Sentences with phrase «student learning and achievement across»

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In their analysis, they found that Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) had highly promising and significant evidence of effectiveness (six studies across multiple states) to support the positive impact the program has on student achievement.

With the development — finally — of better measures of student learning that came from tracking achievement across grades comes the ability to see where success and failure reside.

Ms Rodgers, who most recently served as Deputy Secretary, Early Learning and Student Achievement at the New Zealand Ministry of Education, has experience in improving system effectiveness with school leaders across education and the wider social sector.

But it is showing that with commitment and a willingness to experiment, blended learning has great potential not just for improving efficiency and reducing costs, but for boosting student achievement across the board.

«Reading enables achievement in every dimension of life, and we have an extraordinary opportunity to combine knowledge of how individuals learn with technologies that will put remarkable interventions within reach for students across the country,» Harvard President Drew Faust said.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

In contrast, our recommendations are designed to support teachers to make reliable assessments of particular aspects of learning and achievement that can be compared across schools and used directly in the calculation of students» subject results and thus tertiary admissions ranks — without prior scaling against an external test or examination.

«Equipped with the insights of both HGSE staff and colleagues from throughout the nation and across the globe, we are implementing reforms which are closing achievement gaps, prompting greater diversity in advanced course enrollment, engaging students at higher levels, and are thus becoming more equitable institutions of learning.»

In this webinar, NTC and district partners will outline: • The challenges districts face sifting through what works and investing in programs that increase student learning and achievement • The evidence - based programs and research that have proven to increase student learning • How such programs have been successfully implemented in districts and schools across the country.

Having served 1,400 students annually for the past two years, and hundreds annually before that, and boasting an average pass - rate for original credit courses of 91 % each year, Bend - La Pine has fine - tuned their online learning programs to meet the many and varied needs of students across the district, including: • How to use online learning to help balance student schedules • How to monitoring student progress carefully to stay on track • How to involve parents to keep them aware of their child's achievement or problem areas • Lessons learned from launching a Virtual School Program

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

KXAN Educates, in partnership with E3 Alliance, is an initiative designed to provide parents and the community with perspectivez and resources to improve student progress, learning and achievement across Central Texas.

Effective grammar instruction across grade levels and content areas is key to increasing student achievement and learning.

«On average, summer vacation creates a three - month gap in reading achievement between students from low - and middle - income families... even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across the elementary years, resulting in a large achievement gap by the time students enter high school.»

Our work to develop the leadership skills of experienced educators to impact student achievement across a school, to retain great educators in high poverty schools, and to increase student learning is made possible by their generous investments and belief in the potential of teacher leadership.

She works with school district administrators and teachers across the country to customize and deliver systemic approaches to literacy development through instructional practices that integrate culture, language, and cognition to expand and accelerate student learning and achievement.

in partnership with E3 Alliance, is an initiative designed to provide parents and the community with perspective and resources to improve student progress, learning and achievement across Central Texas.

KXAN Educates, in partnership with E3 Alliance, is an initiative designed to provide parents and the community with perspective and resources to improve student progress, learning and achievement across Central Texas.

These educational benefits stretch across many realms of student learning and development, including academic achievement, social and interpersonal skills, workplace preparation, and civic engagement.

BELLEVUE, Wash. — March 8, 2018 — DreamBox Learning ®, which pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning ™ technology used in schools across the U.S. and Canada, and NWEA ®, the leading not - for - profit provider of cutting - edge assessment solutions, today announced they have partnered to empower teachers with additional ways to use data, differentiate assignments, and improve student achievement.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Diverse learning environments benefit all students, and the benefits stretch across many realms of student learning and development, including academic achievement, social and interpersonal skills, workplace preparation, and civic engagement.

Educators across the country are designing and building new personalized learning models to realize the vision of accelerated student achievement, and the field is evolving rapidly.

The study identified 13 best practices across three dimensions of teacher behaviors and strategies which are correlated to significantly higher levels of student achievement in an online learning environment.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

A recent study examined how much of the achievement gap in math between rich and poor 15 - year - old students can be attributed to what material the kids are learning in school, and it found, across 33 countries, that schools are teaching rich kids vastly different math content than poor kids.

[i] Beyond the impact on student achievement, student participation in blended learning seamlessly «expands technology access and integration across the curriculum,» a stated priority of the Therrell Cluster.

A 2012 article titled «Physical Activity Strategies for Improved Cognition: The mind / body connection,» referenced a study on Australian elementary students that found «across age and sex, academic ratings were significantly correlated with measures of physical activity» and that «it can be concluded that daily quality physical education appears to increase the rate of learning and is positively related to academic achievement.»

The exemplary teachers in the Center for English Learning and Achievement studies used practices that fostered improvements in student learning across the curLearning and Achievement studies used practices that fostered improvements in student learning across the curlearning across the curriculum.

Project LIFT's long - term goals are to significantly improve student achievement in the following ways: 1) 90 % of students will achieve proficiency in math and English across the Learning Community; 2) 90 % of students will meet annual growth goals in math and English; and, 3) 90 % of West Charlotte High School (WCHS) students will graduate on time.

Gaps in achievement are apparent across racial and ethnic groups and for students from low - income families, students with disabilities, and students learning English and their peers.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

Family engagement is a shared responsibility of families, schools, and communities for student learning and achievement; it is continuous from birth to young adulthood; and it occurs across multiple settings where children learn.

For example, across eight districts implementing Linked Learning, students who entered pathways with low prior achievement were underrepresented in pathways in three districts and overrepresented in pathways in two districts.

Ultimately, skunkworks may lead, over time, to a shift in the opportunity and achievement gaps prevalent in schools, leverage student voice, increase the use of higher impact strategies, shift staff and department meeting agendas to focus more time on learning, and begin developing new forms of problem - solving across a system that focuses primarily on learning.

Built from the company's Literacy First Framework, a three - year professional development program proven to create a school culture of learning and achievement, the Core Instructional Model professional development focuses on consistency and coherence across a school and district for leaders, teachers, and students.

We support school leaders in building effective, collaborative teams focused sharply on student achievement, continuous improvement, and celebrating learning across the school.

Flocabulary is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip - hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum.

Flocabulary is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip - hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum.