Sentences with phrase «goals for students make»

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«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

The goal is to make sure aspiring students have the information they need to decide not which is the best MBA program, but which is the best MBA program for them.

Picking the right repayment terms for student loans makes all the difference in how you achieve your debt payoff goals.

Consider asking your parents for help repaying student loans — but first, make sure they can afford to help without setting their own financial goals back.

Now, with this essential funding commitment from the Province, We for She 2018 will continue to bring together women and B.C. students for a fifth annual one - day forum, with the ultimate goal of making gender equality in leadership a priority,» said Iain Black, CEO of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.

Making the honor roll list is an accomplishment to be proud of, but it also helps your tween set a goal, work toward it, and it gives your student the opportunity to establish strong study skills for high school and beyond.

I feel like it is a losing battle and I have tried to fight the good fight and get better food for our students, and improvements have been made, but it still falls so short of the goal.

He introduces readers to a group of MIT students who made a fortune playing Massachusetts state lottery games, showing how PhD level pundits using methods originally developed for the U.S. nuclear program to accurately predict field goals and race times, and explains why poker is one of the ultimate challenges for artificial intelligence.

Bill Lipton, New York State director for the Working Families Party, argued CUNY funding intersects with a host of other liberal goals — including passing the DREAM Act, which would make undocumented college students eligible for state tuition assistance.

CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio could potentially use space in New York Public Library branches and New York City Housing Authority buildings to meet his goal of providing full - day universal pre-K to all city students by fall 2015, the mayor's office said Monday as de Blasio headed to Albany to make the case for his plan.

Students set the end of 2015 as their goal to finish the project and make way for the company, which in it beginnings will be supported by the program for young entrepreneurs, driven by the Government of Chiapas.

Willnow notes that it's impossible for any workshop to cover all aspects of project management, but the goal of the TRAYSS PRIME workshops is to make the students aware of the possibilities.

The creation of a «data science for all» ecosystem is the goal of a new initiative at Purdue University that will make data science education part of every student's learning experience on campus while also boosting research and partnerships to help grow the data - driven economy.

Her goal is to create a space where her students can let go of the past and make room for the present and the future.

When I worked as an ECSE teacher I was responsible for 17 students, the IEP's for each student, making transportation arrangements, communicating with parents and staff for IEP meetings, developing lesson plans relating to each student's goals, and documenting progress on data goals.

Using an online dating website just for college students makes it easier to find other young people who have similar goals and interests.

She had her students set personal goals for the progress they wanted to make in ST Math and Lexia Learning and then track their daily progress.

Context is also lacking in his September 3 column, where he noted, «The federal system uses a single yearly proficiency goal - for North Carolina, 68 percent of students reading on grade level this year - and requires all schools to make that number.»

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Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

States shouldn't back down on making these goals ambitious, but the goals — including goals for all subgroups of students — must be achievable.

The goal behind the Making Sense of Census 2000 kit is to «educate students about the purpose of the census and why it is important for their families to participate in it,» said Kimberly Crews, manager of the Census in Schools project, part of the overall Census 2000 push.

I want to make sure that all of my students succeed, so I must know those goals for all students.

Then consider how to make these lofty goals right - sized for your students so that they aren't overwhelmed by the challenge.

Work with your student to determine how many days of studying he needs, and make a session - minute goal (one minute per grade level) and a target for him to study twice daily.

But, the goals of your initiative can't be accomplished if your teachers aren't supported in making them happen in the classroom for each and every student.

Besides making sure that students reflect on their content and language goals, an important consideration for English language learners is to let them reflect using language (s) they are comfortable with.

This quiz makes it easier for me to put the students at the center of the course, empowering them with tools and concepts that are in line with their own goals and values.

Revisiting Hopes, Goals, and Classroom Rules Revisiting September's hopes and goals is an important midyear activity that will help students see the progress they've made so far, while setting the tone for productive learning during the remainder of the Goals, and Classroom Rules Revisiting September's hopes and goals is an important midyear activity that will help students see the progress they've made so far, while setting the tone for productive learning during the remainder of the goals is an important midyear activity that will help students see the progress they've made so far, while setting the tone for productive learning during the remainder of the year.

Recent publications include «Inclusivity for all applicants: An admissions case study,» in Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Racially and Ethnically Underrepresented Students (2013); «Stressors in college choice, application and decision - making — and how to reduce them» in the Journal of College Admission (with S. Friedfeld, 2013); and «Diverse student groups: Teaching with a goal of inclusivity,» in The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education (with M. Gasman, 2009).

Goal Setting Made Easy Teaching students how to set goals is easy with Goal Setting 101, a 3 - part article that describes the process, and the Goal Tracker booklet, a student journal for recording goals and focusing on action steps.

NCLB requires annual testing of students in reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 (and at least once in grades 10 through 12) and that states rate schools, both as a whole and for key subgroups, with regard to whether they are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward their state's proficiency goals.

As a PBL teacher, you can make this crucial shift and envision a mastery goal for students: To become a rigorous person.

The fact that the cut score for the merit award was set at a level that is achievable by almost all students makes everyone believe that it is an attainable goal, one worth striving for.

The report, «Achieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road,» prepared by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp. for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, suggests that inadequate progress is being made to bring more students to proficiency in reading by the 2014 deadline set by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Through the arts, students learn to express themselves and communicate more effectively with others, developing positive working relationships, learning to articulate a vision, making informed decisions, exercising self discipline, setting goals and taking responsibility for quality performance.

What is important, I believe, is that students, parents and teachers have a clear roadmap for establishing where individuals are in their long - term mathematics learning, setting appropriately challenging, personalised goals for further learning, and monitoring and celebrating the progress each student makes.

Despite making progress in many states, and substantial progress here in Massachusetts, we are still a long way from having achieved the goal of educating all of our students for success.

The next time, I made sure to have a rubric ready for each of the projects, as well as a sample I had created myself so that students were able to have a clear goal in mind as a base point from which to start their own.

Make it clear to students that, rather than giving them premade checklists that do not promote development of judgment, your goal for them is to begin constructing the criteria they will use for critical analysis of valid websites in the future.

Instead, we should be assisting students to choose a college that fits their goals, financing that makes sense, and a course of study that will will put them on a path for a career.

The regulatory risk aversion misses the point that this is a pilot project, where the goal should be to learn how to make federal funding do more for students — not defend existing allocation rules.

Summit believes that for students to feel successful and make progress every day, one essential element is empowering them to set individual learning goals for their own personal learning plans and then providing them with enough time and the right processes each day to make progress toward those individualized goals.

Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Title I schools that fail to reach state goals for making adequate yearly progress must offer such tutoring to students from poor families.

Making federal student aid programs simpler and easier for students to navigate is a key goal of efforts to reauthorize the Higher Education Act (HEA), the federal law that governs these programs.

On its face this is a laudable goal, and reform - minded districts (and charter schools) have made much progress in preparing disadvantaged students for the rigors of challenging coursework.

For Merlett Lowery, a student frightened by the noises the school's maintenance crew made when they worked, this goal meant confronting the source of her unease.

The goal was for students to avoid jumping to conclusions or making assumptions about children or families.

We hoped that by modeling ways to respond to student voice, we would give our teachers new ideas about how they could bring that into their classrooms — for example, how they could model discussions about goal - setting and standards while making room for students to express what works for them in a way that is valued and respected.

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.