Sentences with phrase «around schools and school systems»

But everyone who spends time in and around schools and school systems understands how much time, energy, and initiative is soaked up by the paper chase.

Not exact matches

Around the main table, from left: Ontario Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure Giles Gherson; Joris Myny of Siemens Canada; Michael Sinnaeve of Magna International; James Cowan, editor of Canadian Business; Eric Kiisel of ATS Automation Tooling Systems; Tony Elias of Valiant Corp.; and Paul Boothe of Ivey Business School.

David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems» policy, as a way around censorship.

but if your parents told you, from the day you were brought home from the hospital, that the Bible was the literal truth, and everyone — EVERYONE around you continually reinforced that belief — in school, at home, at your friends» houses, and you were in that 24/7/365 from the day you were born, you can start to see — and have sympathy — for these people when other people appear to be attacking their core conditional belief system.

Under the influence and tutorship of Whitehead3 and Bertalanffy, Laszlo has developed a unitary vision of systems which falls within the general conceptual framework of western philosophy.4 Despite his acknowledged position as the founder of systems philosophy, no school has developed around his efforts.

Public School system in Flint Mich, offers unique chance for sports and fitness in program which utilizes school facilities and personnel around the School system in Flint Mich, offers unique chance for sports and fitness in program which utilizes school facilities and personnel around the school facilities and personnel around the clock.

These two parents monitored their teens» text messages, voicemails, phone calls, emails, Facebook pages, driving speed, and used state - of - the - art GPS systems to establish «geo - fences» around their child's school and home.

In your child's years in elementary school, you may have learned your way around the system and figured out what works in that environment, and now the environment will be completely new.

She is an educational consultant for school districts, the medical and business community, the criminal justice system and other educational associations around the world.

Lee Guse, president of Preferred Meal Systems, the food supplier to Westchester Elementary and other area schools that have started offering vegetables instead of foisting them upon students in the last several years, said savings amount to around 3 percent.

The SNA's assertions regarding increased food waste have been echoed in anecdotal reports from school districts around the country, but school food advocates are urging Congress to stay the course and keep the new system in place.

The juvenile justice system does not like the idea of kids skipping school and loitering around town, so there may be hope there.

Around the same time Richmond began implementing salad bars (called garden patches in their schools) they also received a USDA Farm to School Planning Grant that allowed them to explore the readiness and eagerness of students, staff and community for fresh local food incorporated into the school sSchool Planning Grant that allowed them to explore the readiness and eagerness of students, staff and community for fresh local food incorporated into the school sschool system.

Alvord Unified School District — Pamela Lambert Innovation: Systems Change by Cultivating Community In order to create a culture supportive of healthy food and lifestyles, Pamela Lambert designed events that brought the community together around health and wellness — arranging walks with the mayor, parents, and students and a health fair in the guise of a day at an indoor trampoline park.

She has reported on controversies around discipline in charter schools, racial segregation in the New York City school system, and flaws in the city's method of testing for lead in water in schools.

«What Michael wants to create is a first class, world class state system which means that in future years you will have more pupils from state schools, people like me, around the cabinet table, and in that I fully support Michael Gove,» the faith and communities minister said.

He added: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

Mayoral candidates have focused on certain aspects of Albany control, particularly around the MTA and the city school system.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

London's school system has been turned around; we can do the same in the Northern Powerhouse and I've asked outstanding Bradford head teacher Sir Nick Weller to provide us with a plan.

Officials from several states criticized the scoring of the contest, which favored states able to gain support from 100 percent of school districts and local teachers» unions for Obama administration objectives like expanding charter schools, reworking teacher evaluation systems and turning around low - performing schools.

is AFFIRMING that a more democratic, equitable and collaborative system is possible where local schools supported by the entire community provide excellent education and the wrap around services needed to meet each child's right to reach his / her full human potential and their community's right for social and economic development,

«Our once proud state has become a laughing stock around the country, with the highest taxes, the worst business climate, high energy costs, a failing transportation and infrastructure system, failing schools and rising unemployment in every region of the state, except New York City,» DeFrancisco said.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

Now despite the pomp and ceremony around government's flagship education program Free SHS, there still remain some challenges that has left some Ghanaians confused The situation is compounded by the perennial challenges with the Computerized School Selection Placement System CSSPS.

A wireless system might work well using this wireless protocol in some situations if no one else is around but may be less reliable «if someone is sitting next to you with their Bluetooth headset on,» says Mike Dempsey, a senior research and development engineer at the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT), a consortium of Boston teaching hospitals and engineering schools.

Now that the researchers have shown that, up to and around when stress is applied, all these systems look the same, the next step of the effort is co-led by Durian and Paulo Arratia, professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics in the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

In a year the school plans to have it operating at levels approaching the limits of our perception of actual reality: a visual resolution of 24 million pixels [on the entire surface] and a full 512 - channel sound system that will make it seem «like a bird is flying around your head,» Kuchera - Morin says.

Her coaching methodology, The Handel Method ®, is taught at over 35 universities and institutes of learning around the world, including at MIT, Stanford Graduate School of Business, NYU, and the New York City public school sSchool of Business, NYU, and the New York City public school sschool system.

I immediaitely put my family onto whey protein and find that it certainly boosts the immune system as we all have far fewer colds despite having young children who bring home anything that is going around at school.

It's clear why Linklater and White would tackle something like School of Rock, enfolding both artists» affection for professional outsiders married to the questioning of the system in a giant, sloppy embrace; the problem with the picture is that nothing about it seems especially organic: the kids are cute, Black is cute, Joan Cusack is severe and cute, and the parents who want to kill Dewey come around in the end mainly because the narrative strictures of stuff like this demands that they do.

Acqua for Life, launched in 2011, has in its first three years raised funds for the successful implementation of water pumps, wells and rainwater harvesting systems in more than 60 communities and schools in Ghana, Bolivia, Mexico and China, providing around 150 million litres of water per year.

Taking a cue from a number of public and charter high schools across the country, administrators in charge of the eleven high schools in California's capital city opted to reorganize the system around a school - to - career theme.

«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»

So, school systems have a legacy of buying a whole lot of things, things that are underused and... have disappointment happening around them because when they were purchased they were grand ideas but it never quite happened, and it's usually because the soft systems, the learning systems, weren't altered to suit that.

In a school setting where potentially hundreds of children are in the care of all adults around, it really isn't acceptable to allow any part of the fire detection and alarm system go unmaintained for any great length of time.

Set up visitors» access control systems around all entrances to a school, so that every individual is checked and identified before they are allowed into the establishment.

He said: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

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«If Ofsted is still around in 10 years» time, the way we inspect and what we inspect would be very different in the type of school - led improvement system envisioned in the ASCL blueprint,» he said.

If you're going to turn around the kids who are new to this country or have been in bad school systems, the fastest way is to get the family to buy in, too, and not stigmatize the family just because they maybe didn't get out of the eighth grade.

Washington — The new education block grants are a «political football» that state departments of education and local school systems risk fumbling to state legislators and governors around the country unless they act quickly.

Young people are more apt to act in defence of a bullied student if the school has a positive sense of community and they feel connected to it (we don't do things like that around here), they are empathic and have strong friendships, strongly developed value systems, or believe their parents would expect them to do it.

Over the past 20 years, many school systems around the globe have undergone some form of education reform and yet the trillions of dollars being spent in school systems, ongoing debates over the value of teacher pay incentives, and standardized test movements have yielded little effect in many countries.

The winning states are making dramatic changes in how they do business — adopting common standards and assessments, building data systems that measure student growth and success, retaining effective teachers and principals, and turning around their lowest performing schools.

In other words, chartering is a continuous improvement process for a system of schools: When you build a strategy around closing bad schools, enabling great ones to grow and enabling promising new schools to start, you shift the quality distribution to the right year after year.

This series takes a look at high - achieving education systems and model schools around the world to see what makes them successful.

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary education.

He goes from suggesting useful incremental changes in today's school system to a dazzling visionary exercise in what that system could be like in 2030, built around very different sorts of school systems and «school companies.»

Whereas «conservative ideologues paraded around the idea that regulation is somehow anathema to choice, and is driving away the elite schools that otherwise would have magically served these kids better than the schools that participated,» White argued that instead, «it may very well be the regulation itself — the accountability system — that is the thing that has promoted the performance.»