The Student Agency Improvement Community (SAIC) was a networked improvement community dedicated to equipping students to persist in the face of
rigorous learning challenges.
Facilitated sessions and individual coaching calls throughout the year bring together teams to deepen their learning around Academic and Personal Behaviors, share strategies and approaches to help students persist in the face of
rigorous learning challenges, and build capacity both within and across schools to implement changes and share learning.
Not exact matches
The second technique they use is really
challenging academic work —
rigorous, long - term projects that students take on, where they can't help but
learn in a deeper way.
Check out these important strategies for creating an inclusive
learning space that
challenges students with
rigorous thinking and projects and supports student voice and collaboration.
In his research visiting nearly 30 American high schools, he recognized that students weren't often being given
rigorous,
challenging, and meaningful work — often referred to by educators as «deeper
learning.»
The curricula of our higher education programs are
rigorous and timely, with cases drawn from and
learning applicable to the most pressing
challenges the field faces today.
The driving question should motivate students to
learn and apply
rigorous content to solve a
challenge that matters in their community.
They outline the
challenges that early educators face, emphasize the importance of a
rigorous and regulated (R2)
learning environment, propose strategies for impact and implementation, and detail the...
As a result, she writes, education in China faces an unprecedented
challenge to figure out how the
learning experience can be both competitive and compassionate,
rigorous and humane.
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
MPS is aligning classroom instruction, evaluation and feedback to the
rigorous and more
challenging Common Core State Standards to improve teaching and
learning.
Throughout her journey in education, Jamie has been committed to creating spaces in which students and adults deeply belong, question, and
challenge their assumptions, beliefs, and behaviors, through engaging in
rigorous learning experiences which push the boundaries of what they believe they are capable of.
These technologies, which feature the efficiency and consistency of machine - read scoring along with cognitively
challenging, open - ended performance tasks, can help us build assessments that move beyond bubble - filling and, at the same time, offer
rigorous and reliable evidence of student
learning.
Against a backdrop of the opportunities provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the
challenges for education posed by the new federal administration, the Annenberg Institute for School Report has released an issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) and an online supplement that proposes performance assessment as a personalized and
rigorous alternative Read more about Performance Assessment: Fostering the
Learning of Teachers and Students (update)-LSB-...]
Challenge Partners is a school improvement network which improves performance through effective
learning partnerships and
rigorous quality assurance processes.
The
challenge is for mathematics teacher educators to restructure the preparation programs to consider preparing teachers to engage in this new vision — a vision that incorporates digital videos in ways that provide exciting, effective, and
rigorous mathematics
learning opportunities for K - 12 students.
Join Jeff Marshall, author of the ASCD book The Highly Effective Teacher: 7 Classroom - Tested Practices That Foster Student Success, in an engaging webinar that will guide you through critical teacher actions that are within your control to improve and that influence student success, such as creating
challenging,
rigorous learning experiences and facilitating interactive, thoughtful
learning.
Through incorporating researched based methods for
rigorous direct instruction, project - based and experiential
learning from AVID and The Writing Revolution, and deep student reflective practices, Math Teachers must appropriately
challenge all students through instruction toward mastering content material and conveying that mastery on State Regents Exams.
This webinar, presented by Jeff C. Marshall, author of the ASCD book The Highly Effective Teacher: 7 Classroom - Tested Practices That Foster Student Success, will guide you through critical teacher actions that are within your control to improve and that influence student success, such as creating
challenging,
rigorous learning experiences and facilitating interactive, thoughtful
learning.
Through
rigorous and relevant curriculum, which combines theory, applied research and interactive
learning experiences, graduates leave the program prepared to address the unique
challenges faced in K - 12, higher education or professional environments.
Many say they are rarely engaged in deep or
rigorous learning activities — and students from disadvantaged backgrounds are even less likely to say they are
challenged in class.
• Develop lessons that reflect the interests of my students • Provide a more relaxed, structured, fun and
challenging learning atmosphere • Get rid of my «high school» mentality that too many «A's» mean my course is not
rigorous
The rise of blended
learning, access to technology, and
rigorous digital curricula is driving the opportunity to truly personalize
learning to keep all students actively engaged and appropriately
challenged, and to prepare them with the skills to be really ready.
We invite you to share your
challenges and successes with combining
rigorous instruction and personalized
learning.
Activate
Learning's IQWST (Investigating & Questioning our World Through Science & Technology), is a
rigorous investigation - centered science curriculum designed to
challenge and engage middle school students in grades 6 through 8.
In a letter to the editor in the Bellevue Reporter titled, «Student assessments ensure students gain needed skills,» Bellevue, WA businessman Peter Raulerson writes about the need to
challenge students with
rigorous learning standards and high - quality assessments, like Smarter Balanced.
We will continue to collaboratively examine ways to plan and integrate the implementation of
rigorous and
challenging student
learning and teaching standards, practices and programs.
We design our curriculum around the pillars of the
rigorous International Baccalaureate program, creating a
learning environment that
challenges students to engage their curiosity and develop sound judgment and critical thinking skills.
The
challenge is to avoid the allure of cramming sessions and instead ensure that
rigorous instruction is happening daily throughout the school year — a few days of cramming is not an effective substitute for deep
learning.
SPR conducts these studies using
rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods to surface effective practices, lessons
learned, and
challenges.
This includes: providing financial aid information about postsecondary education, encouraging student enrollment in
rigorous and
challenging curricula and coursework, implementing activities that help students obtain a secondary school diploma, supporting students with completing college applications, providing tutors, conducting outreach programs, helping students meet state standards, developing graduation and career plans, providing extended day
learning programs, or offering other activities designed to ensure secondary school completion and postsecondary enrollment of at - risk children.
Conceptually, these are
rigorous and progressive ideas that could be
challenging to teach and
learn without the right materials.
It's where, by all accounts, we experienced a fairly
rigorous training program with demanding courses,
challenging examinations and a fairly stimulating
learning environment.
In fact, I owe a lot of my success as an educator to the high standards and
rigorous challenges that I
learned from my years at MSD.
Foster as well as enhance good
learning environment and provide
rigorous academic
challenge and success for the students in the school