A school that operates under a contract between those operating the school and a sponsor
What is a charter school?
100
Released in March 2010, it defined what students in K through 12 grade should learn through their education no matter where they attended school
What is Common Core State Stanndards?
100
Critics complained that it set unrealistic, unobtainable goals, such as the goal to graduate all students from high school by 2014
What is No Child Left Behind?
100
teaching technique that supports adapting instructional strategies to students instead of expecting students to change themselves for the curriculum
What is Differentiated Instruction?
100
Using distinctive nature of young adolescents as the foundation upon which all decisions about school organization, policies, curriculum, instruction, and assessment are made
What is Developmentally responsive?
200
A school that specializes in a particular academic area
What is magnet school?
200
An instructional approach to help students with stratgies to analyze the texts they are assigned to read and increase their comprehension.
What is critical literacy?
200
Usually successful this type of school reform seeks to positively impact all aspects of a school's culture
What is systemic reform?
200
Allows classroom teachers to teach concepts, skills, or ideas to a class of diverse learners by differentiating instruction to meet their individual needs
What is Tiered Assignments?
200
Providing all students with the knowledge and skills they need to take responsibility for their lives, to address life's challenges
What is empowering?
300
A school that specializes in teaching basic skills
What is fundamental school?
300
A method of intervention designed to provide early systematic assistance to students experiencing academic difficulty
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)?
300
In March of 2010 President Obama sent a revised proposal of this to overhaul No Child Left Behind, focusing on raising standards and rewarding successful educators and students
What is Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)?
300
Developed by Drs. Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe this is a widely used framework designed to guide curricular improvement and increase student achievement
What is Understanding by Design?
300
(Blank) is challenging, exploratory, integrative and relevant.
What is curriculum?
400
A one year school designed to help recent immigrant students feel welcome and help to read and write in English
What is a special transitional school?
400
A method of teaching, learning, and reflecting that combines academic classroom curriculum with meaningful community service
What is service learning?
400
Created by several schools to help students during their first year of high school since it is a critical transitional year for students
What is Freshman Academics?
400
Response to Intervention is used for instruction in one of these three areas of education
What is math, reading or writing?
400
This should be inviting, safe, inclusive and supportive of all students.
What is School environment?
500
a school that serves as a hub for quality education and comprehensive social services, all under one roof
What is full-service school?
500
A competitive grant program to support innovation and reform in an effort to improve student achievement
What is Race to the Top?
500
This approach is designed to downsize schools to cultivate learning and with the idea that nurtured students thrive
What is Student centered approach?
500
This approach to designing curriculum starts with the teacher identify the outcome before planning the curriculum and choosing activities
What is Backwards Design?
500
Continuing activity in middle level schools where teachers take advantage of every opportunity to work with colleagues to improve the learning experiences for their students.