Sentences with phrase «reaching urban high school»

His passion for reaching urban high school students through innovative teaching practices led to his receiving the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching in 2011.

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Many urban educators complained that the large high school was simply too big to work and too impersonal to reach every child, much less hundreds of children.

Seidel knew he had similarly reached other students, but by the time he departed eight years later after funding was cut, South Boston High School was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuSchool was left with one visual arts teacher for an urban school comprising about 900 stuschool comprising about 900 students.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

A high - poverty urban district with 28 percent English language learners and more than 50 home languages spoken throughout the district, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) in California was looking for new ways to reach these diverse families.

These students are reaching the halfway mark in their teacher education programs and one of my most important goals is to create a sense of energy and motivation as they — for the first time — take on the responsibility of working with small groups and organizing instruction for whole classrooms of students in Milwaukee's high needs urban schools.

I plan to spend my career teaching in urban, high - need schools because I believe that inspired and inspiring teachers have the potential to reach high - risk students in high - need areas.