Sentences with phrase «school helped their students grow»

It's important to analyze how well a school helps their students grow and / or «beat the odds.»

In our final piece, see how DREAM Charter School helped their students grow in the summer months!

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The four - year - old project pairs teams of visiting consultants (graduate business students from top schools like Stanford plus folks from companies such as Google and Salesforce.com) with local start - ups to help grow the businesses.

Christen Middle School's community garden helped grow lettuce for the salad bar in 2015, cutting food costs and allowing students to connect with where their meals came from.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

A growing number of Canadian elementary schools have added stationary bikes in classrooms to help students focus on learning.

I have seen students enthusiastically eating all sorts of healthy options, especially where they have first encountered the foods in a school garden or classroom cooking demonstration, helped to plant or harvest the vegetables or even met the farmer growing their greens.

Independent research shows that a majority of American kids like healthier school lunches, the number of students that like their meals is growing, and that updated meal standards are working to help improve students» health.

Our approach is designed to help them grow as students and people, in school, and in life beyond.

We use a web and mobile platform that connects schools with local farmers and food artisans to help students sell healthy, locally grown or made products to raise money for school activities.

Project BOOST offers our students innovative cultural and academic enrichment opportunities that will greatly influence their educational paths and helps students grow and learn as they move forward in school.

Parochial and independent schools provide essential learning opportunities and help students grow just like public schools, and we should be doing everything we can to support them and the families that depend on them.

Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York City public schools reduce class size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

Unlike schools, which grow increasingly segregated and involve more individual instruction as children grow older, afterschool programs are spaces where instructors, often similar to the students in age and background, can facilitate diverse, productive interactions that help youth reach social and academic goals.

A growing body of evidence suggests that providing students with simplified information, reminders, and access to assistance during critical junctures, like FAFSA completion and the summer after high school, can help students navigate challenging bottlenecks and transition into collegiate environments where they've already shown the potential for academic success.

Now, Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not Students Helping Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not Students is a growing movement that encourages students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not students around the world to take action in their communities, organize fundraisers at their schools, and learn about the inequities of a world where access to education — or even to something as fundamental as books — is not a given.

Andrew Marcinek, creator of Help Desk, reflects on how this student - driven, entrepreneurial tech course has grown, and how it continues to benefit entire school communities.

I've used Tupac's autobiographical poem «The Rose That Grew From Concrete» to teach students how to analyze poetry, and the young - adult novel Hip - Hop High School was added to our summer reading list to help students increase their SAT vocabulary.

A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English - language learners in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure that children of immigrants get extra help with English.

While teaching students to read, perform math, and understand science and technology is certainly important, I ask you to consider what we are doing in schools to help students deal with stress, to self - manage, to grow in self - awareness.

A growing number of examples show that used well, blended learning — and hence education technology — can help boost student achievement in both charter and district school settings.

«Leading people involves asking students to consider what it feels like when the classroom doesn't work for them or for their friends, to envision what a classroom would be like if it functioned in a way that helped each student grow as far and fast as possible — and to participate in developing that kind of classroom,» says Carol Ann Tomlinson, University of Virginia Curry School of Education's William Clay Parrish Jr..

Many schools in multicultural areas have used their kitchen garden programs to help bring together diverse communities with a common love of growing food, such as Hebersham Public School in Western Sydney which has many students of Pacific and Maori backgrounds.

In my previous post, I shared the student help desk, a course that I designed four years ago at Burlington Public Schools which has since grown into a movement across many sSchools which has since grown into a movement across many schoolsschools.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District's Virtual High School helps accommodate a fast - growing and geographically far - flung population; as many as 500 students take all their courses online, rather than in overcrowded classrooms.

Among the new positions, the number of assistant principals is expected to grow as districts hire additional assistant principals rather than open new schools to help with an increasing workload and expanding student enrollment.

Good healthy daily meals from school catering services are ultimately there to help students grow physically and academically.

As a former teacher and principal, and now education researcher, I find it unbelievable that our taxes are being used to put religious (and overwhelmingly Christian) men and women into our mutli - cultural public schools to «help young students as they grow and struggle to find their place in life».

Through planning curricula - aligned projects, school and community makerspaces can help once again to democratize education and build learning communities where all students have a chance to grow into thoughtful, confident leaders of tomorrow.

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Your school will work as a seamless extension of your existing website / web presence and help you grow your brand attracting more loyal students — or else customers, instead of sharing your brand and school with others.

Since then, it has grown into an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to help schools and colleges work for all of the students they serve.

Scheduled for Success: Frank Zaremba of Barnette Elementary in Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools writes: «When I became a multi-classroom leader for the exceptional children's (EC's) team, I expected to be able to use my 15 years of experience as an EC teacher and dean of students to coach teachers, especially special education teachers, and help them grow.

«They could increase federal startup dollars for charter schools, which could help a great many students get off the growing wait lists and into new Great Hearts, IDEA, KIPP, BASIS and other charter schools locally.»

Charter public schools can help add new high - quality seats for the state's growing number of new students.

The mission of the Syracuse Teacher Center is to ensure that all educators grow professionally and use effective skills and strategies to help students meet the New York State Learning Standards and the goals of the Syracuse City School District Plan.

The charter school is poised to help its students - those who may not think they can accomplish anything - and help them grow.

Bluum, with the support of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Family Foundation, is committed to helping create new, high - performing seats in schools that are ready, willing, and able to serve the state's growing and increasingly - diverse student demographic.

Your investment will go directly to helping to grow our organization to reach full - scale — a four - school network that will educate 1,300 students at full scale better than all other districts and networks in the United States.

The results suggest that simply being welcoming and inclusive can help students not only feel comfortable in school, but also grow academically.

While a student at San Fernando High School, she worked at a local middle school helping students improve their reading skills and grow their reading lSchool, she worked at a local middle school helping students improve their reading skills and grow their reading lschool helping students improve their reading skills and grow their reading levels.

Not all online schools let students work at their own pace, but a growing number provide students with the flexibility to get extra help when they need it or move ahead when they don't.

«Chicago Public Schools students are leading the country in academic gains, and these new STEM Magnet and classical schools will help continue to grow that record progress,» says Chicago Mayor Rahm ESchools students are leading the country in academic gains, and these new STEM Magnet and classical schools will help continue to grow that record progress,» says Chicago Mayor Rahm Eschools will help continue to grow that record progress,» says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

But before I go, I would like to create one or two more professional learning Corwin workshops to help classroom teachers, school leaders, and district leaders carry out their all - important work of helping their students grow and succeed — the culmination of 40 + years striving to directly impact the lives of my own students and to indirectly do the same for those thousands and thousands of students I will never get to meet.

The Newcomer Academy is a new summer program the Albany City School District aimed at helping its growing population of immigrant and refugee students adjust to a new language, school and cuSchool District aimed at helping its growing population of immigrant and refugee students adjust to a new language, school and cuschool and culture.

Hopefully this blog post helps us celebrate how fast some of our students and schools are growing!

Included with the framework is a growing sample of strategies for each core component, designed for school - based educators, to help them create personalized learning experiences for their students.

As Mike mentioned, we need to help students to grow in their use of the tools that will be required of them once they enter the workplace beyond school.

As the school to prison pipeline is growing in rural and urban communities across America, it's going to take adults to work more effectively together to ensure that we help students reach success.