Sentences with phrase «rigorous standards within»

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When it comes to financial terms, plan to be held to the same rigorous standards that any private - equity investor would hold you to: a clear investor exit strategy (probably within three to five years) and projected annual returns of 20 % to 30 %.

Many agencies within the profession, including teachers and principals, are concerned about finding a balance between the compliance discourse that accompanies standards and regulation and the discourse of innovation that is central to the development of rigorous and high quality teaching and educational leadership.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Yes, Margaret Spellings allowed for a «growth model pilot» when she was secretary of education — but schools still had to get all students to proficiency within three years, an unrealistic standard in states with a meaningful (and rigorous) definition of proficiency.

While mandating that every publicly funded school should meet rigorous state content standards, every state should explore additional forms of school choice, pushing far beyond the boundaries of within - district public school choice.

«In defining accomplished teaching within career and technical education, the revised standards are rigorous, elegant, and move the field forward in significant ways,» said Kristin Hamilton, NBCT, director of standards at the National Board.

But also important — and within the control of schools — is the fact that in such districts, the content standards and the instructional content coverage tend to be more rigorous, especially in the middle grades.

The standards are challenging in that they provide students with rigorous concepts as they engage in analysis within and across texts, as well as with language.

Indeed, this is how it works now: despite the fact that all classrooms in a state are theoretically held to the same content standards, not all classes are equally rigorous nor are students within a single class all held to the same absolute expectations.

MM: We not only wanted to increase teacher collaboration within our school from a functional perspective but also have those collaborative conversations anchored in equity, evidence, and rigorous standards.

Within the past couple of years, a coalition of states developed standards that are more relevant to the real world, more rigorous, and stress critical thinking.

As Common Core and other standards begin to focus increasingly on rigor, teachers and administrators should be aware of the many built - in opportunities within the Marzano model for ensuring that lessons are rigorous and robust enough for students.

JCPS» initial reasoning for implementing PLC Rounds was to help expose parents and community stakeholders to the education jargon of «PLC» and how teachers work hard within their PLCs to benefit students, but it has since grown to help familiarize non-educators with the rigorous expectations of the standards on a grade - by - grade basis.

«Leaders of professional learning at all levels of the educational system have the responsibility to support classroom teachers with opportunities to learn from using high - quality instructional materials designed for more rigorous college and career - ready standards,» said Jim Short, program director, Leadership and Teaching to Advance Learning within the National Education Program at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

They argue for a platinum standard with rigorous research within authentic school settings, calling this authentic research in authentic learning situations.

Winrock International, a world leader in developing environmentally rigorous forest carbon standards and methodologies, has developed technical guidance for registration on its American Carbon Registry (ACR) of REDD + projects nested within a jurisdictional accounting framework.

Aerospace technician specialist responsible for ensuring management of all processes within the $ 339 million F - 22 Raptor program is maintained to the most rigorous standards.