Sentences with phrase «academic needs of groups»

The purpose of the law is to make sure schools do not neglect the academic needs of groups of students who traditionally perform poorly.

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The Facts: Advocates from student groups, including the Canadian Federation of Students, the leadership of B.C.'s academic research universitiesand reportershave notedthat B.C. needs to improve its student aid programs.

The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.

This short letter accomplishes so much — it promotes the school meal program and lets people know that there is fresh fruit being served; it highlights the «vision» of two key players whose support you need to move forward; it connects student health with academic achievement; and it lets people know that your group exists and has a voice.

The final report of the Small Business Taskforce — a group of leading businessmen, entrepreneurs and academics commissioned by Labour to examine how to support small businesses to thrive — highlighted widespread dissatisfaction with the ability of the big banks to meet the financing needs of small businesses.

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

«All HEIs [higher education institutions] should review the working hours of their academic staff and the management of research groups to ensure that practices are in keeping with the needs of those employees with caring responsibilities,» the report says.

«I used this event to get an idea of how academics should present their ideas to business groups — for example, the need to provide an exit strategy for investors so they can see where and when they will get their money back,» he says.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materialize.

Universities need to get better at sharing patented seeds and other products of publicly - funded agricultural science if the United States wants to keep producing bountiful harvests, argues a new report from a group of leading academic researchers.

Sri Lanka's National Institute of Education, is honoured for its «Open School Programme», which addresses the learning needs of disadvantaged groups and offers an alternative route for out - of - school youth and adults to resume academic or technical and vocational training.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

We group students based on an area of need ranging from academic to personal and social, such as conflict resolution, stress management, and self - management skills.

Strategies like mindfulness, emotional regulation, and supportive small groups help Symonds meet the academic and social needs of their students.

We also use our extra academic hours to provide targeted one - on - one and small group intervention for our students with special needs who are significantly behind grade levels in reading, and we offer additional hours of ESL instruction to our beginning ELL students.

Central to the new approach is the notion that this group of young people are turned off by traditional academic education with a focus on pathways into higher education and that these young people need to be energised by a different approach to education which sees the world of work at its core.

Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.

(d) other direct student services which may include, but need not be limited to, responsive services, crisis response, group counseling, individual counseling, appraisal, assessment and advisement, for the purpose of enabling students to benefit from the curriculum, assisting students to develop and implement postsecondary education and career plans, assisting students who exhibit attendance, academic, behavioral or adjustment concerns and encouraging parental involvement.

Educational Concepts Group, Inc. and The Nia Foundation, Inc. support the academic needs of general education, special education and second language learner students.

And, rather than limit enrichment and acceleration to a predetermined group, Dance wants to allow for more flexible grouping, so that a student who needs «advanced academics» in just one subject or for a period of time can get it.

hereas ability grouping with age - peers, or a moderate degree of acceleration, may be an appropriate response to the academic and social needs of moderately gifted students, they are not adequate to the needs of the exceptionally and profoundly gifted.

In a letter dated May 3, dozens of advocacy groups asked Brown to recommit to closing the academic achievement gap for high - need students as he considers an opening on the State Board of Education and a new plan for measuring school performance later this year.

These data can help guide planning to improve school and student outcomes by targeting the student groups most in need of additional early academic support.

Refers to a wide variety of educational programs, learning experiences, instructional approaches, and academic - support strategies that are intended to address the distinct learning needs, interests, aspirations, or cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students.

Middle schools are being designed to meet the social, emotional and academic needs of this specific age group.

Throughout the academic year a group of Lower Sixth (Year 12) students from St Albans School volunteer on Friday afternoons to work as teaching assistants in three local schools for Children with special educational needs.

Each state's accountability plans need to include four academic indicators as well as a fifth indicator that may come from a group of suggested areas that include school culture and climate as well as student and educator engagement.

Small group instruction can occur in groups of students with similar academic needs or in cooperative groups of students with diverse abilities, putting higher achieving students in the role of a peer mentor.

The term student - centered learning can refer to a variety of educational programs, learning experiences, instructional approaches, and academic support strategies that address the distinct learning needs, interests, aspirations, or cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students.

Discussion Group on Facebook: All educators, and people interested in gifted education, are invited to join and contribute to the ongoing conversation about how to best serve the academic needs of our nation's brightest students.

In common planning time, teacher teams begin with an analysis of the holistic needs of students; in professional learning communities, the teacher teams begin with the analysis of students» academic progress; and in the critical friends groups, the teacher teams begin with an identified need or interest for improved practice.

Organized by the Community Coalition, the groups presented a comprehensive, data - driven «Student Need Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on nNeed Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on needneed.

The CEIS program design form is to be used by districts using IDEA funds to support the unique needs of a specific group of students who are not eligible for special education programs and services and who are demonstrating low academic or behavior performance.

While it's common to have ELL students in today's classrooms, educators say they are struggling now more than ever to fulfill the academic and social - emotional needs of this increasingly diverse student group.

The approximately 50 teachers who belong to PGCEA at Gholson are involved in all activities and interdisciplinary teams, which are groups of teachers responsible for the academic, social, and emotional needs of its 940 students.

The teachers in our focus groups expressed a strong sense of obligation not only to help black students learn academic content and skills but also to ensure that their broader developmental needs are being met.

To that end, the Early Childhood Consultancy Group has met over the last four months to: 1) determine the most important information early childhood parents need to know about children's academic progress; 2) review the current structure of APTT and recommend changes to the substance of meetings so they better serve parents of young children; and 3) create tools, videos, and tip sheets about developmentally appropriate activities families can do at home with their young children.

Teachers (a) formulate both academic and social skills objectives, (b) decide on the size of groups, (c) choose a method for assigning students to groups, (d) decide which roles to assign group members, (e) arrange the room, and (f) arrange the materials students need to complete the assignment.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

On the basis of their interests and academic needs, students generate and complete individual or group projects.

Our new middle schools will provide an excellent well - rounded bridge to Burnsville High School and meet the unique social, emotional and academic needs of this age group.

Our group of profoundly experienced and ensured authors takes into account the particular academic needs of every trainee.

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Quality assurance and legal needs surveys are just two practices which have gone round the world — very largely because of the existing of the International Legal Aid Group which since 1992 has held conferences that seek to bring together a wide range of legal aid administrations and academics.

Join a diverse group of legal service providers, technologists, policy makers, academics, students, and clients — all committed to creating actionable solutions to pressing legal needs of the Nashville community.

a. increasing public awareness of the law and the justice system; b. providing education to groups with particular legal needs; and c. assisting in the academic and professional development of those providing legal services to ensure those services are of the highest quality.