Sentences with phrase «changed the lives of the students at»

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«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

Students» experiences attest to the extreme difficulty of making major life changes on three planes at once.

We have to look at the socialization of the graduate students as they apprentice for teaching to appreciate what is going on in their lives, how their horizons have changed, how their identities have been shaped.

On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the La Cañada High School auditorium, school officials will introduce parents to the basic tenets of the program and begin a dialogue about how subtle changes on campus could make a positive difference in the lives of students and families.

In bringing the curriculum at the developmentally appropriate time through art, the teacher is able to arouse the feeling life of the students, thereby helping them to arrive at living concepts which change and grow with the child over the years.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

He has severely attacked black members of the school board but he has also worked hard at the school board to make changes he believes will help students including struggling black students living in dysfunctional homes.

Being given one of those fossils changed Grande's life as a student at the University of Minnesota in the mid-1970s.

With all of her teaching, Marlene seeks to empower students to understand their own bodies and to embrace the changes that come at all ages and stages of life.

When an eclectic group of students show up at her sorority house as possible pledges, Chanel is excited to trash their looks, their lifestyles and their lives but unfortunately for her, there's been a major administrative change.

Students at this point in their lives are in the midst of significant physical, psychological, social, and emotional changes associated with the gradual transition from childhood to adulthood.

This is a SOW that I have created for the New AQA Spec A. I have used a mixture of resources from a mixture of sources and I can not remember where they have all come from (some from on here and some from colleagues at previous schools, so if I have used your resources I am extremely thankful and sorry for not mentioning you individually) I have included: SOW for Existence of God and Religion + Life (around 30 lessons for each SOW as we have 3 lessons a week at my school)[I will upload Crime + Punishment and Religion + Relationships] Learning Map Homework Booklet Resources DIRT lesson and worksheets Keyword sheets Revision checklists Table Helpsheets I hope this helps and feel free to use this and change it to suit your student's needs.

At a March 29 meeting, the students outlined their methodology and preliminary findings — based on data gleaned from building permits, real estate transactions, national change - of - address data, census statistics, and comprehensive field survey data of every property in Broadmoor — for residents, who asked frequent and detailed questions, reflecting that lives and livelihoods depend on connecting the data with the health and progress of the neighborhood.

But it was when he took a job as assistant dean of student life at Brown that he fully realized the potential of education to radically change a person's life, and so decided to pursue his doctoral studies in the field of education.

«Researchers at Texas A & M University, who measured changes in environmental attitudes for elementary students in gardening classrooms, support what garden - based educators have experienced for many years: that children engaged in a cross-disciplinary gardening curriculum acquire a direct, personal understanding of what living things require to thrive, and how they adapt and interact with each other.»

In «The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.»

In addition to the general knowledge these experiences convey, the research I've done with others at the University of Arkansas on the effects of field trips to art museums and to see live theater suggests that these culturally enriching experiences change student values to promote greater tolerance and empathy.

Preparing students to be lifelong learners capable of partaking knowledgeably in both civic life and a rapidly changing workforce requires not just focusing on technology, personalization, or even coding, but the broader content and foundation at the heart of these experiences.

The Oakland Promise strives to change that reality by providing support to students at every stage of their lives.

The study compares the experiences of students who lived in the same neighborhoods — potentially just across the street from one another — but ended up at schools with different racial mixes as a result of the zoning change.

«All throughout my childhood, I saw how much she enjoyed working with her students,» said Chaffee, a ninth - grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy public charter school in Boston, Mass. «She showed me that education is powerful and we can change the course of our lives through learning.»

Leandro Gonzales, a middle school math teacher at Whittier Health Sciences Academy in the San Antonio Independent School District, is the kind of public school teacher who, years from now, will be remembered by students for changing the trajectory of their education and, indeed, their lives.

«Monroe College is a national leader in educating urban and international students, and through this transformative program, we have shown that we can change the trajectory of at - risk students» lives and make a meaningful impact on their futures,» said Dr. Cecil Wright, dean of admissions and founder of Male Empowerment at Monroe College.

Both are highly effective at their jobs, and both are going to continue to change the lives of many students during their careers.»

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Due to the personalized learning approach utilized at TAGOS and the staff's ability to build a culture supportive of social and emotional needs, the school is able to take highly at - risk and disenfranchised students and change their life trajectory.

To improve the lives of working families and boost student outcomes, CAP recommends policy changes at the federal, state, and local levels to align school and work schedules.

We heard from two parents of charter school students who shared their jubilation at experiencing the life - changing power of school choice in their families.

The Arizona Charter Schools Association, through events such as «Charters at the Capitol,» is committed to highlighting the real people behind the numbers — bringing together charter leaders, students and families from across Arizona as they share their own stories of charters changing lives.

«I am excited to announce Amy T. Andersen as New Jersey's State Teacher of the Year and celebrate the life - changing impact she has had on her students and in her school,» said Education Commissioner Kimberley Harrington, who introduced Amy at today's meeting of the State Board of Education.

«At the end of the day, our main mission is to help education leaders execute with the confidence and tenacity to make the bold changes needed to positively change the trajectory of the lives of all students.»

In «Finding Pivotal Moments» (p. 56), Roberta Espinoza tells the stories of students whose lives were changed by teachers who intervened at critical moments to encourage them.

Mrs. O'Gilvie believes that teachers have the greatest opportunity to impact change in this world as they interact with students at the most impressionable years of their lives.

Good teachers constantly negotiate a balance between the tools at their disposal, their pedagogy, and their knowledge of content in ever - changing contexts — the intersecting systems of their classrooms, their school, and the family and community lives of their increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse students.

At RACS, we celebrate the power of choice by providing parents and students with unique life - changing learning experiences.

She currently changes lives through her students... one published message at a time, encourages authors through free articles and videos at TheBookNinja.com, teaches a ton of courses and still studies martial arts, working toward her black belt in MMA karate... while maintaining a healthy daily dose of chocolate.

Tufts at Tech provides a teaching environment that empowers students to change the lives of their clients through treatment of their animals by providing high - quality care that otherwise they could not afford.

Tufts at Tech provides a teaching environment that empowers students to change the lives of their clients through treatment of their animals by providing high quality care that otherwise they could not afford.

Even though I started traveling at a young age — 18 — I'm also sometimes jealous of those who started earlier; if I could change one thing in life it would be to have gone on a student exchange in high school.

At the exhibition, students of Goldsmiths» College changed the trajectory of the development of Western European art, bringing an end to the «painting revival of the 80s» and turning the focus to everyday questions of society and the harsh realities of life.

This summer students are living and working for six weeks at Zena Farm, where Professor Boring has been using NWEI's Hungry for Change course book as part of a Food Ethics course.

Under a hot summer sun, wiping his brow repeatedly as if to underscore the presence of global climate change, Mr. Obama told an audience of students at Georgetown University that future generations of Americans — including their children — would have to live with the consequences of current US climate policy.

Nathalie Des Rosiers, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, says legal education has been changing with the times to help prepare students to be flexible enough to move from career to career over the course of their working lives.

Chang Wang was an art student at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign when a PBS miniseries changed the trajectory of his life.

This goal is impossible to achieve unless students know and know well what the law is; yes, it might, though I doubt it, not be the same next week or next year but, if you don't at one point in your life really know what it is, how can you possibly understand or make sense of the changes?

Whatever time of life you find yourself in as you grow, whether you're a young student living off campus at college or a senior citizen in the early years of retirement, you face constant changes.

Alfonso Calderon, a 16 - year - old junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has become one of the most outspoken students calling for change after the Parkland, Florida school shooting that cost 17 lives.

Before Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people at Pfeiffer's school and changed the course of not just his life, but the scores of other Stoneman Douglas students now organizing a march in Washington D.C., appearing on national media, and, in the case of Pfeiffer and a hundred others, pushing state lawmakers for change.

In a day and age when the increase in older students matriculating at universities has more than doubled and where the cost of living has skyrocketed, career changes and job changes are no longer a shock to employers.

• Introduced a proactive plan at aimed at changing the lives of students with special needs on a fundamental basis • Implemented a student evaluation program based on data taken from each student's medical histories to provide fair evaluations • Coordinated the efforts of speech therapists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and special educators to create and implement effective student - ready programs • Wrote a book titled «Especially Yours» based on a true life event of a former student of the Institute