Sentences with phrase «center of their work with their students»

Last summer during a NCTAF planning session, a team of five teachers selected this question to be the center of their work with their students for the academic year.

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«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

He has worked with the Center for Inquiry and the Secular Coalition for America, received scholarships from American Atheists and the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and now serves on the board of directors forFoundation Beyond Belief (a charity organization targeting non-theistic donors) and is the former chair of the board of the Secular Student Alliance (which creates and supports college atheist groups nationwide).

Much of the work centers on Miller's experiences with friends and fellow students while auditing courses at Reed College, a liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon.»

Abdul - Jabbar says he started thinking about coaching a few years ago when the Philadelphia 76ers brought him in to work with then rookie center Shawn Bradley, and he saw that his student, though eager to learn, «didn't know certain things that every pivot man should have tattooed on the back of his arm.»

She has worked with incarcerated individuals, families, adolescents, and college students in a variety of settings, including county and city jails, community mental health centers, university counseling centers, and hospitals.

Lindsey Yeager Core Class Facilitator Lindsey holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and has worked with students of all ages at tutoring centers and universities.

HUMAN works with your administration, student groups, and nutrition team to kick - off a wellness & marketing campaign centered around the launch of the program.

Second, as part of the course students were required to spend time working with local schools and child care centers or at our local community pantry.

The National Center for Fathering (www.fathers.com) is a leading national nonprofit organization, with widely - implemented programming such as WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a one - of - a-kind school based father involvement program that works to support education and safety.

Plans include a private lobby outfitted with a marketing wall that will be visible to all who enter or pass by, which will display programs, events and stories about those consumers that are assisted and cared for every day; new classrooms; a gym for pre-K and early intervention students; training rooms; breakout, community and education space; new offices and workstations; adaptive technology training program space; a doctor - staffed Low Vision Center; a new boardroom; private conference rooms for interviews and agency work; and displays telling the story of HKS» past and its vision for the future.

NYSED staff from the Offices of School Operations and Management Services, Student Support Services and Special Education, the Regional Special Education Technical Assistance Support Center, and the District Superintendents Daniel White and Jo Anne Antonucci of the Monroe 1 & 2 BOCES and will work with investigators from the Attorney General's office as part of the review of district policies and procedures.

OU Professors Jeffrey F. Kelly, Todd Fagin and Eli S. Bridge, Oklahoma Biological Survey, and graduate student Kyle G. Horton, Department of Biology, OU College of Arts and Sciences; in collaboration with OU Professors Phillip B. Chilson, School of Meteorology, and Kirsten de Beurs, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences; and Phillip M. Stepanian, formerly with the Advanced Radar Research Center, worked together to demonstrate how migration timing relates to land surface phenology and temperature changes.

Bank officials, along with Elmo from Sesame Street, celebrated the launch of the program yesterday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum — it's one of the 14 centers and has received a 2 - year, $ 384,000 grant to work with 20 preschool teachers, 20 aides, and 600 students from public schools in the District of Columbia.

They are Michael Birt, 58, a gerontologist and director of the university's Center for Sustainable Health; Jennifer Glick, 42, a sociologist and demographer at the ASU Center for Population Dynamics; and Haruna Fukui, 32, a Japanese graduate student working on her Ph.D. in sociology with Glick as her adviser.

As a graduate student, Teran worked with plastic surgeon Court Cutting at New York University Medical Center using computer graphic methods to develop statistical descriptions of three - dimensional images of craniofacial malformations and propose surgical methods for their correction.

Sajeemas Pasakdee, a graduate student with CASFS, is typical of the problem - centered approach of the researchers who work on the Farm.

At Missouri S&T, McMillin and other researchers are working to improve cyber security with an emphasis on safeguarding the nation's infrastructure while educating students in this field through its National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education.

A multimodal learning system is also beginning to emerge: instructor - centered learning, which is the traditional approach, but with technology that helps the teacher mediate the delivery of courseware and instruction; pupil - centered learning, in which the student uses Internet resources to expand learning experiences; and collaborative learning, in which the student and others on the Internet work together on cross-disciplinary projects concerning open - ended problems.

#JHSPH third year PhD student Calliope Holingue (right) in the Department of Mental Health is working with Wendy Klag Center director Dani Fallin to research the connection between autism and the gastrointestinal system..

Faculty, fellows, graduate students and staff affiliated with the Center for Predictive Medicine started work with infectious agents in the RBL in a phased approach in the Fall of 2010.

«My work is not funded by the center; however, through various interactions with students and professors who are part of the CSNE, I've come to consider myself as part of the community.»

As part of his work with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), Dr. Sam Kassegne, one of the CSNE's Communication and Interface research leaders and CSNE deputy director at San Diego State University (SDSU), along with his SDSU colleagues and students, is developing a special kind of electrode to be used in brain - computer interfaces.

The clinic is looking to expand by working with local yoga teachers in Chicago to create a network of yoga centers for students to continue their practice outside of the clinic.

Unity Woods Yoga Center and Washington Yoga Center are working together with our respective students for the benefit of the Washington DC yoga community.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

Elia Torre, the mother of a YES Prep student, helped raise money for her son's India trip by working at a local Toyota center that partnered with the school.

To ensure plenty of time for puzzling and reasoning, she started her lesson with independent work time, moving into the teacher - centered portion of the lesson only after students had been studying the problem, first independently and then in pairs, for more than half of their math block.

I was a graduate student in sociology at the University of Chicago when Jim Coleman invited me and a fellow student, Tom Hoffer, to work with him at the university's National Opinion Research Center (NORC) for a couple of months in 1980.

Since 1995, Libby's students have been involved in the Montana Heritage Project, an organization with a strong online presence that works throughout Montana to spread project - based, community - centered models of education.

However, there is consensus among three key federally funded agencies (What Works Clearinghouse, National Center on Student Progress Monitoring, and Florida Center for Reading Research), as well as several peer - reviewed journal articles that review research on education products, that Accelerated Reader has met high standards of scientific rigor with positive effects and no contrary evidence.

Each day, I work with other teachers, spreading the lessons of student - centered learning that I learned from my students.

Some reflected a student's experience with a specific organization, such as My Brother's Keeper, an organization providing food and clothing for the homeless; Magic Me, a volunteer group in which the teenagers worked with elderly neighbors; and the Canton Police Athletic League, a system of youth recreation centers.

I envision working with student - centered organizations where student success is at the core of their missions.

Some students come in with specific school - related or personal projects to work on, he explains, and program managers also have a long list of starter projects to help students who visit the centers without a particular goal in mind.

The exhibit, in which 15 teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.»

A network of 16 center - based teachers and family childcare providers worked with their young students to create the book which includes drawings, poetry, and descriptions of places to visit in the city as seen through the eyes of three -, four -, and five - year - olds.

The National Center for Learning Disabilities, which has long worked with public schools, sponsored the April 18 seminar to help independent - school administrators better respond to the needs of their learning - disabled students.

FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Do Now / Motivation student - centered question • The Algonquian reading passage with graphic organizer • Application / Closing / Higher Order Thinking Question • Answer Key for Graphic Organizer Students will research how the Algonquian lived: location, tribes, homes, adaptation based on environment, role of women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this rStudents will research how the Algonquian lived: location, tribes, homes, adaptation based on environment, role of women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this rstudents may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this resource?

For example, IES provides the foundations of factual information and research with the collection of clear, consistent, high - quality data through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).1 It is through the efforts of IES, which conducts its work free from political influence, that we are able to understand trends in our student populations, schools and universities, and an array of inputs and outcomes that span early childhood to adult education.

For example, Center X, at the University of California at Los Angeles (see «Two Programs That Work,» in the sidebar below), requires its teacher - education students to intern in Los Angeles - area schools with racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse low - income student populations.

Descriptions and images of those featured projects and dozens of others are available at Models of Excellence: The Center for High - Quality Student Work, a newly launched, searchable repository of exemplary K — 12 assignments that embed the visual arts with other disciplines.

Here's a plan to put a hopeful message in a bottle for the summer of 2015: America Achieves and the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) would work with the America Achieves to design a teacher survey asking about the Common Core implementation identified treatments and other strategies (e.g., instructional coaching using digital video captured by coached teachers, a specific textbook or curriculum, supplemental programs for students, etc.) their school is using, and a principal survey asking about similar topics.

Her work with over 100 schools, districts, organizations has supported a wide range of initiatives centered on improving teacher and student learning.

Her work centers around five essential school priorities: • Supporting school leadership • Using data transparently for accountability • Coordinating a multitier system of support • Providing embedded professional development based on best practices • Engaging parents and families This free one - hour webinar is sponsored by Learning Ally, a national nonprofit providing resources, training, and technology for teachers and schools; and 80,000 human - voiced audiobooks for students with learning & visual disabilities.

The mission of the Antioch Center for School Renewal is to work with schools and communities to make lasting, positive change in the day to day school experiences of students, educators and families through engaging instruction, reflection, collaboration, and research.

At the Lawrenceville School, she has taught, been an assistant housemaster, overseen the early warning system, a program to close the achievement gap, served as an instructional leader, worked with University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Boys» and Girls» Lives» to foster student action research projects and coordinated the educational support program.

Trent Sharp talks about his work with the Texas Comprehensive Center to examine the geographic and social factors that affect low performing schools and high performing Title one schools, which serve a large percentage of low - income students, throughout the state.

Moving forward The OR will continue with the core of our programming — a year - long, object - based exchange program with students in the United States, Ghana, and South Africa — but we are working on creating more bite - sized and student - centered digital resources as well.

On track means students receive a maximum of one failure in core classes each year.Raichoudhuri has worked with Center for Urban Education Leadership coach Cynthia Barron to craft a comprehensive strategy ensuring freshmen remain on pace as they enter the near west side school.