Sentences with phrase «learned over the past school year»

The work shouldn't be new material, but simply a review of skills learned over the past school year.

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2017.02.03 RBC announces 30 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from them...

Although the transition can be hard, here are some testimonials from other mamas: Vicki M. said, «My daughter is in kindergarten this year and I truly believe the curriculum she learned in daycare over the past three years has made her so bright and ready to be in the school setting!

Brandon Raynor, the massage practitioner, informed him that the massage techniques were a fusion of his own unique style along with a combination of different modalities that he had learned at various natural therapies schools over the past ten years.

«The staying power of service - learning can be seen in that it has survived and continued over these past five years, despite considerable pressures, such as school budget cuts, focus on meeting state mandates, and concerns with implications of No Child Left Behind,» said Ellen Tenenbaum, a researcher at Westat, the firm responsible for conducting the survey.

Celebrating innovation Recruitment issues facing the education sector have been a reoccurring theme over the past year, and the School Recruitment Award recognised the Herts for Learning Recruitment Fair for its innovative approach to tackle the issue.

Over the past year, professional learning in Grafton Public Schools has not been something that teachers dread, but rather a series of opportunities to select learning options from a menu.

A similar story has been playing out with online learning over the past several years (see «How Do We Transform Our Schools?»

He was a public school educator for 22 years and is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, a unique professional - development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the past three years.

Over the past several years, I have presented at several meetings of California's Santa Clara County superintendents about blended learning and its potential to create schools that can personalize learning for each student to help each succeed.

Peterson is the author of Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, which chronicles the unanticipated consequences of school reform efforts over the past 150 years and the considers the way in which the school choice movement has evolved.

Over the past 25 years, I have conducted research on the use of technology for enhancing learning in students with mild disabilities and those who are at - risk of school failure.

«Over the past year, when I've been talking with people about the problems in schools, the answer is always «distance learning,»» says Rachel Tompkins, president of the Rural School and Community Trust, which advocates for online learning.

Over the past 20 years, the accountability movement's reliance on data to quantify student learning has transformed pedagogical practice and opened up educational practice to show the public how well students are achieving — or not achieving — in their public schools.

Yet if I've learned anything over the course of the past year, it's this: Looking at Catholic schools only through the lens of what we have come to expect from traditional or charter school models misses much about what makes them special.

Over the past three years, Dr. Cassellius has delivered on Governor Dayton's 7 - point Plan, Better Schools for a Better Minnesota; which puts a sharp focus on early learning, third grade reading, high school graduation and the elimination of achievement gaps.

Unfortunately, over the past 20 years, there has been a significant decline in the percentage of high school students who find school to be meaningful and interesting and in the percentage who view school learning as important to their future lives.

Over the past 15 years, however, we've learned a lot about how community schools operate, and research has pointed to some fundamental practices and principles that all effective community schools have in common and that get results when they are well - implemented.

Researchers issued a strong caution against using what they called the «modest improvement» in test scores over the past four years as evidence that mayoral control had improved learning in District schools.

This report from MDRC summarizes research conducted primarily over the past 10 years on how families» involvement in children's learning and development through activities at home and at school affects the literacy, mathematics, and social - emotional skills of children ages 3 to 8.

ONE LESSON THAT TEACHERS and their unions have learned over the past several years is that the courts are unlikely to overturn school district policy, even when they agree it's unfair.

(Calif.) Students enrolled in linked learning programs over the past four years outperformed their peers in traditional classrooms when it came to earning high school credits and completing advanced college readiness courses, according to a new study released Tuesday.

Over the past few years, Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado, has started a journey to focus on the learning of all students by building and sustaining high performing teams.

Over the past year, they have led conversations defining what is meant by personalized learning, so that they put in place a solid framework upon which to base the supports offered to schools.

Over the past year, we talked to dozens of education leaders from district, charter, and independent schools to learn more about their goals for innovation and school design and explore whether a partnership with Transcend might be the right fit to help them achieve their goals.

Over the past two years, the 270 - student William Smith High School has reinvented itself as a pilot school with an intense focus on union - district collaboration, expanded learning opportunities, and community outSchool has reinvented itself as a pilot school with an intense focus on union - district collaboration, expanded learning opportunities, and community outschool with an intense focus on union - district collaboration, expanded learning opportunities, and community outreach.

The number of expanded - time schools has doubled over the past two years, according to an updated report from the National Center on Time and Learning and Education Commission of the States.

Over the past two years we've helped this Nigerian K - 12 school align its instructional practices and integrate a project - based learning approach that prepares students for an International Baccalaureate program at the high school level.

SALT LAKE CITY — Over the past three years, Northwest Middle School has seen a culture of learning develop, accompanied by rising test scores, improved reading comprehension and increased student engagement.

Despite the progress we had over the past ten years and I would have assume much more have been done by schools to prepare students for the job market, I was sorely disappointed to learn otherwise last week.

Over the past 4 years Singleton Primary School have implemented a whole school approach to consumer and financial literacy education involving, teachers, students, parents and the broader community.They used ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching program as the basis for embedding this learning within the curriculum and have incorporated many other consumer and financial literacy based initiatives within the sSchool have implemented a whole school approach to consumer and financial literacy education involving, teachers, students, parents and the broader community.They used ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching program as the basis for embedding this learning within the curriculum and have incorporated many other consumer and financial literacy based initiatives within the sschool approach to consumer and financial literacy education involving, teachers, students, parents and the broader community.They used ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching program as the basis for embedding this learning within the curriculum and have incorporated many other consumer and financial literacy based initiatives within the schoolschool.

My favourite conversation was with a woman who had spent some great nights over the past few years «learning» French from a French mum at her kid's school, helped by copious amounts of wine.

Over the past eight years of involvement in EFT trainings, I've heard a wide variety of ways that people learn of the model: a conference workshop, a one - day training, a course in grad school, etc., But after all this time, I still hear people mention an article Sue Johnson wrote for the Psychotherapy Networker in 2006, back when it was still called the Family Therapy Networker.