Sentences with phrase «with academic struggles»

Bullying is associated with academic struggle, low self - esteem, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and self - harm.

Not exact matches

And some students who struggle with much of their academic work will make wonderful pastors.

I was scared that I wouldn't be able to cope with the academic studies, would struggle with the spiritual disciplines, and end up drowning in debt.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

If Christians are to contribute prophetically to the struggle for new meaning and purpose in academic life, they must attend with quickened imagination to «the teaching of the apostles, to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.»

Since 1976 I have been associated with the faculty, students, staff, and administration of Pacific School of Religion, where an entire academic community is also a faith community struggling with a multitude of social justice issues in personal and corporate ways.

In a series of experiments, Cohen, Walton, and Yeager have shown the power of what seem to be small - scale mindset interventions — watching a brief video of an older student talking about his struggles with belonging, or reading a magazine article that presents a growth - mindset perspective on brain development — to significantly improve the academic performance of students who are vulnerable to stereotype threat, including low - income students and African - American students.

After school program helping children with academic, behavioral and social struggles by focusing on the root of the issues, the brain.

If your child were struggling with an academic skill, you'd get him a tutor so he could improve and even excel.

Rosalin Krieger is a patient English tutor, academic coach, and editor with over 15 years experience helping young people and parents who struggle with confidence, focus, reading comprehension, speaking clearly, critical thinking, essay writing and getting things done.

But are high schools — most of which have had to lay off teachers and staff because of budget cutbacks and are struggling to boost academic scores to keep up with new legislation — the best place to teach kids about marriage?

During his budget testimony in Albany earlier this month, de Blasio highlighted his administration's attempt at turning around struggling schools: a $ 150 million Renewal Schools program to add academic supports and turn the schools into community schools with social services.

«With record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&raWith record numbers of New York City families struggling with homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&rawith homelessness, we are proud to partner with Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.&rawith Borough President Melinda Katz and people across Queens on Project: Back to School, which gives homeless children backpacks and school supplies critical to their academic success.»

She knows exactly where you are struggling with your academic writing.

The grant also gave Boivin more flexibility to reconcile her professional and personal lives at a time when she and her husband — who is also an academic — were struggling with the two - body problem.

He commiserated with others who were struggling in the academic market and connected with rare - disease advocates.

With Napoleon's demise, Fourier struggled to regain political favor and acceptance in the academic world, and eventually succeeded, but his political and diplomatic embroilments consumed much of his time when he should have been doing math.

Being able to publish papers is crucial for any academic to further their career, but it's an avenue that can be difficult to access for those no longer affiliated with a university, unfamiliar with international publishing conventions, or struggling to write in a second language.

She traveled freely, something many academic parents struggle with.

Or a teen who was struggling with anxiety about academic pressure?

Veterans returning from overseas combat often struggle with trauma - related psychological distress that can affect their daily lives and academic performance.

On Twitter, he commiserated with others who were struggling in the academic market and connected with rare - disease advocates.

My early elementary school memories up through ninth grade are of teachers struggling to maintain class discipline with occasional coverage of academics, but the students did learn how to survive under difficult circumstances.

Similar to his teenage battle with cancer, this personal struggle guided his academic path towards developing a laboratory program investigating the basic science of pediatric cancer survivorship.

Brain Balance is a holistic and integrated approach to helping children who struggle with emotional, behavioral, social and academic issues.

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Maggie's Plan entangles Gerwig's serial bachelorette career woman with Ethan Hawke's struggling academic and his wife, a neurotic Swedish scholar played by Julianne Moore, in a game of who loves who.

With little by way of academic credentials, she struggles with menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem DafWith little by way of academic credentials, she struggles with menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafwith menial jobs to be able to provide food for her daughter and pay rent to her motel's manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe).

The result is an achingly poignant and startlingly immediate portrait of a man adapting to life with a disability, struggling to maintain his own academic work and intimate relationships while his experience of the world and existential, spiritual beliefs evolve into something completely new.

Even more than the stories of the teachers and leaders, the story of this KIPP student's struggle with rigorous behavioral and academic demands humanizes the narrative of education reform.

«As the assistant principal at my school, my job deals mainly with students who have behavioral issues, which are often accompanied by academic struggles.

But as our experience teaching at the Harvard Graduate School of Education has shown, most students have an easy time writing extended academic papers but struggle with shorter pieces that express their opinions on educational issues.

Because of students» openness to the arts, their motivation remains high, their attention spans tend to be longer, and their learning increases — yet teachers sometimes struggle with how to incorporate the arts while maintaining academic integrity.

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

Symonds believes that they're often able to make inroads with students who have struggled in other schools because they work to create a supportive environment addressing all of a child's needs, not just his or her academic needs.

As a social worker, Creech tackles different struggles than the medical concerns a school nurse may deal with or the academic issues a guidance counselor will raise.

Many interviewed students reported that they were in constant contact, weekly or even daily, with mentors around the world who understood their daily struggles, relentlessly encouraged them to persist, and provided key academic resources.

The development of academic standards, an important step toward raising student achievement, could open up states to lawsuits from groups of students struggling to meet the standards or from districts with large numbers of such students.

While early - college high schools link students with local colleges, Schwartz says another option is to directly link high school students to business, like existing career academies, which started in 1969 in Philadelphia in collaboration with Philadelphia Electric Company and Bell of Pennsylvania, and talent development high schools, which allow struggling students to play academic «catch up» before learning about specific career paths.

In addition to providing rich detail to support his main conclusion — that the so - called «excellence movement,» with its emphasis on increased academic standards, has failed to improve the schools — the book urges a larger agenda to carry the «struggle to reform» through the 1990's.

Targeted policies, such as early - warning indicator systems, use large administrative databases to systematically predict which students will struggle with academics or behavioral problems, with the intention of targeting those students early, before problems escalate.

And from New Hampshire to California, charter schools large and small, honored and obscure, have developed complex application processes that can make it tough for students who struggle with disability, limited English skills, academic deficits or chaotic family lives to even get into the lottery.

The new standards focus so much more on academic language and literacy, and I really have fewer students who struggle with language after they leave my class.

Kenderton had struggled with safety and academics, parents, students, and teachers said.

They struggle with academics, and therefore, they often feel like failures.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

«Even if they struggle with it, they've gone one - on - one against the academic equivalent of Michael Jordan.

Our students have often struggled with academic classroom settings and been judged as unmotivated, undisciplined, and unintellectual.

The Mayor's Office announced in May 2015 that the administration will provide an additional $ 34 million in funding for «struggling schools» with an additional $ 60 million every year after to hire guidance counselors, launch academic programs, and add Advanced Placement classes.