Sentences with phrase «participating pilot school»

Details for 2018 - 2019 will depend upon participating pilot school systems.

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More than 1,400 student athletes from five pilot schools — George Washington High School in San Francisco, Overfelt High School in San Jose, Berkeley High School, Carlmont High School in Belmont, and Milpitas High School — will be participating in four defined modules from the Dignity Health Concussion Network.
Schools can participate by calling or emailing OSPI Child Nutrition Services: (360) 725-6204 Fill out the USDA Pilot Project School Application Form OSPI will work with you to help you determine how much entitlement you would like to set aside, and making the allocation.
The evaluation revealed that the nutrition integrity project had a positive impact beyond the schools that participated in the pilot; once the benefits of combi ovens were explained and publicized, other schools wanted to follow suit, either through the program or by finding other creative ways to finance their purchases.
Now, more than a dozen schools throughout Brooklyn are participating in the «Meatless Mondays» pilot program across the city, starting in the spring 2018 semester.
Almost two decades later, Meltzer, out of a wheelchair and walking without a cane, was one of 14 women with moderate disability due to MS who participated in a pilot trial conducted by the Rutgers School of Health Related Professions.
As one of 10 (now 26) Massachusetts schools initially participating in a first - of - its - kind, statewide pilot initiative that allows schools to expand hours by 30 percent, the Edwards School is being watched around the country.
Seven schools (six secondary and one primary) participated in the individual school - industry pilot projects.
For the prototype phase, Intrinsic staged two pilots during school holidays, borrowing the multipurpose areas of neighborhood schools, where teachers could interact with students who volunteered to participate.
It began in November 2016 as a pilot across 10 districts, and has since rolled out nationally across England with over 1,400 schools participating following positive feedback from teachers and pupils.
In order to improve implementation of the NCLB law, President George W. Bush's second secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, allowed states to apply to participate in pilot projects to try out changes to the law, including a growth - model pilot that let states consider student progress in rating schools instead of comparing different cohorts of students to one another.
• Allow for participating LEAs and schools to request flexibility from state requirements necessary for the success of their competency - based education efforts throughout the pilot or innovation program process, rather than limiting those requests only to the time of initial application.
• Ensure that all students within a participating school are included in the pilot and that participating districts and schools pay appropriate attention to the needs of different subgroups in designing policies to make them as equitable as possible.
Six of the nine states participating in the U.S. Department of Education's growth - model pilot project provided information to the EPE Research Center detailing the number of schools making adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under...
The Dallas school board last month approved Superintendent Marvin E. Edwards's initial list of 10 schools to participate in a pilot site - based - decisionmaking program.
Meanwhile, the Denver Public Schools and the Denver Teachers Association have captured attention for agreeing to a two - year pilot of a program that ties pay for all teachers in participating schools to student performance and to further teacher eduSchools and the Denver Teachers Association have captured attention for agreeing to a two - year pilot of a program that ties pay for all teachers in participating schools to student performance and to further teacher eduschools to student performance and to further teacher education.
We had 25 high schools participate in the pilot administration of the OECD Test for Schools (based onschools participate in the pilot administration of the OECD Test for Schools (based onSchools (based on PISA).
The focus of the firm's multiyear studies has been on dozens of public and private K - 12 schools participating in a pilot laptop program sponsored jointly by the Microsoft and Toshiba corporations.
An independent evaluation of a three - year pilot of the effective - schools concept throughout the state found that the greatest improvements occurred among students in the primary, elementary, and middle schools, rather than in the high schools, participating in the project.
There is also some non-experimental evidence that an initiative in New York City under Mayor Bloomberg — which brought together a dozen city agencies to institute a pilot program that had many features considered best practices in truancy reduction — reduced absenteeism rates among poor children in participating schools.
He thought the initiative was a great complement to the Modesto City School District's Safe Schools Project (which teaches civic responsibility as a way of creating more respectful learning environments) and urged principals to consider writing a grant to participate in the pilot project.
Building on an initiative piloted this school year in Virginia, participating districts could offer students a choice of supplemental educational services, or SES, a year before having to provide the option of transferring to a higher - performing school.
An additional four more primary schools will participate in the pilot in September.
About 47 % of charter middle school applicants and 31 % of pilot middle school applicants switch schools at some point after the lottery in which they participated.
Students were classified as pilot applicants if they listed a pilot school that participates in the BPS assignment mechanism as a first choice.
Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.
Elsewhere, students participating in the Kansas Reading Initiative — a two - year pilot blended - learning program that provides Lexia Learning's Lexia Reading Core5 at no cost to the participating schools so long as they meet and maintain minimum usage requirements, which cleverly insures some implementation fidelity — saw dramatic gains in the first year of the initiative with roughly 20 % — or 225 — of elementary schools in the state participating.
Practically no state was using a growth model to hold schools accountable for the progress students made each year rather than just their final proficiency rates until the Bush Administration specifically invited states to participate in a pilot program.
Copyright 1988 The study looked at student achievement in the 16 school systems participating in the three - year - old pilot program, which seeks to improve the teaching force through incentives, performance - based pay, and improved evaluation techniques.
In return for this flexibility, states participating in the pilot must commit to: build their capacity for school reform; take the most significant actions for the lowest - performing schools, including addressing the issue of teacher effectiveness; and use data to determine the method of differentiation and categories of intervention.
Two schools are currently participating in the robot pilot: Dacusville Middle School (Easley, SC) and Lead Academy Charter School (Greenville, SC).
While a LIS school can ask its teachers to sign a «commitment to the plan» that expects them to put in extra work and participate in professional development, the agreement doesn't have the same enforcement power that pilot school elect - to - work agreements have.
Also, Newton - Conover City Schools, one of two North Carolina school systems participating in a state pilot program raising the minimum dropout age to 18, reported historically low numbers.
The school, called «N.C. Virtual Academy,» will be one of two virtual charters (the other backed by education behemoth Pearson) to participate in a four - year pilot program enacted by lawmakers last year.
Burlington Public Schools will be participating in piloting learning projects for school day cancellations.
Luckily, the school had identified these problems and were keen to make some changes, so chose to participate in the pilot of Teach First's Careers and Employability Leadership Programme (CELP) and chose me to lead it.
Virginia will participate in the U.S. Department of Education (USED) Green Ribbon Schools pilot program that recognizes schools where staff, students, officials and communities have worked together to produce energy efficient, sustainable and healthy school environments and to ensure the sustainability and environmental literacy of graSchools pilot program that recognizes schools where staff, students, officials and communities have worked together to produce energy efficient, sustainable and healthy school environments and to ensure the sustainability and environmental literacy of graschools where staff, students, officials and communities have worked together to produce energy efficient, sustainable and healthy school environments and to ensure the sustainability and environmental literacy of graduates.
Seventy five of North Carolina's 115 school districts have submitted teacher compensation proposals to the General Assembly with the hope of participating in a pilot program that would reward highly effective teachers with bonuses.
Pilot schools have some charter - like autonomy over curriculum, budget and staffing, but participate as full members of the district.
We began our shift to Common Core standards two years ago, and participated in the pilot run of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium at the end of the 2013 - 2014 school year.
This represented all 15 school sites in the district that participated in the PSP pilot.
We piloted Louisiana Believes ELA units during the 2016 - 17 school year and participating teachers expressed an overwhelming positive impact on their time, instruction, and, in turn, student learning.
Fifteen pilot schools from districts in Michigan participated in a day of Safe & Civil Schools training in October of 2014 to address chronic absence and tschools from districts in Michigan participated in a day of Safe & Civil Schools training in October of 2014 to address chronic absence and tSchools training in October of 2014 to address chronic absence and truancy.
Schools may apply to participate in a pilot program to receive intensive support (coordination, professional development, funding, etc) for implementation of restorative practices and have the option to designate Restorative Practice Residents.
Superintendent Larry Shumway and Deputy Superintendent Martel Menlove have been gathering feedback from faculty at the five schools participating in the Performance Based Compensation Pilot Program.
The pilot was a qualitative evaluation of the Visible Classroom approach based on 27 semi-structured interviews with staff in participating schools, and two classroom observation visits.
The short - lived pilot ends after this school year, when participating teachers will receive differentiated pay based on their performance according to the plan developed for the pilot program.
Six low - performing Boston schools participating in a pilot program that gives teachers more training, support, and leadership roles are showing higher growth on state tests than other low - performing city schools...
Two Education for Change Public Schools charters and two traditional Oakland district schools are participating in a K - 2 pilot literacy program called «Springboard» that provides incentives for children to read and trains parents to read to their chSchools charters and two traditional Oakland district schools are participating in a K - 2 pilot literacy program called «Springboard» that provides incentives for children to read and trains parents to read to their chschools are participating in a K - 2 pilot literacy program called «Springboard» that provides incentives for children to read and trains parents to read to their children.
Of the 12 school districts that participated in the pilot program, the School District of Philadelphia was the first to successfully achieve LEED for Existing Buildings certificschool districts that participated in the pilot program, the School District of Philadelphia was the first to successfully achieve LEED for Existing Buildings certificSchool District of Philadelphia was the first to successfully achieve LEED for Existing Buildings certification.
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