Sentences with phrase «in the lives of students across»

Every day the work we're doing is making a difference in the lives of students across Michigan.»

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Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

Students from dozens of schools across the city are planning to take part in a 17 - minute walkout Wednesday morning, with each minute representing a life lost during the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

According to the acting CEO, UBA Foundation, Bola Atta while touring the C. William Brumskine elementary school in Monrovia to introduce The Fishermen to a delightful group of young students said: «We at UBA Foundation are eager to better the lives of people across the continent.

Together, they called on Mayor de Blasio, Schools Commissioner Fariña, and other officials across the City and the State to deliver on the promise of a quality education and great teachers for all students, regardless of the school they attend or the neighborhood they live in.

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

«Because of the amount of time kids spend in school, and given the fact that many first - time allergic reactions occur on school grounds, it is imperative for school districts across the country to provide access to emergency epinephrine to students who may not otherwise have access to the potentially life - saving medication,» Gupta said.

As the costs of college in the U.S. continue to rise, the disproportionate level of student loan debt among black young adults is cause for concern, as high student loan debt loads may exacerbate racial disparities in college dropout and completion rates, and may also have broader implications across the life course, including young people's ability to attain other conventional markers of adulthood (such as marriage and becoming a parent).

When Steven Goodbred, an Earth and environmental researcher at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, came across this site during a field trip in 2011, he and his students were shocked to find the land still badly flooded and thousands of families living in tents and ramshackle huts.

Kyle Bourassa, a UA doctoral student in clinical psychology and the paper's lead author, said husbands» and wives» quality of life appears to be equally impacted by their spouse's physical health, with no differences across gender lines.

«Being ranked among the best programs in the nation is a true testament to the stature and reputation of our faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology — those who teach our students and residents, hold leadership positions locally, nationally, and internationally, and conduct groundbreaking research to improve the lives of women across the globe,» said Jack A. Elias, MD, senior vice president for health affairs, Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences, Frank L. Day Professor of Biology, and professor of medicine at Brown University.

Sixteen students and two high school teachers from 16 different institutions across the United States lived on the university campus and worked in teams with professors on various research projects as a part of NIMBioS» Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Veterinary Studentstudents and two high school teachers from 16 different institutions across the United States lived on the university campus and worked in teams with professors on various research projects as a part of NIMBioS» Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Veterinary StudentsStudents (REV).

While this is only a small sampling of the masses of students who attend these yoga workshops across the U.S. and around the globe, we hope that this short video — created by Sharmila Desai with Derick Yu and Lisa Wolf — shows a glimpse of the devotion, respect, and gratitude that Sri R. Sharath Jois has cultivated among practitioners in the Ashtanga yoga community, and the profound effect his own dedication has had in people's lives.

I've been in the yoga and fitness world for fifteen years, now and I come across countless students struggling in squats of all sorts, take a pose like Chair — unable to sit back no matter what wonderful amazing cue I'd give them, they are stuck with all their body weight plunging into their knees, and can't seem to get past the pain of their quads gripping for life to keep them in the pose.

Addressing one of the most popular topics in the yoga profession, this book offers sixty - seven model sequences of yoga poses (asanas) that cover the broad range of yoga student experience, including multiple sequences for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students; yoga for kids, teens, women across the life cycle, and seniors; classes to relieve depression and anxiety; and sequences for each of the major chakras and ayurvedic constitutions.

When Anne (Riva) experiences a moment of lost time one day at the breakfast table across from her husband of over 40 years, Georges (Trintignant), it's fleeting, but it signals the end of the active - senior's life — proudly attending concerts starring world - famous former piano students, doing the shopping, being generally engaged and mobile in their affluent retirement — we've briefly glimpsed at the beginning of the film.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

As well as the award for teachers, the Anti-Bullying Alliance is calling on students and school staff across England to showcase their creativity and harness their «inner Director» by entering a film - highlighting how important it is to use our Power for Good to stop bullying and create a world we'd all like to live in - with the chance to become the official film of Anti-Bullying Week 2016.

Schools need to prepare students for a world in which people need to work with people of diverse cultural origins, and appreciate different ideas, perspectives and values; a world in which people need to develop trust to collaborate across such differences; and a world in which people's lives will be affected by issues that transcend national boundaries.

«Reading enables achievement in every dimension of life, and we have an extraordinary opportunity to combine knowledge of how individuals learn with technologies that will put remarkable interventions within reach for students across the country,» Harvard President Drew Faust said.

All of our students are academically ambitious, intellectually curious, and driven to make a difference in the lives of learners across the lifespan.

Students learn through a logical and step - by - step learning journey, including: - Understanding the context of the poem and the horrific events that took place in the battle; - Understanding key information about Owen Sheers» life; - Reading and interpreting the poem; - Interpreting the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the language and structural features; - Finding and analysing the language features used throughout the poem, and considering how these link to the poet's message; - Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Sheers gets across his message about war; - Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.

Adherence to standard textbook - based teaching means that nothing is being done to challenge this perception when it's all too clear that unlocking curiosity and wonderment across all academic disciplines is not only essential to the mastery of tests, but also key to ensuring that more students are inspired enough to pursue further study and even pursue teaching as a career later in life.

Although many of our students live with the trauma of the refugee experience, statistics around child protection notifications, the rates of childhood sexual assault, families living with violence and the rates of students beginning school developmentally vulnerable paint a picture of students in classrooms across Australia living with trauma in their daily lives.

Teaching students that they are the «conductors of their own brains» conveys the need to master a wide range of thinking and learning tools for use across core academic subjects, in their personal lives, and later in their college years and careers.

«All jobs are tough these days but I think this job gives us the opportunity for a lot of our own joy in seeing an idea come through to fruition because you can actually see it enacted across a whole range of students and their lives.

«The focus of his presentation was that Title I schools have reason to celebrate because we are making a difference in the lives of at - risk students all across the country.»

«The reach of our welcome box has enabled us to gain a comprehensive insight into student life and wellbeing across the UK,» commented Chris Platt, CEO, Dig - In.

The study compares the experiences of students who lived in the same neighborhoods — potentially just across the street from one another — but ended up at schools with different racial mixes as a result of the zoning change.

In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solutioIn these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solutioin constructing a solution.

Although online learning makes it possible for the best online teachers to live in any state of their choosing and simultaneously serve students across the entire country, the requirements for gaining additional state licensures often limit them to teaching only in the state where they physically reside — or, at most, in a small handful of states for which they have completed the licensure transfer process.

Moreover, all students — rich or poor, white and nonwhite alike — miss out on the substantial benefits of learning in richly diverse classrooms.9 As the research shows, students across the spectrum are better prepared for post-secondary success when they have been educated in diverse schools and have learned alongside peers who come from all walks of life.10

The proper approach, as Rothstein notes, is not to ask whether all these measures correlate with each other or over time or across classrooms, but whether they lead to various types of better student outcomes in a high - stakes, real life context.

The European PeaceJam Initiative (Netherlands and Belgium) aims to implement PeaceJam in schools across Europe by having Nobel Peace Prize Laureates visit the schools and inspire students along the way with discussions and interactions that students will remember for the rest of their lives.

Seventeen minutes to walk out of classrooms and honor the lost lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas (MSD) High School, to stand in solidarity with students across the US, and to send a strong message about guns.

With less than half of sixth through twelfth graders feeling their learning helps them outside of school, we can imagine hundreds of thousands of students across the country wondering, «When will I ever use this in real life?»

They must learn to engage in the types of literacy practices designed to support and enhance a student's ability to participate — make meaningful and positive life choices and decisions — and advocate for themselves across their life trajectories.

Faced with the challenge of successfully serving students living in high poverty, LaVergne High School (LHS) sought out best practices from across the nation and molded them to create highly effective schoolwide programs.

Now in its fourth year, Relay is training more than 400 leaders from 24 states and the District of Columbia and 85 school systems to improve the lives of more than 300,000 students across the United States.

On March 20th, the Prichard Committee Student Voice Team will host a March for Our Lives KY Student Teach - In at the Kentucky State Capitol to highlight the issue of student safety and school climate in the context of recent school shootings and threats in Kentucky and across the cStudent Voice Team will host a March for Our Lives KY Student Teach - In at the Kentucky State Capitol to highlight the issue of student safety and school climate in the context of recent school shootings and threats in Kentucky and across the cStudent Teach - In at the Kentucky State Capitol to highlight the issue of student safety and school climate in the context of recent school shootings and threats in Kentucky and across the countrIn at the Kentucky State Capitol to highlight the issue of student safety and school climate in the context of recent school shootings and threats in Kentucky and across the cstudent safety and school climate in the context of recent school shootings and threats in Kentucky and across the countrin the context of recent school shootings and threats in Kentucky and across the countrin Kentucky and across the country.

This third of four Attendance Awareness Month 2017 webinars focuses on providing a warm and engaging start to the school year as well as working across agencies to ensure additional supports for our most vulnerable students, including those who are living in public housing, involved in the foster care system, or exposed to trauma.

Today is a critical day in the lives of students, educators, and leaders across our state.

«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.

But boundary participation rates, or the percentage of public school students who attend the in - boundary school for the neighborhood where they live, vary widely across the city and are extremely high in several adjoining neighborhoods.

These data can then easily be plotted, layered, reviewed, and queried using a variety of technological platforms and can enhance student learning across contexts — whether they be the learning of content as guided in the standards or learning about the communities in which teachers and students live.

Together, they called on Mayor de Blasio, Schools Commissioner Fariña, and other officials across the City and the State to deliver on the promise of a quality education and great teachers for all students, regardless of the school they attend or the neighborhood they live in.

«Students in Chicago and across the country are deeply aware of how news impacts their daily lives,» said Maureen Loughnane, Facing History's executive director for Chicago.

Combining a classical literacy curriculum unavailable to our target community with a unique and progressive blended learning model across content areas, our curriculum is poised to achieve our mission of matriculating all fifth grade students positioned for success in a rigorous Middle Years IB Program and a life of opportunity.