Sentences with phrase «on academic intervention»

But de Blasio and education officials say that their plan will get results: The city will be embarking on a significant community schools push for the first time ever, with a focus on academic intervention strategies along with social services.

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The research that Farrington drew on didn't show any evidence of specific interventions changing a student's innate level of grit, but there was plenty of evidence that students» tendency to persevere at academic tasks was highly responsive to changes in school and classroom contexts.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

Focusing on the latest research dealing with environmental factors and non-cognitive skills (perseverance, attachment, relationships, etc.), this quick read provides insights on possible strategies and interventions which lead to greater academic and personal success.

I am constrained to make this final intervention on the impact of multiple and hugely divergent foreign exchange rates as well as unclear, unarticulated and confusing economic policy on foreign direct investment in response to our «academic» economist's long treatise of May 18, 2017 in this newspaper.

Speaking on the significant impact of Opon Imo since its introduction, Governor Aregbesola said since the advent of the electronic gadgets which serve as crucial educational intervention, the performance of students across the state have tremendously improved in terms of results and academic prizes.

«Spontaneous development has been recorded since the intervention of this technological initiative of our administration as our students results have improved through the academic tools being given to them, while their performance has been on the increase.

«Over the past decade we've been able to identify a growing number of educational interventions that have managed to have notable impacts on students» academic achievement as measured by standardized tests,» West says.

Researchers evaluated children's self - regulation and academic achievement before and after the intervention and found that children who had received the intervention scored significantly higher on two direct measures of self - regulation.

A family - centered, school - based intervention in pre-kindergarten programs developed at NYU Langone Medical Center, known as ParentCorps, has a positive and lasting impact on mental health and academic performance, according to new research published online October 3 in JAMA Pediatrics.

The UChicago team's NBER study concludes, «The impact of the pilot intervention reported in this paper are large enough to raise the question of whether the field has given up prematurely on the possibility of improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged youth.»

Naffziger, Richardson - Stovall, Williams, McGee, Beyond Mentoring — Academic Career Coaching as a Supplement to the Traditional Training of Biomedical PhD Students, 5th Annual Conference on Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Research Careers, May 2012

The two recent trials from Utrecht University tested the potential of positive psychological interventions on emotions and academic engagement among university students.

The effect of a health intervention on surrogate measures of risk is of only academic, nonclinical interest if the treatment does not reduce subsequent major health events such as the onset of diabetes, dementia, and CAD.

Academics say the results show intervention efforts should be aimed at preventing bullying behaviours full stop, instead of focusing on whether they happen online or offline.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Such interventions focus not on improving academic skills or knowledge, but on changing students» mindsets about learning — combating negative feelings, or increasing a sense of belonging, or reframing failure as an opportunity for improvement.

We also use our extra academic hours to provide targeted one - on - one and small group intervention for our students with special needs who are significantly behind grade levels in reading, and we offer additional hours of ESL instruction to our beginning ELL students.

Guest speakers — experts on prison abolitionism, cultural history, and gang intervention, as well as people who have left gang life to achieve extraordinary academic success — help augment the lesson.

During the first year of the ELT program, academic intervention courses focused on math skills since student performance data showed that all students needed support in math.

This tallies with a study by the Education Endowment Foundation last month, which said that: «Overall, studies of adventure learning interventions consistently show positive benefits on academic learning.

This review indicated that interventions have a substantial impact on a variety of outcomes, including aggression and disruption, social and emotional competence, school bonding, prosocial norms, disciplinary referrals, emotional distress, and academic achievement.

In the Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, you will explore the many risk and protective influences on child and adolescent development, and learn how to design strengths - based interventions that promote well - being across academic, social - emotional, and health domains.

Dr. Lombardi's strengths as principal at Garza ECHS include the development of a positive, collaborative school culture focused on college success, the academic empowerment of students, the implementation of a common instructional framework, and the enactment of systems - thinking for discipline, grading, scheduling and interventions.

On paper, RTI is a pro-active intervention model (not a program) that offers targeted academic support to struggling students.

In my experience at an urban no - excuses school, the rigid discipline and structures we put in place allowed us to focus on the urgent academic intervention that our students there desperately needed.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

We have two different interventions and what we're looking at is, on one arm, to see if delaying the school start time — starting lessons at 10 am versus 9 am — if that improves academic performance in GCSE exams (which people take in the UK when they're about 16).

Academic interventions should be built into their schedule from Day One on campus.

The study examined the two - year experimental impacts of an integrated school - based intervention in social - emotional learning and literacy development on children's social - emotional, behavioral, and academic functioning.

«Overall, studies of adventure learning interventions consistently show positive benefits on academic learning.

Interested in ethnic identity as well the impact of out - of - school interventions on the academic achievement of minority students.

the State designated performance level on a State elementary assessment in social studies administered prior to the 2010 - 2011 school year; provided that beginning in the 2010 - 2011 school year, at which time a State elementary assessment in social studies shall no longer be administered, a school shall provide academic intervention services when students are determined to be at risk of not achieving State learning standards in social studies pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph;

Cailin has developed school - based intervention programs and curriculum reforms in PreK — 12 settings, and her graduate work focused on student engagement, student academic coping, and teacher - student relationships.

Then, according to city officials, the multiple layers of academic supports included as part of the Renewal Schools plan, including professional development, on - site academic intervention specialists potential, and leadership and organizational changes, will help address outcomes.

«When you look at the annals of state intervention in local school districts across the country... there's virtually no track record, nor extant examples of states effectively turning around academic performance in local school districts until Lawrence arrived on the scene,» says Paul Reville, a professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

Beginning July 1, 2002 and every two years thereafter, each school district shall review and revise its description of academic intervention services based on student performance results; except that this requirement shall not apply to student performance results for the 2010 - 2011 school year, which shall be excluded from such review.

Based on performance criteria established by the commissioner, certain school districts may be required to submit their description of academic intervention services for specific schools to the department for review and approval.

Working with a partner organization known as Transforming Education, they selected the specific social - emotional skills on which to focus based on a review of evidence on the extent to which those skills are measurable, meaningfully predictive of important academic and life outcomes, and likely to be malleable through school - based interventions.

«The ultimate goal of the study is to further develop the existing literature on school outcomes for LGBT students of color, and to explore possible interventions that might address the existing gaps in academic achievement and mental health,» she says.

For example, a Stanford University study found that nudge interventions showed promise in helping learners and administrators develop a strong academic growth mindset founded on the belief that academic skills are not fixed and can be improved with effort.

Dr. Marchand - Martella is chair and professor of educational psychology at the University of Oklahoma, teaching classes in academic remediation with a focus on reading, writing, spelling, and mathematics interventions.

While some students choose to remain in academic interventions or afterschool activities, this allows teachers more time to plan lessons, take on professional development activities, and prepare for the week ahead.

The school has also appointed a pupil premium intervention assistant who has regular mentoring slots focusing on academic work and barriers to learning — making sure, for example, that each year 11 student has a revision timetable in place.

The briefing was based on a study LPI recently conducted with the National Education Policy Center and highlighted community schools — that is, schools that partner with local agencies to provide integrated academic, health, and social services to the community — as a school improvement approach that meets the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requirement for «evidence - based» interventions.

http://www.rti4success.org/ Implementing Response - To - Intervention at the School, District, and State Levels: Functional Assessment, Data - based Problem Solving, and Evidence - based Academic and Behavioral Interventions Howard M. Knoff, PhD This groundbreaking new resource from national expert Howard M. Knoff, PhD, represents the most comprehensive, up - to - date single - authored volume on RtI and published as an e-book to minimize cost and improve access.

See the Student Handbook for more details on the new Academic Intervention Plan (AIP) that is now in place.

When a student has been identified in need of intervention, the teacher takes on a clinical role to determine the best course of action, set strategic, academic goals and then progress monitor the student's movement within the set intervention.

The research described focuses on the role of automaticity in developing students» fluency and facility with basic academic facts, and is said to be a fourth - phase intervention.

This system is the practice of systematically and systemically providing differing levels of intensity of support based on student responsiveness to instruction and intervention in academics and behavior.