Hosts Learning(R) Announces Selection of Best Practices Award Recipients.Twenty Schools Honored for Successful Implementation of Popular Mentoring and Intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. Solution VANCOUVER, Wash. -- HOSTS Learning, a leading provider of K-12 learning management systems and academic mentoring and intervention programs, announced today that 20 schools in 12 states have been chosen as HOSTS Mentoring & Intervention (M&I) Best Practices Award winners for 2006. This year's winners were selected from over 500 eligible schools using the HOSTS Learning Solutions nationwide. To be considered for the annual honor, each school was required to submit a comprehensive, three-part application complete with letters of recommendation from teachers, parents, students, and mentors along with examples of individual learning plans. Schools were also asked to summarize sum·ma·rize intr. & tr.v. sum·ma·rized, sum·ma·riz·ing, sum·ma·riz·es To make a summary or make a summary of. sum the achievement results of students in the program including results from state, standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. , local, and other student achievement assessments. "These schools were chosen because they exemplify ex·em·pli·fy tr.v. ex·em·pli·fied, ex·em·pli·fy·ing, ex·em·pli·fies 1. a. To illustrate by example: exemplify an argument. b. our 35-year mission of helping one student to succeed - that's what HOSTS stands for," said Bill Gibbons Famous people named Gibbons include:
The applications were judged and scored by a group of experienced instructional and curriculum specialists on a 200-point scale in five categories, including: program leadership; implementation; achievement results; program impact and extension; and community connection. Each school that applied was also required to meet three additional criteria. Those benchmarks include: time of implementation - they had to have been using the HOSTS M&I Solution for a minimum of six months; scope of implementation - their implementation must have impacted a minimum of one classroom or 25 students; and student achievement - it was essential that the program produce assessment results that showed evidence of improved student achievement. A complete list of winners* is available by going to www.hosts.com. About HOSTS Mentoring and Intervention Solution The research-based HOSTS M & I Solution is designed to address specifically the individual learning needs of struggling K-12 students. It serves as a powerful classroom program that ties formative assessment Formative assessment is a self-reflective process that intends to promote student attainment [1]. Cowie and Bell [2] define it as the bidirectional process between teacher and student to enhance, recognise and respond to the learning. data and research-based best practices together with school's existing curriculum resources to create customized learning paths for each student. About HOSTS Learning For over 35 years, HOSTS Learning solutions have helped more than one million K-12 students improve their reading skills and math proficiencies through its research-based instructional management systems, professional growth services, and mentoring and intervention programs. The HOSTS school-wide solution holds the distinction of being the only structured learning system identified as significantly reducing academic failure in both the No Child Left Behind language and the IDEA reauthorization. Based in Vancouver, WA, HOSTS Learning solutions are currently used in more than 525 schools in 40 U.S. states A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the United States, although four states use the official title "commonwealth". The separate state governments and the federal government share sovereignty, in that an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and , Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. , and El Salvador El Salvador (ĕl sälväthōr`), officially Republic of El Salvador, republic (2005 est. pop. 6,705,000), 8,260 sq mi (21,393 sq km), Central America. . For more information, please visit www.hosts.com or call 1-800-833-4678. [TABLE OMITTED] |
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