Sentences with phrase «highly mobile students»

This works to attract highly mobile students who often perform worse than their stable peers.

Unplanned school changes may be associated with delays in children's academic progress, leaving highly mobile students potentially more likely to fall behind their less mobile peers academically.

Our results suggest that insufficient incentives are in place for schools to invest their funds in pre-K in this decentralized setting of highly mobile students.»

Pat Popp joined the study later and brought with her a focus on award - winning teachers in the United States who work with at - risk and highly mobile students.

Establish a Deputy Chancellor's Office for Highly Mobile Students (including students in temporary housing and students in foster care)

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.

Not exact matches

Based upon the popular mobile app, this visually engaging activity is highly effective at promoting engagement and getting students thinking about words - many of whom seem to love playing the game on their phones!

However, the student population in New York City — mostly low - income, heavily immigrant — is highly mobile.

To stay on top of the needs of a highly mobile enrollment, educators in the Aldine Independent School District in north Houston rely on frequent common assessments across subjects and grades to gauge how well students are learning.

In addition to demonstrating the geographic spread of low income students and highly mobile (migrant, foster care, homeless) students, LEV also walked through district salary enhancements, levy & local effort assistance changes, and overall per pupil funding.

Proponents of common standards emphasize that in our highly mobile society, students in Mississippi should not be learning different reading and math skills than students in Massachusetts.

The city funneled millions of dollars of additional resources for high school electives and college - level courses this year, and the school system has for years been working on organizational improvements for tracking students in the highly mobile school system and monitoring their progress toward graduation.

To promote student learning through the use of mobile learning devices and social media in instruction that further prepares students to be active, constructive participants in the highly connected world in which they already live and will soon work.

Lacking bandwidth (and sometimes know - how), principals struggle to address the needs of growing numbers of highly mobile families, English language learners, and students living in poverty.

As a teacher educator and former classroom teacher, I have become increasingly concerned about the tenuous situation of the most vulnerable students in U.S. public schools — students who attend urban schools with crumbling infrastructures, few resources, and a highly mobile staff.

Patton Springs School in Afton, Texas serves a highly mobile, low - income population of students in grades K - 12 in a very rural setting.

I understand that virtual charter schools may have a highly mobile population of students, but in most graduation accounting schemes, students discharged to other schools will be removed from the denominator of the graduation rate, and not count against the school.

As the former principal of this school, which follows the Big Picture Learning philosophy of — one student at a time — and seeks to connect students to their interests and passions, I know the other variables at play, e.g. over 75 % are chronically truant (not a new practice they develop but one that's existed for some time), thought the school serves about 140 students, it's not unusual that nearly double that figure are served in a given year (it's the nature of serving students in foster care and others that are highly mobile), over 2/3 are transfer students who were «counseled out» by other LAUSD district and charter schools.

«We're seeing more and more people flocking to Chromebooks as families, students and other consumers seek out easy - to - use, highly portable and affordable laptops as resources for personal use, education and even work,» said Gary Riding, senior vice president, Mobile Computing at Samsung Electronics America.