Sentences with phrase «works on college readiness»

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Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr., joined by Assemblyman Anthony J. Brindisi as well as Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol, stressed the theme of moving on to higher education and avoidance of substance abuse at the Oneida County Summer Youth Employment Program's annual Work Readiness Day held at the Utica campus of Mohawk Valley Community College.

I have been working on issues of college readiness for the past 15 years.

«I have been privileged to work with some of the brightest college students, yet it pains my heart to see so many students foreclose on college for a slew of reasons,» he says, expressing his commitment to improving college readiness, retention rates, and academic success, as well as striving to create more equitable systems for all students.

• State and federal programs like CCSS, RTTT, and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia (groups of states who had adopted CCSS and agreed to work together on developing aligned, shared assessments) slowed down the market for content, assessments, and platforms in some ways.

The Common Core State Standards did a good job of cumulating to college and (they said) career readiness by the end of high school, but that's only helpful if states use those or equally rigorous academic standards and if the assessments based on such standards are truly aligned with them, have rigorous scoring standards, and set their «cut scores» at levels that denote readiness for college - level work.

Currently Pell Grants are not at all conditioned on readiness to do college - level work.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

We know this too clearly from data on remediation rates in colleges and universities, all the various data on college and career readiness, and most surveys of employer and higher - education views of high - school graduate readiness for postsecondary work and study.

Prior to joining Education Northwest in 2011, he spent three years with the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research, where he managed their nationally focused policy and capacity - building initiatives and worked closely with policymakers, district leaders and researchers developing and using early warning and college readiness indicators.

He was previously Superintendent of Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland where his central work focused on enhanced access and rigor to ensure college - and career - readiness.

NAF also focuses on expanding quality work - based learning experiences, and increasing employer engagement and investment in college and career readiness.

With a focus on college and career readiness from City Hall, we've had more partners come to the table to support the work.

Background: Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and writing on teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and college and career readiness.

Prior to serving as a reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education in the 2010 and 2012 Race to the Top competitions, he served on the department's Working Group for Postsecondary Linkage Efforts to Improve College Readiness and on the independent Annenberg Commission on Public Schools for their Institutions of Democracy Project.

In addition, she has served on the board of inBloom, The Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Teachers as Professionals, the Content Technical Working Group for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, a commissioner on the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

California State Universities and many community colleges consider high marks on these tests among 11th - grade students a reliable sign of readiness for college - level work.

New York's Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plan builds on this long - standing work and includes the College, Career, and Civic Readiness Index as part of the School Quality and Student Success (SQSS) measure for high schools.

This year, the special education students went on a few college trips, and teachers are told that they need to work with the students on college readiness skills, getting them ready to take the ACT.

Author Bio: Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and writing on teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and college - and career - readiness.

As increasing focus is put on college and career readiness, we're working hard to better understand the evolving landscape and adapt to ensure that we are providing students with the opportunity to learn academic and fundamental skills like teamwork, critical thinking, and problem - solving in order to achieve success in credit - bearing two - or four - year colleges or workforce training programs.

In addition to serving on the NBPTS Board of Directors from 2008 - 2011, Brookins has served on several professional boards shaping education policy and practice, including the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), Achieve, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Content Technical Working Group, the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Teachers as Professionals, and InBloom.

Prior to BVP, Ms. Anderson was part of the Office of Transformation and Charter Schools at the Rhode Island Department of Education, where her work included policy development on school accountability and college readiness, as well as direct support to district leadership teams on school reform.

Despite overwhelming odds, given inequitable charter funding and fast - paced reform - oriented timelines that all public schools are working to meet, Side by Side students are reaching achievement levels that guarantee they are on track to college and career readiness as they head toward high school.

After delivering over 50 local and national presentations on this work, our team of student investigators is now embarking on the second phase of research, an undertaking that has us surveying and interviewing hundreds of Kentucky high school seniors and undergraduates to define college readiness from a student perspective, with a special focus on how the ACT fares as a predictor of college success.

At AJLA, we are working toward creating a community that encompasses the mission of our school and moves students on to college and career readiness.

Given that we work with an at - risk population, the CCSS required us to significantly shift our instructional strategies in order to ensure that our students were mastering content and on track for college and career readiness.

Education Strategy Group Senior Associate Ryan Reyna offers his thoughts on state ESSA plans and where he believes «work remains to deliver on the promise of college and career readiness for all students,» while also highlighting «some promising examples from state ESSA plans that can...

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In the article, Bryant and Powell explore the importance of teaching mathematics vocabulary; having students show their work; and starting early on the path to college and career readiness — in elementary school — by ensuring that young students develop fluency and automaticity with computation, and with addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

«Together with our talented staff in the College and Career Readiness Office, our seniors worked incredibly hard to ensure they all graduated on time and had great postsecondary options tailored to their individual strengths.»

In addition, she has served on the board of inBloom, the Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Teachers as Professionals, and the Content Technical Working Group for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), and as a commissioner on the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

While your school is implementing the Core Practices, our program directors can help establish mentoring programs, work directly with Scholars on college and career readiness or Essential Skill building activities, connect your school with college campuses and build additional partnerships, help you establish goals and milestones, and much more.

Victoria Tse focuses on K — 16 education reform, college and career readiness, postsecondary transitions, charter schools, and teacher development through her work on a variety of national, state, and local research and evaluation projects that entail qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis.

Leveraging ESSA: Shining a Spotlight on K - 12 and Higher Ed Alignment In this brief by the Education Strategy Group, Every Student Succeeds Act plans from all fifty states and the District of Columbia are compared in terms of how states are working to better align strategies between the K - 12 and higher education sectors to make college and career readiness a priority in order for students to better transition to postsecondary education.

She works on behalf of 28 public school systems to secure funding for and collaborate on the design and delivery of sustained professional development experiences primarily in the areas of college and career readiness, literacy, and principal leadership.

As more K - 12 and postsecondary systems are working together on issues of college readiness, persistence and completion, better data — including postsecondary enrollment, remediation, and persistence — is necessary to support student success.

While each of these projects reviewed the state plans from a particular angle, I have not had a chance to offer my broader reflections on where I believe work remains to deliver on the promise of college and career readiness for all students.

In fact, one third of all students who took the online college and career readiness assessments in spring 2015 reported that the English language arts tests were more difficult than their class work, and 16 percent of students said they were unfamiliar with the types of tasks on the ELA assessments.

About the choice to expand Flamboyan's efforts into college readiness and persistence, Stevenson added, «Most of our work to date has been focused on building the capacity of educators in elementary schools to help families support learning.

With the goal of expanding professional expertise and sharing best practices, the College - and Career - Readiness Standards Networking Conference and the High Schools That Work Conference focused on implementing effective instructional strategies that help students graduate from high school ready for college and cCollege - and Career - Readiness Standards Networking Conference and the High Schools That Work Conference focused on implementing effective instructional strategies that help students graduate from high school ready for college and ccollege and careers.

Education Strategy Group Senior Associate Ryan Reyna offers his thoughts on state ESSA plans and where he believes «work remains to deliver on the promise of college and career readiness for all students,» while also highlighting «some promising examples from state ESSA plans that can be useful reference points for policymakers and practitioners as states turn from planning to implementation.»

To help inform this work and take advantage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, Education Strategy Group (ESG) convened an Accountability Workgroup of state and national experts with a clear charge: provide guidance on the measures states should adopt to make college and career readiness the main driver of accountability systems.

Chad Aldeman is a principal at Bellwether Education Partners, where he has worked on the Policy and Thought Leadership team since 2012, advising clients and writing on teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and college and career readiness.

The six indicators of college and career readiness currently utilized are achieving a benchmark score on the ACT, scoring a 3, 4, or 5 on an Advanced Placement exam / scoring a 4, 5, 6, or 7 on an International Baccalaureate exam, scoring silver level or above on ACT Work Keys, earning a transcripted college credit while still in high school, earning an Industry Credential, or being accepted for enlistement into any branch of the military.

He leads Advance Illinois» policy development including work on teacher quality, standards and assessments, and college and career readiness while working closely with partners and stakeholder organizations across the state.

His work focuses on helping schools, districts, and states set up systems to support students in meeting educational milestones such as on - time graduation and college and career readiness.

Jacques provides technical assistance to states and districts and develops resources for the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders and the College and Career Readiness and Success Center, supports the implementation of educator evaluation and development systems in several states, and leads work on Career and Technical Education at AIR through the Center on Great Teachers and Leaders.

The network of lab districts that Linda runs working with David Conley on defining college and career readiness.