Sentences with phrase «on academic success with»

Balance emphasis on academic success with interest in other areas of your child's development.

Not exact matches

... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

They may not get everyone they target, but with the arrow fully pointing upward based on last years success and the last few recruiting cycles, as well as, the school remaining a very impressive academic institution, they sky is the limit on the recruiting trail.

The award recognizes the school in the Big East with the best performances by their student athletes in academics and citizenship in addition to success on the various fields of play.

Responding to an increase in academic and emotional problems among kids in the United States, experts in child and adolescent well - being convened at Stanford University in July 2007 to envision a coordinated approach to helping schools and families develop alternative success models to align with research on healthy child development.

Although here we have been focusing on studies conducted with tweens, self - discipline continues to be important for academic and career success well beyond the tween years.

Hsu insists that there are «a variety of studies conducted on the effects of homework in the elementary grades and not one of them could provide any evidence that directly links traditional homework practices with current, or even future, academic success.»

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

And, with these easy - to - follow instructions, your child will be well on their way to academic success!

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.

Along with their academic report cards, students at KIPP Infinity in New York City also receive character report cards that assess them on 24 character traits linked to success.

Tips on quick but healthy breakfast ideas have been included as well as references to the research that supports academic success with a healthy breakfast.

HFA shows impacts on academic success, with fewer children retained in first grade or receiving special education services.

Their sportsmanship, coupled with the outstanding academic program at St. Catherine's, will keep our national champions on a path for success,» said Senator Jeff Klein.

Their sportsmanship, coupled with the outstanding academic program at St. Catherine's, will keep our national champions on a path for success,»

The proposed E-Bacc will measure success based on five academic subjects with no recognition given to the arts, IT or vocational subjects.

«With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&raWith record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&rawith homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&rawith Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.»

This means that while I am pursuing an academic career with commitment and passion, I am also aware that that the odds are stacked against our generation of young scholars and that success and failure depend on more than our personal effort.

But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful Indian plant breeder has in common with an equally first - rate American cell biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.

Crowded situations, classroom discussion topics, on - campus accidents, such as someone having a seizure, can trigger traumatic memories and interfere with classroom integration and academic success.»

Peter Gloor, Pierre Dorsaz, Hauke Fuehres and Manfred Vogel of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, in Cambridge, Massachusetts have compared the success of startup entrepreneurs and innovators with their activity on the social networking sites LinkedIn and Facebook as well as email networks including swissnex Boston, which acts as a US - based science and technology outpost to connect Swiss and US entrepreneurs and academics.

On a recent Saturday in May, 36 students from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and their families came to the Ed School to be recognized for their participation in BPS» 10 Boys Initiative, a program aimed at «providing boys of color with the encouragement and support they need to achieve personal and academic success.»

Edutopia.org recently checked in with a few staff members and students to record the first semester's successes and to identify some lingering challenges in building a secondary school whose academics and culture rely largely on technology.

Its explicit goal is increasing college enrollment by combining an emphasis on factors proven to bolster academic success (high expectations, parental involvement, time spent on instruction) with a novel focus on developing seven character strengths — zest, grit, self - control, optimism, curiosity, gratitude, and social intelligence.

The foundation of these relationships is unconditional positive regard for each student, the belief that every student is worthy of care and that worth is not contingent on anything — not compliance with rules, not good behavior, not academic success.

While there is no «magic bullet» that can explain Match's success, many point to a unique feature of the school: a built - in corps of highly educated tutors who live on the school premises and provide students with intense academic support throughout the school day.

Even if educators manage to skate past the dizzying array of standards and value - added evaluations, they must still contend with this fundamental divide: academic rigor, with its unflinching emphasis on measurable success, seems strangely at odds with emotional intelligence, a soufflé of moods and feelings.

«I have been privileged to work with some of the brightest college students, yet it pains my heart to see so many students foreclose on college for a slew of reasons,» he says, expressing his commitment to improving college readiness, retention rates, and academic success, as well as striving to create more equitable systems for all students.

Following is a look at some of the academic success programs Boys & Girls Clubs have place to provide all youth with the support, resources and opportunities they need to ensure they are on the path to pursue their dreams.

As research linking physical fitness to academic success continues to emerge, teachers such as Mitsui are coming up with creative ways to keep kids active during teaching time, instead of relying on recess and those ever - dwindling PE hours.

In a separate report, a council of 28 scientists called on schools to focus on SEL, making the argument that student success is tied not only to academic ability and cognitive skills (such as working memory and self - regulation) but also to emotional skills (such as the ability to cope with frustration) and interpersonal skills (including empathy and the ability to resolve conflict).

We asked them to identify students with a wide range of prior academic success, and we concentrated on students from backgrounds that reflected the typical urban public school.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Then, each master's program director, in consultation with faculty and staff, selected the final honoree for their program based on the nominations, as well as demonstrated academic success.

Of course, as with so many other arenas, America finds itself hard put to keep up with some other countries» success at significantly raising the levels of academic achievement on the part of the high school graduate.

Michele Caracappa, Success Academy's Chief Academic Officer, shared these thoughts with her staff on Sunday.

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A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

Establishes a system of meaningfully differentiating all public schools on an annual basis that is based on all indicators in the State's accountability system and that, with respect to achievement, growth or the other academic indicator for elementary and middle schools, graduation rate, and progress in achieving English language proficiency, affords: Substantial weight to each such indicator; and, in the aggregate, much greater weight than is afforded to the indicator or indicators of school quality or student success.

Long's research concentrates on the transition from high school to college and beyond, with a special focus on issues related to academic success and affordability.

The adult culture of academic success could prevail more easily if the adults were better connected with each other by seeing each other on a regular basis at church.

A concept paper inviting community - based organizations to partner with the New York City Department of Education (DOE) noted the approach «is based on a growing body of evidence» showing that «an integrated focus» on academics, health and social services, and other community supports are «critical to improving student success.»

As a principal of an elementary school with steadily increasing numbers of economically disadvantaged students, I have seen a shift in focus on academic as well as systemic strategies in our approach to student success.

As increasing focus is put on college and career readiness, we're working hard to better understand the evolving landscape and adapt to ensure that we are providing students with the opportunity to learn academic and fundamental skills like teamwork, critical thinking, and problem - solving in order to achieve success in credit - bearing two - or four - year colleges or workforce training programs.

English is introduced gradually into the curriculum, and all students receive high - quality instruction centered on academic success through the integration of the Spanish and English language instruction with the goal for students to become bi-literate by fifth grade.

As a vast body of research now makes clear, young people's success in school, college, the workplace, and the rest of life depends not just on their mastery of core academic content and skills but also — and often to a greater degree — on their beliefs and attitudes, personal dispositions, relationships, emotional intelligence, creativity, nutrition, mental health, knowledge about college and work opportunities, financial resources, willingness to engage with new people and cultures, openness to new experiences, and more.

This research - based program focuses on the premise of PLAN, TEACH, REFLECT, APPLY, with teachers examining their own classroom practice for the goal of student academic success.

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

Maintaining and sustaining a dialogue on the importance of education with parents is also critical to the success of your classroom, as well as a key to student progress and academic success.