Sentences with phrase «as urban school»

This was especially important for isolated schools or rural schools that didn't have access to the same information resources as an urban school.

The teachers began to recognize their expertise, to work towards developing their professional voice as urban school teachers, and to engage in continuously learning about their students» learning and their own teaching.

Dr. Noguera has published over 200 research and scholarly articles, monographs, research reports, and editorials on topics such as urban school reform, education policy, conditions that promote student achievement, the role of education in community development, youth violence, and race and ethnic relations in American society as well as the author of several books.

«The SIG money provided me with the opportunity to redesign how we were going to operate as an urban school.»

The core of Schools That Can Milwaukee is a group of dedicated educators with experience as urban school leaders and teachers.

Thus, when I see the horrific aftermath of the shootings in Parkland, I, as an urban school teacher, can sympathize, but I can not empathize.

As an urban school leader herself, Professor Deborah Jewell - Sherman, has been the faculty chair of the program for the past five years.

«Superintendents Prepared,» a joint project of three Washington - based research and consulting organizations, is designed to move 90 highly qualified educators and other professionals into positions as urban school chiefs over the next three years.

She said as long as urban schools have low - performing students, charters will be lured to them.

Not exact matches

Blandin also served as: special assistant to the assistant secretary of administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, from 1977 to 1981; executive director of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, from 1972 to 1977; executive staff assistant in the Office of the Governor, California Council on Intergovernmental Relations, from 1970 to 1971; and just prior to joining ASEC, Blandin served nine months as executive vice president of the Council for Excellence in Government.

Noted urban theorist Richard Florida joins the School as inaugural academic director of the Martin Prosperity Institute.

Now comes an even more comprehensive claim about the positive impact of these schools: For, according to two law professors at the University of Notre Dame, Margaret F. Brinig and Nicole Stelle Garnett, inner - city Catholic schools are important factors in urban renewal as builders of «social capital» on inner - urban areas.

Catholic schools matter to urban neighborhoods not only as educational institutions — although, to be sure, they matter a great deal educationally — but also as community institutions.

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

Community organization as a political methodology and the drive for «community control of schools» in large urban areas are further instances of hope in that they strike me as strong efforts at — in Arendt's phrase — constituting or structuring

This year's Conference features keynote speaker Linda Williams, Ed.D., who served as a class teacher at the Detroit Waldorf School from 1987 - 1992, after which she taught grades 1 - 3 at the public Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee.

Possibly as an answer to this second realization, I found out about the Urban Waldorf School in Milwaukee.

Joe Urban — or as he's known on Twitter @schoolfoodrocks — is the Director of Nutrition Services at Greenville County Schools in South Carolina.

But if districts are able to combine their considerable purchasing power, as is the case with the Urban School Food Alliance (discussed in past TLT posts linked below), we may start to see more «real food» offerings like Back to the Roots cereal on kids» trays.

As a fellow member of the Parent Advisory Committee in Houston, I'd love to hear any large - scale victories in sizable urban school districts.

As a Matter of Fact I Can't Fit into My Size 4 Jeans After Having Just Given Birth... Dear Readers, all of us mothers have certainly come across that urban myth about the friend, of the friend, of an acquaintance who went to high school with the so - and - so who used to know our sister,... Read More about As a Matter of Fact, I Can't Fit into My Size 4 Jeans After Having Just Given Birth

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

As a side note, I was also fortunate enough to be exposed to a fair amount of diversity as a child (international background, family outside of the U.S., urban schooling for some time), and I've lived abroad for the past 5 yearAs a side note, I was also fortunate enough to be exposed to a fair amount of diversity as a child (international background, family outside of the U.S., urban schooling for some time), and I've lived abroad for the past 5 yearas a child (international background, family outside of the U.S., urban schooling for some time), and I've lived abroad for the past 5 years.

These days, Ed tends an «urban farm» in D.C., works as a personal chef for clients with special needs, and teaches «food appreciation» to school children.

He was a co-founder of the group D.C. Urban Gardeners, sits on the advisory board of the D.C. Farm to School Network and contributes to food policy blogs such as Grist and La Vida Locavore, as well as the gardening blog Garden Rant.

Like the San Francisco Waldorf School and Golden Bridges, Berkeley Rose is an urban school and as such utilizes nearby parks for many of its outdoor periods in kindergarten through gSchool and Golden Bridges, Berkeley Rose is an urban school and as such utilizes nearby parks for many of its outdoor periods in kindergarten through gschool and as such utilizes nearby parks for many of its outdoor periods in kindergarten through grades.

School meal programs are governed by a stack of federal regulations as thick as a large urban telephone directory, and nutrition directors have to know them all and follow them all.

Lawmakers said they were still working out exactly how school aid would be distributed; Heastie said there was yet not a deal over how much money would flow through the Foundation Aid formula, which prioritizes need and so helps urban districts, as opposed to restoring cuts from the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which hit suburban areas hardest.

But he maintained that his experience as secretary of Housing and Urban Development in President Bill Clinton's administration schooled him in passing legislation.

He said the team would visit 10 schools in the urban and rural areas of the state to inspect the impact of the free school feeding programme of the state as well as other education intervention.

An analysis by AQE found Cuomo's proposed cuts in operating aid average $ 773 per pupil in the 30 urban and suburban school districts classified as «high - need» by the State Education Department that have the greatest concentration of black and Hispanic students.

White sees a military school as an opportunity to open doors that are often closed to children in an urban setting.

In addition, as urban affairs editor, Watson oversees coverage of the city school system, transportation and politics.

Understanding students in the Syracuse City School District is easier said than done, especially if a teacher didn't attend an urban school as a kid, ScottSchool District is easier said than done, especially if a teacher didn't attend an urban school as a kid, Scottschool as a kid, Scott said.

As the sponsor of the 2008 Urban Renewal Plan, I am encouraged that we are moving forward in putting a shovel in the ground, and that housing and a school are the first priorities.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

Steyer, Paulson and Bloomberg are scheduled to attend the New York event, in addition to several members of the Risky Business advisory committee: Clinton administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, as well as Alfred Sommer of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Gregory Page, former CEO and current chairman of the board of Cargill Inc..

But, as the example of King Farm shows, new urbanism can devolve into the kind of central planning criticized by the very founders of the urban planning school of thought — and can also result in what is essentially a style without substance.

In addition to straight - forward archaeological research, the excavation is being used as a field school for the instruction of UNC Charlotte students in archaeology, especially since the site is remarkable in the way it exhibits the complexity of the urban history of Jerusalem.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

In their study, the researchers randomized 22 urban elementary schools serving low - income families to either the INSIGHTS intervention or a supplemental reading program, which served as a control condition.

The ten - year - olds in the study came from both a rural school and an urban school, but all had Norwegian as their first language.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

As in virtually all urban school districts, there is substantial turnover of teachers in the D.C. schools, and for a variety of reasons.

«What we saw was that urbanization - induced warming is just as important as greenhouse gas - induced climate change,» said Matei Georgescu, an assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University.

As well, she is co-founder and manager of The Oxygen Project, a nonprofit started through Urban Breath Yoga that brings yoga and mindfulness into schools and youth agencies in the St. Louis area.

So I have recently started adulting after a long run with school and internships... I have Summer's off as I am a guidance counselor in an urban school district... I am finding my middle ground of going to shows and also...

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

Though specific ways to implement the plans were not addressed, he stressed the need to use troubled urban school districts as a testing ground for...

Children of immigrants account for about one - quarter of children in the nation under age 5, and their share of school enrollment will grow as they move into elementary school, according to a report on student demographics by the Washington - based Urban Institute.