Sentences with phrase «as a model for other school»

When the family changed schools a couple of years later, to Dulwich Hill Public School, she was given the opportunity to work with the assistant principal and Marrickville Council Environmental Educators network to create a series of lessons that could be used as a model for other schools.

Lakeland is the only New Jersey school to earn this distinction and serves as a model for other schools attempting to achieve a RAMP award.

Nicollet Middle School has met the highest standards to quality of as an AVID National Demonstration School and serves as a model for other schools implementing the college prep program.

This policy was welcomed by community groups and advocates and it has been used as a model for other school boards.

Not exact matches

«It really comes down to this combination of funding and mentoring — the two key areas high - growth startups need,» says Michael Goldberg, visiting assistant professor of design and innovation at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management where he created an online course that uses Cleveland as a model for other communities.

The other model of excellence in schooling is the modern research university, for which we may let the founding of the University of Berlin in 1810 serve as the emblem.

Since conceptual capacities needed to understand God include capacities that are «existentially» significant while at the same time fully as rational and as rigorously disciplined as any other capacities to understand anything else, can academic schooling be understood adequately simply as the acquisition of capacities for disciplined accumulation and mastery of data and capacities for critical and self - critical theorizing (cf the «Berlin» model)?

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Those skeptics (and others) point out that in the 1960s and 1970s, «project - based learning» was used in some low - income schools as a euphemism for the practice of having poor kids build Lego models and doodle in coloring books while the rich kids across town learned how to read and do math.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

Orange County officials Thursday announced a school - safety initiative they say could serve as a model for other counties in New York, and perhaps even elsewhere in the country.

Yet school lunches can be healthy — and can serve as a model for healthy eating at other meals.

Many of these models are based on new findings in brain research and cognitive development, and they embrace a variety of approaches: using the arts as a learning tool (for example, musical notes to teach fractions); incorporating arts into other core classes (writing and performing a play about, say, slavery); creating a school environment rich in arts and culture (Mozart in the hallways every day) and hands - on arts instruction.

Indeed, as Dr. Comer takes us through his interesting and varied experiences in trying to improve schooling and education for children who are generally at the bottom in school achievement, we discover that, in contrast to some other models, his does not aim at or expect any rapid improvement in achievement.

If it wants to work with multiple content providers on the other hand, there is a good bet it might work with a company like Education Elements, which is emerging as a leader in helping schools move to blended - learning models and offering a single sign - on software solution for schools so they can easily work with multiple content vendors.

Today, the hope is that they are creating a progressive model for learning in India, weaving in elements taken from other progressive schools, such as Sudbury Valley in the United States and Reggio Emilia in Italy.

As for the private sector, it offers parents an extraordinary variety of models from which to choose: Catholic schools, other Christian schools, Jewish schools, Muslim schools, Waldorf schools, Montessori schools, and many more.

«From doing consultancy work with other schools, it seems that the trend is moving towards a one - device - per - child model, especially in newer schools, taking away the need for a screen at the front of the classroom, as the work can be transferred directly from the teacher's computer to their tablets.

The Los Angeles city school system is planning to form a cadre of 200 «master teachers,» both to reward outstanding teachers and to serve as models for others in the profession.

The Ashden Sustainable School Awards judging panel found Marton Primary School to be an excellent role model for other small schools where the staff and pupils have adopted a very simple approach, focusing on low cost or no cost actions such as behaviour change to really make a difference.

Through this recognition program, these schools can serve as models for others designing strategies to improve teachers» skills and knowledge of subject matter.

The idea that kids will choose what they read, will choose the ideas they develop as writers... will choose the topics they decide to research, has made the school, I think, unusual and a model for other teachers.

Anaheim, Calif. — The recommendations of a California panel that wants to reshape the state's classrooms for 4 - to 6 - year - olds have piqued the interest of school districts here and could serve as a model for other states, according to early - childhood specialists.

Students Hard Work Educates Community About Recycling Begun by Purdy (Missouri) High School students, the Purdy Recycling Project has become a community - wide program that is turning a profit, raising scholarship money for students, and serving as a model for similar programs in other communities.

Research by several other students is revealing that middle - school science students solve abstract problems more easily by thinking in terms of metaphors or models — for instance, by using a nail, a wire, and a battery as a model of how magnetism works.

The MacArthur framework for Connected Learning (CL) provides a flexible model for exploring how schools could better cultivate the interplay between student interests, peer culture, digital tools and academic success — in other words, reconceiving schools as maker - centered environments.

The test - prep and academic support for struggling students at Carlin Springs could serve as a model for other struggling schools, though teachers and administrators have been cautious because the approach was implemented only two years ago.

Within the public and private school community in Hawai'i, Mid-Pacific Elementary School is regarded as a leader in Peer Mediation and Peace Team programs that offer student models for resolving conflicts with oschool community in Hawai'i, Mid-Pacific Elementary School is regarded as a leader in Peer Mediation and Peace Team programs that offer student models for resolving conflicts with oSchool is regarded as a leader in Peer Mediation and Peace Team programs that offer student models for resolving conflicts with others.

On the other hand, the fact that most of the schools in the lottery study embrace key elements of the No Excuses model suggests the lottery results can be seen as particularly informative for this approach.

These and other findings with respect to the correlates of teacher effectiveness are obtained from estimations using value - added models that control for student characteristics as well as school and (where appropriate teacher) fixed effects in order to measure teacher effectiveness in reading and math for Florida students in fourth through eighth grades for eight school years, 2001 - 2002 through 2008 - 2009.

New York City's progress in closing its achievement gap on those tests drew national attention as a possible model for other urban school districts.

Whereas present choice systems that are viewed as models for other districts to emulate are designed to achieve the closest possible match between parental preference and school assignment, future choice systems might be redesigned to obtain greater diversity in school - level student populations.

Principals, as school leaders, need classroom performance information to fulfill their role as manager and determine how individual staff members are performing and who needs help and who might take on a model role for others.

In addition to initiating turnarounds in these schools, the Commissioner's Network is designed to serve as a vehicle for innovative initiatives, a platform for sharing effective practices, and a model for other schools and districts throughout the state.

Therefore, schools provide release time for the new teachers to attend workshops and training sessions, participate in collaborative coaching sessions with their mentor teachers, and observe model lessons in their mentor teacher's classroom as well as the classrooms of other highly effective teachers in their school.

As a strategic partner of ACSA, CSDC will conduct this annual facilities workshop for ACSA's member schools and hopes to replicate this model partnership with other statewide charter school associations in the future.

The promise of CSR models — such as Accelerated School Project, Core Knowledge, Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, School Development Program, Success for All — and the comprehensive reform that they support is that they are research - based and provide the training and other supports needed to encourage a coordinated approach to improvement that addresses curriculum and instruction, professional development, leadership, parental and community involvement, and other components needed for student success.

Inspired by his stint as a middle school math tutor, Henry shifted his career to the classroom to serve as a «role model and symbol of hope» for other young African - American students and to show all young students that they can excel in math and science.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

The district allowed several transferring principals to bring along their English Language Arts and math coaches, one or two high - performing teachers to serve as models for other teachers in their new schools, and an assistant principal in the case of middle and high schools.

Really great milestones have been accomplished as we were the first charter school to receive the Exemplary Independent Study Recognition Award from the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Consortium for Independent Study, one of our teachers being honored for teacher of the year, being awarded charter school leader of the year by CCSA, our high school being recognized as a 2013 California Distinguished School by the CDE, and the ability to serve as a model and partner for other charter schools to suschool to receive the Exemplary Independent Study Recognition Award from the California Department of Education (CDE) and the California Consortium for Independent Study, one of our teachers being honored for teacher of the year, being awarded charter school leader of the year by CCSA, our high school being recognized as a 2013 California Distinguished School by the CDE, and the ability to serve as a model and partner for other charter schools to suschool leader of the year by CCSA, our high school being recognized as a 2013 California Distinguished School by the CDE, and the ability to serve as a model and partner for other charter schools to suschool being recognized as a 2013 California Distinguished School by the CDE, and the ability to serve as a model and partner for other charter schools to suSchool by the CDE, and the ability to serve as a model and partner for other charter schools to succeed.

The military model «is not for everyone, and I would not impose it on anyone else,» he said, but other district schools could find aspects useful, such as its success in creating a school culture.

Numerous provisions contained in S. 1177 represent a huge step forward from current legislation: the elimination of adequate yearly progress and the 100 percent proficiency requirements, tempering the test - and - punish provisions of No Child Left Behind; the continued requirement of disaggregated subgroup data; removal of the unworkable school turnaround models required under the School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool turnaround models required under the School Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeSchool Improvement Grant and Race to the Top programs; clarification of the term school leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool leader as the principal of an elementary, middle or high school; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool; inclusion of the use of Title II funds for a «School Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeSchool Leadership Residency Program»; activities to improve the recruitment, preparation, placement, support, and retention of effective principals and school leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool leaders in high - need schools; and the allowable use of Title II funds to develop induction and mentoring programs that are designed to improve school leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effeschool leadership and provide opportunities for mentor principals and other educators who are experienced and effective.

This session will address the Board's guidance for «retirement suite» benefits (pension and other postemployment benefits («OPEB») that school districts provide to their employees) as well as the GASB's efforts to update the financial reporting model used by school districts.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

Regardless of which model is closest to the original vision of charter schools — either community - based, independent charters like Pine Lake Preparatory or the for - profit schools operated by NHA, CSUSA, and other EMOs — the reality is that under current financial constraints like what exist in states such as North Carolina, neither model can be funded without drawing from significant money from non-traditional sources.

It is modeled on «parent trigger» laws in other states, like those idealized in the propaganda movie «Won't Back Down», which made the opening of school rounds last Fall (as its predecessor, «Waiting for Superman» had been on in September 2011).

The outcome of the Florida case will have a resounding impact on school choice across the nation as the state has served as model for other programs, and continues to be a leader in choice options.

A school that receives Tennessee STEM School Designation will be recognized by the Tennessee Department of Education for its use of STEM teaching and learning strategies and serve as a model from which other schools may visit and school that receives Tennessee STEM School Designation will be recognized by the Tennessee Department of Education for its use of STEM teaching and learning strategies and serve as a model from which other schools may visit and School Designation will be recognized by the Tennessee Department of Education for its use of STEM teaching and learning strategies and serve as a model from which other schools may visit and learn.

Modeling behaviors can be for behavior in the classroom, social environments and other school settings such as the playground or cafeteria.