Sentences with phrase «on academic expectations»

Camp Counselor 6/1/2011 — 8/1/2011 Athens Elite Summer Camp — Athens, GA Helped campers get a head start on academic expectations for the following school year.

I focus on academic expectations, communication, parental engagement, student engagement, and school safety, finding suggestive evidence that after charter school entry, parents report significantly higher student engagement and parents in co-located schools also report significantly higher perceptions of school safety.

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The conversation made an impression on Nicole, who is the president and founder of The Expectations Project, a national organization that mobilizes people of faith to support public education reform and close the academic achievement gap.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

It is a platform where industry, academics, NGO's, media and government come together to explore, share and experiment with practical ways in which expectations can be achieved on sugar and other health impacts, whilst looking ahead and creating a roadmap to future industry advances.

Dr. Jerry's popular speeches, lectures and seminars have presented assemblies of students, teachers, parents and administrators with practical approaches on how today's teens can overcome the trials and tribulations of growing up, from coping with bullying to meeting parental academic expectations to walking away from drugs and other self - destructive behaviors.

And that was on top of the stress of incredibly high academic expectations, which I was just encountering — that was my first semester.

Parental expectations have the largest impact on academic achievement.

Public and Private schools on Monday resumed for the 2nd term academic session in Osun State, with high expectations from stakeholders, DAILY POST observes.

Even though I have followed my academics with all the seriousness it deserved, and was mindful of my performance, I was not with much expectations on this day.

In this way, we seek to avoid the two - sided performer - user pitfall that we have observed in earlier and related federal agency endeavors to promote research / knowledge utilization: on the one hand, requiring or inducing academic grantees to torque or overstate their research findings in order to connect to immediate policy issues; on the other hand, creating unrealistic or premature expectations on the part of users that early stage fundamental research will be directly relevant to their immediate needs, leading them to be disappointed or disenchanted when well conceived and implemented academic studies fail to produce such information.

The study, published in the journal Science Communications, remains one of the few in the academic literature to systematically assess mass media reporting based on the expectations of researchers, reporters and the average reader.

However, a declining interest in a faculty research career may also imply a greater divergence between students» interests on the one hand, and the academic orientation of traditional PhD curricula as well as advisor expectations on the other [8].

He doubts a similar breakthrough could be achieved in today's academic culture, because of the expectations on academics to collaborate and keep churning out papers.

This series — launched in September 2004 — examines the new approaches to leadership in education at a time of increasing academic expectations on schools.

Its explicit goal is increasing college enrollment by combining an emphasis on factors proven to bolster academic success (high expectations, parental involvement, time spent on instruction) with a novel focus on developing seven character strengths — zest, grit, self - control, optimism, curiosity, gratitude, and social intelligence.

But California's recent efforts to set academic standards have turned expectations on their head.

Similar to setting high academic expectations, most students will depend on adult support to keep their engagement level high.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

But they felt they got to a whole new place and turned a corner when they came to see they had a hidden commitment to what they called «a povrecito culture,» a culture that took pity on these «poor little ones» by not heaping upon them the further «burden» of high academic expectations.

culture,» a culture that took pity on these «poor little ones» by not heaping upon them the further «burden» of high academic expectations.

Stipek found that children in didactic, content - centered programs generally do better on measures of academic skill than do children in child - centered classrooms, while children in child - centered classrooms worry less about school and have higher expectations for success than children in content - centered classrooms.

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

«On the other hand, often in a low - SES school for example, the focus is more on, if you like, student welfare, wellbeing — rather than the academic side — and people have low expectations for those students.&raquOn the other hand, often in a low - SES school for example, the focus is more on, if you like, student welfare, wellbeing — rather than the academic side — and people have low expectations for those students.&raquon, if you like, student welfare, wellbeing — rather than the academic side — and people have low expectations for those students.»

The highest - performing charters are those that that have most fully embraced a «no excuses» approach to teaching and learning; have created strong school cultures based on explicit expectations for both academic achievement and behavior; have an intensive focus on literacy and numeracy as the first foundation for academic achievement; feature a relatively heavy reliance on direct instruction and differentiated grouping, especially in the early grades; and are increasingly focused on comprehensive student assessment systems.

Could a charter middle school with high academic expectations and an emphasis on project - based STEM learning find footing in the district?

Most notably, schools with higher levels of per - pupil GCSE arts entries got above average results in the EBacc, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, suggesting that the best state secondary schools in England are those that combine high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus on the arts.

Those schools that combine high expectations in a core of academic subjects with a strong focus on the arts have consistently been getting above average results.

Stanford University Emeritus Mathematics Professor R. James Milgram — the only academic mathematician on Common Core» s validation committee — refused to sign off on the final draft, describing the standards as having «extremely serious failings» and reflecting «very low expectations.»

Before NCLB, the education establishment thought it fine, even appropriate, to set different academic expectations for kids based on their ethnicity, zip code, or parents» income.

On Top of the News States Still Differ Dramatically In Their Academic Expectations, Study Finds 7/9/15 Huffington Post

Decades of research on effective schools conclusively demonstrates that setting high standards and expectations for all children, but especially those most at - risk of academic failure, creates a more positive, inclusive school culture and raises their level of achievement.

Loveless concludes: «The past two decades of education reform in the U.S. have focused on ratcheting up expectations through standards and testing and holding schools accountable for academic progress.

On the other hand, the CCSS can facilitate policies that are good for gifted learners, such as academic acceleration, which depends on clear expectations of what students should know and be able to do at specific grade levelOn the other hand, the CCSS can facilitate policies that are good for gifted learners, such as academic acceleration, which depends on clear expectations of what students should know and be able to do at specific grade levelon clear expectations of what students should know and be able to do at specific grade levels.

Finally, I provide the first evidence on how charter school entry may be related to changes in teacher perceptions of practices at district schools along five indexes: academic expectations, communication, engagement, school respect and discipline, and school safety.

Many teacher evaluation programs refer to high academic expectations by using language on specific qualities such as these from the CCT Rubric for effective teaching:

Character and Leadership Development — Character development is considered a fundamental purpose of education and will be fostered through a child - centered educational model built on high behavioral and academic expectations.

With high academic expectations, we build on the strengths of each child.

KIPP schools have clearly defined and measurable high expectations for academic achievement and conduct that make no excuses based on the background of students.

A common set of academic expectations among states would help DoDEA students, Tamaria said: Post reassignments and deployments don't operate on a school calendar and children in military families often scramble to catch up academically.

It's rare that academic expectations get as much attention as they have here in Indiana — but for the average parent or interested outsider, it's hard to have an opinion on a debate that's so full of jargon and nuance.

Parents across the country are trying to make sense of Common Core standards, a set of academic expectations that call for less focus on memorization and more focus on explaining how solutions were found and, in English, a deep probe of text.

The academic curriculum is based on State of Michigan benchmarks with additional expectations added.

These schools are hugely popular with parents, who are drawn by high academic and behavioral expectations, the more intimate environment that charters typically offer and their focus on results.

State education officials released drafts of new academic standards to the public late Wednesday night, kicking off a three - week period for parents and educators to offer feedback on the next set of expectations for Indiana schools.

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

«What we know about Great Expectations is it has a positive impact on student attendance, and a positive impact on academic performance,» Stafford said.

My next article will continue this series with focus on some of the common unrealistic academic expectations many new college students hold.

The biggest academic challenges she is likely to face are course expectations and — depending on where she goes to school — exit exam requirements, and those are largely independent of Common Core tests.