Sentences with phrase «schoolhouse as»

Now a full time resident of Isla Mujeres, he serves as CFO of the Island Time Music Festival benefiting the Little Yellow Schoolhouse as well as his involvement on the Board for Ruben's Kids.

For some researchers, this has justified abandoning the schoolhouse as a potential means for bridging the divide.

Parents who struggled with school themselves may not feel eager to step inside the schoolhouse as adults.

Many grew up with outhouses and walked to one - room schoolhouses as children.

Not exact matches

In a full and creative life, Dorough might be most famous (at least among people of a certain age) as the creator of the cartoon musical TV show known as Schoolhouse Rock!

In the landmark 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, the court decided that there were limits to students» rights at school, but that «It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate,» as Justice Abe Fortas wrote.

He boarded the windows, apparently preparing for a long siege, but as police surrounded the schoolhouse, Roberts shot all 10 girls before killing himself.

The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Tangent is poured along with its sister wineries from the NiSchoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Tangent is poured along with its sister wineries from the Nischoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Tangent is poured along with its sister wineries from the Niven Family.

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The Historic Independence Schoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Baileyana is poured along with its sister wineries from the NiSchoolhouse, built as a one - room schoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Baileyana is poured along with its sister wineries from the Nischoolhouse in 1909 for the local farming community, has since been updated and now houses the tasting room where Baileyana is poured along with its sister wineries from the Niven Family.

As a boy Jennings, the son of an unconventional couple who became engaged two weeks after meeting each other (and married three months later), would run or bike the two miles to the schoolhouse where he had been born.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

The old schoolhouse, which was later used as a residence, was donated to Heritage Park in 1977 and restored to its original appearance...

The Park Board bought the farm near Schoolhouse and LaPorte Roads in 1997 for $ 3.2 million to develop a large community park while preserving part of the farm as an example of the town's rural roots.

Local residents, as well as visitors from all over the world, enjoy the KidStory Exhibit and District Schoolhouse each year.

In the Rockland County village of Chestnut Ridge, an 80 - year - old woman was killed when a tree fell on top of her vehicle as she was driving on Red Schoolhouse Road Tuesday, Ramapo police said.

Schoolhouse Terrace at Croton Heights will transform the site of the blighted and long - abandoned Public School 6, which was demolished as part of this project.

The proposed Verizon Tower site on Schoolhouse Rd. in Saugerties should not be allowed as per several State, Town, FCC and Historic regulations.

Nineteen year - old Christy Huddleston decides to leave a sheltered life of luxury in 1912 Asheville to serve as a teacher in a remote mission schoolhouse in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

The colors are gracefully earthy, and the surfaces of the various settings — cafés, attorneys» offices, laundry mats, and schoolhouses — are impeccably present, existing as characters in their own right.

The movie presents as stylistically modest but makes expert use of its mobile camera, tracking and gliding down schoolhouse corridors and over running rivers in a way that amplifies the vitality of the Turtle Island people and of education as a dynamic process.

They'd have been better off remixing the Schoolhouse Rock tune of the same name in full, as the lyrics here are awful.

Here, when Thunderbolt And Lightfoot's heroes arrive at a plaque noting, «The one - room schoolhouse evokes a vision of a vanished America» outside a building that's been preserved as a landmark, the film doesn't dwell on the significance, but doesn't look away from it, either.

But turning a disheveled mountain of public education into a national schoolhouse on a hill will be a job as daunting as the marvelous, half - century - long, but ongoing rendering of a statue of Crazy Horse, the great Native American warrior, out of a Black Hills mountain by the Korzczak family.

Janice Herbranson, who gained celebrity status two years ago as the lowest - paid teacher in the country, may be off to teach in Alaska next year if her one - room North Dakota schoolhouse closes down for lack of students.

But as transportation improved and demand for a high - school education increased, the one - room schoolhouse organized into «recitation groups» no longer sufficed.

As Sal Khan wrote in his book The One World Schoolhouse: «[F] rom the perspective of many students, teachers are not viewed as someone who is on their sidAs Sal Khan wrote in his book The One World Schoolhouse: «[F] rom the perspective of many students, teachers are not viewed as someone who is on their sidas someone who is on their side.

Intrusive regulations, petty bureaucracy, and balky decision making have bizarrely come to be treated as part of the schoolhouse culture.

As I noted in The Same Thing Over and Over, «The debate over the sanctity of «schoolhouse leadership,» then, is really a debate between the defenders of early - twentieth - century management practices and those championing the management practices [favored] by leading public and private organizations in recent decades.»

We hope that this book will help relate how these lofty, abstract arguments will play out as this new federal law filters its way down through states and districts to the schoolhouse.

He wants to be there to guide them as they navigate the important curricular commitments, and he works to build relationships in the schoolhouse.

Girls wearing bonnets and long skirts and boys in straw hats and neckerchiefs stood on either side of a one - room schoolhouse, fidgeting as they waited for words during a spelling bee.

Think of it as «Schoolhouse Rock» with an edge.

As a result, the blackboard didn't make much sense in the context of the one - room schoolhouse because the teacher rarely, if ever, stood in front of the class to lecture.

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Also called continuous learning, multiyear placement, or family - style learning, looping — in which the same teacher remains with a group of students for two or more years — is a concept as old as the one - room schoolhouse.

As Matt Candler, founder of 4.0 Schools, writes, «What makes a modern micro-school different from a 19th century, one - room schoolhouse is that old school schools only had a few ways to teach — certainly no software, no tutors, and probably less structure around student to student learning.

For a week each year, each one of the school's six third - grade classes at Woodstock Elementary School in Woodstock, Connecticut, attends classes at the Quasset School, a one - room schoolhouse dating back to the 1800s, to experience life as students did more than 150 years ago.

Multiage grouping is as old as one - room schoolhouses, in which kids of all ages learned together.

If we're going to reinvent schools, I'd like us to do so in a manner that respects the broad purpose of the schoolhouse, which means paying due attention to the arts, to a rich curriculum, and, perhaps most important of all, to helping students develop as moral individuals and citizens.

Charters have been praised for opening the schoolhouse door to entrepreneurial, energetic teachers and leaders as well as for raising student achievement in high - need regions.

These gains have come at a pedagogical and societal cost, as the resolution of school disciplinary matters has increasingly moved — as Justice Breyer feared — from the schoolhouse to the courthouse.

Prominent thinkers, such as Thomas Sergiovanni in Leadership for the Schoolhouse, argue that «corporate» models of leadership can not work in education.

The partnership with the Digital Schoolhouse Programme is particularly exciting as it aims to engage the next generation of school children, and their teachers, with the new computing curriculum.»

Although his little four - room schoolhouse in West Bridgewater is gone, replaced by a more modern brick building, the legacy of what a quality public education offered him is clear, as shown in a letter written in 1973 by one of his junior high students to a superintendent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in support of a teacher who lost his vision and then his job:

The organization now seems to be on hiatus, last appearing in February 2009 in support of the Pennsylvania State Education Association's «Save Pennsylvania's Schools» campaign, and as the creator of Schoolhouse Talk, an Internet radio show.

Quotes such as «many hands make light work» and «two heads are better than one» could not be more apropos than they are in today's schoolhouses.

Over in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the WINGS model of schooling — now Divine Providence Academy — is an example of how blended learning can facilitate effective multi-age classrooms, allowing schools to right - size staff and become sustainable as much smaller operations, akin to one - room schoolhouses of old.

The event is run by Digital Schoolhouse, powered by PlayStation, a programme delivered by games industry trade body, Ukie, as a way of creating a bridge between the education and technology sector.

As a result of participating in this workshop, Grief in the Schoolhouse, your understanding of grief and bereavement and how it impacts your school community will be enhanced and you will be better prepared to deal with a loss in your school.