Sentences with phrase «because summer learning»

Because summer learning loss is cumulative over time, it leads to increased dropout rates among those students who have fallen behind.

«This is particularly important because summer learning loss is cumulative and accounts for a significant percentage of the achievement gap.»

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I learnt from Jacqui at The Broad Place in the summer and, hands down, they're the best teachings of meditation I have come across, because it's real and it works.

I've learned to appreciate the summer more and more because I know it's just a matter of time before the long, gloomy, and often brutal Chicago winter sets in again.

Will Wenger learn from his mistakes, because we really need some quality signings this month after he left us so short in the summer.

Because unlike traditional schools, summer gives us the freedom to reinvent learning in a way that allows kids to make their own choices — and, of course, a few mistakes along the way.Info: 415 -389-KIDS (5437); [email protected]... Read More

Because while the statistics come from drivers who are more likely to hit something in front of them, I know from long experience that I am personally much more likely to be hit from behind (never had so much as a speeding or parking ticket in spite of learning to drive in Alaska in January, and then driving for 4 winters in Maine with bad summer tires, but I've been in two nasty accidents, both times rear - ended).

I almost gave up on cloth diapers because of my little guy's recent squirming - but realized 1) Summer is coming and when cloth diapers become the most fun 2) He's learning to walk and I'm convinced that landing on a cloth diaper pillow is a pretty nice thing compared to a disposable.

A lot of midcareer - switchers choose teaching because they get summers off, as well as their number - two reasons, which are helping young people learn and develop and improving education in society.»

It serves to curb summer learning loss and is available to every child because it is free.»

I love your site because I always learn about the latest fashion / summer trends.

Realistically, I more than likely won't be in Ukraine until next summer simply because I'm in the process, as you already know, of learning russian and that takes a year to become conversationally fluent.

I was actually quite relieved to learn that we won't be seeing Persona 5 until next summer (in Japan at least, and probably not until the end of the year for Europe), because I really want to be able to devote proper time to it.

Play With Technology Moxley suggests just spending the summer playing around with technology; Fred Holmes warns not to wait too close to the start of school, though, because learning to use software can take longer than you might think.

Note also that in Odden's peer review in 2004 of William Driscoll's and Howard Fleeter's Ohio study of the costs of bringing all students to proficiency in math and reading in order to comply with NCLB, he castigates the study's authors, who called for expanded summer school, because they «reference no research to support this assertion, when in fact most research shows that summer school as typically administered has little if any impact on learning.»

Because when students lack access to high - quality summer learning and enrichment opportunities, they risk falling prey to «summer learning loss» — a loss in academic skills and knowledge during summer vacation.

On average, students from low - income communities lose three months of academic gains during the summer because of limited summer learning opportunities.

Some believe that there is more room for summer learning loss with factual and procedural knowledge (i.e., knowing how to do something) because these types of knowledge require continuous and frequent practice.

Because learning gaps increase more over the summer than during the school year, well - designed summer programs regularly attended by economically disadvantaged students could help keep the gaps from widening.

Because of this work, education and youth development leaders across the country will have important conversations about the role of libraries in expanding summer learning opportunities that address the summer learning slide.

I have chosen this goal because of my experience at the Martin Institute's Master Class with John Hunter this past summer and my desire to provide more authentic learning experiences for my students.

The pleasant weather and time off make summer a favorite season for children and adults alike, but learning doesn't have to stop just because school is on summer break.

That's because learning happens everywhere, and we need to find ways to connect the learning that does occur in school with the learning that takes place in other arenas, such as afterschool, summer, in clubs and activities, at work (paid and unpaid), postsecondary settings, online and through technology, and in other educational environments (museums, libraries, and alternative education, for example).

The findings are important because children from low - income families lose ground in learning over the summer compared to their more affluent peers.

«Certificated teachers participating in summer learning programs find them to be an amazing way for them to develop their own skills as teachers because there is a lot more room for creativity,» explained Khalilnaji - Otto.

4 - Students may pass a previously failed course because summer school might offer a different approach to learning the subject and a different teacher.

Now I have a bachelor's degree in engineering and will have a Maters this summer and out of all the signal and systems and circuit classes I have taken I never learn this information because neither batteries nor light bulbs just blow out.

I'll be honest: I was supposed to drive a Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid during my trip to California to work at the 2017 Arse Freeze - a-Palooza 24 Hours of Lemons race at Sonoma Raceway, because I learned that racers are always shopping for minivans (as part of an effort to accomplish all street - car needs with as few vehicles as possible, leaving more room and money for race cars) when I took a Sienna to the B.F.E. GP race over the summer.

Winn Van Meter has every single stereotypical WASP problem: he is forced to endure hordes of relatives and wedding party members invading his summer home on an island off the coast of Maine because is daughter had the audacity to decide to marry her live - in boyfriend who impregnated her, he is Captain Ahab - like in his quest throughout the book to gain membership to the exclusive Pequod Club, he is beyond irritated that his marriage produced only daughters and no sons, and then one of those daughters (not the same daughter who is pregnant and marrying, this would be the other daughter who got pregnant and is not marrying) had to let the entire Ophidian club at Harvard — of which Winn was a member in his day some forty years ago — learn that she was pregnant by one of their current members.

Stay tuned throughout the summer to learn more (but don't wait to register, because space is limited)

When asked how the Zoe & Zac line is sustainable Summer explained that because there are no industry standards defining what makes a product «green» this venture has been and will be a «learning process for the consumer and company.»

As a U. Sydney student in the summer of 1965, knowing next to nothing about computers, I applied to all seven computer companies with Australian outposts for a 3 - month job, was admitted by IBM Sydney and CDC Melbourne (the other five didn't even respond), accepted the former (because CDC treated it as just more courses instead of a real job), and learned a huge amount, in particular Fortran II, the architecture of the 1440, inventory management, and a little about the 360.

C. J. Wahl, Summer Associate, Fried Frank: «I liked the activities because I learn writing better when actually writing than when simply reading or being lectured to.

This advice really resonates with me, not only because I need this reminder today, but also because it echoes a lesson learned during those high school summers I worked in the kitchen at church camp.