Sentences with phrase «toward challenging academic»

At the Incubator School, teachers leverage technology to individually tailor student learning and track progress toward challenging academic standards.

Not exact matches

Industrial attitudes toward teamwork can also challenge academic postdocs who become new employees.

The upcoming shift in focus toward large - scale screening of small - molecule collections will provide both opportunities and challenges for graduate students and postdocs wishing to explore this new domain of academic research.

Some observers fear, however, that a shift toward career preparation would ease the pressure on schools to provide top - notch academics for every child, reproducing a dynamic that has harmed generations of students: Those perceived to be «college material» are immersed in challenging courses, while those sized up as less capable or motivated get a watered - down education.

But a child who feels supported is more likely to be excited for school; she will persist amid challenges and make strides toward following expectations and absorbing academic content.

The proposal being designed by the panel's Republican leaders would share a central feature of the Clinton Administration's Goals 2000 strategy — a requirement that states and school districts adopt challenging academic - performance standards and assessments with which to measure students» progress toward meeting them.

As schools across the country move toward implementing the Common Core State Standards, district officials face a major challenge: How do they make the new academic expectations understandable to parents?

Lasting 10 — 12 weeks, these cycles look at the root causes of challenges that impede academic performance and then get everyone together to work toward a solution backed by research.

For instance, when crafting a driving question, they move away from convoluted, academic language toward challenging, student - friendly language.

Banks proposed a focus toward transformative academic knowledge, which consists of concepts, paradigms, themes, and explanations that challenge mainstream academic knowledge and expand the historical and literary canon.

As college professors, we see the mental health challenges our students are facing and the associated impacts on their academic performance, coping ability, interpersonal relationships, and tendencies toward excessive drinking and other risky behaviors.