Sentences with phrase «students at the alternative school»

Ralph J. Bunche Academy principal Betsye Steele speaks to students at the alternative school's restorative justice appreciation lunch on March 14 in Oakland, California.

What is the makeup of students at alternative schools, and what have been their barriers to success in traditional schools?

If students at alternative schools credit a strong and supportive school climate for much of their success in alternative schools, can't all settings prioritize this type of climate to better support all students?

This author (Beck) recalled the following scenario involving Jason, a 15 - year - old student at an alternative school for youth with severe emotional disturbance:

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In the Student Review, an alternative and unofficial school paper, Brooks poked fun at university policies, interviewed polygamists, wrote about gay issues and simply didn't shy away from matters most people were afraid to talk about.

I work at a public school district in Minnesota, and we are required to provide an alternative (either lactose - reduced milk, milk fortified with lactase, or milk to which lactobacillus acidophilus has been added) for students with lactose intolerance.

The grant will allow us to continue our work funding alternative breakfast programs; to date, the Partners for BIC have helped 36 school districts in 18 states feed over 63,000 additional students at school breakfast.

This grant is designed to help improve student access to high - quality, nutritious foods at school, and provides funds to help schools improve or expand their breakfast programs with an emphasis on sustainable, alternative breakfast options.

The Fuel Up Breakfast Grants program is designed to improve student access to high - quality, nutritious foods at school; specifically targeted to the morning meal, the breakfast grants provide funds to help schools improve or expand their breakfast program with an emphasis on alternative breakfast options that are sustainable.

«I want to work with you and members of the Wadleigh community to develop an alternative plan that will ensure a strong middle school for students at the Wadleigh campus.»

StudentsFirstNY's Interim Executive Director Glen Weiner said the lawsuit could trap students at failing public schools with no other alternatives:

At 10 a.m., the Senate Standing Committee on Education will meet to discuss a number of amendments to education law - including an act in relation to establishing the Asian Lunar New Year school holiday and an act in relation to authorizing the option of assigning community service as an alternative to suspension of students or in conjunction with student suspension.

Dr. Tisch said that among the things she was proudest of was creating alternative pathways to graduation for students who wanted to focus on the arts or a career - related skill, advocating for undocumented students to receive tuition assistance at city and state colleges, and pushing for state oversight of the troubled East Ramapo school district in Rockland County.

We find at least one piece of evidence of competition awareness in all 12 cities, indicating that traditional public - school leaders generally acknowledge students» alternative schooling option of attending a charter school.

A Better Alternative to For - Profit College TIME, 9/16/16 «Students often «don't understand the burden they are taking on,» says economist David Deming, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

«Students absolutely have solutions that can be implemented,» says Lauren Popkoff, who teaches history at Brooklyn College Academy, an alternative school for students — mostly low - income and minority students — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out ofStudents absolutely have solutions that can be implemented,» says Lauren Popkoff, who teaches history at Brooklyn College Academy, an alternative school for students — mostly low - income and minority students — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out ofstudents — mostly low - income and minority students — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out ofstudents — who are deemed at risk of failing or dropping out of school.

Teachers told me that most NovaNET courses are comparable to textbook - based courses in length and content — a comeback to critics who talk of watered - down curricula at alternative schools — but that many students move through them more quickly, and often finish high school a semester early.

Powerful alternatives to traditional schooling should be provided at all levels of the system and be available to all students.

For the past three years, I have been working on the implementation of arts@newman — an alternative, arts - based program for grades 7 - 8 designed to better engage some of those students who find themselves hanging out at the edges of this place we call school.

«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.

Dr. Steve Seidel, an expert on alternative student assessment, has been named Director of Harvard Project Zero (HPZ), a research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education that explores the development of learning in children, adults, and organizations.

From directors Jean - Michel Dissard and Gitte Peng, I Learn America follows five students through one school year at International High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sschool year at International High School at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United SSchool at Lafayette, a small, public, alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United Sschool in Brooklyn, New York, dedicated to teaching foreign - born, non-native English speakers who are newly arrived to the United States.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

As part of their study of genetics, students in Shannon Dziwanowskis seventh - grade science class at Csar Chvez Academy Middle School in Detroit, Michigan, spend the first minutes of class reviewing a worksheet on dominant and recessive alleles, which are alternative forms of genes.

While I find students are generally strong in recognizing alternative perspectives in an academic way — for example, analyzing different arguments on why the American Revolution took place — I think there is a shortfall when it comes to empathizing with people outside their demographic,» he says, adding that he saw the same pattern at other high schools where he has taught in the past.

Braziller has spent a decade teaching Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)-- a curriculum that leads students to reflect on themselves through in - depth study of history — and has taught at this public alternative school for 18 years.

For example, Montgomery County Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 100,000 students, but its alternative school programs serve only about 125 students at a time.

Summoning the collective energy that brought them together to create something magical, the students, teachers, and parents of Seattle's Alternative School 1 lift their 800 - pound canoe and slowly march it to a launch site at Golden Gardens, on Puget Sound.

An alternative way of defining and measuring success at school would be in terms of the progress or growth that students make over the course of a year, regardless of their starting point.

«This is evidence that such mid-career students had no compelling educational alternatives until this program began,» says Goodman, an associate professor at the Harvard Kennedy School.

We included administrative data from teacher, parent, and student ratings of local schools; we considered the potential relationship between vote share and test - score changes over the previous two or three years; we examined the deviation of precinct test scores from district means; we looked at changes in the percentage of students who received failing scores on the PACT; we evaluated the relationship between vote share and the percentage change in the percentile scores rather than the raw percentile point changes; and we turned to alternative measures of student achievement, such as SAT scores, exit exams, and graduation rates.

Homelessness, food insecurity, trauma, past school suspensions, and anxiety are just part of a student's profile that Karapetyan captures as the data and accountability manager at Boston Day and Evening Academy (BDEA), a competency - based alternative high school program in the Boston Public Schools, often described as a second - chance school.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

After studying teacher training at Boston College, Hristic spent a few years teaching in Massachusetts, first at an alternative high school for «behaviorally and emotionally challenged students, but also students so bright and brilliant they were bored out of their minds in a traditional setting,» he says.

For example, 62 percent of public school students in our sample believed that, if faced with long - term suspension or expulsion, they were legally entitled to at least one of the following: a formal disciplinary hearing, opportunity to be represented by legal counsel, opportunity to confront and cross-examine witnesses bringing the charges, or opportunity to call witnesses to provide alternative versions of the incident.

Alternative school settings in which the majority of the student population is considered to be at - risk.

Padworth College has global citizenship and equality at the heart of its values and is home to over 30 different nationalities of students who appreciate the alternative methods of learning and teaching offered by the school.

It deserves a reading, however, because of what it reveals about the inner workings of an urban school self - consciously created as a better alternative for students without the advantages of their counterparts at Whitney.

Working with students and their parents, these diploma project advisers (DPAs) develop individual graduation plans that can include online courses, community college classes, and studies at alternative high schools.

Continuation schools are alternative high school programs for students sixteen years of age or older, who haven't graduated from high school, are still required to attend school, and who are at risk of not graduating.

Alternative high schools and better academic support for poor and minority students have been among the methods used to help at - risk students stay in school.

Freitag soon discovered The Fairfax Transition to Teaching Partnership, an alternative certification program based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Students spend one year interning at a Fairfax County (Virginia) public school — substituting, observing, assisting teachers, and working with students one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and evening courses required for certifStudents spend one year interning at a Fairfax County (Virginia) public school — substituting, observing, assisting teachers, and working with students one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and evening courses required for certifstudents one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and evening courses required for certification.

While earning her bachelor's degree, she worked at the Antioch School, a century - old private alternative school where students help design the rules and curriSchool, a century - old private alternative school where students help design the rules and currischool where students help design the rules and curriculum.

Alternative high schools must meet students where they're at and graduate them on a flexible basis.

I taught at an alternative therapeutic school where many of the students had experienced trauma and other adversity in their lives.

The majority are mainstream (which includes primary, secondary or 16 - 19), but there are also Special free schools and those that offer Alternative Provision for students that have been excluded or are at risk of exclusion.

Open to students at all levels of academic achievement and located in historically disadvantaged communities, SSCs were intended to be viable alternatives to the neighborhood high schools that were closing.

Orlando is one of 83 school districts, from Newark to Los Angeles, where regular schools increased their graduation rates by at least one percentage point from 2010 to 2014 while sending more students into alternative education, ProPublica's analysis found.

In more than a dozen cities, charter schools educate 30 % of or more of all public school students, and are creating a ripple effect uplifting entire education systems, and seating supportive education leaders who helped create alternative opportunities in positions of authority at local and state levels.