Sentences with phrase «together on common standards»

Manuel, Washington Post - «How Gates Pulled Off The Swift Common Core Revolution»»... Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states» rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration... The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers... Read More

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Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

By working together through a myriad of challenging scenarios, ELAC, Oxfam and their collaborators ultimately hope to create a handbook on humanitarian intervention that will outline common moral dilemmas and ethical standards for resolving them that can be applied by practitioners around the world.

Elia — who previously said she intends to work together with the task force — said Monday that her agency will soon launch a survey to let people comment on every Common Core standard as part of its review.

Westerberg: Time should be provided for teachers to get together at the course or department level on a regular basis to identify big - picture course learning goals, rubrics, or scoring guides that delineate expected student performance standards; that is, what good work looks like for each goal, and common assessment items or tasks that evaluate student performance vis — vis key elements of each rubric.

Kestell, the chair of the Assembly Committee on Education, also predicted that a group put together to rewrite the Common Core English language and math standards likely would produce something similar.

Districts have already been working together on implementing the Common Core standards, one of the requirements for a waiver, Miller said.

Students and teachers come together to decide the best learning strategies for individual students based on a set of common challenging academic standards.

As states and districts adopt and implement new academic standards based on Common Core State Standards, it is critical to enable and examine ways for teachers to work and learn together with a shared goal of strengthening curriculum design, classroom practices, and student work products.

«He sees within teachers their true power to work together to improve resources and outcomes for teachers and students alike,» said David Coleman, one of the authors of the common - core standards and a founder of Student Achievement Partners, a nonprofit aimed at creating and disseminating materials, based on the common core, to improve teacher and student achievement.

The Common Core State Standards were based on the idea that there are potential benefits to states of working together to develop high - quality standards for K — 12: improved quality, increased efficiency, and higher likelihood of implementation.

Key features include course units aligned to common core and state standards together with local district frameworks, interactive media - driven lessons focused on core concepts and skills, closed captioning and definitions of key academic terms, embedded subject specific Tier 2 vocabulary, on - going formative assessments, summative unit tests, teacher support materials, and at - home parental involvement learning tools — all designed to be used in concert with the district's instructional program.

To measure students» progress toward those standards, 44 states and the District are working together to create assessments based on the common set of standards developed by educators, governors and state education chiefs.

She noted that it has long been a goal within the industry to develop a common set of standards, but that this is the first time that so many key organizations have come together to work on them.