Sentences with phrase «readiness efforts of»

As the winner of The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, Uncommon Schools will receive $ 250,000 to support low - income student college - readiness efforts of its choice, such as scholarships, speaker series or campus visits.

As the winner, YES Prep will receive $ 250,000 to support low - income student college readiness efforts of its choice, such as scholarships, speaker series or campus visits.

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We may never really know: For only the second time since the beginning of the reconstruction effort in 2002, US Forces - Afghanistan has classified and restricted once - public information regarding the state of Afghan security forces, including «casualties, personnel strength, attrition, capability assessments, and operational readiness of equipment» — all key measures of the country's security woes.

«The IDF has invested efforts and resources in the research, development and equipping of technological systems in accordance with their operational readiness... and with the classification of the level of the threat,» the army said on Tuesday.

According to a Defense Department memo obtained by Military Times, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness will direct «an effort to form a working group to determine changes to military personnel policies necessary to provide the Military Departments increased flexibility to organize, train, and equip more ready and lethal forces.»

He continues, «If a prospect won't take two to three minutes to watch a short demonstration of a feature they expressed interest in, then we start to question their level of readiness to work with our team and prioritize our efforts on our most engaged customers.»

After first establishing the footprint of a deep understanding of the new social buyer persona through social context - based qualitative efforts, companies must continually «refresh» this understanding in order to achieve the state of social buyer persona readiness.

«I recommend once kids start to walk, simply having a child toddle in with you to the bathroom as you explain that poop goes in the potty, how to flush the toilet, things like that,» says Dr. Laura Jana, author of It's You and Me Against the Pee... «The more active effort can start 18 to 24 months, but sometimes later if children are not showing signs of readiness.»

After sharing some alarming statistics about the unfitness of both potential military recruits and a significant portion of those already in the military, Mission Readiness argues that «[w] ith children consuming up to half of their daily calories while at school and out of sight of their parents, schools should be a focal point in the nation's effort to combat childhood obesity.»

To coordinate state efforts to improve children's readiness for school, Ohio Governor John Kasich created an Early Education and Development Officer position within the Governors Office of 21st Centu...

To coordinate state efforts to improve children's readiness for school, Ohio Governor John Kasich created an Early Education and Development Officer position within the Governors Office of 21st Century Education in October 2011.

The United States of America has expressed its readiness to support Ghana's anti-terrorism efforts with a simulation exercise.

They expressed readiness to set up an audit panel for financial and human resource management as part of efforts to enhance the financial sustainability of the university.

The work is part of the foundation's climate adaptation efforts to improve flood readiness in U.S. communities.

The power of hurricanes Irma and Harvey as well as the 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Mexico demonstrate the critical need for well - planned readiness, response and recovery efforts.

The goal of the book is... To show how an understanding of development in relation to college readiness can help make sense of what happens when best efforts don't seem to work.

The plan would inject the influence of university officials into the K - 12 system in an effort to improve students» readiness for college and the workforce.

«To deliver on the promise of the White House Opportunity Agenda, we must identify and scale innovative ways for school counselors to lead college readiness efforts.»

In exchange for that flexibility, the administration will require states to adopt standards for college and career readiness, focus improvement efforts on 15 percent of the most troubled schools, and create guidelines for teacher evaluations based in part on student performance.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Most efforts to recruit talented college students rely on the (self - selected) pool of students who are willing and able to take a college - readiness test.

The Koret report hardly mentions one of the most important developments since Risk: science's remarkable progress in understanding how a child's brain develops in the earliest years and the ensuing efforts to provide the early child care and education necessary for school readiness.

But Head Start's iconic status, powerful lobby and influential friends have stymied every effort to turn it into a proper school - readiness program and to purge it of its many shoddy operators.

The ongoing efforts of the Republican - dominated House to slash Medicaid, dismantle the Affordable Care Act, and cut key social services programs would negatively affect school readiness and opportunities to learn for millions of students.

Grier promoted Cruz to assistant superintendent for college readiness, allowing him to shift from a small nonprofit effort at a couple of schools to a role where he could help more than 200,000 students across 300 schools.

While we may want to honor students who graduate in all sorts of appropriate ways, I believe we must make a special effort to grant those high - school graduates who are college and career ready a diploma that signifies and celebrates that readiness.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

Building the Evidence Base for Early Intervention through GEAR UP: The Department of Education will partner with the National Council for Community and Education Partnerships (NCCEP) to support NCCEP's efforts to develop and evaluate best practices from GEAR UP programs related to college fit and college readiness.

In the update of her best - selling, classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how teachers can divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

Prior to serving as a reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education in the 2010 and 2012 Race to the Top competitions, he served on the department's Working Group for Postsecondary Linkage Efforts to Improve College Readiness and on the independent Annenberg Commission on Public Schools for their Institutions of Democracy Project.

The article offers information on the 21st Century Skills (P21) movement for K12 education in the U.S. Topics include the mission of the movement to promote 21st century readiness to the K12 education system of the U.S., the efforts to integrate 21st Century Skills into elementary education, and the «building blocks» of 21st Century Skills.

In this workshop, a collaborative effort of the National Literacy Project (NLP), Seminole County (FL) Public Schools, and the National Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), teachers, district and school administrators, and instructional coaches learned to use the LDC Framework to help students meet career - and college - readiness standards.

The goal of the study was to determine whether Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) should be considered a promising college and career readiness practice and whether and how youth with disabilities are participating in these efforts.

This effort comes at a critical time as districts embrace college and career readiness as the goal for all students and recognize the potential of digital tools to help teachers personalize learning for each student.

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this channel shows you practical, real - world examples from experienced elementary and secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

A key goal of the guide is to help schools develop a bridge between college and career readiness efforts through the use of ILPs and help youth achieve prosperous and productive lives.

The IEL - led National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability for Youth (NCWD / Youth) released its new report entitled Use of Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs): A Promising Practice for Driving College and Career Readiness Efforts — Findings and Recommendations from a Multi-Method, Multi-Study Effort.

NAGB's efforts to track college readiness in the United States is uniquely important as it has the only assessment program that reports on the academic performance of a representative national sample of high school students.

Ms. Kathrin Brewer, Austin Partners in Education, spoke of the Adopt - a-School model where initiatives incorporate college readiness and asking the community to come into classes to co-teach in an effort to better prepare students for college.

We hope the assessments will provide support in two ways — first, by generating data related to your school's readiness to undertake an improvement effort, and second, by guiding your use of the resources and information provided in this book.

In other words, the current state of a school's readiness to benefit from any change effort can be examined by assessing two factors: ability and willingness.

As part of an effort to understand barriers to college readiness, the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team spent a school year surveying and listening to seniors and recent graduates across the commonwealth about their experiences preparing for life after high school.

Guiding these efforts is a strategic plan, developed with the involvement of the community, which calls for the district «to ramp up career and college readiness,» says Superintendent Steve Joel.

«Communication with parents about the new assessment system and efforts to improve student readiness for college and careers is a work in progress,» said Michael Kirst, president of the California State Board of Education.

Communities are judged on efforts to improve attendance, school readiness and summer learning and that increase the number of students reading at grade level.

Coalition School for Social Change: Helping Students Build Effort is one of five case studies written on the Academic and Personal Behaviors Pilot, an initiative of the NYC Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Readiness.

In this 45 - minute webinar, originally broadcast live on March 10, 2016, Dr. V. Scott Solberg, Associate Dean of Research at Boston University, leads a range of college and career readiness research, practice and policy efforts in collaboration with the National Collaboration on Workforce and Disability for Youth (that is funded by the Department of Labor).

Recently, Killeen ISD's professional development team sought to expand their professional development efforts again, this time to support middle school mathematics educators as they work to meet the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR ™), which has replaced the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).

A number of recent state legislative efforts highlight the importance of course rigor in preparing students for college and beyond.1 In addition, the State Board of Education has approved a preliminary college and career readiness indicator, which leans heavily on student participation and performance in rigorous courses, such as a — g courses, advanced placement exams, International Baccalaureate courses, and dual enrollment in high school and college courses.2

While individually our organizations and efforts may emphasize different principles, collectively we share the goal of advancing equity in college, career, and civic readiness.