Sentences with phrase «students reach that bar»

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Here in Houston ISD, for example, Aramark (our FSMC) has put really lovely «made to order panini bars» in several Houston high schools, but the food is totally out of reach for the majority of our students, 80 % + of whom are F / R.

To date, more than 5,000 salad bars have been donated to schools nationwide, reaching 3 million students with healthy options at lunchtime.

During my school food career, I also founded the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF), which has reached over 7,000 schools and more than 2.6 million students with healthy school food programming, including Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools, a grant program that has donated almost 5,000 salad bars to school cafeterias since 2Bars to Schools, a grant program that has donated almost 5,000 salad bars to school cafeterias since 2bars to school cafeterias since 2010.

«Teachers across the state are working hard to help students reach the high bar we've set for them.

The commissioner said helping students reach the higher bar set by the Common Core is «our shared challenge.»

However, in requiring that all students meet this bar, it also communicates that the administration believes every student is capable of reaching this standard, and it obligates the school to provide the tools and support for students to succeed.

But, whatever their individual circumstances, all students do better when their teachers set the bar high — and expect them to reach for it.

Or has NAEP set its proficiency bar at a level beyond the normal reach of a student in 8th grade?

In no country in the world does a majority of the students reach the NAEP proficiency bar set in 8th - grade reading.

We've written here and here about the importance figuring out as a nation how to «extend the reach» of great teachers to more students, since great teachers accountable for student learning are the one «intervention» we know can close achievement gaps and raise the bar for all students.

After reaching a new agreement with a private Missouri contractor that serves Chapter 1 students in religious schools, the Education Department has dropped its bid for a one - year stay in Missouri's implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision barring Chapter 1 remedial teachers from such schools.

These schools are also under policy pressure to get more of their students up to the «proficient» bar, with few resources to spare for fast learners who have already reached it.

In the NCLB era, schools could narrow the proficiency gap by helping students reach a relatively low bar, even if more affluent students were achieving well over that bar.

Courtney DeLeon, a physics teacher in Texas, wrote that careful preparation helps her reach a diverse group of students: «You don't change the bar of rigor, but how they reach it is always negotiable.

In a troubling picture of performance, the vast majority of Illinois students failed to reach the high academic bar on the new state PARCC exams, meaning they weren't on track academically for the next grade level, let alone for college or careers.

But at the same time, those numbers are tainted by some districts who, under pressure to meet federal standards, simply lowered the academic bar to help more students reach it.

For Lavely, the chance to change school culture to cultivate excellence and reach high bars with all students through leading other teachers — while remaining in the classroom herself — has proved irresistible.

Considering that only 40 % of fourth - grade students, 33 % of eighth - grade students, and 25 % of twelfth - grade students scored proficient or above on the 2015 NAEP math assessment, 6 this may seem like a high bar to reach — but it's not impossible.

The Syracuse City School District (SCSD) is setting a higher bar for students and staff alike — and doing more than ever to help them reach it.

Here are Zimmer's comments on the district's online credit recovery program, administered by companies including Edgenuity, which has been scrutinized for its rigor amid the district's recent announcement that its graduation has reached a record 75 percent even as the bar has been raised with the requirement that students pass the A through G, the course criteria established by UC faculty.

As our students excel in Advanced Placement courses, thrive in dual - enrollment classes at local community colleges, and consistently reach an increasingly higher academic bar, they prove that there is no reason for alternative schools to expect anything less from their students than academic excellence.

By lumping these new standards in with other hot - button issues, we dilute the conversation our schools need to have about the best ways to help students reach this higher bar.

Setting a high bar, providing a way to reach the goal, and helping students achieve their full potential.

While we set the bar high, we provide students the support they need to reach and exceed expectations so they become engaged learners who take risks, ask questions, think critically and communicate well.

At the other end of the spectrum, three high - poverty DCPS schools had no students meet that bar in English, and eight had none who reached it in math.

Our team knows how to move educators past what the Standards are to how they can be implemented to meet expectations for rigor and reach a higher bar for student achievement.

On the PARCC test, for example, School Without Walls — a selective DCPS school with a relatively affluent student body — saw 97 % of its students reach the «college and career ready» bar in English and 76 % in math.

We believe that our students» success has shown that alternative schools not only need to challenge their students to reach a high academic bar, but that they must also be held accountable for delivering results on par with public school systems.

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On top of our other regular events, this weekend they have co-sponsored a pro bono project with the American Bar Association's Animal Law Committee where law students and others will receive training in the Humane Education Advocates Reaching Teachers (HEART) program.

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First, law schools are now given five years, not two, to meet the 75 % bar passage standard, and can reach this goal based upon identifying the results for only 70 % of the students in a graduating class.

To provide context for the discussion, students were asked to read a paper by John H. Langbein on the historical foundation of the law of evidence, as well as the recent Canadian Bar Association report, Reaching Equal Justice: An Invitation To Envision And Act.