Sentences with phrase «targeted at the areas schools»

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I've seen them at our discount stores like Target, sporting goods stores and even office supply stores in their Back - To - School display areas.

The state should show residents the geographic distribution of test results, to target areas where exposures may be higher and so they can determine where their own results fit, said Richard Klapp, a professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health.

The government's free secondary education policy should have been targeted at deprived families and areas instead of the blanket coverage of all students in public schools, the Vice President of the National Association of Graduate Teachers, Angel Carbonu, has said.

«Shedding light on trends in the burden of stroke among Medicare beneficiaries may provide important information for policy purposes, including describing the past and current scope of the condition, assessing the potential effect of stroke prevention interventions on a national level, and identifying areas where resources can be targeted more specifically and effectively,» says lead investigator Margaret C. Fang, MD, MPH, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, who also serves as the Medical Director of the UCSF Anticoagulation Clinic.

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

In schools, if you get inside the data and actually have a look at what the students are doing, what their areas of strengths are, where they need to build, perhaps as a school there might be some areas of weakness, then you can target some professional development for teachers and maybe target some additional support staff in the classes.

Drawing on the results of computer - adaptive tests given periodically throughout the year, the 7th and 8th grade humanities teacher and her students at Oak Valley Middle School in San Diego set classroom goals that target the areas the youngsters struggle with the most.

That said, there is considerable evidence of staffing difficulties in specific subjects (e.g., STEM and special education) and in specific types of schools (e.g., rural schools or schools serving disadvantaged students), which suggests that policies aimed at addressing these true shortage areas must be targeted to these specific teachers and schools.

And we will end the waste caused by the free schools programme, targeting spending on areas of need so we can cap class sizes for five, six and seven - year - olds at 30,» said a spokesperson.

Most of their resources are targeted at middle and high school, and have an environmental focus (though the units are integrated across other content areas).

Announcing the funding, education secretary Justine Greening said: «This fund is about helping schools raise their performance by investing in evidence - led work, targeted at those areas where it will make the most difference.

Title IIA, funded at $ 2.3 billion last year, supports professional learning that improves both the content knowledge and practice of teachers in all academic areas as well as professional learning targeted directly to the specific needs of school principals and assistant principals.

If the training was targeted at the third of schools in the most disadvantaged areas, the cost would be # 13.05 per child per year, or overall training costs of # 10.5 million.2

Following each training session, supports are provided to districts so that, at the end of the training, participants will know how to: • Determine a school's greatest area of need (GAN) • Write a SMART school - improvement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaschool's greatest area of need (GAN) • Write a SMART school - improvement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaschool - improvement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaSchool Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaschool - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaching.

In J.S. v. Bethlehem Area School District the website created by the student at home targeted an algebra teacher and the principal.

Collaboration at the state and local level with county human service agencies, child placement agencies, community partners and school districts is taking shape to target efforts to recruit foster parents from areas with children in need to avoid a school change while children are temporarily living in a foster home.

Where a school identifies that a pupil is making less than expected progress given their age and individual circumstances, their first response should be to target high quality teaching at the pupil's area of weakness through a process of differentiation («differentiation» is a process where a child can be taught differently from classmates in order to achieve the same progress that is expected of them).

Adolescents or parents who (a) had prior psychiatric hospitalizations; (b) were planning to move out of the catchment areas of one of the three target middle schools during year 1 of the study; (c) were planning to move outside of the South Florida area at any time during the study; or (d) had scheduling problems that prevented them from participating in the intervention were excluded from the study.

As part of the EC funded DataPrev project, a systematic review was conducted to identify the state of the evidence base on the use of economic evidence in helping to make the case for investment in mental health and well - being in the four areas of focus to the project: early years and parenting interventions, actions set in schools and workplaces and measures targeted at older people.