Nurturing a supportive and
challenging academic community for Molecular Therapeutics members is a premier NCCC priority, and program activities reflect that in their mentoring, teaching, grant writing, and recruitment.
Not exact matches
In order to address this problem, high
academic standards will need to be achieved in every school, and
communities will have to provide the necessary resources for those students facing additional
challenges.
Join the
Challenge Success School Program as a returning team, and build upon the work that you have initiated to improve student well - being and
academic engagement in your school
community.
Brighton is a warm, vibrant school
community designed for both elementary and high school students with
academic and social
challenges.
Develop leadership strategies to solve
challenges facing the science, engineering, and
academic communities
Another
challenge is time: Some
academics struggle to contain their work in the
community to do what's needed to advance professionally,» June writes.
The
challenge for the scientific
community is to improve cooperation and knowledge sharing across geographical and cultural barriers, but also between practitioners and
academics.
Yet Palmer and Templeton still face all the
challenges of beginning a new faculty position: recruiting students and staff, finding research funding, teaching, integrating themselves into the
academic community, and establishing a steady flow of ideas and data.
I think
academic philosophy is helpful only in a negative sense — that is, sometimes physicists get impressed with philosophical ideas, so that it can be helpful to hear from experts that those ideas have been
challenged within the philosophical
community.
Q: What
challenges does the
academic engineering
community — and more broadly, the U.S. engineering enterprise — face today?
Despite these benefits, there are also
challenges in globalization of the
academic community.
Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own
community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of
academic standards and tests — no longer up to the
challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.
The
ChalleNGe Program addresses the needs of the whole adolescent, as evidenced by its eight core components: leadership / followership;
academic excellence (i.e., high school diplomas or GED certificates); responsible citizenship; service to the
community; life coping skills; physical fitness; health and hygiene; and job skills.
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This «
academic care» is influenced by: personal qualities of teachers and their relationships with students; the curriculum and its ability to promote meaningful participation and positive learning experiences; the school's organisational structure and its ability to offer safety, support, trust, guidance and
challenge; and links with the broader
community.
Leveraging the power of afterschool programs to reduce chronic absence is especially important now given the economic
challenges facing
communities and schools and the growing number of students at risk of
academic failure and dropping out.
NKO engages students in a
challenging academic environment and fosters in all students a sense of responsibility for themselves and their
community.
The advanced curriculum ensures core
academic needs are met while students are
challenged to meet their full potential in the midst of a close - knit and safe
community.
Brown will affirm teachers, leaders, and
community stakeholders who will
challenge, motivate, encourage, and support students to achieve
academic and life success.
In the same way that we bring students back into the fold who are isolated by social or
academic challenges, we must bring all teachers back into the circle — into a school
community where they are valued, heard and have agency.
The Priority Schools Campaign is NEA members and the
community working together in struggling schools to address those
challenges, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in
academic achievement for all students.
In addition, we seek to provide leadership, advocacy and technical assistance to promote collaboration between parents, teachers, students and the larger
community to ensure that all children develop the
academic and social skills that provide a foundation for the
challenges of high school and the skills necessary for college and careers in the 21st century.
Although the
community is critical to ensure every student has access to a great public school — especially those students who face tremendous
challenges to
academic success — engaging the
community can be a
challenge.
Donoghue focuses on children's
academic and social development, engaging students in
challenging academic environments and fostering in all students a sense of responsibility for themselves and their
community.
The City has implemented a number of initiatives in the past three years to improve middle school students»
academic performance, including expanded after - school programs, the School Renewal Program (providing the most
challenged schools with additional funding), instructional resources and experienced leadership, and the
Community School expansion.
The group is focused on securing key
academic resources such as a
challenging curriculum, high quality teaching, and positive discipline practices, as well as wraparound supports and strong
community engagement.
We have made steady
academic gains the last two years largely because our staff works with families and the
community to provide a
challenging academic program.
The findings also acknowledged that schools in poorer
communities face unique
academic challenges that result in an achievement gap and need to be addressed; a desire to learn more about serving special needs students and funding those services; and the necessity for policies to recruit and retain highly effective teachers.
One of the
challenges of service learning is integrating its goals into both the
academic curriculum and the
community's needs.
The event, held at the Rubin Museum in Manhattan, honored five people who have demonstrated exceptional commitment to enacting positive change in education: Tanell Pendleton, an English teacher who has worked at Bronx Haven High School for eight years, and Michael Wolach, founding teacher and instructional coach at Jill Chaifetz Transfer School, both of whom have worked with Eskolta on multi-year projects on topics ranging from developing students»
academic mindsets to implementing outcomes - based grading; Cristal Cruz, a graduate of Brooklyn Frontiers High School, who, after facing significant
challenges during school, graduated as salutatorian, enrolled in college, and is now working at Good Shepherd Service to support students in the same way she was supported; and Jeff and Tricia Raikes, co-founders of the Raikes Foundation and part of the founding team of Microsoft, who have become champions of school improvement by establishing national initiatives such as the Mindset Scholars Network and the Student Agency Improvement
Community.
In response to these
challenges, Carnegie brought together researchers and practitioners in networked improvement
communities to build the interventions, tools, measures, and practices necessary to reliably develop students»
academic mindsets and learning strategies in classrooms at scale.
Community schools combine
challenging and culturally relevant learning opportunities with the
academic and social supports each and every child needs to reach their potential.
http://www.newhavenmagnetschools.com/ Mission Statement Harry A. Conte West Hills Magnet School of Exploration and Innovation uses the resources of our
community members to offer a
challenging, integrated curriculum that inspires students to become active, independent learners on their
academic and social journey towards excellence.
Fort Wayne
Community Schools has addressed school funding
challenges with a three - tiered approach 1) adopting district structures and processes that focus spending on activities that support student achievement, 2) participating in lobbying and other activities at the state level to improve funding and strengthen
academic programs and 3) obtaining federal grants to help fill resource gaps.
Rich
community partnerships infuse STEM learning and provide support services to help students and their families overcome
challenges to achieve
academic success.
ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is an associationwide effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined
academic achievement to one that promotes the development of children who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and
challenged within a sustainable approach to education and
community engagement.
It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning
communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and
communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students;
challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and
academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»
Math
Community — There are various Math Communities that help districts and schools with high numbers of disadvantaged children in meeting
challenging learning standards by providing additional
academic support and opportunities.
Ultimately,
community schools benefit students, families, and teachers in three important ways: They reduce the demand on educators and other school staff by addressing the
academic and nonacademic
challenges that students bring to school.
... to cultivate the potential in every student to thrive as a global citizen by inspiring a love of learning and civic engagement, by
challenging and supporting every student to achieve
academic excellence, and by embracing the full richness and diversity of our
community.
Teachers must foster that
community spirit by facilitating collaboration with partners and in small groups focused on rigorous, interesting, appropriately
challenging academic tasks with opportunities for developing social skills.
The WCN will be a hands - on field effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined
academic achievement to one that promotes the development of children who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and
challenged within a sustainable approach to education and
community engagement.
Toyota partners with
community, civic,
academic, and governmental organizations to address our society's most pressing mobility
challenges.
Upon moving to NYC she radically
challenged her
academic training to site specific installations using vegetation and the
community as her primary medium; her «social practice» was fully incorporated in her art making.
4) The spending dimension is valuable beyond an
academic analysis, since it
challenges the David vs. Goliath narrative that prevents the environmental
community from critically assessing their own mistakes or chosen paths, starts to reveal those areas where the environmental movement have clear organizational and resource advantages, and evaluates those areas of spending where Greens are still not able to get around their limits.
One of the top research universities in the world, MSU focuses its vast resources on creating solutions to some of the world's most pressing
challenges, while providing life - changing opportunities to a diverse and inclusive
academic community through more than 200 programs of study in 17 degree - granting colleges.
Of course, identifying this actual state of feeling and actual state of play requires some thorough and
challenging research into what is happening in British society and that should be an important task for
academics and for a responsible media and political
community, and one which should be given priority.
It is a form of discrimination, and schools like Osgoode have been able to alleviate some of the effects of this by looking past the LSAT scores to encapsulate an assessment of their applicants by looking at things like
community involvement
academic performance, and
challenges faced by certain minorities in applying to Law school.
MM I
challenge you to find serious support for this position in the
academic and legal
community.
Seeking a
challenging professional or
academic position that allows me to combine my education and experience in architecture and urban planning with my strong, abiding interest in regional planning, development growth issues, urban design, and my dedication to my
community and region.