Sentences with phrase «new literacy effort»

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We will be smarter about how we provide investor information so that it will motivate individuals to learn and utilize their new money management skills, and we will collaborate and coordinate our efforts with other organizations that share our mission of raising the level of financial literacy and investor protection.»

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

Coverage of Reach Every Reader Launch: Zuckerberg, Chan Give $ 30M to Harvard and MIT for Literacy (The New York Times) Reach Every Reader Targets Early Literacy Crisis (Harvard Gazette) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Literacy Effort (The Boston Globe) Mark Zuckerberg's Charity Is Giving $ 30 Million to Help Kids Learn to Read — and Love It (Quartz) Harvard - MIT Personalized Learning Program to Help Early Readers Gets $ 30M From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (The 74) Zuckerberg, Wife Give $ 30M for Child Literacy (The Boston Herald) Chan Zuckerburg Initiative Funds Harvard - MIT Effort to Screen Children for Reading Problems (Education DIVE) Zuckerberg, Chan Donate $ 30 Million to Ed.

In an effort to continue improving teacher education, registrations have now opened for the new National Literacy and Numeracy Test.

And it will pump new money into efforts to improve sagging literacy skills throughout the state.

These efforts couldn't happen at a more critical time, says Bob McCannon, director of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project, which creates media literacy curricula and works with parents and teachers to further their understanding of thLiteracy Project, which creates media literacy curricula and works with parents and teachers to further their understanding of thliteracy curricula and works with parents and teachers to further their understanding of this area.

The final report of the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy caps a five - year effort to examine literacy skills among students in gradesLiteracy caps a five - year effort to examine literacy skills among students in gradesliteracy skills among students in grades 4 - 12.

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During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

This is a qualitative study that used a collective case study design (Stake, 1995) to examine the question, How does engaging in a new literacies course support teachers» efforts to implement technology with students?

These improvements, known as «wraparound services,» have been successful in other turnaround efforts, notably the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, where families get free access to an array of health and nutrition counseling as well as after - school programs, truancy prevention, literacy programs, financial advice and domestic - crisis resolution.

Collaborating this way allowed for one preservice teacher to see that current theory grounded in New Literacies is happening in classrooms where practicing teachers honor student voices in an effort to better prepare students for the academic writing demands of college classrooms.

In today's ENR: Utah «has gone above and beyond all others in its efforts to ensure high school students learn financial literacy,» new report says.

In a system with a growing number of English - language learners and children from low - income families, the new funding will steer more resources to high - needs schools, beef up math and literacy efforts, and add more than 300 teachers to help reduce class sizes.

Charlotte, N.C. (August 30, 2017)-- Eleven local organizations will participate in Read Charlotte's Data Collaborative, a new collective effort by birth - 3rd grade literacy providers, funders, and...

Charlotte, N.C. (August 30, 2017)-- Eleven local organizations will participate in Read Charlotte's Data Collaborative, a new collective effort by birth - 3rd grade literacy providers, funders, and community partners to improve the availability, quality and use of data to improve children's literacy, this fall.

District reform efforts often include the establishment of new school - based teacher leader positions (e.g., literacy coaches) to work with principals and with district consultants to provide professional development assistance (e.g., demonstrations, in - class coaching, school professional development, or PD, arrangements) to individual teachers and teams of teachers in the targeted focuses of reform.

The authors suggest that the literacy coach begin by connecting a new initiative to current practice to validate teachers» prior efforts, choose generative practices that raise important questions about teaching, establish teaching credentials by spending significant amounts of time teaching in the classroom, focus teacher training on student learning, use a repertoire of coaching strategies, and get into the habit of regularly videotaping and reviewing lessons and demonstrations.