Sentences with phrase «schools in small communities»

However, she noted, schools in small communities should not hesitate to expand their search for business partners to businesses in surrounding communities that are supported by residents of their town.

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She has been active in the Toronto community promoting startups, female entrepreneurship and has been a guest speaker at Ivey School of Business, University of Waterloo and City of Toronto Small Business Forum.

The team had a small prototype, but they said they wanted to see IMU installed in community spaces such as school lobbies.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

Do you have any advice or ideas for those of us at home with small children, or working the daily grind 9 - 5 jobs, or in school full - time to honor our commitments to family, work and school while simultaneously working to benefit our communities?

Twice each year, I take two bus - loads of high school students on retreats at which they worship, walk labyrinths, talk in small groups with adults who care about them, and «hang out» in Christian community.

When you add in factors like weekly church attendance, Sunday school and / or small group, understanding of historic Christian doctrine, those divorce numbers in the «Christian community» go WAAAAY down.

This school is one small thing, one small stone in that massive mountain of complex issues related to economics, social justice, community development, family, debt repayments, international policy, poverty, education, all of it.

Wanted to be in a smaller community with good schools and the right fit for his family.

Every summer in a Pennsylvania community that is still small enough to have just one high school, tens of thousands gather at Howard J. Lamade Stadium outside Williamsport to watch 12 - year - old boys (with a few 11 - year - olds thrown in) compete for the crown of Little League World Series champions.

While I see CIF's reasoning behind it, I just don't see some of these championships in the medium to small divisions getting anyone to care at all outside of the school and its immediate community.

Small group discussions were organized for participants to reflect on two of the Core Principles and share how they are in evidence in their school community.

For instance, small businesses pay sales tax in the community, which filters into the school system, public parks, roads and local service workers.

A common scenario in the small, farming community where my family lives is for a mother to stay at home with her children when they are young and then get a job at the school when her youngest child enters kindergarten.

Our school's first grade teacher will come to a small, but growing Anthroposophical community and will have the opportunity to be a pioneer of Waldorf education in the Heartland.

When she came on as the food service director the two schools in this small rural community were losing $ 27,000 a year in their cafeterias.

Involve them in the fight to insist that food at their school be fantastic, and show them what a small group of thoughtful, committed community members can accomplish together.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

YMS was welcomed in the community as a small school and most new registrations continue to come by referral.

I graduated from a small high school, where the principal was very much interested in the poor and the hungry, and in public policy; he taught us how to be an advocate for the helpless people in our community and in our state.»

Major City Directors Section Meeting CEP: Making It Work in Major City Districts (3310) Key Area 3 - Administration 7/14/2015, 2:15 pm - 3:15 pm Ballroom ACE Speakers: Nadine Mann, PhD, RD, Zoe Neuberger, Stacy Koppen and Susan Ehrhart, SNS The national roll - out of the new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) has exceeded all expectations among small and mid-size school districts.

When the Rochester School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that there would still be ample community input in the form of small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the district website.

At 10:30 a.m., Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy and state Sen. David Carlucci join advocates from New York's small business, school and library communities to push their legislation to enforce net neutrality in New York, Legislative Office Building, LCA Pressroom, Room 130, Albany.

Activists have long complained that some ultra-Orthodox yeshivas, a small fraction of the larger yeshiva community, are barely teaching English in their schools and are producing graduates who are not ready to enter the workforce.

These schools are limited in the opportunities that they can offer students due to lack of funding, but partially make up for this with personalized attention to students in small supportive school environments and with tightly knit communities.

«As a New York City public school teacher for 25 years, I've seen what our children need to succeed: smaller class sizes, more parental involvement, and balanced input in the education process from all members of the community,» Dromm said in a statement.

This small measure actually has been proven to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy by up to 30 percent; it makes a big difference people with jobs, school, or who live in a rural community far from a pharmacy.

Santa Cuomo bounded down the Capitol chimney with a sackful of relief — tax relief for middle - class New Yorkers and (with reductions in the downstate MTA payroll levy) small businesses and nonpublic schools and help for upstate communities hit by this year's floods.

Any rezoning in East Harlem needs to address the full range of neighborhood issues like housing preservation, schools, and community - based small business.»

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studIn the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studin rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the studin a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

Moreover, although the idea of getting close to the land in small - scale communities has a deep cultural resonance in some schools of environmentalist thought, in reality this is probably the worst thing that anyone can do.

Five years ago, the small community that studies dengue began discussing challenge trials, which made some people nervous, says Anna Durbin of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Living in a smaller town totally has its perks: no traffic, small school community,

In my teens I also attended a small private art school, and in 2013 I graduated from Portland Community College with an Associate's Degree in Graphic DesigIn my teens I also attended a small private art school, and in 2013 I graduated from Portland Community College with an Associate's Degree in Graphic Desigin 2013 I graduated from Portland Community College with an Associate's Degree in Graphic Desigin Graphic Design.

11 % of American adults — and 38 % of those who are «single and looking» — have used online dating sites or mobile dating apps One in every ten American Mobile app market with thousands of new Android apps created by small business, restaurants, schools and community groups just like you.

A curious group of small town high school students discover a malevolent diary with the power to manifest any evil written in its pages, sparking a wave of terror that soon threatens to engulf their entire community.

On a winter's day, in the small rural community of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus inexplicably crashes into a frozen lake, taking the lives of fourteen children and injuring many others...

That's because the story is based in McFarland, Calif., a small, predominantly Mexican - American agricultural community, where many of the high school students work as pickers in the fields before and after classes.

The trend for schools, colleges and universities to replace poor efficiency legacy lighting systems with cost - effective LED fixtures is now well - established — thanks in no small part to the innovative technology that Tamlite Lighting has been able to deliver to the educational community.

In Bua, a small village in Ecuador, the students hand - dug a well for a community center and built ecological toilets for local schoolIn Bua, a small village in Ecuador, the students hand - dug a well for a community center and built ecological toilets for local schoolin Ecuador, the students hand - dug a well for a community center and built ecological toilets for local schools.

In 2000, I left Drake to join the Career Academy Support Network, where I was a consultant to schools and school districts from around the country in school redesign, project - based learning, small learning communities, and school leadershiIn 2000, I left Drake to join the Career Academy Support Network, where I was a consultant to schools and school districts from around the country in school redesign, project - based learning, small learning communities, and school leadershiin school redesign, project - based learning, small learning communities, and school leadership.

In fall 2006, James O'Brien, a former teacher and first - time principal, started the Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty linIn fall 2006, James O'Brien, a former teacher and first - time principal, started the Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertySchool, a small public high school in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the povertyschool in Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty linin Brooklyn, New York's Bedford - Stuyvesant neighborhood, where one third of the residents live below the poverty line.

Balancing those funder desires, New Visions created a Request for Proposals to all community school districts and high school superintendents in the city, inviting any group of educators to propose a small high school — limited to some 100 students per grade — with a focus on the Bronx, which had the highest concentration of low - performing schools.

Generate a public audience for the product (s), which can be on a small level (students in the same school but not in the same class) or a large level (community members from outside of the school's boundaries).

The report, two years in the making, calls on America's high schools to evolve into smaller communities where students and adults know each other well, the curriculum emphasizes depth over breadth, and a flexible, active learning process replaces the factory - era model of teachers lecturing to rows of students.

In small - town America, a Republican stronghold, local public schools are often major institutions that undergird cultural, sporting, and other community activities.

On September 1, I will be a literacy specialist for a small, public elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts, at a school with students almost entirely from the very nearby community (the principal says nearly all of them walk to school).

School leaders in small, rural and remote communities can have a range of extra responsibilities.

School districts in the state of Vermont range from small (4,000 students in the district) to smaller (15 students in the most rural of schools), but one thing that looms large in each community is its schools.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...