Sentences with phrase «as independent schools»

As independent schools across the nation strive to cultivate in their students the ability to become strong presences in the 21st century, the instruction of leadership becomes increasingly important.

Applications are dropping and costs are up as independent schools wage a facilities arms race and try to deal with escalating technology and staffing costs — at Catholic schools, because the number of nuns is down 72 percent since the mid 1960s, and they have gone from comprising most of the teachers to fewer than 2 percent of them, requiring the hiring of higher - paid lay teachers.

In fact, all free schools will have to register as independent schools - while remaining as «maintained» schools in terms of funding.

«Quality high school» is defined as competitive and specialized high schools, including local educational option schools and private schools, as well as independent schools (both commuter and residential) and parochial schools.

We work well with the independent sector employer associations, such as the Independent Schools» Bursars Association and the Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools

Buchanan said that Prime Minister Theresa May was «knocking at an open door», as independent schools are already delivering substantial programmes to improve state education and create places for less affluent pupils in their schools.

MPs are to quiz private school heads as independent schools are placed under pressure to justify their charitable status.

Participants at these conferences pondered upon what an anthroposophically inspired organization looked like and what were considered the core principles and guiding imaginations that might help a school thrive both as an independent school and as a center of cultural renewal.

As an independent school we are inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI), which is a peer - review system and consequently we were equally keen for our review of HR to be undertaken via a peer - review scheme.

An alternative high school in Denver that was shut down by the city's school board has been revived as an independent school.

The new school, known simply as the Independent School, opened its doors this month with 20 students and one full - time teacher in a downtown Young Women's Christian Association building.

As an independent school, our teachers and students have the freedom to focus on the skills and ideas that support life - long learning.

The pair say they had no choice but to resign because Grindon Hall, which Gray founded as an independent school nearly 30 years ago, before it converted into a free school in 2012, will lose its Christian ethos.

While students across the state are eligible to enroll, IDLA operates as an independent school rather than a state department or agency.

As independent school students strive to become better students, thinkers, and community members, they might feel overwhelmed by high - demand coursework, peer pressure, and the need to succeed.

If you join as an independent school's business officer or other staff, any colleague at your school may also take advantage of membership benefits, including accessing online resources, attending webinars and receiving the magazine.

Clement Greenberg (1909 - 1994) is the most renowned American art critic of the 20th C. and the first to treat New York creatives as an independent school.

Jonathan Martin is an educational author and consultant with 15 years of experience as an independent school principal / head of school.

This includes children in alternative provision (such as an independent school or educated at home) where the place or provision is funded by the -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Another Stanford Graduate School of Business alumna is Mariam Naficy, founder and CEO of Minted, a design marketplace that sells crowdsourced creations (such as greeting cards) from independent artists.

Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

If you're organized, knowledgeable about the higher education process, and enjoy working with adolescents and their parents, consider starting a side business as an independent college application consultant to help more smart, ambitious, and qualified kids get into the schools of their dreams.

This change is reflected in the curricula of many seminaries and divinity schools today: ethics has achieved an independent existence as a department or area of study.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

These vignettes form a fascinating somewhat uplifting, somewhat disturbing picture of religion in independent schools across the country, and of the way schools understand themselves as religious (or non-religious) institutions in relation to a rapidly changing society.

Most of these schools refer to themselves as «independent,» meaning free from any direct control by church, diocese, synod or parochial board.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

And to what extent is the local congregation any longer able to serve as a school for the creation of a self - disciplined, independent, public - spirited, in a word, virtuous citizen?

A strange report coming out of South Carolina's conservative Christian Bob Jones University, as the school has fired an independent firm they hired to investigate numerous allegations of sexual abuse, just one month before they were scheduled to release their detailed report.

And if nothing is done, as Eric Hester (another former head teacher) has predicted in these columns [in the November issue of 2006], «then in as little as five years, outside the independent sector, there could be no truly Catholic schools remaining in England.»

«We welcome the Government's acceptance that the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation should apply to all schools in both the maintained and the independent sectors, without any exemption for particular types of school such as faith schools.

And it is not an abstraction, for, as James S. Coleman and others have conclusively shown, those religious - based independent schools in the heart of the cities are winning the educational wars.

As caterers to independent schools, we take the impact that our business has on our environment very seriously, and MFM will assist us in actively making a difference.»

If you are applying as a charter school, independent school, or Bureau of Indian Education school and do not have a district superintendent, have the principal or head of school sign this agreement instead.

Also a factor: BYU is a football independent and thus not attached to the same conference exit fees as other schools.

Any praise of the schedules BYU has assembled as an independent is shouted down with BUT THE PAC - 12 and declarations that BYU's schedule is a bunch of NAIA schools, YMCA chapters and Wagner.

Her teammates were equally fast and not only set an NCS record in the event, but a national independent (private schools) record as well.

Without having distinguished himself as a high school pitcher, he dropped out at 16 and contacted Don Nomura, a former player in Japan who was part owner of an independent Class A team in Salinas, Calif. «I just wanted to play the highest level of baseball in the world,» Suzuki said last week through an interpreter.

BASIS Independent Silicon Valley will offer a campus tour led by Head of School Mr. Toby Walker as he discusses our globally benchmarked program, expert teachers, warm community, and more.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

She currently works as an independent consultant for families and schools.

Barbara Rosston has spent many years as a volunteer in the education world, both as a board chair of two independent schools, and as a fundraiser.

I have been to the most prestigious independent and public schools as well as those that range from the notable to the unexceptional.

In 6th - 8th grade, students are welcome to join any of the co-ed sports teams, such as basketball or volleyball, which compete against other local independent and Waldorf schools in the Bay Area.

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Julie Chiaverini is a Lecturer in the School of Education at University of California at Irvine, as well as an Independent Literacy Curriculum & Instruction Consultant at local elementary schools in Orange County.

She has worked as an elementary school teacher in the independent school sector as well as an Assistant Director of Admissions.

Give childhood back to children (Independent, UK, 12-01-14)-- a long and thought - provoking article; not about home education as such, but about the need for less formal schooling, less homework, less structure to children's lives, and more time for play and creativity.

All of this reflects the fact that school food programs in this country are expected to operate like independent businesses, facing the same high food costs and overhead as any restaurant, but further hindered by inadequate funding, reams of regulations (no food operation is more heavily regulated), often grossly inadequate infrastructure and a notoriously fickle clientele.

As a longtime member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, the Waldorf School of Princeton is proud to recognize the exceptional programs that are offered by our community of educational institutions in the Princeton area.