Sentences with phrase «pilots in a few schools»

We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.

Not exact matches

Few of the people who apply to flying schools actually get in — Quebec schools, for instance, only train around 150 to 200 pilots a year, according to Service Canada.

Rather than asking her to make what could be a very expensive permanent change in the food at your school, ask her to do a pilot program for a few weeks; if the pilot is successful, it can be made permanent.

Making the switch for a few weeks, in a pilot program at one school, allows the opportunity to see what happens before going district wide, and also to try innovative strategies for maintaining participation.

«These aren't pilot programs that help a lucky few; they are foundational changes that will lift up schools in every neighborhood,» said Mayor Bill de Blasio at the announcement, which can be seen in the video below.

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.

In the past few years, a number of states have created and funded pilot programs to experiment with the concept of school restructuring.

The pilot estimation sample includes only students who listed a pilot school first on their BPS assignment form (few students who did not do so end up in a pilot school).

Since 2006, our grantees and partners have expanded Linked Learning from a small demonstration in a few high schools to pilot Linked Learning in nine districts across the state, and then to a rapidly growing movement to fundamentally transform high school in scores of districts serving hundreds of thousands of California youth.

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CVUSD has piloted a restorative justice program at one high school and one middle school over the past school year and plans to launch a pilot at a few elementary schools in the next school year.

The school has been teaching Engineering is Elementary curriculum at higher grades for a few years, but West's class is now one of about 30 in the country - and the only one in Connecticut - piloting the new kindergarten curriculum.

AF plans to pilot a few new «Greenfield» ideas this fall at existing schools, then start creating the new model in earnest in 2015.

State officials plan to work collaboratively to develop the model, and then pilot it in a few traditional school districts and charter schools later this year.

One means of overcoming these obstacles might be to pilot policies promoting CRP in a few schools before implementing them district - wide.

Okay, well this year's pretty exciting for us here at Creative Play, we've been picked as 1 in 4 in Victoria for a pilot program for the resource «SMART» which is a spinoff of the Aussie program that has been running in primary schools for the last few years.

Teachers at the Hernández School piloted the Second Step Program in a few classrooms.