Sentences with phrase «learners and students»

High - quality early learning programs meet the needs of all students, including English learners and students with special needs.

Judy Center programs foster young children's physical, social, linguistic and cognitive abilities — skills that help children become accomplished learners and students.

In high - performing schools, differentiation has proved to be an effective instructional strategy; in classroom environments with low - performing learners and students with disabilities, it can have even greater impact.

Yet charter schools, serving 1 percent of Connecticut's public school students, have dismal graduation rates and routinely exclude Latino students, English language learners and students with disabilities.

This may have a negative impact on english language learners and students with disabilities, because these students may believe that if they can't understand something, it's their own fault.

They are simply neighborhood schools that appear to have solved some of the challenges in educating English learners and students from low - income families.

Although much still needs to be developed, Provost Terry Brown said she envisions a new program that follows teachers into the profession and provides further development where needed, incorporates useful technology into teaching methods classes and develops professionals who can work with English language learners and students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

The Columbia Heights expansion allowed AppleTree to deepen its expertise serving English language learners and students from all backgrounds.

Unlike public schools, charters need not accept every child, and many in Connecticut systematically exclude English Language Learners and students with disabilities.

The bill that passed last week treats all districts fairly — including Chicago — distributing dollars based on the elements of a quality education and taking into consideration local factors like the number of low - income students, English learners and students with disabilities.

Session 24: Transforming Learning: Understanding the Needs of English Learners and Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE) 1:20 pm - 2:50 pm Audience - Lead Teachers / Teachers, Principals, Student Support Panel Presentation

We work with advisory panels on English language learners and students with disabilities to ensure that the assessments are developed using principles of Universal Design and research - based best practices.

In addition to reviewing state policy documents, we're surveying approximately 280 district administrators, 1,120 principals, and 6,720 teachers across (the same) four states, giving special attention to the experiences of English language learners and students with disabilities.

As such, cloze sentences may be particularly useful for English language learners and students with language processing difficulties.

Entrepreneurial learning is the backbone of this Brooklyn charter school network which opened in Fall 2014 to serve grades 6 - 12, including English language learners and students with disabilities.

«In particular, teachers show lower gains when they have large numbers of new English - learners and students with disabilities than when they teach other students.»

Furthermore, specialty schools, including charter schools, are not all required to enroll students with special needs, including English language learners and students with disabilities, thus providing «choice» for only some children and families.

Through our implementation study, we will have documented how states are implementing new, college - and career - readiness standards; how the standards affect teacher instruction; what supports are most valuable for states, districts, and schools; and, how the new standards impact English language learners and students with disabilities.

and «How are English language learners and students with disabilities affected by the new standards?»

PARCC used universal design principles to make the new tests as accessible as possible to all students, including English learners and students with disabilities.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

Study after study has shown that they do not get better test scores than public schools unless they screen out English - language learners and students with profound disabilities.

Continue to hold states accountable by ensuring that they set academic performance targets for minority and low - income students, English language learners and students with disabilities;

Learn how to increase reading and writing achievement, engagement, and enjoyment for all students, including English language learners and students who struggle.

The need to reinstate achievement targets for English language learners and students with disabilities to ensure appropriate focus on their challenges.

For that extra lift, the general aid formula will weight students living in poverty and the per - pupil categorical aid will be weighted for foster kids, English learners and students from impoverished families.

It's also worth noting that both English learners and students with special needs perform better in local independent charters than in traditional schools.

Over half of the state's unfilled teacher positions are in bilingual and Special Education, meaning English learners and students with special needs are less likely to have the supports they need, especially if they live in under - resourced districts with more low - income students or more students of color.

A foundation aid formula, like ECS, is only adequate if its components are: i.e., the foundation amount, the amount necessary to educate one child with no special needs; and the weights that adjust the foundation amount for different needs, like students living in poverty, English Language Learners and students with disabilities.

Standardized tests tend, to varying degrees, to be culturally and linguistically biased against English language learners and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

From involving students in the assessment process to ensuring accuracy and applying assessments to English learners and students with special needs, you will find compelling insights and proven strategies.

Democrats argued that rescinding the rules opens loopholes that states can use to shield poorly performing schools from scrutiny, especially when they fail to serve poor children, minorities, English - language learners and students with disabilities.

«The data also clearly shows where we haven't focused enough attention, specifically on the needs of our low - income students, English Learners and students with disabilities.

In fact, teacher tenure has served as an important protection to allow teachers to advocate for students — especially with regard to maintaining manageable class sizes, safe instructional spaces, the needs of students who are English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities.

MTSS is a schoolwide approach that addresses the needs of all students, including struggling learners and students with disabilities, and integrates assessment and intervention within a multilevel instructional and behavioral framework to maximize student achievement and reduce problem behaviors.

The new model is based on the individual needs of low - income students, English learners and students with disabilities.

What does implementation of the standards mean for English language learners and students with special needs?

This is a vexing challenge... in many ways we've been treading water for decades, although I would argue that considering the increased number of English Learners and students with disabilities, not to mention disadvantaged students, schools are doing better than ever.

A «Plan B» pathway offers the district the option of using different criteria for English - language - learners and students from low - income families.

Critics of international comparisons, including many practitioners and a number of researchers, argue that it is impossible to accurately compare US students» performance against that of their international peers because the students selected by their respective countries vary widely in their demographic makeup (not all countries include language learners and students with disabilities in their samples) and the sample size of students from various socioeconomic groups can vary widely.

We welcome applications from English language learners and students with special needs.

LearnZillion lessons are designed to integrate research - based strategies for supporting English Language Learners and students with special needs.

In particular, the course will explore how educators can support English Language Learners and students in linguistically diverse classrooms.

«While we are pleased to see that H.R. 5 maintains statewide annual assessments, other provisions of the bill will significantly weaken the law's focus on the very groups of children who are at its heart — low - income children, racial minorities, English learners and students with disabilities.

Addressing the needs of their diverse students, in particular, English Language Learners and students with special needs, the authors discuss how a technology - rich learning environment influences critical features of the classroom.

Zach Weingarten, Ed.D., is a researcher at AIR where he conducts technical assistance and research in the areas of multi-tiered systems of support, intensive intervention, and evidence - based practices for struggling learners and students with disabilities.

It's supposed to use the money to help foster students, English learners and students from low - income families.

An analysis of the demographics in charter schools by The Connecticut Mirror in 2012 showed most charter schools serve fewer English Language Learners and students identified as needing special education services.

He is a nationally renowned expert in research design, special education, methods for supporting struggling learners and students with disabilities, and instructional interventions in reading and mathematics.

The course emphasizes mastery of instructional strategies that create opportunities for all students, including English learners and students with special needs, to read and write about how to use social studies for social justice and how to incorporate the visual and performing arts as ways to express and visually represent meaningful learning.