Sentences with phrase «meet the academic goals of»

I think projects when properly designed can meet the academic goals of teachers and students.

Not exact matches

«There are a whole bunch of different ideas floating around right now, how it can be modified but still meet the goals of increasing diversity across academic racial and economic,» said Kristen Berger of the local elected parent council.

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.

Indeed, in 1945, presidential science adviser Vannevar Bush wrote in «Science, The Endless Frontier» — the report that outlined the organizational structure that still governs federally supported academic research — that the first of five «fundamental» principles must be «stability of funds over a period of years,» a goal that Congress has never met.

The vast majority of academic meetings I have attended could have achieved their goals (given that anyone could agree what they were beforehand) in half the time.

Dr. Cattie's areas of clinical focus include the treatment of the obsessive compulsive spectrum and mood and anxiety disorders, helping individuals co-manage mental health and wellness alongside academic / professional goals as well as tailoring evidence - based treatments to meet the needs of individuals experiencing difficulties in everyday thinking.

California students are unlikely to meet the meet academic goals for mathematics and English under the No Child Left Behind Act unless policymakers continue to improve the quality of the state's teaching workforce, a research study suggests.

With schools today facing an array of complex challenges — from working with an increasingly diverse population of students, to integrating new technology in the classroom, to meeting rigorous academic standards and goals — observers...

The state is also about to start a pilot program that pairs up students with an adult mentor who can, among other things, help students understand the purpose of school and set and meet academic goals.

Due to all the hard work and collaborative energy of teachers, administration, school - based leadership teams, community partners, students, and families, the Edwards has reached and continues to meet our goals for student achievement and for providing middle school students in Boston with quality education in academics and enrichment.

• What if each state instead achieves a basic level academic proficiency over a 10 - year period, something akin to meeting the goals of NCLB?

Target specific academic behaviors: Jim Wright, of Intervention Central, lists several academic dispositions that can be reinforced through praise, including effort, accuracy, fluency, goal - setting, and meeting an external standard.

With an academic advising team, you will choose a custom mix of courses, including internships and independent study, that meet your specific academic and professional goals.

The proposal being designed by the panel's Republican leaders would share a central feature of the Clinton Administration's Goals 2000 strategy — a requirement that states and school districts adopt challenging academic - performance standards and assessments with which to measure students» progress toward meeting them.

According to Responsive Classroom (PDF), the goal of these four components, and the meeting as a whole, is to «set the tone for respectful learning, establish a climate of trust, motivate students to feel significant, create empathy and encourage collaboration, and support social, emotional, and academic learning.»

Students can meet academic goals by doing things like investigating access to neighborhood parks, mapping local food deserts, or telling the stories of people who help to give a place its identity.

While Summit students spend most of their time working on projects, 20 percent of the day is devoted to Personalized Learning Time (PLT), during which students learn academic content, choosing the digital tools they'll use to meet their goals.

Students must come to terms with challenges such as leaving home, fitting in with a new group of peers, managing new freedoms, and meeting academic goals.

Three years ago, a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling blew the whistle on the inferior and unequal education being provided in Hartford, the state's capital city, where fewer than 10 percent of the students met the academic goals for their grade levels.

To guarantee that right, legislatures are often required to ensure a certain level of funding to public schools and to provide a realistic opportunity for students in those schools to meet certain academic goals.

For example, I'll try and meet with each of my students once per semester at some point outside of class time and use the conversation to learn more about who they are, what their academic goals are, and whatever other concerns they have.

Patty Quinones, who was then the school's principal and is now the district's assistant superintendent of innovation, worked backward to translate the end goals into curricula that met the state's academic standards.

Successful digital learning implementation can meet a broad range of goals, including supporting the academic needs of students to ensure that they are college and career ready.

Under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA), the federal government provides millions of dollars annually to assist schools that have not met state academic goals.

In fact, a few examples of whether charter schools are meeting their academic goals already exist.

Pennsylvania has gone from 61 percent of schools meeting their academic goals to 81 percent; California, from 54 percent to 64 percent; and Georgia, from 64 percent to 78 percent.

I am proud of the love that all of my scholars feel when they enter our big blue doors, and the push that each of them gets to meet their academic goals.

While the Total Academic Index is not a true mean average of a school's scores for a given academic year, since it takes into account other elements, it does provide a clear picture of where the school is currently regarding their ascent towards meeting the 20Academic Index is not a true mean average of a school's scores for a given academic year, since it takes into account other elements, it does provide a clear picture of where the school is currently regarding their ascent towards meeting the 20academic year, since it takes into account other elements, it does provide a clear picture of where the school is currently regarding their ascent towards meeting the 2014 goal.

Center for American Progress / Public Policy Polling found that eight in 10 voters (79 percent) agree that we should create a set of high quality academic standards or goals in English and math and let communities develop their own curriculum and strategies to meet these goals.

Bravo's partnerships with three nearby USC medical facilities and implementation of linked learning allows students real - world experiences to meet the academic needs and career goals for students interested in the health professions.

CSDC is focused on helping to «stand up» and stabilize those schools so that they become independently creditworthy, without the need for CSDC's further assistance, by virtue of their successful operating history and demonstrated ability to meet their enrollment goals and produce good academic and financial results.

Mewborn challenged the faculty and students last spring with a promise: If all students met their year - end academic goals, he would ride from North Hart across more than 20 miles of rural landscape to the middle school... on his bicycle.

We seek candidates whose academic background, professional goals, personal commitment and communication skills meet the demands of a rigorous graduate education program.

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

Our goal was to create a school that would meet the individual needs of Providence's diverse students through a maritime - themed curriculum that would promote social and civic skill - building as well as outstanding academic learning.

Conferencing with teachers, school leaders, other instructional personnel, and external educational agencies to aid in the development of robust, appropriate, educational programming and supports to students who are at risk of failure, not meeting school academic goals, and / or currently being supported by a formal IEP

Use of data to tailor instruction to meet individual student academic and social needs with a goal of every student performing on grade level or above in all subject areas

«Standards - based» IEPs allow individualized instruction in pursuit of a common goal: helping students with disabilities move toward meeting the same grade - level academic standards that general education students are supposed to meet.

Conferring with teachers, school leaders, and other instructional personnel, external educational agencies, to aid in the development of robust, appropriate, educational programming and supports to students who are at - risk of failure, not meeting school academic goals, and / or currently being supported by a formal IEP.

Using data to tailor instruction to meet individual student academic and social needs with a goal of every student performing on - grade level or above in all subject areas

The bill eliminates certain standards, one of which participating schools must achieve — either that 70 percent of voucher students advance one grade level, 80 percent demonstrate significant academic progress, average attendance rates among participants of 90 percent or 70 percent of voucher parents meet participation goals.

A spokesman for budget committee co-chairwoman Sen. Alberta Darling, R - River Hills, said the Joint Finance Committee reduced the increase to $ 639 million because of reductions to funding proposed by Walker for rural school districts and for schools in the Milwaukee School District that meet academic achievement goals.

Her research to date indicates more effective online course development and innovative online course delivery have the potential to improve the retention rate of adult online students as they more easily meet their academic goals.

Hold the State, School Districts and Campuses Accountable: Schools must be held accountable for the high comparable academic achievement of all ELL students and must inform parents and community of progress in meeting district and campus goals.

To facilitate this, the governor should appoint a committee to establish metrics which would be used to evaluate the effectiveness of PARCC as an assessment tool in meeting the academic goals established by the common core state standards.

Which additional strategies could we implement to improve relationships among school stakeholders and better focus ourselves on identifying and meeting the personal academic goals of each of our students?

The number of schools in Michigan meeting federal «Adequate Yearly Progress» goals dropped off in the last academic year.

● Oversee the implementation of the educational vision across all campuses, and ensure schools are producing amazing outcomes for students ● Ensure all schools meet their academic and cultural goals ● Build a strong, collaborative team of principals ● Ensure schools are operationally strong, aesthetically beautiful and clean, within budget, and well - organized ● Oversee performance management systems and the hiring process across the schools ● Manage the college teams in supporting students as they prepare for college ● Provide individual development and management to school principals through one - on - one meetings, coaching, modeling, planning, and feedback ● Lead regular professional learning for school leaders (topics such as instructional leadership, personnel management, school operations, data analysis, school culture, and family investment) ● Study and analyze data on an ongoing basis ● Work with school principals to develop and implement action plans based on academic results

«The new law is designed to remove financial incentives for placing children in more separate settings when they could be served in a regular classroom, and it [calls for] including regular classroom teachers in the meetings at which the academic goals of children with disabilities are set.

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