Sentences with phrase «pilot schools develop»

Many pilot schools develop and advertise a curriculum with a distinctive emphasis or focus, such as technology or the arts.

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He noticed there was an opportunity to develop such modules, as well as virtual reality simulators, for so - called «ground school» training for helicopter pilots or the maintenance crews working on military airplanes such as the Royal Canadian Air Force's Hercules transport.

Adopted by the State Board of Education, the action guide includes lessons learned from the state's school nutrition policy pilot projects to help inform districts in implementing and developing their wellness policies.

Fullbloom Baking Company is owned by an amazing woman, Karen Trilevsky, who worked for months with the help of her team to develop recipes for the pilot universal breakfast program in the Berkeley Unified School District.

To reverse this trend, this year Hoosick Falls Central School (HFCS) is piloting its College Completion Project, a program that introduces students to career options and helps them develop the skills and the knowledge necessary to successfully complete post - secondary studies and attain a degree or professional certification.

The IVC program will be developed for middle and high school classrooms and be piloted in Central Ohio.

Pupils» questions around what life as a spy was like, how do codes work and where were the secret operatives based, were all answered through the teaching activities piloted and developed in collaboration with Godolphin Junior School, in Slough, Berkshire.

This report, developed by Catherine Awsumb Nelson, synthesizes the findings of a four - year evaluation of the A + Schools Program pilot in 25 North Carolina Schools.

We developed a pilot version of the game and trialled it with a number of schools - nine out of ten players wanted to learn more about coding after playing, which makes us very excited about the response from other schools going forward!»

In 2016, the GLC initiated a pilot project to develop practitioner action research to investigate problems of practice identified by each school in their strategic planning documents.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & UccePilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccepilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Developed in the early 1990s, both charter and pilot schools are similar in their goals — to improve student progress and help close the achievement gap.

In the second phase, we will develop, pilot, and evaluate innovative, scalable assessment strategies in high schools to be utilized in the admissions process.

«The Word Generation program has proven so useful and accessible to schools in part because it was developed by our curriculum team in collaboration with Boston Public School teachers, who helped us brainstorm topics and pilot early units,» says Snow.

This summer, Wang has been writing for The Atlantic, developing her website, and trying to raise money to fund a two - week pilot program that would send two teams of Harvard College juniors from The Crimson and the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School to schools in Mississippi during the January break.

As part of a new approach supported by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Stephanie Jones and the Ecological Approaches to Social Emotional Learning Laboratory (EASEL) will develop and pilot a new set of evidence - based kernels of practice — strategies and activities that have potential to promote specific, positive behavior changes.

The concrete strategies we will develop and pilot through this grant are a way to provide a low - cost, flexible, and personalized approach that enables providers to select only those activities that best fit the learning styles, skill levels, interests, and goals of their classrooms and schools.»

After piloting Brain Games in schools and classrooms, the next phase will focus on developing kernels that target other SEL skills, such as perspective taking, empathy, and emotion understanding.

eSmart: Following a successful pilot (involving 164 government and non-government schools in urban, rural and remote regions around Australia), this cybersafety program (developed with the assistance of the Alannah and Madeline Foundation) is now being rolled out nationwide.

For example, in 2012, Long Beach City College (LBCC) in California was one of the first to develop and pilot an alternative placement algorithm based on high school coursework and grades, which increased the proportion of students placing directly into college - level coursework by 21 percentage points in math and 56 percentage points in English, without significantly lowering the average performance of students in these courses.

A pilot scheme was launched in 2009 at Orford Primary School, Suffolk, and now almost 300 schools across the UK have joined the project, which extends beyond the curriculum by encouraging a greater understanding of food and nutrition that will develop a lifetime of healthy eating habits and can be passed down to future generations.

The group last month completed a pilot test of the two - semester, 160 - hour program of instruction in chemistry and physics that it is developing in conjunction with a dozen secondary schools across the state.

During the pilot we will work with four schools from inner - city Sydney and Western Sydney to test some of the content we have developed.

We did some whole school sample work and some pilot studies and, in a nutshell, our kids weren't writing enough — which meant that our teachers weren't planning enough low stakes writing for opportunities for them to actually develop their skills.

We are piloting and implementing new resources, interventions, and strategies that enable us to apply our messages in homes, schools, and other settings, as well as gather information that will help us further refine and develop our media messages.

The two year pilot will begin in September 2015 and see Nuffield Health invest significantly into the school, providing state - of - the - art fitness facilities and equipment and developing a wellbeing strategy, in collaboration with the school, to meet their individual needs and those of their community.

Ultimately, the goal is to draw upon the pilots that have been completed to date to further develop, refine, and test a set of kernels that can be deployed and effectively integrated into the structures and daily practices of schools and schooling.

CEPR, under the direction of Heather Hill, is leading the measurement study which will develop and pilot a survey for districts and school leaders, and field responses from a nationally representative sample.

This spring we are pilot testing the first 5,000 items and tasks we have developed with about a million students, engaging more than 5,200 schools drawn from all 21 of our governing states.

Two groups of university - based researchers, working independently, have developed models for giving schools financial incentives to improve students» test scores, and one of the schemes will be pilot - tested in Tennessee beginning this year.

The PDE has also proposed several new initiatives worth watching as they develop, including: a statewide teacher recruitment initiative aimed at high school students; a pathway to teaching specifically for paraprofessionals; pilot programs for improving mentoring and induction; and initiatives to improve the diversity of the workforce.60

Pemberton Township was one of several school districts selected by the Department of Education to serve as a pilot to develop and test both the teacher and principal evaluation metrics.

This spring, about 600 schools across the state will pilot parts of a new end - of - year exam developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a group of states working together to develop new computer - based assessments aligned to the new standards that they hope will test deeper understanding of concepts.

They have announced the launch of a Small Schools Pilot, with the help of Annabel Karmel, The Local Authority Catering Association and an alliance of other public and private sector bodies, which will aim to develop a scalable a model that:

The Small Schools Taskforce aims to use a pilot to focus on developing one possible solution.

This pilot, funded by the Sunflower Foundation: Health Care for Kansans, Topeka, Kansas is seeking to identify the resources needed and barriers encountered in the process of developing school environments, policies, and practices more supportive of healthy eating and physical activity choices.

From there, Stacey joined the Board of Trustees for Leadership High School, a high - achieving public school and became an Education Pioneer fellow developing quality community pilot schools for Oakland UnSchool, a high - achieving public school and became an Education Pioneer fellow developing quality community pilot schools for Oakland Unschool and became an Education Pioneer fellow developing quality community pilot schools for Oakland Unified.

LEAP Innovations leader of the national community of practice, the Learning Assembly — collaborated on and recently released a comprehensive toolkit to help educators, schools and districts, and edtech companies successfully develop, implement and assess edtech and personalized learning pilots.

Together, they developed a framework now being revised and piloted by a consortium of six school districts across the state (Attleboro, Boston, Lowell, Revere, Somerville, and Winchester).

Before we know which states will follow New Hampshire's Performance Assessment for Competency Education (PACE) pilot or develop other models, states, districts, and schools can begin to lay the groundwork needed.

Using Cognitive Labs - Video Links (2018) These 4 video segments were developed in conjunction with the NH PACE project to illustrate how to pilot a new performance assessment with a small number of students before using it school or district wide.

Beginning in 2013, Leading Educators worked with Denver Public Schools (DPS) to deliver a series of trainings for DPS - identified teacher leaders in new, differentiated roles and developed cohort - building activities during year one of the district's Teacher Leader Teams pilot.

To prevent the closure, Bahnam worked with an outside organization and a 21 - member school - based design team, comprised of parents, students, teachers, and administrators to develop a proposal and petition the district for Pilot school status.

Build on lessons learned during the spring or summer pilot to develop pilots in their home schools for the 2016 — 17 school year.

Through the generosity of the Harry Howard Foundation, the PBPF continues to develop a pilot program providing after - school academic and enrichment programs

The Michigan State School Aid Act allocates funding for MIBLSI to pilot a program that will develop, enhance, and expand statewide systems of support for intermediate school districts and schools implementing an evidence - based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all stuSchool Aid Act allocates funding for MIBLSI to pilot a program that will develop, enhance, and expand statewide systems of support for intermediate school districts and schools implementing an evidence - based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all stuschool districts and schools implementing an evidence - based, multi-tiered behavioral framework for improving behavioral outcomes and learning conditions for all students.

The Success Highways intervention was developed based on 20 years of research at the University of Wisconsin and a seven - year pilot program in an urban school district.

Eight school districts and one educational service district were selected to develop and implement teacher evaluation systems over a two - year pilot period under E2SSB 6696.

Teacher evaluations: Requires the commissioner, in consultation with UConn's Neag School of Education, to administer a teacher evaluation pilot program in 10 districts — five using the teacher evaluation framework developed earlier this year and approved by the State Board of Education, and five using a new model to be developed by Neag.»

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.