Sentences with phrase «underachieving students»

As a result of a differentiated literacy program and specific interventions, the percentage of underachieving students in the primary literacy program meeting grade - level literacy benchmarks rose from 55 percent in 2000 to 80 percent in 2003 (Evanston / Skokie School District 65, 2004).

For many teachers, the issue of underachieving students resides in their hearts.

Pioneered an after school program for underachieving students resulting in a 60 % upswing in test scores across all subjects.

Leading underachieving students in poverty to success involves asking the right questions, finding the leverage points, deploying resources effectively, optimizing time, and sharing data effectively.

Still, what of the thousands of other underachieving students living in poverty and failing in schools that have yet to transform?

Improvement of dispositions toward teaching and learning of underachieving students from poverty and minority groups; and

Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students (AEGUS) AEGUS provides a forum where people can share ideas and interventions that seek to help twice - exceptional students to achieve their full potential.

The Armory's school - based artist residencies deliver exemplary visual arts education programs that support cross-curricular learning, targeting underachieving students at Title I schools.

Perry Beeches III free school has been placed in «special measures» following a highly critical Ofsted report which witnessed underachieving students and «inadequate» teaching.

«I think my favorite thing about the senior project is that it creates a sort of level playing field on which even a customarily underachieving student can excel,» added Camp.

Even with the development of a comprehensive instructional framework that leads to improvement in the quality of classroom teaching and learning, underachieving students who live in poverty may need additional support.

This Focus On describes instructional strategies that are effective for students with disabilities and that have also been shown to be effective in raising the achievement outcomes of underachieving students without identified disabilities.

Yes, but doesn't the first effect you mention happen because there is a relatively small number of underachieving students sent to an achieving evironment?

Prior to a university - based workshop, 2 weeks of structured activities using the Model of Digital Storytelling (Figg, 2005) focused on rich language development, oral history, and movie - making technology in a community - based summer enrichment program designed for underachieving student learners.

Research shows that gains in student achievement are possible when parents support students» learning at home, particularly for traditionally underachieving students.

To paraphrase this piece from the Associated Press, civil rights groups fear these waivers are dimming the spotlight on traditionally - underachieving student groups:

In this engaging webinar, ASCD authors Francis Bailey and Ken Pransky explore some classroom implications and applications of the current research on human memory and learning, drawn from their 2014 ASCD book, Memory at Work in the Classroom: Strategies to Help Underachieving Students.

There is dual benefit to this: while the school environment becomes more accepting and thus safer, historically disengaged and underachieving students become involved in engendering school change.

The teacher was perceived as having high but realistic expectations for the academically underachieving student.

The Florida Department of Education awarded $ 2.7 million to the college in 2015 to create a dynamic research center where UF education faculty are vigorously transforming teacher preparation for elementary teachers so they can have a greater impact on student learning, especially among historically underachieving students.

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In Part III, Working Together: Continuing the Commitment to Lead Underachieving Students in Poverty to Success, we briefly reiterate the interactive, dynamic nature of the components of the Framework for Action and challenge all of us — educators and other stakeholders — to confront the reasons we have not yet ensured that every high - poverty school is high performing.

It is certainly true, as Haney has said, that one of the Florida reforms was to curtail social promotion of underachieving students from 3rd to 4th grade.

He serves on the boards of the Colorado Association for Gifted and Talented, the Association for the Education of Gifted Underachieving Students and the National Association for Gifted Children.

The law was designed to favor applicants seeking to target underachieving students.

Underachieving students living in poverty often require more instructional time to catch up to their higher - achieving peers.

Web - based learning tools can help deepen science knowledge among all middle school students, and ease the science literacy gap for underachieving students, according to a three - year study published today in the International Journal of Science Education.

Part I, Learning Together: Getting Ready to Lead Underachieving Students in Poverty to Success (Chapters 1 through 4), lays the groundwork for informed conversations among colleagues and future action planning.

What happens if now you send a large number of underachieving students to the good school?

Positive affirmations have been used to: change behavior in underachieving students; increase nurses» and doctors» well - being and lower their stress levels; reduce breast cancer patients» cortisol levels; and heighten athletic performance.

In Part II, Leading Together: Taking Action to Lead Underachieving Students in Poverty to Success (Chapters 5 through 10), we provide specific examples of the actions that leaders in HP / HP schools have taken to build leadership capacity, foster the necessary learning environment, and improve learning.

Charter schools will not be a panacea for every underachieving student.

You'd sort of hope professional educators could remedy that for the rest of us, because they're the ones demanding perpetual tests and holding every underachiever accountable — underachieving students, laggard teachers and flaccid schools.

Among the reasons for the high costs at low - performing schools are higher costs for security and more programs for underachieving students, which can be very expensive, according to Frank Johnson, an expert on school finances at the Department of Education.

What if your next faculty meeting began with this question: What are the strengths of our underachieving students?

Networked with teachers and aids to develop robust connections with other educators interested in promoting academic performance in underachieving students.