Sentences with phrase «built by high school students»

The other being built by High School students who are members of ACE — mentor program as a project for the homeless and being donated to the homeless outreach, Joppa, which desires to create a Tiny House Community for the homeless in the area.

I'm pretty sure this is the only farmers» market in the country designed and built by high school students.

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Of the nine winners who did report challenges building their startups because of student - loan debt, only three left school owing more than $ 35,000, the average amount for class of 2015 graduates (the highest in U.S. history), according to a report by financial aid resource Edvisors.com.

Microsoft is providing consulting and technology to the new 180,000 - square - foot high school, which is being built by the School District of Philadelphia to serve 750 stuschool, which is being built by the School District of Philadelphia to serve 750 stuSchool District of Philadelphia to serve 750 students.

From being a straight D student in high school, to building a real estate colossus she'd sell for $ 66 million, to reinventing herself in media topped by her star - turns on «Shark Tank,» Barbara Corcoran runs on pluck, gumption, street smarts and lessons her mother taught her, which she shares on this memorable episode of «All Business With Jeffrey Hayzlett.»

Developed by a local high school culinary student in partnership with Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas, El Fenix's Kids Fit Menu allows kids to build their own meals by choosing from an array of delicious, low - fat / calorie entrées and sides, along with a glass of apple juice.

If approved by voters those propositions will: 1) Create a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

There are three ballot propositions on the November ballot: 1) Creation of a redistricting commission to draw the new state legislative and House of Representatives» district lines every 10 years, with the commission members appointed by the state legislative leaders, 2) amend the current constitutional requirement of distributing paper versions of proposed bills to state legislators to allow for electronic distribution and 3) authorize New York State to borrow up to $ 2 billion for school funding, with a stated purpose of «improving learning and opportunity for public and nonpublic school students», including the purchase of equipment, expanding school broadband access, building classrooms for pre-K and replacing trailers and installing «high - tech security features.»

In explaining the changes, city officials noted that some plans approved by Mr. Bloomberg would have required elementary school students to attend class inside high school buildings, and others would have required cutting programs for students with disabilities.

Building on its work at the middle school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for high school biology students.

Studying a new type of pinhead - size, lab - grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, Johns Hopkins researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fetal brains: by infecting specialized stem cells that build its outer layer, the cortex.

Building on the success of youth - focused, anti-tobacco campaigns that expose industry tactics, educators can also boost school efforts to prevent underage drinking by having high - school students use the site to research the «tricks» of the alcohol industry.

A case study by Meredith Liu titled «Cisco Networking Academy: Next - generation assessments and their implications for K — 12 education» released yesterday by the Clayton Christensen Institute profiles how the Academy, a comprehensive online training curriculum offered to third - party education institutions to help high school and college students acquire the fundamental skills needed to design, build, and troubleshoot computer networks, uses technology today to deliver assessments in ways starkly different from our current education system.

The free resources, field - tested by teachers, are being used in middle school, high school, and college classes, building the pipeline of students interested in STEM careers.

The curriculum — which embeds all - purpose academic words the students will need to read high school and college textbooks in math, English, science, and history — has helped to «build a bridge toward greater understanding of what is being read by students,» says Ben Honoroff, the literacy coach for MSQI in the Department of Education.

The latter is one of nine principles of learning formulated by the Institute for Learning that I direct at the University of Pittsburgh to provide assistance to school systems in building organizational and instructional practices that will enable their students to meet higher achievement standards.

By giving teens something constructive to do when their parents are likely to be at work, quality afterschool programs hold the promise of preventing high - risk behavior, building resiliency, and improving students» prospects following high school.

Close school - to - home ties, so carefully built during a student's early grades, have often loosened considerably by the high school years.

The per - meal rate for free lunches (currently, $ 2.24) can be higher than the actual cost, so there may be some advantage to schools with many poor students, although this improvement is usually offset by inefficiencies of older buildings with outdated kitchen equipment.

Scratch is very versatile that way — while elementary students get a lot out of it, it's also used by middle and high school students to build projects with increased complexity.

With 97 percent of students completing at least one CTE course by the time they graduate from high school, CTE programs are naturally positioned to help students build literacy skills in preparation for future success in college, careers, and life.

And Hidalgo builds student capacity in its AP courses: Of the 13 such classes offered at the school, those with the highest enrollment by far are Spanish language and Spanish literature.

Size: Fifth largest school district in California with 62,000 students and covering 320 square miles Number of High Schools: 9 Number of Career Academies: 17 (15 funded by CPA, 2 unfunded) Number of Career Pathways: 5 (Artswork, Business Careers, Engineering / Building Trades, and Visual and Performing Arts) Number of Student Participating: 2,623

In addition, The Plot Thickens — an interactive storytelling and story - building website for tweens to help build literacy skills heading into high school by Ed School students Aaron Morris, Bryn Keating, Chelsea DeLorme, Rebecca Fisher, and Gabrielle Santa - Donato — received the $ 2,500 second - place school by Ed School students Aaron Morris, Bryn Keating, Chelsea DeLorme, Rebecca Fisher, and Gabrielle Santa - Donato — received the $ 2,500 second - place School students Aaron Morris, Bryn Keating, Chelsea DeLorme, Rebecca Fisher, and Gabrielle Santa - Donato — received the $ 2,500 second - place award.

At Scituate High School, in North Scituate, Rhode Island, students have greened their campus by building a biodiesel tank, installing solar panels, and turning empty food containers into rain barrels.

By putting staff and students at Phoenix High School in control of their new building project, Hammersmith & City now has one of the most iconic and functional sixth forms in the country

The new building, which is now under construction by Foremans, will allow the school to provide a high quality, direct, post-16 progression route for its students for the first time, maintaining standards and outcomes far above national levels.

He improved student achievement and changed the schools culture by setting high expectations for everyone in the building.

Over the next few weeks, I invite you to join me and my colleagues at the Knowledge Matters Campaign as we tour schools across the country to see the many ways knowledge - building curriculum is enhancing classroom instruction — by asking students to read, write, and speak to high standards, but to do so from a wide range of topics that enrich students» understanding of the world around them — ranging from water conservation to the Revolutionary War to Renaissance architecture.

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

«This study builds on Mathematica's previous body of research on the KIPP model in middle schools by addressing the effects of KIPP elementary and high schools on student achievement and a variety of other outcomes,» explains Christina Tuttle, senior researcher and lead author of the study.

Twenty - five American school districts, including New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit, possess the size — more than 100,000 students each — and the resources to build the kinds of organizations that might effectively support the schools, by recruiting and training high - caliber teachers, developing a demanding curriculum, and building an assessment system that accurately tracks student progress.

Whilst we can never know for sure, there is certainly an argument that the «games» played by some schools such as using continual resits, sitting exams from more than one board or entering students for meaningless low value qualifications that did not «build the individual» or «contribute to the welfare of society by providing well rounded educated people to enter the workplace» have contributed to someone upon high saying «Enough»!

High schools are seeking to build systems that ensure success for every student; this is being further emphasized by the Obama administration, which has identified the following four Race to the Top priority areas in the Race to the Top Executive Summary (2009): «adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy; building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; cultivating effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and turning around struggling schools» (p. 1).

The 2012 Annual Update of Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the Dropout Epidemic report found that 24 states increased their high school graduation rates by modest to large gains, while the number of high schools graduating 60 percent or fewer students on time — often referred to as «dropout factories» — decreased by 457 between 2002 and 2010, with the rate of decline accelerating since 2008.

Through an innovative technology solution built in partnership by UBS, the Tennessee College Access and Success Network and Discovery Education, The TalentED Project establishes an online community of college access and admissions professionals to match high - potential students with schools that increase their likelihood of graduation and future success.

The English High School, Boston This project aims to build a school - wide culture of literacy by developing a sustainable model of supplemental literacy instruction, engaging students as co-teachers and co-designers in the development of that model, and creating a professional learning community to support ELA teachers in building literacy communities in their own classSchool, Boston This project aims to build a school - wide culture of literacy by developing a sustainable model of supplemental literacy instruction, engaging students as co-teachers and co-designers in the development of that model, and creating a professional learning community to support ELA teachers in building literacy communities in their own classschool - wide culture of literacy by developing a sustainable model of supplemental literacy instruction, engaging students as co-teachers and co-designers in the development of that model, and creating a professional learning community to support ELA teachers in building literacy communities in their own classrooms.

TalentED builds a recruitment pipeline for underrepresented students by connecting admissions recruiters, college access organizations and high schools across the country.

As a component of the school - level parental involvement policy mandated by federal law Title I, each school served under this part shall jointly develop with parents for all children served under this part a school - parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State's high standards.

The other interim charges considered by the committee at the hearing included examining current school board governance policies and practices and making recommendations that could improve the focus, attitudes and outcomes of Texas school boards, districts and students; studying existing board training requirements and making suggestions to educate school board trustees on policies that could achieve better student outcomes, particularly within the framework set for low - performing schools in House Bill 1842; and monitoring initiatives to build a high - quality pre-kindergarten grant program (HB 4).

We were particularly excited by Summit Elevate, where students will be able to take advantage of a partnership with the California College of the Arts and Oakland Unified School District; and New Harmony High, one that builds a unique and focused learning community from a barge in Louisiana.

These goals serve as the primary tenants for advancing the high school renewal work to: 1) establish system coherence by aligning central office and site programs, and accelerating student learning by leveraging and expanding knowledge and skills among staff, parents, and community members; 2) improve the quality of instructional leadership by providing ongoing professional development for school leaders; 3) improve the quality of teaching throughout the district through embedded professional development; 4) increase student engagement in the learning process by personalizing learning environments to build on student interests; 5) increase community involvement in schools by giving principals ownership of the change process, expanding student voice, and bringing parents and students into the school renewal process.

To build institutional persistence at the state level, we must develop a seamless state database stratified by regions and counties to follow students from high school through college.

The MS program strives to serve as a bridge for students from elementary school into high school, by building a strong foundation of student skills and world knowledge.

Challenge Before the five Nexus Academy high schools (Cleveland, Columbus, Grand Rapids, Lansing, and Toledo) opened in the fall of 2012, administrators decided to support the curriculum by including a program to build students» social emotional resiliency skills.

A careful look at Ofsted reports from 2008 reveals a complex picture of a school beset by, initial disruption caused by new building, high staff turnover, temporary staff and high turnover of heads (May 2016: «A Year 12 student accurately stated that she has had 11 different headteachers while at the school.»)

Yet models such as Power Hour at the high school of NASSP President Jayne Ellspermann and the Student Edcamp led by NASSP Digital Principal Glenn Robbins reveal a great deal of promise for students to build the future they will eventually lead.

Influence state leaders to build the capacity of districts and schools by providing resources for students reading below grade level in middle grades and high schools.

When students meet that bar, they — and their parents — will demand that higher education recognize their accomplishment in a meaningful way, both by guaranteeing them placement into credit - bearing courses and by ensuring that those introductory courses build on what they have learned in high school.

By invitation only, the 2011 Academy is an intensive professional development event designed to raise student achievement by building and empowering school leadership — the catalyst for high performancBy invitation only, the 2011 Academy is an intensive professional development event designed to raise student achievement by building and empowering school leadership — the catalyst for high performancby building and empowering school leadership — the catalyst for high performance.