Sentences with phrase «whole school models»

Less than two years after NGLC originally announced the breakthrough model grant program, the organization is seeing growing interest in whole school models from a more diverse pool of applicants, receiving nearly 100 eligible proposals.

For developing whole school models that provide more effective learning environments for diverse learners.

The first grant opportunity for Breakthrough School Models for College Readiness launched in October 2011 and awarded grant funding to 20 districts and charter school operators developing new, whole school models.

When Gosline went online looking for answers to the problem, there just wasn't much information out there, particularly about using a whole school model approach to bullying.

Gifted Education as a Whole School Model Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli, director of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, advocates for lessons that challenge all levels of learners, including gifted students.

Internship, Personalized Learning, Real World Learning, Self Directed Learning, Student Voice, Whole School Model

Community, Evidence Based, Family Engagement, Open Educational Resource, Professional Development, Project Based Learning, Whole School Model

Character Education, Empathy, Holistic, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Psychology, Wellbeing, Whole School Model

Community, Developing economy, Dropout Prevention, Equity, Interdisciplinary, Partnership, Whole School Model

Assessment, Developing economy, Inquiry Based Learning, Leadership, Learning Environment, Motivation, Passion based learning, Project Based Learning, Whole School Model

The task of the new organization was: (1) to develop a research - based whole school model, and (2) to create a capacity - building training system — based on the long - standing philosophy and process of Tribes.

Expeditionary Learning is a nationally recognized whole school model for educational reform.

Not exact matches

EL's whole - school reform model combines a highly detailed, interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on active learning, teamwork, and character education with training and coaching for teachers and school leaders.

The Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model is an expansion and update of the Coordinated School Health (CSH) approach.

CSH programs have helped to establish policies and practices in states, districts, and schools across the nation, and will see continued success within the expanded Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

Finch's ideas about senescence from his grad school days have also held up: The popularity of the Hayflick model has declined as other research questioned its relevance to aging in whole organisms, and recent studies in long - lived nematodes have confirmed Finch's hunch that brain hormones control aging (see Johnson Review).

Karen is confident in crediting the whole school approach to health and wellbeing as promoted by the Healthy Schools model for the success of the school and its staff and pupils.

Karen approached her tenure as head at Worcesters by adopting the Healthy Schools model and using it as an improvement tool across the whole school.

My goal was to create a model that integrates research - based strategies into a unified whole that provides direction and coherence to school improvement efforts.

Specifically, the course will explore (1) the historical and theoretical foundations of inclusive education; (2) research related to implementation; (3) research related to inclusive education; (4) whole - school change models of inclusive education including response to intervention and universal design for learning; (5) controversies surrounding inclusion; and (6) considerations and reservations concerning inclusion as it impacts specific disability populations and age groups.

The other teachers liked what they saw of Kate, Naomi and Natalie's new, more systematic approach, and the principal rolled the model out across the whole school.

Patty Berganza's original high school, like the vast majority of schools in the United States, used the familiar model known as «whole group instruction.»

«Administrators build their credibility as instructional leaders when they consistently demonstrate classroom expertise by modeling instructional practices, collaborating on curricular initiatives, and enacting the classroom culture they envision for the whole school,» she says.

The education marketplace is crowded with competing «whole school reform» models, such as Success for All, Accelerated Schools, and Core Knowledge, all promising remarkable gains in student achievement, especially among disadvantaged students.

These «whole school» models appear to offer the kind of dedication to high achievement, as well as reinforcement from similarly focused peers, that serve students with exceptional abilities well.

And she believes there is room in education for a whole - school model where this is the focus.

A number of schools appear to have responded with whole - school reform models or a new curriculum — also options for schools in corrective action.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

Emotional Health at School offers a whole school framework (for staff, pupils, parents) as a pro-active model allowing all members of the school community to develop positive relationships, feelings of competence, agency and self - determinSchool offers a whole school framework (for staff, pupils, parents) as a pro-active model allowing all members of the school community to develop positive relationships, feelings of competence, agency and self - determinschool framework (for staff, pupils, parents) as a pro-active model allowing all members of the school community to develop positive relationships, feelings of competence, agency and self - determinschool community to develop positive relationships, feelings of competence, agency and self - determination.

Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the sSchool in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the sschool initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the schoolschool.

A whole school approach There are a number of models for introducing and embedding CRE within the school.

A major push to strengthen the cultivation of future leaders is overdue, and any such push should include careful attention to the «whole school» model.

We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.

EW: You say that the current whole school anti-bullying models are not effective.

As they look for strategies to address inequities in schools, communities, and society as whole, books about social justice and ally behavior provide models, stories, and inspiration.

The group searched the country for models that emphasized arts, required a whole - school commitment, were rooted in the daily practice of the classroom teacher, and were shown through research to be effective.

While the GGS model for Positive Education encourages a whole - school approach, the field of Positive Education still has a great deal to offer educators whose schools may not yet have adopted this model.

Ashton Park School Kenya: 22 days Ashton Park School's ongoing link with Kenya is model example of what can be achieved when the whole school community comes together in the name of international educational partnerSchool Kenya: 22 days Ashton Park School's ongoing link with Kenya is model example of what can be achieved when the whole school community comes together in the name of international educational partnerSchool's ongoing link with Kenya is model example of what can be achieved when the whole school community comes together in the name of international educational partnerschool community comes together in the name of international educational partnerships.

It will also explore whether Higher Achievement's new cost - efficient, whole - school model (which serves only children in a middle school feeder system) can achieve the same types of results as its traditional «magnet model.»

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

-- December 17, 2015 Digital Learning + Teacher Leadership: Two New School Models — December 3, 2015 Launching Paid Teacher Leadership with a Union - District Partnership — November 12, 2015 The Whole Package: 12 Factors of High - Impact Teacher - Leader Roles — November 5, 2015 Creating a Statewide Turnaround District: Lessons from Tennessee — October 14, 2015 Start of a Teacher - Led Revolution?

Facing History's engagement with teachers and schools exists on a continuum, from providing professional development, educational resources and support to individual teachers, to implementing a robust whole - school model, which impacts the culture of the entire school.

Participating teams will want help to create innovative school models (whole - school redesign or new school design).

Edward was a part of a cohort of teachers in a middle school that was participating in a unique project to develop a whole - school model for restorative practices.

In 2003, Thorstenson began laying the groundwork to implement a PLC at Work model by having her whole staff read Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes by the DuFours and two other co-authors, and by meeting with the school board, teachers, parents, administrators and union leaders to achieve consensus on going forward with the model.

In the planning grant opportunity, teams from across the Commonwealth will be supported for more than a year with coaching, professional development, and a professional learning community to plan their whole - school redesigned or new school models, accompanied by planning grants of up to $ 150,000.

Over a decade, this mandate would transform New American Schools from a privately funded R&D center that would support only effective whole - school reform models into a savvy service provider for research teams that needed to market and fund their designs.

Passed by Congress in 1997, it provided about $ 150 million for competitive grants to aid schools in adopting «proven» whole - school reform models.

Figure 1 reports the original NCES results for public and private schools (both sectors taken as a whole), and then those from the three alternative models.

Several promising «whole school reform» models, such as «Modern Red Schoolhouse» and «Atlas Schools,» both the products of intense R&D efforts, have been placed on the market, but thus far their record in boosting student achievement has been pretty mixed.