Sentences with phrase «focus on students who»

Dr. Anderer's areas of expertise focus on students who are both intellectually gifted and who also have specific learning disabilities, therapeutic assessment, parenting, and adolescent development.

More and more attention goes to students just on the verge of passing, and schools don't have capacity to focus on students who are doing really well or really badly.

The organizational mission is to «dramatically improve learning outcomes for all children in the U.S., with a special focus on students who are not served well.»

Test - based accountability policies have also led educators to focus on students who have a reasonable chance, with additional support, of passing high - stakes tests, to the detriment of those students at the greatest risk of dropping out (Booher - Jennings 2005).

With large percentages of students graduating on - time, many educators lose focus on students who are likely to leave schools early.

Student scores in Grammar Fitness are presented in numerous ways, including a «heat map» visual display to help educators easily target specific areas in which students need help and focus on those students who may need individual assistance.

That allows teachers to focus on students who really need the teacher's expertise.

But Docca said she also would like the district to focus on all students who are significantly behind in math and English, including African American students.

By forcing teachers to focus on students who fell just below the proficiency cutoff, the law may have encouraged teachers to group struggling students together to prepare them for standardized tests.

It reduces the number of components... within the accountability system and places the focus on students who truly need the most help....

In this article, we focus on students who participated in the lotteries held in spring 2000, 2001, and 2002.

We focus on students who were evaluated for G&T eligibility as 5th graders in the spring of 2008 for whom we are able to observe outcomes as 7th graders in the 2009 — 10 school year.

«(The plan) continues focus on students who need extra time to meet graduation measures,» said Elia.

The concept is teachers spend too much time focusing on students who misbehave and ignore those who behave.

«We were always both focused on the students who were too often left behind in urban schools — low - income kids, kids of color.»

Most of the research on discipline disparities is focused on the student who's been excluded — not necessarily the class or school left behind.

By focusing on the lowest - performing students, we want to create a system that truly focuses on students who need the most help and is equitable across all schools.

«We just have to continue focusing on the students who need support.»

State investments in early learning can close opportunity and achievement gaps by focusing on students who would not have otherwise had access to high - quality, early learning opportunities.

Many instructional coaches found great success as classroom teachers but struggle when coaching teachers to make dramatic changes in their practice, especially when focused on students who have had a history of failure in school.

Focused on students who attend three middle schools and a special, early - college program for low - income students, the early - warning systems give educators in those schools major clues to behavior or attendance problems that could derail students from moving toward high school, and later, on - time graduation.

Classnotes Podcast (March 29, 2011) Often, the concept of college readiness has meant offering specific courses at the high school level and focusing on students who were likely to do well.

The RCT focused on students who were in 3rd grade in spring, 2013.

Response to Intervention is a way of focusing on students who may need increasing levels of support to experience success.

For example, one group focused on students who were still flagged as being at risk for handling academic stress.

Apple this morning announced another expansion of Everyone Can Code, bringing its Swift coding curricula to a number of US schools focused on students who are blind and deaf.

But Schlegel became focused on a student who usually has a hard time staying on task and has a habit of getting into fights with his peers.

Not exact matches

The program initially focused on attracting students with a technical or manufacturing background who had assumed leaderships positions in business.

«We should be focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping school districts pay for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every school, and for every 1,000 students in large high schools.

Right alongside my admiration for the public school students who have been so articulate and so focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.

Students who graduated from my program last year have founded ventures focused on healthy, affordable frozen meals, college preparedness in inner cities, and carbon footprint management software for energy consumers.

Focused on public - private partnerships and how we measure their levels of success, the briefing hosted a national gathering of informal STEM experts with on - the - ground knowledge and expertise, as well as professionals who have been examining the national trends and levels of success of informal STEM programs for students.

Most have focused their ire on student activists like David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, who have been very vocal about their views on gun control.

Pavese said that those who do retire with debt should focus on consumer debt first, then student loans, and finally mortgage debt.

Tan, a Malaysian who formulated his idea for GrabTaxi back when he was a student at Harvard Business School, said that the company will be using the funding to be able to continue its focus on Southeast Asia, as opposed to expanding beyond the region.

We see caring and capable teachers focusing their efforts on the students who are trying to succeed, apparently unable to keep Tracy from following her self - destructive path.

One email chain focused on a man we all assumed was a graduate student who had a habit of walking around mumbling what we assumed to be racist epithets under his breath before flashing a disingenuous smile and skulking away.

Building on over 100 years of tradition, the college provides career - focused training to aspiring cooking school students who want a creative future that's anything but ordinary.

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA — In celebration of Earth Day this Saturday, April 22, Pittsburgh will be home to a series of activities focused on identifying causes and solutions to America's food waste problems, led by student leaders from across the country who have gathered in the Steel City to compete at an annual national scholarship competition.

And it suggests that school - discipline programs might be more effective if they were to focus less on imposing punishment and more on creating a classroom environment in which students who lack self - regulatory capacities can find the tools and context they need to develop them.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

However one comment on this:»... Though given that there are an equal number of students who are wired very anxious as those wired needing more stress to engage and focus, many of the systemwide anti-stress measures at Paly are a zero sum game — they help AND hurt about the same number of students.»

The remaining 32,000 students who rely on school meals during the school day may not get enough healthy food to power them through to focus on their homework.

«Students who completed more hours of homework per night were at greater risk for these negative outcomes; they were also more likely to drop activities or hobbies they enjoyed in order to focus on their academic work.»

State education officials said there has been an increased focus on providing fresh fruits and vegetables in student lunches, as the state noted a significant increase in the past decade in the number of students who require meals at school.

Parents should avoid offering external rewards such as money or privileges for students who complete their work or bring home good grades, and instead should focus on encouraging intrinsic motivation.

In addition to meeting the students where they already are — in the hallway — it allows school nutrition staff to take back the responsibility of handing out food from teaching staff, who can then focus all of their attention on starting the school day as students eat breakfast.

The 74 - year - old senator's success, including his upset victory in the Michigan primary last week, has been fueled by his appeal to younger voters, who so far have resisted Clinton's efforts to reach out to them through targeted TV ads and an increased focus on issues such as student debt.

Our focus should be on serving the students who need the most help and most services, which requires a school by school assessment and analysis.

In this Focus on Education report, WBFO's Eileen Buckley reports on students who have been attending a five - week summer school program to gain skills necessary to head to college this fall.