It's our job as designers of our learning spaces to be familiar with some of these key elements where we can make
a positive difference for student learning.
They explore complex contemporary issues and problems facing education and society — including issues of community - focused leadership development for high - poverty rural schools, college access and student success, sexual violence, cross cultural counseling, community college leadership, and state and institutional policies that affect children and adult learning — with a view toward solutions that will make a real,
positive difference for students, teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, and communities.
We at ConnectEd want to extend our sincerest appreciation to our supporters who are helping to shape the future of education in ways that make a powerful and
positive difference for students.
Their enthusiasm to participate with you to improve their learning environment will fuel your own passion to make
a positive difference for all students.
Not exact matches
«Government must be a force
for good,» Wynne averred; it must «mak (e) a
positive difference in the long and short term»: thus billions in promised infrastructure spending and the jobs that come with it; free tuition
for 150,000
students; and 100,000 more daycare spaces — all done «prudent (ly),» mind you, with a balanced budget to come in the spring.
Working in alignment with The Institute
for Functional Medicine and The Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, its mission is to encourage existing Health Coaches and potential
students to join the groundswell of Functional Medicine coaching globally, and to make a
positive difference in the lives of others.
Trafalgar, IN About Blog The Indiana FFA Organization is dedicated to making a
positive difference in the lives of
students by developing their potential
for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
And yet, when you look at the learning strategies the school embraces and you ask the faculty and
students what has made the most
positive difference for them, what you see and hear are not freighted with dollar signs.
This is a much more
positive and optimistic view of learners» capacities
for learning than past views that individuals differed markedly in their ability to learn and that part of the role of schools was to identify these
differences and to sort
students accordingly.
The report also noted that a
positive approach to behaviour support at school can make all the
difference for students on the autism spectrum.
A growing body of research suggests that college remediation programs — meant to bolster the skills of
students deemed underprepared
for the rigors of postsecondary study — seem to make very little
positive difference to
students, and may even have a negative effect on overall success in college.
Despite these
differences, the bulk of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher programs suggests that they do yield
positive achievement effects
for participating
students.
It can enable all
students to make a
positive difference in that world and to create a happy and flourishing life
for themselves.
Researchers identified a «consistent,
positive relationship between
student exposure to high - quality intellectual assignments and
students» learning gains on the test — even after controlling
for race, socioeconomic class, gender, and prior achievement
differences among classrooms.»
To eliminate the effects of any chance
differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account
students» age, gender, race, and eligibility
for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large
positive effect on
student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).
The good news is that teachers don't require extensive training to prepare them
for making a
positive difference in the lives of their grieving
students.
npower's Climate Cops resources, designed
for 4 to 7, 7 to 11 and 11 to 14 year olds, aim to engage
students in tackling the causes of climate change in a lively and stimulating way by making a
positive difference to the way they use and save energy.
GLSEN's research brief Laws that Prohibit the «Promotion of Homosexuality»: Impacts and Implications provides an examination of the
differences in the school environment
for LGBTQ
students between states with laws that prohibit the
positive portrayal of homosexuality in schools, known as «no promo homo» laws, and states without such laws.
Schools that educate
for democracy encourage
student voice, participation, leadership, and responsible decision - making, and they provide opportunities to make a
positive difference.
Teacher communicates and reinforces expectations
for positive student behavior and interactions between
students, including a respect
for individual, cultural, and linguistic
differences.
The coalition believes the Board took a
positive step by approving an increased level of ambition in new long - term goals and interim benchmarks, especially
for students who have traditionally had less opportunity to excel — children of color, those whose families have less income, English language learners and
students who are challenged by learning
differences.
As part of its vision to promote excellence in middle and high school leadership, NASSP, with financial support from a number of partners, annually recognizes principals, assistant principals, schools,
students, and advisers from across the country
for their leadership and
for making
positive, significant
differences in our schools and communities.
Allowing room
for diversity and
difference is
positive, and enhances the meaningfulness of
student involvement.
This comparison provides more
positive results than the recent Programme
for International
Student Assessment (PISA) findings, which has skeptics pointing to the
difference in countries compared — some countries compared in PISA analysis but not in TIMSS include Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and countries compared in the TIMSS assessment but not in PISA include Armenia, Botswana, Ghana, Iran, Kuwait, and Syria.
You will have the opportunity to explore the dat you've collected in your school in order
for you to plan actions that will make a
positive difference to the outcomes
for the
students in your school.
Years Two and Beyond: You will be fully prepared to work as a full - time teacher, making a
positive difference for countless
students over your lifetime.
While the majority of teachers, 57 percent, say Common Core will be
positive for most
students, a third don't think it will make a
difference.
Research indicates that holding high expectations can make a
positive difference for certain ethnic minority
students.
Started in 2004, the smART Honors Program is a Community Arts Initiative of the Jacqueline Casey Hudgens Center
for Art & Learning, with a goal to make measurable,
positive differences in the lives of Gwinnett County high school
students through intensive art education.
During that time, it has been immensely rewarding to see
students awaken to the possibilities of using design
for social good, to see the
difference that they can make in solving everyday problems by applying design thinking and skills to engender
positive change.
The Guide addresses topics of importance
for all lawyers and law
students, such as the
difference between
positive stress and distress, ways in which lawyers can thrive and achieve their full potential, managing secondary trauma in practice, and the relationship between values, ethics and wellbeing.
And if there are
differences, it allows the
students to discuss the merits of different approaches.117 Providing sample or model email responses
for students to review after class can allow
students to self - assess their work and to improve
for future email tasks.118 But
students may struggle to understand what separates the quality of their work from the quality reflected in the model.119 So giving
students multiple, annotated responses that highlight the
positive aspects of the model and giving
students the chance to review the model answers in groups can maximize the chances that
students can learn from model answers.120 And a checklist or grading rubric can be another useful tool — either
for the professor to effectively and efficiently assess
student learning outcomes or
for students to self - assess their own learning.121
Trafalgar, IN About Blog The Indiana FFA Organization is dedicated to making a
positive difference in the lives of
students by developing their potential
for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
Trafalgar, IN About Blog The Indiana FFA Organization is dedicated to making a
positive difference in the lives of
students by developing their potential
for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.