Sentences with phrase «focus of school»

The TAKS test is the sole focus of this school.

The focus of the school programs ranges from bullying prevention to interventions aimed at reducing anti-social behavior and helping children resist negative peer group influences.

I didn't know much about the curriculum or even the focus of the school, but even that was part of Cooper's allure for me.

When student learning measures are the only focus of a school's data analysis efforts, school personnel end up using their time figuring out how to look better on the student learning measures.

«Bookless curriculum» will be a focus of the school, as they promote a 21st Century education.

, during a time with myriad distractions, and in an era where plenty of quick fixes for schools are promoted, people often ask me, what should the focus of school leaders be?

«The big focus of this school is to educate students of military families in a way that really takes into consideration the issues that military kids face,» Crain said.

As we end October, which is National Principals Month, during a time with myriad distractions, and in an era where plenty of quick fixes for schools are promoted, people often ask me, what should the focus of school leaders be?

The core mission of providing an exceptional education for the needs and abilities of gifted students has remained the focus of the school.

Misher emphasized that the main focus of the school would be to develop proficient readers in a geographic area where students» reading proficiency is abysmally low.

But that's changing with the signing of a bill that dramatically shifts the focus of school accountability in the state.

These opportunities are based on proven practice and are universally applicable to all teachers and schools, regardless of the model or instructional focus of the school.

However, as we have all come to realize, that can not be the primary focus of school leadership if we are to get every student to a college - and career - ready standard before they graduate from high school.

Although testing has become a central focus of school accountability, education data often seem remote from the rush and clatter of day - to - day life.

While the academic focus of the school is STEM, parent and Art in Action school coordinator Sunita Sunir worked with the principal and a science curriculum writer to integrate Art in Action with grade - level science curriculum.

Improving students» number sense, problem - solving abilities, and mathematical communication skills are the focus of our school math program.

The results have been encouraging; in 2017, most students exceeded one year's growth in their district mathematics assessment both overall and for numbers and operations — the focus of the school improvement work.

But as charters have become a central focus of school choice proponents, federal funds for magnet schools have been frozen.

Because research clearly shows that teacher expertise is the most significant school - based influence on student learning, one would think that investments in enhancing teacher expertise would be a major focus of school improvement efforts.

Student safety is also the focus of the School Security Award, sponsored by security systems company SECOM.

As Daniel Peabody, Maryland's 2015 Middle School Counselor of the Year pointed out in a recent interview, the standards have brought the traditional focus of the school counselor — promoting college and career readiness — into the realm of day - to - day curriculum and instruction.

This is no minor issue, given the increasing focus of the school reform movement on charters.

This pioneering work, prior to the RTI movement when school psychologists became more involved with intervention planning, represented a dramatic departure from the typical focus of school psychology on assessment.

The list of successful projects shows how the focus of school kitchen gardens varies enormously.

The New Normal for Federal Education Spending (3/4/10) Choice and Residential Segregation (2/23/10) Studies Find No Effects (1/7/10) Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?

Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?

• The broader and more abstract the soft skill that is the focus of a school reform effort, the more likely is the skill to have a dominant genetic basis.

Studies Find No Effects (1/7/10) Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?

Hogan also supports Say Yes to Education, which has been the focus of school reform in Syracuse in recent years.

We desperately need to shift the focus of our schools to collaboration, play and interpersonal skills.

Verbal and math skills have traditionally been the focus of intelligence tests because these skills were the focus of schools; hence inquiry into understanding children's intelligence was limited to those skills viewed as essential to learning.

It made the focus of her schooling point accumulation, instead of learning.

«Our school grading law will give triple the weight to improved student achievement among our lowest - performing students, meaning the focus of our schools will, and should be, to help all struggling students and quickly narrow the achievement gap,» said Larry Behrens, a spokesman for the New Mexico education department.

Creating change - makers is possible all over the world and the main focuses of the school — such as real - world learning, project - based learning and getting students to think globally — are relevant and adaptable for all learning environments.

Children are the focus of our families, and therefore are the primary focus of our schools.

The high - achievement focus of schools contributes strongly to the perpetuation of the stereotypical gifted child — the mythological straight - A student.

The latter became largely worthless for either employment or progression to higher levels and the focus of schools was on grade C or above.

«We can't narrow the focus of our schools into just math and reading and still expect to graduate students who are ready for college, a career and citizenship,» writes ASCD Executive Director Gene Carter in his special commentary for CNN's Schools of Thought Blog.

The focus of schooling changes from learning - to - read to reading - to - learn after 3rd grade.

Currently, business development training has been a focus of the schools» career services offices (the article highlights the career services programs offered at University of British Columbia and University... [more]

Not exact matches

A recent study from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.

Plus, now that they're actually out of school, the founders can focus more time and energy on the start - up.

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management, and Bill Smead, Smead Capital Management, discuss the news that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is stepping down from the position but will remain in the company to focus on higher - end stores.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

She is a graduate of the London School of Economics - Peking University double MSc in International Affairs, where she studied history and political economy with a focus on US - China trade disputes.

The Shannon School of Business offers the only MBA program in North America with a specific focus on community economic development.

UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.

Focusing on security around the door and adjacent areas, Allegion produces a range of solutions for homes, businesses, schools and other institutions.

«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.