Sentences with phrase «needs student population»

Aspel says she must also limit specialty programs, transition services and other things that could go a long way to increase the graduation rate for her special needs student population.

Roughly ten percent of the special needs student population statewide isn't covered by state funds, says DPI's Hussey, placing a heavy burden on local districts to come up with the extra resources necessary to serve them at a time when locals also face increased costs in other areas of educational need that they are trying to cover thanks to decreased state investments.

Tuesday, September 13 (Seattle)-- West Seattle Elementary School used its first year of School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding to increase wraparound services, especially necessary for its high - needs student population.

If some of your schools are located in an urban - like environment — or your school board is struggling to educate a high - needs student population — then your school board can benefit from the educational opportunities and focus of CUBE.

However, we must be careful not to penalize those of us working with the highest - needs student populations, and we recommend using a two - step value - added model in order to ensure that there are no incentives against teaching at - risk students, while identifying and rewarding those teachers that are most successful with such students.

«The ones that have had high performance generally serve a much lower - need student population.»

And, to be sure, some of the charter schools are expressly designed to handle high - needs student populations.

States, districts and schools serving the highest - need student populations receive more funding than others.

Aurora has seen an increase in high need student populations.

With the Local Control Funding Formula, three of California's highest needs student populations receive supplemental funding for additional support: English Language Learners, Low - income students, and Foster or Homeless Youth.

If WCCUSD thinned its district staff to free up millions for teacher retention, could the district still deliver effective services to its highest - need student populations?

We «will actively enroll and retain high - need scholars from [the New Haven area] by applying the same successful intricate strategies used in... Jumoke Academy Schools to address and serve the same high - need student population that we expect will attend the Academy,» states the state - approved application for Booker T. Washington Academy, a charter school set to open in New Haven next year.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has dramatically harmed our local schools with its over-emphasis on high - stakes testing, narrowing of the curriculum, and punitive unfunded mandates that have been especially harmful to schools with high - needs student populations.

Many districts — especially urban, inner suburban and rural, serving very high - need student populations — continue to struggle from a lack of sufficient funding, which makes it impossible to provide all students with the opportunity for a high quality education.

In Igniting the Learning Engine: How school systems accelerate teacher effectiveness and student growth through Connected Professional Learning (which we blogged about here: http://www.coreeducationllc.com/blog2/igniting-learning-engine/), authors profiled four school systems that, with an intensive focus on improving the quality of instruction through professional learning, have seen above - average results with a relatively high - need student population.

Not exact matches

In addition, schools should be able to gauge the particular needs of their student populations on a case by case basis to determine which dates are ideal for scheduling major academic programs in the first place.

She regularly presents at conferences and schools on topics related to curriculum, instruction, classroom organization, gifted students, and special needs populations.

And even if very athletic kids need an usually high number of calories, should their unique needs dictate calorie limits for the rest of the student population, which is unfortunately quite sedentary?

There is an entire population of twice - exceptional students who struggle to have their needs met in a public school setting.

Understand the importance of accommodating special diets and food allergies, and review strategies for managing special dietary needs in your student population.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

By reviewing basic butterfly biology and exploring the unique needs of local butterflies, students gain an understanding of how people impact Midwestern butterfly populations.

We've already talked on The Lunch Tray about whether that claim is actually true and, at any rate, whether the dietary needs of athletes should dictate standards for a mostly - sedentary student population.

Fairness must take into consideration the need and circumstances of the particular student population.

The at - risk student population needs, quite simply, a lot of help and intervention.

According to White, the District needs space because of growing demands from the student population.

«Public health efforts are needed to raise university administration and student population awareness of the harms that indoor tanning poses to young adults in order to increase demand for policy - related action.

The result for Dalhousie's Student Employment Center is that we now have the resources to service the entire student population, undergraduates and graduates, in a way that meets their distinctStudent Employment Center is that we now have the resources to service the entire student population, undergraduates and graduates, in a way that meets their distinctstudent population, undergraduates and graduates, in a way that meets their distinct needs.

A research team investigating the mental health burden and treatment - seeking behaviors of student veterans attending rural community colleges in the southern United States has found that this population has difficulty integrating into the campus community and needs support to help it succeed.

Curran stressed that as veterans increasingly transition from the battlefield to the classroom, more colleges and universities will need to address the unique needs of this student population.

If a larger proportion of the graduate student population were supported on training grants, she said, NIH could better monitor students» training and ensure broader exposure to careers outside of academia — and better training in the skills needed to perform well in those careers.

Future research is needed to establish the benefits of the program across different age groups and populations, for example, college versus high school students.

The researchers caution that as all participants in this study were university students, further research is needed to be able to generalize the findings to individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits in other populations.

On Wednesdays, a medical clinic staffed by a doctor and medical students from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania delivers critically needed care, including blood pressure screenings, vaccinations, and general examinations, that may otherwise be unavailable to this population.

«Recent changes in the federal laws guiding special education programs have made it much more difficult to be in simple compliance with student discipline, meeting paperwork requirements, and dealing with providing for the needs of what appears to be a growing population of students who qualify for special services.»

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

With a population of approximately 1,500 students, 60 percent of whom are of color and 71 percent of whom are low - income, RHS is a national example of the type of programmatic systems change needed to move our schools forward.

Additional staff members — such as social workers and school counselors — are needed to assist with the diverse student population.

Instead of testing every student at the state level, we need test sample populations as we do with NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress), so that we can afford to use better assessments.

We worked with Keelman's Way on a building which met the range of complex needs presented by the student population, using considered design, well - chosen materials and a wealth of special touches to ensure the build performed both in terms of the sensory and practical experience.

It may specify which components are mandatory and which can be modified as needed, or provide resources for working with English language learners, students with special needs, and other specialized student populations.

But typically, our student body goes back to the community from which they came — generally the most isolated, underserved areas in New York — working with populations that needs them the most.

However such challenges are addressed, one thing is certain: colleges and universities will have to start adapting to the needs of a dramatically different student population.

Berea Middle School, in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, not only has developed a laptop initiative using Title I funds that provide low - income students with much - needed access to Web - enabled computers, it also reaches out to the school's parent population at the same time.

Thats because even with a constant influx of new students and the challenges of a population with limited English proficiency who also need remediation in basic skills, the school has seen success.

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

Recognizing the sorry state of many of America's schools — along with a growing student population and the need to make room for new technology — many cities and towns are taking long - overdue action.

In addition, the burgeoning youth population across Africa means we need to find a way to more effectively reach a greater number of students.

Citing her own state's example, Wagner says, for instance, that students coming to Minnesota from Somalia 20 years ago presented more basic EL needs, but Minnesota's newer population of Somali immigrants tend to have a very conservative approach to education, which affects how schools can involve students in art and music activities.

2) The dissimilarity index measures the extent to which schools and the overall student population are racially dissimilar, by calculating the percentage of blacks that would need to change schools if all schools were to have the same percentage of black students.