Sentences with phrase «efforts led our students»

Our successful turnaround efforts led our students to achieve in the top 5 percent of the state.

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We live in a time where high school students are leading our nation's efforts for gun reform.

They were efforts led by students around the world who were speaking in the most influential way they knew how: civil disobedience, marching in the streets with signs and chanting truth to power.

«Additionally, LCEDC created a FlexJobs partnership for telecommuting opportunities, led efforts for the first annual Manufacturing Day with over 150 students visiting local manufacturers, and founded the Eastern Plains Economic Development Coalition to strengthen the perception of opportunity across Eastern Plains.»

He first co-founded Brazen Careerist, a career - management site for high - achieving young professionals and ambitious college students, where he led the company's community development efforts.

This emptiness is being compounded by the student - led efforts to purge historic universities of morally suspect memories.

That effort, largely led by Sohn, achieved its fulfillment on May 7, 1988, when a $ 22,000, 6» 5 bronze statue of Trice depicted as a student reading his famous letter was dedicated on campus in a ceremony attended by several of his relatives.

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

In this role, Mr. Jennings led federal efforts to promote the safety, health and well being of America's students.

Mass Audubon worked with the Student Conservation Association, an AmeriCorps trail crew and led a volunteer effort to make sense of the existing trail network and simplify it so the visitor has a high - quality trail experience.

Led by our Ecoliteracy Coordinator, Waldorf School of Baltimore has transformed this core belief into a formal, concerted effort to prepare our students to become empowered, responsible environmental stewards.

Mulgrew praised the union's political action efforts by both in - service members and retirees in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 6 elections, which he said would have a huge impact on the future of students, educators and the entire country.

Led by Senate and Assembly higher education committee leaders, Ken LaValle and Deborah Glick, a group of students, along with UUP and PSC members, are making a last - minute push to extend a «maintenance of effort» law that will expire at the end of this month unless it is renewed.

For example, in Michigan in the early 1990s, the Law Review Commission was led by a law professor who devoted perhaps 200 hours a year to the job in exchange for a small stipend, who coordinated the efforts of perhaps a dozen volunteer commission members who devoted perhaps 50 hours a year to the job, and a couple of law student interns who worked mostly in the summer for perhaps 300 hours a year each.

«Thanks to the Governor's efforts, we have a new minimum wage that will allow more families to lead prosperous lives, free college tuition to give every student the tools to succeed, and infrastructure that will bring us into the 21st century.

On Tuesday, during a meeting with the editorial board of The Daily News, she delivered some harsh criticism against the Bloomberg administration's effort to close poor - performing schools, saying it had led the city to «warehouse» struggling students in schools where they «don't have a shot» at succeeding.

Studies have shown that smaller class sizes lead to better academic results for students and efforts to reduce class sizes have enjoyed broad support from city educators.

Carranza won national praise for leading the successful effort to reopen Houston schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey hit, taking care of students, families and teachers who suffered.

De Blasio noted that in Houston, Carranza — who was de Blasio's second choice for the position — was praised for leading a successful effort to reopen schools two weeks after Hurricane Harvey, which included securing transportation for students living in shelters and offering counseling for students and staff.

Some Democratic strategists have taken note of apparent GOP advancements in voter registration, coming after Republican - led efforts in several statehouses to pass voting laws that Democrats say discourage core voters such as minorities and students.

Godwin takes accepted students who enroll in introductory chemistry in their first year and involves them in efforts to monitor lead levels in low - income housing in the Chicago area.

PhD student Sven Buder of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany, who is lead author of the scientific article describing the GALAH data release, is part of the analysis effort of the project, working with PhD student Ly Duong and Professor Martin Asplund of ANU and ASTRO 3D.

Not only could these problems have been prevented by including the PhD students themselves in the discussions leading to this decision, but also students are left in the cold again and feel how little scientific management appreciates their efforts.

After two years of effort, researchers led by Donhee Ham, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and his student Hosang Yoon, Ph.D.» 14, have successfully measured the collective mass of «massless» electrons in motion in graphene.

We hope the findings, which show that students are consuming more fruits and vegetables, will discourage those efforts,» said lead author Juliana Cohen, research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH.

Bienenstock led a campaign with Stanford's faculty senate and university trustees to eliminate a legal limit on the number of women students at the university, as part of efforts to promote diversity in the STEM workforce and other areas of public and professional life.

«Drug resistance is hindering efforts to control HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, which collectively kill nearly 3 million people worldwide every year,» said Nina Wale, graduate student at Penn State at the time of the research, and lead author of the paper.

Gruev and graduate student Missael Garcia led an effort to replicate the shrimp's visual system using some basic physical concepts.

Dylan Drotman, a Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, led the effort to design the legs and the robot's control systems.

Despite these obstacles, there were strong levels of interest in science among students, suggesting that school - led efforts to broaden engagement would be well received.

«We wanted to distinguish ourselves from other school campaigns by letting students lead the messaging efforts.

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

As Director of Scientific Conferences and Engagement for the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Julian will be leading campus - wide efforts to communicate the technology and implications of genomics to scientists, clinicians, teachers, students and the broader public.

With faculty supervision, the students also are distributing and archiving data from the instrument and lead a comprehensive education and outreach effort to bring their results and experiences to classrooms of all grades over the next decade.

The responsibilities will include leading efforts to improve the diversity of students entering scientific fields, creating professional development workshops for K - 12 teachers, expanding collaborations with other science educators, and mentoring student research projects (plasma physics or education) in our Science Education Laboratory.

«This study applies to many real - life situations, such as teachers incentivizing student efforts or governments seeking compliance with environmental regulations,» says IIASA Evolution and Ecology Program Director Ulf Dieckmann, who led the study in collaboration with IIASA researchers Xiaojie Chen, Tatsuya Sasaki, and Åke Brännström.

In a 1956 review of the research on «School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.»

The SRC is a unique annual event which is a culmination of a year - long effort led by a team of doctoral students to provide master's and doctoral students — both at HGSE and beyond — an opportunity to both present and engage in discussions about ongoing education research.

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

This is student led and required no effort from the teacher.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Of my 19 years at my district, I'm going to tell a story in which my students and their parents appreciated me deeply, and in which I led an effort at transformation in one little corner of the district and created a healthy learning space for a group of coaches.

With the BPS, Mapp helps to lead efforts to create and implement policies and practices that forge partnerships with families and the community to support student achievement.

Over time, increased useful student effort will leading to improved learning outcomes, which will in turn shift students mindsets in a growth - oriented direction.

Efforts to use high - stakes tests to regulate school quality at a higher level, however, did not benefit students and may have led schools to adopt strategies that caused long - term harm.

Without the incorporation of student voice, I'm sure this effort at making school - wide change would have ended up as yet another committee whose efforts lead to no real change.

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional - learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster - Wright, 2009; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012).

Thom Markham, Ph.D., President of GlobalRedesigns, and Senior National Faculty member at the Buck Institute for Education, is a psychologist and educator who served as a Director with Active Learning, Inc., an innovative motivational and learning skills camp program for high school and college students, taught at an award - winning high school, where he led school reform efforts and developed a highly - acclaimed internship - based program, and co-founded the Marin School of Arts and Technology, an innovative charter high school in Novato, California.

This leads directly to what teachers can do to help students become more master - oriented: Teachers should focus on students» efforts and not on their abilities.

Thirty Chicago public schools agreed to hand out the parent report cards along with student grades last week, in an effort led by United Neighborhood Organizations of Chicago.