Sentences with phrase «at priority schools»

Here are the stories of five union leaders who were featured on the magazine's cover and who are helping to drive reforms aimed at improving student achievement at priority schools.

,» and a beloved Dr. Seuss character, NEA's «Read Across America Tour - Driven by Mazda» is making stops at priority schools in California and Nevada.

Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to «summer school» to dive into professional development and to learn from their peers about what's working — and what's not — to improve education for needy students at priority schools.

Union - led reform can't be accomplished without collaboration, and NEA members at priority schools across the country are teaming with parents, principals, community organizations, and elected leaders to raise student achievement.

Not exact matches

Mandy Manning, a teacher at Joel E. Ferris High School in Spokane, Wash., wore several buttons that seemed to rebuke the president's priorities as she accepted a crystal apple trophy.

Since its inception in 2011, the Haskayne Founders» Circle has advanced priority initiatives at the school.

Christopher Buchanan is an articling student at Miller Thomson LLP, and while at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, he made sleep a priority.

Through philanthropic support, the Haskayne Founders» Circle advances priority initiatives at the school.

It means we will be able to use that money to invest in our priorities at home, such as housing, schools and the NHS, and it means the days of paying vast sums to the European Union every year are coming to an end.

Democrats wasted no time quickly outlining their top three priorities: background checks, the ability to take guns away from those who pose a «clear danger,» and at least a debate on banning assault weapons such as the AR - 15 used at the Florida high school.

We are based at MIT Sloan School of Management and we are a member of the MIT Innovation Initiative and of MIT - Africa, the initiative that encompasses the Institute's global priority for collaboration with Africa in the areas of education, research and innovation.

The remarkable preference for efficiency we see in the overwhelmingly Democratic student body at Yale Law School also sheds light on today's progressive priorities, which focus on identity politics, especially sexual identity.

Between chaperoning at a school dance and then a staff party and after - party the next night, I actually enjoyed the few priorities of Sunday.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

You'd think there would be a collective sigh of relief and a reordering of priorities at every school and around every kitchen table.

Teachers can also make physical activity a priority throughout the year by creating a Project ACES Club at their school to teach and learn healthy lifestyle food and exercise choices.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals... Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

In my experience visiting many school cafeterias, I have learned that a parent's # 1 priority at lunchtime is nutrition.

The staff at J.J. «Jake» Pickle Elementary and Mendez Middle School welcomed us with open arms, and answered our many questions about why BIC is a priority in Austin ISD, and how schools are making the program not just work, but succeed.

Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

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Tom Kenny, interim dean at the School of Engineering, said that as the school developed the programming, one of its priorities was to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of engineSchool of Engineering, said that as the school developed the programming, one of its priorities was to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of engineschool developed the programming, one of its priorities was to showcase the interdisciplinary nature of engineering.

As states prepare to implement ESSA in the upcoming school year, many — like Kentucky — have been gathering feedback from stakeholders and creating state accountability plans, and school districts are beginning to identify priorities for funding at the school level.

It is just not an urgent priority in the financing of school s or career metrics of anyone at the local level.

I just joined ours this year and feel like I'm just getting my feet wet, but we've made competitive food (both the authorized foods sold by HISD but also the unauthorized fast food sold by student and school groups at lunch time to raise money) our number one priority this year.

At a time when high schools are receiving lots of attention and acclaim for their sports teams, it would seem only logical that having full - time certified athletic trainers to take care of their athletes would be a priority.

Breakfast is a priority at Indian Creek Schools — the importance of breakfast is even explicitly stated in the school district's wellness policy.

Starting young with offering healthy varied food choices could be a priority at school and home.

If food allergy management is a priority for your school nutrition program, we hope you will join us at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

If menuing whole grain - rich recipes is a priority for your school nutrition program, we hope you will join us at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

Changes can come, in fact we must make feeding our children correctly a high priority, both at the school menu level and at home.

These included not allowing students with no religion to be admitted, if the school was undersubscribed — something the school has now changed; and having a «Catholic service criterion», which gives priority to parents who, for at least three years, have carried out activities including «Assisting in the Liturgy: for example by reading, singing in the choir or playing an instrument, altar serving, flower arranging.»

Nasrul is also a guest lecturer at the School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol for the Commissioning and Priorities Setting Module.

Trump, addressing a bipartisan group of more than 30 governors at the White House, said securing the nation's schools following the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. remains a top priority for his administration.

At 8:15 a.m., New York Law School's CityLaw Breakfast Series features NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña speaking on «Setting the Priorities: Equity and Excellence for All,» New York Law School Events Center, 185 W. Broadway, Manhattan.

We are proud that the final agreement not only includes these longstanding priorities of our conference but also makes significant investments in our public education system, community schools, and struggling schools while holding the line on tuition increases at our SUNY and CUNY institutions.

We also strongly support the Governor's proposals to educate the whole child, a key priority for the Regents, including to ensure New York's students have access to healthy meals at school so they can focus on learning in the classroom.

Ensuring that the imminent move of the town clerk's office to the new shared space at the old Rosendale Elementary School in Cottekill is «smooth and productive» is a high priority for Tierney.

And individual politicians and public representatives at all levels - from the Prime Minister to an opposition backbencher and from a school governor or local councillor - have an important role in working with us and with people with diabetes to make diabetes a priority.

Speed cameras have less legislative momentum, but language was included in the Assembly's budget priorities that would allow them to be placed in 290 school zones — double the existing authorization, which expires at year's end — and allow cameras within a quarter - mile of schools, not just on adjacent streets.

The proposal calls for giving students who score below grade level priority access to 25 percent of seats at each of the district's 18 middle schools starting with next year's application process.

«This government has made it a priority to help children in their early years and this initiative does just that, providing every child with a free school meal in their first years at primary school,» she said.

Bill Gates» philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is making an about - face on its education priorities to focus on networks of traditional public schools aimed at improving student achievement.

«Class size is a major issue, for example at School # 6 they have class sizes in elementary level of over 30 - students with students that have a high amount of students with special education needs, ELL - English Language Learners, and so lowering class size is something that has been priority and that's been a part of those plans.»

«Dana has made it clear: she will protect the NRA's priorities at all costs, including the safety of our school children, and she's not afraid to walk out on her responsibility as a Senator in the process.»

Forcina, a former Marine who worked at a software company prior to becoming an attorney, said his top campaign priorities are elder care, writing laws that will aid small businesses in northeast Queens, lowering taxes and supporting the creation of charter schools in his district.

She told lawmakers at a joint legislative budget hearing in January that it is a top priority, citing studies that indicate children who participate in high - quality preschool programs are 50 percent less likely to be placed in special education courses, 25 percent less likely to drop out of school, and 60 percent more likely to attend some college.

The immediate priority must be universal primary and secondary education — all children in school at least through to age 15 — everywhere in the world.

But I also recognize that they are only able to secure a very small supply of vaccine and there are many competing priorities,» says Andrew Azman, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland, who in the last month has been part of a team advising WHO on how to allocate the cholera vaccine in Yemen.

«Restoration priorities are typically based on the evidence for environmental degradation without explicitly accounting for the benefits people receive from ecosystems, which include recreational opportunities,» said lead researcher David Allan, professor emeritus of aquatic sciences at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.