Sentences with phrase «rich curriculum content»

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The ATM perspective on assessing mathematics in the new curriculum exemplifies how to use rich tasks to assess both content and process skills.

Many are not getting an education based on a coherent, content - rich curriculum in history, geography, the arts, science, foreign languages, and literature.

To Klein's credit, he eventually came to see the errors of his ways, and in his last years as chancellor he embraced the Core Knowledge program — a coherent, content - rich curriculum that is a model for what kids in New York, and nationwide, need if they are going to become strong readers.

And, in fact, a signature value of the Core is its potential to bolster both skills and knowledge by encouraging sequenced, spiraled, content - rich curricula in the classroom.

And in the absence of a coherent, content - rich curriculum, schools have struggled to boost reading scores for kids coming from low - income families.

Somewhere in the midst of all this, there is a powerful, pragmatic way forward, and in a few places, Klein draws a breath and points to it: to balancing tougher entry into the teaching profession with a more professional experience once inside it; to content - rich curricula that are truly worth teaching; to technology in the service of new forms of learning; and to sophisticated partnerships between those in the schools and the families, community leaders, philanthropic institutions, administrators, and taxpayers beyond the school walls.

The same drive toward better content in curriculum led me to include funding in New York state's successful Race to the Top application, which led to EngageNY, a set of content - rich curriculum units available for universal, free download.

But it's far better to have an education destination worth reaching, i.e. rigorous standards set forth with sufficient specificity, clarity, and rich content to provide real guidance to curriculum designers, classroom teachers, test developers and more.

Calkins's insistence that students should focus mostly on writing about their lives rankles the many educators who believe that curriculum should be focused on content - rich material, and that students should read and write about information outside of their own personal lives.

By this I mean the shift to a content - rich, sequenced curriculum, such as Core Knowledge, Wit and Wisdom, or the recently released curriculum built by the Success Academy Charter Schools.

The other big tax on content - rich curriculum that needs to be repealed is teacher evaluation.

Shouldn't that mean, I ask Peiser, that a consistent, content - rich, vertically and horizontally aligned curriculum would be in order?

To receive an embargoed copy of «The Bronx is Learning: Content - rich curriculum drives achievement at Icahn Charter Schools» or to speak with Charles Sahm, please contact Jackie Kerstetter at [email protected].

I have, in other forums, made much of the singular virtue of Common Core and its call for a content - rich curriculum «intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades.»

This insight is no surprise to those of us who have long championed curriculum and rich academic content as ed reform's great un-pulled lever — or who support Common Core simply because it puts curriculum onto the reform agenda.

But it's been widely hoped the new standards would create a robust nationwide market for innovative new materials — especially in English language arts (ELA), where Common Core explicitly states the standards «must be complemented by a well - developed, content - rich curriculum.»

Content - rich curriculum.

Second, it restates the case for a sequential, content - rich curriculum for America's elementary and middle schools.

(New York's second - highest performing charter network, the seven Icahn schools in the Bronx, uses the content - rich Core Knowledge ELA curriculum, which is well aligned with the Common Core — further evidence that curriculum counts.)

That is precisely why the Common Core ELA standards deliberately call for a «content - rich curriculum.»

For thirty years, Don Hirsch has tried to capture the attention of America's policymakers, policy thinkers, educators, and philanthropists to persuade them to undertake perhaps the one reform we've never tried: the widespread adoption of a coherent, sequential, content - rich curriculum that intentionally and efficiently builds knowledge and skills.

The Standards must therefore be complemented by a well - developed, content - rich curriculum consistent with the expectations laid out in this document.»

Wow: «research - based curriculum»; «scientifically valid»; «possibly aligned with state standards»; «content - rich»; «measurable progress.»

To date, however, that has seldom included the development and dissemination of curricular materials that are not just «aligned» with the Common Core but that also embody the spirit of the standards» call for building knowledge through a content - rich curriculum.

Center - based and family child care programs must implement developmentally appropriate research - based early childhood curriculum... that is based on scientifically valid research and has standardized training procedures and curriculum materials to support implementation [and] is aligned with the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework and, as appropriate, state early learning and development standards; and includes an organized developmental scope and sequence and is sufficiently content - rich within the... Framework to promote measurable progress toward development outlined in such Framework.

The standards must therefore be complemented by a well - developed, content - rich curriculum.»

And that means implementing a well - designed, sequential, content - rich curriculum, especially in the early grades.

It is encouraging news, from Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, that New York City's three - year - old pilot project testing the content - rich Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum in ten low - income schools has proved so far, as the Daily News headline has it, «a brilliant experiment in reading.»

Students can only gain this foundation when the curriculum is intentionally and coherently structured to develop rich content knowledge within and across grades.

For instance, the use of play with young children is not specified by the Standards, but it is welcome as a valuable activity in its own right and as a way to help students meet the expectations in this document... The Standards must therefore be complemented by a well - developed, content - rich curriculum consistent with the expectations laid out in this document.»

Wexler goes on to explain why reading comprehension tests are really «knowledge tests in disguise,» why the new Common Core - aligned tests are shining a brighter light on gaps in knowledge, and why we may see continued growth in schools embracing «content - rich» curricula like E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge.

Litt understands the importance of content - rich curriculum, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

All three emphasize coherent, content - rich curriculum.

He sees content - rich curriculum as the best means of accomplishing that goal.

Successful arts integration includes approaching your Curriculum like an artist, a rich process for a rich product, cultivating artist - researchers, and combining content with art.

We asked Ruth Wattenberg, former editor of the American Federation of Teachers» American Educator journal, to examine state websites and basal readers from major publishers to find examples of a content - rich elementary curriculum.

Too many curricula have deprived weak readers of rich content and shared learning by limiting them to texts «at their level.»

Research shows that content - rich, coherently sequenced curriculum plays a vital role in positive student outcomes.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

Proposed changes to improve teaching practices, including implementation of content - rich curriculum and effective use of assessment data, and proposed changes to professional development are central to our effort to ensure every child in Head Start receives high quality early learning experiences that will build the skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.

Support teaching and learning in Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) through Grade 12 classrooms across New York State and provide access to sequenced, spiraled, content - rich statewide curriculum programming and instructional practices that support the attainment of the CCLS and align to the Board of Regents» strategic goals.

Especially at the elementary level, where very little time is spent on science, history or the arts, it's critical the texts that underlie the reading curriculum are carefully selected so they coherently build students» rich knowledge of key content - area topics.

We teach curricula that expose students to rich literature, math, science, art, and history content.

From Great Minds, the non-profit that created Eureka Math, is a K — 8 English curriculum that brings the rich content everyone loves into your classroom.

(We'd also love to see schools adopt a content - rich curriculum like Core Knowledge.)

As hard as I have worked to bring rigorous, content - rich standards, reasonable assessments, inspiring curricula, and accountability to public schools, I am dumbfounded to see how little of it has permeated the private schools I visited.

In other words, I'm a true believer in the centrality of a first - rate, content - rich curriculum — and it's topmost in what I look for as I help our kids navigate their kids» schooling options.

Still other countries, such as England, are moving toward content - rich curricula, since academic rigor is shown to diminish the achievement gap as few other interventions do.

This approach is similar to the one used in this study and aligns with other studies that have shown the importance of content - area learning along with technology integration, so that technology supports the curriculum and student learning, rather than being treated as an added on activity or object (Glazer, Hannafin, Polly, & Rich, 2009; Harris & Hofer, 2011).

Analysis of these rich curriculum data, along with our more curriculum - sensitive measures of student achievement, revealed that the mathematics content teachers covered in their classrooms was significantly related to their students» performance even when researchers adjusted this relationship for student background factors (ethnicity, parent education level, socioeconomic status, and so on).