Sentences with phrase «school culture gap»

Researchers focused on issues such as self - confidence, bridging the home - school culture gap, and student and teacher resources.

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The movie centers around the NYC's streetball culture by placing Uncle Drew in the position of bridging the gap between the old school and new generations of the sport.

One strand of his research, which has sought to replicate effective charter - school practices in public school contexts, has shown that when a school increases instructional time, has excellent teachers and administrators, and instills data - driven instruction, small - group tutoring, and a culture of high expectations, it can eliminate gaps in math performance.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

He acknowledges, though, that home, family, and culture matter enormously, and that a major source of today's gaps is the extraordinarily discrepant experiences that children have outside of school.

The institute includes a blend of theory and practice - based techniques for addressing student learning by strengthening instruction and better engaging communities, closing the achievement gap and establishing a positive, safe and goal - oriented school culture.

Topics discussed were Measuring Achievement, Calibrating Gaps and Monitoring Progress; How Identity and Culture Affect Achievement Gaps; What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Schools; and What Raises Achievement and Narrows Gaps (or not) in Non-School Hours.

Yet speakers at the third annual Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, «Structures, Cultures, and Achievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issue as weGap Initiative Conference, «Structures, Cultures, and Achievement Gaps: New Research with Implications for Public Engagement,» argued that educators and school systems play a large role in the achievement gap issue as wegap issue as well.

The problem with pop culture references is that, as a high school teacher, I need to keep my references up to date; there is a gap that needs to be bridged and each year it gets wider.

If bias is a factor (the child harmed has actual or perceived minority status of some kind), the school should consider there might be a gap in school culture, so that such minorities are made especially vulnerable in this school at this time.

Embed critical thinking within the underlying culture of the school and make sure learning spaces encourage critical thinking; determine how well overall school environment encourages critical thinking and take steps to address gaps

By examining research - based techniques, exploring the role of race, class, and culture in the classroom, and growing effective practices that enable academic growth and close the achievement gap, attendees will leave with a singular blueprint for ways to improve their school.

Age gap: 37 percent of middle school students rated their school culture positively, versus 30 percent of high schoolers.

If a no - excuse culture of learning can happen here, and it does, there is no excuse for mainstream schools not to build a learning culture for all student where confidence soars and gaps shrink.

Through extensive study in the areas of next generation learning, social and emotional learning, wellness, urban planning, Hip - Hop culture, Chicago history, the opportunity gaps that exist among marginalized students, economic mobility, arts education, and the at - risk communities on Chicago's South Side, Art in Motion has a solid research foundation upon which to build an innovative middle and high school that has the potential to change the narrative for many Southside youth.

Past focus areas include: «Closing the Creativity Gap,» «Infusing Character Education,» «Supporting Teacher Development & Retention» and «Using Traditions to Build School Culture.»

Commit to embracing arts and arts integration as a long - term (3 + years) strategy to: decrease the achievement gap, increase standardized test scores, and improve school culture and academic improvement simultaneously.

Alexander McNeece is a multi-award winning school administrator whose goal is to eliminate the Achievement Gap by using motivational reading material, developing a school culture of writing, and integrating 21st Century technology into every facet of his teachers» teaching and his students» learning.

Anderson authored the books Closing the Achievement Gap and Transforming Schools for Excellence, along with several articles on high - performing, high - poverty school cultures.

Participants discussed a range of factors that impede student success, including gaps between tribally enrolled students and other Native students; high teacher turnover in remote areas; poor attendance and truancy; low family and community involvement; schools» lack of knowledge about AI / AN culture and history; and fragmentation of services among state, tribal, and local agencies.

Closing the achievement gap begins and ends with school climate and culture.

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

In the article she urges, «More than ever before, the business community needs to get involved in helping our public schools develop a culture of excellence and bridge the student achievement gap.»

Crater Renaissance Academy (CRA) in Central Point, Ore., also illustrates how a school can address opportunity gaps in both course access and school culture.

Even if teaching, leadership, incentives and cultures in our most troubled schools improved exponentially overnight, we would move the needle on the achievement gap only slightly.

is a public - private partnership that uses the arts to help narrow the achievement gap, increase student engagement and improve the culture and climate in the country's highest poverty schools.

Many authors write about urban school leadership, giving advice on such topics as school culture, authentic leadership, bedrock principles, closing the achievement gap, and social justice.

Why race and culture matter in schools: Closing the achievement gap in America's classrooms.

The methods of teaching developed at the BMC — such as an emphasis on interpretation and dialogue in the form of the student critique (or «crit»)-- are still present in many of our most advanced art schools; the language of interdisciplinarity began at BMC and the mixture of disciplines and mediums gave way to what is largely regarded as the first «happening»; and the aspirations of intentional communities, utopian ways of thinking, bridging the gap between art and life, and the creation of a counter-culture that are characteristic of American culture in the 1960s all flourished at the college in the preceding decades.