Sentences with phrase «term goals of the school»

In 2001, the Kentucky Board of Education adopted a strategic plan based on the long - term goal of all schools and students reaching a high standard of proficiency by 2014.

While we all agree that raising proficiency levels of students is the long - term goal of schools, its sole use as an annual school improvement metric is inadequate.

Not exact matches

Its long - term goal, according to senior director of data science Jim Baer, is to build the «economic graph,» a totalizing representation of «every opportunity in the world, and every worker, every school, and every entity.»

The school didn't bother making up reasons related to the university's vision or the athletic department's long - term goals — it basically just said «We're tired of not being awesome at football.»

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.

From Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Experiments at Stanford University beginning in the 1960's to a current study from the Graduate School of Education at UCSF, the conclusions have not changed: Impulse control, or the ability to plan ahead and defer gratification, enhances a child's ability to fulfill long - term goals.

This course will help you create a roadmap for long - term change so you can meet your goal of serving the highest quality food to kids in school every day.

Breakfast Challenge awards will be given to schools each term who reach the challenge goal of increasing student ADP in the SBP by 25 %.

LeBarre said the bond measure was approved because the school district worked with members of the community, discussing the need for resources to help boost their children's long - term success with improved nutrition and the plans for how the funds will be used to accomplish these goals.

To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.

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Current discussions of grit in education focus on the need for students to pursue long - term goals — such as going to college or becoming a nurse — and to hang in there when trying to learn challenging material in school.

«The goal of this program is to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice,» Fischer says.

Part of her goal is to help schools move beyond binary categorizations like «ELL» and «English proficient» and to recognize that language diversity brings challenges but also long - term benefits.

San Francisco's groundbreaking economic - desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of racial diversity in the schools, given the connection between racial and economic status.

â $ œThe goal of this program is to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice, â $ Fischer says.

â $ œThe goal of this program, â $ according to Fischer, â $ œis to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice.

«My goals in coming were to update myself in terms of technology applied to education; reflect about new ways of thinking, teaching, and learning aligned to the 21st century; and improve the approach that we have developed in our schools,» she says.

We all, from the youngest kindergartner to the oldest middle schooler, decide our schedule and term goals, and help shape the new school with our ideas (see «The Rise of AltSchool and Other Micro-Schools,» what next, Summer 2015).

œThe goal of this program, according to Fischer, œis to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice.

œThe goal of this program is to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice, Fischer says.

«Our research suggests that many senior and middle leaders have a long way to go in terms of setting goals and solving the problems that frequently occur in implementing any strategy,» Bendikson tells RD. «School improvement science suggests that when school leaders really take monitoring and evaluation seriously, they tend to pursue «small wins» in systematic ways, and this can help to build coherent action and teachers» trust in their leaders.&School improvement science suggests that when school leaders really take monitoring and evaluation seriously, they tend to pursue «small wins» in systematic ways, and this can help to build coherent action and teachers» trust in their leaders.&school leaders really take monitoring and evaluation seriously, they tend to pursue «small wins» in systematic ways, and this can help to build coherent action and teachers» trust in their leaders.»

This will ensure the board considers the long - term strategic goals of the school, and makes appropriate decisions to achieve them, rather than being distracted by very detailed issues that may not need their time.

A: In terms of why I do things like ReadBoston and WriteBoston, I started to feel at some point that, because there are so many small projects that schools and communities are involved in, it's very important to get everyone on the same highway — singing from the same hymnbook — about certain goals for kids.

Equity is at the center of our campaign, with the long - term goal of ensuring all communities have access to a high - quality public school.

The goal of Game Change is to implement long - term anti-violence and healthy relationship education in Massachusetts schools, with a focus on developing peer leaders at the high school level who can provide trainings to their middle school counterparts.

That's the theory behind «deeper learning,» a broad term encompassing the goals of an increasing number of U.S. schools and school systems.

Baking in multiple stretch goals for what happens to students after they leave for middle school is effectively a set of bonuses to keep long - term ambitions on the radar of elementary schools.

In light of these socio - cultural changes, educators need to «keep abreast of change» and embrace curriculum design which integrates the authentic ways that students use AR in their «out of school» experiences as a tool that connects them with peers and content as a means to achieve, both short and long term, learning goals.

«Since launching last session, the Anti-Bullying Caucus has helped shine a light on bullying in the United States and the long - term impacts it has on young people who experience, witness, or perpetrate it,» said Representative Honda, «To truly make a difference, we need to explore ways to prevent bullying before it takes hold of a school or community, and we are delighted to highlight the groundbreaking steps being taken by the RFK Center and the Bully Project to achieve these goals.»

Half of the country's schools were labeled as «needing improvement» under the terms of NCLB, namely, their students were not on track to attaining the goal of full proficiency.

Whether schools are part of an RTI or MTSS accountability program, the short and long term goals are always shown as academic, which will always be only part of the whole child.

The award of Accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges indicates that an educational institution has conducted a rigorous, comprehensive self - assessment of its learning community as a whole and has hosted a Visiting Team of peer reviewers to evaluate and validate its alignment with the Standards for Accreditation in terms of its own stated educational goals.

Once a student has reached high school, his or her long - term goals (such as college and career) should be incorporated in a section of the IEP called the Individualized Transition Program (ITP).

That second finding, in particular, will have a positive impact if it prompts school districts to clearly define what teacher effectiveness looks like and to measure professional development programs in terms of how they help teachers get closer to that goal.

For some people, the term strategic planning brings to mind a disciplined and thoughtful process that links the values, mission, and goals of a school system with a set of coherent strategies and tasks designed to achieve those goals.

Almost two decades of CMAIE research findings and publications point to the following long - term goal: to provide research - based, innovative music and arts - in - education practices that will serve as a foundation for a designated laboratory school program in every U.S. school district.

The long - term goal of this service learning project is to increase the chances that students will be motivated to stay in school, says lead teacher Stephanie Junod.

«It's hard to find consistent, long - term, high - quality service learning,» says Sarah Pearson of the American Youth Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. Pearson's recent report, Finding Common Ground: Service Learning and Education Reform (2002), establishes the compatibility between the goals of comprehensive school reform models and those of service learning.

7.2 A formal transition process for students from entry to exit which includes the following elements: an orientation which consists of rapport building, assessment of the student, IEP review, information and record sharing regarding the student, short and long - term goal setting, development of an individualized student plan, and other mechanisms designed to orient the student to the alternative education setting is in place at exemplary schools.

Much as charter schools are partners with the district in working towards our common goal of ensuring all students in Los Angeles receive a high quality education, we hope to be partners in finding long - term facilities solutions, which comply with the law, to accommodate all public school students.»

Steppingstone stood out to me as a volunteer opportunity because it not only helps students with academics in the short term, but follows them through high school with the goal of getting them into college.

The longer - term goal of co-operation is to develop models for recognition of skills and to include more opportunities for taking university courses as a part of high school studies.

The goal of this long - term partnership, which started in late October 2015, is to accelerate learning and put Ray D. Molo Middle School students on track for college and career success.

«Equally, a narrative that perpetuates the notion that LAUSD schools are failures may increase the short - term goal of increasing charter schools and reinforces deficit mindsets.

She said energy efficiency was a «long - held goal» of the Department for Education, although some schools were currently in long - term deals with energy companies that «may have punitive get - out clauses».

Our goal should be hiring and retaining quality teachers that want to live, play, and worship in our communities long - term, instead of marking off days until a loan is forgiven and entrance to graduate school is accomplished.

Our goal from day 1 is to turn over ownership of the new school facility as quickly as possible, using short term leases and our team of real estate, construction, and lending partners.

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.

She left the Bush administration before his second term ended and has since researched and written about the goals of «reform» that parents and teachers and societies may disagree with — get rid of or render toothless any unions, punish teachers for any failure of a student or a school, close as many public schools as possible in order to open private, for - profit schools run by foundations whose motives and agendas are not fully visible.