Sentences with phrase «student learning focused»

And so in 1999, we overhauled our school system through accountability legislation that made student learning the focus of education.

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Math education software DreamBox provides educators with recordings and data into how students are learning and progressing so that educators can focus on the areas where their classrooms need the most help.

Daunted by the expense of a four - year program, students are focusing on learning the skills they need for the jobs they want.

Booth's full - time MBA program focuses on training students for real - world business scenarios through experiential learning and lab courses where students work with actual early - stage startups.

Companies want to have the best talent and, presumably, the best will have focused on how to sustain or grow a business and be willing to make tough choices to do so, which is what students learn during an MBA program.

By reducing financial barriers, students are then free to focus on dreaming, learning and succeeding on a path to becoming our future business leaders.

Integrating these emerging career pathways and learning opportunities into a better STEM pipeline is an important focus shared between educators and students.

By focusing on key learning goals, we are working to ensure that students have the necessary preparation to be successful in their future careers.

The increase in funding will help ensure that students, teachers and school district staff can focus their energy on teaching and learning.

Micro Focus On - demand Digital Learning is provided as a subscription to allow students to access training whenever it is needed.

Since the students in the Fort Worth, Texas, school are focused on digital - game creation, often they don't even realize they're learning computer coding, Thomas says.

Students also wish their schools had more focus on learning how to get jobs over standard courses (46 %) and more career fairs and alumni support (34 %).

If we learn to teach with different foci and emphases, perhaps with less isolation from one another and more emphasis on the needs of students, the church, and the world, can we affect the ways in which our guilds function?

Our primary focus is the introductory experience, but we have valuable learning opportunities for students of all levels.

«Hong Kong provided me all the basic ingredients in learning and when I kept focused on learning in the US, I immediately became an outstanding student,» recalled Fu.

Implement an advisory system to focus on social and emotional learning and to help students find faculty advocates.

Refrain from grading the first assignment (s) each semester; write comments, mark incorrect answers, and allow for revisions, so that students focus on the learning instead of just the grade.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

This week's second Editor's pick is the article, «More Focused, Better Behaved Kids, Through Mindfulness,» by journalist Tori James on My Mother Lode — through which we learn the outcomes of teaching mindfulness to students at a California, USA, elementary school.

A growing number of Canadian elementary schools have added stationary bikes in classrooms to help students focus on learning.

Strategies focus on pre-reading tasks, developing sight word vocabulary, mediated reading instruction, phonics, and possibly language therapy to help students learn.

Students may benefit more from fewer assignments and a focus on deep understanding of concepts learned in class.

With a focus on indoor Tennis, Soccer, and Basketball, students will learn sports and have a blast indoors!

Successful applications will have an inquiry focus on the promotion of mental well - being as it relates to students» learning, health and development and will connect their work to two overarching questions:

These two processes are reflective of one another and have a strong focus on careful consideration of the health needs of students, carefully constructed questioning and relevant goal setting to actively engage students in addressing their own and their peers» wellbeing ensuring a rich healthy, supportive learning environment for all.

«We have known for years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and we hear from principals and teachers that students are more focused and ready to learn when they start the day with a healthy meal,» said Judy Mobley, President and CEO of Children's Hunger Alliance.

Breakfast in The Classroom at Alta Loma has assisted with not only getting students to school on time (it has decreased our tardy rate) but it has helped to ensure students are eating a healthy breakfast, and are ready / focused to learn.

The Montessori way of learning is focused on hands - on learning that is tailor - fit in accordance to the needs and learning curves of students.

; it is weak in science and technology education often mass producing ill - educated or barely literate graduates in arts and humanities; ignores the critical role of economics, management and entrepreneurship education in the context of developing nations; destroys innovation and creativity through outdated teaching methods instead of focusing on fostering the student's own independent learning and creative thinking; and is insufficiently focused on adult, vocational and technical education.

While African governments now invest around US$ 2000 of public funding per student (more than the average for developing countries), this follows decades of underinvestment in which drives for education focused on primary and secondary learning.

We also strongly support the Governor's proposals to educate the whole child, a key priority for the Regents, including to ensure New York's students have access to healthy meals at school so they can focus on learning in the classroom.

In our Focus on Education report, WBFO's Eileen Buckley reports there's not an unwillingness to learn, but it's a matter of some students learning a new language.

«We also need to embed employability in education, with a greater focus from schools on employability outcomes for their pupils, and with management modules becoming mandatory in higher education, to give students in different disciplines more opportunities to learn to lead.»

«The focus must return to students and how they learn.

We often report on the struggles of Common Core Learning Standards in the classroom, but in this Focus on Education report WBFO»S Eileen Buckley takes us inside JFK Middle School in Cheektowaga to hear about how educators and students are embracing it successfully and how future teachers are gearing up for the challenge.

In this Focus on Education report, WBFO»S Eileen Buckley says students performed songs they wrote after a long school year of learning the tough Common Core Standards.

«Joel misses the essence of teacher - student interactions, and the extent to which teachers focus on students» physical and emotional well - being, in addition to their academic learning,» said Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

I am certainly open to negotiating a residency requirement with the police union, but even more so I than that, I think we should focus on promoting from within: we have the PSLA (Public Service Learning Academy) at Fowler, set up to train Syracuse City School District students who want to go into public service jobs (including police).

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities fStudents) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities fstudents, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for kids.

Whether it is expanding the community schools model so more schools provide students the support they need to succeed, or front - loading services to children age five and under so they are ready to learn once they get to school, Bill Thompson is focused on getting kids what they need to achieve — in school and in life.

Cola has focused on public engagement on many fronts, working to inspire K - 12 students and their teachers to learn about the latest research in nano - and energy technologies.

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

A disciplinary focus will help to assure the critical mass of faculty and students that is necessary for peer - learning and support regular seminars.

This will provide an overall goal, which will help get students interested and keep them focused as they learn the ropes.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

Some larger Stage II grants may be funded, but the focus is now on the third and final stage of the grant program, which supports large - scale distance learning programs at institutions — so - called «Virtual Universities» — at which ALN enrollment is expected to be 10 % to 20 % of the total student number.

The researchers chose two high schools in two different school districts, focusing on five students that were in 10th or 11th grade, who were identified with a specific learning disability and required modifications and accommodations in their classrooms.

Mayer discussed the implications of this research for policymakers, claiming that there is a place for small games that focus on well - specified learning objectives, become more challenging as students learn, and fit within existing educational programs to supplement, complement, and / or extend traditional instruction rather than replace it.

The focus of the research team, which includes UD graduate student Clark Nissley, was on the Atlantic brant goose, a bird whose population has been fluctuating and on a moderate decline for many years, to learn if limitations during the summer breeding season have accelerated that trend.