This work includes supporting high - quality professional learning for educators, school leaders, and administrators to personalize
learning and improve academic achievement.
Study after study has shown that breakfast in school (and specifically in the classroom) helps children
learn and improves academic performance.
Not exact matches
To address the current
and potentially explosive future of technology in the classroom, the U.S. Department of Education has released their plan, Future Ready
Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education, which calls for
improving teacher training in digital tools
and how to leverage them to enhance their
academic experience.
The Kitchen Community builds
Learning Gardens in schools around the U.S. reaching hundreds of thousands of students every school day,
improving their vegetable intake
and academic achievements.
Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an
academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students
and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to
improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers
and babies in the U.S
and abroad.
Developed specifically to instruct teachers
and other school professionals about the impact hunger has on
learning, the NEA Healthy Futures Breakfast in the Classroom Toolkit will help you communicate how BIC can help increase breakfast participation
and address hunger in schools, which in turn can
improve academic and behavioral outcomes for students.
That in turn can lead to higher
academic performance
and improved classroom behavior, as children who aren't distracted by hunger pains are clearly in a better position to
learn.
Such activities offer
academic scientists great opportunities to apply their expertise to real - world challenges, impacting human health more directly,
learning how business works,
and even
improving their financial situations.
Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games
and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games
improve classroom performance
and academic achievement, says Emma Blakey, PhD researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.
Because
learning and memory impairments are common after TBI, the goal of this trial is to obtain evidence that RPT is an effective tool that leads to
improved academic performance
and the attainment of higher education
and employment.
Help
and Hope for ADHD The Brain Balance Program is designed to offer a drug - free, integrated approach that focuses on the whole child
and brings parents
and kids together to achieve a common goal of
improving a child's processing
and learning ability, leading to a more successful
academic and personal life.
The Brain Balance Program is designed to offer a drug - free, integrated approach that focuses on the whole child
and brings parents
and kids together to achieve a common goal of
improving a child's processing
and learning ability, leading to a more successful
academic and personal life.
The Brain Balance Program combines individually customized sensory motor
and academic activities that
improve left - brain connectivity leading to increased processing
and learning skills.
When these classroom behaviors
improve and students feel comfortable in an
academic setting, they will
learn better.
In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly
and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to
improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online
learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online
academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree
and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students
and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended -
learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division
and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced
and student - centric associates degree;
and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.
Service
learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations
and assessments
and creates opportunities known to
improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults
and peers,
and increase personal self - esteem
and feelings of self - efficacy.
They argued that there is a growing professional
and academic understanding of the use of classroom observation
and feedback as key tools for
improving the quality of teaching
and learning practice for individual teachers, teams
and schools.
This special report examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country
and how they are working to
improve academics in the age of common standards
and digital teaching
and learning.
Data Wise: A Step - by - step Guide to Using Assessment Results to
Improve Teaching
and Learning, edited by
Academic Dean
and Thompson Professor Richard Murnane, Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett,
and doctoral student Elizabeth A City, provides a solid blueprint of what to do with the increasing quantitative information educators face.
In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at
improving teaching
and learning to enable students to reach high
academic standards,
and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.
Fall - Hamilton Elementary emphasizes social
and emotional
learning and trauma - informed practices as a path to
improving students»
academic outcomes.
The aim is to identify promising school - based initiatives that build social
and emotional
learning and resilience skills in Victorian students,
and which also
improve academic achievement.
Conservatives, for instance, are less likely than liberals to say that funding is a barrier to
academic achievement,
and liberals are more likely to put less focus on
improving student
learning.
If school leaders
and teachers adopt blended
learning as a strategy to personalize
learning, increase students»
academic mastery,
and develop students» noncognitive skills, then the technology will
improve along those dimensions.
But if school leaders adopt blended
learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended -
learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging,
and easy to use without necessarily
improving students»
academic or life outcomes.
The top reasons for implementing blended
learning were also strong
and in line with our observations across the country: create / facilitate personalized
learning (73 percent), provide more course choices (58 percent),
and improve student
academic outcomes (53 percent).
Social
and Emotional
Learning: «Research shows that promoting social
and emotional skills leads to reduced violence
and aggression among children, higher
academic achievement,
and an
improved ability to function in schools
and in the workplace....
Since that research was completed, powerful mobile broadband devices are now the primary technology infrastructure used by young people (Chiong & Shuler, 2010; Project Tomorrow, 2010); the EcoMobile project will study their potential power in
academic settings to
improve motivation
and deepen
learning of ecosystems science.
A 2005 NCREL report draft (which we received special permission to cite for this article) finds «new evidence supporting the apparent effectiveness of online programs
and schools
and generally demonstrating the potential of online
learning as a promising instructional intervention that can, when implemented judiciously,
and with attention to «evidence - based» practices, apparently
improve student
academic performance.»
Educators
and staff working with young people are eager to
learn strategies to enhance their relationships with students to
improve wellbeing
and academic outcomes.
A growing body of
academic research supports the use of project - based
learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative
learning skills,
and improve test scores.
Participation in afterschool programs is influencing
academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school
and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates
and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores
and grades; significant gains in
academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion;
improved homework completion;
and deeper engagement in
learning.
But if you believe that these rigorous new
academic standards for English
and math are importantly stronger than what states had before,
and are likely to
improve teaching
and learning in U.S. schools, then pulling out of the Common Core to spite the president starts to look like a pretty silly idea.
«Through this we ultimately hope to promote deeper
learning and develop transformative skills, to
improve student
learning and academic results.»
These documentaries look at the important part that social
and emotional
learning plays in reducing negative behaviors
and improving academic achievement.
Many schools offer obvious ways to engage families that also
improve academics — family math nights or tutoring sessions — but she says schools need to get into the mindset of connecting all of the activities that involve families to
learning, including events like the open house or the spring concert, in ways that are both fun
and useful.
Since
improved AP outcomes may not necessarily reflect increased
learning and could come at the expense of other
academic outcomes, I also looked beyond these immediate effects to the broader set of outcomes, such as high school graduation rates, SAT
and ACT performance,
and the percentage of students attending college.
«These skills are even more important for those who don't have a strong
academic record, as they complement
academic learning and can
improve results later on if developed from a young age.»
This special report, «The Chief
Academic Officer's Evolving Role: Powering Big - Picture
Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and l
Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country
and how they are working to
improve academics in the age of common standards
and digital teaching
and learninglearning.
This meta - analysis of social
and emotional
learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs
and 270,000 students from rural, suburban
and urban areas) showed that social
and emotional
learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety
and depression,
improved social
and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.),
improved attitudes about self, others,
and school (including higher
academic motivation, stronger bonding with school
and teachers,
and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school
and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior
and aggression,
and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).
Last weekend, at the Celebration of Teaching
and Learning, surrounded by educators, representatives from the nonprofit
and business worlds, global education experts,
academics,
and education advocates of all stripes, I found it inspiring how committed the group as a whole was to not just
improving family engagement in schools, but expanding engagement beyond the family, to the community in general.
Leveraging a grant
and supportive partnership with the Collaborative for
Academic, Social,
and Emotional
Learning (CASEL)-- a nonprofit organization that supports SEL programs in nine other districts in the nation — Washoe has worked to
improve school climate
and culture, parent engagement,
and student voice in all 98 schools in the district.
«Since 2000, however,
academic performance has declined when compared to other Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development countries, suggesting that Australian students
and schools are not
improving at the same rate
and are falling short of achieving the full
learning potential of which they are capable,» he wrote.
Evidence suggests that children's
academic and social - emotional outcomes
improve when adults collaborate across home
and school environments to provide consistent, reliable, high - quality
learning experiences, particularly during key developmental transitions.
John Buell, co-author of The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children,
and Limits
Learning, writes that there is no solid evidence to support the current intensification of homework as a way of
improving academic achievement.
A Nashville high school focuses on using social
and emotional
learning to build strong relationships
and a positive culture —
and to
improve academic outcomes.
Numerous studies have shown significant benefits from language
learning, including better career prospects,
improved academic performance,
and enhanced empathy
and creativity.
Living by the mantra «pedagogy before technology», Dr Cowling works to help teachers
and academics innovate with technology,
improving student motivation
and learning outcomes,
and leveraging technology as a tool to
improve the overall education process.
Visit a pair of Nashville middle schools born out of the belief that strong social
and emotional
learning practices
improve academic outcomes.
MindUP ™ was created with educators, for educators, to help them
improve student engagement in
learning,
academics and focus,
and to give them some tools
and strategies to bring joy back into the classroom.