Sentences with phrase «inner city students»

Participated in a mentoring program for inner city students at risk of dropping out of school, helping four students graduate

Based on an incredible true - life story — Michelle Pfeiffer stars as former U.S. Marine LouAnne Johnson, a first - time high school teacher assigned to a class of tough but smart inner city students...

While there, Brown is asked to fill in as detention monitor after the teacher in that position is scared off by her troubled inner city students.

For the underprivileged South Los Angeles inner city students I serve, I make it a priority to provide them with the best.

After graduation, Mowschenson was encouraged by her advisor Senior Lecturer Paul Reville, also Massachusetts Secretary of Education, to take a position at Harvard Medical School running the Harvard Premedical Institute, a program dedicated to getting inner city students excited about the sciences using patient simulation.

Students in charter schools and inner city students who attend school in the suburbs through the Open Choice program showed the most growth in proficiency, and students in charter schools and regional magnet schools demonstrated the most growth in 8th grade advanced scores.

The curriculum «s range from professional development to career awareness, college prep and charter school selection for inner city students.

What I also realize because of the background that many students, inner city students or even urban students, like the Hopi reservation or any other, they come from heavily compromised backgrounds, family backgrounds; either it's drugs in the neighborhood or family or single parent homes whatever.

Freedom Writers has been compared to the 1995 film, Dangerous Minds, which featured a similar true - life story of a White, female teacher trying to break through the color barrier in order to educate her inner city students by getting them to believe in themselves.

But the bottom line seems to be that for inner city students, charter schools offer some systematic long - term improvement, which accounts for the long - waiting lists of students desperate to escape the public school monopoly.

Sarah has served as a classroom teacher to inner city students, ESL teacher to marginalized neighborhood communities, instructional coach, district coordinator and mentor, and bilingual reading specialist, as well as ELL Director for the Center for Collaborative Education in Boston.