Sentences with phrase «students wider access»

ESSA advances personalized and project - based learning and requires districts to give students wider access to digital content and develop more effective ways of teaching with it.

Not exact matches

Public Waldorf schools respond to unique demands and cultures in a wide range of locations in order to provide maximum access to a diverse range of students.

It gives you direct access to teachers, other parents, and other students, and from them you get to hear a wide cross section of opinions about and experiences with school food.

«The company has designed a 10 - foot - wide pedestrian access sidewalk to help facilitate the students, to try to keep them out of the interior or the inbound drive aisle,» said Henry Stillwell, the lawyer for the project.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools increases elementary, middle, and high school students» access to a wide variety of fruits and vegetables at school lunch.

Long's push to implement the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) meal service option district - wide has helped 25,000 students have access to school meals at no cost.

After completing a Lamaze Childbirth Educator Seminar, participants will be eligible for a complimentary student membership which will provide them with a wide range of benefits such as discounts on Lamaze products, access to a number of professional resources and access to the online Lamaze community.

Billed as the «People's Presidential Debate,» the three candidates fielded a wide range of questions, ranging from the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump deAccess Pipeline to the recent document dumps by WikiLeaks to staggering student debt and the nation's burdensome and discriminatory ballot access laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump deaccess laws, among other topics, and did so without interrupting or insulting their opponents as had happened frequently during the recent Clinton - Trump debates.

From pre-school storyhours to Live Homework Help for students to outreach for seniors to computer access for the unemployed, the Library provides a wide range of vital services.

Students in the UBC program engage in a wide range of research: molecular mechanisms underlying cell proliferation in cancer or cell death in stroke; relating gene mutations to disease mechanisms; the social factors that determine access to health care for women living on the street.

As a student of La Trobe University you will have access to a wide range of resources, services and academic programs.

Provide access to a wide variety of texts: With a digital device in their hand, it's easier than ever for students to search for an article, blog post, or ebook on a topic of interest.

It's been sort of one of the first countries rolling out technologies... where students have access to a wide range of devices.

For students at Harlem Educational Activities Fund (HEAF), that means trips to museums, partnerships with higher education institutions, opportunities for student travel, etiquette classes and access to a wide variety of professionals who can help to open doors for workplace exploration and internships.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

Access to a Japanese World Wide Web gives students an insider's view of the culture.

This activity might be done in the library, where students will have access to a wide variety of information sources.

Another study, published in 2006 by Austan Goolsbee and Jonathan Guryan, found that the federal E-Rate program expanded California students» Internet access by 66 percent over four years but did not have an impact on student achievement (see «World Wide Wonder?»

In theory, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs in schools are a great idea; students can use their own tablets, laptops and smartphones in the classroom, and can take advantage of a wider range of apps and programs than they might be able to normally access in school.

In the Ugandan countryside, dedicated educators bring the printed word to students desperate for access to the wider world.

ESAs serve these students particularly well because they give parents greater access to a wide variety of services and therapies in and outside of the classroom.

We are ready to sow now, in this century of extraordinary connective tissue created by the world - wide access of the internet the seeds of schools in which students learn to examine and practice a sort of personal sustainable development.

It can provide students with open access to a wide range of high - quality educational resources and the freedom to explore those resources, as well as opportunities to receive immediate feedback.

Universities have access to data which can be used to track their students» performance, as well as wider learning trends.

With the introduction of Canvas we can encourage student autonomy, ensure wider curriculum access and provide high quality alternative teaching and learning approaches that match student needs — and in turn facilitate an excellent learning experience.»

We offer a wide range of facilities to support students with access needs (visual, hearing, learning and mobility).

TL2020 increases levels of access District - wide with a personal MacBook for all students in grades 2 - 12 and iPad for students in grades K - 1.

To take it a step further, with the growth of technology students have access to a wide variety of media to produce a creative final production.

Given the reality that we should be educating all children ~ it may surprise the uninformed observer that the market - based approach is alive and well in the education field driving a set of reforms that is slowly eroding our public school system and creating an even wider and more troubling achievement gap; ensuring that more affluent students have access to better schools and more resources ~ while low - income students receive a second - class education.

In schools and districts that take on a wide variety of roles and serve diverse student populations, more focus should be put on measures that impact individual student growth and their ability to access the curriculum.

He also implemented a learning management system to bring courses online, created a school wide video conferencing system, and started an online electronic library using Overdrive to provide literary access to students in outlying areas.

Based on input from a wide range of stakeholders, states looked at ways to utilize federal supports to ensure students have access to the most effective teachers, and teachers have the tools they need to be successful.

Teachers will become facilitators of personalized learning by providing students access to a wide range of tools that will help them to express their learning.

Finally, «Next Generation» accountability systems should adhere to the following five essentials: «(a) state, district, and school leaders must create a system - wide culture grounded in «learning to improve;» (b) learning to improve using [the aforementioned informational systems also] necessitates the [overall] development of [students»] strong pedagogical data - literacy skills; (c) resources in addition to funding — including time, access to expertise, and collaborative opportunities — should be prioritized for sustaining these ongoing improvement efforts; (d) there must be a coherent structure of state - level support for learning to improve, including the development of a strong Longitudinal Data System (LDS) infrastructure; and (e) educator labor market policy in some states may need adjustment to support the above elements» (p. x).

The EBacc has absolutely decimated the opportunity for students to choose subjects that could enable them to succeed and is denying them access to a wide range of vocational courses that they would be better suited to.

From concert bands to steel pan orchestras, large choruses to vocal soloists, students have access to a wide range of opportunities in classrooms and on stages throughout the city.

In addition to these CTE courses, students can access a wide catalog of subjects ranging from foreign language to social studies.

Submissions are welcomed from a wide community of practitioners including, but not limited to, college and university faculty, graduate students, administrators, college access professionals, and others with an interest in the college access movement.

And one of the main arguments in favour of fees has been that such wide access is unsustainable unless students make a contribution to the cost.

Additionally, parents, guardians, and students must have easy access to individual student and school wide data if we expect our school cultures to improve.

Section 3: Access to information - to improve the availability of accessible information for disabled students, and the wider staff, parents, and the community This accessibility plan details policies and initiatives, how these are monitored, reviewed / evaluated, and how these evaluations are developed and embedded into school systems and practice.

The rapid change in communication technology requires quality library media programs with a wide variety of resources which enable students to access, evaluate, interpret, and apply information from print and nonprint materials.

In other words, such systems acknowledge that a wide variety of decision makers need access to different kinds of information in different forms at different times to help student learn (Stiggins, 2008).»

Its founders wanted to eliminate the normal neighborhood borders and provide students from across a wide geographical area equitable access to specialized and focused training,» explained Dr. Jeffrey Hodgson, Provost and CEO of New World School of the Arts.

«These scholarships will provide students in families with low incomes the ability to access a wide range of educational opportunities that they may currently not have the resources to participate in,» the lawmakers wrote in a memo seeking support from other lawmakers.

Grants would be available to help states and districts provide all students with access to a well - rounded education in a wide range of subject areas, but the program pits the various subjects against one another for resources, which could ultimately lead to the opposite effect.

The funds themselves are used for a wide variety of efforts aimed at giving disadvantaged students access to social and health care services, especially students with disabilities.

In addition to the results from ACCESS, I also use my students» written assignments to see how they apply their knowledge of English over a wide variety of concepts.

Access to the map through an interface specifically designed for teachers, parents and students can effectively bridge the gap between research and practice, allowing a wider audience of practitioners and families to apply lessons learned in educational research to practical learning issues in classrooms and homes.