Sentences with phrase «more focused on student»

All the evidence points in the direction that we have a fairer and more effective system that is probably more focused on student achievement than it once was.»

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

My work as an administrator was much more focused on student learning results.

He joined as one of the organizers of NewTLA because he believed the union had to become more focused on student achievement and the professional growth of teachers if it were to continue to protect members» interests.

For years, optimists have believed in these individuals, and predicted that they will make the unions more focused on students.

As part of Ojih Odutola's residency, she is participating in a host of campus events, some big and public — like her January 31st dialogue about Art & Equity with South African artist Mary Sibande, and a talk about her new book, The Treatment — and others more focused on students of the visual arts — such an intensive two - week drawing course, a studio visit for visual - arts majors, and a senior studio critique.

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While the public response to the report focused on the school's athletes, the report found that more than half of the students enrolled in the paper courses were nonathletes — many of them referred through the campus» fraternity system.

More than three — quarters of the student body in the MBA program at VIU are international students, and there are many opportunities to focus on international business, including exchange programs across the globe.

Maybe focusing on one particular course that teaches video production at the college makes way more sense, mimicking what you see in the Wix ad, because then a potential student can imagine what it is like to take that course.

These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to focus on.

In the short run we can focus more on training and education and making sure (it's) accessible to people and they don't have to take out enormous student loans and so forth.

First - generation college students and underrepresented minorities benefit from Global EIR mentors providing an introduction to entrepreneurship with up - to - date experience to prepare them for a future career ever more focused on innovation and creativity.

Millennial Branding and Internships.com Release First Ever Study on High School Careers 50 % of companies are creating high school internship programs this year and high school students are now more career focused than college students.

I could focus on cash flow and get rid of some smaller student debt, or focus on net worth by throwing more money at my investments.

I get it — if you're starting out, you make less money and probably are more focused on immediate stuff like repaying your student loans and credit card debt.

Oliva said he was looking forward to meeting with more students on Wednesday but warned that when dealing with constitutional rights, «we have to be very careful» and the solutions should focus on more than guns.

Students also wish their schools had more focus on learning how to get jobs over standard courses (46 %) and more career fairs and alumni support (34 %).

Our politicians in Washington have exchanged vision for whatever the polling tells them, CEO's have exchanged integrity for a bump in the stock price, educators are more focused on their careers than their students.

If we learn to teach with different foci and emphases, perhaps with less isolation from one another and more emphasis on the needs of students, the church, and the world, can we affect the ways in which our guilds function?

As a result of running an experimental course at the University of Chicago for two years, for those preparing for campus ministries, in which we focused on personal service and pastoral care to students, I am convinced that more insight and skill in this area could be of great benefit to campus ministers, most of whom currently perform these functions without special training.

«We're trying to raise awareness that more than one side needs to be heard on the issue of homosexuality, and we're helping to ensure Christian students have the chance to express their viewpoint,» said Candi Cushman, a Focus on the Family education analyst, in the release.

For many years, gifted programs in schools have focused on giving these students MORE.

Some schools even provide students with a whole morning to focus on this important topic which allows them to dialogue with more than one couple.

A Christian teacher has encouraged other educators to focus more on their students» mental health after... more on their students» mental health after... MoreMore

Meat Free Monday in schools focuses on school hours only but we encourage staff members and students to remain meat free the whole day (or more) if they want to.

The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

And it suggests that school - discipline programs might be more effective if they were to focus less on imposing punishment and more on creating a classroom environment in which students who lack self - regulatory capacities can find the tools and context they need to develop them.

However one comment on this:»... Though given that there are an equal number of students who are wired very anxious as those wired needing more stress to engage and focus, many of the systemwide anti-stress measures at Paly are a zero sum game — they help AND hurt about the same number of students.»

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

This works quite well for some students (our Campus and Community page discusses options for what your family can do in our neighborhood while you're in class); other students, however, find they can focus more on their studies when they are here alone and that their children are happier staying with a caregiver in the familiar environment of their own home.

This week's second Editor's pick is the article, «More Focused, Better Behaved Kids, Through Mindfulness,» by journalist Tori James on My Mother Lode — through which we learn the outcomes of teaching mindfulness to students at a California, USA, elementary school.

«Students who completed more hours of homework per night were at greater risk for these negative outcomes; they were also more likely to drop activities or hobbies they enjoyed in order to focus on their academic work.»

Students may benefit more from fewer assignments and a focus on deep understanding of concepts learned in class.

The Sodexo Fresh Pick program is designed to further the nutrition education of students, parents and educators by focusing on the many positive benefits of eating more fruits, vegetables and whole grains.

She looks at the students as whole people, and at this stage she is focused more on social and emotional skills, rather than academic milestones.

South Dakota uses the Connections curriculum, which focuses on marriage and relationship communications skills; a 2004 study of the program found marginal success — some students felt somewhat more negatively about divorce and somewhat more positively toward premarital counseling.

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

She says she is happy there is more money being focused on more vulnerable students, but even more so, that the district was able to take time and really look at the special education programs and priorities.

In fact, many younger users are «pruning» their accounts to remove some of the casual student acquaintances they've added to focus on their more meaningful connections.

It focuses more on grooming students for the next stage of study rather than solving problems.

The government believes that, giving the institutions tax breaks will enable them focus on improving and maintaining their facilities in order to attract more students from all over the continent.

Member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely - Hayford has advised students of the Ghana Institute of Journalism to focus more on empowering themselves than on trivial things such as fashion.

«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»

«We do have more money for our student this year, but this year was an important year to listen to these parents, listen to these families and focus on school safety and that's what we did,» Scott told reporters immediately following Sine Die on Sunday.

«Our teachers want to focus on educating our students, and injecting more guns into our schools can lead to increasing dangerous situations,» said Kaminsky.

I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including police).

I don't understand the opposition to common core — it goes back to basics and focuses on just a few subjects so students have more opportunity to master those subjects that are needed to be productive.

Whether it is expanding the community schools model so more schools provide students the support they need to succeed, or front - loading services to children age five and under so they are ready to learn once they get to school, Bill Thompson is focused on getting kids what they need to achieve — in school and in life.