Sentences with phrase «students at individual schools»

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SokoText, from students at the London School of Economics, has been testing similar technology in Mathare Valley, Nairobi, by sending text messages from small - scale rural farmers to individuals in slums who want to secure wholesale prices for healthy produce once it arrives at a market.

If the data were acquired by asking students about their own college, then especially at schools with strong denominational ties there are almost certainly social pressure on individual students to maintain the appearance of piety.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling on Friday, saying the family had not persuaded the three - judge panel «that the individual prayers or other remarks to be given by students at graduation are, in fact, school - sponsored.»

The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.

Winston Preparatory School www.winstonprep.edu At Winston Preparatory School, we view each student as a unique individual learner who has potential and is Able to Learn.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

«I am willing to stand up at a school board meeting and explain to them why, we, as students would like to see individual rankings done away with.

It also requires that school principals develop an individual plan for each student at risk of anaphylaxis.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experiencAt Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experiencat Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

At the East Bay Waldorf School, private music lessons are required weekly from Grade 4 in order to support the student's individual progress on their instrument.

So teachers at Mango Elementary School in Fontana, Calif., are replacing homework with «goal work» that is specific to individual student's needs and that can be completed in class or at home at his or her own pace.

We encourage all of families at our school to follow an age - appropriate approach to use of media, in a belief that guarding a young child's acute senses and impressionable mind is essential to the healthy growth of each individual student.

Individual school production records documented the number of food items produced (including entrées and side dishes) and the number of servings of each individual food item, such as milk, selected by students at lunch along with the daily reimbursable luIndividual school production records documented the number of food items produced (including entrées and side dishes) and the number of servings of each individual food item, such as milk, selected by students at lunch along with the daily reimbursable luindividual food item, such as milk, selected by students at lunch along with the daily reimbursable lunch count.

Family Support Specialists, who identify individual barriers to student achievement and then connect students with services to overcome those barriers, will be in 29 Buffalo public schools at the beginning of the 2015 - 16 school year, expanding to 43 on January 1, 2016.

The Emirates FA Cup made its way to Arsenal Soccer Schools Dubai at the Sevens so that it's lucky students could join in to take special individual and group photos with the trophy, and over 120 kids had their photo taken with the iconic trophy.

«Welsh Liberal Democrats are committed to the introduction of an individual pupil monitoring programme to measure all pupils» progress, allowing schools to target efforts at those students who are not meeting their potential».

The community partners honored at the event — three individuals and one program — have had a major impact on the lives of students and teachers in the city school district.

Notably, this includes a range of initiatives aimed at school - age students, the establishment of the university Academic Centre of Excellence, and a number of schemes designed to allow individuals to transition into a career in cyber security.

MORIAH The new Amateur Radio Station at Moriah Central School lets students talk with other schools and individuals around the world.

The research group of Computational Intelligence Group (CIG) from the School of Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), in collaboration with a veterinary student from Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio and the Department of Ethology from Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest have carried out a research on canine behavior showing that gender, age, context and individual recognition can be identified with a high percentage of success through statistical and computational methods of pattern recognition applied to their barking.

Daichi Yanagisawa, a graduate student in the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, and his colleagues examined various ways of reducing conflicts — friction, essentially — between individuals as they try to squeeze through an exit.

Working with Columbia Technology Ventures, a team of individuals ranging from professors at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons to undergraduate students at Columbia's School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a device meant to improve arm function in patients with SMA.

Mr. Mikita has achieved numerous milestones for individuals with disabilities as the first admitted student in a wheelchair in the history of Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude; the first student in a wheelchair at Brigham Young University's Law School and the first recipient of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's National Personal Achievement Award for his advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities.

The good examples we found were those human rights - oriented / social justice - oriented individuals (school principals or other teachers) who were taking steps in their own small way to support refugee students at their schools.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

The system attaches funds to individual students, rather than to schools or school districts, and then allows students to choose any public school in the district, with neighborhood students» having preference at each school.

Students sell to individual households memberships in Mail Stopper, which cancels 90 percent of catalogs and junk mail in 90 days at a cost of $ 20 — and the participating school or club keeps half of the fee.

«I look for an individual with a passion to receive and impart knowledge, someone who can relay the information they receive to students with diverse abilities,» says Sylvia Hooker, newly appointed principal at Fairmount Alternative School in Newnan, Georgia.

Perhaps most importantly, in today's schools, students typically learn individually and at the end of the school year, we certify their individual achievements.

Although I'm at university now, I've just come out of working in the school system for many years and working in leadership roles in schools, and I think it can be very useful for schools to drill down into the individual student data.

Professor Howard Gardner, one of Rose's first professors at the Ed School, says, «Todd's focus on what we know about the individual student and how we can mobilize pedagogical and curricular resources to meet the particular student is of fundamental importance.

At Helix High School, a charter school in La Mesa, CAPI ties in with the school's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colSchool, a charter school in La Mesa, CAPI ties in with the school's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colschool in La Mesa, CAPI ties in with the school's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colschool's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colleges.

Taking an in - depth look at the situation in an individual school community can help target efforts to better ensure those students who want to attend college make it there.

Students in the program attend school for four hours per day, and spend most of their school time at the individual computer stations working through online course materials.

Although there is plenty of data to understand the growth of charter schools or the numbers of students in districts, because blended learning is a phenomenon that doesn't occur at the school level — it instead occurs at the level of individual classrooms and teachers — capturing what's happening is difficult.

Students work closely with tutors just as they would at any other Match school, but they also spend much of their day using technology targeted specifically to their individual learning needs.

But NCLB's way of measuring school performance does not look directly at how much individual students are learning from one year to the next.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

The longest - running of the cases, filed in federal court in 2000, alleged that Arizona's individual tax - credit program violates the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution by permitting organizations to provide scholarships to students that can be used only at religious schools.

Craig Haas, Special Ed and Student Services Coordinator at Edwards Middle School, shares how his team uses expanded learning time to provide relevant academic support to each individual student while breaking down stigmas between children of different abiStudent Services Coordinator at Edwards Middle School, shares how his team uses expanded learning time to provide relevant academic support to each individual student while breaking down stigmas between children of different abistudent while breaking down stigmas between children of different abilities.

This allows administrators to easily monitor student performance at specific schools, compare general progress among neighboring schools, or track an individual teacher's qualifications and workload.

Our results suggest that traditional public schools did not respond to competition from charter schools by becoming more effective, at least as measured by the learning gains made by individual students in the years immediately following establishment of charter schools.

The Coleman data did not permit following the learning trajectories of individual students or looking at what happened within schools.

This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and student achievements at The English High School in Jamaica Plain; Christopher Tsang, a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities teacher at The Harbor School; and Tanya Milner, an eleventh grade United States history and freshman Advancement Via Individual Determination teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

We started supporting individual students at the school, and that grew into a larger commitment» — a scholarship - granting organization that provides low - income students with private education.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

Advocating for students at individual education plan meetings, student study teams and school attendance review boards

Researchers at California State University, East Bay; the Buck Institute for Education; and the College of Marin analyzed data from 252 economics students at 11 high schools, while controlling for individual characteristics, such as verbal ability.

PASA's Club AfterZone, located in Providence middle schools, gives students the flexibility to alternate their on - site enrichment activities with an additional «learning time» session, during which students receive individual help on schoolwork from volunteers, many of whom are students at local colleges.

At any point in time, the leaders of a level 4 school can identify individual students» strengths and weaknesses relative to specific topics in each subject area.