Sentences with phrase «meeting challenging academic»

Monitoring student progress towards meeting challenging academic standards by providing detailed student and classroom reports

Increasing accountability with dashboards that provide detailed reports on student and classroom progress towards meeting challenging academic standards.

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And can this challenge be met without revisiting the incentive structure that powerfully shapes academic careers?

Meeting and overcoming meaningful academic challenges is critical to developing the other positive academic mindsets that Camille Farrington described, like I can succeed at this and My ability and competence grow with my effort.

Sylvan Learning also reminds parents that even with the best preparation many students still may need extra help to meet new academic challenges or to bolster study skills.

Along with academic rigors, the boys» talents and hearts are challenged when they meet «The Chipettes» (voiced by Anna Faris, Christina Applegate and Amy Poehler).

In a world where students are often still assessed based on their right and wrong answers, I wonder: how are teachers meeting the challenge of communicating other critically important academic values to developing thinkers?

Every day after lunch, each YES Prep staff member meets with the same group of students to discuss current challenges, academic or personal.

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 ability to meet and overcome challenges in ways that maintain or promote well - being plays an essential role in how students learn to achieve academic and personal goals.

Making time in the school day to emphasize academics, tutor students who need extra help, schedule common planning times for teams, or meet a wide variety of other needs is a challenge all principals face.

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.

Destiny and Jalen and their classmates meet in a small group every day — an advisory structure we call Crew — and use courage to share their personal and academic successes and challenges.

Such a vision for academic excellence through digital learning is one that will allow curriculum teams to meet the challenges of today and the next few years without walking backwards into the future.

The 1986 Carnegie Report made a case for the idea that the economic challenges the nation would face in the years ahead could not be met unless students were held to much higher academic standards and the nation did what would be necessary to fully professionalize its teaching force, much as medicine had done a century earlier.

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.

Meeting the challenges of today There is too much emphasis on academic achievement; it's not for everybody.

The School Day: Fitting In Everything Requires Creative Scheduling Making time in the school day to emphasize academics, tutor students who need help, schedule planning times for teams, or meet many other needs is a challenge all principals face.

Infused with state and federal money but facing more requirements and students with challenges, staff at two Native American schools in Maine talked with Education World about meeting their two missions: passing on Native American culture and boosting academics.

The school meets these challenges head - on, striving to accommodate the academic needs of all students with trauma - informed practices and pedagogy grounded in social and emotional learning (SEL).

The purpose of Title III is to help ensure that students with limited English proficiency master English and meet the same challenging state academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet.

More than two years after governors and business leaders endorsed the idea of reforming schools through competitive academic standards, the group they created to carry on their agenda says it is ready to show states whether they are meeting that challenge.

Even if you started with excellent, challenging academic standards, they would quickly be gutted at the behest of teacher unions, administrator associations, and probably even parents if many kids and schools didn't meet them and were punished as a result.

Through our full - time private school, individual courses for credit, and tutoring, Brightmont meets the individualized needs of students with learning difficulties and those seeking greater academic challenges.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

The Challenge Charter School with a pink «Does Not Meet» in the financial area has a dark green in the academic area, which is the highest range.

Still, the district has faced a challenge in efforts to meet federal conditions for continued academic growth especially because the district has close to 2,800 students who have been classified as Exceptional Children (EC).

Title I provides financial assistance through SEAs to LEAs and public schools with high numbers or percentages of poor children to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards.

Our flagship professional development program challenges teachers of all academic subjects to build student achievement and meet rigorous standards in creative and effective ways.

Relentlessly rewarding the academic and side - lining all other forms of education or training will always make it challenging for schools to meet the needs of the difficult, the demotivated, or the less able.

The advanced curriculum ensures core academic needs are met while students are challenged to meet their full potential in the midst of a close - knit and safe community.

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.

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

As they strive to meet high academic standards, ELLs face the added challenge of learning, comprehending, and applying the academic English through which teachers and textbooks deliver important information.

Activities also include: the use of new or existing technologies to improve academic achievement; the acquisition of curricula that integrate technology and are designed to meet challenging state academic standards; the use of technology to increase parent involvement in schools; and the use of technology to collect, manage, and analyze data to enhance teaching and school improvement.

The primary purpose of Title III is to «help ensure that children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency, develop high levels of academic attainment in English, and meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards as all children are expected to meet» (Title III, Part A, Sec. 3102).

This primary purpose is similar to the original 1968 Bilingual Education Act, which states that limited - English - proficient (LEP) students will be educated to «meet the same rigorous standards for academic performance expected of all children and youth, including meeting challenging state content standards and challenging state student performance standards in academic areas.»

School districts across the United States are honing their approaches to help newcomer students meet the challenges they face - from developing processes to identify students» academic and socioemotional needs, to connecting them with mental - health and legal supports, and tailoring curricular pathways in ways that balance student needs with policy constraints.

Ensure that migratory children receive full and appropriate opportunities to meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards that all children are expected to meet;

The purpose of the Migrant Education Program is to design and support high - quality and comprehensive educational programs that provide migratory children with the same opportunity to meet the challenging state academic content and student achievement standards that are expected of all children.

The purpose of Title I is to ensure that every student has access to an equal, fair, and high - quality education that meets, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and assessments.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) recognizes that significant numbers of students require supports to successfully meet challenging state academic standards.

Each year, 30 pupils will begin a different Year 7 to other students and be taught a specifically, highly academic curriculum that will meet and challenge their potential as learners»

In all, the response to the Times story illustrates the ongoing struggle for reporters when it comes to test score data, the pros and cons of data visualization as a way for journalists to engage readers, and the challenges of meeting the needs of academics, editors, and readers at the same time.

improve educational services for children and youth in local and state institutions for neglected or delinquent children and youth so that such children and youth have the opportunity to meet the same challenging state academic content standards and challenging state student academic achievement standards that all children in the state are expected to meet;

One emerging theme from these discussions has been the challenges experienced by educators due to the uncertainty of the state's assessments in English language arts (ELA) and math and the impact of administering the existing TCAP exams while meeting the current ELA and math academic standards.

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

We focus on addressing challenges and improving the academic success of students who are struggling and at - risk so they meet state academic standards.