating breakfast at home anyway, and the inconveniences and lost instructional time seem to outweigh any benefits of the program.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

The rules change allows for an increase in the number of required instructional hours for teachers who go through the charter school program to 160 hours, up from 30 hours.

The ballot proposition, if approved, would also permit using the bond proceeds «[t] o construct, enhance, and modernize educational facilities to accommodate pre-kindergarten programs and provide instructional space to replace transportable classroom units» and «[t] o install high - tech security features in school buildings and on school campuses.»

The Education Enrichment Fund (EEF) Advisory Committee invites applications for mini-grants of up to $ 1,000 to support initiatives that enrich student learning, instructional programs and learning tools, encourage innovative professional development, and promote the standard of excellence in the Niskayuna Central School District.

«Revise their codes of conduct and adopt policies intended to create a school environment free from harassment and discrimination; Adopt guidelines to be used in school training programs to raise awareness and sensitivity of school employees to these issues and to enable them to respond appropriately; and Designate at least one staff member in each school to be trained in non-discriminatory instructional and counseling methods and handling human relations.

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning and memory.

It provides research - based technology programs, supplemental instructional materials, and high quality literature that support students» achievement in grades pre-K through high school.

«Even though our school is undergoing an accreditation study this year, is adopting a new math program, and has a significant amount of state mandated instructional in - service as a result of a court decision, our primary goal is to provide the best possible day — full of creative, profitable learning experiences — for each student!»

In this article, Adult Education will refer to instructional programs for students that have dropped out of high school and are studying to earn a high school equivalency diploma (i.e. GED, HiSET, etc.) and preparing for college and career pathways.

The evidence — gathered through instructional rounds, work samples, teacher evaluation, program documents and a teacher survey — suggested teacher understandings of PBL was not consistent across the school and not all felt confident planning and implementing the approach in its entirety.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

To make matters more complicated, for the first time in four years, I'm back in the classroom with a full - time program after being the math instructional coach and data specialist for my school.

Hampton High School has integrated technology across its entire program with a full - time instructional coach who supports the teachers in this work.

Designed for all independent school leaders, the program covers topics such as diversity, access, equity, innovative instructional design strategies, online learning, financial sustainability, and the role of independent schools in the context of their communities.

In the last two decades, school systems have hired all manner of instructional coaches, teachers» aides, program administrators, support staff, counselors, psychiatrists, specialists, and so forth.

Through a 2 - year professional development program that incorporates continuous quality improvement methods, UBC provides classroom teams and school leaders training and in - classroom coaching to maximize language instructional strategies, instructional time, effective interactions and attendance.

Every summer for the past 11 years, HGSE's Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education have offered the Project Zero Classroom, a one - week, intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K — 12 educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out - of - school learning environments that address learning dilemmas.

For example, some have noted the state's participation in the federal Reading First program, in which public schools received grant money to implement instructional and assessment tools.

The participants, all representing schools sharing in the $ 1 billion in annual grants from the federal initiative, applauded the program for pumping what recipients say are sorely needed resources into instructional materials, teacher training, and support services for struggling elementary schools.

Also, instructional per - pupil spending has increased in all affected public school districts, contradicting the belief that school choice programs take money away from public school students, the report says.

Teams can be comprised of classroom teachers, instructional leaders, school leaders, administrators, and other educators in a variety of settings (e.g. museums, after - school programs, and other informal learning contexts, etc.).

from City College of New York before coming to the Ed School as a doctoral candidate in the Education Policy, Leadership, and Instructional Practice Program.

In August 1993, Horizon Instructional Systems established a charter school in Lincoln, California, offering a range of innovative programs, including an «electronically assisted student teaching» program that blended home - based computers with distance learning and satellite technologIn August 1993, Horizon Instructional Systems established a charter school in Lincoln, California, offering a range of innovative programs, including an «electronically assisted student teaching» program that blended home - based computers with distance learning and satellite technologin Lincoln, California, offering a range of innovative programs, including an «electronically assisted student teaching» program that blended home - based computers with distance learning and satellite technology.

The Instructional Leadership (IL) strand within the L&T Program is designed for K - 12 public and independent schools teachers with at least three years of experience who are ready to take on new leadership roles in their schools.

Teaching English for the three years on the Laguna Pueblo reservation and in Aztec, New Mexico, she became distinctly aware of the unique problems faced by rural schools and enrolled in the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program's Instructional Leadership Strand seeking ways she could be of greater help to her students.

Equipment, after - school programs, new initiatives, and professional development courses were red - lined early in the deliberations; now, many principals are scrutinizing the core of their instructional programs.

Today she works as department math chair at John Dibert Community School — a turnaround charter belonging to the FirstLine Schools network — in New Orleans, where she says her education, particularly her participation in a pilot program called Instructional Leadership (IL) at HGSE has significantly influenced and shaped her daily duties.

«Adaptive Learning» has been a frequently used term in education for many years but today, with the advent of more ubiquitous technology in schools, education systems are placing more emphasis on the advantages of leveraging adaptive techniques within both assessments and instructional programs.

This year the Ed School is piloting a new program under Learning and Teaching dubbed the Instructional Leadership (IL) strand — a one - year master's program specifically aimed at those teachers who want to stay involved in teaching, while taking on leadership roles in their...

In the language of the federal law: «Where inability to speak and understand the English language excludes national origin minority group children from effective participation in the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.&raquIn the language of the federal law: «Where inability to speak and understand the English language excludes national origin minority group children from effective participation in the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.&raquin the educational program offered by a school district, the district must take affirmative steps to rectify the language deficiency in order to open its instructional program to these students.&raquin order to open its instructional program to these students.»

It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»

Each student's account would, in a sense, constitute a «backpack» of funding that the student would carry with her to any eligible school or instructional programs in which she enrolls.

«Adaptive learning» has been a frequently used term in education for many years but today, with the advent of more ubiquitous technology in schools, education systems are placing more emphasis on the advantages of leveraging adaptive techniques within both assessments and instructional programs.

Now in its 14th year, the PZC, offered in collaboration with HGSE's Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education, is an intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K-12 educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out - of - school learning environments that address a range of learning styles and promote a culture of deep thinking to build complex knowledge in the arts and other academic areas.

Bud Hunt, instructional technologist for the St. Vrain Valley School District, in Longmont, Colorado, advises teachers to describe positive programs in great detail while leveling criticisms more generically.

Leaders in HP / HP schools credit much of their success to a high level of coherence in the instructional program.

Gold notes, for example, how the demand that urban schools intervene directly to overcome the effects of poverty on achievement results in a proliferation of site - based social - service programs — clinics, counseling, rehab centers, family interventions — whose maintenance can overwhelm the instructional mission of the school.

He has worked in education for 6 years including work as an educator, teaching assistant, after school program leader, and instructional designer for K - 12, higher education, and adult education.

Here's a plan to put a hopeful message in a bottle for the summer of 2015: America Achieves and the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) would work with the America Achieves to design a teacher survey asking about the Common Core implementation identified treatments and other strategies (e.g., instructional coaching using digital video captured by coached teachers, a specific textbook or curriculum, supplemental programs for students, etc.) their school is using, and a principal survey asking about similar topics.

Many of the local programs, including those in Philadelphia and New York City, provide volunteers with several weeks of training in instructional methods and school policies before they enter a school.

... In Australia, one could argue that the imperative for instructional leadership only (re) gained momentum in the context of the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests introduced in 2008, and with the establishment of the My School website in 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other informationIn Australia, one could argue that the imperative for instructional leadership only (re) gained momentum in the context of the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests introduced in 2008, and with the establishment of the My School website in 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other informationin the context of the National Assessment Program — Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) tests introduced in 2008, and with the establishment of the My School website in 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other informationin 2008, and with the establishment of the My School website in 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other informaSchool website in 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other informationin 2010 (which lists NAPLAN results for every school in Australia along with other informaschool in Australia along with other informationin Australia along with other information).

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Although further research is necessary to understand the variation in the Indiana program's effects — including the organizational and instructional environments of voucher schools — our research to date offers some clear policy implications:

That sweeping shift in demographic patterns has strained the capacity of school districts, and even state departments of education, to develop and pay for instructional programs to teach children who are still learning English.

Part of the test for research - based instructional programs is whether they have a record of success in a variety of schools.

In this webinar, Debbie Thompson, math curriculum and instructional design, Wichita Public Schools, shares a step - by - step framework for designing and implementing district - wide personalized intervention programs.