Sentences with phrase «national scholastic»

We want to send a shout out to the Aloma D. Johnson National Scholastic Chess Team who won their first Chess Team Trophy!

A team of artists and teachers judged the work and local winners will go on to the National Scholastic Art Awards.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Chess enthusiasts of all ages and abilities are invited to join instructors and students from the National Scholastic Chess Foundation for Chess in the Park being held Monday, October 9 from 1 to 4 pm at the Ruby Dee Park at 1

I first met Spiegel in the winter of 2009, after I read an article in the New York Times about her team's performance at the National Scholastic K − 12 Championship the previous December.

Jane Findling, a senior at Valparaiso (Ind.) High, set a national scholastic soft - ball throw record of 251» 10» to qualify for the first state girls» prep track meet, then won the title with a toss of 232» 9».

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The USDA is trying to help with its Team Nutrition project, a national nutrition - education program involving government, health organizations and private industry, notably Walt Disney Co. and Scholastic Inc., the country's largest educational publisher, says Ellen Haas, USDA undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services.

Donalyn Miller, national ambassador for independent reading at Scholastic, offers tips for encouraging reading at home.

But Nigerians must see through it all; and avoid passing the negative prejudices down the ages, under the romance of «national unity and integration», as Prof. Pate, with all due respect to his scholastic rigour, would appear to have done, all through his commemorative lecture.

She has previously written for Scholastic, MedPage Today, Scienceline, and Oak Ridge National Lab.

SANTA MONICA, CA (September 1, 2011)-- This National Literacy Month, LIONSGATE ® (NYSE: LGF), in cooperation with Scholastic and Scribd, is thrilled to announce that new fans of The Hunger Games can read a never - before - released sample — the entirety of Chapter 2 — from Suzanne Collins» bestselling book.

Both the content and the application are part of Lionsgate, Scholastic and Scribd's efforts to promote reading and books during National Literacy Month.

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The National Teacher of the Year Program, presented by ING FN - NAIC, is a project of the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and is sponsored by Scholastic Inc..

In April 2005, he was named the 55th National Teacher of the Year by the Council of Chief State School Officers, the ING FN - NAIC, and Scholastic Inc..

In line with this, Jim Magee, education standards directorate at the Department for Education kicked off proceedings in the National Curriculum Theatre, sponsored by Scholastic, as he explored delivering the new National Curriculum.

Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English / Scholastic.

I know dozens of teachers who serve remotely on one or more of the following: The PBS Teacher Advisory Group, the iCivics Educator Network, California's Better Together Teacher Advisory Committee, the Flipped Learning Teacher Advisory Committee, the Scholastic Teacher Advisory Committee, and the Teacher Advisory Group for the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Dr. Jemison is a member of the National Academy of Sciences» Institute of Medicine and is: on the Board of Directors of Kimberly - Clark Corp., Scholastic, Inc. and Valspar Corp.; a Trustee of Morehouse College; Board of Texas Medical Center; and served as Chair, Texas State Product Development and Small Business Incubator Board; Chair, Greater Houston Partnership Disaster Planning and Recovery Task Force; a member Board of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.

Please note that these tips have been adapted from articles published by Scholastic, Inc., the National Parent Teacher Association, and the International Reading Association, and that the sources are indicated after each section of tips.

The National Teacher of the Year Program, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc., each year names teachers of the year from each of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico.

We had a survey from the [National Education Association], one from the [American Federation of Teachers], and one from Scholastic with 20,000 teachers, and the majority of teachers, 75 percent of teachers, are saying this is the right thing for our students.

Indeed, on the most recent Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), black and Hispanic DoDEA students scored significantly above the national average for their subgroups.

In fact, one - third of the more than 1,000 principals responding to the Scholastic national survey were in rural areas.

An innovative curriculum that has gained national recognition from the George Lucas Educational Foundation (2001 and 2007), Intel and Scholastic Schools of Distinction (2005), and Blue Ribbon Lighthouse Schools (2005):

As Sheldon Horowitz, EdD, director of professional services for the National Center for Learning Disabilities, tells Scholastic, «When students... demonstrate skills to each other they are validating their understanding of the material being learned and, often in ways that adults are less successful, helping their peers to build and master new skills.»

The National Academic League (NAL) is a competitive scholastic extracurricular program designed to increase middle school achievement, and sponsored by the Abell Foundation since 1993.

Instead of relying solely on national tests, as was the case in 1991 — 92, the Israeli system is beginning to implement school - based review and internal monitoring of scholastic achievement in a project that includes about 60 schools.

And while a new report by Scholastic on principals and teachers» views on education equity describes that overwhelmingly, educators agree that equity in education for all children should be a national priority, it is also evident that such leadership requires clarity around the nuances of what it means to provide students a well - rounded education — regardless of race, national origin, immigration status, gender identity, disability, or religion.

On Thursday, May 5, ASCD, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and Scholastic, will welcome each of the 2016 State Teachers of the Year — including the recently announced National Teacher of the Year, Jahana Hayes — to its Alexandria headquarters for a Teacher Leadership Day.

Round Rock ISD students succeed at National Chess Championship, 2018 Texas Scholastic Chess Championships

First it was revealed that the national average on the verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test had dropped by two points for the 1990 - 1991 school year and that the math portion had dropped for the first time in eleven years, resuming the downward drift of the 1960s and 1970s.

But a review of the best evidence on teachers» sentiments shows that educators are not unhappy because they resent the new emphasis on teacher evaluations, a key element of President Obama's Race to the Top program; in fact, according to a separate survey of 10,000 public school teachers from Scholastic and the Gates Foundation, the majority support using measures of student learning to assess teachers, and the mean number of years teachers believe they should devote to the classroom before being assessed for tenure is 5.4, a significant increase from the current national average of 3.1 years.

L. 108 — 454, § 106 (a), inserted at end «Such term also includes national tests for admission to institutions of higher learning or graduate schools (such as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), Law School Admission Test (LSAT), Graduate Record Exam (GRE), and Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)-RRB- and national tests providing an opportunity for course credit at institutions of higher learning (such as the Advanced Placement (AP) exam and College - Level Examination Program (CLEP)-RRB-.»

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The College Board, the national organization that sponsors the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and supplemental achievement tests, agrees in theory.

Prior to joining SPN in 2016, Todd served in senior leadership positions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Scholastic with a focus on creating national impact in schools and districts through impactful strategic school improvement consulting, focused professional learning and building leadership capacity.

The focus of the day was to engage in a conversation with Scholastic regarding a national survey on equity in education, and each teacher recorded a video about his or her role in education.

In May 2016, in partnership with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and Scholastic, ASCD welcomed 2016 National Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes and all the State Teachers of the Year to its Alexandria, Va., headquarters for a Teacher Leadership Day.

She attended the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop and won a national medal in journalism from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards.

Fortunately, Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's content, has come to the rescue by unveiling a new set of titles for its Storia e-reading app, all from National Geographic Kids.

The Scholastic Teacher & Principal School Report series showcases the results of a national survey of more than 4,700 public school Pre-K — 12 educators on critical issues affecting schools and districts across the country.

The Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report ™ is a biennial, national survey of children ages 6 — 17 and their parents as well as parents of kids» ages 0 - 5, in the U.S. exploring attitudes and behaviors around reading books for fun.

Sophie studies history at McGill University, and was a finalist for the 2017 QWF Literary Prize for Young Writers, a 2016 Pushcart Prize nominee, and the winner of a 2015 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards National Silver Medal.

Books / Calendars: BBC Books, World Books Publishing, National Geographic Society Books, World Wildlife Fund, American Greetings, Time Inc., Prentice Hall, Cambridge University Press, John Wiley and Sons, Houghton - Mifflin, McGraw - Hill, US Postal Service, Orion Books (UK), Enslow Publishers, Thomson Learning, Pearson Education, Guiness World Records, Scholastic, McDougal Littell, Voyageur Press, Nature Company Guides, Trident Press (UK), Grange Books (UK), Heinemann (UK, NZ), Dorling Kindersley (UK), Colin Baxter (UK), Sichtweise Verlag (Germany), Lonely Planet Guides, Stone Creek Publications, Mondadori (Italy), Kodansha (Japan), Portal calendars.

An exhibition of work by students in grades 7 through 12 who have won national awards from the Scholastic Art & Writing program will be on view at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery (144 West 14th...

He has won many awards such as the Scholastic Art Award, the National Endowment for the Arts three times, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Rome Prize.

Pratt Manhattan Gallery recently featured an exhibition of work by students in grades seven through 12 who won national awards from the Scholastic Art & Writing program.

Twenty years ago Philip Pearlstein was a painterly painter approaching 40, with a career that had already spanned 20 years and encompassed prizes in two consecutive Scholastic Magazine National High School Art Exhibitions, a stint in the army, a bachelor's degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a bachelor apartment in New York shared with Andy Warhol, marriage, inclusion in an «Emerging Talent» show assembled by Clement Greenberg, a master's degree in art history from New York University (thesis on Picabia), a trip out West, a summer in Montauk, another in Maine, writing for art magazines,

Commissions and clients include The United Nations, Lucasfilm, National Geographic, CNN, DC Comics, Microsoft, The Sci - Fi Channel (now Syfy), Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and others.

Significant clients: Bonhams & Butterfields, Pernod - Ricard, National Hockey League, Newsweek, Scholastic.