Sentences with phrase «weeks of additional learning»

By the second year of implementation, performance bonuses improved reading and math achievement by 1 to 2 percentile points — the equivalent of about four weeks of additional learning.

Not exact matches

This week, neighborhood activists learned City Councilwoman Margaret Chin has allocated an additional $ 400,000 (on top of $ 550,000 her office already earmarked for the project).

In the coming weeks we will evaluate all learnings from this unprecedented hurricane and the resulting flooding, to assess if there are additional procedures and process safety efforts that could further inform and enhance the safety performance of our operations in the future.

Elementary school students will study mathematics for an hour a day, or an additional 20 minutes of instruction, and will learn science for 150 minutes per week, an increase of 30 minutes.

Yesterday, Education Week's Madeline Will reported on findings from a new study that pairing new teachers with high - quality, well - trained mentors results in the equivalent of up to five months of additional learning for their students.

Additional honors include being selected as the Florida Virtual School Superintendent of the Year, Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Superintendent of the Year, Champion District Superintendent of the Year for Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools, Florida Department of Education's District Data Leader of the Year Finalist, 2014 Leader to Learn From by Education Week, and 2015 Hispanic - Serving School District Superintendent of the Year.

They found «a modest, statistically significant, positive effect on student test scores,» which they quantified as three additional weeks of learning per year in American schools (and four weeks when international studies were included).

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

They lose additional weeks of learning time.

Released in the wake of last week's report about charter schools in New York City, the study found that compared with the academic progress that students made in regular public schools, students in charter schools in Massachusetts gained an additional one and a half more months of learning per year in reading and an additional two and a half more months of learning per year in math.

As we close out a full week of discussions, presentations, and inspirational stories from state, local, regional, and national leaders across the entire U.S. economy - this cross-sectoral panel will reflect back on what we learned, how we can continue to harness our ambitions into additional actions, and how we can continue to work together - across all sectors to demonstrate to the rest of the world that We Are Still In.