Sentences with phrase «designed by high school students»

An unusual survey, designed by high school students and administered to their peers in five large cities, has found that most urban teenagers are eager to learn, but don't believe that adults at their schools are interested in what they have to say.

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All the brilliant designs made by GSCE students at Tretham High School — four of which are now part of the I Am Acrylic range

The contest, which was co-sponsored by Project Bread and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, was designed to increase Massachusetts high school students» participation in school breakfast.

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Researchers chose study participants by giving junior high schoolers the SAT, a test designed for college - bound high - school students.

Inspired by a high school physics teacher, she applied to MIT and chose to live in the «stereotypically geeky» Random Hall, perhaps best known as the place where you can click on student - designed Web sites to check whether the bathrooms or washing machines are unoccupied.

«Given that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug by high school students in the U.S., having a better understanding of how marijuana use affects future SC use and vice versa is essential for designing effective prevention and intervention programs.»

PlantingScience (PS) is an online platform where middle and high school students reflect with scientists on plant - based research projects designed and conducted by the students in their classrooms.

Students can distinguish themselves by showing a demonstrated passion for art and design throughout high school, both through rigorous academic engagement and through participation in extracurricular activities, summer courses, weekend programs and relevant internships.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school school model.

Created by Jobs for the Future, «this framework was designed specifically for Early College high schools as a way to quickly raise the students» proficiency and college readiness,» explains Donna Engelhart, a Trinidad Garza instructional coach.

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.

In a program sponsored by the Northwest Educational Cooperative, students come to Rolling Meadows High School to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near ChSchool to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chschool districts near Chicago.

The site includes step - by - step instructions on how to design your project and provides completed podcasts from elementary, middle, and high school students.

Washington — The «modified» ability tests that may decide whether a physically handicapped student graduates from high school or is accepted by a college do not and can not comply fully with federal regulations designed to prevent discrimination against the handicapped, according to a report issued here last week by the National Research Council, the research branch of the National Academy of Sciences (nas).

This 27 page pack has been designed by a sculptor with 20 years of teaching experience for teachers who want to know more about sculpture and how to teach it as part of a broad Art and Design curriculum for Secondary / High School students.

RISE was named one of 10 $ 10 - million winning school projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mSchool Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool models.

Open Education: Students at Robert F. Kennedy Charter High School, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, designed study areas that reflect the belief that true learning can not be compartmentalized by subject.

One of theese projects — designed for high school level students — had as a topic «A transdisciplinary «reading» of the water» and was designed and coordinated by me.2

Under the bill, now before the full House, students in selected junior high and high schools across the state would be able to design a more flexible schedule, pursue internships, and enroll in college courses, but still attend school 180 days a year as required by state law.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

Similar in spirit to the National Merit Scholarship Program, an annual academic scholarship competition conducted by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, the NHRP was designed to recognize outstanding Hispanic high - school students and encourage them to enroll in college.

RISE was recently named one of 10 $ 10 - million winning school projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mSchool Project — a national campaign co-led by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool models.

Students at three New York public high schools designed for immigrants have just collaborated on a compelling book of photographs and first - person accounts called Forty - Cent Tip: Stories of Immigrant Workers in New York City, to be published by Next Generation Press in February 2006.

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

«Kemple's work examining high school reform efforts and assessing performance trends in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement in schools.»

High school social studies teacher Emily Block had used design thinking in her classroom before, but wanted to take it one step farther and have her students learn by making.

As I've noted before, alternative high schools, or dropout - recovery programs, are well - suited to forging competency - based approaches; by design, such programs take on students with varying credit and mastery levels.

Designed to encourage students to become active voters once they are old enough to cast a ballot, the MyVote Student Mock Election, headed by Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, invites high school and middle school students, teachers and principals to participate in the MyVote California Student Mock Election, which this year took place on Tuesday, October 28, 2014, just one week before California's November 4 General Election.

A senior project, aka a culminating project, is a project designed by a high school senior (or in some instances also a junior), which is completed at some point during the student's senior year and which seeks to challenge the student to:

A custom - designed intervention aimed to improve New York City high school students» attendance by using text messaging to send parents daily absence updates and weekly attendance summaries.

The Common Core State Standards are designed to improve students» chances of success in college and careers by setting uniform standards for what students should know in math and English language arts by the end of each school year, and by the time they graduate from high school.

This case is designed to help teachers, school and district leaders, parents, teacher educators, and middle and high school students have nuanced conversations about the challenges posed by divisive political rhetoric for school classrooms and communities.

This Digest discusses how educators can ease students» transition into high school by providing challenging and supportive middle school environments and by designing transition programs that address the needs of students and their parents and that facilitate communication between middle school and high school educators.

The essentials remain the same: high - school students take college - level courses, taught by teachers in their schools, and then take exams designed by the College Board to show that they have mastered the subject at college - level proficiency.

Driven by the belief that all Arizona students should have access to a high quality public school, the Association is focused on creating and sharing innovative programs designed to support leaders and teachers as they work to improve student achievement.

This model aligns with a systematic redesign of schools and learning environments by integrating PBL with a high performance culture, whole child principles, teacher discovery and empowerment, teaching and assessment of 21st century skills, an inquiry - based curriculum, design thinking, and use of digital resources for teacher and student collaboration.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

MPS is guided by Eight Big Ideas — strategic objectives designed to improve student achievement — among which, the Rethinking High Schools objective is opening pathways and driving improvements to benefit students.

Learning to Work: Learning to Work (LTW) is designed to help students stay engaged in school by developing the skills they need to complete high school, gain employment, and succeed in postsecondary education.

In this new school, I plan on working with the school improvement leadership team in designing staff development programs that will equip the instructional staff with the skills necessary to promote collaboration in identifying grade level focus on highest student achievement, as identified by the student performance data.

SAT — One of two commonly used tests designed to assess high school students» general educational development and required for college entrance by many institutions of higher education; published and administered by the College Board.

Ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades in Talent Development High Schools offer courses designed by researchers and curriculum developers for students performing below grade level.

The high school student, not known for his scholastic talents, who quietly sits in his classes and «doodles» detailed technical drawings of a new truck design, a design hauntingly similar to one produced by the major auto manufacturers decades later.

High school students will take a new set of tests designed by the ACT.

The project will accelerate South Fremont High's transition to a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art / Design, and Math) school by expanding schoolwide distributed leadership and the school's collective engineering mindset in order to introduce the concepts of coding that will increase students» opportunities to succeed in a world that increasingly uses coding as a language.

The message of teamwork and accountability, all in the service of a tangible product is, by now, a familiar one for this inaugural class of students at Vaux, the newest addition to Philadelphia's network of recently opened small high schools designed around the project - based learning curriculum.

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.

He is trying to design schools for equity by reserving a balanced portion of seats for low - income and higher - income students at these schools.

-- Matt Trask, a secondary senior physics teacher is having students make musical instruments to learn about wavelength — Kelly Skehill using design and software for students to apply calculus models to create new pop bottle designs — teachers are using technology to capture assessment information during the learning process — one particular good example at PJ Elementary — Kindergarten teacher (Sonia Southam) using iPads to engage parents and transform communication by capturing daily learning and sharing immediately via email with parents — the creation of Gleneagles Learning Lab Open House to showcase the process of learning — a teacher created Social Dynamics course for students with high functioning autism — the creation of an outdoor learning program for grades 6/7 students at Bowen Island Community School (Scott Slater created) that has students blending in - class and outdoor learning experiences