Sentences with phrase «about changing school»

Growing teacher leaders isn't about making a principal's job easier — it's about changing a school's culture to empower teachers.

Many teachers confess feeling guilty about changing schools or changing roles.

«It's hard to bring about change school district by school district, especially in a state like California, which has almost 1,000 school districts.»

Bair explained that the families who cared about changing schools all moved to suburbia, leaving behind the people who did not care, let alone fight, for the education of Hartford students.

In February 2016, we visited with Vice-Principal Lucia Coretti and Library Technician Caroll - Ann Stelle of Pierrefonds Comprehensive High School (Lester B. Pearson School Board) to learn about the changes the school had done to shift their traditional school library to a modern library learning commons.

Although it's quite common for children to move schools, it's also normal for them to resist change and feel stressed about changing schools.

She has her other «outcast» friends and deals with it well but she's asked me about changing schools.

Not exact matches

On this podcast episode of «School of Greatness,» be prepared to learn something about yourself and the power you have to change the world.

A $ 50 million «School of the Future» backed by Microsoft Corp. opens this September in Philadelphia, and it may redesign ideas about education as thoroughly as technology has changed the workplace.

She tells us about a very positive and inspiring moment that changed her life — and proving her high school counselor wrong.

In Tokyo, one tall building is helping to change the way we think about schools and how they should look.

That's why we created a VIP Move Concierge service to help our customers get set up with utilities, change their address with the post office and find out more about the schools and coffee shops in the vicinity.

Schools change their essay questions every year, but you can generally expect to be asked about why you want to pursue an MBA and how your past experiences will contribute to your future.

The good news that little has changed about making friends since you attended middle school.

But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

The attitudes of local authorities may be changing now as the economy slows and officials become more concerned about unemployment and tensions over access to schools and other social services.

There's something belittling about the label «small business» that probably begins life in the boys» changing room at school.

Some offer more extensive forbearance options and in - school deferment so you don't have to worry about your repayments if you're planning on going back to school or want to make a career change.

«I'm not very positive about large concessions or changes that are going to come from China,» said Heiwai Tang, an assistant professor of international economics at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

«The clear difference between the Vancouver school board and others is the statements that they have been making about the changes that they propose to make this year, which they believe are unacceptable.»

She didn't shrink from questions Sunday about a new sexual education curriculum for elementary schools, saying she intends to revamp it nearly three years after some controversial changes forced Premier Dalton McGuinty to put it on hold.

I remember watching his science videos in elementary school but now whenever I see him on the news talking about science it seems like he is politicizing science (when it comes to climate change) and promoting evolution as the only option to the creation of the world to try and discredit the religious community.

As schools like the University of LaVerne model the needed changes at institutional and curricular levels, and as more and more faculty are helped to think about how their own teaching can be greened, the pace of change can increase.

At Key Stage 3 (age 11 to 13 +, Years 7 to 9) schools have to teach: that fertilisation in humans and flowering plants is the fusion of a male and a female cell; about the physical and emotional changes that take place during adolescence; about the human reproductive system, including the menstrual cycle and fertilization; how the foetus develops in the uterus, including the role of the placenta.

At bottom, changes in a school's concrete identity come by decisions it makes, deliberately or inadvertently, about three factors we noted in chapter 2 that distinguish schools from one another: Whether to construe what the Christian thing is all about in some one way, and if so, how; what sort of community a theological school ought to be; how best to go about understanding God.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

It's available in English and Spanish and can help the students learn more about their rights, how to fight for changes in school policy and where they can get help if the policies are indeed targeting.

Yep you are right, I moved down here in the state of Mississippi, north of Crystal Springs from Chicago when I was ten years old but still I visit once in a while, now it's twenty years and sad to not much has change, like the parts you said about non-whites discrimatory or rasicts at other non-whites, when I went to school here they treated me as a alien from another galaxy, they pick at my voice cause I didn't had that southern dialog, unlike them I said my words correctly, but not just me, they even hated at others who had better intelect I am not picking at them, It is what I went through all these years, Mississippi and mainly this small town of Crystal Springs see America in a crazy awful view, They don't like difference that even within they own race, ther not that politcal, when some one say God they got there vote, I don't to say much to waste your time, I still remember when I was ten years old I had a constanct back ground check on me to see were I really come from evn though I had the paper saying Chicago Illinois barely no jobs but a church on every street for a town barely under five Thousand, till this very day, they look at me like I am a alien, did you ever had that experiance down here damn my keybroad mess up,

For the only real answer to the History of Religions school will come from a theologian who recognizes its discoveries and who realizes the complete change in the situation which those discoveries have brought about.

This week, we talk with Teresa Goines about Old School Cafe, how it's making a difference in the lives of young people and to actually effect change in local communities.

Second tale: Defying all the best previous research on how readily people change their opinions, a young PhD student in political science at a top research university teams up with a senior scholar in his field at another top school to publish a brief report in America's leading scholarly scientific journal that upends everything we thought we knew about the subject.

Any time a mascot or school name is changed, it's met with backlash, particularly with people concerned about the overreach of political correctness.

Furthermore, there was no school of thought in China that would have presented a substantialist alternative to the view of being as change; the closest candidate would be the common - sense view of things attacked by the Buddhists as illusion, and even here it was the Indian, not Chinese, sources of Buddhism that became most exercised about criticizing the theory of permanent substances.

You mean like complaining and outlawing a «moment of silence» in schools, or changing the pledge or complaining about Santa and Christmas, [which is actually pagan not christian] Making it so you can wear any other symbol but one of Christianity on school grounds... etc?

I have thought a little bit about going to culinary school myself, but then I remember all the student loans I'm paying off from my first two degrees and quickly change my mind!

So when said husband encouraged me to go on a health and wellness retreat last week, I frantically packed my bags before he could change his mind and ran out the door (OK that's not true, I argued with him about the what, when, where for each kid and the logistics of leaving a 9 month old who's nursing around the clock and a 9 year old who's out of school for weeks because her teachers are on a strike that seems like it will never end.

They want to know that the issues they care about, from animal welfare to climate change, have been taken care of,» said Jan Potter, Food for Thought's chairperson and headteacher at Belle Vale Primary School.

«Our goal is to change the way people think about recycling and encourage other organisations and community members to get on board and install a Simply Cups bin their workplace, park or school, and make a difference to future generations.»

Director Brackett helped shift attitudes and remove any manager's fears about changing work routines by sharing success stories and menus from other schools.

One day in graduate school, «one of my peers was talking about this frozen yogurt shop in New York where the flavors change every day,» she said.

And if your little one is going to school for the first time, I KNOW you're worried about how you are going to get a meal on the table after this big life change of starting school along with every change that may come along with it.

She also worked on a self - initiated project designed to help motivate positive change for her peers, which included interviewing her district's congressional candidate, Ro Khanna, about issues concerning high school students who plan to go to college.

Offensive lineman Emil Ekiyor Jr. of Indianapolis Cathedral High School announced Sunday via Twitter that he has changed his mind about signing with the Wolverines and instead is committing to the Crimson Tide.

When a friend from another school heard about the schedule change, she said, «that is the most thoughtful thing I think I have ever heard of a school doing.»

Paul metropolitan area during the 2009 - 2010 school year to a series of five questions about muscle - enhancing behaviors, two healthy (changing eating patterns and exercising more) and three unhealthy (using protein powders or shakes, taking steroids, or employing another muscle - building substance such as creatine, amino acids, HMB, DHEA, or growth hormone), researchers at the University of Minnesota and Columbia University found that almost all students surveyed (90 % of boys, 80 % of girls) reported doing at least 1 behavior with this as the goal, and up to one - third reported the use of unhealthy methods.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Maybe, or at least that's what Deborah A. Widiss, an associate law professor at Indiana University's Maurer School of Law, told me when we spoke a few years ago about her own study, «Changing the Marriage Equation.»

Because «parents of high school athletes attend their games, watch their child closely during game play, and are accutely attuned to changes in their behavior... [e] ducating parents about signs and symptoms,» they said, «could potentially decrease the likelihood of athletes playing with concussion symptoms.»