Sentences with phrase «as their academic needs»

At a meeting to develop an Individualized Education Program (IEP)-- held six years after Angelisa's disabilities began impeding her academic progress — AFC successfully advocated for placement at a small, specialized school that could address Angelisa's anxiety as well as her academic needs.
The article offers five practices that can help schools improve educational achievement for these students: acceptance of shared responsibility by school staff; a dual curriculum that promotes language development as well as academic needs; careful consideration of how to integrate immigrants with the general school population; extended learning time; and individual progress records.
New City staff members get to know each of their students as whole human beings so that they can effectively respond to their social as well as academic needs.
Teachers are teaching and many kids are learning but if we do not recognize that schools need money and attention to the physical plant as well as the academic needs like books, we are all lost.
To improve education, California is asking schools to improve the way they meet the emotional as well as the academic needs of students.

Not exact matches

The net effect is that those students who exhibit greater academic potential and those who need financial assistance are paying the same as, or in some cases less than students back in the 1990s.
As Biselli said, «Without dramatic change, we are trending towards a $ 5 trillion problem, and I believe policy - makers, academics, clinicians and innovators all need to have a seat at the table.
As part of the application process, entrepreneurs must enter into a collaborative agreement with UMSL that describes how they will further the mission and goals of UMSL (such as by hiring or mentoring students, developing programs, contributing to academic research, etc., depending on school needsAs part of the application process, entrepreneurs must enter into a collaborative agreement with UMSL that describes how they will further the mission and goals of UMSL (such as by hiring or mentoring students, developing programs, contributing to academic research, etc., depending on school needsas by hiring or mentoring students, developing programs, contributing to academic research, etc., depending on school needs).
Teach full - time as a highly - qualified teacher in a high - need field at an eligible low - income elementary school, secondary school, or educational service agency for at least 4 academic years.
Whether academic, government, private or public sector, we need to get better at entrepreneurship as a country.
If black athletes less frequently achieve the minimal academic standard set for those participating in intercollegiate sports, then let us promulgate for them a separate, lower standard, even as we accuse of racism those suggesting the need for a standard in the first place.
The fact that First Things published a long article on my book Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian Existence is an honor even when the article is a critique, which — as usual in academic disputes — needs critique from my side as well («What Mercy Is,» March).
The academic theorists of the cultural left - those who have been distracted by «mostly apocalyptic French and German philosophy» at the expense of political economy — must recognize that they now need as allies «what remains of the pre-sixties reformist left.»
This makes the present moment both hopeful and dangerous, as theologians seek ways to overcome the polarization and assist Rome in needed academic and theological renewal.
The rationale for academic freedom need not be a view of human nature; it may be put theologically as a matter of faithfulness to God.
Since conceptual capacities needed to understand God include capacities that are «existentially» significant while at the same time fully as rational and as rigorously disciplined as any other capacities to understand anything else, can academic schooling be understood adequately simply as the acquisition of capacities for disciplined accumulation and mastery of data and capacities for critical and self - critical theorizing (cf the «Berlin» model)?
This quest requires an internal renewal of theology and philosophy — not merely as academic disciplines, but as ways of life — and they need to be brought to bear on the governing assumptions, the unarticulated ontology of our culture.
The bulk of academic writing in my discipline is not really writing but a collection of marks on paper put down in response to similar marks put down in response to other marks put down in response to... The authors of these texts do not have a conception of writing as an art, or of the need for the imagery, inflection, and rhythm that hold open the mind of the reader so that the thought can slip past them into his soul.
The study of religions which as an academic discipline developed quite quickly during the twentieth century stressed the need for neutrality and impartiality.
I recall trotting out this elaborate academic joke in the early seventies only to have it received gratefully as a needed service.
As an academic institution, every subject is open to debate, and we need everyone around the table for a richer conversation.
The process of draining logic and meaning from everything came to full fruition in the 1960s and 1970s, when it began to be felt profoundly in the daily lives of many Americans, with such things as the proliferation of «alternative lifestyles,» the diluting or jettisoning of academic standards at every level, the increasing inability of the legal system to make in practice sufficient or consistent distinctions between victim and victimizer — among many others too familiar to all of us to need spelling out.
Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.
Though bioethicists may continue their academic debates for decades to come, there is no need to cause unnecessary confusion among couples navigating a rocky enough road as it is, so I hope these sections may be amended in future editions of the book.
However, it was the need for reformation of academic and church life that evoked his deepest and most profound responses, coming as they did from his own personal struggle for freedom before God.
If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.
As he so wickedly puts it: «The reason that academics want and need their complaints is that it is important to them to feel oppressed, for in the psychic economy of the academy, oppression is the sign of virtue.»
Tier 2 highlights academic competencies needed, such as reading, writing, mathematics, critical and analytic thinking and communication.
Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.
As for the academics thing, that's the kind of information that should be ingrained in the athletic department rather than just one football coach, because I doubt football is the only sport that may need to figure out how to get premiere athletes admitted to the school.
Participation in these programs and services improve the lives of our members as it teaches them the skills they need to achieve academic and professional success and also how to become confident, healthy and contributing members of society.
And perhaps what students need more than anything for these positive academic habits to flourish is to spend as much time as possible in environments where they feel a sense of belonging, independence, and growth — or, to use some of the language of Deci and Ryan, where they experience relatedness, autonomy, and competence.
Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoverAs a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoveras a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.
With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.
Jennifer Brown Lerner, policy manager for the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, said the NFL needs to brand flag football as a viable option.
The academic program provides both rigor and flexibility to meet the diverse needs of middle school students as they transition from Lower to High School.
If tuition reduction is being sought after September 1st in the academic year, the applicant will need to submit the tax returns for the previous calendar year, as well as submitting to the Finance Committee documentation of their last three months» income (pay stubs, etc.).
Parents need to take the long view of social problems and to map out a plan to solve them quite as carefully and thoughtfully as they would consider academic or health problems.
The term «Gifted» is defined by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as Students, children, or youth who give evidence of high achievement capability in areas such as intellectual, creative, artistic, or leadership capacity, or in specific academic fields, and who need services and activities not ordinarily provided by the school in order to fully develop those capabilities.
Where the agreed support costs for a part - time high needs student in that academic year are # 6,000 or less, then the institution should not record the learner as a high needs student on the ILR so as not to affect lagged funding in later years.
Where the agreed support costs for a part - time high needs student in that academic year are # 6,000 or less, the institution should not record the learner as a high needs student on the ILR.
As LDAs no longer exist young people aged 19 - 25 are only eligible for high needs funding in the 2016 to 2017 academic year (place funding and top up) where the young person is subject to an EHC plan.
Post-16 students whose additional support funding totals more than # 6,000 (if provided over the full academic year), are also classed as high needs students.
And we need to value vocational education, just as much as academic education.»
But, if we may also add, the privileged world of the corrupt politician needs no love from the poor masses, as the richly lived and living experiences of the corrupt politician is not an academic question, much the same way we might ascribe «life is a dream» to the abject conditionalities of the poor masses.
What we actually need is a more democratic model of impact where it is conceived of as impact upon the public debate; inspiring gradual, long term change — and in which academic communication is part of a mutual, democratic learning process.
He stated that, though a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is important, one needs common sense in managing institutions or dealing with politicians as a manager of an academic institution.
Become open to learning about the law and policies pertaining to your office and ask questions often, and partner with local universities» academic as they know more about your ministerial needs and guides understand the domestic culture than an expatriate of Euro / American background.
As far as our schools are concerned, we are going back to the drawing board to ensure that all that need to be done in terms of securing our schools before the next academic session is done»As far as our schools are concerned, we are going back to the drawing board to ensure that all that need to be done in terms of securing our schools before the next academic session is done»as our schools are concerned, we are going back to the drawing board to ensure that all that need to be done in terms of securing our schools before the next academic session is done».
About Mount Vernon City School District: With more than 8,000 students in 16 schools, the Mount Vernon City School District is committed to providing a quality education to its children as well as developing programs that meet the diverse academic and social needs of its students.
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