Sentences with phrase «low school engagement»

African American youth in urban centers often reside in poorly resourced communities and face structural disadvantage, which can result in higher rates of poor behavioral health factors such as mental health problems, juvenile justice system involvement, substance use, risky sex and lower school engagement.

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«This implies that the comparatively low degree of emotional support business undergraduates appear to receive in school has lasting consequences, as Gallup has established that there are differences in well - being and employee engagement among alumni who have had these experiences.»

Forest Schools programmes, for example, have been shown to change the pro-social behaviour of whole year groups in lower KS2 leading to increased engagement and less disruptive behaviour in class.

«In a region where employer engagement in schools is among the lowest in the country, it is particularly important to help students link their studies with their future and broaden their horizons, Evidence shows that if students see people «like them» have succeeded, they are more likely to believe they can too.

The South West and Cornwall in particular has one of the lowest levels of employer engagement in schools across Britain.

A consistent focus on student engagement within and across AL projects at CPAHS has been influenced by Munns, Sawyer and Cole's Teachers for a Fair Go3, an action research project on student engagement among low - SES primary school students in Sydney's South West.

Through mindful problem solving, reflection, and low - stakes assignments, we employ student - centered active engagement in academics to help kids develop voice and agency in school and in their lives as a whole.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

Participation in afterschool programs is influencing academic performance in a number of ways, including better attitudes toward school and higher educational aspirations; higher school attendance rates and lower tardiness rates; less disciplinary action, such as suspension; lower dropout rates; better performance in school, as measured by achievement test scores and grades; significant gains in academic achievement test scores; greater on - time promotion; improved homework completion; and deeper engagement in learning.

The importance of representing young women from low SES areas and existing engagement with UTS also played a role in choosing the schools to participate.

The Commission will examine state and local policies to increase parent and family engagement, including: how the school calendar meets the needs of students and families to optimize engagement such as parent - teacher conferences and half - days; district and school - level policies to address student attendance issues; access to information regarding teacher effectiveness; and parental involvement in school policies such as placement of students in low - performing schools and in the classrooms of ineffective teachers.

It's hardly surprising, then, that students don't actually appear to be «hiring» school at the rates we'd hope; survey after survey show that student engagement is low and drops off precipitously in high school.

Many school districts now use «parent portals» to facilitate access to grades, enable parents to pay their child's cafeteria bill online, and so on, but those are low - level engagements that don't get at the power of the story.

That sort of deeper engagement will likely require Cleveland's charters to offer more as well, such as committing to share the responsibility of serving the city's special education students or working with the district to turn around its chronically low - performing schools.

Most teachers struggle with low student engagement, particularly at the middle school and high school levels.

High - engagement teachers, of which there were seven, had average student survey scores consistently above the school mean, while six low - engagement teachers had average student engagement survey scores below the school mean each year.

ParentSquare and Project Appleseed have joined forces to offer schools and districts the easiest - to - use platform for dramatically improving parent communication and engagement at the lowest cost.

Veronica Palmer, Co-Founder and CEO, RISE Colorado in Aurora, CO, for an innovative family engagement model focused on creating strong partnerships between schools and families, with the goal of improving academic outcomes for low - income students and students of color in Aurora, CO..

Research has shown that participation in the arts, particularly for low - income students, strengthens student academic outcomes and other protective factors such as increased school engagement and civic participation.

The Association has called on Congress to support the efforts of states and local education agencies to increase student engagement and lower dropout rates using research - based approaches that ensure high school graduates become productive citizens.

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This action extends the Together for Tomorrow program that focuses on increased community engagement in low - performing schools.

The government will also create Assistant Maths Hub Leads in 17 regions across the Northern Powerhouse regions, which will see Maths Hubs recruit respected school leaders in low engagement areas for one year — tasked with developing better partnerships between local schools and their Maths Hub.

Interested applicants must address one of the competition's five absolute priorities: parent and family engagement; teachers and principals; science, technology, engineering, and math education; low - performing schools; and improving rural achievement.

Established in the mid-1960s as part of President Lyndon Johnson's «war on poverty,» the Head Start program was intended to prepare toddlers of low - income families for school by providing a mix of services, from education and health care to nutrition and family engagement.

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).

Nine out of 10 Ross students receive free or reduced - price lunch, and the school has faced an all - too - familiar slate of challenges — a yawning achievement gap, low enrollment, teacher attrition, and minimal parental engagement.

Title I — using a comprehensive needs assessment process, funding is targeted at meeting the identified needs of children from low - income families and other disadvantaged groups, and for the already identified Priority Schools, supplying additional family and community engagement personnel and specialized training for principals, the first year, and other personnel in the following years based on needs.

This «trust us» mentality has not been helped by the engagement of DeVos, nor by Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's recent visit to a notorious charter chain in Philadelphia last week — a prime example of the kind of low - performing, fiscally reckless charter that school advocates warn about.

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

During her tenure at KEY, she wrote curriculum, managed the sixth grade team, and designed and implemented a family engagement plan across the lower middle school.

The resulting climate of high expectations and strong engagement with families and the community is essential in turning around low - performing schools.

In addition, he joined Joshua DuBois, special assistant to the president and executive director of the White House Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, at a town hall meeting at Memorial Middle School to announce Together for Tomorrow, a new administration initiative to both spotlight existing community efforts to turn around persistently low - performing schools, and encourage new community engagement that aims to do this for other schools.

This year's priorities for the Development grants are 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; and serving rural communities.

For example, Indiana is directing more money — about 128 million dollars since 2009 — to our low performing schools that commit to taking bold action to improve student performance, increase community and parent engagement, and avoid state intervention down the road.

With a focus on low - income and under - served families and schools, Project Appleseed works to improve schools, build public awareness, enable public engagement, advance policy positions and advise elected officials and other decision - makers on best practices for creating optimal educational environments.

Students didn't like the traditional textbook - and - worksheet - centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada's Ottawa Catholic School Board's (OCSB) high schools.

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While states still have to comply with NCLB's mandate of testing students in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, with ESSA, they would be permitted to set their own student achievement goals, identify their own academic and non-academic (i.e., school climate, teacher engagement) indicators for accountability, design their own intervention plans for their lowest performing schools, and implement their own teacher evaluation systems.

Led by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, together with local partners, it brings high - quality arts education resources to a group of the lowest - performing elementary and middle schools in the country, and help them use those resources to improve attendance, parent engagement, student motivation and more.

Parental and community engagement are key goals for NEA Priority Schools Campaign, a multi-year effort to bring permanent transformation and improvement to America's lower - performing priority sSchools Campaign, a multi-year effort to bring permanent transformation and improvement to America's lower - performing priority schoolsschools.

But whatever formula individual states end up approving to identify low - achieving schools — whether it's test scores, attendance rates or more subtle measures like surveying for student engagement and parental satisfaction — the same campuses typically end up in the bottom 5 percent, according to Minnich.

Using her instantly recognizable white - on - red Futura typeface, the project will include an installation for the popular Lower East Side skate park located beneath the Manhattan Bridge, created in partnership with NYC Parks and skate park designer Steve Rodriguez; the design of a billboard on 17th Street and 10th Avenue in Chelsea; and a full wrap of a classic school bus that will serve as a mobile site for community engagement.

Kruger has also created an installation for the Lower East Side skate park beneath the Manhattan Bridge; a billboard on 17th Street and 10th Avenue in Chelsea; and wrapped a classic school bus as a mobile art vehicle for community engagement.

Close was one of eight artists who volunteered in 2013 to participate in President Barack Obama's Turnaround Arts initiative, which aims to improve low - performing schools by increasing student «engagement» through the arts.

Improve academic engagement and achievement and help low - income, at - risk youth set goals for their future by providing effective, educational, and enriching out - of - school support services and activities

Each Educare school is a comprehensive early childhood program with intense family engagement aimed at preventing the achievement gap seen when low - income children are compared to their middle - income peers, long before they enter kindergarten.

Association of experiences of medical home quality with health - related quality of life and school engagement among Latino children in low - income families.

Families from nondominant cultures are more likely to have a lower socioeconomic status, which can create additional barriers to engagement with the school, such as limited time to engage in their children's education and the inability to pay items or fees that schools may consider nominal.

This chapter presents findings of a three - year longitudinal study of academic motivation and school engagement among low - income high school students enrolled in a corporate work — study program.