Sentences with phrase «efforts on student attendance»

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Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all too common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high quality instruction.

School reports also often include reports on matters such as student effort, behaviour, attendance and participation in co-curricular activities.

Along with attendance, testing, GPA checks, and tracking their students post-high school, Build SF uses rubrics for student projects, develops peer assessments, and asks mentors to fill out formal exit surveys on students, based on skills developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, an acclaimed advocacy group dedicated to infusing twenty - first - century skills into education through collaborative community efforts.

These leaders should focus their efforts on moving to a competency - based education that requires students to demonstrate mastery of the material, ending the archaic practice of seat - time, funding education based on achievement instead of attendance, eliminating the all - too - common practice of restricting students to district boundaries, and removing barriers to effective, high - quality instruction.

Support school efforts to recognize students and families who are turning the corner on attendance.

Furthermore, research shows that schools can work on certain key factors — such as strong student - teacher relationships, the relevance of coursework to students» future goals and the coordination of instructional and programmatic systems — and through those efforts, boost attendance.

Through that effort, students» reading scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAKS) rose, student attendance increased, no at - risk student dropped out, and there were many fewer disciplinary problems.

Efforts to improve attendance can benefit from an extra shift of adults mentoring at - risk students, knocking on doors and helping families get their children to school on time every day.

Communities are judged on efforts to improve attendance, school readiness and summer learning and that increase the number of students reading at grade level.

And while all of those things are important, for most educators the thing that counts for our jobs is that student engagement supports on - time graduation, attendance, and reduces the effort it takes to manage a classroom and... teach.

But there was no one silver bullet, he added, citing efforts to improve attendance and behavior and focus attention on struggling students.