Sentences with phrase «be successful in their school years»

«Both companies understand the importance of early literacy success and want educators to have the best opportunity to help those students struggling with reading and writing in order for them to be successful in their school years,» said Jesper Just Jensen, Senior Director, Preschool and Primary Marketing at LEGO Education.

Not exact matches

Follow - ups over the next 40 years showed the kids who waited were healthier and more successful in school years later.

Both are academically successful: Hamilton is in his final year of law school, and Robinson has an MBA.

Last year schools in Arizona, Idaho, New York, and Tennessee were able to order any quantity of Greek - style yogurt from September to November 2013, within the balance of their USDA Foods entitlement, and the response was so successful that eight new states — California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Mississippi, North Carolina, Vermont, and Washington — will have access to pilot purchasing of Greek - style yogurt for the 2014 - 15 school year.

It was also the issue that motivated my successful campaign against «pink slime» in school food ground beef last year.

A student who transfers from the Florida Virtual School full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapSchool full - time program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year pursuant to paragrapschool year pursuant to paragraph (a).

A student who transfers from a charter school program to a traditional public school before or during the first grading period of the school year is academically eligible to participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities during the first grading period if the student has a successful evaluation from the previous school year, pursuant to subparagraph 2.

Hope it's a successful and healthy school year for your kids and all those kids in our communities!

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English, maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000 bonus being offered to successful teachers.

«Two years ago, Welsh Liberal Democrats were successful in securing a Pupil Deprivation Grant to help youngsters on free school meals get extra help in school to make sure they fulfil their potential.

Next year, Shea Reeder will likely have to enroll her son in a public school that is performing at a significantly lower level instead of keeping him in a successful charter school.

The Deputy Minister for Communications, Vincent Odotei Sowah, has assured that government is working tirelessly to ensure the successful implementation of the Free Senior High School programme, which is the biggest social intervention in many years.

«Dennis Walcott has been working his entire life to help New York City's school children, and I am confident that experience will help him build on the successful reform efforts of the past nine years and improve our classrooms for the generations to come,» Bloomberg said in a statement praising Steiner's decision.

Last year the union was successful in halting the shuttering of 19 schools the city tried to close for poor performance.

Thanks to a personal connection, one of the most successful biotechnology companies in the United States is apparently the new title sponsor of the Science Talent Search (STS), the prestigious high school science competitions run by the Society for Science and the Public (SSP) in Washington, D.C. New York - based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. will invest $ 100 million over the next 10 years to become the third such sponsor in STS's nearly 75 - year - long history, according to several media outlets.

This portrait of the pupils, teachers, and local environment of Norway House Cree Nation — a robustly successful school and community center in Manitoba, steered toward the needs of Native students and the hiring of Native faculty — represents the 85 - year - old Obomsawin's 50th feature, and she is already at work on the 51st.

We offered it for the first time in the 2015 - 16 school year, and I'm happy to report that it has been successful for everyone involved — especially for the 12 young men enrolled in the course.

Some charter schools, such as KIPP DC, have been successful working in racially isolated schools in poor neighborhoods, developing specialized teaching strategies and support for students who come to school years behind.

These are just some of the successful solutions to school challenges being shared at this year's Excellence in Professional Practice Conference.

In the first year, lower - performing schools were paired with more successful schools.

This report takes a multifaceted look at just how ready those states, districts, and schools are to bringing ESSA's changes in for a successful landing when the law goes into full effect for the 2018 - 19 school year.

«That's why so many dyslexia advocates in particular have been calling for this type of skills check to be put in place at an early level for many, many years because they know that you can get much, much earlier identi cation, intervention, and therefore assistance to help ensure that the early years of a child's education are successful which then enables them to be successful for the rest of their schooling.»

The county council has a successful track record in school planning, and last year 96 per cent of Hertfordshire applicants were offered a place at one of their four ranked primary, junior or middle schools, with 83 per cent gaining their first preference.

January 2011 had marked the 27th successful year of BETT, where once again the significant role that technology plays in the classroom and in the school as a whole was clear to see, even in a time of ongoing change and austerity in the sector.

This set of mini-posters can be used as a year long resource in any classroom to equip students with eight strategies that students should learn to use each and every day as they strive to be successful in school.

Before each school year begins, classroom teachers and the school nurse from McIlvaine Early Childhood Center visit the homes of incoming students to identify potential health risks to students and talk with parents about how they can help their children be successful in their new classes.

Finally, I return the lists to the students in the last week of the school year — partly to remind them that taking care of them was a year - long endeavor, but also to show them that telling future teachers about their needs as learners and people can help them be successful.

It cites increases in teacher salaries, a shift in school funding from local property taxes to state taxes, and a reduction in the disparities between poor and wealthy districts as financing changes that were successful «even in the first year.»

As I have had the privilege to visit 100 + schools and interact with several thousand educators in the last two years, I have distilled key elements of this transition, and the deeper I look, the more I am convinced that THE key element of a successful redefinition of learning requires a reboot of the fundamental relationship between teacher, student, and knowledge.

The direct - managed schools were generally less successful than those operated under charters, and the RSD has massively shifted toward the charter option in recent years.

We find that charter schools are associated with an increased likelihood of successful high - school completion and an increased likelihood of enrollment at a two - or four - year college in two disparate jurisdictions, Florida and Chicago.

In the 2002 — 03 school year, only two years after it opened, Match High School was emerging as succeschool year, only two years after it opened, Match High School was emerging as succeSchool was emerging as successful.

We learn of a pleasant childhood in Toledo, Ohio, college days at Cornell, training with Teach For America, three grueling but successful years in a Baltimore elementary school, leadership of The New Teacher Project, and testimony at an arbitration hearing where the New York Department of Education squared off against Randi Weingarten and the United Federation of Teachers («She was dazzling,» former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein tells Whitmire).

I've been Head of IT and computer science for 14 years in a bustling and successful school just outside of Bath, England.

But in a subsequent meeting, the staff actually took portions of the MCAS and came to these conclusions: Although the test is hard, it really does measure the kinds of skills and knowledge students need to be successful in the 21st century; because the MCAS is a curriculum - referenced test whose items are released every year, it is possible to align the curriculum and study for the test; and finally, our students have a long way to go, but most can reach proficiency if the whole school teaches effectively over time.

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«The most successful technology - related experience I had was our nomination as a finalist in the Education World Cool School of the Year contest,» said John Simeone, Webmaster at Beach Street Middle School in West Islip, New York.

With lineage in 19th - century Prussia, Horace Mann and various education reformers were successful in molding a compulsory school system — forcing children to kowtow to an irrational authority for years on end and learn via obedience and coercion, antithetical to human development.

«The jurisdictions who are continuing with that trial have committed to work closely with officials in terms of technological issues to make sure any and all issues are resolved to their satisfaction so the small number of schools participating in the trial can have absolute confidence that it will work and be successful this year.»

As reported by Schools Week, teachers would have to apply «with a specific project in mind», and if they are successful the government would pay their salaries for up to a year.

A new Achievement School District (ASD), modeled after those in Louisiana and Tennessee, is charged with transforming these very low - performing schools by taking in a small number (no more than six per year) and pairing them with successful charter networks, with the hope that they will return to district supervision once they're humming.

«I will be going into our new semester - long business class, Freshmen Career Tech, to do some interest inventories, discuss all postsecondary options — work, armed forces, technical schools, two - and four - year colleges — in addition to discussing how to be successful in high school, rà © sumà © s, and the importance of getting involved in high school.»

This activity gives your current students a chance to feel good about what they've learned and provides incoming students an opportunity to see real evidence that they can be successful learners in the coming school year.

None of them identified themselves as being a child prodigy or even as being successful in their early school years.

«It has been exciting to see him grow, and I know the relationships he developed within the school will help him be successful in high school next year.»

«So you could have some states starting school with children at five years of age, versus 6 years of age, you could organise schools in one particular way or have different needs - based funding models in place and if the policy is a success the other states can copy it, however if the copy is a flop the damage is contained and it's easier to work out what to do next because they have other successful models in place.»

Now the deadline has passed for expressions of interest in the second round of the PSBP, schools will hear by the end of the year whether they have been successful in attracting funding based on an assessment of those in greatest need.

The Education Redesign Lab (ERL) was created by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Paul Reville, who has spent the last thirty years designing and implementing the successful education reform agenda in Massachusetts.

The Operator: The Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS) is a successful statewide online charter school in its sixth year of operation with current course enrollments approaching 2School (VLACS) is a successful statewide online charter school in its sixth year of operation with current course enrollments approaching 2school in its sixth year of operation with current course enrollments approaching 20,000.