Sentences with phrase «addition to its academic year»

The Principals» Center offers four summer institutes, in addition to its academic year programs, including «The Redefined Principal.»

Not exact matches

The report card provides parents with information they can't easily get anywhere else: In addition to five years of academic results, the report card shows which schools are improving or falling behind.

In addition to demanding academic, work and social schedules, our college student leaders dedicate on average 10 - 15 hours / week to Camp Kesem as they commit to a year - long position managing every aspect of their camp including:

Greg works with the academic team to ensure that the high standards of the Distance Education Accreditation Council and the Louisiana Board of Regents are upheld in addition to best practices for online learning.On the personal side his passion is open water swimming where he has competed for over 40 years.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

What follows in «Jigsaw» is academic, a thin variation on a tired theme that feels especially needless given that the most recent addition to the mythos was released seven years ago.

Professional learning and support is provided to team leaders by the principal and academic partners and all participants are released for four half days to work on key elements of the project throughout the year, in addition to meeting regularly for planning, to discuss evidence and to provide feedback to each other.

In the year - round program at Fairview Elementary School, in Modesto, California, for example (see «Power to the People,»), students benefit from an emphasis on civic literacy and responsibility in addition to a regular academic program with about the same number of school days as traditional schools.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

In addition to submitting the Advanced Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test Academic Programs Level IV Referral Form, parents or guardians should also supply if available the Gifted Behaviors Rating Scale with Commentary completed by the previous year's teacher (s), report cards for at least 1 1/2 years including teacher comments (if not included in the student's academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test academic file already received by the local FCPS school), and achievement test results.

State policy in Ohio requires school districts with a three - year average graduation rate of 75 % or less (in addition to academic watch and academic emergency districts) to administer practice versions of the Ohio Graduation Tests (OGT) to 9th - grade students.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

The report card provides parents with information they can't easily get anywhere else: In addition to five years of academic results, the report card shows which schools are improving or falling behind.

Meanwhile, since officials approved two virtual charter pilots in 2015, state legislators have allocated roughly $ 80 million to the two schools, in addition to handing down relaxed attendance - taking requirements that critics credit for the schools» plunging count of dropouts this academic year.

In addition to providing each student with a personalized learning experience using a combination of committed faculty and adaptive learning software, tuition is affordable «out of pocket» (at $ 2,800 per academic year).

St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Multi Academy Trust doubled its size from seven to 14 and is also lining up new additions for this academic year.

In addition to the SSM, the CCSA accountability framework includes measures of rigor (in the form of a school's status as measured by its Academic Performance Index, or API, score) and momentum (in the form of growth in API over a three - year period).

The elements, in addition to the tracking their progress throughout the year aims to increase academic achievement in reading and development authentic engagement and ownership of the content in the class.

Next school year, school districts anticipate eliminating or reducing 370 academic programs, which is in addition to 783 academic program reductions that have occurred since 2010 - 11.

In students» junior year of high school, counselors look at specific student needs and interests — for example, the academic rigor of their course load and their SAT / ACT score, in addition to GPA — to compile a list of schools that are a good academic fit, as well as match students» interests.

In addition, Yolanda disaggregated the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) data and proposed a building - wide (over 800 students) Drop Everything & Write initiative to specifically address the Grade 7 MEAP Writing which went from only 50 % proficient (lowest in the district) to 70 % proficient (highest in the district) in one academic calendar year.

The company publishes under a dozen imprints in virtually all fields in the humanities and social sciences, totaling 1,500 academic, reference, and general interest books each year in addition to several journals in various academic and professional areas.

The 10.1 inch Galaxy Tab will be the newest addition to the list and will be made available in April, that is before the 2014 - 15 academic year commences.

In addition, it is probably important to mention that the interest rate on subsidized student loans is doubling from 3.4 % to 6.8 % this coming academic year.

Another key addition to this year's finals event was a roundtable discussion between 19 academics and studio representatives.

We aim to continue to work with professional artists in Sussex to expand the range and quality of our art courses ensuring that each academic year will differ from the previous with the addition of interesting and original courses encompassing both 2D and 3D art practice.

In addition to the top ranks, newly appointed Dean of the School of Engineering Teresa Dahlberg — the self - proclaimed «best thing to happen to the School of Engineering in ten years — has already accepted the additional role of «Chief Academic Officer» of The Cooper Union.

In addition to this, the Stedelijk's academic members of staff carry out thorough research into the museum's holdings (such as the exhaustive, years - long investigation into the collection as part of the national research project «Museum Acquisitions after 1933,» which examined the provenance of artworks in Dutch museums).

In addition to serving as a professor of real estate law for more than 20 years, and as a distinguished contributor to, and editor of academic journals, Mr. Rosenblatt is the first recipient of the Canadian Bar Association's (Ontario Division) Award of Excellence in Real Estate.

In addition to her academic work, Alexandra has over ten years of experience as a lawyer in Vancouver representing First Nations governments and as a senior policy official at the City of Toronto.

In addition to that, granted an academic or educational scholarship from the society of honors in the year of 1996.

In addition to clinical services I have years of experience in Medication Therapy Management, education, legal and regulatory issues, Continuous Quality Improvement, Formulary maintenance, academic detailing to physicians, and program development.

Research as early as 2005 by the Rand Corporation found a range of return on investment from $ 1.80 to $ 17 for each dollar spent on early childhood interventions.53 More recent studies of preschool (birth to age 5 years) education estimate a return on investment as high as 14 % per year on the basis of improved academic and occupation outcomes, in addition to lowered costs of remedial education and juvenile justice involvement.54

In addition to her present duties, her experience over the past 30 years has concentrated on parenting education, family support, home visiting, child abuse prevention, early childhood development as well as program implementation, systems development and collaboration at the local and state levels in governmental, academic, and nonprofit settings.

In addition, CARES Plus provides academic support and advising to engage a diverse workforce, with career path counseling and support to successfully transfer from community college to four - year institutions.

In addition, CARES Plus provided academic support and advising to engage a diverse workforce, with career path counseling and support to successfully transfer from community college to four - year institutions.