Sentences with phrase «school curricular programming»

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Curricular innovation — the heart of a dynamic business school — requires a variety of investments in program development to maximize the intellectual capital generated throughout the University's academic community.

The school is known for offering many extra curricular activities, such as an exceptional Band, Dance, Rock Band, and Art program.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

The money could also be used to pay for some extra curricular public school programs.

Cuomo, in the remaining days of the session, is pressing for one of the items in his education initiatives: a tax credit for big money donors to send students to private schools and pay for extra curricular programs for public schools.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Possible Futures, Possible Selves, its new program for middle school students, provides open - source curricular modules for middle school teachers to download and use centered around skills for success and looking toward the future.

First, we offer three curricular strands for our Ed.M program: a Counseling Strand to prepare you for a career in school counseling; a Prevention Practice strand that prepares you to work in or out of schools as a teacher, youth development advocate; and a Prevention Researcher strand that prepares you develop research skills to be used in a variety of settings.

What does this imply for the school's leadership, curricular and co-curricular programs, and professional development?

Project Citizen, a curricular program at the middle school through adult levels promoting competent and responsible participation with government.

The school will also run a K - 12 STEM program involving curricular and co-curricular experiential learning opportunities.

As an educator, I have written and revamped curriculum within both the IB and U.S. curricular frameworks and have enjoyed collaborating with other educational foundations such as the TED Foundation, Bavarian International School and New Mexico State University in developing arts education programs and workshops.

No student shall be denied membership or participation, on the basis of race, sex, marital status, color, religion, national origin or disability, in any program or activity which is included in a school program of curricular or extracurricular activities, provided that:

«Not only will this format give school systems the flexibility to use an assessment that reflects their curricular program, but also it will reinforce the kinds of content - rich academic instruction Louisiana wants to encourage statewide,» said State Superintendent John White.

How does sheltered English instruction intersect with school initiatives, curricular programs, and professional development plans?

Assuming that all students leave high school fully fluent in English, these considerations suggest that the optimal choice of language acquisition program depends on a tradeoff between acquiring curricular skills on the one hand and accumulating language deficits on the other.

NJ explained in its round 3 Race to the Top application that all curricular programs in state schools will be aligned to the Common Core by this school year and that the 70 priority schools and many of the over 150 focus schools will use the NJ Model Curriculum and assessments, which in fact are just the Common Core repackaged.

Stein objected to a provision in the proposed legislation that would enable charter schools, which are public but not subject to the same curricular standards or oversight rules as traditional public schools, to share in the funds reimbursed to local public schools for their support of the federal school lunch program.

Superintendent Wauters reported that while the district retained control over aspects of school operations, the state has mandated many new programs and curricular initiatives.

Studying elementary schools in Arizona, Smith (1991) found other negative effects of testing on teachers: «Testing programs substantially reduce the time available for instruction, narrow curricular offerings and modes of instruction, and potentially reduce the capacities of teachers to teach content and to use methods and materials that are incompatible with standardized testing formats» (p. 8).

School divisions and teachers can use the Enhanced Scope and Sequence as a resource for developing sound curricular and instructional programs.

Starting in 1999, schools in Quebec implemented an ambitious curricular & instructional program at all schools in the province.

School Divisions should use the Curriculum Framework as a resource for developing sound curricular and instructional programs.

The instructional leadership team will build upon this model to strengthen the school's curricular and instructional programs, and provide opportunities for all students to be highly successful learners.

North Carolina's private schools that participate in the school voucher program are free to hire untrained people to teach, are not required to be accredited or meet any curricular requirements and do not have to share details of their budget or governing body with the state or public.

Conversely, transparency and accountability is something we don't have for our our nascent school voucher program, which is scheduled to shift up to $ 1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the next ten years to private schools that are not required to adhere to any curricular standards or assess students in a way that is comparable to public schools.

Sustaining our democratic values and improving our education system call for a host of more coordinated and widespread education, economic, and housing policies — including policies to raise curricular standards, tackle insufficient funding for schools with a large share of low - income students, promote access to education resources from early childhood to college, improve dual language programs, provide economic support for families, and create more integrated schools and neighborhoods.

Still, if a district uses the program to parallel the main curricular materials, it has the potential to bring mildly disabled students to a parallel place with typically developing students by middle school.

Friendship Public Charter School intends to enter into sole source contracts with Project Lead The Way (PLTW) a leading provider of rigorous and innovative Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education curricular programs used in middle and high schools across the U.S..

Families In Schools (FIS) develops culturally - relevant parent curricular programs from birth to college, designed to engage families in the education of their children.

This in - depth guide to 25 evidence - based programs — aimed at elementary schools and OST providers — offers information about curricular content and programmatic features that practitioners can use to make informed choices about their SEL programs.

This book will also serve as a useful guide for educators providing concrete strategies, curricular - based programs, and perspectives that can be integrated into school life — inside and outside the classroom.

All of a sudden in a resource - strapped public school system like mine, I could take IB and AP classes, take courses in philosophy and economics, participate in foreign exchange programs, study Arabic and Chinese, and choose from an impressive suite of extra curricular activities.

Eligible participants (North Carolina traditional and charter public school teachers in their first three years of experience) can apply to the program by submitting basic information about their teaching experience and level of curricular and instructional support, and submitting a personal statement describing what they hope to achieve by participating in the network.

Such programs can take many forms, including specialized charter schools; «blended learning» schools in which students take accelerated online courses that supplement traditional, teacher - based instruction; curricular plans that allow students to graduate in fewer than 13 years; and «early college» high schools and «dual enrollment» programs in which they can simultaneously take high - school and college courses.

School staff worked closely with us to ensure a focus on STEM as a curricular program that integrates concepts across core content areas and electives.

Specific provisions included scholarships and loans to students in higher education, with loans to students preparing to be teachers and to those who showed promise in the curricular areas of mathematics, science, engineering, and modern foreign languages; grants to states for programs in mathematics, science, and modern foreign languages in public schools; the establishment of centres to expand and improve the teaching of languages; help to graduate students, including fellowships for doctoral students to prepare them to be professors at institutions of higher learning; assistance for the improvement of guidance, counseling, and testing programs; provisions for research and experimentation in the use of television, radio, motion pictures, and related media for educational purposes; and the improvement of statistical services at the state level.

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Since coming to Chicago in 2010, first as a graduate student and then as Assistant Director of Exhibition's at the School of the Art Institute's Department of Exhibitions and Exhibitions Studies, Ross expanded curricular exhibitions on the campus and transformed graduate and undergraduate led exhibitions and programs into research driven and collaborative experiences.

Modern curricular changes include the consolidation of the School of Engineering's interdisciplinary engineering (IDE) major and BSE program, after faculty reviews of the two programs yielded votes of no confidence and concerns of limited support.

The Carnegie Foundation issued its book - length report, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Report) in 2007.1 Although there have been numerous responses to it, relatively few have engaged it with any degree of critical analysis.2 Law schools across the country have enthusiastically mentioned the Carnegie Report in connection with curricular changes intended to «prepare» students, in the words of the Report, for the practice of law.3 Mostly these changes amount to adding clinical options or even clinical requirements, adding units to legal writing programs, and updating professional responsibility courses.

Indeed, the pace of globalization among American law schools has become a flashpoint for institutional competition, with numerous institutions jockeying to lay claim to leadership in this arena.5 Not surprisingly, the case for globalization has spawned a variety of explicit proposals for curricular reform.6 These include proposals for both significantly expanding transnationally focused upper - level electives7 and incorporating transnational legal issues into the traditional domestic curriculum, 8 including first - year programs.9

Another extremely productive use of social science in legal educational reform is emerging from programs designed to help law schools assess their own progress.27 Indiana, for example, tracks both its innovative first - year curricular innovations and its novel forms of law student assessment.

L. Rev. 135, 151 — 171 (1987)(calling for more «critical reading and writing» in the law school curriculum); Pamela Lysaght & Cristina D. Lockwood, Writing - Across - the - Law - School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, school curriculum); Pamela Lysaght & Cristina D. Lockwood, Writing - Across - the - Law - School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, School - Curriculum: Theoretical Justifications, Curricular Implications, 2 J. ALWD 73 (2004)(using composition theory as part of the basis for a writing - across - the - law - school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, school - curriculum program); Teresa Godwin Phelps, The New Legal Rhetoric, 40 Sw.

Law schools and legal writing programs have long embraced composition theory as a basis for program innovations and curricular design.1 Furthermore, legal scholars have noted the importance of individualized instruction and the benefits produced by student conferences.2 Nevertheless, few law schools offer a peer - staffed writing center as part of the legal writing program.

«Law school innovation occurs both in the curricular activities of the school as well as in the practice related projects and programs they pursue,» the Center's website says.

The successful candidate also will contribute to the School of Law's curriculum and student success through additional teaching obligations; these additional obligations will be determined based on the School of Law's curricular needs and the successful candidate's interests and skills, and may include academic support programming, intercession courses, skills team coaching, etc..

Are students with additional needs fully included in all curricular and co-curricular programs (school clubs, student council and so on), wherever possible?

Both parents are entitled to participate in and attend all special activities in which their children are engaged, such as religious activities, school programs, sports events and other extra curricular activities and programs.

The KITS School Readiness Group Implementation Manual provides the curricular elements of the program as well as detailed information on the teaching and behavior management processes used within the program.