Sentences with phrase «school years contributing»

Training and practice drills for staff and students are held throughout the school year contribute to our preparedness for potential crisis events.

Including earlier levels of behavior problems as a control provides a clearer picture of how family conflict experienced during the early school years contributes to the level of behavior problems children manifest as they approach middle childhood.

Not exact matches

Foreign students contributed $ 24 billion to the U.S. economy during the 2012 - 2013 school year, 12 % more than the previous year, according to trade group NAFSA, the Association of International Educators.

A 529 plan allows a parent to contribute up to $ 14,000 a year — $ 28,000 for a couple — for certain types of school, including college and elementary through high school costs.

Schools change their essay questions every year, but you can generally expect to be asked about why you want to pursue an MBA and how your past experiences will contribute to your future.

I have worked with Dutch - Canadians for nearly thirty years, and they have told stories of how the Christian churches and schools defied the demands of the Nazi occupation authorities and contributed to the resistance movement.

The next year, Pickens contributed another $ 100 million the academic arm of the school.

It really wasn't until I went to LAC last year that I began to truly comprehend just how much passion, dedication and resources so many people have contributed to the foundation, to pave the way for future generations of school nutrition workers.

Over the past fifty years, schools stopped cooking from scratch and switched to highly processed heat - and - serve food, heavy in salt, fat, and sugar, which has contributed to rising rates of childhood obesity and chronic illness.

These unhealthy habits contribute to the United States» abysmal childhood obesity statistics, but such habits start earlier than kids» high school years.

This year, during National School Lunch Week, we recognize the vital importance of this historic program, and we recommit to serving meals that will contribute to the health and well - being of a new generation.

Every parent paying # 30,000 per year at Eton would be contributing # 6000 to the pupil premium, still leaving a hefty # 24,000 to be spent on the best schooling that money can buy.

Last year, I was asked to contribute to an extra curricular activity at my child's high school.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

With Skelos and Cuomo on the same page, teachers unions will no doubt continue to point to the wealthy backers of charter schools who have contributed heavily to the governor's re-election campaign as well as independent expenditure campaigns backing Republican Senate candidates last year.

Diane Hosterman, HACA Director, said, «Thank you to everyone who contributed to the Empty Bowls event last year, including potters, sponsors, churches, schools, volunteers, and everyone who purchased a ticket.

He served on the Community Board for over thirty years and donated and contributed to various local schools, churches, the NYPD, the Police Athletic League's baseball and softball leagues and the Dominican Chamber of Business.

He's contributed to an ugly atmosphere: Last year, seven high - school students who'd allegedly been «hunting» for Hispanics were arrested for the stabbing murder of an Ecuadoran man.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducts the survey on a nationally representative sample of high schoolers every two years to monitor six types of health - risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disability and social problems among U.S. youths.

Physical inactivity contributes to an estimated 5.3 million deaths each year, similar to the number of deaths attributed to tobacco use and obesity, said James F. Sallis, PhD, UC San Diego School of Medicine Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health.

According to new research out of the University of Edinburgh, two big contributing factors to longevity include education (each year of school added a year of life in this particular experiment) and maintaining a healthy weight.

She writes for and has contributed to outlets such as Film School Rejects, Film Journal International, Time Out New York, Indiewire, RogerEbert.com and Movie Mezzanine, among others, and covers various film festivals throughout the year including the New York Film Festival, Sundance and Telluride.

One example for how teachers can contribute to making this year the best school year ever for a child is through an idea I named «Study History — Don't Live It.»

In this study, I examine data on all elementary - school students in certain years in New York City and Denver, Colorado, to estimate the relative importance of various factors that appear to be contributing to a special education gap.

Drawing on a six - year study that closely followed more than one thousand high - achieving fifth - and sixth - grade African - American, Latino, Indochinese, and Caucasian students, Bempechat uncovers the family and school practices and attitudes that contribute to high achievement in at - risk children.

In this title, Lisa Delpit, whose previous book — the acclaimed yet controversial Other People's Children — was published 16 years ago, delves into the school factors that have contributed to the achievement gap.

Having worn most hats in education at one point or another in the past seven years, Tim O'Brien decided to go back to school to determine how he might contribute to the field in the future.

When studying the pattern of charter school enrollment across the country, we took into account how each of three factors contributes to or retards charter school growth: per pupil expenditures (also measured during the 1989 — 90 school year), length of time a charter law was on the books, and degree of permissiveness of each state's charter school law, as measured by the CER index.

School district employers contribute 17.45 percent of each teacher's salary (and that figure is scheduled to rise to more than 20 percent in the coming years).

Each year for the past thirty years, Ravenna students have contributed their labor and management in lieu of rent for an 80 - acre tract of pastureland owned by the school district.

We don't learn of any other factors at the school that may have contributed to the gains, nor do we know how those students will fare next year and the next.

Last year, in Mixing Literacy with Innovation, myself and my colleague Matthew Cunnane explained how incorporating a book publishing program into our high school English program has contributed to an increase in student engagement levels.

Indeed, by removing some of the most talented students and involved parents from P.S. 121, the busing program contributed to the school's severe decline in quality in the ensuing years — a pattern repeated in many urban schools with low - income, minority student populations.

Although among the group only Utzinger had any prior fundraising experience, they decided to issue a «cohort challenge» to their Ed.D. peers with the goal of convincing every member of the first - year cohort — 32 in total — to contribute to the HGSE Fund, which seeks to raise resources for many areas of the Ed School including financial aid, Gutman Library, and faculty and student support services.

McCartney told them that if every student and graduate of the school contributed $ 25 each year, the school would meet its annual fund goals.

Price: The Annenberg Institute for School Reform issued a study a year or so ago that documented that constructive community organizing can contribute to improved student performance, strengthened support for better qualified teachers, and heightened school - community School Reform issued a study a year or so ago that documented that constructive community organizing can contribute to improved student performance, strengthened support for better qualified teachers, and heightened school - community school - community trust.

For Fritts, who teaches history at Trinity - Pawling School in upstate New York and helps run Camp Arcadia in Maine each summer, the motivation to contribute each year is born of the strong relationships he developed at the Ed School.

Non-Fiction Has Character With Biography Blitz For the last three years, Lake Park (Georgia) Elementary School has met AYP goals and been named a Distinguished Title I School, and Teresa Parkerson, an academic coach, believes that the Biography Blitz has contributed greatly to the schools success.

The question I've chosen to focus on in this article is: «What are students» perceptions about what contributes to their «most memorable» learning experiences (in all years at school)?»

Spielman, who took over from Sir Michael Wilshaw at the beginning of the year, told the Guardian: «I don't see it as something that has much to do with making the most of every school, of Ofsted making the most of its work and contributing to system improvement.»

After teaching for six years, I recognized a recurring story: middle school students lacked the literacy skills — speaking, writing, reading, and listening — to contribute to the community, to succeed academically across content areas, and to, perhaps most importantly, create their authentic narrative.

The grant would last one year only, to contribute towards the initial recruitment costs, but we would then expect the role to become self - sustaining as the schools start to reap the benefits of that expertise.»

2 years in, Dreamers still waiting for reform The Arizona Daily Star, 7/3/14 The program has allowed young immigrants to more meaningfully participate in their communities and contribute to the U.S. economy, said [Assistant Professor] Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and one of the authors of the study.

June Kronholz, a contributing editor, spent four years on her high - school newspaper and 30 years at the Wall Street Journal.

As a seventh - and eighth - grade math teacher in a K — 8 charter school in Massachusetts, he points to several factors that he believes contribute to the success of his school, including ongoing communication and collaboration among staff of all grade levels, as well as the development of a curriculum that «ramps up» each year, preventing gaps or holes in nine consistent years of academic preparation.

Previously, he has been a lead instructor at NC Outward Bound School, an 8th grade science teacher at The Learning Center in Murphy, NC, a contributing author for The Gap Year Advantage, and the Executive Director of an educational program he co-founded with his wife.

In the coming year, we plan on making a number of improvements to our Web experience, including expanded coverage of our recently launched Schools that Work series, improved navigation, and new ways for all of you to continue to create and contribute strategies for success.

Libraries have been an integral part of school life for years and contribute greatly to educational attainment.

As well as attending parents» evenings, staying connected throughout the year is vital in helping parents to feel like they are actively involved in their child's learning journey, and thus positively contributing to whole school goals.

Random selection: Early in the school year, I have students write their name on a Popsicle stick and tell them I'll use these to choose random people to contribute in our discussions from time to time.