Sentences with phrase «rigorous general curriculum»

We expect many types of schools in our portfolio: schools designed for personalized learning, using the best of technology and school design to customize for students; schools that are «diverse by design,» undoing segregation; schools that teach marketable math, coding, and STEM skills; and schools that blend other specialized programs — in the arts, sports, or technology — with rigorous general curriculum, to capture the imagination of students.

Our portfolio includes many types of schools: schools designed for personalized learning, using the best of technology and school design to customize learning to students» needs; schools that are «diverse by design,» undoing segregation; schools that teach marketable math, coding, and STEM skills; and schools that blend other specialized programs — in the arts, sports, or technology — with rigorous general curriculum, to capture the imagination of students.

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Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

«Their legislation seeks to change teacher licensing standards from requiring that teachers pass a Praxis exam to requiring that they pass the much more rigorous North Carolina Foundations of Reading and General Curriculum tests, which are based on Massachusetts» MTEL teacher licensure exam.»

As a special education teacher, the coordinator will develop and teach engaging lessons that follow the rigorous, Common Core aligned Ascend curriculum and collaboratively teach with a general education teacher in an inclusion classroom and differentiate instruction for students with special needs.

Teams must choose attainable criteria, but ones that are comparably rigorous to the general curriculum expectations.