Sentences with phrase «local curriculum leading»

What we have seen is not the flowering of local curriculum leading to responsiveness to students, but a wholesale regimented responsiveness to the state.

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Pellegrino, 47, a teacher for nearly a quarter century who has battled the Common Core curriculum and led her local Opt Out movement, took no offense at the lapse, saying she left early for other campaign stops.

Uncharted leads program execution and curriculum delivery while Impact Hub Accra provides local expertise in logistics, operations, and mentor and applicant recruitment.

Although the subjects vary considerably from one grade to the next (from the life cycle of frogs to the role of change makers in society to the study of the causes and consequences of war), every expedition shares some common characteristics: an emphasis on student - led inquiry, connections to the community (through interactions with local experts and service - learning projects, for example), and an integrated curriculum with a strong emphasis on the visual and performing arts.

Visit www.glp-e.org.uk for more information about the GLP and how your school could benefit from the funding, school - led training, curriculum guidance, resources and local network support available.

Local pharmacists, doctors, community members, and school staff members set up a Wellness Alliance, which led to the creation of a wellness center in the middle - school classroom and a wellness curriculum.

Ongoing work in the area of curriculum, assessment and quality instruction led to significant improvement in student achievement on state and local standardized testing.

These peer leaders, school staff, and prevention educators from a local sexual assault and domestic violence provider are working together to incorporate the MVP curriculum into classes, clubs, and through student led trainings and presentations.

When experts or politicians said that Common Core would not lead to a surrender of local control over curriculum, Heather and Erin knew better.

According to local educators, America's public elementary and secondary schools are on the path to a more rigorous curriculum, and in their view this will lead to a better educated citizenry.

The vendors claim that any specific curriculum that follows will continue to be a local responsibility (or state - led, where appropriate).

Test development conducted by external agents inevitably leads to discontinuity within the local curriculum while depriving educators of valuable professional learning experiences in the design and scoring of meaningful assessments.

Each school has nominated a Lead Teacher who is trained to embed local heritage in their school's curriculum.

New Hampshire has led the way by gaining federal approval to forego state standardized testing for a growing number of districts and replace them with teacher - generated, curriculum - embedded local and common performance assessments (Performance Assessment for Competency Education, or PACE).

Our General Education Department led a curriculum and assessment initiative called «Hair on Fire» that helped local districts deeply understand the new Common Core State Standards using common classroom language and learn how to develop quality classroom assessments.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

In contrast, Pennsylvania is following the lead of states like Rhode Island that are using what are known as «student learning objectives,» in which teachers of subjects like art and gym set academic goals for their students, relying on local district tests, curriculum exams or projects and tests created by the teacher.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

«Local control» was sacrosanct then, and the groups feared that a national test would inevitably lead to a national curriculum.

Institutes sessions are led by a team of educator facilitators who have acquired deep expertise in the curriculum through their local implementation.

Shared concern for animals and similar educational goals led the APA Adoption Center to work with three other local animal organizations to develop a series of elementary level curricula.