Sentences with phrase «over high school curricula»

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The episodes will be disseminated to New England high school classrooms with the help of Harvard's Life Sciences Outreach (LSO) Program; on the website of the Amgen Biotech Experience, a curriculum that is implemented by over 70,000 students nationally and internationally; and by leveraging the considerable PR power of Harvard and the other institutions the team visits.

To mark the centennial of the bird's extinction, From Billions to None was a key part of Project Passenger Pigeon, a group of over 160 cooperating institutions that mounted multi-media outreach initiatives throughout 2014, including the creation of a high school curriculum, down - loadable museum exhibits, and numerous activities across the United States and Canada.

A staple of high school curricula all over the world, reading this book is a rite of passage, with the theme of modern alienation striking a chord with readers for over sixty years.

The article says that over the next several years the nea will spend $ 600,000 and involve the faculties of 29 elementary, middle, and high schools in an effort to review literature, identify objectives, and eventually develop curricula and programs in a number of subject areas.

But the bulk of the city's school reforms over the past decade have focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high school attendance.

The team and schools in Havering helped to ensure that the resources were on the button in terms of content and ease of use, and over 6,500 schools nationally now use the resources to deliver a high quality computing curriculum to primary children.

The report, two years in the making, calls on America's high schools to evolve into smaller communities where students and adults know each other well, the curriculum emphasizes depth over breadth, and a flexible, active learning process replaces the factory - era model of teachers lecturing to rows of students.

Some of the gems here include a resource guide for environmental and marine science teachers, wetland activities, a resource guide for oceanography, and coastal processes: developed for elementary, middle, and high school teachers, The «marinated» classroom: a sourcebook of aquatic activities for the elementary classroom and another for the secondary classroom, water on the web: integrating real - time data into educational curricula over the internet and coastal capers: a marine education primer.

Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Dr David Zyngier, has called upon the new Education Minister to dump Christopher Pyne's proposed Higher Education reforms, replace religious chaplains in schools with well - trained and professional welfare officers, and to end the «culture war» over the National Curriculum by replacing education policy adviser Dr Kevin Donnelly.

For a high school, the context is different — and the curriculum is very different — but the user - focused approach and the willingness to tinker and try is sure to carry over in the following four practices.

The next step should be around delivering high quality education and training across the curriculum, covering all the issues schools need to talk to their pupils about which might be over and above what's been outlined in the framework.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.

«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inschool integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK inSchool in Little Rock, AK in 1957.

Over the past four years, I have found the curriculum at his specialized high school to be spotty, the teaching quality uneven, and the AP classes limited in availability.

«This question has been glossed over as long as the AP has been perceived as basically good — a lot like collegiate introductory courses and not ideologically influenced — and the rest of the high - school curriculum has been seen as so flawed.»

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

To proclaim that one test and one set of curriculum standards, the Common Core, can provide meaningful data about whether a child is college and career ready, that is, ready to attend one of the over 4,400 colleges and universities in the US or pursue one of the tens of thousands of careers that exist or those that don't but will by the time this year's preschool class, the class or 2029 or 2030 graduates high school, is educationally bankrupt.

The empirical evidence simply does not support the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards and high stakes testing as effective tools to improve the education and life outcomes of over 56 million public school students in the third most populous country on the planet.

Jelani began his career in education reform 11 years ago as a community organizer and youth worker at Mikva Challenge, where he developed curriculum to train teachers in grass roots activism and supported over 5,000 high school students» activism projects.

At Fenway High School in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and refleSchool in Boston, an in - district Pilot school with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and refleschool with freedom over curriculum and assessment, the curriculum often embraces critical pedagogy, or examining problems within social contexts and power structures, taking constructive action, and reflecting.

As the Obama administration calls on schools to stop obsessing over standardized tests, Brooklyn Ascend High is rolling out a liberal arts curriculum that promotes critical thinking over exam prep.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

The National Math and Science Initiative, the Northrup Grumman Foundation and Hill Air Force Base partnered to donate $ 1.7 million for science, technology, engineering and math education and training, with most of the money targeted for college readiness curriculums at Syracuse and Northridge high schools over the next three years.

In our monograph entitled Building Towards Mastery, which is part of a series capturing practices and tools that support deeper learning for overage and under - credited adolescents at transfer schools across New York City, we share how Bronx Arena High School developed a mastery - based curriculum that empowered students to take ownership over their own learning, overcome their challenges, and achieve success in college and careers.

And some are blaming high schools for the shortage for narrowing the curriculum to focus on college readiness over career training.

Carol Baker is the former director of curriculum over science in Oak Lawn - based Community High School District 218 and became a grade school superintendent in west suburban Lyons inSchool District 218 and became a grade school superintendent in west suburban Lyons inschool superintendent in west suburban Lyons in July.

Prior to joining DreamBox, he spent over 10 years in public education, first as a high school math teacher and then as the Mathematics Curriculum Coordinator for a K — 12 school system of over 17,000 students, where he also helped facilitate the system's long - range strategic planning efforts.

The district has taken significant steps to expand the advanced and higher learning opportunities for all of its students (over 6,600), including reducing tracking for many courses All fourth - and fifth - grade students now benefit from the English Language Arts enrichment program and the district is in the second year of phasing in the rigorous, inquiry - based curriculum in its new International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Program to prepare its students for college preparatory courses at the high school.

We offer a full suite of Idaho virtual learning courses that includes over 300 core curriculum, AP ®, honors, dual credit, credit recovery, and elective courses for middle and high school students.

We have heard the call from communities to better align our high school and elementary curricula; to strengthen our traditional neighborhood schools through programs such as International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes and STEM; and create opportunities for more students to attend Selective Enrollment schools, Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, and service leadership schools These investments respond to those calls and build on several years of progress in which CPS has provided over $ 33 million for CTE, IB, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs.

We offer a full suite of Maryland virtual learning courses that includes over 300 core curriculum, AP ®, honors, elective, dual credit, and concept and credit recovery courses for middle and high school students.

It is a theme high school in which students stay with a group of teachers over integrated curriculum cycles to create a supportive learning environment.

The CSC is aligned to Pillar One of the District's Action Plan, «High Standards, Rigorous Curriculum, and Powerful Instruction,» and is part of a larger initiative that provides supports ans scaffolding for schools to move up certification categories over time.

Insight Education Group has been partnering with schools and districts for over 17 years on the things that make schools great — excellent teachers and leaders, demanding curricula, high - quality instruction, and engaged students.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schoOver a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schoover emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

Once we * do * address poverty (with more than selfishness, denial and resignation), the next steps to excellent education for all (that is, great public schools) are also obvious and proven (over and over and over): 1) Sufficient & equitable funding 2) Decent facilities 3) Strong teacher training 4) An end to reliance on high - stakes assessments that narrow the curriculum & reduce instruction to drill - and - test tedium

Started in 1995 at Dallas» The Winston School, this year's event will attract over eighteen teams of high - school students who have completed a two - year curriculum culminating in the construction of a solar - powereSchool, this year's event will attract over eighteen teams of high - school students who have completed a two - year curriculum culminating in the construction of a solar - powereschool students who have completed a two - year curriculum culminating in the construction of a solar - powered car.

The curriculum vitae that Dr. Michaels submitted with his written testimony is lengthy, listing over one hundred publications and speaking engagements before audiences ranging from the United States Congress to academic institutions to local Rotary Clubs and high school students.

Developing a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for middle schools and high schools that is now in 131 schools and reaching over 30,000 students.