Sentences with phrase «additional academic time»

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During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

At this point in time, GRACE is still looking for additional Christian academic institutions that may be interested in hosting a regional GRACE Center.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

Company employees continue to receive their salary, with the EPSRC compensating the company for any time the employee must take off for academic studies, as well as any additional costs incurred by the company in the course of the students» research.

Although her regular academic salary from her tenured position provided the time for research and access to library facilities, she carried out her own «controversial» research without any additional funding.

The findings, which were released by the discount online retailer just days before the start of the new academic year, indicates that as many as 1.9 m students returning to higher education, or starting university for the first time, will need additional support to make ends meet.

The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectivenTime (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiventime to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

At the same time, the traditional system often prevents students from engaging more deeply in their interests, excelling when they are ready, or pursuing additional academic challenges.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

The additional teaching accommodation was needed at the time as the school caters for over 1,600 pupils, with 400 in the sixth form from the start of the 2011/12 academic year and plans are in place to increase pupil numbers to 2,000.

Using the additional time to support a well - rounded education that includes time for academics and enrichment activities;

Performance - based compensation systems must consider gains in student academic achievement as well as classroom evaluations conducted multiple times during each school year among other factors and provide educators with incentives to take on additional responsibilities and leadership roles.

Other school characteristics associated with better student achievement included: more time spent on English instruction; teacher pay plans that were based on teachers» effectiveness at improving student achievement, principals» evaluations, or whether teachers took on additional duties, rather than traditional pay scales; an emphasis on academics in schools» mission statements; and a classroom policy of punishing or rewarding the smallest of student infractions.

But pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds focus this additional time «on traditional academic subjects such as English, science and mathematics», according to by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, while their more advantaged peers opt for «music, sport and foreign languages».

Over the course of time, public charter schools enrolled more students, stabilized financially, witnessed academic gains, and then began to hear from parents who wanted more; robust athletics, fine arts including, music, dance, and theater, a slew of extra-curricular activities, and more recently, dual credit courses or additional Career and Technical Education offerings.

Not to be confused with additional classroom time or days of instruction, «days of learning» indicate how much academic progress a student makes within a set timeframe.

I constantly worry about his academic needs — the school's curriculum, the lack of accountability within the classrooms, the poor quality of his teachers and the ongoing need for additional instruction time for his struggling classmates.

Also in place at Glendale: a continuous in - school academic support program, which prepares students for college eligibility and success, as well as intensive supports and additional class time for English learners, who make up nearly half the student body.

States encourage schools that choose to expand learning time to add 300 additional hours to the standard school - year schedule, allowing more time for the three key areas: academics, enrichment programming, and teacher collaboration

Students learn over 100 academic vocabulary words through explicit instruction, with an additional 200 + words learned from context and from «just - in - time» vocabulary1.

During his time at Payton, Tim helped increase SEL programming, created unique Multi-Tiered Systems of Support, and developed a daily enrichment program so students could access additional academic supports, participate in athletics, and explore identity organizations during the school day.

These favorable work conditions are also predictors of higher levels of student growth and improved academic achievement.27 New teachers, especially, can benefit from additional time, tools, and support — possibly provided as part of residency and induction programs — during their critical first years in the classroom.

Recently, Chicago's two major newspapers made it very clear that charter schools can be very problematic and do not provide better academic results to justify additional millions of dollars that could be directed towards struggling neighborhood public schools («Chicago's Noble charter school network has tough discipline policy; critics say too many students are being expelled,» Chicago Tribune, 4/7/14; «Charter schools show little difference in school performance,» Chicago Sun - Times, 4/7/14).

But the bulk of the additional instructional time happened before the 2001 passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, with its new demands for academic progress, and the students who most needed extra time weren't always the ones to get it.

An expanded platform of services for at - risk students (this usually means additional academic and social supports, including extra learning time, to enable at - risk children to access the same educational opportunities.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed into law in December 2015, further provides that none of the funds made available by this Act be used to allow 21st CCLC initiative funding for expanded learning time unless these activities provide enrichment and engaging academic activities for students at least 300 additional program hours before, during, or after the traditional school day and supplements, but does not supplant school day requirements.

This is a problem solved by hiring additional hands (also known as academic writers) to help complete the term papers on time and with a high quality of information.

Actually, by the time you approach 200ppmv for CO2, you have already reached the break point in the curve, beyond which additional CO2 has much less impact on the RF — and this is close to the glacial value — suggesting that CO2 changes do not drive the glacial cycles (CO2 changes are supposed to amplify T rise during deglaciation, but there is scant evidence for this and the assumption that it did also underlay the IPCC belief — and a great many references in academic papers give a T degrees C per ppmv CO2 without stating over which range of concentrations this is meant to apply.

GJEL used her excellent academic standing and recommendations from her doctoral advisor, along with real data regarding the positions that were open, had she completed her studies on time, to show the loss of one year's worth of salary as an additional damage in her case.

It can also be a challenging time for parents and carers who can have concerns around their child's adjustment, emotional or behavioural difficulties, academic skills, social relationships, additional or complex needs or may have had bad experiences with school themselves.

This will require a time commitment of an additional five to seven years, and will broaden your employment opportunities to include academic research, consulting and more.