Sentences with phrase «meeting the academic standards through»

Kari reminded us of the importance of meeting the academic standards through authentic experiences for children.

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When delivering supports we must assume these young men have important skills and competencies — the result of their resilience — that they can employ to persevere through rigorous learning experiences and ultimately meet high academic standards.»

Small schools can also help boost graduation rates among these underserved students by providing them with a new version of the three Rs - rigorous academic coursework, meaningful relationships with instructors who can help them meet high standards, and relevant learning opportunities through internships, community partnerships, and real - world tasks.

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.

«We're providing not only the academic skills — by meeting state standards, and through work in theater education, literacy, and public speaking — but we are also targeting anger management and social skills,» she explains.

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.

VDOE funds, through a competitive process, projects that provide significant expanded learning opportunities for children and youth, and that will assist students to meet or exceed state and local standards in core academic subjects.

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.

This state - administered, federally funded program provides five - year grant funding to establish or expand before - and after - school programs that provide disadvantaged kindergarten through twelfth - grade students (particularly students who attend schools in need of improvement) with academic enrichment opportunities and supportive services to help the students meet state and local standards in core content areas.

Further doubt was cast Tuesday on California's ability to meet a mandated August 2 deadline for adopting new common core academic standards in math and English language arts developed through a national consortium.

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.

«What you're dealing with is actual numbers versus estimates,» said Luci Willits, deputy director of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which built a test Wisconsin and 17 other states are using this year to measure how well their students in grades three through eight are meeting the new academic standards the state adopted in 2010.

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».

After Bee's Transforming Teams advisor led her and the other coaches through a deep dive into Tennessee's academic standards, Bee brought that learning back to her school, holding twice - weekly meetings to guide teachers through data analysis and instructional planning.

Meet a rigorous standard of quality and demonstrate, through a formal state or local academic assessment, knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing reading, writing, and mathematics; or knowledge of and the ability to assist in instructing reading readiness, writing readiness, and mathematics readiness, as appropriate.

Students learn about the world through exploration of their individual interests by designing and completing projects that meet state academic standards.