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      <title>Schools to Watch by Isaias Rumayor</title>
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      <description>Criteria, Benefits, and Responsibilities</description>
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      <pubDate>2018-10-01 16:04:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Academic Excellence:</title>
         <author>isaiasrumayor</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Please provide examples of the following-</div><ol><li> All students are expected to meet high academic standards.</li><li>Curriculum, instruction, assessment, and appropriate academic interventions are aligned with high standards.</li><li>The curriculum emphasizes deep understanding of important concepts and the development of essential skills.</li><li>Instructional strategies include a variety of challenging and engaging activities that are clearly related to the grade-level standards, concepts, and skills being taught.</li><li>Teachers use a variety of methods to assess and monitor the progress of student learning (e.g., tests, quizzes, assignments, exhibitions, projects, performance tasks, portfolios).</li><li>The faculty and master schedule provide students time to meet rigorous academic standards.</li><li>Students are provided the support they need to meet rigorous academic standards.</li><li>The adults in the school are provided time and frequent opportunities to enhance student achievement by working with colleagues to deepen their knowledge and to improve their standards-based practice.</li></ol><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-01 16:06:44 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Developmental Responsiveness:</title>
         <author>isaiasrumayor</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/isaiasrumayor/5fddvwihd15p/wish/287706397</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Please provide examples of the following-</div><ol><li>The staff creates a personalized environment that supports each student's intellectual, ethical, social, and physical development.</li><li>The school provides access to comprehensive services to foster healthy physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development.</li><li>Teachers foster curiosity, creativity and the development of social skills in a structured and supportive environment.</li><li>The curriculum is both socially significant and relevant to the personal and career interests of young adolescents.</li><li>Teachers use an interdisciplinary approach to reinforce important concepts, skills, and address real-world problems.</li><li>Students are provided multiple opportunities to explore a rich variety of topics and interests in order to develop their identity, learn about their strengths, discover and demonstrate their own competence, and plan for their future.</li><li>All students have opportunities for voice-posing questions, reflecting on experiences, and participating in decisions and leadership activities.</li><li>The school staff members develop alliances with families to enhance and support the well-being of the children.</li><li>Staff members provide all students with opportunities to develop citizenship skills, to use the community as a classroom, and to engage the community in providing resources and support.</li><li>The school provides age-appropriate, co-curricular activities to foster social skills and character, and to develop interests beyond the classroom environment.</li></ol><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-01 16:07:31 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Social Equity:</title>
         <author>isaiasrumayor</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/isaiasrumayor/5fddvwihd15p/wish/287706814</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Please provide examples of the following-</div><ol><li>To the fullest extent possible, all students, including English learners, students with disabilities, gifted and honors students, participate in heterogeneous classes with high academic and behavioral expectations.</li><li>Students are provided the opportunity to use many and varied approaches to achieve and demonstrate competence and mastery of standards.</li><li>Teachers continually adapt curriculum, instruction, assessment, and scheduling to meet their students' diverse and changing needs.</li><li>All students have equal access to valued knowledge in all school classes and activities.</li><li>Students have ongoing opportunities to learn about and appreciate their own and others' cultures.</li><li>The school community knows every student well.</li><li>The faculty welcomes and encourages the active participation of all its families and makes sure that all its families are an integral part of the school, such as:</li><li>The school's reward system is designed to value diversity, civility, service, and democratic citizenship.</li><li>Staff members understand and support the family backgrounds and values of its students.</li><li>The school rules are clear, fair, and consistently applied.</li></ol><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-01 16:08:09 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Organizational Structures and Processing Aimed at Improvement:</title>
         <author>isaiasrumayor</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/isaiasrumayor/5fddvwihd15p/wish/287707792</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Please provide examples of the following-</div><ol><li>A shared vision of what a high-performing school is and does drives every facet of school change.</li><li>The principal has the responsibility and authority to hold the school-improvement enterprise together, including day-to-day know-how, coordination, strategic planning, and communication.</li><li>The school is a community of practice in which learning, experimentation, and time and opportunity for reflection are the norm.</li><li>The school and district devote resources to content-rich professional development, which is connected to reaching and sustaining the school vision and increasing student achievement.</li><li>The school is not an island unto itself; it is a part of a larger educational system, i.e., districts, networks and community partnerships.</li><li>The school staff holds itself accountable for the students' success.</li><li>District and school staff possess and cultivate the collective will to persevere, believing it is their business to produce increased achievement and enhanced development of all students.</li><li>The school and district staffs work with colleges and universities to recruit, prepare, and mentor novice and experienced teachers.</li><li>The school includes families and community members in setting and supporting the school's trajectory toward high performance.</li></ol><div><br></div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-10-01 16:09:39 UTC</pubDate>
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