Sentences with phrase «high school alliance»

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Kenney hasn't chosen thus far to do that, and in his only statement raised the straw man that this gay - straight alliance legislation could affect kids as young as five — though the clubs are essentially for junior high and high schools, not kindergarteners in any context anybody imagines.

She felt lucky to attend a public high school in Austin, Texas, that was highly supportive and had a gay student alliance.

Our coaches are well trained and have taken the positive coaching alliance training and have played the game in high school and / or college.

Common Roads, as the youth programming arm of the Center, serves LGBT youth in Central Pennsylvania through weekly group meetings in Harrisburg and Lancaster, support for area high school and college gay - straight alliances (GSAs) and community education and training on creating a safe space for LGBT youth.

«We're saying, yes, put the money in, but let's have... high expectations for these schools, and let's have the state Education Department be required to hold them to the standards, including a standard that parent and community engagement must be robust,» Billy Easton of the alliance said.

The Wyss Institute creates transformative technological breakthroughs by engaging in high risk research, and crosses disciplinary and institutional barriers, working as an alliance that includes Harvard's Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences and Design, and in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston University, Tufts University, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University of Zurich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Don't be fooled by the sugar candy - coating — Darren Stein's G.B.F. is an incisive look at coming out in high school in the era of gay - straight - alliances.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

For example, I recently learned that my public high school back in Beachwood, Ohio, has a gaystraight alliance (GSA), and according to a former classmate who is now a teacher's aide at the school, «kids are just more accepting today,» noting that her teenage daughter has several «out» gay friends.

From inside the echo chamber — universities, think tanks, foundations, professional associations, and business alliances — it's easy to believe that a consensus exists over what's wrong with high schools and what they ought to be.

The AACTE is a national alliance of educator preparation programs dedicated to the highest quality professional development of teachers and school leaders in order to enhance PreK - 12 student learning.

The programme involves an alliance of the following schools: Sheffield High School, Firth Park Academy, Horizon Community College, High Storrs School and Newfield School.

Highlights from our 2013 annual report include the innovative research alliances that are guiding the work of the Regional Educational Laboratories, the regional concerns addressed by the Southeast and Texas Comprehensive Centers, and the Center for High - Performing Schools» research - based strategies to support improved reading outcomes for students in New Mexico.

Some include a salary, others don't; some require PGCE study, others are «assessment - only»; providers span higher education institutions, teaching school alliances, multi-academy trusts and charities such as Teach First.

Carter said the cash aims to create «less patchy» coverage of multi-academy trusts (MATs) and teaching school alliances (TSAs); launch more high quality training routes for teachers in challenging areas; make sure curriculum ideas such as «mastery» consistently enter all classrooms; and allow faster intervention when schools are failing.

This will enable us to continue to grow teaching school alliances, continue to grow national leaders of education and continue to support and develop existing and new high quality multi academy trusts.

The alliance is made up of two independent schools (Hampton School and The Lady Eleanor Holles LEH) and five state schools (Hampton High, The Hollyfield School, Orleans Park School, Teddington School and Tolworth Girls» School).

Our Blueprint envisages a system in which all schools work together, sharing expertise and resources, in teaching school alliances, or other partnerships, as well as developing formal relationships with higher education institutions to encourage teachers to undertake research which informs their practice.

This represents an unprecedented alliance in the development of a charter high school, and a powerful way to serve high school students living in San Diego's urban core.

Catholic schools in the Diocese of Grand Rapids are an alliance of 30 vibrant learning communities (25 elementary and five high schools) serving more than 6,600 preschool through 12th grade students within a seven - county area of West Michigan.

Ann Cook and Phyllis Tashlik of the New York Standards Consortium discuss the challenges persented to performanced - based assessment by the New York State Department of Education, Steve Jubb of BayCES talks about how to create alliances to change district policies and Albuquerque's Amy Biel High School details their communication and advocacy strategies which have helped them meet stragic legislative goals.

Schools build sustainable alliances with high - quality community partners to help remove barriers to student learning.

(L - R) Adam Lowe, executive director of the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships; Dr. Diana Johnson, executive director of high school relations at NWACC and president - elect of the state alliance; and Connie Poteet, the state organization's president and concurrent credit coordinator at National Park College in Hot Springs.

The two forge a friendship and an alliance as they work through grief, pain and the extreme social pressures of high school life during their «wanderings» around town.

The FIRST Tech Challenge presents high - school student teams with the chance to design and program robots and compete against other teams in an alliance format.

The gay - straight alliance group at Gonzalez's school received the Voice for Equality award after the young adults were recognized for their efforts that called for stricter gun laws following the tragedy at their high school last month.

«I've been fighting for a GSA (gay straight alliance) at my high school for three years and I've stood in front of our school board 17 times to make it happen.