Sentences with phrase «reaching students more»

Gamifying the learning process reached students more effectively than the most dynamic lecture.

It enables and empowers educators to adapt and transform their lessons in order to reach students more powerfully.

Not exact matches

But more American students fell on the lowest end of the scale than in other nations: 17.8 percent did not reach basic proficiency versus 15.3 percent globally.

It's a problem that has reached record levels in this country, with more than $ 1.3 trillion in student loans outstanding.

Parents, students and teachers from South Florida, the state's Democratic stronghold, have been a forceful presence in the Capitol since last week, when busloads of Stoneman Douglas High students spent two days lobbying — and protesting — lawmakers, urging them to take more far - reaching action and ban all assault weapons.

As a teacher, should I write a textbook that might affect many more students or other teachers than I can reach individually?

Kathy: I am essentially the set of eyes that looks at student and staff leadership development and programming and staff supervision through the lens of multiethnicity so that InterVarsity's ministry more effectively reaches out to the diverse student populations on campuses across Illinois and Indiana.

During Abraham's time the school reached its peak and enrolment climbed to more than thousand students.

More and more groups connected with Christian colleges openly reach out to students with same - sex attractiMore and more groups connected with Christian colleges openly reach out to students with same - sex attractimore groups connected with Christian colleges openly reach out to students with same - sex attractions.

A Kaplan survey indicated that more than 80 percent of college admissions offices will reach out to and recruit students on Facebook — which means the people who are holding the keys to your academic future could be browsing your page.

I realized that I really thrive teaching yoga and sharing mindfulness practices with my students and that I could reach more people through online offerings.

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Learn how to gather, analyze, and compile breakfast data into a report that can be used to draw attention to areas of your state that could reach more low - income students with the School Breakfast Program.

He founded the company after tutoring multiple students in math every week, as a way to reach more students that required his help.

To date, more than 5,000 salad bars have been donated to schools nationwide, reaching 3 million students with healthy options at lunchtime.

Schools across the country are utilizing various locations and methods to reach more students and ensure every child starts their day with a balanced, nutritious breakfast.

We can always make our classes better, reach more students and better serve our current clients.

This year we hope to reach even more students, community groups and individuals.

In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.

The standards also increased the portion sizes of fruits and vegetables and required students to select at least 1 serving of fruits and / or vegetables.4 Because the National School Lunch Program reaches more than 31 million students each day in 99 % of US public schools and 83 % of private schools, the new standards have the potential to significantly and consistently affect the nutritional health of children.5

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

During my school food career, I also founded the Chef Ann Foundation (CAF), which has reached over 7,000 schools and more than 2.6 million students with healthy school food programming, including Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools, a grant program that has donated almost 5,000 salad bars to school cafeterias since 2010.

«StriveTogether's cradle to career network reaches 8 million students across the country and connects more than 10,000 organizations all in an effort to educate more students and educate them better,» Zimpher said.

Inspired by the students who survived the Florida shooting and are demanding more be done to keep high - powered guns out of the reach of killers, about 80 teenagers, mostly students and recent graduates of Clarence High School, gathered in a Clarence park to send a message: «Enough is enough.»

Kings County Politics article on Medgar Evers College reaching out for more Orthodox Jewish students, quoting BP Adams.

Statewide, more than 75 parochial schools have closed in just the last five years, and average tuition can reach as high as $ 8,500 per student annually.

As he prepares to make his pre-K pitch in Albany, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio released a report that says his plan to expand the program by taxing the rich would reach 53,000 students by September — more than 70 percent of the children who need it.

The Legislature today, led by the Assembly, reached an agreement on a package of education proposals that will immediately increase state aid to schools, provide that teachers are evaluated on more than a single student test score and ensure local oversight of struggling schools,» United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said.

In the interview, Rumore said reaching an agreement on teacher evaluations will require more than consensus on how to account for student absenteeism.

This year's event, which took place in Texas in February in conjunction with the AAAS Annual Meeting in Austin, brought 32 scientists into middle and high school classrooms across Austin, Dallas and Houston reaching more than 5,000 students — a significant jump from the 20 scientists who participated in Boston in 2017.

Kate Stoll, an NSF - based AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, said, «We know that graduate education affects graduate students and their lives more than anybody else, so we want to create more opportunities for them to reach out to us.»

Their mechanical properties actually reach close to those of fiber composites, which are far more laborious to prepare,» says PhD student Paramita Das.

Unlike schools, which grow increasingly segregated and involve more individual instruction as children grow older, afterschool programs are spaces where instructors, often similar to the students in age and background, can facilitate diverse, productive interactions that help youth reach social and academic goals.

The fact is that many disabled students don't even reach the point at which they could benefit from the cornucopia of unbiased grant money, but more diversity in research personnel only means a broader scope of research approaches and results.

Yet games alone will not make schools more efficient, replace teachers or serve as an educational resource that can reach an infinite number of students, he adds.

The authors replicated the approach with a separate sample of 289 Facebook users, containing fewer students and more males than the first sample, and they reached the same conclusions.

After hearing many teachers say that they did not encourage their students to apply to institutions like ICL because they saw it as beyond reach, Richards decided to encourage state schools to «do more to push their students to aim for the top.»

The 20 - mile trip took more than two days, leading mules, professors and students 3,000 feet up and over a high alpine plateau and down several thousand feet into a valley, where they slowly weaved their way along a river in the direction of a boulder field until they finally reached the glacier's base.

If our summer camp can teach chemistry, history, foreign languages, and more using interactive fiction, I think schools can use stories to better reach their students and engage them in learning.

In Baltimore, the program runs in 45 schools (36 of them Baltimore City public schools), reaching more than 4,000 students a year.

More importantly, FOSS is adopted in 50 of the 100 largest urban school districts where FOSS reaches large populations of under - served students.

Prepare to skyrocket your knowledge, ability to attract and retain students, and the power to lead big - picture workshops, retreats, immersions and trainings, to reach more people more deeply — and set yourself free financially and professionally.

Give to Bent On Learning to allow for more students to receive the benefits of yoga during the school day, giving them tools to regulate their minds and bodies and to reach their potential.

More than the physical work, the teachers are incredibly helpful and they always let students know that they're committed to helping them reach their goals.

She finds it exhilarating to see her students reach their fitness goals; become more mobile, flexible and aware of how movement can enhance their overall well - being ~ physically, spiritually and emotionally.

She continues to spread the companies message and jewelry line in hopes of helping more high school students reach their dreams of attending college through the The Shine Scholarship Project and to become the future leaders of tomorrow.

It is a field enriched by active discussion group lists like Kinema Club (6) which reach out for numerous motivated students of Japanese cinema worldwide, and, no less importantly, by the fact that there are more academic positions held by Japanese film specialists than ever before.

For many low - income students, economic trends are making the prospect of getting into the college of their choice, and reaching graduation, even more difficult.

And if that is the approach taken by schools, then she's right to question the validity of making more of a push for technology in schools, to fall in line with President Obama's call to prepare students for an «increasingly competitive world,» through «a free and open internet» that «extend [s] its reach to every classroom and community.»

If they combine the smart use of those tools with equally smart investments in teacher and leader effectiveness, the goal of having every student succeed will start to seem less like the horizon line we can't reach and more like the finish line we can.