Sentences with phrase «make over the course of a school year»

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From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

A film made in 39 days, but over the course of 12 years, that follows Mason, from ages 6 to 18 as he negotiates growing up, a broken home, new schools, first love, and blended families that don't always mix well.

There are currently 27 state virtual schools, and full - time online schools in 31 states and Washington D.C. Florida alone had over 303,329 course enrollments during the 2011 - 12 school year, making it one of the largest schools in the world.

Here's one solution: Start with the premise that a great school either has very high achievement for all students or helps all of its students make a lot of progress over the course of the year.

A basic expectation should be that every student will make excellent progress in their learning — for example, over the course of a school year — regardless of their starting point.

An alternative way of defining and measuring success at school would be in terms of the progress or growth that students make over the course of a year, regardless of their starting point.

So, over the course of probably 10 - 12 years now I've looked to pick up on those people externally that can help us and some of those examples have been, the common one that a lot of people would know in Australia is the Scientists in Schools program, whereby scientists from universities or in professional practice make a link with the school and we've had a couple of scientists from the University of Wollongong, which is just down the road from us, come in and run workshops and sessions with students on bacteria and biology - type aspects.

At any given time a high school of 2,000 or more students will have 300 to 400 students who have made no academic progress over the course of two years.

As Commencement approaches, we look back the impact our students made over the course of their year at the Ed School.

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.

If combined with a real growth model — holding schools accountable for making sure that all students make progress over the course of the school year — states can finally create incentives for schools to pay attention to their high achievers too.

They add that «teachers and students are not well served when a teacher is rated effective or higher even though her [sic] students have not made sufficient gains in their learning over the course of a school year» (p. 4).

Over the course of our 69th year, ASCD held an inaugural virtual conference, made significant enhancements to the web - based PD In Focus tool, and selected schools for the first - ever Whole Child Network.

A 2009 evaluation that randomly paired 1,000 very poor readers with mentors found that, over the course of a single school year, the students who had been tutored by Experience Corps volunteers made 60 % more progress in reading comprehension than those who did not have tutors.

Although her class makes great progress over the course of the year, taking on increasingly challenging writing tasks, Mrs. R. continues to revisit basics, such as letter names and sounds, sentence punctuation and capitalization, possessives and apostrophes, throughout the school year.

While over forty years after the establishment of such formal teaching of Hawaiian in the public high schools, the new aspirations of Kamehameha to become a college preparatory school, Ms. Kahananui's seriousness of purpose, and the strong interest of a core group of students makes this course a stepping stone to a new level of Hawaiian language teaching.

There are currently 27 state virtual schools, and fulltime online schools in 31 states and Washington D.C. Florida alone had over 303,329 course enrollments during the 2011 - 12 school year, making it one of the largest schools in the world.

Students living with disabilities, whom I teach, often struggle with managing their emotions and actions, and the relationship special education teachers build with them over the course of a school year help them not only make significant gains in overall academic performance, but also social and emotional progress.

Some repayment plans will allow you to make no payments while in school but then need to be paid off within 10 years after you graduate, while others might require you to pay a certain amount while you attend college but then have lower payments over the course of 15 or 20 years.

For example, your school's academic year may be made up of a fall and spring semester, during which a full - time undergraduate student is expected to complete at least 24 semester hours (usually called credits or credit hours) over the course of 30 weeks of instructional time.

The 21 lawyers honored each have 30 or more years of experience and have made substantial contributions over the course of their careers to law firms, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, corporations, law schools, and the judiciary, and to the practice of law in general.

Over the years, Ted has made numerous presentations to a variety of organizations such as at the Professional Development Program, Osgoode Hall Law School; McMaster University Social Work Department; and, has also been a part - time instructor in the Alternative Dispute Resolution Certificate Program at Mohawk College of Applied Arts and Technology and in the Family Law Course at McMaster University.

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