Sentences with phrase «academically challenging schools»

Education and Democracy: This issue looks at civic engagement to understand the ways that educators, students, and communities that support schools involve themselves in politics and policy creation to create and sustain personalized, equitable, and academically challenging schools for all students.

Used together, the videos and the toolkit provide valuable professional learning among educators working toward creating and sustaining equitable, personalized, and academically challenging schools for all children in all communities.

CES features resources detailing best practices for creating and sustaining personalized, equitable, and academically challenging schools.

Sofia was a high - performing student at an academically challenging school — and yet she was really frustrated.

Taos Charter School serves 213 students in grades K - 8 and aims to provide students with an academically challenging school experience.

Ronan also used economic - stimulus dollars to extend the school year, adding what she calls a «fifth quarter» in some of the district's most academically challenged schools.

Not exact matches

At Challenge Success, we provide schools and families with the information and strategies they need to create a more balanced and academically fulfilling life for their kids.

One of the main reasons we selected a private school like FXW was that our children will be challenged academically.

Through years of daily artistic expression and an academically challenging curriculum, Waldorf education culminates in the high school grades with a conscious awakening of all the human capacities.

Pope has experience translating research for a broad audience as a co-founder of Challenge Success, which provides families and schools with the practical, research - based tools they need to create a more balanced and academically fulfilling life for kids.

High school can be academically challenging enough, but when your teen switches schools midway through his academic career, there are a lot of adjustments to be made.

Brighton is a private school for students with challenges who learn best in small groups, are one or more years behind academically, have learning differences or require extra support.

School becomes more challenging academically, and friendships are forming and dissolving daily.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Entering high school, I looked forward to taking classes that would stretch my mind and challenge me academically.

Two academically challenged high school students, who would rather dream about the future successes of their garage band than study, are about to fail their history class.

While seventy - nine percent of the nationally representative sample of 13 - to 19 - year - olds said they felt motivated and inspired to work hard in school, only 31 percent reported that they were «significantly challenged» academically and that their schools set high expectations.

And, perhaps most importantly, I've seen how children in even the most challenging of circumstances can thrive academically when the adults in their lives partner to improve schools.

Dual enrollment is one of the key means that states take to allow students who are academically advanced a way to obtain a level of academic challenge that many high schools do not provide.

As a new Head of Year / Progress leader in a Catholic School, I wanted to challenge my year 8 group to make progress spiritually and academically this year.

We finally moved to ensure that our kids would be academically challenged and in a positive school environment.

It was one of the state's largest districts - with 16,500 students in 19 schools spread out over 9.6 square miles - and one of its most academically and demographically challenged.

Is the problem with high school that it is not engaging students or that it is not academically challenging enough?

In a survey of high - school students released by the National Governors Association in July 2005, more than a third of respondents said their school had not done a good job of challenging them academically or preparing them for college; almost two - thirds said they would work harder if the courses were more demanding or interesting.

Imagine a high school where every course is challenging, all students choose (and are academically strong enough) to be there, discipline problems are few, teachers are knowledgeable and attentive, pretty much everyone earns a diploma, and virtually all graduates go on to good colleges.

The father of the movement, Charles Prosser, argued that because this 60 percent wouldn't be academically challenged beyond their abilities, they were more likely to stay in school.

BASIS schools, which began as a network of academically challenging charter schools but which now includes private schools, will open a new school in China.

BASIS schools, which began as a network of academically challenging charter schools and now include private schools, will open a new school in China.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Many of them entered school academically behind and were affected by emotional and social development challenges.»

ALBA School was founded on the conviction that bilingual students can reach their full potential academically, in English and Spanish, when challenged through; rigorous academic studies, the integration of fine arts and the development of critical thinking, problem solving and creative abilities.

The challenges of that experience embedded in him a desire to create academically high - quality schools where students don't have to check their identities at the door.

Dr. Tolman also has more than 25 years of experience in public schools and the juvenile justice system, spending 12 years designing and implementing an innovative reading clinic for academically challenged high school students.

We have partnered with all types of schools, and we have special expertise working with underserved schools that serve high percentages of students with the most urgent needs: low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, or other challenges.

Mounting evidence from fields like neuroscience and cognitive psychology, as well as studies on such topics as school turnaround implementation, shows that an academically challenging yet supportive and safe learning environment boosts both children's learning and coping abilities.

Founded in 2006 by East San Jose native and National Board Certified Teacher Frances Teso, Voices is a public charter school network with a mission to prepare all students for the challenges of higher education through the context of an academically rigorous dual - language program.

ACHIEVEMENTS: Notwithstanding the financial challenges the school is always confronted with, our students have been doing well academically.

While this school boldly proclaims it's interest in gifted kids, they encourage the academically talented ones while often leaving those that struggle with their challenging but stale curriculum in distress.

Richards knows the school is challenging her son to rise academically and that it will pay dividends in the future.

Day after day, the school challenges its 336 students to attempt the untried or unknown — academically, personally, and socially — and wrest from those experiences the learning and growth that come with such stretching.

Creating a school community that is welcoming and caring, as well as academically challenging and supportive, requires a broad package of policies and practices.

Shifting demographics and escalating school - related costs have encouraged schools and parishes to reconsider how to prepare students academically and spiritually for the challenges of high school.

Engaging Schools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other chalSchools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other chalschools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other challenges.

It is with fierce determination and a relentless spirit that Ambrosia plans to found and lead a high - performing charter school in Brooklyn, New York, where students, pushed to their highest potential, will feel academically challenged, loved, and protected.

Many students who have experienced challenges in school academically, behaviorally and socially are often times the same children that are given the run around when it comes to graduation.

Summer success: Challenges and strategies in creating quality academically focused summer programs (Issues and Opportunities in Out - of - School Time Evaluation, No. 9).

They range from schools working with kids who are academically challenged to [students who] are very academically oriented.

Wheatley EC is a school where every scholar is provided the highest quality of education possible in a nurturing, fun and academically challenging learning environment.

Some see high - poverty schools as more difficult because many students come to school already behind academically and facing serious challenges in their lives, many of which are beyond a teacher's control.

We support out of school time programs that provide students with challenging and academically fulfilling activities that keep them engaged and connected to school.