They call for
reaching more students with excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great teachers.
With these models, excellent teachers are accountable for every student's learning, and they and their teams earn more
for reaching more students.
When excellent
teachers reach more students, per - pupil funds are freed to cover higher pay and other priorities — in some cases for all teachers, not just the best.
Teachers who
reach more students directly or by leading teams can earn more within recurring budgets, advancing their careers while continuing to teach.
The other is the capacity of blended models to let
schools reach more students with excellent teachers who ensure that students achieve ambitious, personally fulfilling goals.
The second potential dose is less hyped, but probably more important for learning outcomes: the potential to enable the best in - person teachers to
reach more students with personalized instruction.
Any backlash we feared was apparently quelled by the designs these teams chose: They focused as much on developing excellence among peers
as reaching more students with excellence directly.
Implementation of the grant program is running smoothly so far, and charter school operators have testified to the legislature's Education Oversight Committee about their new ability to
reach more students due to these grants, said Marcus Brandon, executive director of
Teachers we have worked with report that when equipped with effective brain - based frameworks, knowledge, and strategies that assist them to deliver such instruction, they can
successfully reach more students more of the time.
In contrast, the researchers» findings were mixed for teachers
who reached more students directly without an MCL's leadership.
Khan and his kindred may be able to overcome that, but it reinforces the importance
of reaching more students with excellent instruction — live and online — during the 35 hours per week they are already in school.
This will not only double the amount of prize money given to students and schools, but will also be used to support new outreach and equity programs to
reach more students across US, encouraging interest and participation in science, technology, engineering, and math research (STEM), Maya Ajmera, president and CEO of the Society for Science and the Public (SSP), told Business Insider.
Fewer than half of students who are eligible for a free or reduced - price lunch also participate in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), but breakfast - in - the - classroom is a proven strategy to
reach more students during the morning meal.
In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed
at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.
• Pay that is substantially higher — potentially doubling to six figures on average, within budget — becomes doable when
teams reach more students than is possible in today's one - teacher - one - classroom mode, and when schools shift other spending to teacher pay.
The two we profile — American history teacher Scott Nolt and precalculus teacher Caitlyn Gironda — both exceeded growth targets
while reaching more students, despite having less face - to - face time with students.
On reaching more students through great blended learning: «Technology in education is one of the most exciting, terrifying and threatening developments for teachers today.
We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful
ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.
Great teachers tell us they spend far too much time searching and cobbling — time they could
spend reaching more students and leading peers.
In - line with our mission to provide the highest quality of education to minority and low - income students, we've scaled our STEMbyTAF academic model used at our academy to partner with public schools and
effectively reach more students.
Many of our partners have also gone beyond traditional breakfast in the café and offer alternatives to
reach more students such as breakfast in the classroom (BIC) and grab «n go.
Lastly, the growth of dual - enrollment programs is being driven by educators» desire to see the programs»
benefits reach more students, including those in low - income urban and rural communities.
In many schools, other teachers, including those on MCLs» teams,
also reach more students with blended learning or specialization.
All the schools had to design models that adhered to the five Reach Extension Principles, which call
for reaching more students with excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great teachers.
In contrast to the big gains seen under MCLs, the researchers found the results mixed for teachers who
reached more students directly without an MCL's leadership, and least favorable for teachers who added extra online time in a direct - reach role.
Instead, he spoke about his strategic goals and priorities for the year — specifically, how he planned to spend more time in classrooms coaching teachers, providing professional development tailored to the needs of his staff, and
reaching more students in Greenville who would benefit from LEAD's rigorous academic program.
Implementation of the grant program is running smoothly so far, and charter school operators have testified to the legislature's Education Oversight Committee about their new ability to
reach more students due to these grants, said Marcus Brandon, executive director of NorthCarolinaCAN.
This frees multi-classroom leaders and team teachers to
reach more students without increasing instructional group sizes, and to plan and improve together based on data about student progress each week.
Most recently, Emily helped launch the Opportunity Culture Initiative, Public Impact's effort to develop and refine school and staffing models for
reaching more students with excellent teachers.
Teachers are redesigning their schools» roles and schedules so that great
teachers reach more students, and most teachers work in teams led by excellent teachers.
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He founded the company after tutoring multiple students in math every week, as a way to
reach more students that required his help.
Schools across the country are utilizing various locations and methods to
reach more students and ensure every child starts their day with a balanced, nutritious breakfast.
We can always make our classes better,
reach more students and better serve our current clients.
In Public Impact's Opportunity Culture initiative — which highlights the potential of using job redesign and technology to
reach more students with excellent teachers, for more pay, within budget — Denise Watts saw a key way to reach her ambitious goals.
The bottom line is by offering the program to the entire student body, I am
reaching more students and providing them an opportunity to engage in much - needed enrichment.
After observing how effectively student - led meetings worked for kids with academic and behavioral issues, UPCS is now expanding student - led meetings to
reach more students, whether they're thriving or need extra support.
Nearly all the school teams chose to combine several models to
reach more students with great teachers, add team collaboration time, and let excellent teachers lead and develop their peers.
One school came up with its own model, a «time - time swap» (a variation on a time - technology swap described here), in which paraprofessionals supervise some student learning time at school — not unusual except that it will be scheduled to enable teachers to
reach more students and collaborate in teams.
For several years, we've been asking teachers and districts to imagine: imagine schools and a profession where all teachers can improve their teaching, be rewarded for getting better, and
reach more students with excellent instruction — by creating an Opportunity Culture for teachers and students.
They can use that surplus to
reach more students — in some cases up to 3 or 4 times as many students if they also specialize in what they teach best.