Sentences with phrase «traditional high school curriculum»

The traditional high school curriculum is narrow, which particularly hurts low - achieving students who may not be pursuing a four - year degree but need to develop career skills.

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Finally, Joan Roberts, is a former home economics teacher, inspired us with her vision of a curriculum for the high school and college level to educate men and women of reproductive age to eat traditional nutrient - dense foods for at least six months prior to conception in order to fortify their bodies to give birth to optimally healthy children.

For example, dissatisfaction with performance in a charter middle school that is not captured by test scores (such as discipline issues or a poor fit between the student's interests or ability and the curriculum being offered) could lead parents to choose to send their child to a traditional public high school.

Given what we know about learning, why don't schools look more like California's High Tech High, with its emphasis on project - based team problem solving and the relevance of curricula that cross traditional content domains?

THE Journal recognized Dr. Keruskin as one of the top innovative administrators in the country, because of his development of a high school gaming curriculum, FABLabs, converting traditional school libraries into media centers, 1:1 iPad initiative, personalized learning and the founder of the Pittsburgh SMALLab Consortium and the Pittsburgh FAB Network.

«A co-op on steroids,» she says.The curriculum, which runs from prekindergarten through high school, includes classes in traditional subjects like chemistry and music theory.

Consistency with Curriculum: As it has since 2009, Connects works with the district's high school department chairs to build courses in accordance with the material being taught in traditional classrooms.

USC Hybrid High School combines a traditional «no excuses» model with a blended learning model that embeds technology across the curriculum and schooSchool combines a traditional «no excuses» model with a blended learning model that embeds technology across the curriculum and schoolschool day.

Putting an end to traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high - quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory curricula.

And they include quite a variety: Benjamin Franklin High, a traditional neighborhood school that has been struggling for decades; ARISE Academy, a charter school, which closed earlier this year; and The Workshop School, which seeks to foster creativity, risk - taking and responsibility among its students through a curriculum focused on solving real - world proschool that has been struggling for decades; ARISE Academy, a charter school, which closed earlier this year; and The Workshop School, which seeks to foster creativity, risk - taking and responsibility among its students through a curriculum focused on solving real - world proschool, which closed earlier this year; and The Workshop School, which seeks to foster creativity, risk - taking and responsibility among its students through a curriculum focused on solving real - world proSchool, which seeks to foster creativity, risk - taking and responsibility among its students through a curriculum focused on solving real - world problems.

We have heard the call from communities to better align our high school and elementary curricula; to strengthen our traditional neighborhood schools through programs such as International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes and STEM; and create opportunities for more students to attend Selective Enrollment schools, Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs, and service leadership schools These investments respond to those calls and build on several years of progress in which CPS has provided over $ 33 million for CTE, IB, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math programs.

Thanks to AYP, traditional districts — especially those in suburbia — have been exposed for failing to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

Four excellent public charters that have adopted Common Core, per state law, but continue to offer an excellent education and curricula are Adams Traditional Academy, Benjamin Franklin Charter Schools, Heritage Academy, and Jefferson Preparatory High School (currently offering grades 9 - 10, but will be adding grades 11 and 12).

In Maine, the primary purpose of the 21st CCLC program is to provide school and community partnerships with funding to establish or expand programs that provide students in high - need, economically - disadvantaged communities with academic enrichment opportunities designed to complement traditional school day curriculum.

New curriculum for high school math and middle school ELA will complement existing offerings, giving school districts a broad suite of low - cost, standards - aligned alternatives to traditional textbooks.

As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high - quality teaching and curricula than the big city districts they fled.

If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of traditional districts to provide high - quality teaching, curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).

As a high school English teacher, in addition to being an educator, institutional designer and learning analyst with creative approaches to innovate traditional training strategies and assessment, she has a strong background in curriculum development and solutions for organizational goals.

Increased opportunity for young people to participate in appropriate rites of passage may be achieved by updating traditional ceremonies, continuing and expanding rites of passage programs and including bibliotherapy as part of the high school curriculum.