Sentences with phrase «top performing»

US teachers, when compared to international peers from top performing nations, are provided far less planning time, and teach far more instructional hours in far fewer days.

A number of top performing secondaries had expressed an interest in offering these exams, the Department for Education said.

The next set of Pisa global education league tables are published next week, and Wales has been lagging far behind the top performing countries such as Finland.

Then, drawing on a career theme for his work, Tucker focuses, in «Accountability: What the Top Performers Do», on how the top performing school districts around the world set up their successful accountability systems.

Notice the strong gains among the top performing countries.

Then education secretary Nicky Morgan named five «top performing» academy sponsors as beneficiaries of the funding, and tasked them with «improving performance for pupils in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas of the country».

In math, the charter third graders tied for top performing school in the state, surpassing such high - end public school districts as Scarsdale.

The new schedule is the result of studying data, collaborating with teachers, and visiting with several of the top performing schools in the state and aligns well with our mission statement.

The federal start - up dollars helped to launch some of Idaho's top performing charter schools.

Many charter schools fall within the top performing public schools overall in their host districts.

on Top performing cities on NAEP test have the least poverty — but some poor cities do surprisingly well

The college utilizes its Teaching & Urban Reform Network (TURN) program to link teacher candidates with top performing urban schools throughout the Tulsa Public School District to help prospective teachers practice in an urban environment.

In her eight years working at North Star, one of the top performing charter networks in the nation, Ms. Metz was a Dean of Curriculum leading the teachers she coached to over 80 % proficiency on the new, extremely challenging PARCC assessments.

1st charter school to be accredited (2002); among top performing charter schools for PARCC 2014 - 15 and 2015 - 16; subjects taught from a culturally relevant African - Centered worldview; STEM curriculum; monthly science themes, Black History literature review, celebration of ancestors, living s / heroes, & cultural fieldtrips and resources; reputation for family oriented parent participation, student excellence & exemplary character

Valor aims to be among the top performing schools in the country, best known for its rich diversity, world - class development of educators, and ability to personalize education for each teacher and student through the exceptional use of data.

Nicole used her experience with qualitative research and human capital management to first interview ACSA's top performing teachers and then use that to design a career pathway plan to match the diverse needs of the association's teaching staff.

But too often, top performing black, Latino and less advantaged students do not get the attention they need in their schools.

NISL builds the capacity of districts and states to provide education leaders with the critical knowledge and skills they need to be instructional leaders and improve student achievement in their schools based on lessons from top performing education systems.

The well - designed lessons, created by the nation's top performing teachers, have everything a teacher needs; a big idea, the standards, length of time the lesson will take, an introduction, warm - up / engagement activities, homework and / or group work (if applicable), assessments, projects, presentations, videos, exploratory / dig deeper sections, conclusion / wrap - up activities and more.

The development of school leaders that can drive an agenda based on what we know works from top performing systems around the world is one of the best investments a school system can make.»

And then you have Gabriella Charter — which is known for their dance program, and was the top performing K - 8 School in English and 3rd in math.

Schnellenberger says its not fair to cherry - pick top performing charters and compare them against the lowest - performing public schools.

Wilder's Synergy, Celerity Nascent and Endeavor all experienced drops that essentially diminished their ability to say they were truly top performing schools.

The top performing schools for A-G completion are Los Angeles Center for Enriched Studies (89 percent), King - Drew Senior High Medicine and Science Magnet (88 percent), Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies (82 percent), Francisco Bravo Senior High Medical Magnet (81 percent) and Orthopaedic Hospital Senior High Medical Magnet (79 percent).

These schools have little or no oversight and can make all kinds of claims of «Top Performing» or «US World News... Read More

(In Lichtenstein, a top performing country, roughly 250 points separate top and bottom students.

We spent five years as part of Aspire Public Schools — one of the nation's top performing school systems serving low - income communities — closely collaborating with educators to solve «the data problem.»

This exceptional achievement placed Emerald among the top performing high - poverty schools in its state.

Success Academy, and other top performing charter schools that will have the honor of certifying their own teachers have literally knocked the ball out of the park with their performance on NY State assessments.

Innovate Public Schools named seven New Leader schools to its «Top Performing Bay Area Schools of 2016» list, which recognizes schools where underserved students outperform the average for all California students: Voices College - Bound Language Academy; Impact Academy of Arts & Technology; Leadership Public Schools Hayward & Richmond; Montalvin Manor Elementary, Oakland Unity High School, and Richmond College Prep.

Gem Prep: Pocatello will receive a $ 250 Amazon.com gift card, Idaho Math Cup Champion Certificates for top performing students and the Idaho Math Cup trophy!

But we observe that the proportion of the total student population accounted for by special education students in the top performing countries is about half the proportion accounted for by special education students in the United States, and those countries typically do better on equity than we do.

But several of the top performing countries are also home to some of the strongest teachers unions in the world.

At the end of the year, this low - performing class ended up being by far the top performing class I have ever had and I celebrated that with them.

PISA Myth 1: Top performing countries on PISA do well because they don't include all of their students.

Cross-posted from Education Week NCEE has been benchmarking the education systems of the top performing systems worldwide since 1989.

In addition, BVP scholars had an average SAT score 108 points above the state average, ranking among the top performing districts in the state.

Overall, 58 percent of the high - performing districts on the SBAC were also top performers on the CST ELA.12 Nearly three - quarters (72 percent) of the 50 top performing districts on the SBAC ELA were also top performers on the SBAC math.

Long Beach, in fact, has been named one of the top performing school districts in the world, and it has not pursued the Test - and - Punish.

Top performing schools on both assessments are Kipp Raices Academy (Los Angeles Unified), Sanger Academy (Sanger Unified), and John Yehall Elementary (San Francisco Unified), and Robert L. Stevens Elementary (Wright Elementary School District).

This shows that even in top performing school districts, a much lower share of students met the standard on the new test.

Schools are some of the top performing schools in the nation.

KIPP Empower Academy in South Central is the top performing school in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Our Families of Schools database has revealed, for example, that in the top performing school of one «family» of similar schools, 90 % of their disadvantaged pupils achieved a Level 4B — the level most likely to lead to getting five good GCSEs later on - or higher in their Key Stage 2 Maths exam.

The hope was that these changes would make it easier to identify ineffective teachers and remove them from the classrooms, as well as identify and reward top performing teachers.

This is largely because those attending grammar schools have to pass an academic test and only one in 20 pupils among the top performing pupils are on free school meals, they said.

Inspecting top performing schools is a waste of time and money.»

Schools in England and Wales are to be given the power to hand top performing teachers a pay rise of up to 2 %.

Even students in Massachusetts, one of the top performing states in the nation, do no better than average globally, Schleicher noted.

Morgan said the northern hub funding was for «top performing» academy sponsors to «improve performance for pupils in the most challenging areas».