Sentences with phrase «many pilot schools»

More than 1,400 student athletes from five pilot schools — George Washington High School in San Francisco, Overfelt High School in San Jose, Berkeley High School, Carlmont High School in Belmont, and Milpitas High School — will be participating in four defined modules from the Dignity Health Concussion Network.

With top - down support from the superintendent, and a positive PR campaign from the pilot school principal, BIC was implemented in the remaining middle schools shortly after.

-LSB-...] pilot schools, new dining concepts in some high schools (on which I'll be reporting soon) and improvements to our elementary menus — I do feel we have a long way to go.

«[SNF consultant] Liz Campbell had come in and done the district evaluation, and spoke with our superintendent and administrators, including school nutrition director Margie Bowers; they decided to implement with five pilot schools.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

So you've graduated from beginner drone pilot school and are ready to take it to the next level?

Similarly, 137 applicants vied for 37 spots at related summer retreats designed to engage new seminary professors beyond those from the first 10 pilot schools.

Pilots at the US air force test pilot school flew this supersonic T - 38C jet to the right place at the right time so that NASA could capture this photograph of the jet's shock waves.

Early in the movie he meets a whiz - kid Jaeger bootlegger named Amara (Cailee Spaeny) and they both end up back in pilot school.

And so it was with my recent introduction to the world of the Mission Hill School, a Boston area public pilot school, as captured by the filmmaking team of Tom and Amy Valens.

NAVARRO: During our check in for our governing council a month ago [note: each pilot school in Los Angeles is supported by a governing council], the first one of the year, my assistant principal asked the council, «Why Humanitas?»

Dedicated CAMHS practitioners will be recruited to work with pilot schools in three areas across Wales.

A decade later, Navarro and a few like - minded colleagues applied to run their own pilot school.

In Massachusetts, pilot schools are given an additional $ 1,300 per student — something Reville says the state can't afford to do for all schools in this economy.

Compared to Josiah Quincy Upper School, the rigorous pilot school he attended, he finds the academic classes here less challenging.

New American High Schools Make the Grade Whether a comprehensive high school, a magnet school, a small pilot school, or a restructured vocational - technical school — the Department of Education's 30 «New American High Schools» have been transformed by research - based reform strategies.

Results for pilot schools were less clear; some analyses showed positive results at the elementary and high school level, while results for middle school students were less encouraging.

Across the pilot schools, teachers used the national curricula as a starting point to plan the use of digital materials.

Ditto for pilot schools.

This 80 - page evaluation provides a clear picture of how support for pupils learning EAL currently takes place in many schools, along with useful examples of learning and teaching strategies adopted in pilot school classrooms.

However, pilot schools, which were started by Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union, remain part of the local school district and are continuing to grow — seven new schools are slated to open this September; charter schools have independent advisory boards, are mostly nonunion, and report directly to the state.

Governor Deval Patrick, in a nod to the mayor, backed legislation that would expand pilot schooling throughout the state while curtailing charter school operations (see «Accountability Overboard,» features, Spring 2009).

«Unfortunately, the results for pilot schools are more ambiguous and deserve further study,» the report states.

A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

Developed in the early 1990s, both charter and pilot schools are similar in their goals — to improve student progress and help close the achievement gap.

The district's pilot schools, similar to those in Boston, are a key part of the L.A. school board's own experiment with semi-autonomous schools.

To bolster their stance, union leaders highlighted their recent support of certain innovations, including expanding Cortines's experiment with decentralized pilot schools, operating under flexible labor contracts and granting principals greater authority.

Fritch, after helping to win a pilot school with Brenes, put it simply, «We need to become a more progressive union, or we're going to be a done union.»

Some teacher groups, opposed to charter school expansion, submitted bids to take over eligible choice campuses as pilot schools.

Yesterday morning, I took the long «F» train ride from Manhattan to Brooklyn's David A. Boody Intermediate School (IS 228), one of New York City's three School of One pilot schools.

Leaders of the Detroit Compact said disagreements between business officials and educators have prompted the group to postpone by more than a month its deadline for agreement on how the plan will operate next fall in up to six pilot schools.

He is also a founder of a Boston pilot school, the Lee Academy, that begins with children at 3 years old.

Along with the new schools chief, Ray Cortines, the mayor sought to integrate Flores's charter plan with his own «partnership schools» and Cortines's commitment to «pilot schools» and thin labor contracts.

On Wednesday afternoons at Orchard Gardens K — 8 Pilot School in Boston, you will find Selby, dreadlocks meticulously pulled off her face,...

Reports from nine pilot schools that got the laptops in the spring of 2002 and the rest of the state's seventh grades that got them in fall 2002 indicate positive results.

For example, 96 % of students at Kenya High School, one of the pilot schools, said Future First alumni careers event made them want to work harder at school.

In the fall of 2006, he and Bennet decided to create something like Boston's Pilot Schools — in - district «Beacon Schools.»

The Commonwealth Pilot Schools model, for example, gives greater autonomy and some additional support to help schools turn around their own performances.

On Wednesday afternoons at Orchard Gardens K — 8 Pilot School in Boston, you will find Selby, dreadlocks meticulously pulled off her face, busy cleaning black laboratory tables with Clorox spray.

The report is being launched with representatives from the pilot schools and members of the Kenyan education community.

Poor students in pilot schools were 15 percent less likely to be chronically absent, relative to similar students at comparison schools.

A case in point is Carol Gruber's first - grade classroom at Seminole Trails Elementary School, one of the original three Efficacy pilot schools in Palm Beach.

Yet despite these positive results, three of the four pilot schools dropped out of the program after fewer than four years.

Teachers at pilot schools using these models have responded enthusiastically to new opportunities to lead teams and learn, as team members, from outstanding peers.

One area under particular scrutiny is education, where funding for programs such as charter and pilot schools, mainstays in the effort to bring innovative teaching...

The effort began with four pilot schools in 1988 - 89; six more were added in 1989 - 90.

Although Payzant was open to stretching the boundaries of the established order (as his push for Pilot Schools demonstrates), he was primarily concerned with getting the most out of the existing system.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

Charters (and cousins such as district - sponsored pilot schools) should be different, should march to promisingly better tunes.