Academic Achievement

Strategies for Checking for Understanding: Program 3 (2008)

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For any school or district considering or already using formative assessment, here is the ultimate tool to support teachers and help them visualize how they can succeed.

Grade Level:

Professional

Length:

00:30

Strategies for Checking for Understanding: Program 3

A Six-Step Process for Student Growth: Program 2 (2008)

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For any school or district considering or already using formative assessment, here is the ultimate tool to support teachers and help them visualize how they can succeed.

Grade Level:

Professional

Length:

00:30

A Six-Step Process for Student Growth: Program 2

Increasing Motivation and Achievement: Program 1 (2008)

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For any school or district considering or already using formative assessment, here is the ultimate tool to support teachers and help them visualize how they can succeed.

Grade Level:

Professional

Length:

00:30

Increasing Motivation and Achievement: Program 1

How to Conduct Home Visits (2007)

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Diverse school populations challenge administration and staff to find new ways to reach students. In this 15-minute video, staff members visit students and their families at home to learn how a visitation program can increase student attendance, parent participation, and overall achievement. Watch a home visit and hear reactions from parents, students, teachers, and administrators.

Grade Level:

Professional

Length:

00:15

How To: Use Students' Diverse Cultural Backgrounds to Enhance Academic Achievement (2007)

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Encourage cultural responsiveness and nurture sociocultural consciousness in the classroom with this 15-minute video. Students can share their own cultural experiences or the experiences of their parents and families. Invite families to participate in classroom activities. Being positive about diversity in the classroom will affect how students see their school, community, and the world.

Grade Level:

Professional

Length:

00:15

How To: Use Students' Diverse Cultural Backgrounds to Enhance Academic Achievement

2 Million Minutes: The 21st Century Solution (2009)

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Executive Producer Robert A. Compton has searched the world for the best high schools in the hopes of discovering a solution to America's education crisis. Then, in one of the poorest areas of America, Compton discovered a school that teaches ordinary U.S. children at an extraordinarily high academic level.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:50

2 Million Minutes: The 21st Century Solution

2 Million Minutes in India (2008)

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In 2007 the provocative documentary film Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination premiered. Comparing and contrasting the two million minutes of high school in India, China and the U.S., the film raised awareness and rattled cages from Harvard to the halls of power.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:10

2 Million Minutes in China (2008)

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In 2007 the provocative documentary film 2 Million Minutes: A Global Examination premiered. Comparing and contrasting the two million minutes of high school in India, China and the U.S., the film raised awareness and rattled cages from Harvard to the halls of power.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:10

2 Million Minutes (2008)

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Regardless of nationality, as soon as a student completes the 8th grade, they have just TWO MILLION MINUTES to prepare for college and ultimately a career.

Grade Level:

Middle

High