Sentences with phrase «big ideas of school»

(See Ten Big Ideas of School Leadership).

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It's a conference about big ideas, and the most popular talks of all time cover topics like creativity in schools, body language, and the power of introverts.

Horton, who had recruited Pumphrey as a 150 - pound prospect out of Canyon Springs High in Las Vegas, was thrilled by the idea that some of the bigger schools had been scared off of Washington.

Many of those schools subscribed to the no excuses discipline model — the idea that if you crack down on slight misbehavior, you can prevent bigger issues from erupting.

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.

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Ironically, the comptroller, the man who adds up the plusses and minuses at the end of the day, was nowhere in the loop when one of the bigger ideas in county / city / school government was rolled out the same week by County Exec Mike Hein.

Basil Smikle Jr. has a lot of ideas about how to address Harlem's most vexing problems, from crime to housing to underemployment, but his biggest asset as he runs for state Senate against Bill Perkins may be that he supports charter schools.

This was entitled Invitation to Join the Government of Britain and was designed to illustrate the «big society» idea of handing power to people to set up schools and sack police chiefs.

With a big idea, a lot of confidence, and plenty of nerve, even a medical school dropout can do all right.

To get a better big - picture idea, Smith and his colleagues re-analyzed data from 45 of these studies, with a total of 11,747 participants — a mix of undergraduate and medical students, out - of - school adults, and psychiatric patients.

The idea of such a big change terrifies me, yesterday, while picking out my first day of school outfit I was simultaneously picking out an outfit for a job interview tomorrow.

Another fun Galentine's date idea is brunch with a big group of girls and have everyone bring an old school Valentine's card with a piece of candy.

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Crowdsourcing Education Innovation, For Cash Fast Company, May 18, 2011 «Another of the competition's judges, [Senior Lecturer] Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»»

From my perspective, targeted teaching is a form of differentiation that is specifically concerned with student's learning needs in relation to several «big ideas» in number, without which their progress in school mathematics will be seriously impacted.

The Big Yellow Friday Schools Kit which includes promotional material, lesson resources, a presentation and a host of fundraising ideas is available at http://www.bigyellowfriday.org/Ideas–materials/Download-or-order-materials/Schools-Kit-and-Materials.

The arts allow students to delve more deeply and viscerally into big ideas and discover new ways of thinking and being, as well as helping them undermine the false compartmentalization of different subjects that exists within schools.

My bigger idea is that in the future, students would receive a device in ninth grade that they could keep, at least for the duration of their high school career, and perhaps permanently.

Shawn Cornally, founder of the Big Ideas School, suggests that the first step toward successful PBL is getting students to understand why they don't need to experience dread when they hear the word project.

Features in the fall 2013 issue include a collection of some of the biggest ideas in education from some the field's biggest names — including a Muppet; a look at a unique school in Sikkim, India, run by an alum and his family; and a chronicle of Project Zero's collaboration with Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist Paul Salopek as he spends the next seven years walking around the world.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

The creation of public school for all children — boys and girls, the rich and the poor — was, in itself, a big idea.

One big idea animates virtually all of today's earnest education reformers: the conviction that great schools can spur social mobility.

Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds.

In Spector's experience, he says, the schools most in need of big changes are often the ones most willing to embrace cutting - edge ideas.

Naturally, the discussion returned during the election campaign this year, with Labor promising $ 400 million for teaching scholarships aimed at encouraging recent STEM graduates to enter the education field.4 At the same time, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull floated the idea of making maths and science a requirement for finishing high school, stating it was a «big priority» for the Government.

Former Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has said that the teacher crisis is «one of the biggest issues facing our schools», calling on the government to ditch the «terrible idea» of increasing the number of grammar schools and focus on the real problem.

Since Donald Trump's election and Betsy DeVos's selection as Secretary of Education put private - school - choice programs in the national spotlight — after years of slow - and - steady growth at the state level — advocates across Twitter and the blogosphere have been offering ideas on what a big push at the federal level might look like.

Some of the HISD principals came to LEV facing challenges ranging from changing the perception of their school in the community to recruiting new students to how to make their big ideas a reality.

Big ideas should have explanatory power in relation to a large number of objects, events and phenomena that are encountered by students in their lives during and after their school years and provide a basis for understanding issues, such as the use of energy, involved in making decisions that affect learners» own and others» health and wellbeing and the environment.

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

Mrs Ania Hildrey said: «The school is a big fan of The Great British Bake Off and we thought it would be a great idea to hold our own version of the competition to encourage creativity, teamwork and to develop basic life skill of baking.

«Competency - based learning is the idea that students are trying to meet certain big - picture understandings, not complete a bunch of tasks, jump through a bunch of hoops, and average a bunch of scores out,» said Kiza Armour, the school's department coordinator.

Joanne Jacobs, Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds.

Another of the competition's judges, Joe Blatt of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, notes that «The Global Education Challenge gives anyone with a big idea that could change the lives of children on a broad scale access to the resources that could make that idea a reality.»

The applicants were then asked to present their most ambitious designs, after which they were challenged to work through the logistics of opening their big - idea schools.

Such resistance was typical of big - city school district administrators, who had little patience with innovators, particularly novices like Feinberg and Levin; rookies with big innovative ideas have a habit of disrupting comfortable routines and often fail to deliver.

As well as having 65 schools in USA, the Big Picture Learning philosophy of «one student at a time» has already seen the idea spread to a number of countries including New Zealand, China and Belize where new schools have been created, existing schools have transformed or national policies have been influenced.

The pair of education advocates had a big idea, a new approach to transform every public - school classroom in America.

It means that my school does big, exciting, yet complicating assignments that requires a lot of research, software and internet usage, and ideas.

The core of SEL, explains Stephanie Jones, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a developmental psychologist who previously developed a guide for the Wallace Foundation, has to do with three big ideas.

This issue of Big IDEAS describes the important role mentoring plays in keeping students in school and describes two successful mentoring programs in West Virginia.

Milwaukee Public Schools is developing a series of Strategic Objectives — eight big ideas to improve outcomes for students — as part of a process that aligns the district's budget process to our operational and strategic planning.

The «Big Ideas: the future of engineering in schools» report, supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering, reflects the views of leading engineering education experts and key stakeholders such as employers, parents and pupils.

The plan, which is part of the district's Eight Big Ideas, aims to provide every student in the district with a high - quality arts education, both in and out of the classroom, improve school climate and culture, increase student and parent engagement, and improve academic achievement.

The superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools is putting forward some big ideas for change in her district.

A second big idea in this issue — and also one with new research behind it — is the value of socioeconomic diversity in schools (pp. 10, 38, 50).

A National Blue Ribbon School, Pioneer is among only 13 schools in the US selected by the GE Foundation as a Best - Practice Partner and is one of eight schools chosen by Dr. Richard DuFour to be featured in the video series The Power of Professional Learning Communities at Work ™: Bringing the Big Ideas to Life.