Sentences with phrase «small school decision making»

• Some Principals do not bother getting approvals from the Small School Decision making Councils (teachers, parents, students).

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The federal government now swept past all the barriers that once had put up resistance — as in extending controls on local schools or bringing under the review of federal courts the decisions made on hiring and firing in private businesses, even small colleges.

Unemployed art school graduates Mingming and Yue take turns filming each other with a small camera, exploring a range of issues rarely shown in any national cinema with such deadpan accuracy — from the complex waters of female friendship to «pussy» as a commodity, from the desire to use filmmaking as a weapon to the decision to make a baby — an up - in - your face, playful, sassy deconstruction of what it means to be a young woman now.

Christian schools have long served as models for local control of decision - making and smaller school size.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).

The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision - making problems (e.g., cost - benefit analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).

On the question of school closings, for instance, Michele Cahill, a Carnegie Corporation education specialist who masterminded the small — high schools initiative for Klein, believes that the discussion lately «has gotten very stuck in issues of participation and decision making.»

They have to manage the increasingly complex demands and fast - flying deadlines of school and extracurricular commitments, they have to think abstractly about moral and ethical dilemmas big and small, and they have to make decisions about personal responsibility and safety, among other daily challenges.

In a statement, Mr. Zogby said he still owned a small number of K12 shares, but did not make decisions specifically affecting online schools.

The district school board sets and monitors the attainment of community standards, and it establishes a small number of policies and regulations that ensure the choice - driven decision - making system promotes equity, diversity, excellence, and other community values.

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

Charter schools benefit from small class sizes and local decision - making.

Other key factors Suitor pointed to are longer school days, giving decision - making power to principals, setting aside more training time for teachers and having smaller schools.

But in Kentucky, where more than 85 percent of schools have site - based decision making councils, the number of parents running for council positions and voting in council elections remains dismally small.

Issues that are important to small schools and communities have been and continue to be voiced loudly and clearly to the governor, legislators, the state board of education, CDE and others who make decisions of importance for our children.

Alongside the existing statutory presumption against closure of rural schools, the government will go further, introducing a new «double lock» so that when small rural schools convert to academy status both local and national government have to agree to a school closing before a decision can be made.

We do not believe the decision to establish a new charter school or to convert a traditional public school to a charter should be made just by government officials or by a small group of parents, as the consequences will affect the entire community.»

We had more leniency when raising Adelle since she came from a smaller school and before we chose a food we researched, talked to friends, family, our vet, and even chatted with a few of our fellow bloggers before making a final decision on a puppy food.

Much maligned at launch, Chromebooks have ultimately proven a hit in education due in no small part to their extremely low barrier of entry, coupled with software features focused at the IT departments that make many of the purchasing decisions for schools and districts.