Sentences with phrase «larger goal of student»

Covering everything from everyday management tasks to the larger goal of student success, The New Principal's Fieldbook is an essential guide for new and aspiring principals.

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Many people in their 20s are dealing with large amounts of student loan and credit card debt and are living paycheck to paycheck, while dreaming of the day they can allocate some of their money to reach their financial goals.

The degree to which the goals of religious education are achieved depends, to a large extent, on the quality of the student - teacher relationship.

When that doesn't happen, project - based learning can become the empty calories of education: a collection of engaging distractions that are unrelated to the larger goal of increasing students» knowledge.

Second, the new wave of personalized learning draws on a set of instructional strategies that have shown particularly large effects on student achievement: feedback, peer tutoring, mastery learning, goal setting, and even direct instruction.

When talking about motivation, student responses included: «break down large assessments into smaller chunks and goals» and «share exemplars of student work to show success and to inspire».

In a large set of studies, Harvard economist Roland Fryer found that offering low - achieving students financial rewards for achieving learning goals, or outputs, was ineffective because students often lacked knowledge of the «education production function» (I love that phrase).

Despite loud demands for greater education equality, access to first - rate college preparatory programs for large numbers of minority students remains an unrealized goal.

There are several versions of NAEP intended to sample different groups of students — the nation as a whole, individual states, or large cities — but its overall goal is to provide citizens a snapshot of how we're doing as a country.

Although community colleges comprise the largest part of the nation's higher education system, with a growing enrollment of more than 6 million students, degree completion remains an unobtainable goal for the majority who enter these campuses.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districts.

One of the team's stated goals — part of the Mayor and Chancellor's larger Equity and Excellence for All agenda — is for every student to have an individual college and career plan as well as resources to support the plan on the path to high school graduation and beyond.4 The team offers a series of resources and tools that help support student CCR pathways.

Through our AP Advocacy and Awareness campaign we aim to disseminate accurate information to students, families, schools and the community, with the larger goal of ensuring that our students have the knowledge and resources necessary to successfully attain a postsecondary education.

Our goal is to guide educators and families in the large - scale implementation of RtI so that each child has access to quality instruction and that struggling students — including those with learning disabilities — are identified early and receive the necessary supports to be successful.

Paige Kowalski, executive vice president of Data Quality Campaign, argued that while states are seeking to set large goals under ESSA, «teachers and parents lack a necessary resource to help their students meet those goals: data.»

But, given that misclassification is inescapable, reducing the consequences of the problem is an important additional goal and one with potentially large payoffs — particularly for students.

With enrollments of 1,000 to 3,000 students, staffs as large as 300 people, sizable local budgets, and key performance goals that must be achieved, a principal in Gwinnett is essentially the CEO of a good - sized company.

A large number of states have posted ambitious short - and long - term goals which will mean ramping up efforts to help students who fall behind get back on track.

The teachers indicated that they considered the larger goal of getting students through the 4 - day lesson sequence and making sure they had success in solving the lesson problems.

The recognition award is part of a larger U.S. Department of Education (USED) effort to identify and disseminate knowledge about practices that are proven to result in improved student engagement, higher academic achievement and graduation rates, and workforce preparedness, as well as a government wide goal of increasing energy independence and economic security.

The basic principles of Title 1 state that schools with large concentrations of low - income students will receive supplemental funds to assist in meeting student's educational goals.

Meanwhile, the nation's second - largest school district — where students speak 94 languages — is closing in on meeting its goals for improving test scores for English learners and getting more of them to graduation.

As it happens, in nearly every state with tax - credit scholarships, at least one of the largest SGOs makes scholarships available to all or gives priority to lower - income students, including Arizona School Choice Trust, Georgia GOAL, Step Up for Students in Florida, the Network for Educational Opportunity in New Hampshire, and the Children's Scholarship Fund of Pennsylvania, amongstudents, including Arizona School Choice Trust, Georgia GOAL, Step Up for Students in Florida, the Network for Educational Opportunity in New Hampshire, and the Children's Scholarship Fund of Pennsylvania, amongStudents in Florida, the Network for Educational Opportunity in New Hampshire, and the Children's Scholarship Fund of Pennsylvania, among others.

While the overall project goals are for this constellation of changes to strengthen early childhood and elementary mathematics student learning for all students in these 3 schools the project team is also expecting that the study will generate new knowledge that will promote the ability to bring this type of work with schools to a larger scale and to more networks / schools in future years.

Two Massachusetts schools that are meeting state goals for closing achievement gaps and that are effectively and thoughtfully serving large populations of English Language Learners and refugee students are:

Only when all students are deeply connected to their learning will the larger goal of eliminating the achievement gap finally be met.

She described students» specific understandings in relation to her lesson learning goal of subtracting a small number from a larger number.

She explained, «Larger curricular goals need to be made clear for students so that they have an opportunity to move beyond a mindset of assignment completion and think about how multimodal thinking fits into broader communication purposes» (p. 665).

At this time of year, it is easy to lift up a prayer of thanksgiving for all those who teach — those who wake up every day with the goal of opening students» minds and hearts to something larger than themselves, larger than all of us.

This study seeks to share the stories of college student - activists who participated in the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL)-- on their campuses, digitally, or at the resistance camps — to understand the ways their activism in the largest Indigenous movement of their lifetimes intersected with their motivations and goals for their college work and their relationships to their institutions themselves.

Experiment gets lots of attention The goal of the experiment, which has attracted the attention of other Minnesota school districts with large numbers of struggling students, is to eliminate as many barriers as possible to student performance.

[3] On the other hand, it has been far from inclusive of the state's large population of nonnative English speakers and has a long way to go before reaching its goal of equal educational opportunity for all students.

Those goals ended up being unachievable, and many considered them to be particularly unfair to schools that serviced a large number of disadvantaged students, who tend to be further from proficiency when they first enter a new school.

Plus, writing the typical «end of unit essay» did not address my goals for the unit, which were to have students engage with the material they learned, demonstrate mastery of the unit's anchor texts, and make a significant contribution to the larger community.

The federal government has an ambitious goal of connecting 99 percent of America's students to high - speed broadband and wireless in their schools by 2018; at the state level, more than $ 2 billion has been allocated to support technology infrastructure improvement in schools (US Department of Education 2013; California Department of Education 2013, 2014, 2015).2 In spite of these investments, a large number of schools need significant infrastructure upgrades (Gao 2015).

The goal is to test the following: If an urban district, and its principal training programs, provide a large number of talented aspiring principals with the right pre-service training and on - the - job support, the result will be a pipeline of principals able to improve teacher quality and student achievement, especially in schools with the greatest needs.

Listen, as Don and Steve examine the design of a school day with the goal of creating an environment where the largest number of students are spending the -LSB-...]

The standards - aligned lessons, projects, and instructional tools establish the goals of the activity, provide background knowledge, present the learning objectives in a larger context, and introduce key academic vocabulary to prepare students for learning.

«Our goal is to create this interface and then continually improve it so we can accommodate the independence needs of a larger variety of students within the population of students with significant cognitive disabilities,» said Julie Shaftel, CETE research associate conducting the labs.

Students also know how to learn and understand that the goal of life is to serve a cause larger than one's self.

If teachers, parents and administrators wait for large goals to be accomplished before acknowledging improvement, they run the risk of making students feel «stuck» or «not good enough,» damaging motivation.

We need to clearly understand our mission in terms of the larger goals of education, and be able to demonstrate our unique contribution to student achievement, well - being and personal and social growth.

Targeted feedback is effective when included within a larger cycle of learning where a teacher sets learning goals based on the needs of his or her students and the teacher's own instructional practice data.

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, has been working on increasing student reading interest over the summer months with its reading challenges, aimed at encouraging students to meet or exceed goals outlined for them.

«Our partnership with SUNY Press will give students access to an even wider selection of titles as they head into the Spring semester,» said Mark Williams, Vice President of Sales, Kno, Inc. «SUNY's reach as one of the largest university presses with exclusive content, combined with Kno's digital interactive features, will provide students with a premier digital reading experience to achieve their academic goals.»

If the goal of colleges, students, parents, and businesses is to fill jobs in STEM and pay off loans quicker, then there needs to be a larger amount of loans with desirable rates geared to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The bill's authors assert PROSPER's reforms will simplify and improve student aid and that the proposals outlined will help students borrow responsibly.1 Those are certainly laudable goals, but the bill seems to miss two of the largest problems facing higher education today: maintaining access and increasing affordability.

Veterinary school requires that the student have completed a large number of college science and math courses, so most individuals seek a bachelor's degree that is related to their veterinary goals.