Sentences with phrase «small learning environment»

In high - poverty schools, it's critical to establish caring relationships, supporting students through advisory programs, create smaller learning environments, and encourage participation in extracurricular activities.

A goal of the institute was to create both large and small learning environments for a large number of participants to have the opportunity to work in personalized ways with the faculty.

An emerging structure in schools is focused on smaller learning environments.

The school offers Saturday sessions for learning, enrichment programs at lunch time, and employs small learning environments with two teachers per classroom whenever possible.

Engaged students in small learning environments can achieve beyond even their own expectations.

The report, Helping Students Finish School, suggests a range of potential solutions, including increasing students» sense of belonging, establishing smaller learning environments, and adopting meaningful curricula.

These practices begin with getting to know your students and their families — a practice that necessitates smaller learning environments.

Creating smaller learning environments and communities of practice has the potential to authentically connect students with adults every hour of every day.

MC2 STEM is a small learning environment with approximately 300 students; however, the school's design also incorporates frequent feedback into the curriculum and successfully increases its capacity for tutoring and mentoring through community partnerships with NASA, GE, and the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, as well as with interns and UTeach candidates from Cleveland State University.

That was Alejandro Piñeda's reaction after his first visit to the Fremont High School Business Academy, in Oakland, California, a small learning environment operating within a larger high school.

The Fremont High School Business Academy, in Oakland, California, a small learning environment operating within a larger school, educates entrepreneurs.

Small schools started in Chicago about 12 years ago and are designed so students get more personal attention in a smaller learning environment.

To do this, they use specific strategies such as advisory periods, small learning environments, and student clubs and other extracurricular opportunities.

She simply needed a different setting, with a smaller learning environment, more attention from teachers, a more flexible schedule, and more practically oriented lessons.

With only 150 students, the center offers a smaller learning environment where students are able to build relationships with staff, focus on positive social behavior, and enjoy an opportunity for academic recovery.

The push for smaller schools and fewer students per classroom has slowed in recent years as funding considerations in many cases have trumped the perceived educational and social benefits of smaller learning environments.

Treasure Valley Leadership Academy is both specific to students individual needs and offers a small learning environment that fosters student success.

The current interest in «small learning environments» feels almost revolutionary, regardless of the affirming research.

WAHS students benefit from a small learning environment where class ratios generally do not exceed 33:1 in Freshman and Sophomore classes and is reduced to 28:1 in Junior and Senior level classes.

DREAM offers a small learning environment of no more than 150 students in multi-age advisories.