Sentences with phrase «schools meet higher expectations»

We know that well - prepared school leaders are key to helping students and schools meet higher expectations.

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Will the new Harvard dean be able to meet the high expectations he has raised for change at the number one business school in the world?

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

It's important we celebrate our local college wrestlers like we do our local high school wrestlers when they succeed, but also when they don't meet our expectations.

Baed on a flexible structure designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of students» needs through a positive school culture based on student leadership, personal relationships, high expectations, and celebration.

Speaking on Saturday, Mr Rashid Pelpuo, MP for Wa Central, said the NDC administration did it best to meet the expectations and developmental needs of Ghanaians, citing the construction of 50 day Senior High Schools, hospitals and roads to back his claim.

By setting high standards and pushing ourselves to meet them, our school realized our boundless potential to exceed our own expectations, and those laid out by others.

Our expectations of the genre are as humbled as popular high - school kid Sutter is when he meets Aimee, the quiet nerdy girl he's never noticed before.

The staff at Trinidad Garza helps every student meet the high expectations they set: content mastery, a high school diploma, and college credits.

By 2030, have 80 percent of all students and subgroups meet or exceed expectations on the statewide English / language arts and math exams; have 95 percent of all students and subgroups graduate after four years in high school by 2030

When Christopher Pagan, a physics teacher at Trinidad Garza Early College High School, reflected on his students» performance, he realized that they weren't meeting his expectations or their own potential.

Even if we buy the idea that teachers at the Met are so talented that they should be trusted to demand high performance from every student, what about schools with less skilled teachers and lower expectations?

That's why so many young people graduate from high school having met teacher expectations, taken required courses, attained a decent GPA, and reached a respectable class rank, only to find themselves shunted into remedial courses at college.

As in NOLA, families choose higher - performing schools: The top ten most requested schools for entering kindergarteners were all rated as either «distinguished» or «meets expectations.»

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

We bury them in committees, schedules, supervision, volunteer programs, data analysis, before - school and after - school meetings, materials, activities and evening events, training, special programs — and sprinkle a little goal - setting, demands, testing, accountability, evaluations, and relentlessly high expectations for change and improvement on top for good measure.

HGSE's and HBS's new certificate program will equip current and aspiring principals with key management and leadership skills needed to lead and sustain high - performing schools, and prepare them to set and meet high expectations for all children, create conditions for excellent teaching, and engage positively with families and communities.

«Educators across the country have struggled to identify a rich, engaging, and rigorous curriculum that will help them support students in meeting dramatically higher expectations,» said John E. Deasy, former superintendent of Los Angeles public schools.

High expectations: Schools hold high expectations for all learners and support them in meeting clearly defined goals, in order to prepare learners for ongoing success in work and lHigh expectations: Schools hold high expectations for all learners and support them in meeting clearly defined goals, in order to prepare learners for ongoing success in work and lhigh expectations for all learners and support them in meeting clearly defined goals, in order to prepare learners for ongoing success in work and life.

The K - 12 grade - specific standards define end - of - year expectations and a cumulative progression designed to enable students to meet college and career readiness expectations no later than the end of high school.

As they say with the principalship, especially in high school, «high school is the tail that wags the dog in terms of the district» and there's a great deal of pressure on high school principals to meet certain expectations that are determined by Central Office and stakeholders.

We created it after I realized how many school leaders just weren't clearing the space for teacher coaching to happen at the highest level: foundational things like creating a vision for their schools, holding adults accountable to meeting schoolwide expectations, designing and holding weekly leadership team meetings, creating and sticking to a daily calendar; and more advanced things like using data to inform the design of responsive PD.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

Among the 165 high schools in MPS, CNHS was one of only six to earn a designation of «Meets Expectations» or higher on the Wisconsin state report card in 2015 - 16.

What is equally clear is the educators who combine high expectations for all their children with a thirst for improving their classroom practice, a commitment to strong, collaboratively forged school - wide programs, and plain old - fashioned hard work can meet great expectations for the children with and for whom they work.

Among Milwaukee Public Schools» (MPS) 165 high schools, CNHS was one of only six high schools to earn a designation of «Meets Expectations» or higher on the Wisconsin state report card iSchools» (MPS) 165 high schools, CNHS was one of only six high schools to earn a designation of «Meets Expectations» or higher on the Wisconsin state report card ischools, CNHS was one of only six high schools to earn a designation of «Meets Expectations» or higher on the Wisconsin state report card ischools to earn a designation of «Meets Expectations» or higher on the Wisconsin state report card in 2016.

In a May 30 letter to parents, state Education Commissioner Brenda Cassellius wrote that because Minnesota schools began using more rigorous standards to teach English arts last fall, schools also gave students more challenging tests to measure their progress towards meeting higher expectations.

In order to meet these new demands, states will need to restructure work along several fronts, including brokering support to struggling schools and districts, raising standards and expectations, addressing weaknesses in the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and careers.

Overall, the PARCC scores for D.C. high school students were pretty abysmal, with only 10 percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations in math, and 25 percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations in English.

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

Capital City Public Charter School enables a diverse group of students to meet high expectations, develop creativity, critical thinking, and problem - solving skills, achieve a deep understanding of complex subjects, acquire a love of learning, along with a strong sense of community and character.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

Excelling With a Diverse Student Population Principal Virginia Minshew of Park View High School in Sterling, VA, talks about how her 1,300 - student school has overcome the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state teSchool in Sterling, VA, talks about how her 1,300 - student school has overcome the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state teschool has overcome the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state testing.

In this channel, we visit two schools with math programs designed to meet the Common Core Initiative's expectation that students acquire a level of fluency in math that will carry them through high school and college.

This publication builds on the 2015 Professional Standards for Educational Leaders, which aim to ensure district and school leaders are able to improve student achievement and meet new, higher expectations.

Finally, when students met expectations in their team - based setting, they moved to a regular high school program.

It is also the only in - boundary high school where more than half of students met or exceeded expectations on the state assessment in English Language Arts (compared next highest in - boundary high school score of 20 percent) or where more than 20 percent of students met or exceeded expectations on the mathematics state assessment (compared to next highest score of 4 percent at an in - boundary high school) in school year 2016 - 17.

Across the education field, there is unusual consensus that strong teacher leadership is central to improving our schools, particularly as teachers and students strive to meet higher academic expectations.

Eight schools in the east Denver area — including Denver Discovery School, Hill Campus of Arts and Sciences and George Washington High School — did not meet expectations for academic gaps, but none lost a green rating based on the indicator alone.

The education department says that «hundreds» of schools will have to raise their results to meet these higher expectations.

Formerly known as ISLLC standards, the PSEL standards aim to ensure district and school leaders are able to improve student achievement and meet new, higher expectations.

So Wilson's wife coordinated with the deputy mayor of education, Jennifer Niles, to transfer his daughter to Woodrow Wilson High School, popular in the district, which has 22 percent of its students meeting expectations in math and 54 percent in reading.

A high percentage of parent opt outs on state tests caused the school's rating to drop from «meets expectations» to «meets few expectations.»

We expect schools to have grit, drive and prudence, to set high expectations for all students, and to support them to meet those expectations.

Reviews of Open Up Resources 6 — 8 Math gave it near - perfect marks, making it the highest - rated middle school series for mathematics and the only one to meet EdReports» high expectations for standards alignment and usability.

In Figure 2, the curved lines provide a sense of how this relationship varied across districts.6 The lines indicate the upper and lower bounds for the shares of 4th graders who met the ELA standard in 68 percent of demographically similar school districts.7 Overall, the scores were lower in districts with larger shares of high - need students, but in some districts student performance was either better or worse than expected, based on the shares of high - need students.8 The orange dots (for the CST) and the teal dots (for the SBAC) represent the 20 school districts that were furthest above or below expectations — these dots are mostly outside the curved lines.

Four failed to meet expectations: La Follette High School, Cherokee Middle School, Sandburg Elementary School, and Badger Rock Middle School.

I have had experience with a public school gifted program that serves up a full schedule of honors, AP and accelerated classes for high - achieving students, and the inflexible expectation to be met for all their students is maintaining a high GPA.

Assuming program expectations are met by the scholar and family, the scholarship support continues through senior year of high school.

This Map equips educators to develop students» conceptual understanding of fractions, ratios, and proportions, improving their ability to apply procedures effectively and meet the increased expectations of high school, college, and career.