Sentences with phrase «schools challenge which»

We're trying to get Chicago to apply for the USDA HealthierUS Schools Challenge which includes requirements for improved food, nutrition ed and for physical activity.

Not exact matches

That organization partners with Hult International Business School to administer the annual $ 1 million Hult Prize, which starts with a challenge to college and graduate students to develop solutions to a global issue.

As most would guess, kids with more disadvantages, such as poverty and less educated parents, come to school less prepared, which pulls down average test scores at districts where more kids face these challenges.

The rest of my time is spent working on launching a beer school series in Toronto and preparing to speak at beer festivals — the latter of which involves coming up with fun ways to talk about beer to people who've been drinking it all day, which is challenging.

It's the title of a satirical video game in which players are challenged to use «thoughts and prayers» to stop school shootings (spoiler alert: it doesn't work).

What that lets us do is meet the incredible difficulty of this challenge, which is to help modernize existing schools in the U.S. with a lot of time and resources.

Together they were elaborating a philosophical position which boldly challenged traditional modes of thinking and came to be called «The Chicago School» of philosophy.

Despite the good news, InterVarsity — which has 985 chapters on 649 campuses — noted that it «continues to face challenges» to campus access at other schools in California, as well as New York, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Maine, Iowa, and Florida.

Rev Nigel Genders, the Church of England's chief education officer, said: «In the current education landscape small rural schools face some tough challenges which are not simple to resolve and are often expressed in negative terms.

On the high school and college level, however, the Christian institutions had to compete with the large networks of Hindu and Sikh institutions which, paradoxically, were begun earlier in this century in response to the Christian institutions, the conversion appeal of which seemed to challenge the Indian religions.

In many ways, the school chaplain or the religion teacher is doing much of what the church should be doing with young people — namely, taking them seriously, reflecting with them on their moral priorities, sometime challenging their values, offering them a greater perspective in which to deal with their pain, their hopes, their questioning.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

A spokeswoman for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing three religious schools that are challenging the health care law, said that she was also unaware of another college that had taken such action.

Even though the creators of the National Curriculum are keen to emphasise the importance of what they call «the English literary heritage», by which they mean «authors with an enduring appeal that transcends the period in which they were writing, and who have played a significant role in the development of literature in English» [Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 2007, 71), their choice of recommended authors reveals a set of post-Protestant secular assumptions which need to be challenged if Catholic culture is to flourish in Catholic schools.

Challenging Homophobia in Schools, tells schools that as part of their action to prevent homophobia, they should avoid «heterosexism» a new word which the Department helpfully defines for us: «HETEROSEXISM describes the presumption that everyone is heteroSchools, tells schools that as part of their action to prevent homophobia, they should avoid «heterosexism» a new word which the Department helpfully defines for us: «HETEROSEXISM describes the presumption that everyone is heteroschools that as part of their action to prevent homophobia, they should avoid «heterosexism» a new word which the Department helpfully defines for us: «HETEROSEXISM describes the presumption that everyone is heterosexual.

Our challenge is to present better educational offerings, using what - ever tools are most efficacious, which no doubt would include public schools.

It's divided into four parts: Introduction, Recipes, «Plant - Powered Challenges & Solutions», which includes how to deal with picky eaters and school / lunchbox solutions (useful even for adult lunches!)

The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.

Salad bars, Beegle knew, were a means by which she could accomplish these goals, but it was challenging to secure the right equipment until she found Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools.

With the precious support of the World Bank and Valrhona, the World Cocoa Foundation, the Trade for Sustainable Development (T4SD) project of the International Trade Centre (ITC), Google Food Lab (GFL), Future Food Institute (FFI) and the Business School Lausanne (BSL) invite you to a three - day hackathon (October 23 - 24) to collaborate on creating, prototyping and birthing hardware and software tools which address some of the greatest challenges of cocoa farming.

It's almost time to send the kids back to school, which means for many parents and caregivers busy schedules and challenging lunchbox fixing.

At our school, grades in advanced courses are multiplied in the calculation of GPA, which attempts to both incentivize and «reward» those who take on challenging coursework.

For Challenge Success representative senior Laine Ratzer, the way to build a stronger community within Piedmont is through greater school pride, which can create a sense of unity.

Because one aspect of TLT of which I'm most proud is that this blog has proven to be a forum where school food providers feel as comfortable voicing their views as anyone else, and I like to think this is because I feel (and have expressed here many times) only the greatest respect for what they do and the daunting challenges they face.

Challenge Success is a California corporation with its own officers and directors which survives on private donations and the fees schools pay it for its school experiences survey (charge: $ 2,000 and $ 3,750), etc..

With the help of Challenge Success, JLS Principal Sharon Ofek several years ago created a «Shadow Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterward.

Subconsciously, this can challenge kids to try and understand what they're being told, which can increase critical thinking skills and, subsequently, school and future work success.

Salad bars, Beegle knew, were a means by which she could accomplish these goals, but it was challenging to secure the right equipment until she found Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools.

The Challenge Success program — which is also employed at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont — began with a survey of nearly 2,000 Amador students.

That means that the popular reality show, with its supersized personalities and offbeat kitchen challenges, will be in Washington at the same time as Congress is considering the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, which provides funding and guidelines for the national school lunch program.

As an indication of the value that USDA places on high participation rates regardless of income level, the Healthier US School Challenge Program, which recognizes schools that exemplify best practices, includes the overall participation rate as a criterion.

I've seen their challenges first hand and heard their complaints, which is why I recently said quite sincerely, «I've come to believe that there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food program.»

These students, and others from 14 local public high schools, were competing in Cooking Up Change, a healthy cooking contest in which teams were challenged to create nutritious school lunches on a tight budget — $ 1 per meal — and limited ingredients and prep work.

As I've written about before on The Lunch Tray (see «Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School «-RRB-, districts face real challenges in ensuring that their school lunch rooms present meals in the manner in which they were intended to be sSchool «-RRB-, districts face real challenges in ensuring that their school lunch rooms present meals in the manner in which they were intended to be sschool lunch rooms present meals in the manner in which they were intended to be served.

Support from other home schoolers can help us with this on - going learning, and when you have a more challenging day (which happens once in a while), it is also very useful to know other home schooling parents, who can help you with ideas and give you encouragement.

In the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challenge.

Anne L. Bryant, executive director of the school boards association, said it was «disappointing» that the law «does not provide adequate funding,» which she said would «challenge schools» ability to provide school nutrition by adding a new funding burden for schools at a time when there are critical budget shortfalls.»

The most obvious sign of that were the scores on the citywide math exam at our middle school, which had been the school with the most challenges.

Every year my fantastic Post colleague Jay Mathews takes a great deal of time to assemble his list of America's Most Challenging High Schools, and he's just done it again for his 2014 list, which you can read all about here.

Pope has experience translating research for a broad audience as a co-founder of Challenge Success, which provides families and schools with the practical, research - based tools they need to create a more balanced and academically fulfilling life for kids.

In middle and high school, these issues can emerge as major challenges — particularly for a child who is coping with a disorder such as ADHD, which has an impact on her behaviors, thought processes, and social skills.

This exciting contest, which is now going into its 8th year, challenges teams of high school students — including staff and chef mentors — to develop a creative, appetizing and visually appealing school lunch entrée and side dish while incorporating locally grown foods.

The third season of the TV show, which was taped in Washington, D.C., recently challenged it's contestants to create a healthy school lunch.

RoyalCrest Academy is an independent co-educational elementary private school with a simple but remarkable vision: to provide a nurturing environment in which to challenge students from pre-school through the Grade 8.

But since then I've learned a tremendous amount about the complexities and challenges of running a school food program, which I recently referred to as one of the hardest jobs on the planet.

Five Acres School is an intensive therapeutic learning environment for children K - 10 with academic, emotional, behavioral and social challenges which are best addressed with an alternative educational setting.

We know motherhood can be challenging, which is why we believe EASY after school snacks are a must.

Extracurricular activities also provide fun and enjoyment, which can help keep kids motivated about school when their school work becomes challenging.

In a districts which use a central kitchen (like LAUSD and my own HISD), ensuring that food is properly reheated and assembled at hundreds of satellite schools is a real challenge that I've written about before («Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School.»)

This perception needs to be addressed and challenged in school physical education (PE) according to research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which shows how school provision could make use of visual approaches in developing young people's critical learning about the body.