Sentences with phrase «after academic time»

After academic time, students participate in 45 minutes to an hour of skill - building enrichment activities, such as dance, visual art, pottery, step, acting workshops, spoken word and sports activities.

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He's been an academic and an executive; now Robert Prichard discusses his new act — practising law for the first time, 36 years after graduating from law school.

While the content can seem a bit dense and academic at times — the essays are, after all, written by some of the nation's leading thinkers on business issues — the website is a potentially valuable resource for policy makers and anyone thinking about starting a new business.

After all, as the one - time head of one of the world's most respected academic institutions, you might expect Levin to decry the subpar educational experience people supposedly receive by taking a MOOC.

He joined the Duke Divinity faculty after he graduated in the early 1960s and secured tenure at a time when one still could do so without having a long résumé of works written for other academics.

Harris was named the Academic Athletic Association's boys basketball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season just three months after winning the football award for a second consecutive time.

This was a remarkable time not only for the typical rites of passage — figuring out out how to live independently and negotiate the partying and alcohol and social pressures that accompany the college experience — but after my first year my parents pulled the financial plug so I not only needed to be responsible for my general behavior and academics, but also for paying for college.

The same chapter also explores school - start times, a topic of heated debate this year in Palo Alto after Superintendent Max McGee decided to eliminate academic classes during the early - morning zero period at Gunn High School.

After snack time, academic papers are completed.

If you know your child needs more time after school for academic help or because he or she plays a sport, you might be able to take advantage of free sit time.

n Logistics — Rather than causing burnout, after - school activities can provide balance to a class schedule that is overly academic if locations and timing fit your lifestyle, Kuczmarski says.

As an academic librarian, I am now mortified that I did not look at any of these claims through a critical lens until after I gave birth for the first time.

In the last few years there has been a spate of academic research revealing that abortion for non-medical reasons is generally not provided in Scotland after 18 - 20 weeks, despite the stipulation of a 24 week upper time limit in the 1967 Abortion Act.

The moderator was standing up and closing the session immediately after the «academic» economist's statement having previously highlighted time constraints, and other panelists were rising and departing as well.

These include the stipulation that students take at least 30 credits per academic year and remain in the state after graduation for a period equaling the length of time they received the scholarship.

For the first 5 years of her daughter's life, Katerina Michaelides, a senior lecturer in hydrology at the University of Bristol, had to keep her full - time workload to the standard hours of professional child care so that she could look after her daughter in the mornings and evenings as sole parent while her academic husband spent his weeks working at a university approximately 650 kilometers away.

For example, upon my arrival in Canada in 1969 (after completing a master's degree in zoology at the University of Kansas), I took two positions simultaneously - one as a part - time teaching assistant in the zoology department at the University of Toronto, the other as part - time editorial assistant for a professor who was the editor of an academic journal.

After my postdoc, I decided it was time to part ways with academic science and seriously considered my career options in the commercial angle of science.

According to the survey, almost 60 % of those who obtained permanent academic positions after 2011 had applied between two and five times.

Aside from puberty, this is a time when the school environment becomes more impersonal, academic grades are much more public, «being popular» becomes fervently sought after and efforts to separate from parents start in earnest.

After 40 years writing sober, academic accounts of the world's most hubristic, atrocity - littered engineering projects, it may be time for Josephson to bare his teeth a little.

After sorting the students into «night owls,» «daytime finches» and «morning larks» — based on their activities on days they were not in class — researchers compared their class times to their academic outcomes.

During the winter and spring of the 2008/2009 academic year, participants wore an accelerometer and completed an online survey that included a self - report of time spent outdoors after school, including organized activities and free play.

The participants (61 percent women) took surveys both before graduation and one month after, answering questions about academics, alcohol use and post-graduation full - time employment status, among other factors.

As a result of my academic training and my laboratory data, I've learned how to use food timing to maximize recovery after exercise.

It's easy to fall into the mindset that you'll have time to be happy and enjoy yourself after you accomplish x, y, and z. However, human nature (and plenty of academic research) suggests that after each major achievement, our brain adapts and then sets its sights on a new goal.

Personal best goals were correlated with a range of positive variables at Time 1; however, at Time 2 the effects of personal best goals on deep learning, academic flow, and positive teacher relationship remained significant after controlling for prior variance of corresponding Time 1 factors, suggesting that students with personal best goals show sustained resilience in academic and social development.

As a leader in youth development during out - of - school time, BGCA is redefining the opportunity equation by leveraging the power of after - school and summer programs to ensure academic success and create a stronger generation of future leaders.

«After a span of more than a decade in a series of senior administrative roles at NYU, the Spencer Foundation, and most recently HGSE, Ellen has indicated her desire to devote her full - time efforts once again to her academic work as a leading historian of American education,» Summers added.

After a meandering academic path, Assistant Professor Karen Brennan finally found her calling: helping students and teachers become coders, creators, and learners, one Scratch at a time.

A Seattle Times story, «Tougher Academic Standards May Require More Time in Class,» presents the possibilities of before - or after - school instruction, evening or vacation - time instruction, Saturday and summer sessions, or a longer school yTime in Class,» presents the possibilities of before - or after - school instruction, evening or vacation - time instruction, Saturday and summer sessions, or a longer school ytime instruction, Saturday and summer sessions, or a longer school year.

After some time, you will observe changes in your work quality yourself, and this will help you prosper as a freelance academic writer.

We find that non-cognitive skills are associated with academic subjective expectations of college success and objective performance in college, even after controlling for cognitive ability and time spent studying, but the relationship between specific non-cognitive skills, academic subjective expectations and academic objective performance varies across disciplines.

After teaching in Houston, Feinberg and Levin launched KIPP: Knowledge Is Power Program, a network of charter schools meant to prepare any kid, regardless of prior academics or conduct, for college.Nationwide, there are now 99 KIPP academies, each a partnership among students, teachers, parents, and staff designed to prioritize learning and maximize classroom time.

But then there are those who say Indiana is experiencing «standards whiplash» after changing academic goals three times in eight years.

I would agree with you that if the new Charter's have to run a certain standard, those charter's already in place should be required to comply with the new standards in a certain period of time (perhaps 1 - 2 academic years after passage so that the charter school may properly adjust).

The district's unified enrollment system that parents used for the first time this year to apply to magnets and other district options did not contain information about student academics, but it did contain other information about the schools like what after - school activities are offered, if Advanced Placement classes are available, and notable alumni.

For national overviews, try USA Today (Hurricane Irma: 8.5 million students lost school time), the NYT (Under academic scrutiny, Houston schools seek a quick recovery from Harvey), or The 74 (Ten Percent of All Public School Students Missing Class on Tuesday as 6 States Continue to Cope With Irma), or NPR (Houston Public Schools Open After Delays From Hurricane Harvey).

As education researcher Patricia Lauer has found, the amount of time that children spend hanging out on street corners with their friends after school is actually a better predictor of poor academic performance than is family income.

In order to support school curriculum, the education software will be available to students, educators, and academic institutions until April 23, 2020; no technical support will be available after that time.

My current projects include overseeing a major building renovation project to provide our students and families with a state - of - the - art learning facility, and designing our internal before and after school program supporting enrichment opportunities for all students and a seamless transition from academic time to after school time.

And with the majority of states now implementing more rigorous academic standards aiming to help more students graduate better prepared for life after high school, and with the nation watching to see if this shift indeed leads to improved outcomes, interest in the graduation rate is unlikely to subside any time soon.

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An analysis by The New York Times found that some of the community schools in Cincinnati, which is viewed as a leader in the approach, still showed dismal academic performances even after years of work and millions of dollars of investments.

More formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is working.

In 2001, not long after Oklahoma had adopted one of the nation's first universal pre-K programs, researchers from Georgetown University began tracking kids who came out of the program in Tulsa, documenting their academic progress over time.

One of the key barriers to better classroom performance is that over an average academic career, a foster youth will change schools six times and lose about five months of learning after each transfer.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, further provides that none of the funds made available by this Act be used to allow 21st CCLC initiative funding for expanded learning time unless these activities provide enrichment and engaging academic activities for students at least 300 additional program hours before, during, or after the traditional school day and supplements, but does not supplant school day requirements.

Most students don't have much time to complete their academic work after job, classes, other extra activities.

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