Sentences with phrase «efforts of a group of students»

The «Lunch Line» takes a look at the efforts of a group of students in Chicago who try to change the way kids eat.

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The Bhagavad - Gita is literally translated as «song of God» and is a discussion between Lord Krishna and his student, Arjuna, on revealing one's spiritual identity and a relationship with God, says Vaisesika Dasa, founder and president of the Motel Gita project, the group behind the effort.

Science education is becoming a key part of what it means to be a well - informed and well - educated citizen of today; therefore, any effort to temper science education in order to placate a vocal religious group cheats the students, cheats society, and cheats our future.

(b) Notwithstanding his interest in the socio - religious situation of the society of which he is a member, the student of religious groups can not afford to exclude from his range of effort a concern with religious grouping in all parts of the populated earth.

Students of the era helped organize the Student Volunteer Movement, under the initial sponsorship of Dwight L. Moody, and spearheaded the massive American foreign missionary efforts that reached their peak around World War I. Administrations also often encouraged Protestant denominational campus groups as well as their Catholic and Jewish counterparts.

Under the combined efforts of the various groups mentioned, plus the activity of the National Council of Churches, these students flocked to summer training sessions to prepare themselves to participate in teaching programs, in health programs, and in demonstration programs wherever they were needed.

Showing growing concern over the rising tide of religious extremism, students suggested a wholesale reform of the Pakistan's history curriculum to eliminate discrimination against minorities and other disadvantaged groups so as to undertake a holistic and long - term effort to eliminate the scourge of intolerance from society.

To celebrate this historic effort, one of the Tata group companies, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will host a «Read - A-Loud» with pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students at Urban Scholars Community School, where each of these 300 + students will receive two books to add to their personal libraries at home.»

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.

While acknowledging the fact that the June 12 struggle was waged not only by Abiola and members of his family but also pro-democracy groups particularly National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), students, trade unions and indeed all Nigerians, Governor Ambode said it was a thing of joy that by the collective efforts of government and people, Lagos State, over the years, has kept alive the yearnings and aspirations of the people expressed on June 12, 1993.

Along with major efforts to improve some of Buffalo's most - troubled schools, the district is also expanding its programs for special groups of students.

While these efforts focus on underrepresented groups, it is expected that the resulting types of interventions will improve research and education opportunities for all students in computing.

Analyzing longitudinal datasets (N = 2,926 and N = 1,255) of African American and Latino American college students Brannon's research demonstrates that such efforts to affirm identity is related to benefits among members of negatively stereotyped groups including better problem solving, increased task persistence, higher GPAs, and more positive health and well - being outcomes.

For Ph.D. students who have already initiated some form of joint collaborative effort with a research group or laboratory in France, the French government offers Ministry of Foreign Affairs research scholarships that provide financial support for Canadian Ph.D. students to live and work in France for up to a year.

A group of mechanical engineering students are working on a project that will fly drones into the middle of tornadoes in an effort to learn more about the inner workings of these destructive storms.

This result is an outcome of a long term effort that Bañados joined as a Ph. D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Fabian Walters group.

Many graduate programs, for example, are making concerted efforts to recruit students from historically marginalized groups, including African - Americans, Latinos, and students with disabilities, but this approach will only succeed if faculty members, administrators, and the scientific community at large also consider the environment that the students are being recruited into, and how to make those spaces truly inclusive arenas where a diverse group of scholars can thrive.

Bottom line: Collaborative classroom efforts help students leverage the strength of a group and reflect on their progress through the semester, countering the «fixed intelligence» narrative.

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Linked with this is a respect for the efforts and skills of the other students in the group and the demonstrated skill of the teacher.

For my first seven years of teaching, I spent the first week discussing class norms, dutifully posting group expectations on the wall, and asking that students sign an agreement to follow them in an effort to «determine class culture.»

Yet Coleman also noted that the composition of a student's peer group was more important for learning than any other school - related factor, a finding used by the Johnson and Nixon administrations to reinforce their strenuous desegregation efforts in southern states.

Despite my imperfect efforts to be engaging and dynamic, I was constrained because I was operating in a learning model over 100 years old that required I teach the same lessons to a group of same - aged students.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzziGroup Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzigroup... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzigroup... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

... much of the learning that school pupils do results from the shared efforts of a group of staff, from interactive learning processes among the students, and (as the idea of the «hidden curriculum» indicates) from the working of the institution around them (pp. 221 - 222).

Washington — Efforts to provide state - by - state comparisons of student - achievement data moved forward last week with the announced formation by the Council of Chief State School Officers of a planning group for a new, expanded National Assessment of Educational Progress test in mathematics in 1990.

«Right now, I think both systems are trying to figure out what outcomes are most important, but overall, it appeared [to our group that] both cities are spending a lot of effort in engaging students in genuine or authentic learning,» Robinson says.

In addition, Kentucky and Vermont have incorporated portfolios into their statewide assessments of student achievement — another effort to offer a broader picture of student achievement, and the now - defunct Massachusetts Reform Review Commission convened representatives from various stakeholder groups to devise a strategy for expanding the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System to make it fairer and more comprehensive.

«I was asked to coordinate efforts to recruit a more diverse group of students to the college — racially, ethnically, and socio - economically.

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) had traditionally been a target for reform efforts thanks to a history of low - performing schools, a seemingly insurmountable achievement gap between student groups, and a relatively high proportion of state funding relative to local aid.

(L to R) Beth Schueler, Lisa Utzinger, Janine de Novais, and Liz Hale Rozas What began last spring with a simple question over lunch with Dean Kathleen McCartney became the inspiration for a major fundraising effort by a group of first - year Ed.D. students.

She said national data show turnaround efforts are often unsuccessful, perhaps because so much depends on efforts by a broad group of educators and students.

In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

In the first micro-credentialing effort at Kettle Moraine, about 40 teachers signed up to be part of a learning group on «close reading» to improve students» literacy achievement.

Her level of influence is well established, and after the Michigan law passed the state House of Representatives, a press release from DeVos's group, the Great Lakes Education Project, noted that lawmakers «were successful tonight in preserving choices and options for [students] and their families -LSB-...] Despite efforts by some of the elites and big city bosses who believe they know what is best for children.»

As part of an effort to promote the inclusion of financial education in state standards and required courses, the Washington - based nonprofit group Jump $ tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and Citi, a global financial - services company, have mapped whether students are required to study financial education.

By focusing their efforts primarily on improving schools for black and Latino students living in urban communities, has the education reform movement missed another group facing economic challenges and in need of better educational opportunity?

In an effort to forge links among a small — and scattered — group of student leaders, the Alexandria, Va. - based National Association of State Boards of Education is tapping into a medium that teenagers know well: the online forum.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.

Community colleges are not doing enough to educate members of minority groups, and those and other institutions, including the schools, should increase their efforts to insure the success of students and staff members of color, a panel of the American Association of Community Colleges has concluded.

In building support for this legislation and other efforts to support student attendance, ACNJ strengthened partnerships with diverse groups such as NJPTA, NJSACC, Jersey CAN, Paterson Education Fund, NJSSNA, the League of Women Voters, SPAC and NJASA, and most importantly schools and communities across the state that are tackling absenteeism.

A group of students ranging from middle school to college will be the most effective in illustrating the various perspectives and stumbling blocks facing Kentucky's students, and will complement the department's current P - 16 Council efforts.

Schools that particularly serve this group of students should be supported in their efforts to help our youth achieve success and have a bright future.

The «Classroom Efficiency Club» emerged in the 1990s from the efforts of a small group of educational entrepreneurs, most affiliated with charter schools, to develop classroom practices that would instill the discipline necessary for students to master foundational knowledge that could then serve as a base for more advanced learning.

Specifically, across subsamples of Latino / a students — separated into groups of low achievers, middle achievers, and high achievers — teachers almost consistently perceived ELL Latino / a students as individuals who demonstrate less effort in school.

To increase institutional efficiency and strengthen service to students, groups of community colleges should pool resources and develop shared systems for managing student data, institutional research, professional development, and other efforts that support student learning.

«Mr. Sheldon brings with him a wealth of professional experiences that will help us to grow in several different areas in which we know we can improve, including more effective community outreach efforts, continuing to support our Social - Emotional Learning initiatives, and supporting the continued academic growth of all student groups at Southeast.»

Technology has become a staple of personalization efforts because online programs can facilitate self - paced learning for students, freeing up teachers to work with students one - on - one or in small groups.