Sentences with phrase «at keeping students in school»

General wellness and health activities for low income students have also been successful at keeping students in school.

These are aimed at keeping students in school, and they should be balanced with your own policies, sense of mission, and students» needs.

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday a comprehensive plan to keep students safe, a week after a former student fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

[25] While there are many ways to promote white milk selection without restricting available options, the following five suggestions are consistent with previous research conducted in school lunchrooms: 1) keeping all beverage coolers stocked with at least some white milk [23]; 2) white milk representing 1/3 or more of all visible milk in the lunchroom [25]; 3) placing white milk in front of other beverages, including chocolate milk, in all coolers [26]; 4) placing white milk crates so that they are the first beverage option seen in all milk coolers [22], [27]; and 5) bundling white milk with all grab and go meals available to students as the default beverage [24].

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and worIn particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and worin their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and worin school, college, and work.

Bruce Viernow, a teacher and administrator at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn for 27 years, was an advocate of keeping each and every student engaged.

Keep in mind that under Provision 2, the school provides meals at no cost to all students, so it is key to financial success to have the number of students on paid status not exceed about 10 % during the base year.

At Vista Middle School, Principal Nidia Castro says she will do her best to keep cups of water in her school, even suggesting she might pay out - of - pocket to provide cups for her stuSchool, Principal Nidia Castro says she will do her best to keep cups of water in her school, even suggesting she might pay out - of - pocket to provide cups for her stuschool, even suggesting she might pay out - of - pocket to provide cups for her students.

In one landmark case from 2001, a lesbian couple won the right to student housing at Yeshiva University medical school, which had tried to keep them out of the dorms.

«These new regulations preserve the rigor of New York's graduation requirements while at the same time offering students comparably rigorous options that keep them engaged in school and learning.

PARKLAND, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced Friday a comprehensive plan to keep students safe, a week after a former student fatally shot 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

As the city school district struggles to keep students in the classroom, the mayor has decided to add 50 - more positions to target the city's most at - risk youth.

Some 216 students and teachers at six schools in Fukushima Prefecture, six elsewhere in Japan, four in France, eight in Poland, and two in Belarus wore dosimeters for 2 weeks while keeping detailed diaries of their whereabouts and activities.

As a high school percussion director and a grad student working on my masters in education at Rockhurst, I keep really busy but I love being around people in my free time.

In order to keep Trent out of harm's way and solve the case behind the killing that Trent saw, the two have no choice but to go undercover at an all - girls performing arts school, with Malcolm posing as the titular rotund old lady, Big Momma, and Trent dressing up as a heavy female student named Charmaine.

After Gamby gets chastised by the teachers for helping Russell keep his job — the students looking on in amazement as the teachers fling insults and curse words at each other is a great comedic touch — the episode becomes an avalanche of events that lead to the aforementioned fight through the school.

Two of her three students at the Salund School in McLeod are expected to graduate from 6th grade next spring, and school officials in the town, population 60, are unlikely to keep the school open, sheSchool in McLeod are expected to graduate from 6th grade next spring, and school officials in the town, population 60, are unlikely to keep the school open, sheschool officials in the town, population 60, are unlikely to keep the school open, sheschool open, she said.

92, who teaches math at Kamiak High School in Mukilteo, Wash. «You just keep making it happen for those students.»

A folktales project is behind schedule because of lack of electricity, lack of heat in the school — which kept students home for several weeks — and infrequent access to computers at their school.

Most states don't keep student - level data, so researchers also can't compare similar students at a full - time virtual school and those in a full - time conventional one.

Students sell to individual households memberships in Mail Stopper, which cancels 90 percent of catalogs and junk mail in 90 days at a cost of $ 20 — and the participating school or club keeps half of the fee.

More dramatically, when students confess privately that this program has been their connection to the world, a shot at real leadership, kept them in school, given them a voice or saved them from troubled times in their home country, these stories seem remote from O - MUN's core debating program, but are fundamental to the success the community has experienced.

When we think about retention in a remote Indigenous context, our first thought is often the students — how do we keep them at school when high teacher turnover is disrupting continuity of learning?

The Ohio study matched EdChoice students with descriptively similar public school students at baseline and kept every student in their original group after that, regardless of who in either group actually attended private or public schools.

An interactive timeline looking at federal, regional, and local efforts to establish dropout - intervention programs to help keep students in school.

My bigger idea is that in the future, students would receive a device in ninth grade that they could keep, at least for the duration of their high school career, and perhaps permanently.

Learn about programs and share ideas to support at - risk students and keep all young people in school.

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

For instance, it's looking at ways to track high - risk students that give high schools credit for keeping these students in school.

Comments from some recent users of this book should help convince you to buy it: As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes Worth every dime Every student in my class has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research Surely this is the best book in its field First class I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight Blows you away with its power and simplicity Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

It is estimated that, each year, between 15 and 19 percent of U.S. students are kept back and as many as 50 percent of students in large urban areas are retained at least once before they graduate or drop out of school.

Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

The discovery that teachers in some schools may have kept copies of last year's exams and used them to help students prepare for this year's tests, which ask the same questions, knocks off track, at least temporarily, state efforts to raise student achievement through greater school accountability.

So are schools where teachers have 120 or more students to get to know (with this 120 shuffled at the end of each semester); where serious learning is broken up into snippets of 50 - minute «subject matter periods» arranged in no intellectually coherent order; where assessment keeps knowledge tightly packaged in separate intellectual domains; where short - term memory work is rated as deserving the highest value at the expense of original, long - term analytic work; and where the intellectual engine of the curriculum comes at most students and teachers as a list of subjects and skills, usually far too long for the careful savoring and devoted practice that leads to deep understanding and worthy habits.

Through this plan, any student who had been enrolled in district schools for at least one year could apply for a voucher of approximately $ 4,600, equal to 75 percent of state per - pupil funding, to attend a «partner» private school, with the school district keeping the other 25 percent.

However frustrating it may be at times, I'll keep in mind that the people who do the work in schools, communities, and colleges are usually far better positioned than I am to make judgments about «what works» for their students.

The MHBA staff expressed concern about being able to keep their students focused on college when the children are dealing with daily social pressures at school or are faced with trauma in their lives.

In groups students read Molly's Secret in which Molly keeps her attraction to another girl at her school a secreIn groups students read Molly's Secret in which Molly keeps her attraction to another girl at her school a secrein which Molly keeps her attraction to another girl at her school a secret.

Students Produce Must - See TV Students at one Pennsylvania elementary school keep families and the community in the know about school events by producing video segments that they upload to the Teacher Tube Web site.

Similarly, across the country at the Caesar Rodney School District in Delaware, Alleyne worked closely with administrators to understand whether the development of a freshmen academy helped students transition to ninth grade and keep them on track to graduate.

Finding a wellness - accountability buddy — a peer who agrees to support and keep you accountable to your wellness goals — or using a professional learning community as a space to check in with other teachers are also ways to get that support, offers Alex Shevrin, a former school leader and teacher at Centerpoint School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional school leader and teacher at Centerpoint School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional needs.

Between all the schedule changes that take place at the beginning of the school year in order to balance class sizes and maintain the maximum number of students in each classroomand the extreme pressure to keep up with standards, everyone has reason to be stressed.

Teachers should also keep in mind that not all students have equal opportunities to finish their homework at home, so incomplete homework may not be a true reflection of their learning — it may be more a result of issues they face outside of school.

Schools in Mississippi give Black students more than one - out - of - school suspension three times as often as they do to White students; Michigan does this four times as often to Black as White students, resulting in nearly a fifth of Michigan's Black students being kept out of the classroom at some point in their school careers.

As part of the Move Across America program at Adams Elementary School in Arkansas City, Kansas, students kept track of the number of quarter - mile laps they have run or walked to see if they can reach the total number of miles between San Francisco, California, and New York City.

To attract more students and keep them in the Chicago schools, Vallas also supported the creation of charter schools and magnet programs designed to retain middle - class residents, such as International Baccalaureate programs at the high - school level.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Willemsen discusses her role at Define American, and how the organization can help educators keep undocumented students informed and empowered regarding their schooling.

☐ Is overseen by an elected school board ☐ Submits to a financial audit on a regular basis ☐ Follows state class - size mandates ☐ Adheres to health, safety, and civil rights laws ☐ Teaches a curriculum aligned to state standards ☐ Is a brick - and - mortar school (not an online one) ☐ Doesn't teach religion ☐ Is in session at least six hours a day, 180 days a year ☐ Follows state teacher - pay guidelines ☐ Participates in annual assessments ☐ Has at least one librarian, nurse, and counselor ☐ Does not practice selective admissions ☐ Demonstrates at least minimal growth in student achievement ☐ Employs unionized teachers ☐ Keeps student suspensions to a minimal level

Replacing large, underperforming high schools in New York City with dozens of small new ones has kept many teenagers from dropping out, a new study has found, but also has lowered graduation and attendance rates at some of the remaining large schools by diverting hundreds of at - risk students into their classrooms.