Sentences with phrase «goals of students by»

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To find out, they developed a series of five experiments in which they asked student volunteers to plan for a variety of daunting goals — from acing a tough test to nailing a dream job interview — by mapping out each action they'd need to complete to succeed.

Founded in 2009 by online education entrepreneur Shai Reshef, the goal of the university is to provide a free online education in computer science and business administration for students in developing countries who can't afford to go to college.

Perhaps a good place to start is by focusing on 10 students in your local high school, with the goal of increasing their chances of graduating.

As part of the application process, entrepreneurs must enter into a collaborative agreement with UMSL that describes how they will further the mission and goals of UMSL (such as by hiring or mentoring students, developing programs, contributing to academic research, etc., depending on school needs).

Our goal is to bring teachers back by the end of this week, and then hopefully have the students come back on Monday the 26th.

Similarly, students in master of divinity and other professional programs are usually asked about vocational goals; strong interest in ordained ministry is, of course, welcome, but fewer institutions now than in the past require that all students in ministry programs be sponsored or approved by ordaining bodies.

Choice is by itself no panacea, but it creates the framework within which effective education can be developed, and thc needs and goals of various student / parent communities met.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

Television, on the other hand, compels attendance indirectly by being attention - centered: «In a certain sense, it has no goal other than keeping the attention of its students.

My proposal has been that precisely because a theological school is not defined by the goal of educating church leaders it may, as a matter of contingent fact, prepare its students very well for leadership in congregations.

By Jim Harris One of Purdue Dining & Catering's main goals is to create collaborative relationships and learning opportunities to inspire students, staff and community success.

Our goal is focused on the success of our tennis students on the long term of their career instead of the «win by next week» approach that sadly prevails in the tennis community..

Our ultimate goal is to get each of our player's maximum exposure to college coaches and their staffs by assembling teams of talented student athletes that all have one common goal — they want to get better every day.

Welcomed by the motto, «Enter here to be and find a friend,» Hackley honors strength of character, offering students a warm, supportive community that enables both challenge and nurture, giving them the means to set high personal goals and attain them.

10 Benefits of Homework by John Bishop, Author of Goal Setting For Students: Homework teaches students about time manStudents: Homework teaches students about time manstudents about time management.

The program is successful because everyone in the school building is united under a shared goal: changing the lives of students affected by hunger.

My Healthy School Sponsored by Kiwi magazine, this helpful website is dedicated to providing teachers, administrators, parents and students with resources on how to improve the health of schools across the country — with action plans for parents, suggested nutrition goals, advice for starting a school garden, and strategies to minimize environmental toxins.

At the heart of our education lies the goal to bring students to an understanding of the commonality of the human experience of all of the world's people, transcending the stereotypes, prejudices, and divisiveness of classification by race, religion, sex, nationality, and ability.

Our goal is to assist the School Nutrition Association and its members by providing the resources that are needed to serve nutritious meals to millions of students every year.

Breakfast Challenge awards will be given to schools each term who reach the challenge goal of increasing student ADP in the SBP by 25 %.

Reducing plate waste — the amount of food discarded by students — is an important goal for school food service departments within their ultimate mission: to support children's health and academic success by ensuring that they are well - nourished.

And he maintained that schools that do not protect transgender students «will not receive a penny of state money,» and committed to redoubling the state's efforts to meet his goal of ending the HIV / AIDS epidemic by 2020.

Cherry Lane Elementary has even been recognized by the US Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School in 2013, an award «reserved for schools that boast students who meet and maintain high educational goals,» according to the department's official website.

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.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Founded in the Fall of 2011 by a group of concerned graduate students, the goal of Stand With Science is simple: give graduate and professional students in science and engineering, young researchers, and anyone passionate about supporting science and engineering research the knowledge, tools, and inspiration they need to become advocates for society's investment in the innovations Ð and innovators Ð of tomorrow.

It was a good move by both the federal governments and the Länder (states) to agree on two new goals: increasing the number of foreign students by 50 % and doubling the number of German students who spend time abroad during their studies.

Work has begun on a new building for the center, which has a goal of 100 researchers, 100 Ph.D. students, and 300 Master's students by the end of 2013.

The goal of the course is to prepare business plans based on high - potential ideas that are given to the students or directly proposed by them.

Toward that goal, the report lays out three «dimensions» that shape what students should learn about science and engineering by the end of high school.

«One of the goals of this project is to help students think about labs as environments where science is practiced, [but] also [as] an environment that's shaped by culture and by norms,» says Julia Kent, CGS's director of global communications and best practices and Denecke's co — principal investigator on the project.

Gig.U's goal is to accelerate the deployment of next - generation networks in the U.S. by encouraging researchers — students and professors alike — to develop new applications and services that can make use of ultrafast data transfer rates.

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.

«Certainly, in industry it is critical to work within teams to accomplish goals that are defined more by the company than by individuals,» he says, «but I see industry and academia as equally exciting and valuable career options for students,» says Gregory E. Amidon, a research professor at the University of Michigan, College of Pharmacy, in Ann Arbor and American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) Fellow.

«To build off the program's proven track record of success, our goal is to expand access to Match tutoring and BAM to 1,000 students by next school year.

By providing student - focused services to students in treatment throughout McLean Hospital, the College Mental Health Program is prepared to work closely with students and with institutions of higher education to support both mental health and academic goals.

Inspired by the «zero emission» concept of the Princess Elisabeth station, students involved in the project work with their teacher to devise a technical project with goal of more efficiently managing energy use in their school.

Regardless of a student's home state or college location, Bridge to Campus can help by clarifying the student's struggles, needs, and goals, and identifying services available at their college or in their city of residence.

Information provided by SMD - funded E / PO programs is disseminated via this section of the SMD E / PO Community Workspace (/ page / 5324) with the goal of providing information about what E / PO efforts are being carried out, the numbers of individuals reached, program effectiveness, and how program outcomes are benefiting students, educators, and the public.

Editor's Note: Though the San Fernando Education Technology Team is no longer active at San Fernando High School, some of the former participants have created their own company to tell stories through media, and continue to foster the program's goals by working with San Fernando students on Saturdays to produce the iCan Film Festival.

Everyone here — students, teachers, parents, and administrators — is galvanized by one goal: Every single student will go to college, succeed there, and come back to break her family's and community's cycle of poverty.

For instance, if you teach language arts and the goal of the unit is teaching students how to write an effective response to literature or a literary analysis essay, who says everyone has to write about the same book written by some ancient dead writer (no offense, dead writers)?

There is evidence that accountability systems with concrete goals change the behavior of school systems, at a minimum by refocusing efforts on disadvantaged students.

The study tested whether the students» behavior would improve if they chose to agree to lose 20 percent of their weekly paycheck if they didn't instead meet a goal of increasing their paycheck by 10 percent.

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

Most states realize that the reforms of the 1990s, while necessary, were by no means sufficient to achieve our goals of all students at proficiency.

And now let's take another step back and consider the alignment between the work done by those outside of the classroom — including principals, central office administrators, and superintendents — and the desired goal of seeing deeper learning structures, like rich academic discourse, experienced by all students.

I like to take advantage of student desires such as attending prom or buying a used car by giving them tools to reach their own goals through saving.

Counselors support students in achieving their goals by helping them identify their strengths and desired areas of growth in order to create a plan.

Raise your underserved students» expectations by raising your own, and create a series of reachable, data - based goals, scaffolding your instruction and mitigating their fear of failure.