Sentences with phrase «of rigorous curriculum»

I sought the assistance of Dr. Lyons as a college student who was struggling with the demands of a rigorous curriculum.

Gray Collegiate Academy will serve high school students in a safe, small, family - centered setting who seek the opportunity and challenge of a rigorous curriculum, high academic standards, outstanding athletics while earning up to two years of college credit while in high school.

As a part of the Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, GLISI prepared a compilation of thirteen effective strategies, identified by principals for principals, designed to ensure the implementation of a rigorous curriculum in every classroom, for every child.

Certainly Pondiscio is right that the lack of rigorous curriculum is one of the most - important culprits in the nation's education crisis.

The project included research focused on the development and delivery of rigorous curriculum supported by intensive and sustained teacher professional development that included in - school coaching, peer classroom visits and content intensive STEM Academies In addition to the school day component, the project offered a STEM - focused, out - of school day program where students completed engineering - focused projects relevant to local communities.

Use this as an opportunity to explain the importance of a rigorous curriculum for college readiness and college success to high school graduation and college admissions requirements, types of post-secondary institutions, the cost of college, the types and availability of financial aid.

While a number of states, including Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and possibly California, are phasing in or plan to develop a system of rigorous curriculum - based external exams, most states have chosen instead to administer minimum - competency exams.

Take advantage of our rigorous curriculum, work, spiritual and extra-curricular opportunities so that you may live out the true spirit of Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam [«for the greater glory of God»].

My passion lies at the intersection of rigorous curriculum and schools being a place where students, parents, and teachers are proud to call a «second home».

But turnaround high schools have yet to make significant inroads with academics and face hurdles such as declining enrollment, lack of rigorous curricula and a disproportionate number of students with special needs.

There is a clear need for rigorous, demanding, college preparatory standards that will help foster the creation of the kind of rigorous curricula our children need for their future success.

Not exact matches

First, several small but notable Christian colleges (unmentioned by Epstein) still promote the liberal arts through their rigorous core curriculums: Thomas Aquinas College (which offers one degree: B.A. in the liberal arts), the University of Dallas, and Calvin College all deserve mentions.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

We provide an experiential, academically rigorous curriculum that also addresses the inner life of the child, their emergent sense of self and their relationship with the world around them.

Through a rigorous curriculum integrating the academic, the artistic, and the practical, the Waldorf School of Princeton developes and directs children's capacities for learning.

October Open House, 2017, Snapd Burlington For over 30 years, the Halton Waldorf School has delivered a rigorous and diverse curriculum that responds to the developmental needs of each child.

Born of the insights of Rudolf Steiner, our curriculum unfolds an enriching and rigorous synthesis of academic, artistic, and practical pursuits for intellectual, moral, and physical development.

A new, more rigorous curriculum was put in place in public schools in 2012 and the impacts of that exploded in classrooms across the state this past year.

ALBANY — Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Tuesday he expects the state Board of Regents to form a plan for improving and possibly delaying implementation of the rigorous Common Core curriculum standards.

Ravitch, who has written about the issues and is the author of a very popular anti-Common Core blog, doesn't have anything good to say about the new, more rigorous curriculum that's taken over New York state classrooms.

Most of the complaints about the more rigorous curriculum have been heard before, but the bigger question now is if anything can be changed.

The Republicans are tapping into an anger among many parents in New York state over the botched rollout of a more rigorous curriculum that relies more on standardized tests, and is tied to teacher evaluations.

Forty years of progress in RE, including last year's RE curriculum framework, make it clear that the systematic study of humanism contributes to making the subject both rigorous and relevant.

First, the rigor of the science curriculum in medical schools has not kept pace with advances in the biological sciences; M.D. graduates lacking a rigorous science background find it difficult to develop research programs that can equal those of well - trained basic scientists.

The Animal Behavior, Ecology and Conservation Program at Canisius (ABEC) combines the rigorous scientific study of Animal Behavior with a values - focused curriculum in the liberal arts tradition.

Students receive one of the world's most rigorous curriculums at the Perelman School of Medicine, and our faculty's interdisciplinary research leads to new approaches to treating disease, which ultimately provides patients with most advanced, personalized care.

While undergoing the rigorous curriculum of 500 Hour YTTC, a well - nourished body and a well - fed soul is of the essence.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

«A rigorous curriculum, putting the right foundations in place, alongside high - quality assessments are the embodiment of that.

Standing for reform apparently means supporting rigorous testing, a back - to - basics curriculum, higher standards, more homework, more science and math, more phonics, something called accountability, and a host of other often daunting initiatives.

For Amy Wallace, a kindergarten and first - grade teacher from PS 142, on New York's Lower East Side, puppets have provided a welcome relief from the rigorous strictures of the public school curriculum.

The curricula of our higher education programs are rigorous and timely, with cases drawn from and learning applicable to the most pressing challenges the field faces today.

In every class, both core and elective curriculum, Trinidad Garza uses the six strategies from the Common Instructional Framework — collaborative group work, literacy groups, scaffolding, writing to learn, questioning, and classroom talk — to align their instruction, create a rigorous environment, and foster students who take ownership of their learning.

This was significant because computer science was not thought of as a rigorous subject discipline in the way that physics or chemistry were by DfE until the CAS curriculum appeared.

The Department for Education insists that every school must have a rigorous whole - school literacy policy which is implemented systematically across the curriculum, that all teachers view themselves as teachers of literacy and language regardless of their subject specialism and that all schools must do everything possible to ensure pupils can read.

Their schools offer a rigorous college - preparatory curriculum and a host of extracurricular activities aimed at helping them to become more competitive.

Today's schools must offer a rigorous academic curriculum to prepare their students for the rising skill demands of the modern economy (Levy and Murnane, 2004).

The curriculum and related instruction must be designed backward from an analysis of standards - based assessments; i.e., worthy performance tasks anchored by rigorous rubrics and annotated work samples.

Race to the Bottom Michael McGill Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate reform has actually weakened public schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing of «nonessentials» like art and languages.

Like the pre-2004 Sox, many educators have long resisted the kind of rigorous research and scientific analysis that could identify the curricula and teaching strategies most likely to help children succeed in school.

This model often mixes the children of English - speaking parents with ELLs, offering qualified teachers and a coherent, rigorous curriculum.

In the absence of more rigorous scientific research, the decision to adopt a curriculum like Investigations is being made on what the Times sportswriters would call «instinct and whim.»

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

Project - based, interdisciplinary learning requires teaching teams to integrate a theme or project into rigorous lesson plans from a variety of disciplines, and to coordinate delivery among teachers and across classrooms so that projects progress apace and students meet curriculum goals.

High schools may use a variety of methods to provide a «rigorous» curriculum that would allow their low - income graduates to qualify for a new federal college - grant program, the Department of Education announced last week.

After serving up the familiar justifications for high school reform (e.g., social costs, changing demographics, dropout factories), Wise sets forth a threadbare list of the 10 elements of a successful high school (rigorous curricula, skilled teachers, community involvement, and so forth).

The PSP curriculum is rigorous but flexible, structured in a way that focuses on the healthy development of children and adolescents.

And so that's why in this age of common core, ensuring that the curriculum is rigorous and aligns to the common core standards is more important than ever.»

Those precious resources were spent developing the EngageNY curriculum materials that schools and teachers in other states have eagerly downloaded in enormous numbers; rigorous exams that reflect real - world standards of proficiency in math and reading; and teacher certification standards that are now among the highest in the nation.