Sentences with phrase «schools improve the skills»

How iPad learning journals and success criteria are helping students at this school improve their skills.

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In addition, Stanford's Graduate School of Business recently announced the launch of its LGBT Executive Leadership Program, giving professionals identifying as LGBT the chance to connect with each other and improve their leadership skills.

«This book should be required reading for school, college, and university students who need to improve their communication skills, especially those preparing for a career in business.»

John Adams: learned to read Latin at a young age In preparation for attending Harvard University, Adams attended a school for improving his Latin skills.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

Our goal is to prepare you for club and / or high school Lacrosse by offering a non contact environment in which a child may learn, improve and develop his or her stick skills.

Whether you want to learn or improve your indoor or beach skills, optimize your strength, speed or agility, or get ready for your middle school or high school tryouts, ENCORE has the summer training program for you!

These camps are a great way for beginner riders of to improve their skills, hang out with riders from other schools and have a good time riding bikes!

SportStrong Basketball's mission is to assist youth male and female athletes to develop and improve their fundamental skills and prepare athletes for High School basketball.

Our high school boys program is for those who are looking to improve their offensive skill set through advanced drills and 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3 competition.

Advanced sports clinics are offered to experienced middle school girls who are looking to improve their skills and prepare themselves to compete at the high school level in their sport of interest.

We create, develop and deliver programmes and initiatives that improve health, attendance, academic achievement and raise whole - school standards, equipping all young people with skills for life.

Enhance the knowledge, skills and confidence of teachers in order to improve the delivery of PE and school sport.

But with Vidic and Ferdinand as senior defenders in the squad and Sir Alex as the manager, Jones would not find a better school to improve his skills.

• Become an accomplished athlete • Develop teamwork skills • Earn a college scholarship • Fitting in • Gain increased self - confidence • Have fun • Improve fitness • Learn «life lessons» that sports can provide • Make friends • Playing a high school varsity sport • Winning • Other?

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

Encourage schools to proactively improve the school climate and adopt an emotion skills curriculum so that more children feel emotionally safe and empowered at school.

Jessica currently works in many different school districts teaching the kitchen staff to improve their culinary skills and talking to the students about cooked - from - scratch foods.

Separately, we have set up a taskforce to help small schools overcome their particular logistical difficulties, and drawn up a strategy to improve the skills and morale of school caterers.

For example, she studied brain activity and speech in a group of teenagers before, and three years after they entered high - school, and found music training in school significantly improved the auditory processing of phenomes (speech sounds) and had lasting effects on language skills.

In Chicago, many chefs have shown interest in using their skills to improve school food, but small pilot opportunities don't exist in Chicago Public Schools.

We provide vision rehabilitation to improve visual, perceptual, and motor skills, such as reading, writing, computer use, and other work - and school - related activities.

These books focus on helping parents to raise responsible children and improving schools» and teachers» disciplinary skills.

Improve students» social - emotional skills, attitudes about self and others, connection to school, and positive social behavior; and reduce conduct problems and emotional distress.

And when researchers taught parents how to improve their emotional coaching skills, kids experienced fewer behavior problems at school (Havighurst et al 2013).

The major benefits of Forest School, as listed in the book, «Forest School and Outdoor Learning in the Early Years» by Sara Knight are increased confidence and self - belief; social skills with increased awareness of the consequence of their actions on other people, peers and adults and the ability to work cooperatively; more sophisticated written and spoken language; increased motivation and concentration; improved stamina and gross and fine motor skills; increased respect for the environment and increased observational skills; ability to have new perspectives and form positive relationships with others; a ripple effect to the family.

Due to increasing experiences and improving cognitive skills, the self concept continues to grow as kids move into high school.

Here are five ways that schools can help children improve social skills:

Most evaluations of early education programs show that such programs improve children's school readiness, specifically their pre-academic skills, although the distribution of impact estimates is extremely wide, and gains on achievement tests typically fade over time.

«I share the organization's commitment to making lives better for working families, improving our schools and infrastructure, and helping people acquire the skills they need for today's high tech jobs.

Providing new ways of personalised learning was crucial to improving education, Mr Blair said, but warned that how schools were structured was also vital to ensure that strong school leaders, discipline and good life skills flourished.

Every council is required by law to have a local child poverty strategy, and the good news is that reducing child poverty benefits everyone by cutting the costs to local authority services and boosting the local economy through improved skills and qualifications for school leavers.

Raising the school leaving age to 18 would tackle social problems and improve skills, the education secretary Alan Johnson said today.

«Our members need skilled employees now more than ever, and our schools must provide our children with the skills necessary to compete outside the classroom,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «This study proves that New York is leading the nation — not only by setting high standards, but by taking the time to listen to parents and teachers about improving them.

One of its objectives is to introduce a simplified version of bridge — minibridge — into primary schools, helping children to improve both their mathematical and social skills by learning to play this enthralling game.

Buffalo Public Schools Adult Education Classes are available to improve English language skills, literacy, vocational education, and much more.

The Pupil Deprevation Grant gives schools # 918 for every pupil on free school meals, and should be spent on improving literacy and numeracy skills.

«The commissioner remains focused on improving our school to ensure sure every student can build the skills and knowledge needed to succeed in college and a career,» Tompkins said.

Snooker World Champion Steve Davis is taking his love of the sport into schools in the hope of improving students» maths skills.

In addition to being an organizer and consultant for the Jumpstart Core Curriculum Institute (JCCI), a program founded by Leslie Brown that develops strategies for improving literacy, science, math, technology, and social - science skills among disadvantaged minority students in grades K - 12, I teach chemistry to high school students at the University of South Carolina?s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Summer Program.

The need arose from the Supporting Teachers and Children in Schools study, led by Professor Ford, which is analysing whether a course designed to improve teachers» classroom management skills is effective.

According to the authors, high school music training — increasingly disfavored due to funding shortfalls — might hone brain development and improve language skills.

Music training, begun as late as high school, may help improve the teenage brain's responses to sound and sharpen hearing and language skills, suggests a new Northwestern University study.

Improved math skills were apparent within months for elementary school students.

Yet if a school child's parents replace a bedtime story with a math discussion even one night a week, the child's math skills may improve markedly compared with peers who listen to nonmathematical stories, a new study shows.

Universal child care that starts as early as age one improves language skills for young children, especially those from low - income families, according to a study of Norway's child care system by a team of researchers led by Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Eric Dearing.

Though this exercise didn't make anyone smarter, it greatly improved skills people need to excel at school and at work.

«We already know from a 2014 evaluation by FPG that the school readiness skills of children who attend Georgia's Pre-K significantly improve across a wide range of language, literacy, math, and other measures,» Early said.

«Despite budget cuts and increasing emphasis on academic skills, schools are choosing to focus on improving student health, which ultimately can support improved academic performance.»

Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.