Sentences with phrase «bigger changes at their schools»

We also offer concrete suggestions for educators who want to implement bigger changes at their schools, for example, changing from a traditional to a block schedule, creating an advisory program, developing a wellness curriculum, or reimagining grading practices and report cards.

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The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

The «big ones» get picked up from school at 2:45 pm, we come home to change clothes, eat a snack, pick up Gabriel from school, and head out to our after - school activities.

That the Tigers — last year's biggest surprise with a 12 — 2 record and a No. 4 finish in the AP poll — were anything less than elated after a win over a Top 25 team that played in a BCS bowl last January shows how expectations have dramatically changed at a school that hasn't won a conference title since 1969.

Increased pressures at school and within peer groups, along with confusion and anxiety over puberty, are often cited reasons for the increased emotionality in young teens (for more on how to talk to your child about puberty, read up on puberty's big changes and the hormonal and bodily changes it brings).

We've made it through lots of transitions in the last 6 months — started full day nursery school, potty trained, moved into a big kid bed — and although each of those changes had bumps in the road, we are in a good spot except going back to sleep at night.

Ideally, start shifting their schedule earlier 1 to 2 weeks before school starts, because little changes every few days can keep them from getting overtired, as opposed to big changes, all at once.

Big changes are going on at academically troubled BUILD Academy as it transitions to BUILD Community School.

That is why at our conference, instead of trying to create some artificial dividing lines between Liberal Democrat policy and Conservative policy, my message will be: if you want rid of Gordon Brown and the big brother state, and if you care about our schools, our quality of life and our liberties, then join us in one national movement that can bring real change.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

The biggest change stems from lawmakers» plans to spend at least $ 400 million in response to the mass shooting Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that left 17 people dead.

Making small, consistent changes to the types of protein - and carbohydrate - rich foods we eat may have a big impact on long - term weight gain, according to a new study led by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

Official Synopsis: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) when they go deep undercover at a local college.

22 JUMP STREET Starring: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum Directed by: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

Who: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Ice Cube, Peter Stormare and Dave Franco What: After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college.

Queensland academic Professor Bob Lingard, of the School of Education at the University of Queensland, told the conference there are big questions to deal with in this area such as how this trend may change work practices for teachers and learning for children.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and.At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and.at home with students and...

They are going to schools now and so will other people be going to schools, and assessing what they're like at the moment in terms of design and then trying to work out how to make some of the bigger changes [around] layout and the orientation of the windows and so on, how to make those things as easy to change as possible.

Then, when she began talking about the changes at her school, it became clear that all the small changes sparked by the compact were adding up to something big.

During the discussion in Weissbourd's Developing Effective School and Community Interventions for At - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their familieAt - Risk Children course, Menino shared his opinion that the biggest challenge facing education is changing the focus from teachers or schools needing money to what's going on at home with students and their familieat home with students and their families.

She said: «The biggest change we have seen is a switch to smaller pack sizes, as schools are also looking at ways of saving money, and a move to using more traditional methods, such as PVA and glue spreaders — essentially getting more value from their resources.»

HGSE master's student Lucas Cook asked how we can implement «big ideas» such as those raised at the Ed School to inspire big change in education.

Bloomberg and Klein «proved the important point that it is possible to change big and bulky school bureaucracies,» says Jeffrey Henig, professor of political science and education at Columbia.

Perhaps Allen Glenn, a professor and former dean of education at the University of Washington, is right when he says, «The biggest obstacle to school change is our memories.»

Senior Lecturer, and future chair of the National Institute for Urban School Leaders (USL) at The Principals» Center, Deborah Jewell - Sherman notes the job is much too big for any individual educator to handle alone and that learning how to lead change alongside fellow school leaders can make a real diffeSchool Leaders (USL) at The Principals» Center, Deborah Jewell - Sherman notes the job is much too big for any individual educator to handle alone and that learning how to lead change alongside fellow school leaders can make a real diffeschool leaders can make a real difference.

Ian Buss, head of education at Lloyds Bank adds: «For many schools, change and the management of that change is the biggest barrier.

With the average school energy bill in the UK coming to # 31,000, Eco-Schools England looks at small changes that can make a big difference to the energy efficiency of your school.

I had a very «tech - fearful» teacher at my school who took a BIG step out of her comfort zone by attending FETC, and who came back inspired to make changes in her teaching.

• Risk underestimated the resistance to change from the organized interests of the K - 12 public education system, at the center of which were the two big teacher unions as well as school administrators, colleges of education, state bureaucracies, school boards, and many others.

Given the growing body of evidence in this area, perhaps we are now at the stage where we can also begin to answer the «big question»: what impact are the changing models and structures having on school improvement and the attainment of all children and young people, especially the «unseen» highlighted by Sir Michael's report?

The students have been taking part in a «sophomore transition» program, not only to prepare them for the big change that is high school, but also for what comes at the end — graduation.

Lawmakers and school officials across Wisconsin are looking at big and small ways to change how the state funds schools — a system created four decades ago.

Although the teachers at Monroe Middle School are optimistic, many teachers and school leaders think the switch to Common Core is the biggest change in education now, and it's taken a lot ofSchool are optimistic, many teachers and school leaders think the switch to Common Core is the biggest change in education now, and it's taken a lot ofschool leaders think the switch to Common Core is the biggest change in education now, and it's taken a lot of work.

At the same time, the new mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, was moving to implement the biggest structural changes to the school system since the Ocean Hill - Brownsville crisis of 1968.

Well, the change that we made to improve our graduation rate is a change that hurts us on the test scores... We're showing these big improvements, our kids are performing closer to where they want to be — and they're not there yet — but in some cases, 30 — 40 percent higher on their test scores than [at other schools], but we're on the list.

Well, the change that we made to improve our graduation rate is a change that hurts us on the test scores... We're showing these big improvements, our kids are performing closer to where they want to be — and they're not there yet — but in some cases, 30 - 40 percent higher on their test scores than [at other schools], but we're on the list, and [other schools] are not, and I think the question is, why would that be?

The de Blasio administration believes so strongly in its own approach that it spent a million dollars in recent months to train parents in organizing techniques and to hire people to knock on the doors of roughly 35,000 parents of students at struggling schools, to tell them about the changes and urge them to take a bigger role.

The first order of business for Mary Ronan as the acting superintendent of the Cincinnati school system four years ago was making big changes at more than a dozen of the city's lowest - performing elementary schools.

«Some of the biggest changes in the Standards of Learning during the last few years have been at the middle school level,» Staples said.

Even little Joey Jones is talking greenhouse gases — he learned at school that scientists are predicting a worldwide climate catastrophe that will change the rest of his life, unless we stop the worst effects by making big changes in the next ten years.

One of the study's author's, Dabo Guan, professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia's School of International Development, UK, says the growth in the carbon footprint of the urban middle class and the rich in China is a big problem that has to be tackled.

Jay Michi, a third - year student at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, says law schools are oriented toward producing lawyers for big law firms — an orientation that needs to change in order to improve access.

Below is the video from a panel presentation entitled Implementing Innovation: The Challenges to Changing Big Law that was held at Stanford Law School by the Center for the Legal Profession on May 19th, 2015.

At a time of big change like starting school, some of these behaviours are not unexpected.

So, the short answer is that EMDR is especially good at dealing with BIG trauma (abuse, rape, violence, war, major injuries, etc) but can also be extremely effective at dealing with LITTLE traumas (change in schools, divorce, bullying incident, something embarrassing).