Sentences with phrase «promotes academic achievement for all students»

The findings can have important implications for policymakers, teachers and school administrators who wish to promote academic achievement for students.

«This appointment supports my deep commitment to generating knowledge to advance the field's ability to promote the academic achievement for all students in urban schools, especially English - language learners,» Lesaux said.

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In her first year on the job, Jewell - Sherman launched Excellence for All, a comprehensive plan aimed at improving teaching and learning to enable students to reach high academic standards, and promoting involvement with the community as a way of addressing nonacademic barriers to student achievement.

Advocates of accountability insist that high standards for all students are necessary to promote academic growth and spur achievement to levels heretofore unseen.

Schools realize the importance of SEL and / or character for their broader purposes of developing the whole student, fostering academic achievement, promoting positive behavior, and creating a positive culture and climate for learning.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Prior to her service in the presidential administration of President Barack Obama, Ericka was Vice President for Operations and Strategic Leadership at the Education Trust, a nationally recognized research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting high academic achievement of all students, kindergarten through college.

The UFT Teacher Center, now in its 40th year, is a comprehensive professional development program that promotes educator excellence and academic achievement for all students.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Teachers — the main connection to schools for many students and parents — play a pivotal role in promoting academic achievement as well as holistic growth.

Prior to her service in the presidential administration of President Barack Obama, Miller was vice president for operations and strategic leadership at the Education Trust, a nationally recognized research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting high academic achievement of all students, kindergarten through college.

Magnet Teacher of the Year (TOY) Award annually recognizes an outstanding, dedicated full - time teacher who exemplifies excellence in academic achievement and executes innovative programs that promote equity and diversity for students in magnet schools.

It provides ideas for supporting families related to common need areas identified in that dialogue, and promotes the idea of family engagement as a sound strategy for student retention and academic achievement.

Located in the Portola / Vis Valley communities of San Francisco, Phillip & Sala Burton Academic High School (Burton) promotes a nurturing, equitable school culture committed to high - level academic achievement for all sAcademic High School (Burton) promotes a nurturing, equitable school culture committed to high - level academic achievement for all sacademic achievement for all students.

The article offers five practices that can help schools improve educational achievement for these students: acceptance of shared responsibility by school staff; a dual curriculum that promotes language development as well as academic needs; careful consideration of how to integrate immigrants with the general school population; extended learning time; and individual progress records.

A school is more likely to retain effective teachers, a new study reports, if it is led by a principal who promotes professional development for teachers, is characterized by collaborative relationships among teachers, has a safe and orderly learning environment and sets high expectations for academic achievement among students, a new study reports.

Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, and Matthew Perini have collaborated on a number of recent best sellers in education including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Award in 2004.

They are called on to promote equal educational opportunities for children in identified racial and ethnic groups, to monitor their development and academic achievement, and to address the unique challenges and opportunities faced by school board members working with issues concerning these students and their families.

CharterStart is a two - day, comprehensive training program that provides founding teams with the resources, best practices, and support necessary for the development of a strong educational and operational school model that promotes the academic achievement of all students.

Dr. Constantino's work quickly gained national prominence and soon he began traveling the United States speaking and working with all types of educators, school board members, and businesses to promote sound practices in family engagement that result in increased academic achievement for all students.

Midway's T.I.G.E.R program (Teamwork, Integrity, Gratitude, Excellence & Respect) is designed to promote and celebrate student achievement, academic improvement, behavior, effort, attendance, and accepting responsibility for themselves.

Her scholarship focuses on the academic achievement of low - income students and students of color in postsecondary education, with a specific focus on understanding the educational contexts, levers, and practices that promote greater academic success for these students.

This article shows you how you can easily double or triple your impact by promoting engagement while doing something else that is proven to improve student academic achievement in the current year: frequent in - class assessment for learning.

Goal: Provide charter schools with resources that promote (1) student learning through a clear vision, high expectations, and data - informed decision making at the school level, (2) measurable program goals and student learning objectives that increase the academic outcomes for all students, and (3) closing the achievement gap.

In this role, she identifies strategies and communication platforms that shed light on and promote Flamboyan Foundation's mission and key focus area — family engagement and its unparalleled success in increasing academic achievement for students in Washington, DC and across the country.

The 15 - year research synthesis from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), «Research Synthesis of the Associations Between Socioeconomic Background, Inequality, School Climate, and Academic Achievement,» suggests that by promoting a positive climate, schools can allow greater equality in educational opportunities, decrease socioeconomic inequalities, and enable more social mobility for students.

If you are looking for research - based, practical guidance to promote student learning and increase academic achievement, this book is the road map you have been waiting for.»

Among other benefits, promoting race equity for all students can help schools ensure equal opportunity for high academic achievement, improved school climate, and meaningful family and community engagement.

Promoting equity for students of all races helps schools ensure equal opportunity for learning and academic achievement, improved school climate, and meaningful parent and community engagement.

Former U.S. Secretary of Education, John B. King Jr, now President & CEO of Education Trust, a national nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes high academic achievement for all students at all levels, particularly for students of color and low - income students, delivered the keynote address at the fall 2017 convening of the By All Means consortium.

One of the greatest challenges every school and educator faces is encouraging and accommodating a full range of student diversity while simultaneously promoting a uniformly high level of academic achievement for all students.

I am not sure how such as culture shift will be possible when the law promotes performance - based compensation for teachers and school leaders that «differentiates levels of compensation based in part on measurable increases in student academic achievement.»

Ask state and local school districts / superintendents to consider the magnet school approach as an option for promoting student academic achievement in the lowest performing schools as part of a comprehensive Title I school improvement strategy.

In fact, a systematic process for promoting SEL is the common element among schools that report an increase in academic achievement, improved relationship quality between teachers and students, and a decrease in problem behaviors.

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

Maintained and collected data in order to promote academic achievement for underperforming students.

Developed Individual Educational Plans (IEP) designed to promote academic achievement and social - emotional development through specially designed instruction for students with disabilities including, but not limited to, Specific Learning Disability (SLD), Intellectual Disability (ID), Emotional Disturbance (ED), Other Health Impairment (OHI), Multiple Disabilities (MD), and Autism.

The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) examines that school psychologists help schools to improve academic achievement, promote positive behavior and mental health, support diverse learners, create a safe and positive school climate, strengthen family - school partnerships, and to help improve school - wide assessment and accountability for student progress in academics and behavior.

Strategies: Develop economic development partnerships with all government levels; foster increased take up of economic opportunities by communities, organisations and individuals; encourage and improve attendance, retention and academic achievement rates of Aboriginal students; ensure equitable literacy and numeracy levels; advocate for increased CDEP places; identify employment opportunities; and conduct community workshops promoting employment opportunities.

Findings show that SEL programs can promote academic achievement and positive social behavior, and reduce conduct problems, substance abuse, and emotional distress for elementary school students.