Sentences with phrase «focused academic building»

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It boasts five institutes focused on everything from business ethics to building sustainable enterprises, while at least 10 professors published relevant papers in academic journals last year.

A fierce focus on academic success among the young and career success for adults builds habits of discipline that can function reasonably well without old - fashioned moral rigorism.

This intensive summer program focuses on building children's social, emotional and problem - solving skills through recreational and academic activities, and even field trips.

Encouraging the social - emotional development of students while teaching traditional academic subjects builds a positive school climate focused on fairness and caring about others — and helps to foster healthy, confident adults.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for kids.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

When, in the last year of his Ph.D., Thales decided to build a prototype based on his experiments, Schwartz moved over to his academic lab to work on a related but more fundamental project focused on the use of atoms — instead of photons — to detect movement.

Our integrated approach focuses on the whole child and combines physical and sensory - motor exercises with academic skill training, healthy nutrition and confidence building.

The Brain Balance Program is a non-medical, drug - free program that focuses on physical, academic, behavioral, nutritional improvements, and confidence building.

Important Reminder: When you do these PBL skill - building lessons or mini-projects, make sure their focus is also on important content and academic skills drawn from your standards.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

For academically at - risk students who have been enrolled in U.S. schools since kindergarten and who have experienced educational opportunities that are basically similar in design and practice, research suggests that a classroom - wide, universal approach focused on building up academic vocabulary and conceptual knowledge would be appropriate.

I got to try out the new thinking skills I was developing in my first intersession, a two - week period in which students put aside their usual academics and take classes focusing on extracurricular activities, design thinking, and real - world skill building.

There are several policies (proposed, underway, or in place) by the Obama administration that broaden the focus on reading and academic development, increasing attention to knowledge building and language growth, from early childhood through adolescence — and those expansive policies may be especially beneficial for EL learners.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

Explorations take place on non-apprenticeship days and focus on building the academic skills of writing, data analysis, and oral presentation.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

A Nashville high school focuses on using social and emotional learning to build strong relationships and a positive culture — and to improve academic outcomes.

As the KIPP network has grown, it has focused on building strong leadership and maintaining positive academic results for its students.

The focus is on academic English; critical thinking; vocabulary building; and developing communication skills through listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Our customized MTSS consulting addresses your school, district, or state's specific implementation goals while focusing on building academic, social - emotional, and behavioral systems to ensure all students graduate college - and career - ready.

The effective teacher is assertive, persistent, and focused on building a place where social and academic learning can flourish.

Her academic and career focus is on how nonprofit and social enterprises can build digital experiences and use other technology to improve their own products and help schools boost social - emotional competencies.

This combined focus on academic achievement, parent engagement and youth leadership results in young people who build vibrant communities and pursue a future in which all possibilities real and attainable.

We focus on relationships first, building bonds between students and teachers before we tackle academics.

Their descriptors for this key factor of student engagement connect to Carol Dweck's work on growth mindset — focus on effort rather than ability, know that you can get smarter, use feedback to promote growth, and build academic stamina and resilience.

Other findings were: 82 percent of people supported focusing on building students» job or career skills even at the expense of traditional academic subjects; 86 percent said schools should offer licensing programs and; 80 percent said technology and engineering classes were a very important element of school quality.

Ann designed and oversaw ASD's multi-year research project on Second Order Change, partnering with CITC (Cook Inlet Tribal Council), the Devereux Center for Resilient Children, NCBI (National Coalition Building Institute), and AIR (American Institutes for Research), highlighting student academic and school community benefits resulting from a focus on SEL development.

With only 150 students, the center offers a smaller learning environment where students are able to build relationships with staff, focus on positive social behavior, and enjoy an opportunity for academic recovery.

The first, focusing on building positive school cultures that promote academic behaviors, featured youth developer and public theologian Dr. Rev. Alfonso Wyatt, education researchers Dr. Michelle Fine and Dr. Joshua Aronson, transfer school principal Jean McTavish, and graduating high school seniors Erica Hernandez and Bob Rivera.

The academic program of KIPP WAYS Primary is focused on building core foundational academic skills in phonics, reading, writing, and math, enhanced by targeted exposure and instruction in science, social studies, enrichment and character skills.

Everywhere schools are being told to focus on building this character skill — and to value character skills — just as much as they would with academic skills.

Focused on building academic proficiency in English and personalization, Meaningful Student Involvement encourages schools not to set arbitrary, one - size - fits - all timelines that do not take into account the learning needs of individual English language learners.

Research also supports an explicit focus on building social and behavioral skills; increased task persistence and self - control often translate into improved academic performance.

When all the teachers in your school focus on the same academic vocabulary and teach it in the same way, your school has a powerful comprehensive approach for building student knowledge and understanding in the content areas.

By engaging scholars with an academically rigorous, college - preparatory curriculum and supporting them in a community focused on high academic achievement and strong character building, Summit Academy will prepare our young people to participate meaningfully in the greater economy and expand their choices and opportunities.

The vision focuses on promoting academic quality, building stakeholder trust and integrity, and achieving fiscal stability, and is a carefully crafted plan for guiding work across the District.

So far, I see them seeming to test content that would be common knowledge if one had the benefit of a rigorous education focused on building academic knowledge and skill.

Her particular area of interest is working across the academic content areas, helping teacher develop focusing questions, selecting and using complex texts, developing strategies for building knowledge and oral processing, writing structures, and providing formative feedback.

This central focus has helped staff build systems and sustainable practices while improving school climate, all of which has improved attendance, academic achievement and student behavior.

Parent Michael Ray Wisely, whose daughter attends Summit, said he became disillusioned with a district school board that was more focused on building flashy new facilities than on academics.

Its mission is to build a Full Service Community District focused on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity, and providing each child with excellent teachers, every day.

Following our recent series on using Socratic seminars with English language learners to build oral language skills, we learned about an exciting new video series from the Teaching Channel focused on academic conversations with ELLs featuring... you guessed it!

Instructional mediation strategies build structure and organization into the learning process from which students can attain and build academic self - direction, empowerment and focus (Rodríguez & Bellanca, 2007; Davis, 2005).

This focus on building knowledge of academic language, content, and performance helps prepare English language learners for non-sheltered classes, in which they will be expected to achieve to high academic standards alongside their English - speaking peers, a goal of NCLB.

While many programs have traditionally focused on academic readiness, a shift has been building toward an emphasis on social and emotional learning.

Instead of shifting student demographics between schools, Thernstrom says that the education system would benefit far more from policies that help recruit higher quality instructors in high - poverty schools, creating a learning - focused environment that builds life skills as well as academic ones and providing separate educational facilities for students who aren't committed to learning.

British government leaders are embracing the ideas of American academics who argue that schools need to focus more on building knowledge to improve outcomes for low - income students.