Sentences with phrase «at the charter school helped»

Teachers at the charter school helped the group cross the street.

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«This is a deliberate attack on the Chaldean Catholic Assyrian community of Detroit,» said Wisam Naoum, a community activist helping coordinate legal assistance for detainees and their families at a Chaldean - focused charter school in the area.

Here is her background: — State Senator — Helped to build charter schools for at risk youths — Attorney for 30 years — Built her own business and acually MET a payroll — 5 children of her own and 23 foster children — Representative for 5 years — True fiscal conservative

Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz testified before Congress at a panel on economic opportunity for African - Americans, arguing that elements of her charter school network could be applied nationwide to help address educational disparities for black students.

Sources said lawmakers were looking at a proposal to help reduce the tensions that exist when a charter school moves into a building already housing a traditional public school.

The fallout from Daniel Loeb's racially charged remarks aimed at Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins imperils the expansion of Success Academy, the charter school network he's helped fund.

Legislator Dixon visited Mercy Nursing Facility to meet with intern Donovan Wallace, a Lackawanna resident and student at Global Concepts Charter School, to learn more about how the Youth CAN program has helped him in his pursuit to becoming a physical therapist.

The Legislature's refusal four months ago to lift a cap on charter schools helped doom New York's first shot at as much as $ 700 million in aid.

At the time, Loeser was helping charter school advocates wage an ultimately successful political battle against de Blasio.

Continuing her run of high - profile national appearances, Success Academy C.E.O. Eva Moskowitz testified before Congress on Tuesday at a panel on economic opportunity for African - Americans, arguing that elements of her charter school network could be applied nationwide to help address educational disparities for black students.

The staff at P.S. 297 helped Jordan in his transition, he added, and the proposed new charter school would take what little space the elementary school has.

Emily Pilloton, for instance, raised more than $ 16,000 on Kickstarter to help her students design and build their own classroom out of shipping containers at Realm Charter School in Oakland, California.

The report profiles several charter schools that utilize sophisticated computer technology to individualize instruction, reinforce students» basic skills, and provide immediate data on student progress, all of which helps teachers to fine - tune instruction and students to learn at their own pace.

At Charles R. Drew Charter School, the Literacy Center and Math Lab provide fun, engaging, and enriching interventions to help support students most in need.

• The Proving Ground initiative at Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research helps districts and charter school networks design and use a deliberate, analytical approach to gathering and using evidence to test digital tools they might adopt systemwide.

By then, she had already worked as a Teach For America teacher in Newark, N.J.; helped found a charter school in Washington, D.C.; and was earning a master's degree in business at Yale.

In particular, EdSurge with the Charter School Growth Fund is hosting «DIY Learning: The New School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.&School Growth Fund is hosting «DIY Learning: The New School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.&School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.&school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.»

Kevin Booker and his colleagues («The Unknown World of Charter High Schools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cSchools,» research) find that such schools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to cschools in Florida and Chicago do better than their traditional counterparts at helping students reach graduation day and ensuring that graduates go on to college.

Multiple studies suggest that L.A. charters are among the best in the nation at helping low - income minority students succeed in school (see Figure 3).

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

At Charles R. Drew Charter School, elementary students learn complex engineering skills and concepts, helping to build lifelong critical thinking and problem - solving skills.

The recent alum, who is currently a principal at Community Charter School of Cambridge, says that he took the course not only to help in his current position, but also to develop ideas for an eventual charter of hCharter School of Cambridge, says that he took the course not only to help in his current position, but also to develop ideas for an eventual charter of hcharter of his own.

Thus, high - performing district or charter schools use chants, ceremonies, signs, and strong discipline to forge a culture defined by college - going and career success; at the same time, unlike schools of a half - century ago, they rarely seek to use those same exercises to help invest students in the American nation as a civic enterprise.

In another classroom at the East Palo Alto Charter School, Ken Clarkson led Meg Barrager's third - grade class in a series of simple mental - awareness exercises designed to help sharpen kids» abilities to spot interesting and unusual anomalies along the trail.

Nancy Repreza, a senior at the Academy of Arts and Minds Charter High School, in Coconut Grove, Florida, says Zinch helped her take a more active role in the college - selection process.

Irvin and Lettre launched CBP, Irvin says, after a fellow guest she'd met at a Washington dinner party asked her how a public - school advocate like himself could find out about charter - school boards that could use his help.

Don Soifer, a longtime member of D.C.'s charter - authorizing board, says parent members «help with the flow of critical information,» getting word to the board about issues at the school before they begin to fester, and getting word to parents about board actions and concerns before they reach the rumor mill.

Although the charter school at which he worked was a supportive environment, both for its students and teachers, Lee couldn't help...

At the Chicago International Charter School, a K - 12 school, principal Charlemeine Zemelko says that teaming helps make her school a special School, a K - 12 school, principal Charlemeine Zemelko says that teaming helps make her school a special school, principal Charlemeine Zemelko says that teaming helps make her school a special school a special place.

Amistad Academy Using chants, rewards, consequences, and lots of hard work, staff members at Amistad Academy charter school in New Haven, Connecticut, are helping urban students set and meet goals.

In more than a dozen cities, charter schools educate 30 % of or more of all public school students, and are creating a ripple effect uplifting entire education systems, and seating supportive education leaders who helped create alternative opportunities in positions of authority at local and state levels.

The fundamental idea at the beginning of the movement was that charter schools would help public schools and enroll students who needed extra attention and new strategies.

In public education, it is unfortunately rare to find something that truly helps children in need, and in urban charter schools we have found something that works at basically no additional cost.

Richard Garcia, a spokesman for the California Charter Schools Association, which has endorsed Nick Melvoin and Kelly Gonez, said the UTLA contract expiring at the same time of the election helps the teacher union encourage its members to participate in the election.

The Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a K — 12 school, has been around since 2001 in the tennis player's hometown of Las Vegas; in subsequent years, through an investment venture, Agassi has helped finance the leasing and construction of at least 39 charter - school buildings in 12 different cities.

«There are just better ways for us to help kids in the Bay Area,» said Jason Solomon, senior director of advocacy and engagement at Summit Public Schools, which operates eight charter schools in the Bay Area and three in WashingtonSchools, which operates eight charter schools in the Bay Area and three in Washingtonschools in the Bay Area and three in Washington state.

Two recent analyses of multiple studies concluded that charters do not hurt outcomes at other schools — and may even help improve them, by creating competition.

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) recently looked at professional development in large school districts and a charter school network and concluded that «We found no evidence that any particular kind or amount of professional development consistently helps teachers improve.»

Before joining the Charter Center in 2007, he worked at the Walton Family Foundation where he helped develop and implement the foundation's grant making in the charter school Charter Center in 2007, he worked at the Walton Family Foundation where he helped develop and implement the foundation's grant making in the charter school charter school sector.

Ryan Grant, a fifth - grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in charter schools in other states, plus the experience of having a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs at a special school.

He offered to continue to help the state and to connect Washington officials with people experienced at working with charter schools from other states.

Regardless of how effective they are at helping students succeed, public charter schools like Herron are rarely able to use public school facilities.

«Public charter schools are helping some of New York City's most at - risk children break the cycle of poverty and walk the path to success in life.

Ryan Grant, a fifth grade teacher at Michael Anderson Elementary on the Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, said he has been attracted to the idea of charter schools thanks to teaching kids who have been in charter schools in other states plus the experience of parenting a 6 - year - old who is deaf and getting the help she needs at a special school.

Dana & Jayson - The $ 100 Tech Challenge JUNE 19, 2017 Diana Smith is the Principal at Washington Latin Public Charter School in DC, and to help her students combat the pull of technology, she issued a challenge.

Hopefully, with the President's prodding, Washington will revisit charter schools and at least set up a few pilots around the state to see if they can help students learn.

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This 21 - year - old summer intern at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is not attacking Black leaders but crying for help.

Imagine Andrews Public Charter School has formed a partnership with Lynne Michael Blum, PhD, a leading clinical psychologist and an adjunct faculty member at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to conduct a series of workshops and training sessions designed to help Imagine Andrews teachers and administrators improve the way they meet the needs of children from military families.

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