Sentences with phrase «of classroom projects»

Or, switch it up and put the specificity of the prompt before the question, like this: «I heard you had wonderful student success in one of your classroom projects this month.

«As the new school year kicks off, we are thrilled to support all of the classroom projects currently posted by teachers right here in Wisconsin,» Kohl said in a statement.

The latest round of classroom projects being supported is here.

Not exact matches

The master's of arts in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on social entrepreneurship combines classroom instruction, a consulting project with a local social enterprise and a lean startup exercise.

But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

Achievement of quantifiable, sustainable change is the criterion for Emerald consideration, and from the classroom to the corporation, a variety of sectors and projects are eligible.

From mundane objects like the wooden cutting board I made one Mother's Day to countless science projects I presented in classrooms and at science fairs, Mr. Clarke made me believe in my own thinking and the power of unedited imagination.

From classrooms to corporate initiatives, the awards recognize a variety of projects and celebrate those who demonstrate commitment to the environment and take the initiative to make quantifiable sustainable changes.

Why the recent pivot to a growing list of local, offline projects when you originally set out to be a digital classroom for the world?

The PhD Project was created in 1994 to address the severe under - representation of African - Americans, Hispanic - Americans and Native Americans in management by diversifying the frontlines of the business school classroom.

Startup Studio is the capstone of the experiential learning curriculum at Cornell Tech, where students complement their classroom experience through deep, hands - on engagements with entrepreneurs, companies, nonprofit organizations, early stage investors, and ultimately their own startup projects.

A letter released today by the president of the B.C. School Trustee's Association, Michael McEvoy, confirms that school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for classrooms.

In the classroom, this means teaching hands - on software engineering, not just computing basics — the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting an employment increase for software engineers of 32 % by 2018.

The ideal of one «proper place» per student — in earlier classrooms, often a proper place bolted to the floor — projects this philosophic error, which Whitehead proposes to correct, of treating all space as insulating, all places as solipsistic enclosures.

Sonoma State University Wine Spectator Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with classrooms and outdoor space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...

In fact, enlisting my students in the shared project of creating an engaging classroom has been my most successful attempt to push back against the pressures to «do school.»

In the 1990s, a researcher named James Stigler coordinated a vast international project that involved videotaping the classrooms of hundreds of randomly selected eighth - grade math teachers in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

There are plenty of deeper - learning skeptics out there, and one of their chief concerns is that while project - based learning in the hands of a well - trained educator can be used in the classroom in a highly effective way, it is also a technique that is easy for an unprepared teacher to do quite badly.

When I visited another EL school in the spring of 2015, the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (known as WHEELS) in Upper Manhattan, almost every classroom I visited was engaged in some kind of elaborate discussion or creative project that demanded involvement from every student.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

As part of the #StaplesForStudents campaign, today Staples announced that every Boston and Metrowest project posted on DonorsChoose.org received full funding as part of Staples» $ 1 million donation to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000 classroom projects for teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S. students.

In addition to handling the complicated logistics for APS's breakfast - in - the - classroom program, her first year on the job included a complete overhaul of the district's central kitchen among other major projects.

Challenge Success also makes the case that project - based learning can be an antidote to the high - stakes, high - stress environment of some more traditional classrooms.

Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response to pleas for relief.

Niri has been featured on Boston.com, Syracuse.com and India New England; and has worked on several charitable projects while harnessing the power of blogging like ending teacher funded classrooms, Rwanda Path2Peace, building playgrounds with Kaboom and the End Child Hunger campaign.

«It's project - based learning with lots of different ways for students to be engaged inside and outside of the classroom - all tying back to their core academics,» adds Meyer.

The Good Food Project, run by local food writer Susan Taylor, offers classroom tastings to help kids learn varieties of apples and other foods, plus how to become «food critics.»

Schoolteachers have made classroom projects of writing to men and women serving their country in distant lands.

A project designed to assist early care and education programs in meeting the social and emotional needs of children who exhibit challenging behaviors in the classroom.

This reader was also disturbed that some classroom projects, like cookie - making, involved a lot of sugar.

Last school year, my daughter and her Grade 1 classmates worked on a classroom project called «My Favorite Part of the Body.»

One practical way to end this type of behavior in the classroom is to assign seats and assign group projects.

Because of the close relationship between SFUSD officials and faculty researchers from Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE), projects can be launched and completed quickly, with the findings then put into action in classrooms and schools without delay.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

Schoolteachers in the United States and Canada made classroom projects of writing to our servicemen and women who would be far from home during the holidays.

In partnership with the CPS Office of Social Science & Civic Engagement, the EPIC Challenge is designed to be implemented by science or social studies teachers as a classroom - integrated service learning project.

Studying the life cycle of the butterfly and hatching a few in the classroom is a popular springtime science project in primary schools, but Sandburg School in Wheaton is hoping to keep those butterflies around.

She has been part of the city budget process assisting in the allocation of over $ 5 million for infrastructure projects to renovate parks and upgrade technology in classrooms, and the designation of over $ 600,000 to increase and expand programming throughout the district.

«The NUTs Breaking the Mould project, in which the National Union of Teachers has worked with a small group of primary schools to consider how «traditional» gender stereotypes could be challenged in the classroom through reading materials, is a really useful resource.

Lockport native Chris Sacca, a Silicon Valley venture investor and owner of Lowercase Capital with ties to Buffalo, was among some 60 celebrities, business leaders, athletes and philanthropists from across the country — including Stephen Colbert — who joined forces for #BestSchoolDay to fund classroom projects through DonorsChoose.org.

Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

Among the projects commissioned include blocks of classroom at St. Theresa's College, Oke - Oyingbo, Town Hall at Ita - Opo, Epe and Regional Water Scheme, Otta - Ikosi.

The project, which is in addition to the ongoing classroom projects, would be replicated at the College of Technology Education (COLTEK) and other campuses of the university.

DonorsChoose.org, which was founded in 2000 and has funded more than 328,000 projects proposed by more than 137,000 teachers in more than 46,000 schools around the country, Wednesday launched a new donor site — DonorsChoose.org/Newtown — to support classroom efforts of teachers in Newtown.

Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

«Project Boost has given schools the opportunity to be creative with teaching and learning outside of the traditional classroom setting by providing educational trips to museums, Broadway shows, college campuses and unique eating experiences at local restaurants.

Projects funded this year include numerous classroom upgrades, the creation of new media centers, library renovations, technology upgrades, playgrounds, auditorium renovations and other physical plant improvements in public schools across The Bronx.

Many of the projects include classroom blocks, dining halls, Libraries and dormitories.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

According to Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061 and the principal investigator for the new curriculum project, textbooks rarely take advantage of the opportunities to help students make connections across physical and life sciences, nor do they provide experiences to challenge the misconceptions that many students bring to the claProject 2061 and the principal investigator for the new curriculum project, textbooks rarely take advantage of the opportunities to help students make connections across physical and life sciences, nor do they provide experiences to challenge the misconceptions that many students bring to the claproject, textbooks rarely take advantage of the opportunities to help students make connections across physical and life sciences, nor do they provide experiences to challenge the misconceptions that many students bring to the classroom.