Sentences with phrase «schools as a cohort»

As leaders in the Turnaround Teacher Teams (T3) initiative — a program that places teachers with skill helping at - risk students into failing schools as a cohort to turn around such schools together — MacDonald and coauthors list five attributes teacher leaders need to be effective in failing schools.

Not exact matches

We also interviewed cohorts of junior faculty in three theological schools over a three - year period, as well as assorted junior faculty in other seminaries.

Concerned parents and pastors, lay committees and curricula writers and all their colleagues and cohorts have tried to pump life into the old Sunday school, especially as they have found the alternatives even less effective.

The Chef Instructors held a «Train the Trainer» session for the current cohort of school Garden Educators, teaching them how to implement the Chefs in the Garden curriculum as well as teach others, such as teachers or community volunteers, to conduct the lessons.

The blog will include contributions from the first ever cohort of students on the Blavatnik School of Government's Master of Public Policy course, who originate from 19 different countries, as well as members of the Commission and scholars at Oxford and Cambridge.

Before joining the first cohort of students at the Blavatnik School of Government, I worked as a journalist for state - owned China Central Television, the biggest media outlet in China.

The researchers undertook a nationally representative prospective cohort study of 1,112 school - based adolescents aged 13 - 16 years, and assessed them at baseline, three - months and 12 - months for childhood trauma (defined as physical assault and bullying) and psychotic experiences.

At the beginning of graduate school, you're often part of a large student cohort, but as you move forward, you get to the point when you are essentially sailing off on your own.

In addition to assessing clinical outcomes in a retrospective cohort of 30,000 children, the researchers studied a prospective cohort of 2,472 children, doing telephone interviews with caregivers to measure outcomes that parents had identified as their highest concerns: adverse drug effects, additional childcare costs, lingering symptoms and missed school days.

A prospective cohort study of 538 students from the Harvard School of Public Health found that «although physical activity is thought of as an energy deficit activity, our estimates do not support this hypothesis.»

A team of researchers from Harvard School of Public Health recently published the results of two cohort studies that had been conducted over the course of 26 years showing how the health benefits of whole grains - such as oats, maize, and amaranth - may increase longevity.

Having been a part of two failed efforts to bring a form of IR to my own school, I sense that this video is aimed in large part at their own school staff as a means to encourage reluctant colleagues to take a risk and join the cohort.

We recruit name ‑ blind and are proud that our cohort is more diverse than the teaching profession as a whole, with a large number having been on free school meals themselves or the first ‑ generation of their family to attend university.

43 % of New Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

They also earn about 1 percent more at age 25 than those who were in cohorts whose schools were not facing as much accountability pressure.

• Assembling of admission lottery data from past cohorts of charter school applicants in order to estimate impacts on long - term outcomes — such as earnings, college attendance and home ownership (all based on tax records).

This cohort of undocumented children and youth is fairly new, explains Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at the Ed School, who, as one of the nation's leading experts on undocumented youth and young adults, has been studying this group for 23 years.

cohort 1, for example, is leveraging the program to build on her experiences as a kindergarten teacher in the South Bronx, N.Y., and as the founding principal of Bushwick Charter School, which is part of the Achievement First Network.

IB seniors at South Side take the same Theory of Knowledge exam as their cohorts at Flathead High School, in Kalispell, Montana, and Menntaskólinn vid Hamrahlid, in Reykjavik, Iceland — but along the way the three classes may study altogether different texts and complete wildly diverse assignments.

An initial devoted cohort can serve as the political backbone for bringing mindfulness to the larger school community.

On the other hand, the researchers found negative long - term impacts for low - scoring students in grade cohorts who attended a school facing the opportunity to achieve a «Recognized» rating as compared to those in schools not facing a recognition opportunity.

Long before the first cohort of 25 students left their full - time jobs and arrived on campus, the idea was ambitious and clear: The Ed School was not going to develop leaders for the education system as it currently exists.

The Harvard Graduate School of Education is pleased to announce that 20 Harvard College seniors have been selected as the first cohort of Harvard Teachers Fellows (HTF)-- an innovative program designed to create pathways for Harvard College undergraduates to enter a teaching career.

Taillefer began as a Match Corps tutor in the second cohort and went on to be director of development as well as a math teacher and dean of students at Match Middle School and Match High School.

As the cohorts have aged, it is now possible to measure the effects of small schools on college enrollment and choice, outcomes that have never been examined before.

As it compiles information on «effective» leader and teacher practices from its third cohort of low - income schools across the nation, the New York City - based New Leaders for New Schools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - frschools across the nation, the New York City - based New Leaders for New Schools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - frSchools principal - training program is pushing to make the resulting resources more user - friendly.

Ormiston Forge Academy in Cradley Heath capped a remarkable year with 84 per cent of the A level cohort achieving three or more passes at grades A * - E. Just 18 months after the Academy was judged as Good by Ofsted and in the same year it was designated as a National Support School, every indicator at Key Stage 5 has improved yet again.

We measure peer domestic violence at the cohort level (that is, across all students in a grade at a school) as opposed to the classroom level due to the possible sorting of students into classrooms according to their achievement and behavior.

As a first test for nonrandom selection of students into or out of particular schools and cohorts of students, we examined whether peer family violence appears to have an effect on cohort size or student characteristics such as race, gender, and incomAs a first test for nonrandom selection of students into or out of particular schools and cohorts of students, we examined whether peer family violence appears to have an effect on cohort size or student characteristics such as race, gender, and incomas race, gender, and income.

In the second year, as Cohort 2 schools implemented EITP, we might have expected the difference between the two groups of schools to shrink or even disappear as the Cohort 2 schools benefited from the same program that had a positive impact on Cohort 1 schools the prior year.

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

cohort IV student Landon Mascareñaz, who had previously worked with the charter school as an executive director at Teach For America in New Mexico, thought the project of NACA's expansion would be a perfect fit the yearlong Ed.L.D.

«As this racially and economically diverse cohort has learned together the critical issues of becoming transformative leaders in schools, Maritza has regularly pushed the cohort to take responsibility for their own learning through pointing out ways that they could hold each other accountable for pushing the conversation deeper....

As you might remember, several months ago, the Department released second - year results, meaning two years of data from cohort - one SIG schools and one year of data from cohort - two schools.

At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

These students were compelled to attend a different high school than the one they would have otherwise attended; we refer to them as the «post-closure cohort.»

This year, for the first time, Diplomas Count uses the U.S. Department of Education's Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate (ACGR), as the primary source of data on high school completion.

The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K), a study of a nationally representative sample of children in the United States, also provides insight into variations in achievement among children as they go through school.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classchool English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classchool teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classchool in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their clasSchool in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

With perfect compliance, equal - sized cohorts, and no dropouts or loss to follow - up, the first stage for the middle school lotteries would be two years, since this is the average time spent in middle school as of MCAS exams in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.

Continuously enrolled means, for grades 3 - 8, students whose latest date of enrollment occurred after the date prescribed by the commissioner on which BEDS forms are required to be completed and, for grades 9 - 12, students in the high school cohort, as defined in paragraph (16) of this subdivision.

Educators from these schools, several new teachers from our existing partner schools (Emerson Elementary School, Oakland International High School, Oakland Technical High School, and Park Day School) and last year's AbD cohort met for the first time as a group on September 17 at Claremont Middle School.

Approximately 50 schools recruited in two cohorts will be randomly assigned; half to receive the program, and half to a «business - as - usual» control group.

This year also marks the first time the progression of a cohort of school students that undertook the NAPLAN test from Year 3 to 9 can be tabled, as those that sat the test as Year 3 students in 2008, sat it for the final time as Year 9 students in 2014.

For purposes of determining adequate yearly progress on the indicator set forth at subparagraph (15)(iv) of this subdivision, the graduation rate cohort for each public school, school district, and charter school for each school year from 2002 - 03 through 2006 - 2007 shall consist of all members of the school or district high school cohort, as defined in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph, for the previous school year plus any students excluded from that cohort solely because they transferred to an approved alternative high school equivalency or high school equivalency preparation program.

One critique of Success Academy is that the school is pushing out low achievers, resulting in decreasing cohort sizes as students reach higher grades.

Accountability groups shall mean, for each public school, school district and charter school, those groups of students for each grade level or annual high school cohort, as described in paragraph (16) of this subdivision comprised of: all students; students from major racial and ethnic groups, as set forth in subparagraph (bb)(2)(v) of this section; students with disabilities, as defined in section 200.1 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2009 - 2010 school year, students no longer identified as students with disabilities but who had been so identified during the preceding one or two school years; students with limited English proficiency, as defined in Part 154 of this Title, including, beginning with the 2006 - 2007 school year, a student previously identified as a limited English proficient student during the preceding one or two school years; and economically disadvantaged students, as identified pursuant to section 1113 (a)(5) of the NCLB, 20 U.S.C. section 6316 (a)(5)(Public Law, section 107 - 110, section 1113 [a][5], 115 STAT.

25 Nevertheless, as a check on the main findings, we discarded the most imbalanced cohorts to construct a sample of charter middle school and pilot high school applicants with close - to - balanced attrition.

We exclude high schools when analyzing the data for the nation as a whole because proficiency data are unavailable for many of them, and when available, typically reflect the performance of only a single cohort of students.

But that number is still less than 20 percent of high school graduates and only about 15 percent of all those in the age cohort (as only about 75 percent of high school students graduate within four years).