Sentences with phrase «on over the course of the school year»

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According to a 2011 report from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, people with just a high school diploma earn an average of $ 32,600 a year, which adds up to $ 1,304,000 over the course of their time in the workforce.

What if your church or youth group or school worked on matching every dollar you spent on your one - week trip to send down to the place you served over the course of the year?

During the summer, teachers are either teaching summer school for a meager amount of money over what they earn during the school year, or they are paying money for continuing improvement courses that they can not afford on their teacher's salary.

From the tens of thousands of e-mails I have received over the last six years [now 14], from my conversations with mothers all across the country, including the mothers of many Olympic athletes, I believe that, first, and foremost, the vast majority of mothers (and many fathers, of course) just want to make youth sports fun again, to know that everything possible is being done to protect their children from injury and abuse and given a chance to play until they graduate high school; that if it is no longer safe for our children to learn baseball or soccer on their own on the neighborhood sandlot, the organized sports program in which we enroll our child - the «village» - will protect them and keep them safe while they are entrusted to their care.

«Justice Atuguba has seniority over me because instead of continuing straight from the fourth year as we used to call it, of law school, to the fifth year which is the professional year or rather the final part of the professional course, I broke and went to do my master's so when I came back they — my first classmates — had already been called to the bar so I was called to the bar with Ato Dadzie and that younger generation,» she told parliament's Appointment Committee on Friday, 16 June when Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu asked her to clarify to the committee whether she or Justice Atuguba was senior to the other.

Watson School students are integrated into CSHL's own scientific community of over 350 researchers, and interact with the more than 8,000 scientists who visit CSHL each year to participate in meetings and courses on the latest scientific research and developments their fields.

In addition to saving 42 million gallons of water over the course of the year, the school had $ 42,000 more in its pocket by the end of the experiment — which it plans to spend on more locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, and organic pastured beef.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG for crude humor and mild epithets) Combination live action / animated comedy based on Jeff Kinney's illustrated children's novel of the same name chronicling the misadventures of a wisecracking, junior high school student (Zachary Gordon) and his best friend (Robert Capron) over the course of a very eventful academic year.

A review of curriculum resources at one particular school revealed that on average, a student would complete as many as 6,000 «do nows» over the course of a single year.

Work done on the board can be saved on the computer and emailed, which, over the course of the school year, can mean a significant reduction in paper handouts.

Do these results reflect the cumulative effect of more sunlight over the course of the entire school year, or do they just reflect alertness on the day of the exam?

Over the last two years or so we've shared research and practical advice for the classroom through our series on School Improvement, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Global Education and, of course, The Research Files --- and we've thrown in a few special episodes for good measure!

For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to hold them accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing schools over the course of five years.

That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

The statistics come from 2,901 state schools in England over the course of four years and shows that the biggest shift on the tables come from 62 schools in London.

So, over the course of probably 10 - 12 years now I've looked to pick up on those people externally that can help us and some of those examples have been, the common one that a lot of people would know in Australia is the Scientists in Schools program, whereby scientists from universities or in professional practice make a link with the school and we've had a couple of scientists from the University of Wollongong, which is just down the road from us, come in and run workshops and sessions with students on bacteria and biology - type aspects.

On average, students taking their GCSEs in 2015 had # 57,000 spent on them over the course of their schooling career between reception and year 1On average, students taking their GCSEs in 2015 had # 57,000 spent on them over the course of their schooling career between reception and year 1on them over the course of their schooling career between reception and year 11.

Over the past eight years, my survey course on Politics and Education in the U.S. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education came to resemble an Internet café more than a classroom, with a laptop perched on nearly every student's desk.

Students aged 6 - 15 lead their own projects over the course of a school year, focusing on problems affecting their own communities.

Based on our main specification, teachers work roughly two fewer hours than other professionals during a typical workweek and about 94 percent as many hours as other professionals over the course of a school year.

A teacher committee investigated the idea, visited other schools, collected research information, and presented its findings to the entire faculty on several occasions over the course of the school year.

A study by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) finds that over the course of three years, Texas charter school students on average gained the equivalent of 17 more days of reading instruction per year than their district school peers.

Drawing inspiration from dozens of interviews conducted over the course of a two - year period, Lawrence - Lightfoot focuses on the experiences of 11 individuals in particular, including an Iranian teenager forced to flee political strife and come to America alone, a middle - aged gay man and his coming out, a bullied child whose parents take him out of school, and a psychotherapist who guides abuse victims in an effort to finally «terminate» therapy.

Acknowledgments Preface T he concept is simple and attractive: Evaluate teachers on the basis of how much academic growth their students experience over the course of the school year.

Also encourage them to talk about why they think this is, touching on relevant events and developments over the course of the school year.

iObservation provides professional development for instructional leaders over the course of six sessions, spread over one or two years depending on district and school needs.

Guzey and Roehrig observed four beginning secondary science teachers» technology integration over the course of one school year after the teachers had attended a summer PD focused on technology integration in secondary science.

As I reflect on important national developments in education over the course of this current school year I have conflicting pictures in my mind.

The SAC met four times over the course of the 2016 - 2017 school year and selected seven key topics that the SAC feels can be changed or improved in the DC education system.The proposals submitted by the SAC focused on graduation requirements, security, access to humanities and civic engagement courses, hall sweeps, food and nutrition, grading systems, and student socialization.

Advocates are planning a broader campaign over the course of the year focused on leveling the playing field for public charter school students.

Across that period, charter schools statewide consistently provided greater academic growth than their district peers: on average, charter students over the course of the study saw the equivalent of 34 additional days in reading and 63 in math each year.

Magnolia's study revealed that Achieve3000 users did significantly better over the course of the school year and performed better than students in the control group on the GMRT - 4.

Use the topics separately over the course of a school year for inservice teachers, with each session focusing on a particular aspect of fostering reading success.

Other activities in which teacher candidates engaged have engaged in my courses are attending webinars hosted by the National Council of Geography Education on integrating online maps into pedagogical practice, using Google Earth ™ to create flyovers and virtual fieldtrips, retrieving and analyzing remotely sensed imagery of our town and university to visualize how these places had changed and developed over the years, using various functions in Google Maps ™, and reviewing school demographic and testing data in preparation for instructional planning.

Under the new system, principals are required to spend from 60 to 90 minutes in a teacher's classroom annually, depending on a teacher's experience — meaning for veteran teachers, principals must conduct four 15 - minute observations over the course of the school year.

The critical factors are the careful preparation of the course by a gifted teacher and pupils, the trust built up between our schools over several years, the successful delivery of the course and the availability of our sixth - formers and the partner schools» Year 8s on Friday afternoons.

Over the course of the large - scale, 3 - year research study, more than 200 fourth - grade teachers from more than 80 schools will receive training on practices to improve reading and social studies knowledge, reaching more than 5,000 students.

Over the course of eight years, Stacey helped develop Public Prep from a standalone charter school to a network serving more than 1,500 students in grades PreK - 8th across six campuses in roles centered on staff recruitment, external relations, and development.

NYCLA can work with your district to determine the number of coaching hours over the course of the school year based on your needs.

I draw on research conducted over the course of a year spent with a group of high school youth as I facilitated youth participatory action research (YPAR).

As a general rule, conservatives who work on K - 12 education tend to embrace high - stakes tests that are designed to assess what students have and have not learned over the course of a school year.

Considering even students with a relatively short, 20 - minute commute can spend hundreds of hours on the school bus over the course of the school year.

While many of our students arrive at their first day of school many years behind on academic achievement measures, over the course of their tenure at a school, students should close the gap between their own achievement profile and that of a college - ready student profile.

Jon Mueller, a psychology professor at North Central College in Illinois, says that portfolios can be easy to manage and offers some tips for items to include in what he calls «no - fuss» portfolios: Have students select a piece or two of their work over the course of a quarter, semester or year; at the time of each selection, have the student write a brief reflection on the item, as well as why she included it; and, at the end of the quarter, semester or school year, ask students to reflect again on each item.

Although her class makes great progress over the course of the year, taking on increasingly challenging writing tasks, Mrs. R. continues to revisit basics, such as letter names and sounds, sentence punctuation and capitalization, possessives and apostrophes, throughout the school year.

In studies of a first - grade ESL class where writing improved substantially over the course of a school year, Yedlin (2003, 2004) observed the first two characteristics above, but also noted that the ESL teacher provided students with feedback on both content and form.

It looks at the academic growth of students over the course of a year, whether schools are paying attention to chronically absent students, and, at the high schools, the focus is on graduation rates and access to advanced courses.

The letter grade is based 80 percent on the school's achievement score (which uses various data including student performance on end - of - grade and end - of - course standardized test scores) and 20 percent on students» academic growth (a measure of students» performance in relation to their expected performance based on the prior year's test results), resulting in a grade of A, B, C, D, or F. «Low - performing districts» are those with over 50 percent of their schools identified as low - performing.

It seems to me that consistently front - loading a charter school's enrollment only to see it shrink over the course of the year, thereby back - loading enrollment at public schools, could also allow fiscal shenanigans wherein, if less money is spent on students on average at the beginning of the year (say, no building heating costs or payments for school trips or assessments that occur later on in the year), then the charter school can effect a profit on students who later in the year transfer out of the school.