Sentences with phrase «rigorous academic expectations»

One of the best ways to help students meet rigorous academic expectations is to first set high expectations for behavior.

There are rarely students who are asked to leave the schools (I can recall only one case from the four years my son was there) but some kids / families do decide to leave due to the rigorous academic expectations.

Teachers were essentially charged with bringing new, more rigorous academic expectations into our classrooms without adequate time to become versed in new materials or understand methods for applying them to our instruction.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

Inspired in part by the Massachusetts experience, the Common Core standards were developed by governors and state education chiefs, and today more than forty states, including Massachusetts, have adopted these deeply rigorous academic expectations for students.

Not exact matches

With extended school days, rigorous academic standards, and a firm disciplinary code, expectations are high, but so is the commitment to help every student succeed in school, in college, and beyond.

«Job one in a school like this is to establish a culture of peace and high academic expectations and do rigorous social supports,» says John Horan.

Oakland Unity High School is a high expectation school with a safe environment, rigorous curriculum, and intensive supports that are responsive to the individual needs of students and allow them to achieve academic success and positive social and cultural development.

Linked Learning offers students personally relevant, wholly engaging, rigorous academic and technical curricula combined with exposure to real - world experiences and expectations.

A highly effective school results from a rigorous academic program in a culture of trust and high expectations, led by a visionary instructional leadership team and implemented by talented, dedicated teachers.

The Phoenix model incorporates the rigorous academics of high expectations and college - prep charter schools and the relentless support techniques of leading youth development organizations for high - risk teenagers.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

«By incorporating high academic standards and clear expectations with plans for greater student engagement and achievement, Alabama stands ready to meet the rigorous demands of preparing students for the work force and for their roles as citizens in our democratic system.

The school's rigorous academic program is supported by school - wide behavioral expectations to which all community members are held accountable.

As a comprehensive academic model, the roadmap is built around five elements of education - a culture of high expectations, demanding curriculum, engaging instruction, rigorous assessment, and shared leadership.

Graduate faculty ensure students are challenged by rigorous academic curriculum and hold students to high expectations in their master's degree work.

Create a collaborative culture of high academic expectations and positive character expectations developed through the utilization of a rigorous research based curriculum.

Graduate level faculty ensure students are challenged by rigorous academic curriculum and hold students to high expectations in their academic work.

While the Common Core brand has again fallen in popularity — even though now as many people support it as oppose it — the public overwhelmingly supports rigorous, comparable academic expectations, no matter how they are described.»

The standards were an attempt to raise expectations by establishing a new set of rigorous K - 12 academic benchmarks, and the CAP analysis underscored the need for more rigorous standards, Read more about Do Schools Challenge Our Students Now?