Sentences with phrase «as a museum school»

As a museum school, Normal Park utilizes student - created exhibits as a way to assess student learning.

ABN: How does working for a nonprofit such as the museum school differ from working in a commercial gallery?

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Performers dressed as Santa Claus stand posed in a line during a photo call for the media for the Ministry of Fun Santa School outside the Ragged School Museum in east London on Nov. 16, 2017.

In Toronto, some real estate listings have begun noting proximity to future Targets alongside schools and museums as locational selling points.

Mr. Block currently serves on the World Economic Forum's Information Technology Community as a Governor, the Board of Trustees for Carnegie - Mellon University, the President's Advisory Council at Carnegie - Mellon University Heinz Graduate School and the Board of Trustees at the Concord Museum.

Phyllis's mother became the family's sole breadwinner, first as a department - store saleswoman and elementary school teacher, and later as librarian for the city's art museum.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

She began her career in education as a museum educator, a teacher, and later a school administrator in New York City.

Other books can teach her about things she has not yet encountered, such as going to a new school, visiting a zoo or a museum, or traveling on an airplane.

Her background in non-profit administration also includes serving as an admissions officer at Columbia Law School, publications coordinator at the Detroit Grand Opera Association, and public relations assistant at NYC's Museum of Contemporary Crafts, as well as sitting on various independent school bSchool, publications coordinator at the Detroit Grand Opera Association, and public relations assistant at NYC's Museum of Contemporary Crafts, as well as sitting on various independent school bschool boards.

«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.

includes a mind blowing number of initiatives that address intersections with schools, child care, cities, towns and counties, Indian Country, and faith communities, as well as efforts to connect kids with salad bars at school, outdoor initiatives, parks, museum and gardens, reading, and chefs.

Boo is learning about WW2 at school and today they are of on a museum visit dressed as evacuee children.

And we go out, we go to home - schooling events, we go to parties, we go to a museum, we go shopping, and he presents as he is.

The Arlington Heights Historical Museum offered different types of programs to Park District residents including period and holiday craft classes, programs for school and scout groups, and special events such as Civil War Days, German Fest, Holiday and Mother's Day Teas, the annual House Walk, and Irish Fest.

Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced price meals (as cited by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2016 - 2017 school year).

Free Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers free field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 95 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

Implement science and environmental science programs to students and teachers in Chicago area schools, at the Nature Museum, and as community - based programs.

Discounted Field Trips Chicago Children's Museum offers discounted field trips to 501 (c) 3 organizations serving low - income families and schools with 80 % or more of their students approved for free and reduced priced meals (as cited by the Illinois Department of Education).

WHAT GREAT PARENTS DO: The small Book of BIG Parenting Ideas began as a workshop in local schools and soon grew into a class attended by thousands of parents at schools and organizations, including Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, UCSF Benioff / Children's Hospital, and San Francisco Zen Center.

As the head of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's education department, she oversees programming and resources that reach 65,000 school children, 2,000 educators and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

Local museums may offer after school activities, as may your local library.

Chicago Children's Museum offers two - hour field trips to a variety of community - based organizations and educational institutions, such as public and private schools, daycares, preschools, day camps, community facilities, charitable organizations, and church / religious groups.

Dr. Erica also works with schools and other organizations that support parents, such as Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, San Francisco Zen Center, and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

One recent example is Hazel — which undoubtedly would not have increased as much as it has if first Julia Roberts hadn't named her daughter that, and then John Green hadn't named the main character in «The Fault in Our Stars» Hazel — a highly unusual name for a teenage girl when the book was published, but one that educated avant - garde writers like Green (prep school grad, Kenyon College English major, married to an art museum director) were giving to their own baby daughters.

Ceretto said he gave money to others in Wheatfield, including a $ 5,000 grant to Das Haus, a German heritage museum, as well as grants to the Niagara - Wheatfield School District.

Paul) region of Minnesota, teaching science to elementary school children as a contractor to the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul.

Volunteer to speak in the community — high school career days, events sponsored by environmental groups, or acting as a docent in a science museum can all give you a chance to lecture.

For 2 decades, Hiroshi Ishiguro's teams have deployed various robots — some with vaguely human forms, others crafted to look indistinguishable from people — as customers in cafes, clerks in stores, guides in malls and museums, teachers in schools, and partners in recreational activities.

As a young teenager, I slipped away from friends on a school trip and went to a wax museum.

Back on campus at McGill University in Montreal, I became a part - time curatorial assistant at McGill's entomological museum, which had me delivering educational talks to school kids, cataloging specimens, and taking care of live cultures of such creepy - crawlies as giant walking sticks from Papua New Guinea and Madagascar's hissing cockroaches.

These include intensive graduate training, postdoctoral research, and research assistantships for undergraduate students, as well as community outreach, including student group visits to our lab, collaborations with museums, schools, and local organizations, media contacts, and public lectures.

While the museum's decision to offer free school visits will allow some children from disadvantaged backgrounds the opportunity to experience Wonderlab, Dawson argues that «it is not enough to use school visits as a panacea for exclusive practice».

Exhibitors and participants at SciFest come from schools and universities as well as companies, public authorities, museums and organisations.

«Creed» isn't shy about its nods to the «Rocky» franchise — the iconic running up the steps of the Philadelphia art Museum, the chasing of chickens as an old school training method — and it could have easily dialed them back.

Scientists in the Making: High school students, such as intern Phillip Li (left), work as museum interpreters in the Academy's tidepool exhibit.

As part of Boston's larger transition - to - school process, for example, the Boston Children's Museum co-hosts a Countdown to Kindergarten Celebration with Boston Public Schools each August.

As part of the study we are also asking students in grades 3 - 12 to write short essays in response to paintings that they have probably never seen before to assess how they critically analyze a new work of art after they've had a school tour of an art museum.

Students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of an art museum experience improvements in their knowledge of and ability to think critically about art, display stronger historical empathy, develop higher tolerance, and are more likely to visit such cultural institutions as art museums in the future.

Launched in the fall of 2015, the Grand Rapids Public Museum School currently has 120 students in sixth and seventh grades, and will add a grade each year so it's fully enrolled as a 6 — 12 program by 2022.

At the Grand Rapids Public Museum School, students use the museum's exhibits — and the city of Grand Rapids — as their cMuseum School, students use the museum's exhibits — and the city of Grand Rapids — as their cmuseum's exhibits — and the city of Grand Rapids — as their campus.

The Museum School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teaSchool is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teaschool in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.

Where learners take courses through the formal institutions of high - quality schools and universities and also take advantage of informal experiences offered through museums, libraries, churches, youth groups, and parks as well as via the media.

A student at a novel middle school located inside the Grand Rapids Public Museum, Banks is eager to tell you about the historic importance of the sturgeon in the diet of the region's indigenous Anishinabek, as well as the details of its overfishing by white settlers and its present - day endangered status.

As theaters of active learning, museums are distinct from schools and other formal educational settings in that they make their educational offerings quietly and without demand.

If your school has the resources, reward those teachers with an extra professional day, a coveted software program, museum tickets, or admission to a local education conference as well.

This is a general fact about cognition, as true in museums as it is in schools.

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Offer optional activities such as live webinars, school or community arts performances, or a museum showing.