We are also recognized as a leader in the Catholic school renaissance — a nationwide effort to strengthen and rebuild urban Catholic schools as
models of academic rigor and transformational change for the communities, students, and families they serve.
Not exact matches
The Patriot League, a Division I - AA nonscholarship conference
modeled after the Ivy League, with a level
of talent and
academic rigor that's close to the Ivy's, began accepting football playoff bids in 1997, and its teams have gone 2 - 6 in the postseason.
Notably, the Math - in - CTE
model was not developed to address
rigor or level
of mathematics or order
of instruction required to meet state
academic standards.
University
of Illinois at Chicago is creating better principals by changing the way they are prepared — through an acclaimed
model that focuses on
academic rigor, research, residency and coaching.
Upper Carmen uses a blended, multi-age classroom
model and a proprietary reading curriculum (designed by school leader Sue Smith and called BethTommy Read - to - Read) to achieve a high level
of academic rigor and personalized learning.
This framework is a three - dimensional
model that values
academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge
of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.
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.
This framework is a multi-dimensional
model that values
academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge
of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.