Sentences with phrase «school approach enables»

Our whole - of - school approach enables us to support not only the children and families we work with, but also teaching staff.

Its innovative flexi - school approach enables a mix of parent - led educational activities to blend with school - based educational activities.

Not exact matches

The third category of systemic approaches includes all those which aim at making the emotional climate of larger face - to - face systems (such as churches, schools, industries, and social agencies) more growth - enabling.

«The collaborations that the Wyss Institute enables and nurtures between disparate fields, like mechanical engineering and molecular biology, foster new approaches to old problems that can lead to truly paradigm - shifting results,» says Donald Ingber, M.D. Ph.D., the Founding Director of the Wyss Institute and the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, who is also a Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

The new school was created to give children with an aptitude for mathematics the benefit of a dedicated approach to core maths subjects, to enable them to reach their full potential by applying to top universities.

School principals also found NAPLAN data to be useful in various ways, including providing information that would enable teachers to develop more individualised approaches to teaching and identifying students with slow progress.

How a school enables children to learn how to deal with uncomfortable feelings, through a whole school approach to Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

«Education and the Civic Purposes of Schools» will bring together an international array of academics and policymakers to evaluate theoretical approaches and to compare specific experiences in strengthening the values and skills that enable participation in democratic societies.

In order to enable this, we need to make sure the evidence - informed approach to their use becomes the rule in schools, and not the exception.

The concrete strategies we will develop and pilot through this grant are a way to provide a low - cost, flexible, and personalized approach that enables providers to select only those activities that best fit the learning styles, skill levels, interests, and goals of their classrooms and schools.»

The school uses the Microsoft Office 365 collaboration platform to enable teachers to tailor their approach to individual student needs.

The focus of the program has been to enable primary school students in Year 3 to Year 6 to learn how to grow, harvest, prepare and share seasonal fresh food in the belief that this approach will positively influence children's food choices.

Foundations can continue to play an important role in enabling school districts and states around the country to understand how and why New Orleans has made better relative academic gains in such a short period of time, and to encourage them to adopt similar approaches.

«Sometimes mentors will... need direction as well on how to help particular mentees, so having somebody in the school that teachers can go to and approach, and have the time that's part of their role (they have a reduced teaching load enabling them to do that), that was the lynchpin really, that was really critical.

«It is very valuable if teachers could have had some experience in other walks of life besides teaching, because such experience will enable them to give that realistic approach to education which is so sorely needed in our schools.»

The scoping study enabled us to trial an approach in a small number of schools engaged with Greenhouse Sports.

When they do this, there are pay - offs for students: richer lives outside school enable teachers to take richer approaches in school.

Actively using a «Leader as Coach» approach enables principals to have their personal and professional vision realised, while building strong and innovative school communities.

«We believe that taking a holistic approach to student learning, examining social and emotional needs and creating individual plans to support each student will enable our kids to better focus in school and achieve their highest potential,» says superintendent Ruiz.

Having diversity in the board membership and independent voices from outside the community that set up the school, brings different perspectives to discussions enabling healthy debate and, ultimately, a more balanced approach.

This approach enables middle and high school teachers to promote students» historical understanding, critical thinking, empathy, and social — emotional learning, and facilitate transformative dialogue in their classrooms.

He has brought tremendous balance to our work and, with a single focus on high standards and positive outcomes for the pupils we serve, has enabled schools and leaders to challenge themselves and others with innovative and creative approaches to learning and school improvement.»

This report provides a look at the early implementation of the school models and the principles, along with the conditions that best enable its implementation and how different stakeholders have approached these conditions so far.

Technology has also enabled entrepreneurs to create a Catholic approach to «micro-schooling,» very small schools that typical integrate elements of online learning, home schooling, and private education.

Such an approach could be used to provide schools with detailed feedback on how to make better use of resources and employ strategies that will enable them to become more successful in raising achievement and overcoming obstacles to learning.

Develop the Literacy Working Committee, enabling a strong and shared vision for promoting a consistent approach across the school, agreeing on the School Literacy Focus (SLF) for eachschool, agreeing on the School Literacy Focus (SLF) for eachSchool Literacy Focus (SLF) for each term.

Because ESSA will enable school leaders to design new approaches to accountability, that should be able to devise new ways of teaching and learning since what gets measured gets taught.

Alexandria, VA (08/15/11)-- ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is pleased to announce a new map tool that enables the public to locate examples of schools from across the United States and Canada that are implementing the whole child approach to education.

The pilot approach will show how it is possible to begin a journey to get kitchens back into all schools, enabling on site preparation of fresh ingredients.

This approach enables our school to be involved and invested in our students, which makes them more engaged and more successful in their academics.

NAHT Aspire is a holistic approach to school improvement, but many schools specifically cite the impact of the Precision Pedagogy approach that ensures learners achieve fluency in essential foundational knowledge and skills, enables teachers to breakdown goals and plan learning sequences that are destined for success and has strategies to build depth of understanding in crucial concepts.

Gove, Gibb and Morgan have wrecked my ability to do my job properly and I spend more time trying to work out what new approach I need to take as opposed to getting on with the job of using my professionalism to enable teaching and learning that best suits the needs of kids in my school.

In a guest editorial in Educational Leadership 20 years ago (April 1989), Art Costa suggested five approaches to «reassessing assessment»: (1) reestablish the school as the locus of accountability; (2) expand the range and variety of the assessment techniques used; (3) systematize this variety of assessment procedures by developing schoolwide plans for collection and use of information; (4) reeducate legislators, parents, board members, and the community to help them understand that standardized test scores are inadequate indicators of the quality of schools, teachers, and students; and (5) remind ourselves that the purpose of evaluation is to enable students to evaluate themselves.

This approach comes with both challenges and opportunities: DPS will be able to focus more attention and central resources on its lowest - performing schools, improving its ability to provide contextualized supports, while still enabling turnaround leaders to choose the educational programming, curriculum, and professional development best suited to the school.

We transform Los Angeles neighborhoods using a holistic approach to reduce poverty by ensuring families have access to high - quality schools, wraparound education, and technology services, enabling a successful transition from cradle to college and career.

EL Education's President and CEO Scott Hartl captures their distinctive approach when he says: «Our goal in creating our open source literacy curriculum five years ago was to enable teachers beyond our school network to benefit from the rich and rigorous teaching and learning in the EL Education model.

«The Flippen Group's easy to follow step - by - step approach to Capturing Kids» Hearts has enabled my staff to effectively create positive choices for challenging and disruptive students, and has made a positive impact on our school's overall climate that is measured not only in the progress seen on our school's New York City Progress Reports, but also in the very feeling of our building when you enter it.

A learning strategy is a tool or technique used by students to enable them to successfully approach new learning situations and to complete school assignments independently.

The schools we'll be visiting each reflect next gen learning: different approaches to personalized, competency - based, blended, tech - enabled, or experiential learning, designed around richer / deeper definitions of student success.

Finally, an expanded Learning Trust would enable sufficient, suitable and sustainable high quality buildings and facilities to accommodate the growing Morpeth and Rothbury catchment school population; together with a strategic approach to population growth, the location of schools, the organisation of learning and to improve the overall quality of facilities.

Social and emotional learning featured prominently in the act, which defined safe and supportive schools as those that ``... foster a safe, positive, healthy and inclusive whole - school learning environment that (i) enable students to develop positive relationships with adults and peers, regulate their emotions and behavior, achieve academic and non-academic success in school and maintain physical and psychological health and well - being and (ii) integrate services and align initiatives that promote students» behavioral health, including social and emotional learning, bullying prevention, trauma sensitivity, dropout prevention, truancy reduction, children's mental health, foster care and homeless youth education, inclusion of students with disabilities, positive behavioral approaches that reduce suspensions and expulsions and other similar initiatives.»

Perhaps the strongest model in the United States of a collaborative urban school system, Cincinnati has a long history dating back to the mid-1980s of experimenting with team - based instructional approaches, using innovative compensation systems to reward excellence, and providing career ladders to enable the most effective teachers to coach their colleagues.

Understand how Bridge's evidenced based, data driven and technology enabled approach is delivering great schools at scale.

Early literacy assessment instruments have played a significant role in preventing problems because they enable schools to screen all students for signs of delay as part of a preventative approach.

While many colleges and universities say that graduates of redesigned high schools will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process, 66 family concerns about college admissions might inhibit enrollment in new high schools that use competency - based approaches.67 At least one state, Utah, has passed legislative language with the intent to bar public institutions of higher education from treating graduates of competency - based high schools unfairly during the admissions process.68 As new issues and challenges emerge, states will need to remain vigilant and creative about how to best encourage and enable innovative high school designs.

Developed through a collaborative process that involved public school leaders from Tennessee, Texas, California, and Pennsylvania as design partners, the Abl platform enables administrators to transform an otherwise static process into a flexible approach that allows principals to test and evaluate scheduling scenarios.

These schools represent a new approach to second - level education — developing a welcoming, inclusive school community that enables young people to meet their full potential in society and focussing on the lifelong learning needs of students.

This study found that there were four approaches that high - performing school systems used to develop teachers, half of which were related directly to in - service teacher PD: (1) placing coaches in schools to support teachers; and (2) enabling teachers to learn from each other.

I also deeply appreciate the organization's balanced approach, focusing both on policies that support educators and schools in closing the achievement gap and on ending policies that enable neglect of the students most in need of a quality education.

And yet, Chávez is among the most advanced schools in Chicago when it comes to executing blended instructional approaches at scale and has recently committed to implementing competency - based strategies for enabling students to show what they know and move at their own pace through the curriculum.