Sentences with phrase «set high academic goals»

Students who set high academic goals, have self - discipline, motivate themselves, manage stress, and organize their approach to work learn more and get better grades (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Elliot & Dweck, 2005; cited in Durlak et al., 2011).

Students who set high academic goals, have self - discipline, motivate themselves, manage stress, and organize their approach to work learn more and get better grades (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Elliot & Dweck, 2005; cited in Durlak et al., 2011).

Not exact matches

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

«It is the best educational initiative in which I've ever been involved, and I believe it has the potential to change the traditional high school into a place where students are actively, independently engaged in setting and reaching academic and professional goals.»

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

Ray Pasi, in his book, Higher Expectations: Promoting Social Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement in Your School, tells how he has intra or extra-mural athletes in his schools create contracts, where they set and are held accountable to three goals in each of three areas: how will they make themselves better, how will they make their team better, and how will they make their school or community better.

Center for American Progress / Public Policy Polling found that eight in 10 voters (79 percent) agree that we should create a set of high quality academic standards or goals in English and math and let communities develop their own curriculum and strategies to meet these goals.

Our mission is to provide a caring environment of high expectations, individualized attention, and great teaching via a distance learning delivery system that is sufficiently adaptable to help K - 12 students in traditional and non-traditional educational settings achieve their maximum academic potential and life goals.

The goal of government should be to create varied learning opportunities for diverse students and set high academic standards in return for the taxpayers» investment.

He is rising to more academic challenges and setting much higher goals for himself.

Makes academic achievement a high priority and is willing to set aside other priorities to meet this goal

Schools like Summit Public Schools, Lindsay Unified, AF Greenfield, d.Tech High, Roots Elementary, and High Tech High, along with organizations like Transcend Education and the XQ: Super School Project are showing what's possible when we set broad interdisciplinary academic goals, empower students to own their own learning, and foster a diverse student, teacher and parent community.

While states still have to comply with NCLB's mandate of testing students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, with ESSA, they would be permitted to set their own student achievement goals, identify their own academic and non-academic (i.e., school climate, teacher engagement) indicators for accountability, design their own intervention plans for their lowest performing schools, and implement their own teacher evaluation systems.

The campaign, which seeks to focus on homeless students at every stage of academic development, set three goals for the country: young children experiencing homelessness will participate in quality early childhood programs at the same rate as their housed peers by 2026, high school students will reach a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2030, and post-secondary students will reach an attainment rate of 60 percent by 2034.

During class I always set out clear instructional goals to those I teach, promote a culture of excellence at every opportunity and hold my students to extremely high academic standards.