Sentences with phrase «by academic struggles»

«As the assistant principal at my school, my job deals mainly with students who have behavioral issues, which are often accompanied by academic struggles.

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Liberation theology's development has been driven not just by the genesis and clash of concepts, the back and forth of academic argument, but by the clash of ecclesial visions and superpowers, and the simple struggle to survive.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Perhaps the biblical people of God, by pointing out the really real within the historical present, could help academic leaders to break out of this impacted perspective, as the university struggles for its soul.

After school program helping children with academic, behavioral and social struggles by focusing on the root of the issues, the brain.

Nottingham University academic Matthew Goodwin has identified the typical profile of Ukip voters as blue - collar, struggling and left behind by the mainstream parties.

The new methodology is already challenging widely held beliefs by finding that teachers can not be judged solely on the basis of their academic credentials, that classroom size is not always paramount and that students may actually be more engaged if they struggle to complete a classroom assignment.

Maggie's Plan entangles Gerwig's serial bachelorette career woman with Ethan Hawke's struggling academic and his wife, a neurotic Swedish scholar played by Julianne Moore, in a game of who loves who.

With little by way of academic credentials, she struggles with menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).

Amazon's latest pilot season consists of three series: I Love Dick, created by Transparent's Jill Soloway and based on a feminist novel about a couple's marital struggles in the academic community of Texas, starring Kevin Bacon and Kathryn Hahn; Jean - Claude Van Johnson, a new action comedy starring the actor as a fictionalised version of himself, in which he moonlights as a secret hit - man in between Hollywood jobs; and The Tick, an updated adaptation of the offbeat comic book, starring Peter Serafinowicz.

For more than three decades I have been fascinated by the lessons that can be drawn from the military to strengthen the academic and, yes, social skills of youngsters who are struggling in school and in life.

Throughout that time, Frost struggled against what he considers the national disaster brought about by a combination of high - stakes academic testing and playground - related lawsuits.

Carl Cohn — executive director of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, which assists school districts struggling to improve student academic outcomes — also said he thought that the state would be immunized against any effort by the federal government to discourage implementation of the Common Core.

Typically these stories begin with accounts of academic struggle or classroom behavior issues, followed by numerous meetings with teachers, administrators and counselors, a barrage of assessments and, finally, a diagnosis — and a label.

No doubt by now, most teachers have heard about the Response to Intervention (RTI) model as best practices for providing academic interventions for struggling learners.

Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, and Matthew Perini have collaborated on a number of recent best sellers in education including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Award in 2004.

Summer learning loss can have compounding effects on academic achievement — if a student is already struggling with learning to read, a summer setback can make it that much more difficult for the student to be reading to learn by fourth grade.

«Teachers in LAUSD have uncovered the unanswered question about Common Core implementation — how do we raise the academic standards for all students when our most vulnerable children, those in special education and our English Learners, have historically struggled to meet the lower bar set by previous standards,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director of Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles.

A 9th grade language arts teacher explains how her school helped struggling readers by placing them in an Academic Literacy class that gave them time to read books for pleasure and helped them develop strategies for choosing books, eliminating distractions, and monitoring their thinking as they read.

By providing lots of ways for students to exhibit proficiency, you provide success for students who are struggling with other academic skills which may be weaker, such as math, organizational or reading skills.

However, academics also warned that poorer pupils don't benefit from extra reading time unless they are guided by a skilled teacher, and a teaching union claimed schools would struggle to find the extra time in the day.

With a mix of human capital reforms, such as rounding out the teaching force with UCLA graduate students who have expertise in key subjects, added student learning and enrichment programs in and out of classroom, and a new focus on developing a college - going culture of high expectations, UCLA is setting out to take what is, by most measures, a struggling school and drastically improve academic outcomes for all students.

Sheila Harrity oversaw the turnaround of Worcester Technical High School by supporting struggling students, increasing academic rigor, and making vocational courses interesting and relevant.

Often, teachers are overwhelmed by multiple demands and the pressure of achieving academic goals, while struggling to address each student's unique needs and emotional barriers.

And after years of struggling to meet academic goals set by the state, the district has seen student achievement improve in certain measures — almost all grade levels showed positive growth in reading and math on 2015 - 16 state tests.

After years of innovation and academic growth, my school added a new program to bring in struggling students from another institution — and the state rewarded us by putting us on a list of «failing» schools and forcing us into a voucher program.

Opened in 2012, the school had struggled with academic performance, leadership, enrollment and other issues, and was on the verge of being closed by the City of Milwaukee's chartering authority.

By implementing culturally responsive teaching using the MALP ® instructional model, we can more effectively transition struggling ELs to a new and different reality, one in which they see themselves as successful learners in a learning paradigm centered on literacy, school - based ways of thinking, academic discourse, and decontextualized tasks.

They also argued the rankings set a low bar for academic quality by comparing charter schools with local public districts, many of which are struggling urban schools, rather than with top - performing schools elsewhere.

By Kevin Hart WANTED: School turnaround specialist to boost achievement at struggling school with history of academic, social problems.

Teachers who fear poor performance by a student may not recommend a challenging course or may encourage a struggling student to drop a challenging course; thus closing academic doors and limiting the potential for career or college opportunities.

This research - based eBook written by Dr. Vicki A. Jacobs, Harvard Graduate School of Education explores how direct instruction of academic vocabulary is critical to the academic success of all students — especially struggling readers, English language learners, and those from socio - economically disadvantaged home environments.

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I am a final year graduate student and day by day I am struggling with my academic task.

As academics might be said to live and thrive by consideration of fair use, we need to perk up when this vital legality goes to court, and all the more so when it is a good knock - down case of goliath celebrity taking on struggling Davidesque scholar.

Reacting to comments made by Cardiff Law School academic Annette Morris at the Westminster Legal Policy Forum that ministers must «adapt» the claims system and portal to handle litigants in person (LiP) before considering raising the small claims limit, David Stothard, an expert in the medical and legal aspects of personal injury claims and director of MAPS Medical Reporting says that for LiPs not to struggle with the claims process would require a complete overhaul of the system.

Are you concerned about your child's behaviors or are they struggling socially or overwhelmed by academic demands?