Sentences with phrase «age builds students»

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«It's appalling that students in the Vancouver school district will be stuck with leaking roofs and damp classrooms because the premier is playing politics rather than looking after the needs of aging school buildings in B.C.,» said New Democrat education spokesperson Rob Fleming.

Introducing yoga is advantageous at an early age, beginning with infant massage and transitioning to fundamentals of balance, strength & flexibility, Our yoga program builds confidence in our students relationship to their bodies and their attitude toward physical activity.

Originally, that building was to be on the North Campus where its aging buildings are prompting students to attend Niagara County Community College.

She added that the emphasis in coming months will be on repairing aging school buildings and upgrading student programs, both remedial and enriched.

NYC Pre-K Thrive uses evidence - based practices to train staff and engage families to ensure students in pre-k programs are building a foundation of social - emotional skills from a young age.»

While this method considered gender and age, the research team that also includes UW doctoral student Supasorn Suwajanakorn hopes to incorporate other identifiers such as ethnicity, and cosmetic factors such as hair whitening and wrinkles to build a robust enough method for representing every human face.

I'm currently trying to build a wardrobe that doesn't make me look like a student, but I don't want to age myself too much and end up looking frumpy, either.

Felix H. Chow has suggested that the city's 21,000 - student district eventually replace its 54 aging school buildings with three large facilities built mostly underground.

The scheme, which is targeted at children aged between 11 and 16, will also encourage students to build a website to display local weather conditions.

A bit of online digging will yield many resources to build Earth Day lessons for students of any age, but we've already done the work for you in a newly updated post called «Earth Day: Lesson Plans, Reading Lists, and Classroom Ideas.»

Resilience and skill building programs proved effective for secondary school - aged students.

Environmental factors such as building age, heating, lighting, air quality, noise, use of colour, type of furnishings, room layout and density have all been associated with significant, measurable changes in student attainment and performance and in influencing student morale, values, aspirations and expectations.

This Visual resource comprises 30 high quality images of buildings to provide inspiration for Art students of all ages.

But any teacher — no matter the race or age — you have to build relationships and get to know your students.

This month, voters must decide whether they will help the 76,000 - student district pay the $ 1.4 billion bill to replace aging roofs, faulty wiring, rotted windows, malfunctioning boilers, and a host of other chronic building problems facing the Cleveland public schools.

Ernesford Grange takes students aged 11 to 19 and the capacity of the new school building is 1,025.

This type of building, created to promote efficiencies and separate students into age - based groups to receive direct instruction by a single teacher, was not designed with adult collaboration in mind.

The foundation estimates more than 600 000 students in the high school age group could benefit from more flexible and inclusive learning approaches; and the good news is there are already plenty of examples of effective practice across the country to build on.

In an age when simple facts can be Googled and students create with a combination of analog and digital tools, they need to think about note taking as an opportunity to curate and synthesize information so that they can make conclusions, build deeper understanding, and construct new knowledge.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

To accomplish this goal, participating states will deeply engage with employers and educators to build career pathways systems for high school - aged students.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Were it not for the age of the students, this 8th grade language arts classroom could easily be mistaken for a modern office in some sleek, glass - and - steel building downtown.

Here are nine apps to help special ed students of all ages build emotional literacy, learn self - regulation, and focus on problem solving and task planning.

Not only is this activity ideal for students of all ages, but it is an excellent way to build vocabulary in ELL / ELD students and to teach Life Skills.

Superintendent Jillian Balow said, «Computer science is a critical skill set that all students need to build, starting from an early age.»

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(i) For all grades kindergarten through twelve, district and building level comprehensive developmental school counseling / guidance programs shall prepare students to participate effectively in their current and future educational programs as age appropriate, and be designed to address multiple student competencies including career / college readiness standards, and academic and social / emotional development standards.

The teacher unions are trapped in archaic organizational models characterized by buildings and districts that are too large and too fragmented, compulsory attendance, the 180 - day school year, the 50 - minute period, age - grouping of students in 13 discrete grades, few performance or standards - based activities, and inaccurate assumptions about the dangers of privatization.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.

Discovery Education will build upon ISA's close school partnerships to provide engaging digital content for primary and secondary age pupils, along with professional development and networking opportunities to support teachers as they prepare today's students to meet tomorrow's challenges.

Simon Barnes, director of TLC Education, said: «Our partnerships mean that we can help improve examination grades and build confidence in students of all ages and abilities.»

-- Web - Design Competition Sparks Collaboration — Students ages 9 - 19 from around the globe work in teams and communicate via Web 2.0 technologies to build educational Web sites for the ThinkQuest contest.

According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the math skills that students learn at a young age build a foundation for future learning, so there has been a focus on using technology to build those abilities.

The design team integrated a variety of technology options into the building including interactive smart boards in every classroom, a common distance learning classroom, and student breakout spaces for each age - based learning community, high - performance day lighting, and acoustics in every classroom.

Students of every age and ability build literacy skills, content - area knowledge, and disciplinary vocabulary simultaneously

Students are able to build working Roman chariots, practice blacksmithing, publish novels, or learn to sew at Joule, as well as attend academic classes at their level of ability rather than their age.

But my experience with the staff and students in this i3 Project just absolutely confirmed for me that, if your intention is to increase a student's academic performance (at any age), you are best served by beginning with a close inspection of the foundation you're building on — are their developmental needs being met?

Though separated by a decade or more in age, the students are all in the correct school building.

Thornton Academy, a private high school in Saco, Maine, retrofitted an underused building to house a middle school, then built a dormitory and recruited 155 students from China and other countries, to help maintain enrollment in a state whose supply of school - aged children has plunged.

Start off with shorter periods of independent reading time and gradually build on them as the school year goes on, up to about 45 — 60 minutes, depending on the age of your students.

But there are so many more opportunities for students to connect and create socially: Mystery Skyping, Google Hangouts and Connected Classrooms, Edmodo and social media tools like Pinterest provide spaces to build many lifelong skills — even from an early age.

Engaging students at a young age in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math builds a foundation for inquisitiveness and innovation for future success in today's swiftly changing world.

Students of all ages benefit from being immersed in Resiliency building environments.

Building on an experiment in mixed - income preschool classes launched this year, the New Orleans College Prep charter - school network plans to expand its Hoffman campus to serve 228 students from ages 0 to 4 starting next year, officials said Monday.

Linda Lantieri et al., «Chapter 13: Building Resilience in Teachers and Students» in Personality, Stress, and Coping: Implications for Education by Gretchen Reevy and Erica Frydenberg, eds., (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2011), pp 267 - 292.

Build strong reading skills and close gaps for struggling readers, special education students and intervention learners in grades 3 and up with Achieve3000's new age - appropriate foundational literacy solution.

It has to have a connected purpose, meaning that all aspects of the lesson are built around critical concepts that students at a particular age should be learning.

Recognize that your students, no matter their age, are the foremost experts on being a student in your building.

OAKLAND — Although California school districts have largely focused on building new schools to accommodate growing student populations, districts should concentrate more on renovating and replacing aging schools, according to a new report.