Sentences with phrase «help immigrant students»

The international academies at Alexandria's T.C. Williams High School — a racially and economically mixed school — and at D.C.'s Cardozo High School, aim to help immigrant students graduate.

They include a «Later to Literacy» program that supports the literacy needs of ESL students; the «Village of Attachment,» where staff, families, and community members create a web of support around the most vulnerable students; «Youth in Transitions,» an after - school program that works closely with students alongside their parents; and «PAWS,» a program designed to help immigrant students who entered the school system late in their high school years develop fundamental skills for success.

Educating Immigrant Students focuses on how education leaders can develop practices that help immigrant students succeed in school.

Sixty UFT members from across the city learned how they can help immigrant students who are at risk of harassment and deportation at an immigration training session at UFT headquarters in Manhattan on Dec. 7.

Dual language programs help immigrant students flourish in the classroom, and provides them with opportunities to succeed in life.

With his «teach them all» ethos, Superintendent Jim Rollins is on the leading edge of helping immigrant students and their families find a foothold in Arkansas» Springdale Public Schools and the broader community.

Not exact matches

Dau said the budget gap has a huge impact on the district's ability to help impoverished students, immigrants and refugees.

Bunkeddeko, a Queens native and the son of Ugandan immigrants, wants to work on affordable housing, helping students write off college debt and criminal justice reform.

As Deputy Public Advocate, Reshma partnered with the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) to create New York's DREAM Fellowship to help hardworking undocumented immigrant students go to CUNY.

Darian Agostini, 23, a youth organizer for Make the Road New York, an immigrant advocacy group, told Observer he helped coordinate some students to ask questions at the town hall.

«Assemblymember Malliotakis has made her career in Albany as a Trump - style conservative who has voted time and time against commonsense legislation, from raising the minimum wage to marriage equality and helping young immigrant students,» de Blasio spokesperson Dan Levitan told Gotham Gazette.

The romance between an art student at Duke University and the bullrider she meets at a local rodeo is unexpectedly impacted when they save the life of an elderly widower, compelling him to re-live his loving WWII - era marriage to an immigrant teacher who inspires him to amass a remarkable modern art collection which eventually helps the cowboy save his family's ranch.

They Are Not Like Us: Teaching About Biases Against Immigration This activity helps students explore xenophobic attitudes and the contributions immigrants have made to U.S. society.

Under the wing of principal Solomon, eighth grade English and social studies teacher Tracy Goodman and her colleagues found a way to help their students understand and appreciate the immigrant experience by becoming «immigrants» themselves.

A growing chorus of people are saying that some school districts are overzealous in categorizing students as English - language learners in the aim of complying with federal and state laws to ensure that children of immigrants get extra help with English.

To make sure the game accurately reflected these concerns, 100 high school students — many of them undocumented immigrants — participated in the game's creation, helping come up with everything from the characters to the backdrop concepts.

His welcoming project — which resulted in a series of strategies schools can use to ease transitions — is an antidote to that invisibility, and it provides tools schools can use to help orient other highly mobile student populations, like homeless children, foster children, or immigrants.

Immigrant students also face challenges in terms of securing financial aid, but we've done extensive research on available funding and continue to help them navigate the process of qualifying for scholarships and grants.

When I was in the classroom, I taught in an immigrant community with many undocumented students, and I developed a passion for working with them and a desire for helping to enact change on their behalf.

EL Education's Anne Vilen shares the courageous story of immigrant Atak Natali to show how supportive teachers can help students come together to work for justice.

This study examines the factors that helped Ghanaian - born immigrant students to strategize how to combine their multiple worlds of families, schools, teachers, and peers to affect academic engagement within contexts of school and classroom situations.

These schools might already have support systems in place to help recent immigrants from Haiti such as Haitian Creole speaking counselors, and hence might be more prepared to accommodate an influx of Haitian refugees, minimizing the adverse effects on existing students.

Tens of thousands of Latino students helped fuel rallies across the country last week against federal proposals to crack down on immigrants who are in the United States illegally.

These changes help support immigrant students and their families and will make D.C. a better city for all residents.

EdWeek: In Canada's public schools, immigrant students are thriving WNYC: How a soccer team united a changing American city (Lewiston) LA Times: The day HS students helped ignite the Chicano power movement

Below, two members of our network describe how they have used two of the titles on the Social Justice Book List to help students check their assumptions and biases about race, immigrants and social class.

In what has always been an immigrant - rich city, the San Francisco district has become increasingly attuned to the needs of its recently arrived students, developing a «newcomer» pathway to help those who are new to the United States adjust both to English and American culture.

The Newcomer Academy is a new summer program the Albany City School District aimed at helping its growing population of immigrant and refugee students adjust to a new language, school and culture.

Manning teaches English to newly arrived immigrants and refugees at Joel E. Ferris High School, where she uses experiential projects like map - making to help her students process trauma, celebrate their home countries and culture, and learn about their new community.

SEL can help ELL and immigrant students become more engaged, build stronger relationships, and navigate the challenges of learning new cultural norms.

The primary purpose of Title III is to «help ensure that children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency, develop high levels of academic attainment in English, and meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards as all children are expected to meet» (Title III, Part A, Sec. 3102).

The article offers five practices that can help schools improve educational achievement for these students: acceptance of shared responsibility by school staff; a dual curriculum that promotes language development as well as academic needs; careful consideration of how to integrate immigrants with the general school population; extended learning time; and individual progress records.

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

There's a new high school in Bowling Green, Kentucky, that's trying to help new immigrant students beat the odds.

Our youth - led organizing campaigns have helped reform biased policing, made schools more inclusive and supportive, and elevated the struggle of immigrant students to get to college.

«She is an innovative, caring, effective, dedicated teacher who takes so many extra steps to help her students succeed, including visiting students at home, helping parents, especially immigrants, become integrated into the school community.»

It would make sense to develop specific programs to help integrate new students at schools that receive large numbers of midyear transfers, as Cardozo has done for immigrant students.

March 10, 2017 • A network of schools, serving English language learners and recent immigrants, is helping students succeed academically and emotionally, too.

LETS Play Our mission is to use sports to help immigrant and refugee students improve their communication skills, language level, and ultimately, their ability to be confident and healthy members of their schools and communities.

Help learners plan experiences that reflect and expand their personal identity, values, and family backgrounds Example: A teacher helps a student who is a recent immigrant volunteer at different cultural activities around the community.

They could help their students with «cultural shock» given that many ELL students tend to be immigrants or children of immigrants.

Young folks starting out on their own, college students away from home, people recovering from a major life event (such as a divorce or major illness), and recent immigrants may also benefit from a secured credit card, because it helps them begin or reboot their credit histories.

The group of students who won «Best Iron Tech Lawyer 2016» developed an app called iHeal to «help low - income immigrant and mixed citizenship status families determine health care coverage eligibility.»

The department screens and approves for admission: immigrants, foreign students, visitors and temporary workers who help Canada's social and economic growth.

Immigrant Justice Clinic students Caitlin Fish, Loredana Valtierra, Aissa Olivarez, and Chris Russell helped Taeuber prepare the brief.

Whether you are planning to visit Canada as a tourist, an immigrant to Canada, a student studying in Canada, or have family or friends coming for a trip, at KANETIX we can easily help you compare quotes and purchase a policy for travel insurance for visitors to Canada.

An immigrationattorney will outline do's and do nt's for schools serving immigrant students, and a McKinney - Vento liaison will share her practical strategies to help students and families.

Research conducted to date suggests that parental help with children's homework yields little positive influence on Asian American and Asian immigrant students» academic achievement even though such involvement appears to boost European American students» educational performance.