Sentences with phrase «senior school processes»
The most significant issue faced by Queensland schools today is the change in senior school processes.
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So, I spent a lot of my time during junior and senior years of high school researching the process and trying to find «secret» ways to get the most financial aid possible — all the strategies I assumed my peers were already taking advantage of.
Now, just as this process must begin in the home, so must it continue with the primary and the middle school, and it is greatly to be desired if it can continue on into the modern senior comprehensive, notwithstanding the enormous costs involved.
I'm a senior in college and I just finished the application process for dental school!
But for the majority of recruits, the time between National Signing Day that happens during their junior year of high school and the end of their senior football season is the most crucial part of their recruitment process because of all of the key moments that happen.
Parents must be honest and realistic with their kids during the application process about how much they will spend on college... MORE Parents need to encourage their high school seniors to investigate all options, including in - state schools which will cost a fraction of a private college which can save significantly on the cost of a bachelor's degree.
Another parent who had gone through the admission process without paying for anything at the St. Mary's Boys Senior High School at Apowa in the Ahanta West District also explained that «it has come as a relief to me.
Government is in the process of setting up a fund to receive voluntary contributions from individuals to support the implementation of its flagship Free Senior High School programme, and the education sector as a whole.
Government is processing funds for release to some suppliers under the Free Senior High School policy by the end of this week.
«Actually we had a case of rape against one Alex Akwasi Sarpong of Mpasatia Senior High School Technical School which has been processed for court.
The Meyerhoff Program is open to all high - achieving high school seniors attracted to research careers in science and engineering and the Meyerhoff selection process is highly competitive.
«If we understand how these selfish elements are exploiting the mechanics of meiosis, then we'll understand more deeply how that process works in the first place,» said Michael Lampson, associate professor of biology in Penn's School of Arts and Sciences and senior author on the study.
«Our study provides further evidence that sleep - disordered breathing negatively affects attention, processing speed and memory, which are robust predictors of cognitive decline,» said senior study author Susan Redline, MD, MPH, Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
«Using novel computational methods, we have pointed to new biological pathways that act in the brain to regulate overall obesity, and also to a different set of pathways related to fat distribution that regulate key metabolic processes,» says senior author Joel Hirschhorn, M.D., Ph.D., Concordia professor of pediatrics and professor of genetics at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the Broad Institute Metabolism Program.
«These findings raise important questions relating to the processes that other venomous animals may have used to generate their venom toxins,» wroteNicholas Casewell, senior lecturer and Wellcome Trust research fellow with the Alistair Reid Venom Research Unit at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, in a summary dispatch published alongside the Current Biology paper.
«If indeed arginine consumption is so important to the disease process, maybe we could block it and reverse the disease,» said senior author Carol Colton, professor of neurology at the Duke University School of Medicine, and a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
«This study highlights genes and molecular processes that could be targets for new therapies to treat peanut - allergy reactions and could be important to understanding how peanut allergy works overall,» said the study's senior author, Supinda Bunyavanich, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Pediatrics and Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
If this process succeeds, then the good ones can proliferate and the cells thrive,» said Valerian Kagan, Ph.D., D.Sc., a senior author on the paper and professor and vice chair of the Pitt Graduate School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
However, that is only part of the process, says Charleen T. Chu, M.D., Ph.D., professor and the A. Julio Martinez Chair in Neuropathology in the Pitt School of Medicine's Department of Pathology, another senior author of the study.
«We wanted to study this phenomenon to better understand the kinds of problems that guideline - makers encountered in making reliable guidelines and how processes might be improved in the future,» says lead author, Mark Neuman, MD, MSCE, assistant professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
«We were able to use a set of cutting - edge tools to gain insight into a critical cellular process for normal brain development, the dysregulation of which may be a manifestation of a genetic predisposition for schizophrenia,» says senior author Dr. Guo - li Ming, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
«A shift to a dietary pattern higher in healthful plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods, especially red and processed meats, can confer substantial health benefits in reducing risk of type 2 diabetes,» said Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard Chan School and senior author of the study.
«If we understand how this UV - resistant gene functions and the processes by which cells repair themselves after ultraviolet damage, then we could find targets for drugs to revert a misguided mechanism back to normal conditions,» said Chengyu Liang, the study's senior author and an associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
captured the «spirit» of his 1993 gem Dazed and Confused — taking its young, wild, stick - it - to - the - man attitude and translating them from Senior Year High School to Freshmen Year College, using different characters in the process.
PEP meetings allow students to explore their interests, thoughts on college, and life goals as they create a plan for their junior year that will help them be ready for the college application process by their senior year — and for college life after high school.
Keep referring back to your school improvement plan and targets for attainment and progress, and don't let the conversion process dominate all discussions with the senior leadership team and wider school community.
The school also works closely with parents during the education process and each girl is prepared for entry into the senior school which best meets their learning needs and future development.
[6] In response, MDRC and partners designed the College Match Program, which supported high school juniors and seniors during the college search, selection, and choice process using a number of strategies:
Light offers advice to freshmen looking to make the most of their four years — and his guidance can also shape the college application process, helping high school seniors pick the school that will help them grow the most.
What is needed is standardisation of the quality assurance process across all schools and a focus on priorities that are critical to staff development and the targets set by senior leadership teams.
Queensland senior secondary schooling is currently in a state of transition with the phasing out of the internally assessed, externally moderated process, and replacing it with an externally mandated curriculum and assessment.
Yet these tend to be laissez - faire processes, relying on word of mouth, perhaps with district or school staff encouraging a promising assistant principal or senior teacher to apply for the job.
Nancy Repreza, a senior at the Academy of Arts and Minds Charter High School, in Coconut Grove, Florida, says Zinch helped her take a more active role in the college - selection process.
Schools need robust and secure middle and senior leadership because of the pressure of the conversion process.
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At KIPP Houston High School on Tuesday, the senior class vice president, Geovani Ramos, said he chose KIPP in part because he thought its teachers would provide more help in navigating the college application process.
But many high school educators call this process easy compared to surviving the summer melt, a phenomenon where college - accepted high school seniors decide not to attend their chosen universities during the summer months before freshman year.
Resources and materials will be provided to educators by MCAN, and schools will dedicate classroom time to isolate the different parts of the application process so that seniors have a clear step - by - step understanding of how to determine what schools or training fits their needs.
She has published a number of articles about education and co-authored A Classroom of Teenaged Readers: Nurturing Reading Processes in Senior High English (Addison, Wesley, Longman) a research - based book that focused on the development of critical reading in the high school classroom.
Resources and materials will be provided to school counselors and educators by Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) and schools will be dedicating classroom time to isolating the different parts of the application process so that seniors have a clear step - by - step understanding of how to determine what schools or training fits their needs.
Donald B. Gratz, Ph.D., Senior Associate, National School Reform, guides CTAC's Standard Bearer Schools process and school turnaround efSchool Reform, guides CTAC's Standard Bearer Schools process and school turnaround efschool turnaround efforts.
Schools Week revealed last week how the new senior civil servants were in the process of being appointed.
Lynn Stinnette - Barbour, Senior Associate, National School Reform, has led numerous initiatives at CTAC including the implementation of the Standard Bearer Schools process in multiple districts throughout the nation.
Witnessing the difficulties her eighth - graders were experiencing with their high school applications, Stephanie joined Bottom Line NY as a college access counselor where she provided first - generation, low - income high school seniors with guidance through the college application and financial aid processes.
Each high school selected eight ambitious and passionate seniors to serve on the Future Corps team, receiving leadership training and support from College Summit and MCAN as they move through the college application process.
Chairman John Kline and Senior Democratic Member Bobby Scott have led the process in the House to develop legislation that will positively affect the educational outcomes of our nation's 50 million public school students, the performance of our more than 13,000 public school districts, and the success of both our communities and our nation.
The project — being tested in four schools in three districts in Massachusetts, Missouri and Texas — uses computers to show students that evolution is a process through which systems change from one thing to another and get better along the way, said Paul Horwitz, a senior scientist at the consortium.
Aspire offers students the opportunity to earn college credits throughout high school, and supports juniors and seniors throughout the college application process with weekly workshops.
-- Matt Trask, a secondary senior physics teacher is having students make musical instruments to learn about wavelength — Kelly Skehill using design and software for students to apply calculus models to create new pop bottle designs — teachers are using technology to capture assessment information during the learning process — one particular good example at PJ Elementary — Kindergarten teacher (Sonia Southam) using iPads to engage parents and transform communication by capturing daily learning and sharing immediately via email with parents — the creation of Gleneagles Learning Lab Open House to showcase the process of learning — a teacher created Social Dynamics course for students with high functioning autism — the creation of an outdoor learning program for grades 6/7 students at Bowen Island Community School (Scott Slater created) that has students blending in - class and outdoor learning experiences
The transition from Junior School to Senior School to Sixth Form and throughout Boarding is stimulating and exciting but consciously made a seamlessly, stress free, process.