Sentences with phrase «age of our school buildings»

They were also the subject of a special report released in November that included data from a variety of sources on the age of school buildings and how well they're holding up.

Not exact matches

He was interested in doing more than just owning buildings; he graduated from Carleton University's School of Architecture in 1997, at the age of 75, and later donated $ 5.5 million to the program.

«Nine Out of 10 Families at Risk of Homelessness in Toronto's Aging Rental Highrise Buildings,» declares the title of a recent report from the University of Toronto's Factor - Inwentash School of Social Work.

«It's appalling that students in the Vancouver school district will be stuck with leaking roofs and damp classrooms because the premier is playing politics rather than looking after the needs of aging school buildings in B.C.,» said New Democrat education spokesperson Rob Fleming.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

Therefore this age became the age of seminary building: the Church built schools where young men could go after college in order to be trained in theology and divinity.

Filed Under: Giveaways, Toys & Games Tagged With: 12 Days of Giveaways, Activities, building toys, construction toys, contest, Contests, Developmental Toys, educational toys, Play, Pre-schoolers, School Aged Children, tinker toys, Toddlers, toobeez, Toys (All Ages), Toys (Pre-School)

With the administrative buildings for the village of Glenview, the Park District and public schools aging and in need of renovations, officials say they could save taxpayers at least $ 4 million if the entities were housed under one roof.

Kids of younger school age start building their own self - esteem on how others see them.

SADA have taken steps to help improve the quality of education in the northern part of Ghana, increase age appropriate primary school enrolment, build capacity, improve gender parity in schools, etc..

«We have violence, terrible violence and out - of - control behavior in our schools and it starts at a very young age,» said Carl Paladino, who asserted that school principals have been encouraged to downplay problems in their buildings.

BOX 14, I -1-4; 30188578 / 734260 Slides Plus Audiotape - SAPA II, Orientation Filmstips, AAAS, «The Integrated Process», Filmstrip 4, 1974 SAPA II, Orientation Filmstrips, AAAS, «Measuring», Filmstrip 3, 1974 Plus Audiotape - SAPA II, Orientation Filmstrips, AAAS, «Teaching Strategies», Filmstrip 3, 1974 Plus Transcript of orientation tape - SAPA II, Orientation Filmstrips, AAAS, «The Basic Processes of Science», Filmstrip 2, 1974 «Laboratory Exercises for Use in a College Science Course for Non-Science Majors» - by James Wallace Cox, 1970 «A Process Approach to Learning, Supplementary Manual», based on SAPA developed by AAAS, by Ruth M. White, 1970 «Science Process Instrument, Experimental Edition», COSE, 1970 «Preservice Science Education of Elementary School Teachers - Guidelines, Standards and Recommendations for Research and Development» report, Feb. 1969 (4 Folders) «Preservice Science Education of Elementary School Teachers - Preliminary Report», Feb. 1969 «An Evaluation of Elementary Science Study as SAPA» by Robert B. Nicodemus, Sept. 1968 «SAPA - Purposes, Accomplishments, Expectations», COSE, AAAS (Brochure reported in Nov. 1968, 1970), 1967 (3 Folders) «The Psychological Bases of SAPA», COSE, 1965 «Guidelines and Standards for the Education of Secondary School Teachers of Sciecne and Mathematics» bookley, AAAS and the National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification «Career Opportunites in the Sciences» brochure, compiled by the Office of Opportunites in Science Slides and documentation - «Animal Eyes» and «Meterological Instruments», Fernbank Science Center, «An Integral Part of the DeKalb County School System» Slides and documentation - «Building Terrariums» and «What is my Age?»

«It's good to build on our previous research on miRNA processing and Dicer in aging and find that a decline in Dicer may also play an important role in HIV lipodystrophy by dramatically changing the biology of fat and the tendency towards diabetes and metabolic syndrome,» says lead author C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Gaming the system Parents of school - age children are likely familiar with Minecraft, a digital game that promotes imagination as players build various structures out of cubes.

actually i had a comparitively big chest ever since i was at school but it was in perfect shape as if i go gym regularly.thereafter at age 21 i started going gym.there i could build a perfect body.eventhough my face wasnt that attractive bcz of my awesome body girls used to get attracted.2 years ago i had to leave gym as i got a job in saudi.gradually i lost my body shape and recently i started chest enlargement.now i am so desperated.

Meet Pierre Wizman, a young and one of a kind entrepreneur who decides to quit school and build his first company in France - bought up for a peppercorn rent - at the age of 16.

Built out of crowd - pleasing elements as durable as a lacquered, sky - high»80s hairdo, writer - director John Carney's coming - of - age musical is a synth - drenched joy: a tuneful, deeply personal ode to the impulse that forges a high school rock band.

His valiant wife Cleo (Diane Lane) and three school - age kids must deal with an existence built on a complex set of deceptions, and on the orneriness of a writer who does much of his work in the bathtub swilling booze and smoking.

When school administrators began a green retrofit of the 220,000 - square - foot, three - story building in 2003, they quickly realized they would need to update much of its aging electrical and ventilation system.

Breakdown of energy costs Energy consumption in schools can vary depending on the age of the buildings, their state of repair, occupancy hours and the amount and type of electrical equipment installed.

Across secondary schools in England, the research shows that 78 per cent of secondary school teachers surveyed by the National Foundation for Education Research say their school offers volunteering programmes to build their pupils» life skills, but just eight per cent of pupils aged 11 - 16 in England and Wales surveyed by Ipsos MORI say they take part in these sorts of extra-curricular activities.

Often, these attributes can be added to existing schools, with the cost varying not just from project to project but also in relation to the age and health of the buildings.

Taking creative learning back inside the school building, East Peasy Plays on Stand E98 provide fun - packed musicals, plays and musical resources for pupils of all ages.

The scheme includes new school buildings to the front of the Simon Balle school site offering accommodation for the primary aged pupils along with outdoor play facilities, improved on - site car parking with a revised in and out scheme and an on - site drop off area.

Aim of lesson was to build on work we have already done on who Mandela is to consider what forgiveness is, who he forgave, why we might need forgiveness etc. «Tasks» document includes a starter activity (a tick sheet task getting pupils to consider a time when they have felt angry), 2 story scenarios (one with lower reading age than the other and a 3rd with sentence starters for pupils with lower literacy levels) about forgiveness in context of school life with questions, table for card sort and an exit ticket plenary... all ready to print and use!

This month, voters must decide whether they will help the 76,000 - student district pay the $ 1.4 billion bill to replace aging roofs, faulty wiring, rotted windows, malfunctioning boilers, and a host of other chronic building problems facing the Cleveland public schools.

Ernesford Grange takes students aged 11 to 19 and the capacity of the new school building is 1,025.

The most immediate cause of the anger was new results from annual water - quality tests, which found elevated amounts of lead in 30 of Newark's aging school buildings.

Bringing Churchill's maxim into the digital age, I decided to try broadening the concept of a «building» by extending the physical attributes into a virtual space that we could shape to contribute to learning success in the school.

The new body will continue to carry out the roles of the funding agencies and will be responsible for overseeing: the funding of education for pupils aged five to 16; education and training for those aged 16 to 19; apprenticeships and adult education; and managing school building programmes.

The foundation estimates more than 600 000 students in the high school age group could benefit from more flexible and inclusive learning approaches; and the good news is there are already plenty of examples of effective practice across the country to build on.

She said what she knew that building trust would take some time; but that would be true of any principal who is new to a school, regardless of age.

Suitable for all ages and abilities, at schools, colleges, work, voluntary groups, community groups, care homes, clubs and cafes, here is a collection of fantastic ideas about 90th Birthday Cupcakes, design and build a brand new Royal Carriage, a new Palace fit for the Queen made from recycled materials, fly 90 colourful flags for 90 seconds, plant a beautiful 90th Birthday Celebration Garden....

Walter H. Annenberg, who died last week at age 94, built a lucrative media empire, played host to presidents and princes, and established two respected schools of communications that bear his name.

Edith Borthwick School, an all ‑ age school in Braintree, is the beneficiary of # 9.1 million worth of PSBP funding, which has seen the school's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classSchool, an all ‑ age school in Braintree, is the beneficiary of # 9.1 million worth of PSBP funding, which has seen the school's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classschool in Braintree, is the beneficiary of # 9.1 million worth of PSBP funding, which has seen the school's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classschool's old buildings replaced with a new two - storey facility which includes break - out rooms, spacious hall space and external areas for each of the ground floor classrooms.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

With around 50 % of mental health difficulties occurring before the age of 14, North Woodvale realised that we have the opportunity to make a difference by building positive mental health at a primary school level.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The school's vertical design consolidates 25 classrooms around a naturally - lit atrium with the age of pupils increasing as the building rises.

Energy consumption in schools is wide and varied and depends on the age and state of repair of buildings, occupancy hours and the amount and type of electrical equipment installed.

Whatever the age of the school, and in the absence of a robust paper trail of building compliance, a thorough assessment of passive fire protection is a vital first step in understanding your current fire risk.

We bought lots of books and built a school library, and our teachers dove in to adapting age - appropriate books.

Now school buildings do not tend to be «system built», they tend to vary in age, layout, fabric, etc, but the DECs can at least give a general idea of energy efficiency levels.

And, in an age when many of our schools are overcrowded or crumbling, cyber learning makes financial sense, too, because schools using distance learning do not need to modernize or build new buildings in order to provide quality cyber instruction.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

«Doug Lemov is also essential reading for anyone who wants to create a safe learning space for children of all ages by building up habits that will support success throughout school and beyond.»

The school has an array of age - appropriate robotics kits and Raspberry Pi bare - bones computers built for programming, which kids can check out from the library and take home.

The teacher unions are trapped in archaic organizational models characterized by buildings and districts that are too large and too fragmented, compulsory attendance, the 180 - day school year, the 50 - minute period, age - grouping of students in 13 discrete grades, few performance or standards - based activities, and inaccurate assumptions about the dangers of privatization.

Then, some of the work I've done looking at input to toddlers and preschoolers has built off of [Professor] Catherine Snow's previous research with the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development to show that using rare or sophisticated vocabulary words and using talk that is abstract or beyond the here and now is very helpful at these ages.

Senior Corps» Foster Grandparents program provides an opportunity for volunteers age 55 and older to serve as mentors and tutors for students.39 In 2016, an estimated 24,000 Foster Grandparents volunteers served approximately 200,000 students.40 Similarly, in 2016, AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers were approved to provide capacity - building assistance to more than 2,900 education - related project sites.41 Cutting funding for the CNCS would mean eliminating a substantial amount of necessary support for traditional public and public charter schools and would hurt low - income students across the country.