Sentences with phrase «focused curriculum helps»

Our allied healthcare - focused curriculum helps students prepare for their futures.

Our college - prep program and moral focus curriculum help your child reach their full potential, prepared to tackle 21st century problems.

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Alanna tells Anthony Lacavera how Flipd is helping people achieve tech life balance and how it is being integrated into curriculums to assist students in staying focused.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

They've developed a curriculum that focuses on interactive play, helping moms and kids develop communication, sensory skills, language, and more.

He said that one of the most powerful sessions in the Quenching curriculum is focused on the partnership between moms and dads, and he mentioned an exercise using LEGOs ® that helps to make the point.

We believe that by focusing on specific elements within the classroom environment will support curriculum and therefore help foster children's learning.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.

To help further this effort, the Mars Society has created a Speakers Bureau with a list of representatives in the U.S. and Canada available to talk about the organization's mission, its work in Mars - related research, including the Mars Desert Research Station and the University Rover Challenge, the latest news about Mars exploration and the growing field of STEM - driven education and curriculum with a special focus on space exploration.

Her own experiences as a co-parent have helped build curriculum, communication techniques and worksheets that help clients take the negative emotion out of their relationship and put the focus on the children.

While teaching the Science of Yoga, KAY provides a curriculum that is specifically designed to help children be active, learn to relax, improve focus, and have FUN in a non-competitive environment.

Our curriculum turns timeless wisdom into practical skills that have helped tens of thousands to live and serve with clarity, focus, ease, and grace.

Our curriculum turns timeless wisdom into practical skills that have helped tens of thousands to live and serve with clarity, focus, ease, and grace.

Professor Macdonald said the curriculum will be the first of its kind to actually be implemented and is focused on building students» knowledge, understanding and skills to help them lead healthy, safe and active lives.

Although there is some indication that the implementation of MCAS testing has improved curriculum and helped push students and teachers to focus more aggressively on academic achievement, the potential consequences of depriving thousands of students a high - school diploma is simply unacceptable to most teachers.

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

The strong philosophy and curriculum framework can help a good school to be great, or a foundering school to focus on change.

Although Riley's approach to turning around Lawrence has included several key reforms, such as the «implementation of a new curriculum, establishment of Acceleration Academies, and a focus on data - driven instruction,» creating a Match - style tutor corps with help from Match leaders was also a top priority.

The Assistant Principal and Learning Support Coordinator at Our Saviour Lutheran Primary School says the main focus was on using P!nk to help Year 6 and 7s develop skills in the new Digital Technologies Curriculum.

Juriaan said she teaches the standard literature curriculum, but that her Davidson classes focus on analysis; in her public - school classes, she spent her time helping students comprehend the plot.

Though Common Core and academic curriculum hold a strong place at the educational table, and rightfully so, doesn't it make sense to also focus upon the character development and qualities that could help to produce adults, not only talented and motivated, but inherently driven to help make the world a better place?

With that information on top of a few other parts of my personal recipe, I have created a curriculum with the intention of focusing on lessons for teachers to use as they help students to understand their own mind and body, and identify their capacity to deal with emotional duress that can impact their daily lives, as well as providing supports for mental well - being.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

They focus on helping primary teachers develop student ICT capability (General Capability / 21 st century skills) throughout Literacy teaching in the Australian Curriculum (Primary).

However, schools and colleges could do more to ensure that this trend continues and encourage entrepreneurial ambitions among students at an earlier age.Introducing business and finance - focused subjects into the curriculum will help prepare future entrepreneurs — and help resolve chronic educational issues.

Both schools focus on their students» professional prospects by helping them find yearlong internships that form a key part of the curriculum, which the Big Picture Company in Providence, Rhode Island, supplies.

The Second Step curriculum emphasizes impulse control (the ability to control and manage thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, including listening, focusing attention, following directions, using self - talk, being assertive, identifying and understanding feelings, respecting similarities and differences), empathy (conversation skills, joining groups, making friends), anger and emotional management (calming down strong feelings, managing anger, managing accusations, disappointment, anxious and hurt feelings, handling put downs, managing test anxiety, resisting revenge, and avoiding jumping to conclusions), and problem - solving (playing fairly, taking responsibility, solving classroom problems, solving peer exclusion problems, handling name calling, dealing with peer pressure, dealing with gossip, seeking help when you need it).

These resources will help teachers deliver the government's new curriculum while reducing workload and giving them more time to focus on what they do best — teaching.

To help address this situation we have focused on strategies and curriculum opportunities to build capacity in our students to be flexible, resilient, see and act on opportunities as well as innovate.

Among the founding faculty was Chezare Warren, now an assistant professor at Michigan State University, a young math teacher who jumped at the chance to help design a curriculum for these students — many of whom had never thought college to be an option for them — that would consider their unique stories and focus on understanding the factors that would lead...

My role focuses on creating and helping to implement computational thinking rich curriculum across all of our disciplines.

This roadmap helps teachers plan and implement a multidisciplinary, career - focused and integrated high school curriculum.

Transdisciplinary and Disciplinary Goals Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins advocates for creating long - term transfer goals that help to provide a focus for our curriculum and focus on outcomes.

This program seeks to help attendees create well - organized learning teams focused on the significant improvement of curriculum and instruction in their schools.

Levin, still looking for the right woman, resisted attempts to move him to San Francisco and remains at KIPP New York, helping the new principal, Quinton Vance, while focusing on KIPP principal and teacher training and the development of KIPP curriculum materials.

It just makes sense that a school committed to helping all students learn at high levels would focus on learning rather than teaching, would have educators work collaboratively, would ensure students had access to the same curriculum, would assess each student's learning on a timely basis using consistent standards for proficiency, and would create systematic interventions and extensions that provide students with additional time and support for learning.

This suggests that in order to close achievement gaps, schools need to work on helping students gain these skills and mindsets and that simply focusing on improving instruction and revising curriculum alone will not close the gap.

Contrary to the arguments of some conservative reformers, focusing on achievement gaps even helps White middle class children by improving the quality of teaching, curricula and school environments all students experience.

NSCS offers an advanced curriculum to its students, focused on helping students meet and exceed the Idaho Core Standards.

My focus now is in presenting CFA 2.0 keynotes at conference venues and in supporting my amazing team of consultants who are helping to extend the reach of this powerful process that shows teachers how they can intentionally align standards, instruction, assessment, curriculum, and data analysis within each unit of study.

NSCS has maintained many of its philosophical education roots, with its focus on keeping the curricula challenging and the expectations for learning high, while utilizing the help and support of qualified educational assistance and classroom volunteers.

With the Education Council's focus on teacher professional learning that aligns with the general capabilities of both the National and relevant State curriculum requirements, we are working with school leaders to help teachers thrive through innovative ways to engage in real world STEM activities.

Trimble County Middle will incorporate a four - pronged approach to modifying and redesigning four basic school structures (i.e., curriculum, instruction, individualization, and assessment) to help create an atmosphere of student - focused learning and 21st Century Skills.

They will also get an intensive training programme to help them get the most out of the teaching material, focused on the trust's curriculum centre at the Hewett Academy in Norwich.

UbD is based on a backward design approach and is used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students» understanding of essential ideas and helping students attain important skills.

In the Middle School years, Calvert's rigorous, accredited curriculum focuses on helping students to become increasingly independent learners and preparing them to succeed in high school and beyond.

Both took advantage of approaches and curriculums that have been created to help schools focus on students» social and emotional needs, including the Connected and Respected Curriculum and the Compassionate Schools framework.

NSCS's writing curriculum focuses on ensuring students understand and apply basic grammar skills through the explicit, research - based teaching required to develop rich written language and helps the student apply these skills to research, informative writing, persuasive argument, narratives and college preparatory writing.

Finally, the process of establishing performance targets helps identify curriculum priorities, enabling us to focus on the essential and enduring knowledge in a crowded field.