Sentences with phrase «range of model schools»

Managing director Graham Shennan said: «We've taken the time to look at what's really important in education and settled upon a two - tier approach, where we can offer development solutions through Community Plus alongside a new range of model schools.»

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Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.

• New England School of Law associate dean Victor M. Hansen offers an answer: «The fact that both the college experience and the military experience are often the first time people of this age range are independent, have access to alcohol and are interacting socially with members of the opposite sex suggests to me that we have not done enough before young people reach this age to educate, model and encourage appropriate behavior.»

We've surveyed traditional Sunday School model churches, missions - focused churches, mainline denominations, African - American churches and churches representing a wide range of geographies, sizes and styles.

There are precious few schools following this model, but American society would benefit from more of them, and from their being more accessible to a wider socioeconomic demographic range in urban, suburban, and rural settings.»

«We need to confirm this synergistic activity of vemurafenib and cediranib across a broader range of melanoma models, investigate why the particular combination is effective, and find biomarkers that predict which patients with BRAF - mutant melanoma should receive this combination,» says Friedman, who is a research fellow in Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

The mouse lemur — the world's smallest primate — has the potential to transform the field of genetics and serve as an ideal model for a wide range of primate biology, behavior and medicine, including cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's disease, Stanford University School of Medicine researchers say.

As you note, given the constraints of an industrial - era school model and the wide range of student needs, the challenges of personalization are just too hard for most teachers.

NGA has devised four model SoDs, which represent a range of approaches: with academy governing committees; with academy councils; with cluster governing committees (reporting on a number of academies); and with so - called «earned autonomy» (variable levels of responsibility for academy committees, often depending on the school's performance).

The Askwith Forum is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education featuring a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and moral engagement, expanded learning models, educating for human rights, and international education among others.

We studied 16 charter elementary and secondary schools with a wide range of personalized learning models from across the country (we hoped to include district schools, but the data were not available).

This phenomenon is a less talked about byproduct of our «factory model» of school, but one that places false constraints on the range of adult supports and expertise that students can access inside their classrooms.

The lawnmowers range from small models which can cut large gardens of up to 600m2, to larger models which can cope with the grounds of buildings such as schools and colleges.

Since introducing the three targeted programs and implementation model in 2016, Buchanan says the school has seen: improvements across a range of classes using the NAPLAN writing scale of up to 40 per cent; improvements in spelling using NAPLAN assessment and internal data of up to two years within a 12 month period; and its first spike in NAPLAN numeracy improvement for Years 3 and 5 (the two year groups staff focused on through the program).

A fairly comprehensive» talking mat» for intermediate students on the topic of «School», including 20 model questions and a range of options with L1 translation.

«We look at a range of different models — project - based, no excuses, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, and spaces within schools; not only core disciplinary class but also electives and extracurriculars — to identify the conditions under which powerful learning does emerge, and to understand what kinds of systems might make this kind of learning more the exception than the rule,» he says.

In light of the recent and wide ranging changes within the education sector, the Co-operative Group sought to understand the practices, values and impacts of different models of school governance and engagement to inform the development of a sustainable, impactful model of future activity within education.

State Governments are aware of the importance of the school as the heart of the community, and have been trying some new models, such as community hubs [9], that integrate a range of services with schools.

The great comprehensive school headteacher knows that a «one size fits all» model of secondary education will never deliver the range of success that their youngsters need.

By understanding the range of jobs that adults in particular circumstances might be trying to get done, SNHU incorporated new designs into its burgeoning online program: reconfiguring wait times for financial aid advice, implementing high - touch guidance models, and launching advertising campaigns that catered to adults who were considering going back to school to better themselves or make a better life for their loved ones.

Then there are the logistics: finding enough experienced educators to manage their own micro-schools, validating the efficacy of the schools» pedagogy in customized educational environments, and adapting models to accommodate children with a wide range of needs.

Its model is now the basis for a network of international schools across the city, ranging from grade school to high school.

There were a range of social effects as well: children were seen to be negotiating items with other children, which is quite a higher order thinking skill; they were modelling behaviour on others, so they could actually see how children were playing with some of the equipment and then being able to join in (so it was a lot more inclusive, they were able to see how some of the children used some of the equipment); and they were really working together, using teamwork skills and creating these different objects and structures and stations to play around in the school playground.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Frank Stasio also speaks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen, associate director of national outreach and community building with Education Reimagined, a non-profit initiative of Convergence that works to accelerate the growth and impact of the learner - centered education movement in the United States, about the range of nontraditional school models, the educational mindset they reflect and how they prepare children for work and life.

«As authorizers, we have an exciting opportunity to open a wide range of schools that produce amazing outcomes for kids across a wide variety of educational models and geographies.»

We provide a range of entry points into school design because we believe in the power of modeling the kind of learning we want for children — and one size certainly doesn't fit all.

Now, in its second year, the school has shifted away from a single - provider model to instead making teachers the primary designers of the blended - learning models in their individual classrooms by using a wider range of tools.

Located in different boroughs, serving students of all grade levels with varying needs, and implementing a range of instructional and organizational models, C3S aims to exemplify the diversity, innovation, quality, and commitment - to - community that inspired the original vision of the public charter school movement.

To learn more about the Marzano School Leadership Evaluation Model's domains and scales, and to view a full range of support materials for the model, visit http://www.MarzanoCenter.com or call 877.411.Model's domains and scales, and to view a full range of support materials for the model, visit http://www.MarzanoCenter.com or call 877.411.model, visit http://www.MarzanoCenter.com or call 877.411.7114.

Marzano Center support programs include tailored one -, two -, and three - day training sessions with the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Academy for school district leaders; customized support packages for central offices; seminars on inter-rater reliability; certifications in observer accuracy; and a full range of online, high quality, self - study courses that examine all aspects of the common language of instruction within the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model.

As a part of the International Visitor Leadership Program, the delegates sought to explore a range of perspectives on public, private, and mixed educational models, through discussions with American curriculum specialists, educators, students, school administrators, and school board representatives like Mrs. Carter.

Citing the research, and the exciting work being done by school library practitioners in realizing the vision of the new school library learning commons, the expert panel recommended that «the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) commission a pan-Canadian assessment engaging the full range of stakeholders, to bring forward a clear and prescriptive set of directives to frame a national policy consensus on the most appropriate model for school libraries / learning commons to maximize their contribution to the K - 12 experience and its learning outcomes.»

At the school and district levels, the School Quality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school quschool and district levels, the School Quality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school quSchool Quality Measures (SQM) project aims to better model the diverse perspectives and experiences of a range of school stakeholders when assessing school quschool stakeholders when assessing school quschool quality.

She co-authored a range of publications on the topic, including school models and many practical tools for teachers, principals and districts; An Opportunity Culture for All; 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best; Opportunity at the Top; Seizing Opportunity at the Top; A Better Blend; Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction; Teacher Tenure Reform; Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance; and Improving Teaching Through Pay for Contribution for the National Governor's Association; and many others.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

The Aspire model focuses on schools coming together in groups of 6 - 12 to engage in a range of shared network events, reinforced by in - school support from Achievement Advisers.

The expansion of the RSC's office is another move away from the original Govian model, as are a range of other DfE programmes designed to remedy the weaknesses of the original design, such as the regional partnerships the department has set up to tackle low social mobility and school underperformance, through initiatives like the 12 opportunity areas.

Under the law, a majority of parents at an underperforming school can submit a petition seeking one of four reform models, ranging from replacing the principal and half the staff to shutting the school down altogether.

Public charter schools vary in mission and model, serving a wide range of students, many with needs beyond the one - size - fits - all traditional public school.

Open - enrollment charter schools vary in mission and model, serving a wide range of students, many with needs beyond the one - size - fits - all traditional public school.

California's diverse and energetic charter school movement is comprised of a broad range of charter school types, organizational and programmatic models, and governance and funding structures.

The CCSA wants to use a model that gives them one classroom at a ration of 15 to 1, while traditional LA Unified public schools often range between 24 - to - 1 and 30 - to - 1.

The democratic and distributed leadership model advances the efficient implementation of decisions, maximizes the range of knowledge and experience that go into school administration, makes all key administrative decisions visible to all, holds everyone accountable for the effective management of the school, promotes harmonious administration, cultivates the civic goals of schooling, and may likely increase teacher retention.

Big Picture Learning is a leader in school reform and is consistently identified by a sweeping range of education leaders as one of the most effective models in the country.

Build the supply of personalized learning models: Although a handful of personalized learning models exist, more models and providers are needed to meet the full range of school contexts and student needs.

Right now, the District has the best of both worlds: a vibrant charter sector that offers a wide range of learning models from some of the best school leaders and a strong, improving and growing DCPS that has responded to charter competition by revitalizing its commitment to quality.

We offer broad range of professional seminars to prepare you to be a classroom role model, an instructional leader, a mentor to a new teacher, a facilitator of learning communities, or to be a school administrator.

Over the next two years, we'll look across a diverse range of schools» PL strategies to learn how early implementation is going in classrooms and to identify the opportunities and challenges — both policy and practice — to expanding these isolated models.

Several elements of W&M's school counseling program stood out to Lauren, including its commitment to multiculturalism, CACREP - accredited status, range of opportunities, interdisciplinary model, generous funding, and cohort model.