Sentences with phrase «schools reach more students»

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

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.

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.

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 vegeSchools 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 vegeschools 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 sincschools 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 sincSchools, a grant program that has donated almost 5,000 salad bars to school cafeterias since 2010.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Edutopia: What would you say to principals and teachers at more traditional schools who are trying to reach the so - called bad kids, the at - risk students?

All the schools had to design models that adhered to the five Reach Extension Principles, which call for reaching more students with excellent teaching, higher pay, sustainable funding, job - embedded development opportunity, and enhanced authority and clear accountability for great teachers.

Nearly all the school teams chose to combine several models to reach more students with great teachers, add team collaboration time, and let excellent teachers lead and develop their peers.

If every school starts from scratch, the prospects are grim for reaching more than a scattered handful of students in every city.

Schools across the country have latched on to the need to reach more students with their excellent teachers.

When we launched Opportunity Culture, our goal was to boost student learning by extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within schools» regular budgets.

A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

Additionally, Forbes recently reported that more than four million students are now educated in international schools, which makes the market worth around $ 39 billion in fee income, and this figure is forecast to reach $ 89 billion by 2026.

Dozens of other NCLB critics have reached similar conclusions, and scads of proposals for that law's rewrite offer remedies, such as including more subjects in the accountability system and giving schools credit for student growth across the achievement spectrum.

We shared five Reach Extension Principles for the new school models they would craft or tailor to their needs; they call for reaching more students with excellent teachers in charge of their learning, for more pay, within budget, while boosting development opportunities for all teachers and clarifying authority / credit for great teachers.

Public Impact has just posted brief descriptions of more than 20 school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students, for more pay, within budget.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

JK: The reality is that once children reach school - going age, students spend more of their waking hours with their teachers and peers in schools than they do with their parents at home.

Public Impact has published new career paths stemming from our school models that use job redesign and technology to reach more students with excellent teaching.

Khan and his kindred may be able to overcome that, but it reinforces the importance of reaching more students with excellent instruction — live and online — during the 35 hours per week they are already in school.

Among them: Making sure that school, not video games, socializing, or gangs are a priority, and helping their students reach for more than what they see around them.

After three decades of trying one improvement effort after another, only one has both worked and proven scalable to reach far more students: charter schools.

As I explain in Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, we need fewer teachers, not more, and those few teachers must reach thousands of students at a time.

Two additional high schools were supported to start their own literacy initiatives, reaching a thousand more elementary school students.

Despite educating more than 3.2 million students, the annual rate of charter school growth has reached an all - time - low — a 1 percent increase in charter schools during the 2017 - 18 school year.

The hope is that, over time, more students will reach the standards as schools raise expectations and improve teaching and learning.

Teachers are redesigning their schools» roles and schedules so that great teachers reach more students, and most teachers work in teams led by excellent teachers.

Use of these digital books is still limited (Kinetic Books, funded by a Florida venture capital firm, doesn't disclose how many schools are enrolled in its program), but Jacobsen and his team are working hard to reach more teachers and students.

As the report states, by the time they reach 6th grade, «middle - class students have spent 6,000 more hours in learning activities outside school than students born into poverty.»

We are now accepting applications for new schools to continue to grow and reach even more students.»

The recent report by U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley on the «baby boom echo» describes an unparalleled enrollment increase in the public schools: Last fall, school enrollment reached 51.7 million students, more than the 51.3 million record set by the baby boomers 25 years ago.

From that line of thinking was born Opportunity Culture, an initiative to try this idea: Let school teams with teachers on them redesign jobs and use age - appropriate technology to extend the reach of excellent teachers and their teams to many more students, for more pay, within regular budgets, adding more planning time, and having them take full accountability for the learning of all the students they serve.

By the time she reached 2nd grade, Erin Peacock, a student in the Chicago Public Schools, had been taught by more than a dozen teachers.

These schools are also under policy pressure to get more of their students up to the «proficient» bar, with few resources to spare for fast learners who have already reached it.