Sentences with phrase «language programs serve»

French dual language programs serve more than 1500 students in 10 NYC schools!

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There, she developed and taught a language enrichment program for all kindergartners in the district and provided speech and language therapy for the two special education classes, as well as serving those students from kindergarten to sixth grade having articulation, fluency, voice, cleft palate, hearing impairment and language delays.

In the last Congressional session, industry lobbying succeeded in getting language into the House Education and the Workforce Committee's draft Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill that would have allowed all FFVP schools to serve «all forms» of produce, expressly stating that the program is «no longer limited to only fresh fruits and vegetables.»

Commissioner Salas will also announce the Agency's continued expansion of NYC Free Tax Prep with added services in neighborhoods and languages previously not served, as well as an eligibility screening and texting program, and a pilot queue management system.»

«The Primavera Program serves a vital purpose in the Bronx, teaching our children not only the basics of Italian language and culture, but providing our kids with a solid foundation for the future,» said Senator Klein.

The bill language is ambiguous, calling for disclosure of «[t] he employer, and either the name and title or a unique identifier, of each individual who served as a peer reviewer for the grant program» during the previous 6 months.

Angela currently serves as Co-President of DragonSprouts, a 501 (c) 3 organization that supports Mandarin Immersion language programs in the LA Unified School District.

He currently serves as the Cultural Coordinator for the Indigenous Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary, and is producing his directorial debut Kills Last — a post-apocalyptic thriller based on traditional tribal coup stories and told primarily in the Blackfeet language.

Ameer Kim El - Mallawany School Leadership Program Current city: Los Angeles Current job: Director of Family & Community Engagement, Partnership for Los Angeles Schools Career highlight: Serving as the founding principal of Columbus North International School — a world language and international studies themed lottery high school in the Columbus City Schools district in Columbus, Ohio — for four and a half of the last five years

That language is a bit confusing, because Title I is a formula grant program where districts receive fixed allocations based on the number of poor students they serve, as well as the overall funding levels in the state.

Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the Language and Literacy Program and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab, served on the Board of Trustees of Cathedral High School in the South End and supervises language and literacy students placed at the high school through the Field Experience Program.

The lawsuit, filed June 11 in superior court in San Francisco, says programs that won't be reviewed include those serving students who are English - language learners, migrants, and neglected, delinquent, or homeless.

It presses for a twin focus on fluency in decoding words and reading comprehension, urges reading improvement programs to stress impact rather than the number of children served, and calls for strengthening professional development and linking improved training in language development and reading to classroom practice.

We also serve a high percentage of special education students relative to other district schools, and currently house the district - wide program for beginning and intermediate English language learners.

She was instrumental in developing a language arts program designed to effectively serve a full spectrum of learners in heterogeneous middle grades classrooms.

What to watch: HIDOE intends to expand the efforts of the Teacher Induction Center to better support teachers serving special education students, English language learners, and students in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program.19 Stakeholders and policymakers should consider how to expand and improve the induction program's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populProgram.19 Stakeholders and policymakers should consider how to expand and improve the induction program's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populprogram's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populations.

Dr. Morell currently serves on an advisory board to the New York State Education Department on the identification and instruction of young language learners in the growing PreK programs across the state.

She has served in an administrative capacity in a variety of programs serving young language learners and their families.

Dr. Ximena E. Zate served as Program Administrator and Director of the Bilingual / ESL Technical Assistance Center (BETAC) in Eastern Suffolk BOCES on Long Island, where she provided educational services for English language learners and English as a Second Language / Bilingual teachers and district administrators in Suffolk County.

He later served as an Outreach and Community Programs Coordinator, founded and taught the first Lakota language program in New Mexico, was the Director of Enrollment and Community Relations, and taught Indigenous Studies.

U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona's funding for programs serving English language learners — Read a statement by Dr. María «Cuca» Robledo Montecel, IDRA president and CEO, regarding the ruling and a summary of what the court said.

Pérsida Himmele has served as an elementary and middle school teacher, a district administrator, an English language learner program consultant, and a public speaker on issues related to student engagement and teaching in diverse classrooms.

The results serve to aid in determining when ELLs have attained the language proficiency needed to participate meaningfully in content - area classrooms without program support and on state academic content tests without accommodations.

He serves as a consultant to the software developer for the Hanban, the official Chinese agency charged with developing language learning and cultural export programs for the Chinese government through worldwide Confucius Institutes.

In the 1990s, she served as principle investigator in an OBEMLA national study of effective programs serving English language learner (ELL) students around the United States, and identification of the critical program elements determined to be essential to delivery of effective instructional services to ELL students.

Our high - performing schools have wonderful stories to tell, from innovative curriculums like Expeditionary Learning and blended learning techniques, to dual language immersion programs and schools serving unique populations like refugee children or children on the autism spectrum.

One high school will partner with the Detroit Medical Center; an elementary school in Farmington Hills will highlight Chinese and Spanish language immersion programs; in the small town of St. Helen, families will once again have an elementary school; and one school in Saginaw will serve incarcerated students.

Reviewers must have expertise in education evaluation or at least one of the program's absolute priorities (increasing educator effectiveness; improving low - performing schools; strengthening science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; boosting academic outcomes for students with disabilities and English language learners; encouraging parent and family engagement; promoting effective use of technology; serving rural communities; and implementing college - and career - ready standards).

«Add to this reduced - ratio programs and the growing diversity of the student population in terms of minority and other - language [non-English-speaking] students, and you have major facilities implications as a result of the programs required to serve students.

Although many states now staff their schools with teachers prepared through alternative certification routes, there is a growing concern about the quality and relevance of the programs to produce excellent teachers, especially teachers to serve the teaching fields with the most needs — math, science, special education and English as a second language and bilingual education.

Not only could it enhance learning opportunities for students already enrolled in these programs, but it could also serve as a potential justification for the creation of new, dual - language magnet schools, if their documented success will not suffice as persuasion, since they would be providing dual - language instruction over four - or - more years.

Since then, she has served a variety of management roles across the district supporting the integration of technology district wide, leading schools, developing professional development programs for teachers of bilingual and world language programs, and designing and implementing instructional programs for English Learners.

With a growing student population of English language learners from diverse backgrounds, the Houston Independent School District offers a range of language acquisition programs to serve Spanish - dominant English Language Learners in elementary school, including bilingual programs in the form of transitional late - exit, one - way developmental, and two - way bilingual immersion.

1) One - way dual language programs: Provide instruction in two languages; serve mostly ELs, transitioned (or former) ELs, and heritage language learners in the same classroom.

According to federally funded research, students who are living in poverty, are learning English as a second language, and are from racial and ethnic minority groups are 250 percent less likely to be identified for, and served in gifted programs, even when they perform at a comparable level to children in the program.

Both one - way, as well as two - way, dual - language bilingual programs often fall short in legitimating the practices of bilingual Americans, for they have been built following an immersion pedagogy that might serve English - speaking majority children well, but that does not build on the entire language repertoire of bilinguals.

In addition to serving students, many ELL programs also provide English language instruction opportunities to their community.

Maria has also served as a teacher consultant, staff developer in the areas of second language acquisition, bilingual program development, and diversity training working at higher education institutions such as City University of New York, Mercy College and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Serve as one of multiple measures used to determine whether students are prepared to exit English language support programs.

Effectiveness of four instructional programs designed to serve English language learners: Variation by ethnicity and initial English proficiency

Propose an education program designed to serve English language learner students; or propose a location in a neighborhood with a high percentage of English language learner students, while demonstrating capacity to provide high - quality educational services to this population

The final language of Malloy's education reform law allowed an uncertified individual to serve as an Acting Superintendent for up to one year, but in order for that person to become a permanent superintendent, they were required to successfully complete their probationary period and must have complete a school leadership program at a Connecticut institution of higher education.

Fordham University; New York, NY $ 365,000 over two years to examine teaching staff characteristics, professional development, and instructional practice and supports provided in classrooms serving varying concentrations of dual language learners in the New York City Universal Prekindergarten program..

IDRA is disappointed by the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Horne vs. Flores involving Arizona's funding for programs serving English language learners.

Laura designs and delivers language acquisition content support for Mills Teacher Scholars and serves as an advisor for program evaluation.

For several years Ms. Johnson led the professional development program for one of IDRA's Transitions to Teaching projects, MASS (Math and Science Smart), funded by the U.S. Department of Education to recruit and prepare elementary, middle, and high school teachers to serve English language learners and diverse student populations.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

CPS currently offers world language programs in 351 schools (128 elementary and 233 high school) serving over 108,000 students.

As the number of dual language learners (DLLs) in early care and education (ECE) programs increases, it is critical to examine whether the quality of practices in these settings reflect the needs of the diverse groups of children being served.

There are an estimated 4.6 million students (9.4 percent) in the United States being served through language assistance programs (U.S. Department of Education, 2000; 2012).