Sentences with phrase «focus on students at»

Definitions of Response to Intervention commonly focus on students at risk of academic failure.

Focus on students at a specific skill level: beginners, intermediate or advanced learners.

You can read more about these issues in a piece I wrote for The Hechinger Report, focusing on students at the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia.

Natasha Ushomirsky, director of K - 12 policy development, said in a blog post on the group's website that the bill emphasizes school quality indicators like class sizes and teacher caseload, which she said «aren't focused on students at all.»

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At the start of the MBA program, students complete a four — week orientation that focuses on the essentials of business and leadership before moving on to a foundation module made up of core courses.

More than three — quarters of the student body in the MBA program at VIU are international students, and there are many opportunities to focus on international business, including exchange programs across the globe.

Maybe focusing on one particular course that teaches video production at the college makes way more sense, mimicking what you see in the Wix ad, because then a potential student can imagine what it is like to take that course.

In his role at Blackboard, and formerly at MyEdu, a startup focused on helping students get jobs, which Blackboard acquired, he spent a «ton of time with college students in dorm rooms, looking through their bookbags and apartments [with their permission],» he told Inc. in a recent phone interview.

Arielle Geismar, a 16 - year - old junior at the Beacon School in Manhattan, said her school administrators were primarily focused on student safety.

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

Peter Wang is a student at the Sauder School of Business at the University of B.C., where he is working toward a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with a focus on accounting.

I could focus on cash flow and get rid of some smaller student debt, or focus on net worth by throwing more money at my investments.

«Get yourself into this mindset of problem solving,» he told Quartz during a break between the sessions at the event, which focused on recruiting East Coast college students to join Sequoia's portfolio of companies.

Haskayne Reads is the Haskayne School of Business reading circle that piloted in the 2015 - 2016 academic year following a focus on enhancing student experience at the autumn faculty and staff retreat.

My students at Peking University, for example, are extremely supportive and think very differently about what I do, and I think I have convinced them that as future policymakers, especially in finance and central banking, rather than join the hype that has always accompanied every growth miracle it is their responsibility to be focus on risks and on all the ways things can go wrong.

Aaron Cho is a fifth - year co-op student at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business, focusing his studies on finance and human resources.

Tan, a Malaysian who formulated his idea for GrabTaxi back when he was a student at Harvard Business School, said that the company will be using the funding to be able to continue its focus on Southeast Asia, as opposed to expanding beyond the region.

The remarkable preference for efficiency we see in the overwhelmingly Democratic student body at Yale Law School also sheds light on today's progressive priorities, which focus on identity politics, especially sexual identity.

Gelernter, a student at Yale in the 1960s, and a longtime professor of computer science there, focuses on the change, which he thinks is decisive for elite culture today.

As a result of running an experimental course at the University of Chicago for two years, for those preparing for campus ministries, in which we focused on personal service and pastoral care to students, I am convinced that more insight and skill in this area could be of great benefit to campus ministers, most of whom currently perform these functions without special training.

At that time, when a teacher wanted to focus his time and energy on a few specially selected students, the teacher would pick only one or two, at the most three students to traiAt that time, when a teacher wanted to focus his time and energy on a few specially selected students, the teacher would pick only one or two, at the most three students to traiat the most three students to train.

Given all this, it is not to be wondered at that subsequent students and interpreters of each have focused on the differences between the two philosophers.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

She has since moved to North Chicago, where she is a Ph.D. student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Educational Studies with a focus on Women's Ministry.

I once taught a Great Books course to freshmen honor students at Boston College in which I tried to focus the class on exposing common misconceptions about the classics by going back to the data.

As a professor in the master's program for Tequila Production Process at the Autonomous Guadalajara University, the recommendation to my students is to pay attention to every single detail of the tequila production process and always focus on quality.

By Kraig Kraft The Search for the Origins of Chile Peppers Starts in Arizona As a graduate student studying crop evolution at U.C. Davis, I am focusing my work on describing the genetic changes that took place during the domestication of Capsicum annuum, a species that includes some of the most common varieties of chile peppers cultivated worldwide.

Continuing to follow their mission to embrace and add value to the community, Roscoe Beer Co. created a real - life project for advertising students at Sullivan County Community College, which will focus on the development of a print advertising campaign to promote beer sales to the consumer.

You'll have vision and drive for what you do; whether you're a stay at home parent, focused on your career, or an enthusiastic student.

Holding a summit to tackle the tough issues of food insecurity, exploitation of food workers, and food waste at the opulent Ritz Carlton in San Francisco provoked an interesting contrast, but the collection of industry, NGOs, media and students in attendance were indifferent to their surroundings and intently focused on improving the world's food system.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA — In celebration of Earth Day this Saturday, April 22, Pittsburgh will be home to a series of activities focused on identifying causes and solutions to America's food waste problems, led by student leaders from across the country who have gathered in the Steel City to compete at an annual national scholarship competition.

The group planned to host a Sunday Social event at the Etihad Academy Stadium, which will focus on engaging Manchester Metropolitan University's Athletic Union (AU) sport teams through the creation of a fun and enjoyable experience for students.

Holly Scholz, executive director at Prairieland Montessori in Chicago, says observing student - teacher interactions is something that you should focus on even at the preschool level.

What students need is a schoolwide mindshift: - away from global and at times disruptive and controversial schoolwide reforms - to a tailored individual - focused approach that promotes one - on - one personal connections (staff - student and student - student) and gives students anti-stress «mindfullness» tools — like breathing and relaxation exercises and attitude recognition and readjustment — that they can use throughout their lives.

Focusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their sFocusing on the nutrients that are in a food product rather than looking at the impact of the food as a whole causes schools to focus on looking for cheap ways to meet the minimum guidelines instead of focusing on finding quality items to feed their sfocusing on finding quality items to feed their students.

Debbie serves on several charitable boards, focusing on education and at - risk students.

However one comment on this:»... Though given that there are an equal number of students who are wired very anxious as those wired needing more stress to engage and focus, many of the systemwide anti-stress measures at Paly are a zero sum game — they help AND hurt about the same number of students.»

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Sadly, chronic, diet - related health conditions are a pervasive problem at the school, so McCoy has focused her efforts on improving student health and wellness by improving the food they serve.

The focus on school food safety came at a joint Senate - House hearing that examined how lapses in federal oversight allowed contaminated meals to reach students.

This week's second Editor's pick is the article, «More Focused, Better Behaved Kids, Through Mindfulness,» by journalist Tori James on My Mother Lode — through which we learn the outcomes of teaching mindfulness to students at a California, USA, elementary school.

Offering admiration and praise specific to the emotional task at hand, rather than focusing on the actual task, is one way to esteem the development of qualities of a good student.

«Students who completed more hours of homework per night were at greater risk for these negative outcomes; they were also more likely to drop activities or hobbies they enjoyed in order to focus on their academic work.»

Many resources aimed at older students focus on LGBTQ youth, but most also have applicability to children of LGBTQ parents, whatever the children's sexual orientation or gender identity.

Catherine Osborn, MA is a PhD student in medical anthropology at Case Western Reserve University whose research interests focus on historical and modern uses of technology to mediate childbirth and fertility.

State education officials said there has been an increased focus on providing fresh fruits and vegetables in student lunches, as the state noted a significant increase in the past decade in the number of students who require meals at school.

She looks at the students as whole people, and at this stage she is focused more on social and emotional skills, rather than academic milestones.

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis...

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis for comprehending scientific principles.