Sentences with phrase «schools academic team»

We are using Creating Matters as a guide in the development of the Seton Catholic Schools Academic Team.

She has served as the head coach for the school Academic team, and currently serves as the math and Quick Recall coach.

Not exact matches

The senior management team of the Rotman School consists of leaders who are accountable for ensuring high standards of excellence across academic, program, operations and advancement functions.

Last summer he attended team workouts and summer - school classes (he's a communication major and a PAC - 10 All - Academic honorable mention) and then worked a five - hour shift as a sous chef at a Long Beach restaurant, where he honed his modest Spanish - speaking skills with Latino busboys.

He is a force on defense for the basketball and volleyball teams at Capital Christian, creating a sports season that stretches from before school starts until the last weeks of the academic schedule.

In the meantime, Van Dyke's focus will be on high school academics, being a senior, and team success on the football field.

Alexander knew Oklahoma City to be the Sooner equivalent of SMU, a Methodist university with a good academic reputation and a fine - arts school that produced actors, dancers, opera singers and Miss Americas the way the hoops team turned out All - Americas.

At every school, the football team is supported by other teams, from the strength staff to academic support to the grounds crew.

Because of the college preparatory school's academic standards, it's not easy to put together an elite sports team, Langston said.

Indeed, of the Crimson's 41 varsity teams (the most at any Division I school), football, which travels five or fewer Fridays each academic year, might miss the fewest class days during the regular season.

The Student - Athlete Leadership Award honors student - athletes who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, sportsmanship, academic performance and volunteerism in their team, school and community.

Join the Challenge Success School Program as a returning team, and build upon the work that you have initiated to improve student well - being and academic engagement in your school commSchool Program as a returning team, and build upon the work that you have initiated to improve student well - being and academic engagement in your school commschool community.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

Perhaps junior hockey team owners and general managers should require that their players have ACT scores at least at the national averages, good academic success in high school, and be good candidates for college before they accept them on the team.

However, the school's Concussion Management Team plays a critical role in deciding to return a student to activity — both academics and athletics.

Ashanti Howard has extensive experience in elementary middle schools as a teacher, literacy coordinator, administrator and a member of academic leadership teams.

He said that in keeping with the championship goal of ensuring healthy interest in football and education, SPDC introduced a scholarship award to a fully paid four - week education programme for either of the two best players who fulfils the required academic qualifications to the 2018 Sussex International Summer School, with possibility for participation in youth and footballing activities of the newly - promoted English Premier League team, Brighton and Hove FC.

Kazuyoshi Maejima of the School of Medicine at Keio University in Tokyo led a team of academics that developed the Koken rat jointly with company researchers.

A team from La Trobe University's School of Life Sciences, led by Dr Richard Peters, worked with academics from Monash University's Faculty of IT to create, using 3D animation, a series of varied environmental settings and weather conditions, comprising different plant environments and wind conditions, to quantify how lizard displays are affected by this variation.

A similar pattern emerged in both studies, one led by Gleeson, with Murat Gunel, MD, of the Yale University School of Medicine and Frank Baas, PhD, of the Academic Medical Center in the Netherlands, and the other by Josef Penninger and Javier Martinez of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, teamed with James R. Lupski, MD, PhD, of the Baylor College of Medicine.

Jeffery Lindeland is a two - sport athlete for Belmont High School who successfully fundraises on behalf of his teams and is reaching academic goals in a grade - level math class.

The academic project team also includes Michael Armey, PhD, of Butler Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School; Gary Epstein - Lubow, MD, of the Medical School, Butler, and Hebrew Senior Life; and Ronald Seifer, PhD, of the Medical School and Bradley Hospital.

In fact, he has his heart set on making the school's academic team, which is supposed to compete on a television game show.

Realizing everyone is out to profit off him, the teenaged phenomenon decides to remain faithful to Medfield, and heads off the school's team (with the friends he appoints) in a series of academic challenges sponsored by an encyclopedia company.

In the maiden issue of the Journal of Character Education, a team of researchers reports on a study of the relative academic performance of schools in California that described themselves as having substantial character education components.

To fix the system, Coleman proposed academic games in which teams of students competed against those at other schools.

They argued that there is a growing professional and academic understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

This year, the Teacher team was lucky to speak to many classroom teachers, school leaders and academics about the work that they are doing and the changes that they are making.

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

President Neil L. Rudenstine announced today that he has asked longtime research and teaching team Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett who currently serve together as the academic dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to share the role of acting dean of the School.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

«There's a good correlation between being good at high school,» Robertson says, «and being good at academic teams.»

The UNE research team of Dr Sue Gregory, Dr Jennifer Charteris, Dr Yvonne Masters, Associate Professor Amanda Kennedy and Associate Professor Myfanwy Maple are a cross disciplinary group of academics from the Schools of Education, Law and Social Work.

She is coaching her Atlanta school's National Academic League quiz bowl team, competing against a «white» school (in Atlanta, even a «white» school does not have many whites).

Integrated curricula, team teaching, and technology tools have built up the academic achievement and self - esteem of these rural Louisiana middle school students.

Due to all the hard work and collaborative energy of teachers, administration, school - based leadership teams, community partners, students, and families, the Edwards has reached and continues to meet our goals for student achievement and for providing middle school students in Boston with quality education in academics and enrichment.

Craig Haas, Special Ed and Student Services Coordinator at Edwards Middle School, shares how his team uses expanded learning time to provide relevant academic support to each individual student while breaking down stigmas between children of different abilities.

«I think Joel Klein and his colleagues have gotten much more traction on reform than any previous leadership team,» said Robert B. Schwartz, the academic dean of the education and management program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

We have seen examples of chess clubs, sports teams, academic Olympiads, spelling bees, and science clubs organized by virtual schools, but rarely without logistical challenges.

We've expanded our team to include a new teacher and an academic coach, and are gearing up to kick off teacher recruitment for the fall when we'll add a school counselor, a director of services and partnerships, an office manager, and several more teachers.

Making time in the school day to emphasize academics, tutor students who need extra help, schedule common planning times for teams, or meet a wide variety of other needs is a challenge all principals face.

The lead teachers are responsible for meeting with the achievement director, student support manager, and the school academic counselor and sharing information about those meetings with members of their teams.

I have weekly meetings with the teams to discuss an array of topics including academics, after - school tutoring for at - risk students, behavior problems, parent concerns, truancy, curriculum mapping, and tri-annual online reading and math test results.

«I was really fascinated that the administrative team at the school was all theater people — few had a background in education or academic management,» she says.

The San Francisco Unified School District teams up with the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco to offer high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to study architecture in combination with other academic subSchool District teams up with the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco to offer high school juniors and seniors an opportunity to study architecture in combination with other academic subschool juniors and seniors an opportunity to study architecture in combination with other academic subjects.

In a growing number of high schools around the country, however, ninth and tenth graders are being organized into interdisciplinary academic teams, with advisory programs not unlike middle schools.

Specifically, the Notre Dame research team found that, although charter schools have been able to fill the academic void left when Catholic schools close, «they do not yet appear to generate the same positive community benefits.»

The U.S. Department of Education last compiled data on extracurricular activities a decade ago, when it reported that more than half the country's high - school sophomores participated in sports, that one - fifth were in a school - sponsored music group, and that cheerleading and drill teams, hobby, academic, and vocational clubs each involved about 10 percent of kids.

The team involved reviewed existing research about resilience and also drew on the expertise of four key groups: a taskforce comprising 10 children resilience experts; an expert panel comprising 25 academic researchers and leaders in business and community; school aged children (6 - 12 years) and their parents; and practitioners in the health, education and community services sectors who work with children (0 — 12 years) and families.

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.