Sentences with phrase «agenda for school»

A critical agenda for any school leader is improving the learning of students.

Naturally, Tehrani is not setting out to draft a new agenda for the school, but wants to first get under its skin.

The government has no other agenda for school improvement.»

It also means recognizing that today's reform agenda, which has focused on addressing broken city schools, might not be the right agenda for every school.

Richard Lee Colvin, «A 10 - Year Climb: Education Leadership Reaches the National Reform Agenda,» Education Leadership: An Agenda for School Improvement, The Wallace Foundation, 2010, 15.

Top - performing systems in the study drive the state, provincial or national agenda for school improvement through their system of leadership development.

«The governor's education reform plan provides a clear agenda for school choice supporters in Pennsylvania, and Senate Bill 1 achieves many of those objectives,» said Otto V. Banks, executive director of REACH Alliance.

After extensive teacher input and research, the committee set the literacy agenda for the school, which included such strategies as writing to learn, K - W - L charts, concept mapping, reciprocal teaching, vocabulary instruction, instruction in note - taking techniques, and readalouds (Fisher, Frey, & Williams, 2002).

These leadership development systems identify highly capable educators and develop them to lead high - performance school organizations centered on teacher professionalism and collaboration, which in turn drives the state, provincial or national agenda for school improvement.

In response to the dire warnings in the 1983 report, standards, testing, and accountability became the national agenda for school reform.

A critical agenda for any school leader is improving the learning of students.

The group then assembled teams of teachers to investigate new ideas and practices in school design and to formulate an ambitious agenda for school reform.

The Department of Education created two new high - level offices last week that will promote the Bush administration's agenda for school choice and homeland security.

If upgrading your marketing game is on your agenda for this school year register now for the Thursday, August 11 webinar «Back to School: How to Market Your School Meals Program for a Successful Year».

She «sets priorities and agendas for the school,» which is a dean - ish way of saying that she controls the Magic Money Valve, opening it for certain purposes and keeping it closed for others.

Recycling is high on the agenda for the schools - which both belong to Focus - Trust, a charitable multi-academy trust based in the North West of England — with Thornhill receiving a shout out from local MP Paula Sherriff during Prime Minister's Question Time after she received a letter from students concerned about the UK's reliance on Fossil Fuels; an issue the MP said that, if tackled, would support the sustainable future of the green economy.

It's been two years since Prime Minister Turnbull announced his innovation agenda for schools and the allocation of funds to boost science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education.

The New Imperatives of Educational Change: Achievement with Integrity sets forth an ambitious and attainable agenda for all schools at the dawn of a new millennium.

Not exact matches

It certainly wasn't on the agenda for high school friends Bryce Maddock and Jaspar Weir.

Rather, when clients looked at their agenda and saw that they had a meeting with the Wexley School for Girls, McAllister wanted them to get excited and to know that it would be the best part of their day.

The brother of Parkland school shooting victim Meadow Pollack says he was excluded from the March for Our Lives because his message did not fit «the agenda.»

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There are reports of OFSTED inspectors demanding that schools impose a weird agenda on children, teaching that it is possible for a boy to become a girl and vice versa, that sexual identity is not something specific, that all our knowledge of biology on this subject has been wrong.

Director of the Association for Christian Teachers, Clive Ireson, says: «While the allegation of the Islamist agenda in some of Birmingham's schools is very worrying, we must not allow this criticism to be reflected onto all Muslim governors.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Vouchers can also be used for a David Duke school or a right - wing militia school or a Louis Farrakhan school — any type of ethnically or ideologically extremist school with a hateful and divisive agenda.

All parents, whatever their religious beliefs and desires, have a daunting agenda: balance careers with childcare, find time for family meals, deal with demanding schools, isolate the young from the easily available violence and pornography on the internet and establish and enforce codes of conduct.

Their agenda is the next five tasks, whether fund raising, planning a dinner, or assuring that there are enough Sunday school teachers for the year ahead.

Vibrant press & media outreach, exciting social media activations and our Bordeaux Wine School tutor development are all part of the exciting agenda for the rest of 2017.

He and I have discussed privately in emails how hard it can be for any school food provider, whether a private catering service like Choicelunch or public schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agschool food provider, whether a private catering service like Choicelunch or public schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agSchool Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agendas.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

, but I love Michelle Obama for making the fight against childhood obesity and for healthier schools a prominent part of her First Lady agenda.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

You can find planners specialized for students piled up on tables at bookstores and office supply stores at back - to - school time, and you can also order roomy ones from Action Agendas and special education ones from Quality Planners.

GLEN ELLYN — A larger gymnasium appears to be on the construction agenda for Churchill Elementary School in Glen Ellyn.

But I don't think it's helpful to ignore facts such as Congress» lack of interest in fully funding the school meals program or the pushback from newspaper readers angry over entitlement programs or the no - shows when it comes time for parents to meet and create an agenda.

Just as our anonymous school food professional, «Wilma,» spoke last week about how hard it is to juggle parents» competing agendas for what the «ideal» lunch would look like, I find myself a bit flummoxed by this task.

Just as our anonymous school food professional, «Wilma,» spoke last week about how hard it is to juggle parents» competing agendas for what the «ideal» -LSB-...]

The ways pediatricians can protect, promote, and support breastfeeding in their individual practices, hospitals, medical schools, and communities are delineated, and the central role of the pediatrician in coordinating breastfeeding management and providing a medical home for the child is emphasized.3 These recommendations are consistent with the goals and objectives of Healthy People 2010,4 the Department of Health and Human Services» HHS Blueprint for Action on Breastfeeding, 5 and the United States Breastfeeding Committee's Breastfeeding in the United States: A National Agenda.6

While the right has had some success in this space in recent times — for example, with Michael Gove driving through an agenda to raise school standards, or with Chris Grayling's highlighting problems with human rights legislation — the cultural sphere is not one in which the right is intrinsically comfortable.

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

Other UKIP policies are also suggestive of an ultra-conservative agenda rather than a liberal one, including the promotion of grammar schools and tougher sentences for prisoners.

While at Mar - a-Lago over the long weekend, Trump met with House Speaker Paul Ryan to discuss the Republican Party's agenda, as calls grow for both the administration and Congress to take action on gun control in the wake of a deadly shooting at a nearby Florida high school.

Previewing his Albany agenda at NYPD headquarters, de Blasio said he hopes Albany passes legislation to make cops» disciplinary records more accessible to the public, and listed reforms to voter registration, public works development, and more money for city schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio took another step today to reverse the previous administration's schools agenda, withdrawing nine co-locations approved last year, including three for Eva Moskowitz's Success Academies.

The former «Sex and the City» star promised to work toward fully funding public schools, an agenda she has rallied for in the past.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today outlined his ethics reform agenda for the 2015 legislative session at the NYU School of Law in New York City.

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.»]

In his «New New York Agenda,» Cuomo has called for a number of initiatives that don't sit well with the labor community, including a public employee salary freeze, a property tax cap and support for charter schools.

Republican candidate Rob Astorino's campaign on Tuesday released what amounts to an urban agenda that would create inner - city enterprises zones, place an emphasis on fathers in a family and overhaul public assistance programs through promoting school attendance and reimposing fingerprinting for food - stamp eligibility.