Sentences with phrase «educational experiences for students at»

GRA faculty and staff are currently in the midst developing innovative educational experiences for students at an institutional - wide level with collaborations among teachers and across disciplines.

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This acquisition will enhance the overall educational and development experience for the students while at the same time providing recreational partnering opportunities with the community,» said Leisure Sports, Inc..

Here are some of the pros and cons of a single - gender school: Pros «From my experience in the schools and students I've encountered, an all - girls school gives the best all - around educational experience for most students,» says Alexis Browsh, who teaches at and graduated from a private girls» school outside of Philadelphia and owns the tutoring company Ready Tutors.

Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine have agreed on an academic affiliation that will place medical students, residents and fellows from the University of Chicago Medical Center at the three ENH hospital locations in Evanston, Glenbrook and Highland Park for a portion of their educational experience.

For academically at - risk students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools since kindergarten and who have experienced educational opportunities that are basically similar in design and practice, research suggests that a classroom - wide, universal approach focused on building up academic vocabulary and conceptual knowledge would be appropriate.

Largely as a result of my teaching experience at St. Jude, I arrived at law school with a deep desire to combine the new set of skills I would develop in law school with my passion for improving educational opportunities for under - served students.

This challenge also has a supporting competition suitable for the whole school to take part in with some amazing prizes including a paid for 2 - day educational experience at a Sustainability Centre, a MyMaths subscription for winners and iPads for students.

While we continue to develop daring new live experiences for young audiences, we are working with artists to capture and offer «virtual performances» so students and teachers outside of NYC can watch BAM performances at their local cinema, on their computers or devices, participate in virtual workshops with BAM teaching artists, and access BAM's extensive archive and library of educational resources.

«The research in Diversity Challenged shows that affirmative action policies have major benefits not only in overcoming the history of exclusion of minorities, but also in creating a richer educational experience for all students and injecting new ideas and understandings into discussions, debates and research on campus,» said Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

At the end of the day, if this program is going to be successful, we need private schools that want to serve significant numbers of students living in poverty and that can provide a superior educational experience for them.

The Rogers Family Foundation (RFF) seeks to catalyze organizations and systems to achieve and excel at the highest level in positively transforming the educational experience and opportunities for Oakland's most disadvantaged students.

And for the students who identify with targeted groups, it can be «dehumanizing not to have their experiences addressed in schools and by their teachers who they spend so much time with,» says former teacher and school administrator Aaliyah El - Amin, now a lecturer and researcher on educational justice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

The community at KIPP Austin Comunidad are committed to providing a transformative educational experience for 100 % of our children with the goal of setting students on a path to and through the college of their choice.

A teacher and lawyer by training, and mother at heart, Alison set out to create a different kind of educational experience for students, which has evolved into a model for schools across the country.

At Mission Hill it is central to the development of educational experiences for students.

At times our students have addressed adults in forums designed for teachers and administrators to discuss their expertise using Chromebooks and how they are integrated into their educational experience.

Principal Allison Tingwall seeks educational experiences at Curie High School that foster a multitude of career paths for students, in particular within creative arts.

While school environment plays a huge role in the educational experience of a student, a student can overcome a lot of this through a solid relationship with at least one adult that can show genuine care for the student and provide the student with advice.

These experienced writers have many years of custom writing experience, profound knowledge of their disciplines and years of working for students at educational institutions of all types.

Since ABC strives to provide the best educational experience possible for our students, we encourage feedback from the entire staff at the veterinary facility.

With the exception of some of the stuff being done at Chicago - Kent, Lessig's folks at Stanford, and the Beckmann Center Fellows, I really haven't seen much evidence of the new environment of collaborative technologies changing the educational experience for the vast majority of the students.

But doesn't our experience at least raise a serious question about whether broadly utilizing more adjunct practitioner faculty... and recognizing them as academic equals would provide a more cost - effective... and perhaps a more substantively effective educational environment for our students?

In addition to the two scholarship programs, the firm will be serving as a program sponsor for the Just The Beginning Foundation, a pipeline program designed to reach out to students at various points along the educational spectrum and give them academic support, life experiences, tools and motivation to keep them in school and help them to see that the legal profession is open and welcoming to individuals from diverse backgrounds.

As part of its new suite of educational apps and experiences for children, Apple today announced that it is increasing the amount of free iCloud storage available to kids and teachers.Instead of providing each student and teacher with the standard 5 GB of free storage, Apple is now offering 200 GB of storage at no additional cost.Every student that has an Apple ID managed by a school will have access to 200 GB of storage space for storing assignments, resources, and other documents in the cloud.

Owing to a great ability to establish and maintain healthy partnerships across an educational facility, along with vast experience in a leading student affairs department in day - to - day operations, I am confident of my ability to meet the criteria set for a student affairs director at Kentucky State University.

Professional Experience THINK Together (Santa Fe Springs, CA) 11/2007 — Present Program Leader • Lead group of 25 middle school students in educational enrichment program • Determine program goals, policies, and procedures ensuring effective operations • Create and implement engaging curriculum for varied learning styles • Research and apply multiple presentation techniques to ensure information retention • Serve as liaison between students and senior program management • Actively build relationships and foster supportive learning environment • Oversee staff and students guaranteeing safe and appropriate behavior at all times • Offer administrative support including data entry and phones as needed

Anne has over 30 years» experience working in different educational settings including early childhood classrooms; writing curriculum materials for students accessing the Schools of Isolated and Distance Education; and lecturing and supervising pre-service teachers at Edith Cowan University in Perth.

With over seven years of experience as a counselor and clinical supervisor for students at The University of Texas at Austin, we've assisted many young adults with the pressures associated with higher educational learning, adjustment to living independently, and interpersonal relationships.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.