Sentences with phrase «place of academic growth»

Additionally, I have noticed that when I focus on building strong relationships with my students, they are more eager to perform well in the classroom out of respect for the relationship they have built with me, as well as respecting the classroom as a place of academic growth.

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States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

A greater emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring that all students achieve at least one year of academic growth each year, rather than on what the average test score for a class or grade is on an assessment.

A new report out today finds a 50 percent better academic growth rate at nearly 500 California schools, and all of it is the result of successful union - led reforms put in place as the result of a lawsuit by the California Teachers Association against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

And beyond academics, the pressure to learn every subject in English can easily turn school from a place of learning and growth to a place of stress and anxiety.

In order to support staff who fill in the gap of the academic, emotional and social growth of our children we must place children first and not adults.

«The Index will place additional emphasis on academic growth, evaluation of school climate through a robust chronic absenteeism measure, attention to both four - year and extended - year graduation rates, and assessments of postsecondary readiness.»

Kindergarten through fourth grade classrooms are joyful places of learning and tremendous academic and social growth.