Sentences with phrase «key academic goals»

We'll never close the achievement gap unless schools find ways to work with more families more deeply and respectfully around key academic goals, and unless we support parents as advocates for their children's education.

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GOALS: (1) Educate parents on key issues that affect academic success; (2) Provide resources necessary for academic success; (3) Empower, equip and educate parents on becoming self advocates; (4) Encourage success in school programs through a collaborative process within the district, school and community.

At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.

In its discussion of accountability, the task force rightly lines up behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (and, not incidentally, the Risk report itself) in calling for coherent academic standards in every state, in key academic subjects (regrettably omitting the arts, which Risk mentioned and which the National Education Goals expressly included).

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

A key goal of the program is to create a safe and supportive environment where mentees can be comfortable asking their mentors for academic assistance; discussing barriers to achieving academic success; and learning from mentors about college, graduate school, and other career opportunities that are available post-high school.

Another grave concern for educators is the academic gap that would be left by teacher assistants that are primarily tasked with making sure students read on grade level by the third grade — presumably still a significant goal for Senator Berger who was a key driver in the state's Read to Achieve legislation that mandates all third graders read on grade level or be held back from advancing to the fourth grade.

In addition, she was a key leader in Tennessee's work to transform public higher education by aligning Tennessee's postsecondary system and the state's economic goals through changes in academic, fiscal, and administrative policies.

In the end, students not only demonstrate their mastery of multiple academic standards through a single task, but they also learn to apply classroom knowledge to solving real - world problems, one of the key goals for Common Core standards.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

Individualization is the ultimate goal of class - size reduction initiatives, and the key to academic success.

Casey Vier, Academic Dean of CACPCS, explains, «By building key professional learning goals around the tools in Tools for Conquering the Common Core, we have given all of our teachers an easy - to - understand set of classroom techniques to raise student achievement.»

Our ultimate goal is that scholars master key academic skills and demonstrate strong character, as exhibited by: honesty, service to others, a superior work ethic, and a strong vision for and belief in their futures.

The standards - aligned lessons, projects, and instructional tools establish the goals of the activity, provide background knowledge, present the learning objectives in a larger context, and introduce key academic vocabulary to prepare students for learning.

One of the main goals of the system was to be able to rank every stock in the UK market, regardless of sector or stage of their business cycle, while aligning the site closely with the key findings of academic finance.

My key goal was to help the students choose the right career path and also ensure that they meet the college academic expectations.

This interactive webinar introduces school and district administrators to Open Circle's goals, guiding principles, whole - school approach, key vocabulary and alignment with the five core SEL competencies outlined by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning.

Addressing these gaps, a key goal of the present study was to elucidate the mechanisms by which parental behaviors relate to individual differences in children's academic ability.

The team of moms / teachers works to make sure playrooms and spaces that children inhabit are optimized for creative play that naturally helps to strengthen key academic objectives and goals.