Sentences with phrase «serving young students»

This outstanding contribution to the literature is highly recommended for teachers, parents, and others serving young students.

The online MAA program specializes in developing interscholastic Athletic Directors, building on the students» passion for serving young student - athletes and running a highly - successful athletic department.

After cutting his teeth running the foodservice program for Eastern Kentucky University — which included operations for a K - 12 school as well as the college dining services — Chris decided to focus his attention on serving younger students.

In Creating Learning Environments in the Early Grades that Support Teacher and Student Success, NCTL profiles three expanded - time elementary schools that leverage a longer school day to better serve young students.

Each summer GRACE requires assistance with our summer camp program, particularly for those sessions serving younger students.

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According to The New York Times, the young leader served as her school's student body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Restudent body president in high school, was the captain of her volleyball team, started her school's Black Student Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican ReStudent Union and spent her high school summers volunteering at an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

I recall some twenty - three years ago when, as a young seminarian serving a congregation of tenant farm families in rural Virginia, one of my duties was to teach a class for high school students each Sunday morning.

Muscle Maker Grill serves a diverse customer base that ranges from student athletes to young professionals to the middle - aged and elderly, Silva says.

The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer's Society website serves as a portal to excellent internship opportunities for students and young professionals year in and year out.

Having students and professionals serve as mentors, they reason, assists younger students and professionals while also enhancing the mentors» own leadership and academic skills.

She teaches two courses, directs the research of three graduate students and one postdoc, serves on numerous faculty committees, and is raising a young son.

Devoutly wishing to enhance minority students» access to academic and career success, and disdaining universities» self - serving desire to assemble racially diverse student bodies at the expense of young people already shortchanged by inferior K — 12 schools, Sander and Taylor show that large minority admissions preferences are hypocritical and a severe disservice to many able students.

Our findings suggest that rising student loan debt may serve to make the black middle class more fragile, because the latest generation of black young adults are more burdened with debt while also getting fewer payoffs to college.

Speaking of the 2015 finalists, Maya Ajmera said: «These students serve as shining examples of the incredible work being accomplished in STEM fields by young people.»

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

The sweet spot for Rosetta Stone Korea is in serving students who are in Grades 1 to 4 because they are young enough that the parents are less focused on how the language learning will prepare students for the suneung, or the College Scholastic Aptitude Test.

Project U-Turn, a collaboration among foundations, parents, young people, and youth - serving organizations such as the school district and city agencies in Philadelphia, grew out of research that analyzed a variety of data sources in order to develop a clear picture of the nature of Philadelphia's dropout problem, get a deeper understanding of which students were most likely to drop out, and identify the early - warning signs that should alert teachers, school staff, and parents to the need for interventions.

She also produced Balintataw (Pupil of the Eye), a television drama which serves as a valuable laboratory and training ground for students and young talents in various areas of TV, stage, and movie production.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

They serve as tutors, safety patrols, and role models for the youngest students, walking them protectively to the cafeteria at lunch.

Journalist Patrick McCloskey spent the 1999 — 00 school year embedded at Rice High School, an all - boys school in Harlem whose initially white student body had long since been replaced by the predominantly African American (and mostly non-Catholic) young men it serves today.

In effect, the nation's urban high schools, which served increasing numbers of young people from poor and immigrant families, were arguably providing the best academic and, for a smaller number of students, vocational education available in the United States at that time.

However, according to Loveless, «If tracking and accelerated coursework in eighth grade represent the beginning of a pipeline for promising young stars in mathematics or literature, that opportunity is more open to white and Asian students in suburban schools than to disadvantaged youngsters in schools serving students of color.»

Using a digital platform has enabled BAM to extend its reach to connect artists and young people from around the world with the students we serve in NYC.

The Pride leader is the student's primary advocate within the school, and also serves as the primary liaison with families, ensuring that the school understands the dynamics of each young man's home life.

In addition to her full schedule of classes in the International Education Policy Program (IEP), Chan interned at UNICEF, participated in a study group on educational access and quality that applied their coursework to evaluations of a teacher accreditation program in Mexico, was on IEP's advisory board, and led a number of outreach activities connecting her peers to the young students they hope to serve.

Students serve as consultants to local businesses, advising them on how to increase sales to young people.

«That could mean having a conversation with a young neighbor or a relative, serving as a mentor, or volunteering at a local high school to help students fill out their college applications,» she said.

At a time when friendships and social interaction are particularly important for young adolescents, the normative transition into high school often serves to disrupt friendship networks and, thereby, interferes with students» success in high school (Barone et al., 1991).

To work with the students directly, we rely on the energy and dedication of our AmeriCorps members - a diverse group of educated, young adults who serve full - time for 11 months in City Year's partner schools to provide extra support for students, teachers, and the school.

These schools serve only students placed in secure facilities by law enforcement or courts, and there are approximately 50,000 young people across the country in these on any given day.

Charter schools like the Young Women's Leadership School and those operated by the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), and private networks like the NativityMiguel schools — several dozen of which serve low - income, inner - city students — have proven that proper pedagogy and academic focus can overcome the developmental challenges of preadolescence.

Teachers wanted to know how Mosso had been able to get young students to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables each day, so she trained colleagues from 17 other school districts at in - service workshops.

Teen - parent centers will be set up in each of the city's 22 neighborhood high schools to serve the young children of public school students.

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) serves ALL New York City students and young children, from birth through age 26, who are struggling...

Cross-age mentoring programs are peer helping programs in which high school students serve as mentors to younger children.

This will serve students who did not receive the appropriate dyslexia services when they were younger.

Young and her team grew FLVS into a diversified, worldwide organization creatively serving over 2 million students in 50 states and 68 countries worldwide.

New leaders are needed as the old ones graduate, and older students feel a responsibility to serve as mentors and positive models to the younger students.

Inspired by his stint as a middle school math tutor, Henry shifted his career to the classroom to serve as a «role model and symbol of hope» for other young African - American students and to show all young students that they can excel in math and science.

BDEA serves students within BPS and has an aggressive recruiting strategy to put information about the school into the hands of young people who are on the verge of dropping out.

Locate the program inside the former 35th Street Elementary School, which is well suited to serve our youngest learners; it would share a separate and distinct space in the same building with Assata, an MPS partnership school; this is a model that has been used in the past and allows for improved achievement and better student and family engagement and support at both schools.

In our preK - 3 character building, the character lessons serve as something tangible for our young students to connect with and hold on to as they learn all about the pillars of character.

Throughout her undergrad she tutored young minority students from urban public schools, served as president of the Sociology club at City College and researched racial / ethnic inequalities within the education system.

When we improve instruction and curricula for our students who have been the most ill - served by American public education — including for young black, white and Latino men — we are improving education for our high - performing students as well.

Alumni of the OEC ESL program and Life Skills program return to serve as mentors to younger students entering the programs for the first time.

Since then, it has always been a priority of hers to learn and grow in order to best serve young people, especially students of color and those who live in poverty.

Assisting the high school exchange students with personal and cultural adjustments * Providing... PAX believes that this mission is served by providing young people with the opportunity to study...