Sentences with phrase «as high achievers»

On average, the children started out as high achievers but year after year lost ground on the state's standardized tests, according to a Times analysis of scores from the 2002 - 03 through 2008 - 09 school years.

In education, Asians are often written off as high achievers with «Tiger» parents who care more about academics than their children's emotional well - being.

I remember struggling mightily with Chemistry 101 (my hard science requirement) and feeling enormous pressure and embarrassment because by that time I was established as a high achiever at Wheaton and I was worried that professor Elita Pastra - Landis would think poorly of me.

As a high achiever, she brings that gift to working the games, making them more profitable and exciting than ever before.

The lessons stretch the gifted and talent pupils, whilst at the same time encouraging children who may find school hard to get stuck in, often reaching the same results as the higher achievers.

Not exact matches

These high achievers often get up early, proactively manage their health and practice mindfulness, as opposed to flitting from one electronic task to another while neglecting important human relationships.

Study high achievers and you'll find the recipe for success is fairly consistent and includes hard work, perseverance, as well as a willingness to take risks and learn from failure.

The region does an excellent job of importing talent as our institutes of higher education are worldwide magnets for young achievers.

The doubt that you may regard as your deepest secret is shared by the highest achievers.

Even the highest achievers, such as Albert Einstein and Maya Angelou, suffered from this corrosive form of low self - esteem.

The two other high - achievers on this panel, addressing an auditorium full of Navy midshipmen as well as retired Navy officers, were Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), the longest serving woman in Congress, and Ellen Lord, CEO of Textron Systems (txt).

Before these high - achievers found their calling as entrepreneurs, they dabbled in all sorts of hobbies.

Whether this practice is embraced by the head of a company as a business strategy or it just emerges in exchanges between employees, hypercompetition doesn't make anyone look like a high - level achiever.

She interviewed high achievers, from bankers to cartoonists, and conducted field research in areas as diverse as West Point Military Academy and the National Spelling Bee.

High - achievers will enjoy exploring the science of meditation in this book, as it is evidence - based.

Millennials may be better educated than earlier generations, but Credit Suisse's researchers said they expected only a «minority of high achievers and those in high - demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the «millennial disadvantage.»»

As noted in an article from InsNerds.com, many millennials are high achievers.

As mentioned earlier in this article, the Achiever list is a good start for search high quality company, but further analysis will be required.

As you can see, the Achievers stared performing well after the market experienced higher volatility.

«We're talking about high achievers and high net - worth individuals, working for companies such as Amway, Nu Skin and Toyota.

And as with the high achievers in Houston, in Guryan's study it was the students with the highest motivation who showed some (small) signs of improvement.

Almost twice as many high achievers come from two - parent homes as one - parent homes.

Commenting on The Learning Curve, a report by Pearson which singles out the United Kingdom as sixth highest achiever in their global league table, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said:

I am a personal shopper for numerous professional women, as well as being a writer, and I am amazed how many of these successful and wealthy high - achievers don't have a clue when it comes to what to wear.

This helps women who are moderate achievers and are often described as sociable and outgoing, but hurts high - achieving women, who are met with more skepticism, the study found.

My research drew on classic areas of psychology such as giftedness and expertise, following the steps of other researchers who have examined the developmental activities of the world's highest achievers across a range of domains from science to music to sport, sparking classic «nature versus nurture» debates.

The researchers found that low - SES students demonstrated greater academic confidence and expectations and identified more strongly as high - achievers when they perceived their institution as warm, versus chilly, towards socioeconomic diversity.

Many doctors will ask about quality of sleep when children have problems at school, but new research shows it's just as important to pay attention to how high achievers are sleeping.

One of the highest distinctions given by Marquis Who's Who, the Lifetime Achievement Award entitles biographees to a listing on the Lifetime Achievers website alongside fellow honorees, as well as a professional announcement detailing induction.

I want to, for just a moment, delve into both the woo - woo and the practical, and share something with you that has been on my heart as I dig into these type of health issues that many of us hard - charging, high achievers need to think about.

It refers to high - achievers who experience an unrelenting fear of being exposed as «frauds» to their peers and struggle with intense feelings of inadequacy and self - doubt.

As I looked at getting back into the workforce, again in a career that is not high paying, and also into dating again, I noted there are more and more women who are high achievers financially.

But they also consider me as modest, hardworking and a high achiever.

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The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studehigh - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

The worksheet is great as it is accessible to ALL students and really does push the high achievers in the class.

We also strongly urge states not to use «growth to proficiency» measures, as these encourage schools to ignore the needs of their high - achievers (and are poor indicators of school quality).

Minority communities in the United States have yet to generate a large cadre of high achievers, a situation as discouraging as the high incarceration rates among minorities who never finish high school.

My results provide little evidence of general asymmetry, such as low achievers gaining more by being with high achievers than the amount high achievers lose by being with low achievers.

As Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution argues, affluent high - achievers who come into school with so many advantages typically enjoy opportunities that prepare them well for college: gifted - and - talented programs, accelerated courses, and classes with high - achieving peers.

«It's an attractive idea in a lot of ways,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Vivian Louie, whose research looks at the role of the immigrant family in the educational experiences of second - generation Chinese Americans who are consistently presented as high academic achievers.

There are also listening questions sheet with the answers, reading questions with the answers as well as the translations into English (They can be used for high achievers to practice translation into French).

There are also listening questions sheet with the answers, reading questions with the answers as well as the translation into English (can also be used by higher achievers to translate into French).

The depth of expression possible with film, a depth that the linguist and author Umberto Eco describes as greater than that achievable through spoken language, means that even high achievers can explore concepts beyond those that they can articulate with written or spoken language.

Excellent for high achievers to annotate with success criteria or use as a model.

So, the school spent one year giving staff focused professional development that would help them deliver the program — including how to teach some students basic skills such as decoding, and how to continue to push the high achievers to the next level.

The last 2 pages can be used as a Differentiated Instruction activity (one of the group activities is aimed at higher achievers) and also as a communicative activity: each group will complete a part of the organizer and then exchange information with someone from the other group:) PDF with 3 pages included - A4 and US Letter sizes.

High achievers expect to excel as new teachers, and several of the new teachers desired more critical feedback from their mentors.

One critique of Success Academy is that the school is pushing out low achievers, resulting in decreasing cohort sizes as students reach higher grades.

Almost all the policy attention has been on low achievers, and, in fact, they've made faster gains on measures such as NAEP than have their high - achieving classmates.