Sentences with phrase «increase academic opportunities»

Founded in San Francisco in 1978, Breakthrough's goal was not only to increase academic opportunity for underserved students, but also to inspire and develop the next generation of teachers.

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Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

And second, the program establishes and promotes an academic support network for women students by increasing communication opportunities for women from under - represented groups.

But are increasing opportunities sufficient to keep aspiring academics at home?

Our facilitator - led support sessions provide opportunities for students to collaborate with peers while learning necessary skills for managing stigma, strengthening campus support and relationships, and assessing readiness to increase academic and social demands.

Increased understanding of the developing brain and how deviations from normal development can increase the risk of neurological and psychiatric diseases has created a rich landscape of opportunity for collaborations between leading academic medical centers and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies dedicated to identifying new drugs and other interventions to help children.

Service learning can have positive effects on students» performance on subject - matter examinations and assessments and creates opportunities known to improve academic achievement, such as giving students the chance to act autonomously, develop good relationships with adults and peers, and increase personal self - esteem and feelings of self - efficacy.

Learners leave our course with increased self - confidence, improved understanding of the importance of a healthy lifestyle, enhanced academic abilities and a broader understanding of the opportunities available to them.»

Increasing each teacher's capacity to redesign and assess their own practice demands new ways of thinking, opportunities for deep collaboration and the willingness of school leaders to engage with academic and professional partners who will challenge, reflect and provide evidence for each school to create its own evidence - informed practices and protocols.

It is very effective and increases the various academic opportunities.

Such interventions focus not on improving academic skills or knowledge, but on changing students» mindsets about learning — combating negative feelings, or increasing a sense of belonging, or reframing failure as an opportunity for improvement.

«This is a great opportunity to increase the responsiveness of regular - ed kids to visually impaired students without compromising attention to academic standards.»

, we invite agency professionals, clients and academics to discuss and analyse opportunities and challenges for the future of brands in a technology - driven reality, defined through increasing media convergence and connectivity.

At minimum — in the one - size - fits - all No Child Left Behind era — her tenure reminds us of the real genius of the federal system, the opportunity to try many different approaches to a shared objective: increased academic achievement for all students.

The program affords the opportunity to bring attention to teachers who successfully employ strategies to increase academic success and narrow the achievement gap among a range of students.

Academic Gains, Double the # of Schools: Opportunity Culture 2017 — 18 — March 8, 2018 Opportunity Culture Spring 2018 Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — March 1, 2018 Brookings - AIR Study Finds Large Academic Gains in Opportunity Culture — January 11, 2018 Days in the Life: The Work of a Successful Multi-Classroom Leader — November 30, 2017 Opportunity Culture Newsletter: Tools & Info You Need Now — November 16, 2017 Opportunity Culture Tools for Back to School — Instructional Leadership & Excellence — August 31, 2017 Opportunity Culture + Summit Learning: North Little Rock Pilots Arkansas Plan — July 11, 2017 Advanced Teaching Roles: Guideposts for Excellence at Scale — June 13, 2017 How to Lead & Achieve Instructional Excellence — June 6, 201 Vance County Becomes 18th Site in National Opportunity Culture Initiative — February 2, 2017 How 2 Pioneering Blended - Learning Teachers Extended Their Reach — January 24, 2017 Betting on a Brighter Charter School Future for Nevada Students — January 18, 2017 Edgecombe County, NC, Joining Opportunity Culture Initiative to Focus on Great Teaching — January 11, 2017 Start 2017 with Free Tools to Lead Teaching Teams, Turnaround Schools — January 5, 2017 Higher Growth, Teacher Pay and Support: Opportunity Culture Results 2016 — 17 — December 20, 2016 Phoenix - area Districts to Use Opportunity Culture to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — October 5, 2016 Doubled Odds of Higher Growth: N.C. Opportunity Culture Schools Beat State Rates — September 14, 2016 Fresh Ideas for ESSA Excellence: Four Opportunities for State Leaders — July 29, 2016 High - need, San Antonio - area District Joins Opportunity Culture — July 19, 2016 Universal, Paid Residencies for Teacher & Principal Hopefuls — Within School Budgets — June 21, 2016 How to Lead Empowered Teacher - Leaders: Tools for Principals — June 9, 2016 What 4 Pioneering Teacher - Leaders Did to Lead Teaching Teams — June 2, 2016 Speaking Up: a Year's Worth of Opportunity Culture Voices — May 26, 2016 Increase the Success of School Restarts with New Guide — May 17, 2016 Georgia Schools Join Movement to Extend Great Teachers» Reach — May 13, 2016 Measuring Turnaround Success: New Report Explores Options — May 5, 2016 Every School Can Have a Great Principal: A Fresh Vision For How — April 21, 2016 Learning from Tennessee: Growing High - Quality Charter Schools — April 15, 2016 School Turnarounds: How Successful Principals Use Teacher Leadership — March 17, 2016 Where Is Teaching Really Different?

Despite decades of increased funding, these students are far too often left behind in the traditional system, and we need to make sure they have more opportunity to succeed — and that those opportunities are available from the outset of their academic lives.

As increasing focus is put on college and career readiness, we're working hard to better understand the evolving landscape and adapt to ensure that we are providing students with the opportunity to learn academic and fundamental skills like teamwork, critical thinking, and problem - solving in order to achieve success in credit - bearing two - or four - year colleges or workforce training programs.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states now have the opportunity to support and encourage increased attention to SEL and the development of a positive school climate by including measures of students» social - emotional, as well as academic, development in their accountability and improvement systems.

Fund (LDF) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), highlights the continued need for greater educational equity, and warns that race and gender disparities in opportunity and academic achievement lead to high dropout rates, limited job opportunities, and increased risk of poverty for African American females.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

These trusting relationships also provide a great opportunity for teachers to create academic partnerships with families that will further increase student learning and success.

The Attendance Peer Learning Network offers local schools the opportunity to increase student attendance — and consequently, academic outcomes — through the use of disaggregated data, peer - to - peer learning, coaching, and technical assistance using evidence - based prevention and intervention strategies and continuous improvement tools.

«By making the work of [the Office of School Reform and Innovation] in promoting innovation pilots and authorizing autonomous schools a part of the work of the chief academic and innovation officer, I am also excited about the increased opportunities to promote and share innovation and best practices across all our schools, regardless of governance type.»

By making the work of OSRI in promoting innovation pilots and authorizing autonomous schools a part of the work of the Chief Academic and Innovation Officer, I am also excited about the increased opportunities to promote and share innovation and best practices across all our schools, regardless of governance type.

With the passage of ESSA, local and state policymakers can leverage federal funding to strengthen principal preparation and development, an investment that can reap significant dividends — both in the form of increased teacher retention and the improved academic opportunities that come with a strong instructional leader.

As a member of the task force, I am excited for the opportunity to join my colleagues in making recommendations to craft a new structure to improve California's education system focused on inclusive education practices, high expectations for students and education leaders, and providing evidence - based instruction and learning supports so that all students have an opportunity to learn the standards in all core subject areas, which will ultimately lead to increased accountability and academic success for all.

Subcommittee Chairman Duncan Hunter (R - CA) linked the positive effects of parental engagement — including increased student achievement and academic focus as well as better attendance and behavior — to state efforts to «ensure parents have additional opportunities to make decisions not only about where their children attend school, but also about what happens during the school day.»

With an increasing minority student population, Prince William school officials knew it was critical to open academic opportunities to all students, especially those who historically did not take advanced classes.

In addition, the high degree of personalization in CBL models helps increase student engagement, opens new pathways to graduation, and takes advantage of learning opportunities available outside of the academic environment.

Further cross-referencing with teacher and special educator standards, a focus group, a stakeholder group and research in the field increased the opportunity for academics and special educators to critically reflect on the emerging demands placed on special educators and the attributes that are needed to be professionally effective.

Educators will increase their knowledge of summer academic models and have an opportunity formulate programming to for implementation in their own summer program.

This outcry came with concerns that increased career opportunities for women meant fewer teachers with stellar academic qualifications.

In their view, dual enrollment is presumed to lead to a long list of positive outcomes for all participating youth, including increasing the academic rigor of the high school curriculum; helping low - achieving students meet high academic standards; providing more academic opportunities and electives in cash - strapped, small, or rural schools; reducing high school dropout rates and increasing student aspirations; helping students acclimate to college life; and reducing the cost of college for students.

Our Students develop academic and character habits to increase learning opportunities through embracing a culture of high academic expectations.

This approach will make it possible to scale impact and provide approximately 2,400 classroom teachers with the kinds of meaningful professional growth opportunities that will help them improve their craft and increase academic outcomes for more than 40,000 students.

The legislation recognizes that achieving excellence in American education depends on providing access to opportunity for all children, and that increasing inequality within external social, economic, health and community factors — traditionally viewed as outside of the domain of schools — have a significant influence on academic outcomes and a persistent achievement gap.

Charter public schools offer all students best practices and innovative learning opportunities designed to increase their academic success and ensure they are ready for college and career.

Charter public schools offer all students best practices and innovative learning opportunities designed to increase their academic success and ensure they are ready for college...

Our goal since then has been to use the arts as a vehicle to create new learning opportunities and enhance existing learning opportunities in order to increase academic achievement for all students.

Amongst the student - related findings of the Banks study, the panel recommended that «schools should provide all students with opportunities to participate in extra - and co-curricular activities that develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes that increase academic achievement and foster positive interracial relationships.»

The increasing number of state legislators, auditors, comptrollers, parents, students and academic institutions that are calling for more accountability in the charter sector are right: If we are committed to a public education system that strives to serve all children, with the understanding and the expectation that each and every one matters, has potential and deserves the resources and opportunity to succeed, then we must rein in the current growth model of charter expansion, and insist instead on a well - regulated and equitably resourced system of public schools that works for all children.

Age appropriate and inquiry / project - based learning methods; dual enrollment classes; focused tutoring to less prepared students; increased learning opportunities; relevant professional development opportunities; faculty leadership opportunities; community outreach; small school environment; surveys each year (parent, student, faculty); striving for academic excellence; Charter Counts character education program implemented; teaching critical thinking skills.

We believe that the Success Academy's growth must be accompanied by increased public accountability to ensure that all NYC district students have fair and equal access to its opportunities for academic enrichment, as well as to ensure that the network is not abusing public funding that traditional public schools unquestionably need.

This law has opportunities for states to set their own accountability standards and for school districts to incorporate social - emotional learning in professional development and in the classroom; a recent meta - analysis shows an average increase of 13 percentile points in academic performance for students with SEL exposure over their non-SEL peers.

Each year, SDSU provides more than 35,000 students with the opportunity to participate in an academic curriculum distinguished by direct contact with faculty and an increasing international emphasis, preparing them for a global future.

Initiated in 2012 by the National Park Service National Capitol Region Urban Ecology Research Learning Alliance (UERLA) and George Mason University's Center for Climate Change Communication (4C), the internship program is designed to create opportunities for students of diverse academic and personal backgrounds to gain skills and experience in the synthesis, interpretation, and development of science communication products while increasing knowledge about climate change and its effects on parks.

They will miss out twice: first, on an excellent opportunity to increase their understanding of the scientific issues surrounding climate change, especially Dr. Mann's preferred branch, paleoclimatology; and second, a gracefully - written memoir of an academic career unexpectedly subjected to the most intense political rough - and - tumble imaginable.

While there will always be opportunities for pure legal theorists, especially at the most elite and established law faculties, there is an increasing willingness among the academic community to not only train their students on the use of technology in the classroom, but also participate directly in the development of this technology, often in an interdisciplinary relationship with other faculties (for example, the work we're doing with Duke Law).

Due to the increasing number of high school, college, and university enrollments, employment opportunities for academic advisors are expected to grow.