Sentences with phrase «performing model schools»

Second, proportional growth measures provide useful system - wide instructional signals and allow underperforming schools to seek out high - performing model schools working in similar educational contexts.

Not exact matches

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Instead of facilitating the growth of high - performing alternative school models, Mayor de Blasio has continually opposed and obstructed their expansion.

The Daily News praises Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and teachers union president Michael Mulgrew for finding a compromise on teacher evaluations in 33 low - performing schools, saying it should be a model for all oSchools Chancellor Dennis Walcott and teachers union president Michael Mulgrew for finding a compromise on teacher evaluations in 33 low - performing schools, saying it should be a model for all oschools, saying it should be a model for all of them.

Conor Purcell from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Using the simulations performed with our climate model, we were able to demonstrate that the climate system can respond to small changes with abrupt climate swings.

He performed his post-doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on the gamma / delta T - cell receptor rearrangements and at Tufts University Medical School, investigating pathogenic Vbeta T - cell receptor usage in a mouse model of SLE.

Many of these models are based on new findings in brain research and cognitive development, and they embrace a variety of approaches: using the arts as a learning tool (for example, musical notes to teach fractions); incorporating arts into other core classes (writing and performing a play about, say, slavery); creating a school environment rich in arts and culture (Mozart in the hallways every day) and hands - on arts instruction.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

High school students using PBL in American studies performed as well on multiple - choice tests as students who received a traditional model of instruction, and they showed a deeper understanding of content (Gallagher & Stepien, 1996).

The lab set up four different models in four cities with low - performing urban school districts — Chicago, Dallas, New York City, and Washington, D.C. — and over two school years, handed out a total of $ 6.3 million to 38,000 students.

The first is an escalation support model where schools can select specific support or functions; this approach can be particularly beneficial where a network team is small and there is a clear gap in the technology knowledge required to perform a specific task, such as migration from Microsoft to Google.

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

Over the past several years, the federal government has begun providing money directly to high - performing charter management organizations, those that can document strong results, to replicate their models or to expand existing schools to serve additional grades.

For example, this year's first - year students are helping the Education Achievement Authority of Michigan implement a student - centered instructional model as a means of improving achievement in some of Detroit's lowest - performing schools.

What a school actually does — and how it performs its role to help children learn — rather than broad assumptions about the correct size, instructional program or governance model, should drive our efforts to ensure that these public schools are helping children succeed.

Today the Edwards is recognized as one of the highest - performing middle schools within the Boston Public Schools, and we have shared our school schedule as a national model fschools within the Boston Public Schools, and we have shared our school schedule as a national model fSchools, and we have shared our school schedule as a national model for ELT.

In 2007, Teso founded Voices College - Bound Language Academy, a high - performing K 8 charter school in San Jose that uses a modified dual - immersion model to teach English and Spanish.

Sessions on day one included staff at Dakabin State High School sharing details of their pedagogical framework and explicit instruction guide known as «The Hive» model, an update on a student voice program at Pakuranga College in New Zealand and a case study on collaborative professional learning at Campbelltown Performing Arts High School in New South Wales.

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

Using a very specific turnaround model, my organization, the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), has had success in transforming some of Chicago's poorest - performing schools.

Model two would deploy «behavior modification» accountability methods, refined through decades of public sector reform, to force low - performing schools and districts to set goals, assess effectiveness, and do better.

Model one would make transparent the performance of students across the nation, providing an X-ray to show parents, educators, and policymakers how different schools and groups are performing in key subjects.

When research was lacking, such as in elementary mathematics, we looked to the practices of high - performing nations, just as Abraham Flexner did in 1910 when he evaluated medical schools against the European model.

By contrast, the successful schools approach uses observed spending levels in the highest - performing schools as models from which to calculate necessary spending in other, lower - performing schools.

In the next 10 years I hope CMOs will evolve to operate in partnership with school districts that want to turn around low - performing schools and oversee a portfolio of different school - governance models.

Incorporating rich information on students» high school performance, placement test scores, and demographics, we developed statistical models to predict how remediated students would have performed had they been placed directly into college - level courses.

Stellar results posted by high - performing charters are dismissed, while New York City mayor Bill de Blasio invests hundreds of millions of dollars in his signature «renewal schools» model largely without success.

That path is a limited replication of No Excuses schools that rely on a very unusual labor pool (young, often work 60 + hours per week, often from top universities); the creation of many more charters that, on average, aren't different in performance from district schools; districts adopting «lite» versions of No Excuses models while pruning small numbers of very low performing teachers; and some amount of shift to online learning.

Then there are the African American parents we supported at School 93 in a low - income neighborhood of Indianapolis, who, after learning their school was one of the worst - performing in the state of Indiana, advocated to bring a proven local school - improvement model called Project Restore to their sSchool 93 in a low - income neighborhood of Indianapolis, who, after learning their school was one of the worst - performing in the state of Indiana, advocated to bring a proven local school - improvement model called Project Restore to their sschool was one of the worst - performing in the state of Indiana, advocated to bring a proven local school - improvement model called Project Restore to their sschool - improvement model called Project Restore to their schoolschool.

In the charter sector, in particular, closure is an essential part of the model: Schools are supposed to perform or lose their contracts.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

A new Achievement School District (ASD), modeled after those in Louisiana and Tennessee, is charged with transforming these very low - performing schools by taking in a small number (no more than six per year) and pairing them with successful charter networks, with the hope that they will return to district supervision once they're humming.

And as we are strive to evolve into trauma - informed schools and educators, we need to realize that the current model only allows a child to be labeled «a successful student» by how well she performs as a test taker and grade maker.

While many high - performing charter schools increase instructional time, the shared systematic model is unique in its focus on continuous personalized support.

«Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas proposed models that will support educational innovation while continuing to hold schools accountable for the goal of every student performing at or above grade level by 2014.

The truth is that even the nation's better - performing schools operate under an anachronistic model of schooling that could stand some sensible reforms.

Cullman County School System: In Alabama, SEDL provided training and technical assistance to staff of the Cullman County School System on the Concerns - Based Adoption Model through the Center for High - Performing Schools.

First, Noble's educational model is broadly consistent with the practices of high - performing charter schools, and our secondary analysis suggests that scaling and reproducing these results is feasible.

For its lowest - performing schools, states should take even stronger action, such as requiring the curriculum to be submitted to the state for review, sending teams to observe instruction and provide coaching (per Regenstein's inspectorate), developing a model curriculum (or placing online the curricula of high - performing schools), and / or offering professional development and courses to increase teachers» knowledge of the domains they should be teaching.

He pointed out that high - performing charter schools have adopted more prescriptive curricular models and pedagogies over time, and that «looking for a thousand flowers to bloom has a long and storied history of failure in American schooling.»

In contrast with conventional wisdom, growth models don't let too many poor - performing schools «off the hook.»

State, district, and school leaders must link arms to create a different model for turning around the worst - performing schools, including a «protected space» free from many traditional rules, a new report contends.

The Education Trust, for example, is urging states to use caution in choosing «comparative» growth models, including growth percentiles and value - added measures, because they don't tell us whether students are making enough progress to hit the college - ready target by the end of high school, or whether low - performing subgroups are making fast enough gains to close achievement gaps.

Based on Fryer's research on effective schooling models, the Apollo 20 program implemented the following best practices of high - performing charters:

This plan, announced in September last year, sought to place Australian students amongst the top five highest performing nations in rigorous international performance tests through a combination of additional, targeted funding using a model mirroring the Gonski proposal, new initiatives in teacher training and accountability, personalised student learning plans, greater school autonomy, and a raft of other Commonwealth initiatives.

As part of his recent research on models of effective schooling, Fryer identified five practices that largely explain significant student achievement gains in high - performing charter schools.

Principals, as school leaders, need classroom performance information to fulfill their role as manager and determine how individual staff members are performing and who needs help and who might take on a model role for others.

Prior to joining NCTR, Carrie supported School Improvement Grant (SIG) schools, which rank among the lowest 5 % of performing schools in the state, to implement the transformation model for school improvSchool Improvement Grant (SIG) schools, which rank among the lowest 5 % of performing schools in the state, to implement the transformation model for school improvschool improvement.

This is why we seek out, vet, and support innovative leaders and high - performing school models; «20 in 10» schools are quality by design.

While it's understandable why school districts and others may want to claim a particular school works given pressure to perform (and pressure on balance is good in that it has led to some great new effective school models), we all have to be far more careful in not reinforcing false claims before having more substantial evidence that a school is working.