Sentences with phrase «building schools where»

We have learned that building schools where these innovations are possible at scale can be incredibly costly and our current systems don't meet the need.
Educators need to be intentional about designing and building schools where students are friends with failure.
Therefore this age became the age of seminary building: the Church built schools where young men could go after college in order to be trained in theology and divinity.
Learn dynamic strategies to dramatically transform culture and build schools where students and staff run to get in, not out.
Ms. Michaels is excited to continue to build a school where students excel on their path to and through college.
«That's the ambition, to create proof points of what can be done when you have organic, purposeful, democratic partnerships with our community to build a school where our kids can thrive,» said Suárez - Orosco, the UCLA dean.
Lariely believes strongly in the importance of empowering students by giving them access to an education that allows them to explore their identity in its many facets and looks forward to building a school where this is not only possible but at the core of the institution.
100 years ago we built schools where teachers taught for an hour and a bell would signal the end of the lesson, why should we teach that way today?
Winnipeg schools have a lot of empty seats in older neighbourhoods, and rather than build schools where the children are, the province will fund busing instead.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.
Since the 19th century, companies have built company towns across the United States — municipalities where they own large percentages of the housing, stores, schools, churches, roads, and parks.
President Donald Trump says that if he had been at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where 17 people were killed earlier this month, he would have run into the building to stop the shooter — even if he didn't have a gun.
University of Notre Dame students become part of a storied history, where carrying on school traditions is a built - in part of the experience: Pep rallies, homemade - boat races, and masses at chapel are among the activities available during students» four years on campus.
Before the Perdue building opened this fall, business professors and students occupied an old elementary school, where the water fountains still stood at tyke height and where, rumor had it, a pack of squirrels seized their own office.
Cheryl Krakow said her daughter was absent from school while undergoing «intensive PTSD therapy» after witnessing intense violence inside the building where the shootings occurred.
The first project is the Pimbiniet community in Kenya where the company is building schooling facilities, digging wells, eliminating child labor and creating volunteering opportunities.
«The guy was filled with rage,» said a person who has visited the school building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where Cruz fired a squall of more than 100 rounds from his AR - 15 into classrooms and down hallways at terrified kids.
At least three Broward Sheriff's Office deputies arrived at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in time to hear gunshots but did not immediately enter the building where the shooting took place, according to reports they filed after the massacre.
Scot Peterson, the school's resource officer who was first on the scene, did not go into the building to confront the gunman because he was unsure of where the shooter was.
Coincidentally, the school resource officer who recommended that Cruz be «Baker Acted» was Scot Peterson — the same Broward Sheriff's Office deputy who resigned amid accusations he failed to respond to the shooting by staying outside the building where the killings occurred.
Those teacher work days are built into the calendar for cases like Hurricane Irma, where schools could close for several days.
The retailer has been buffeted by major structural shifts in an industry where electronics heavyweights JB Hi - Fi and Harvey Norman, and the rise of online players like Amazon and Kogan.com, have undermined the old - school Godfreys retailing model built around stand - alone stores.
The three - story building where a former student shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 15 will be demolished.
Given the «miracle» Nicaragua already is and could be — a Latin American nation where the hungry are being fed, the sick are being healed and the homeless are finding homes, where schools and parks are being built and faith is being put into practice as well as proclaimed in temples — it is hard to deny the reality expressed in a common slogan one hears there: «There is no contradiction between Christianity and the revolution.»
The idea for the film began during a trip to India where the church began building schools for the Dalit class - considered the lowest in India's caste system - in 2002.
The manners appropriate for teachers and students in a democracy of worth are neither those of the classical authoritarian school, where it is presupposed that the schoolmaster knows the truth and is expected to inculcate it, nor those of the progressive school, which is built on the principle that truth is by definition what solves human problems.
Hundreds of monuments to slavery still stand throughout the Southeast, such as Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama, where a student population that's 94 percent black attends classes in a building that honors a man who claimed the horrors of slavery.
The competitive nature of this programmatic dualism is most obvious where a separate building to house the Sunday School — the Christian education unit — stands side by side with the sanctuary.
For others among us the community to build is in the places where we work or go to school, for these have become the major arenas of alienation for many Americans.
The Boulder Valley School District in Colorado, where I am director of food services, is building a central kitchen, which will eventually cook upwards of 20,000 meals per day for our students, faculty and staff.
I guess I am reverting back to high school where I could build off of my previous mileage with no problem.
The NCAA tournament is not won on a temporary court built in a football stadium in March but in sweaty gyms where kids who know Michael Jordan only as a small - market team owner work through the tropes of basketball success — hardship, effort, tricked - out Escalades — and adults hang on the decisions of high school juniors.
I do nt know where Mercer is or if its even a school that has buildings.
Lynch passed his physical with the Raiders Wednesday afternoon, right after he returned from Haiti where he has been helping build schools and houses with Seahawks defensive linemen Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett.
True for the jobless Madridista, true for the Nepalese school teacher whose jobless cousin is dying in the desert to «build» stadium for the next world cup where he will cheer for Brazil or Argentina, true for you and I who buy Arsenal shirts with «Fly Emirates» on our chest.
Create an outdoor space that encourages creative, brain - building play for toddlers using basic, inexpensive materials, says Mary Kingsley, director and lead teacher at The Kinder Garden Preschool in Raleigh, a nature - based school where most of kids» time is spent outdoors.
The thinking goes like this: we live in a super-competitive world where getting a good job requires getting into a good school which requires getting good grades in tough classes... and building up a good, application - worthy slate of extracurriculars.
March 6, 2012 (Tuesday): Peer2Peer Connect Q & A on Food Allergies — School Nutrition Foundation partners with the National Peanut Board on this free, 60 - minute Peer2Peer call where we will discuss questions surrounding food allergy management in schools and how to build an effective food allergy management plan.
Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.
The Boulder Valley School District in Colorado, where I am director of food services, is building a central kitchen, which will eventually cook upwards of 20,000 meals per day for our students, faculty and staff.
As Geoffrey Canada put it in one conversation I quote in my book, «The question is, can you build a system where kids in middle school won't need these kinds of interventions in order to be successful?
Sixty - seven student ambassadors and fifty program advisors from across the country gathered together, where for five days they participated in fun, team - building exercises, leadership activities, and brainstorming sessions on how to keep schools active and healthy.
The Clarendon Hills Park District appears to have decided on litigation to resolve its long - standing dispute with Hinsdale School District 181 over how storm water will be handled in Prospect Park, where a middle school is being School District 181 over how storm water will be handled in Prospect Park, where a middle school is being school is being built.
Some preschools are located in actual school buildings where there is a nurse.
Two years ago, the district offered to purchase the portion of a 51 - acre parcel where it wants to build a park next to Batavia Middle School.
In a town where voters routinely approve money for new schools and additions, a $ 16 million referendum question to build an indoor recreation center and a new trail system in Naperville seemed like a walk in the park.
Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy one, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»
Every child enters school ready to succeed because every parent has the knowledge and resources to build school readiness where it starts: the home.
Our goal was simple: to make the healthy choice the easy choice, and to help schools build a sense of self - determination, where they could control the quality of the food their students eat.»
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