Sentences with phrase «helps public high school students»

Facing History in New York, in partnership with WNYC Radio's Radio Rookies program, helps public high school students develop digital storytelling skills through the

Facing History in New York, in partnership with WNYC Radio's Radio Rookies program, helps public high school students develop digital storytelling skills through the Neighborhood to Neighborhood project.

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Sprint 1Million Project is helping more than 700 high school students from Puerto Rico who were displaced after Hurricane Maria and are now enrolled in Orange County Public Schools.

With a host of exciting Workshops and Breakout Groups, at our new Public Waldorf school location at George Washington Carver High School of Arts & Sciences, we gratefully thank the staff and students of Carver High school for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experschool location at George Washington Carver High School of Arts & Sciences, we gratefully thank the staff and students of Carver High school for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experSchool of Arts & Sciences, we gratefully thank the staff and students of Carver High school for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experschool for helping create a smooth functioning and rich conference experience.

New York City officials announced an increase in a major funding source for the city's public schools that aims to help high - need students.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson Wednesday announced an increase in a major funding source for the city's public schools, with the goal of helping many high - need students.

He added, «And at a time when public schools are struggling with budget shortfalls and student loan debt is increasing, these tablets would go a long way for high school students here in the Capital Region and could also help those trying to get through college.

Confronted with public high school students in a jam with the law, NYC wants to connect these students with legal support and help them stay out of trouble in the first place.

The authors concluded that successful public charter high schools in low - income neighborhoods can have beneficial health effects, and could help to close the growing academic achievement gap between wealthy and poor students.

In addition to conducting her own research on brain - computer interfaces, Kaitlyn Casimo is helping to make neural engineering easier to understand for high school students and the general public.

He also helped develop pediatric genetic screening programs for high school students, which were shown to have lasting effects on personal and public health in Quebec.

Dr. Scriver also helped develop pediatric genetic screening programs, including one for thalassemia and another for Tay - Sachs disease, both targeted at high school students, which were shown to have lasting effects on personal and public health in Quebec.

Funds raised from Miscast help MCC Theater produce new works Off - Broadway and support their Youth Company and partnerships that serve New York City public high school students.

The awards recognize three public high schools that demonstrate excellence in academic growth and help disadvantaged students achieve their higher education goals despite social, cultural, and economic challenges.

As just one example, interviewing students in a San Francisco Bay Area high school a few years ago I was repeatedly told about a known student drug dealer who administrators were hurriedly trying to help graduate rather than risk exposing the school to a public scandal.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Natasha Patterson School Leadership Program Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credenSchool Leadership Program Current City: Chicago Current job: Assistant principal, Chicago Public Schools Career highlights: Serving as school director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credenschool director / principal of UCSN — Rogers Park for the 2013 - 2014 academic year and earning a Level 1 + on the SQRP; securing a partnership with the David Lynch Foundation and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to bring Transcendental Meditation and the Quiet Time program to the students and staff of Gage Park High School, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credenSchool, a valuable tool in helping teachers and staff deal with stress and trauma; increased the number of 2016 Gage Park High School graduates earning early college and career credenSchool graduates earning early college and career credentials.

High school teachers Joshua Block and Melanie Manuel helped their students find visibility and voices through a public art project on a Philadelphia street.

Most public high school parents and their children's teachers say breaking up large high schools into smaller ones would help educators identify troubled students and make the schools more welcoming places, according to the results of a survey released last week.

We help to found public high schools in low - income communities — district and charter - that send all graduates to college, and help to transform existing public schools K - 12 toward high student achievement, character and citizenship.

Both the Rochester City School District program, called Pathways to High School Success, and the Chicago Public Schools A.C.E. Flexible High School Plan were developed to help students meet more rigorous requirements.

«Educators across the country have struggled to identify a rich, engaging, and rigorous curriculum that will help them support students in meeting dramatically higher expectations,» said John E. Deasy, former superintendent of Los Angeles public schools.

First, the finding that charter schools are not drawing the highest - achieving students from traditional public schools can help alleviate some of the concerns held by policymakers.

At least as important, as The Washington Post noted, «one very pernicious effect» of this plan is that it «would probably help mediocre (generally rich) prep school kids and hurt high - achieving (generally less well - off) public school students.»

Charter public schools can help add new high - quality seats for the state's growing number of new students.

With its small class sizes, dedication to individualized attention and personal development, Explorations Charter School, a public charter high school located in Winsted, Connecticut, aims to help all of its students suSchool, a public charter high school located in Winsted, Connecticut, aims to help all of its students suschool located in Winsted, Connecticut, aims to help all of its students succeed.

It emphasizes high - stakes testing, judging teachers by their students» test scores, closing low - performing schools instead of helping them improve, and promoting a huge increase in private management of public schools.

Cymone also helped more than 200 students enroll in high - quality public schools — 94 percent of which were of higher quality than the schools, scholars were zoned to.

School Board Leadership Resource Center and Center for Public Education Briefing Room: These two resources bring you school improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelSchool Board Leadership Resource Center and Center for Public Education Briefing Room: These two resources bring you school improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelschool improvement research, best practices and examples from high - performing school systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelschool systems, and expert guidance that can help your school board set a course for improving student achievement and district excelschool board set a course for improving student achievement and district excellence.

Title I provides financial assistance through SEAs to LEAs and public schools with high numbers or percentages of poor children to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards.

To help those students, Quitman County has joined other rural districts to form the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstSchool Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstschool students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances.

We work with all kinds of public schools — from district - based schools to charter public schools — to help them establish high - quality learning environments that meet the needs of the students in their communities.

These reforms would help prevent fraud, improve teacher training and preparation, and ensure that charters are serving high - needs students well and that neighborhood public schools aren't adversely affected by rapidly expanding charters.

Westborough Public Schools, a high - achieving Massachusetts school district, is pushing students to go deeper in math with the help of Eureka Math.

CCSA congratulates the California charter public schools that dominated U.S. News & World Report's annual rankings of the best public high schools in California, demonstrating that California's charter public schools are meeting the needs of students and helping them achieve academic success.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

City Year partners with public schools to help students graduate from high school ready for college, career, and a productive life.

Our program, devoted to bringing a financial education curriculum into public high schools across the country, had one simple goal: provide funding to teachers for financial education curriculum, materials and training so they can teach their students the skills they need to help them succeed and achieve brighter future.

Graham previously served as chairman of the District of Columbia College Access Program, a private foundation which, since 1999, has helped double the number of DC public high school students going on to college and has helped triple the number graduating from college.

BOSTON — A network of three Massachusetts public schools is using «relentless support» to help at - risk students not only graduate from high school, but also succeed in college, according to a new study published by Pioneer Institute.

The fifth Portrait of the Movement report shows that California charter schools continue to beat the odds by helping their students achieve at higher levels than their peers in traditional public schools.

From the Boston Public Library, we have Director of Library Services, Deb Froggatt, a former school librarian and two current school librarians, elementary librarian Morgan Van Clief and Fenway High's Bonnie Mcbride all focusing on helping neediest students

The award honors public and private elementary, middle and high schools whose students achieve at very high levels or have made significant progress and helped close gaps in achievement especially among disadvantaged and minority students.

At Frederick Douglass Academy High School, where I am a veteran Chicago Public Schools mathematics teacher, we are constantly asked to do more for our students while fewer and fewer dollars are allocated to help us do so.

The plan seems to be to overwhelm the public school teachers with student mixes that can not truly work, give them no specialized help with those low - ability students who need it the most and who require most of the teacher's time, we are actively being prevented from helping those students of higher ability who need to be able to fly higher.

The Mind Trust's $ 2 million investment will help launch new public charter schools in Indianapolis that will use technology to customize student instruction, help high school dropouts attain diplomas and incorporate academic rigor and social - services support to ensure low - income students excel.

This school year, teams from nine public NYC middle, high, and transfer schools are working closely with Eskolta facilitators Alicia Wolcott, Jessica Furer, and Katie Gleason using improvement science methods featured in Anthony Bryk's book Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better to help their students develop habits, skills, and beliefs for confronting challenges and achieving success in school anschools are working closely with Eskolta facilitators Alicia Wolcott, Jessica Furer, and Katie Gleason using improvement science methods featured in Anthony Bryk's book Learning to Improve: How America's Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better to help their students develop habits, skills, and beliefs for confronting challenges and achieving success in school anSchools Can Get Better at Getting Better to help their students develop habits, skills, and beliefs for confronting challenges and achieving success in school and life.

The Met School, a public high school in Providence, Rhode Island, is designed to help students enjoy school while learning real - world sSchool, a public high school in Providence, Rhode Island, is designed to help students enjoy school while learning real - world sschool in Providence, Rhode Island, is designed to help students enjoy school while learning real - world sschool while learning real - world skills.

«This report shows that California charter schools continue to beat the odds by helping their students achieve at higher levels than their peers in traditional public schools,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO, CCSA.

«The new 2013 Best High Schools rankings will help both students and parents wade through the increasing public school options available.»