Sentences with phrase «leader knew the students»

The leader knew the students personally, knew who was doing the work, who was engaged, and who was likely to be successful in the learning environment.

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«No matter where they were born, [these students] are going to be tomorrow's entrepreneurs and people creating jobs in this country,» he told the audience, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee.

For the second year, Walmart Canada is running the Green Student Challenge where teams of post-secondary students from across the country have an opportunity to convince some of Canada's most successful business leaders that they have the most compelling breakthrough idea to change business as we know it.

Despite the dangers of radicalization among various groups, ranging from high school students (Scholarism), university students (university student federation), Occupy Central leaders (Benny Tai and Chan Kin - Man), and democratic parties, the students have generally known when to back down to avoid escalation.

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If you've listened to the student leaders from Parkland, Florida, over the past few weeks or watched the speeches delivered at the March for Our Lives, you'll know that hell hath no fury like teenagers on a mission.

Several of my students remarked that if they had not known that he was a Mormon leader they would have guessed that he was an evangelical preacher.

My idea of a hero is a student / individual who: «cents Helps a person with special needs «cents Takes time to talk to the new kid «cents Asks someone how they are doing «cents Stands up for those who aren't strong enough to do so themselves «cents Makes sure others know that they care about them «cents Is a leader who sets an example that treating others negatively is wrong «cents Isn't a follower when others are being treated unfairly

«Today's students don't want to just know the information, they want to know why they even need it,» says Meyer, who will be creating an advisory board of local employers and post-secondary leaders to help advise and mentor students and teachers.

«A Specialized High School might be a great fit for so many of New York City's underrepresented students, but we will never know if we don't ensure that every student has the resources to prepare and apply,» said IDC Leader Jeff Klein, a Bronx Democrat.

Babatunde was known to have emerged a student union leader at the age of 18 which made him the most youngest student to have attained the position in 1977.

I really do mean no,» Petraeus told students and reporters during an appearance at New Hampshire's St. Anselm College Wednesday night, according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Touring Newcastle, Nick Clegg - who, as we now know, was a keen childhood actor - told students he was: «the only one of the three leaders who actually comes from one of our great cities in the North.»

The students, who designed and delivered their own power point presentation to the entire student body at the schools» auditorium, say the town leaders, as well as state and federal governments, have been too slow to respond to water contamination deemed by the EPA to be so serious that they are no longer allowed to drink, cook or bathe with it.

In a Nov. 15 letter to Speaker Paul Ryan, R - Wis., and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D - Calif., a broad array of scientific and engineering societies called on House leaders to drop provisions in the tax bill (H.R. 1) that would eliminate tax credits, known as the Lifetime Learning Credit and the Hope Scholarship Credit, that alleviate the financial strain of higher education by providing a dollar - for - dollar reduction in the income tax liability of eligible students.

Well - trod forums have connected her with both «graduate students who have been hammering away at a technique for a couple of years and know it inside - out» to scientists who are «leaders of their field, sharing their immense knowledge.»

We therefore wanted to know whether dodder can transmit insect feeding - induced signals among different hosts and whether these signals can even activate defenses against insects,» explains Jianqiang Wu, who worked at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology as a PhD student and later a project leader, and who is now heading a Max Planck Partner Group in China.

Dr. DeLuca added, «Dr. Yue's dedication to mentoring students, residents and fellows is also important to the Foundation, which is known as a leader in training the rehabilitation researchers of the future.»

Please let your parent or guardian know that they have the option to stay and talk more with the teachers, even though it is now time for you, as the student leader, to go back to class.

It wasn't to replace a well - oiled machine; instead, parents, taxpayers, civil rights leaders and the business community could no longer tolerate an education system that was failing so many of our students.

To know why it is important to understand what students value, I encourage everyone to reflect on how they feel — and perform — when a school leader knows and acts on what is important to team members.

Ultimately, state leaders need to insist on a high - quality assessment that gives teachers and parents the information they need to know about whether students are on track for success, and how instruction needs to improve.

There are four things educators should know about engaging students in these politically tumultuous times, write two civic - education leaders.

Our colleagues need it from us; our students expect it of us; our leaders know it...

But it's not just developing great teachers and leaders — our offer extends to other programmes that we know are priorities for schools, including our highly successful Futures programme which helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities.

'» At the time, Match leaders knew that their students arrived at 9th grade with roughly a 5 to 10 percent chance of attaining a college degree (based on student demographic background).

Perhaps the students could choose between several high - profile leaders or perhaps one lesser known leader.

Learning - centered school leaders know how to create a professional environment in which all the adults in a school are constantly improving their own skills and knowledge, and challenging each other to serve the needs of every student.

While we agree with Smarick that evidence is not clear on a single turnaround strategy that works, we do know that schools can accelerate improvement through strong, transformational leaders; collaborative teacher teams; and targeting expertise and resources to help students who have fallen behind.

I know plenty of teachers from different backgrounds who have their set of student leaders, and plenty of people from similar backgrounds who can't get kids to gravitate to them.

«A leader earns credibility and trust by being honest, by knowing how to do his or her job, and by telling the truth and being up - front with teachers, parents, and students,» said Jim Jordan, principal at Buford (South Carolina) High School.

His wife, Barbara Williams, a teacher at Hope Elementary School and a laptop teacher leader, no longer has to «ballpark it» or delay getting a precise answer to a student question.

The first is that teachers, and school leaders, know a lot about how to improve student learning.

WASHINGTON — Nearly two years into the full - scale national effort to set standards for what students should know and be able to do, leaders of nine of the projects involved have begun to search for common terms to describe what standards are.

School leaders knew that mentors would be vital to help students make progress toward rigorous but attainable goals and that students would benefit from that social relationship if the mentors were good.

Because, when you go in as a new leader, you have to allow the people to develop trust and confidence in, that you have the skills and ability, you know, to manage the school and the students.

The grant, which will be matched with money from the state, will allow South Carolina to be the first state to bring together educators from across all disciplines, parents, and community leaders to determine what students need to know.

This hub aims to give teachers and school leaders the tools they need to empower students to know that they matter, and instill a sense of self - belief, resilience and determination within them...

«I'd taught Maths Studies for a few years... [and] always knew there were some students I never really connected with in the classroom,» the Senior Leader, STEM Learning, at Adelaide's Australian Science and Mathematics School, recalls.

I knew that having students in Digital Leaders was a vital part of a school who was serious about advancing technology enhanced education practice and that involving young people in education reform has great potential.

Our professional publishing program has been built on developing practical tools and resources from the foremost thought leaders and experts to help educators know their impact and to enable all students to learn and succeed,» said Mike Soules, President of Corwin.

Our colleagues need it from us; our students expect it of us; our leaders know it is in us; and ~ parents / society assume it of us!

Students will use the clear graphic organizer at the top to simply brainstorm attributes of the leaders they know about such as bold, brave, adventurous, courageous, smart, and anything else they come up with.

But when leaders can provide a frame that's focused on instruction and say «listen, all forms of evidence are useful here, what we want you to do is anchor your instructional decisions in evidence, and talk about instruction and use that evidence to think about student thinking... what do we really know about student learning in this context?»

We support teachers and other learning leaders in making learning irresistible — creating for students a powerful need to know, and a hunger to learn more.

As educators, families, students, community leaders, businesses, and others who care about the future of learning in communities across the Commonwealth, we know we can do more to help our kids succeed.

Education leaders working to integrate ed - tech strategies to drive student achievement in their districts need to know about and understand the research behind proven approaches for success.

In an effort to forge links among a small — and scattered — group of student leaders, the Alexandria, Va. - based National Association of State Boards of Education is tapping into a medium that teenagers know well: the online forum.

Teacher leaders brought to their leadership roles a thorough understanding of unit content; they knew which lessons within a unit were most critical, could identify and articulate the important concepts and skills each lesson was intended to develop, and were able to suggest questions that teachers could use with students to highlight important concepts.

As school leaders, we need to let teachers know that supporting students» emotional growth is a priority on par with academic learning.