Sentences with phrase «academic year of our effort»

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Baseball can be a great field trip at the end of the school year to celebrate great academic efforts from the kids.

Cuomo appointed the 15 - member task force in September and directed it to conduct a sweeping review of Common Core academic standards, curriculum and exams — the second such effort in less than two years.

I made a great effort during last 4 years to obtain positive results in my thesis and now I feel like I have wasted my time: I have no options to get a job neither in academic nor industry unless I refresh or recycle myself, but how I could do so when I'm 35 and spent the main time of my life studiying and giving up so many things just to get a better future?

Its main message is that despite many years of effort to redress science's gender balance, progress has been slow: Women constitute 44.5 % of all academic staff in the United Kingdom, but only 20.5 % of professors are women (17 % in science, technology, engineering and mathematics — STEM — fields).

During this difficult year, Science Careers documented the lousy academic job market and kept track of the issues affecting employment opportunities in research and related fields, from government efforts to stimulate the economy to immigration.

Academics have been frequent targets of killings and abductions in Iraq the past year — part of a campaign that appears aimed at thwarting reconstruction efforts and silencing intellectuals; some estimates put the death toll in the hundreds.

The Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) had put real effort into making some space for young researchers in this year's Genomics Momentum, which each year welcomes a wealth of international academic, industrial, and governmental people working in genomics.

Later that year, an investigation by Science uncovered an underground market for fake academic credentials, in which some peddlers may have used SCIgen to save themselves the effort of writing «authentic» fake papers by hand.

This research builds upon more than 25 years of research at UT Austin and other academic institutions, and coincides with related efforts recently at OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Brain, and Uber.

This research builds upon more than 25 years of research at UT Austin and other academic institutions, and coincides with related efforts recently at

At past symposia, FoR worked to highlight some of the problems facing postdocs and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills.

«We look forward to Mary's contributions to our School Leadership Program, to our efforts to envision and plan online offerings for school leaders using the edX platform, and, most importantly, to the leadership of PPE during the next academic year.»

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

They claim that much of Australia's increased expenditure on education in the last 20 to 30 years has been «wasted» on efforts to reduce class sizes, arguing that this extra funding does not lead to better academic results.

The board's action, taken this month, will help ensure that efforts to address the declining rate of minority participation in higher education receive high priority on campuses in the coming academic year, according to Reginald Wilson, director of the council's office of minority concerns.

Based on the success of the Sacramento effort, California offered $ 15 million in grants for both the 2000 - 01 and 2001 - 02 academic years to districts throughout the state interested in implementing a home - visit program.

In light of abundant data on low academic achievement and effort among high school students, Wagner's goal sounds impossible, but years of experience plus 150 interviews he conducted for the book convince him otherwise.

In an effort to help their children and their schools succeed in the next academic year, millions of parents around the world are already involved in school foundations or PTA's to support teachers and administrators with their critical work of educating a fresh set of young minds.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

New York's initiative is modeled on a similar program in Cincinnati, but as a 2013 analysis by the New York Times noted, «what has gone largely unsaid is that many of Cincinnati's community schools are still in dire academic straits despite millions of dollars in investment and years of reform efforts.»

During her 14 years as a principal in the Dallas Independent School District, she developed a reputation for consistently and effectively integrating the efforts of students, parents, teachers, and community members to achieve solid academic gains while providing safe and nurturing learning environments.

For many years, schools have focused on supporting students» academic success and recent efforts include focused attention on the nature of instruction as well as assessments of student performance.

Following years of various turnaround efforts, the Newark school was closed in 2012 due to a combination of declining enrollment, dilapidated conditions and low academic performance.

But what has gone largely unsaid is that many of Cincinnati's community schools are still in dire academic straits, according to an analysis by The New York Times, despite millions of dollars in investment and years of reform efforts.

Moreover, students at new school facilities attend an average of 4 additional days of school per academic year and elementary students show increases in teacher - reported effort, providing evidence of additional non-cognitive impacts of school facility improvements.

Schools will make every effort to communicate these fees before the beginning of each academic year and will communicate any updates via school website, direct family communication, or other appropriate means.

CCSA has several years of experience designing and launching an academic accountability framework to guide advocacy efforts for renewing and replicating schools, including calling for the closure of underperforming schools.

School leaders in these communities, forced by the storm to delay the start of classes or reboot just after students returned for the 2017 - 18 year, face huge academic, financial, and social / emotional costs of a months - long recovery effort.

«The number of New York students passing state reading and math exams dropped drastically this year, education officials reported on Wednesday, unsettling parents, principals and teachers and posing new challenges to a national effort to toughen academic standards.

Some savings were achieved when Congress completed the fiscal year 2011 funding process in April, but unfortunately, the funds were realized through the elimination of the year - round Pell Grant Program despite AASCU and its members» efforts to protect the ability of students to receive a second Pell Grant during the academic year.

Sadly, extensive research efforts (many of them funded by WFF) on the academic impact of public charter schools have suggested that after 20 years there is little across - the - board improvement to show for it.

After a year - and - a-half of work, «most board members said they were satisfied that the document meshes with and advances the state's larger comprehensive effort for school improvement combining new academic standards, more equitable funding and a locally driven accountability system.»

After years of hard work, long hours, and tons of research, you're ready to finalize your academic efforts with your dissertation.

We've spent years in this business and seen it all and believe us - it's not as much of a business as a humanitarian effort against academic oppression.

It is through the efforts of courageous academics and artists within the last thirty or so years that artist like myself can proudly claim our Caribbean seat at the table.

Now in its 248th year, the world's largest open - submission exhibition (that means anyone can submit work) was for decades out of step with the times, its walls packed from floor to ceiling with the efforts of the die - hard academic and eccentric amateur.

EDF's three - year effort involving 16 academic - lead studies will conclude at the end of 2014 and should provide the component emissions data to allow improved mitigation as well as to better resolve any differences between top - down and bottom - up estimates of emissions from the natural gas supply chain.

The $ 500,000 award from NSF's Graduate Education Division will expand UCSB's Crossroads program, which launched during the 2013 - 14 academic year and resulted largely from the efforts of Graduate Division dean, Carol Genetti, who first developed the idea with Chuck Wolfe, when both were associate deans in the Division of the Humanities.

Wood enlisted local divers to work alongside academic scientists to monitor the coastline to enforce the new rules, an effort that would yield dramatic recovery of seaweed beds, corals and juvenile scallops in just a few years.

Over the coming year, WJP will support these programs by raising the visibility of their efforts and by fostering connections through its global network of government, civil society, academic, and business leaders.

Sperling and Shapcott's and Rosen's recommendations for fostering a growth mindset in law schools focus primarily on communicating a growth mindset message to law students — be it from professors who have examined their own mindsets and thereby shifted their expectations and language; 188 through orientation programs that include growth - oriented messages from administrators, professors and guest speakers; 189 by framing assignments and evaluation in terms of process; 190 by professors who teach legal writing using their expertise in narrative to tell stories that show that legal writing and analysis skills are learned through effort and persistence; 191 by professors and administrators «communicat [ing] that law school has academic value beyond the first year» and «encourag [ing] students to view rankings and large firm job placements as indicative of mastery that can be obtained through learning and hard work»; 192 or, by providing growth mindset student mentors for incoming students.193

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Grand Bay, AL (6/2010 to Present) School Administrator • Act as a first point of contact by welcoming new student, parents and visitors • Provide information regarding the school system, curriculum and enrollment requirements • Assist in developing academic programs and creating instructional resources for teachers to use in class • Train, encourage and mentor staff members and teachers and oversee their progress • Supervise teachers to ensure delivery of instruction in accordance to school curriculum • Confer with parents to provide them with feedback on their child's academic, personal, physical and emotional wellbeing • Prepare budgets on an annual basis and ensure that they are adhered to during each financial year • Coordinate efforts with vendors and suppliers to ensure that school supplies and equipment are purchased / procured in a timely manner • Formulate mission statements and ensure that all staff members work according to them • Establish performance goals and objectives and mentor staff members to work towards achieving them • Direct school maintenance services to ensure a consistently safe and clean school environment

These efforts come with a big payoff, as strong social emotional skills can help children in a wide variety of social and academic settings for years to come.

(2017) Useful to: Parent Centers, preschool personnel, and parents of preschool - aged children Supporting parents» efforts to help their children develop during the preschool years improves child school readiness, reduces child behavior problems, enhances child social skills, and promotes academic success.

New Jersey The Schumann Fund for New Jersey Early Childhood Development: We support efforts to heighten the chances of academic and social success for young children, especially the urban poor, by supporting programs and policies that provide high quality early childhood education and care to children from birth to eight years old.