Sentences with phrase «voices of students at»

We worked hardest, however, to place the work and voices of students at center stage, including examples from students who rarely receive that prominence.

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But as the student survivors have chosen to voice their support for gun control and criticize Trump's lack of action, he's apparently now feeling the pressure to at least give the illusion that he takes the situation seriously.

Using her pastor's phone and raising her voice over the anticipation from the 10 other students making the trek alongside her, Lydia Catterall, a junior and youth group leader at Central Presbyterian, shared that «the main theme you'll see [at Central] is acceptance — sort of trying to create a world where we can all accept each other.»

Less than a week after the tragic shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School, some of the surviving students — who are barely old enough to vote — have become some of the loudest and most prominent voices for gun control reform.

One of the people voicing concern was David Newman, an English professor at Odessa College and father of a 12 - year - old student.

One boy, a new arrival at Polaris that year, had been kicked out of his previous school for breaking into the principal's office, and while he was doing better at Polaris, Brady said, he had clearly not left his troubles behind; he was the only student during the round of handshakes and greetings to report (in a quiet voice) that his spring break had been red.

Liberty ES also won a second Promising Practice Award for the creation of and implementation of the Student Leadership Team, a voice for students in developing a character education foundation at Liberty ES.

Musical performers include a wide range of professional, student, and community musicians, including Full Gael Celtic Christmas, Worcester Men of Song, Quintebrass, Boston Jazz Voices, Geoff and Talia Brown Acoustic Christmas, Broadmoor Chamber Singers, Calliope Young at Heart Singers, the Quaboag Choral Society, and the Old Sturbridge Village Singers.

Tenicka Boyd, the director of organizing at StudentsFirstNY, voiced her support for the Common Core because every student, regardless of their background, will receive the same education.

But at tiny Swarthmore College, outside of Philadelphia, where the movement was born, students have been staging a sit - in for nearly a month to try to make their voices heard.

Tenicka Boyd, the director of organizing at StudentsFirstNY, voiced her support for the Common Core because it meant every student, regardless of their background, would receive the same education:

Despite fences erected to keep them away from a black - tie gala, hundreds of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute students on Friday voiced their anger at President Shirley Ann Jackson in a protest over the fate of their student union.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, the Brennan Center for Justice will hold a book talk with MSNBC's Zachary Roth on the quieting of voices of people of color, students, and other disadvantaged groups through means such as gerrymandering and Supreme Court Decisions.

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. more

Warrensburg Central School District fifth and sixth grade chorus students will perform as part of American Young Voices at the Times Union Center in Albany on Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m.

The fast tracking of the new national Common Core standards set off a near rebellion last fall, as parents, teachers and students voiced their concerns at often raucous meetings with state education officials.

A group of high school students from Lake Placid Central School contributed their voices to the Food Justice discussion at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake.

Lowering his voice, the professor told us that Nash had once been John Nash, the brightest light in the greatest group of students that ever studied math at Princeton.

That's a drastic departure from existing voice biometric mechanisms, which require training from each individual who will use them, said Kassem Fawaz, who worked on the project as a graduate student at U-M and is now an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin.

In a hotel next door, Aryesh Mukherjee, a physics graduate student at Harvard University, was explaining how he built, with the help of rubber glove - like material, a synthetic voice box that could imitate a range of birdsongs.

The styling is not aimed at us, the trends are not aimed at us, and the «voice» of the website is all a bit student - ish.

This study explores the topic of heterosexual interracial dating at a. voice to students with interracial dating experience who have incurred social costs,.

One person has noticed the flags; he is Shun (voice of Anton Yelchin), a sailor's son and a fellow student at Umi's school.

Zak Malamed (@zakmal), founder of the #stuvoice Twitter chat and an outspoken advocate for bringing student voice into education reform, didn't always have the confidence he exudes as an 18 - year - old freshman at University of Maryland.

Perhaps it's because white students score higher on achievement tests and graduate at substantially higher rates that many of the loudest voices in this debate aren't troubled by asking for patience and time to get things exactly right before proceeding.

The thought of a student, during his or her formative years, simply looking at a blank Google document with a blinking cursor is not a way to develop and nurture voice.

The voice over the loudspeaker bellows a command across the vast stone courtyard at Beijing Fourth Secondary School, and hundreds of students in blue and white uniforms pivot, high - step, and shout in unison.

This has been achieved through embracing a range of hooks at appropriate times, such as music, props, hobbies and interests, student voice and immersion days.

Without the incorporation of student voice, I'm sure this effort at making school - wide change would have ended up as yet another committee whose efforts lead to no real change.

Students Reach for the «Skylights» of Learning Educator Brenda Dyck writes in the voice of her students about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's tStudents Reach for the «Skylights» of Learning Educator Brenda Dyck writes in the voice of her students about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's tstudents about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

If students are noisy, whisper an instruction that begins, «If you can hear my voice and (give an instruction), you can have ten minutes of free time at the end of the day.»

But A.C.T. officials downplayed the signficance of the tiny rise — a tenth of a point on a scale of 36 — and standardized - test critics voiced alarm at test results showing a slight increase in the «gender gap» between male and female students.

Sessions on day one included staff at Dakabin State High School sharing details of their pedagogical framework and explicit instruction guide known as «The Hive» model, an update on a student voice program at Pakuranga College in New Zealand and a case study on collaborative professional learning at Campbelltown Performing Arts High School in New South Wales.

I am keen to represent the voice of many students here at the school and share their ideas with the Headteacher and the leadership team.»

Melissa Techman, the librarian at Broadus Wood Elementary, empowers her students» voices by asking for feedback on the work, look, and usability of the library, and she uses social media for connecting students across the district to foster that discussion.

Whilst working in schools he completed the Master of School Leadership at the University of Melbourne researching the area of «Using student voice to inform teacher professional learning».

As two school - based teachers of Music at Craigslea State High School, a large suburban secondary school in Queensland, Genevieve and Teresa were concerned about the quality of the students» home practice of chosen instruments, including voice.

This week, educator Brenda Dyck writes in the voice of her students about her efforts to challenge them to use more thinking skills at the higher levels of Bloom's taxonomy.

All Year 6 students at Our Lady of Nativity Primary School, New South Wales, have the opportunity to take on a leadership role as part of a new focus on the importance of student voice.

It has already identified a number of ways in which it will enhance its practice yet further including the provision of appropriate careers advice for students with SEN, and continuing to improve their voice at the academy.

At a time when teachers are told to personalize even as administrations are standardizing just about every aspect of class time, it's hard to make each student's voice matter.

At the end of the day, she had an archive of all that had been discussed and encouraged each of her students to have a meaningful voice.

At Mount Waverley Secondary College in Melbourne, student voice is at the heart of a push to build stronger teacher - student relationshipAt Mount Waverley Secondary College in Melbourne, student voice is at the heart of a push to build stronger teacher - student relationshipat the heart of a push to build stronger teacher - student relationships.

From all kinds of seating and configurable furniture to space - planning events that involve student suggestions and community ideas for inventions, libraries have become productive and comfortable places for putting student voices at the center.

First, though, she will take another year at HGSE to complete the Certificate of Advanced Study (C.A.S.) in Counseling Program, where she will continue to hone her counseling skills and cross-cultural competencies while exploring ways to center and amplify student voices.

Meloche's move to make student voice a central part of his school improvement strategy isn't typical, said Gretchen Brion - Meisels, a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

This book examines the emergence of «student voice» at one high school in the San Francisco Bay area where educators went straight to the source and asked the students to help.

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Dana L. Mitra describes the evolution of student voice at Whitman, showing that the students enthusiastically created partnerships with teachers and administrators, engaged in meaningful discussion about why so many failed or dropped out, and partnered with teachers and principals to improve learning for themselves and their peers.