Sentences with phrase «first academic effort»
The study, by Drexel University environmental sociologist Robert Brulle, is the first academic effort to probe the organizational underpinnings and funding behind the climate denial movement.
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«At first, we put a lot of effort into Academic Choice.
The first is to change his thinking so he comes to believe that, if he puts forth effort, he can be successful with academic tasks.
A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.
A 2009 study of seventh and eighth grade students at 10 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country found that those attending afterschool programs skipped school fewer times, increased school effort, and gained academic confidence; moreover, the first two outcomes cited above increased as the number of days attending afterschool programs increased (Arbreton, Bradshaw, Sheldon, & Pepper, 2009).
First, «the most important predictor of boys» achievement is the extent to which the school culture expects and rewards academic effort,» they write.
The first Bush administration briefly tried to create national academic standards, but the effort to do this from Washington soon fizzled.
First, ethnographic studies have suggested that black students are less inclined to try hard in school because their peers may view academic effort as characteristic of «acting white.»
But I have been deeply involved in efforts to create greater academic alignment between K - 12 and higher education for almost a decade — first at the American Council on Education (ACE) and now at the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium — and I see more reasons for optimism than pessimism.
In 1991, Lamar Alexander, the first President Bush's secretary of education, made her an assistant secretary, a post she used to lead a federal effort to promote the creation of state and national academic standards.
«Pamela's book is the first legitimate academic effort to theorize some of this material,» Mr. Gaines, 72, said.
The timing of the first two «academic research» grants, totaling $ 200,000, indicates clearly that they were directed to support the above - mentioned activities of Morten Paulsen (i.e. the Ontario ad campaign in 2005 - 6 and lobbying efforts in 2006).
The $ 500,000 award from NSF's Graduate Education Division will expand UCSB's Crossroads program, which launched during the 2013 - 14 academic year and resulted largely from the efforts of Graduate Division dean, Carol Genetti, who first developed the idea with Chuck Wolfe, when both were associate deans in the Division of the Humanities.
Sperling and Shapcott's and Rosen's recommendations for fostering a growth mindset in law schools focus primarily on communicating a growth mindset message to law students — be it from professors who have examined their own mindsets and thereby shifted their expectations and language; 188 through orientation programs that include growth - oriented messages from administrators, professors and guest speakers; 189 by framing assignments and evaluation in terms of process; 190 by professors who teach legal writing using their expertise in narrative to tell stories that show that legal writing and analysis skills are learned through effort and persistence; 191 by professors and administrators «communicat [ing] that law school has academic value beyond the first year» and «encourag [ing] students to view rankings and large firm job placements as indicative of mastery that can be obtained through learning and hard work»; 192 or, by providing growth mindset student mentors for incoming students.193
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Grand Bay, AL (6/2010 to Present) School Administrator • Act as a first point of contact by welcoming new student, parents and visitors • Provide information regarding the school system, curriculum and enrollment requirements • Assist in developing academic programs and creating instructional resources for teachers to use in class • Train, encourage and mentor staff members and teachers and oversee their progress • Supervise teachers to ensure delivery of instruction in accordance to school curriculum • Confer with parents to provide them with feedback on their child's academic, personal, physical and emotional wellbeing • Prepare budgets on an annual basis and ensure that they are adhered to during each financial year • Coordinate efforts with vendors and suppliers to ensure that school supplies and equipment are purchased / procured in a timely manner • Formulate mission statements and ensure that all staff members work according to them • Establish performance goals and objectives and mentor staff members to work towards achieving them • Direct school maintenance services to ensure a consistently safe and clean school environment
Also, your efforts can draw employer attention toward your academic credentials rather than your professional workplace experience, since you may have plenty of the first and little of the second.
At first, the teachers diligently try to work with Amy, both to establish a relationship with her and to assist her with her academics, but Amy's lack of communication skills, distrust of love's possibilities, and resistance to forming relationships makes working with Amy tiring and time consuming, and often the teachers can not put the effort into working with her that is required.