Sentences with phrase «by focus school»

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In the Netherlands, one school is taking classroom tech to another level entirely by focusing on the way a learning space is lit.

Although she was scouted by agencies while she was in school, her mother always protected her and encouraged her to focus on academics instead.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

Perhaps a good place to start is by focusing on 10 students in your local high school, with the goal of increasing their chances of graduating.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

JPMorgan is also «making a special effort» to bring on more African - Americans by setting up a separate group to focus on school recruiting, retention and hiring «more senior African - American talent,» Dimon said.

Designed by Babson College, the nation's top - ranked entrepreneurship school, the 10,000 Small Businesses curriculum focuses on practical business skills that can immediately be applied by small business owners, including negotiation, marketing and employee management.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

The slow implementation of Putonghua (Mandarin) instead of Cantonese in Hong Kong schools, the controversial proposal for a «Moral and National Education'that focuses on building Chinese patriotism, and the perception that Hong Kong housing and other resources are being unequally allocated to Chinese visitors, are some of the sources of discontent expressed by certain segments of society.

And Robert Locke recently wrote a book on business school education pointing out that the whole focus of business school education now was to have industrial companies run by financial managers — not salesmen, not production end, not lawyers, but financial managers.

Why alpha disappears was explained by research focused on risk transfer in the context of informed trades from Anna Obizhaeva, faculty at New Economic School in Moscow.

Getting kids into school isn't enough to solve illiteracy so Rotary focuses on improving education by training and mentoring teachers.

In this chapter, the author refines the thesis that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by focusing its study within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations.

In this chapter the author proposes courses of study unified by designing every course to address the overarching interest of a theological school and pluralistically adequate by designing every course to focus on questions about congregations.

Rather, as claimed by Clement of Alexandria and, with much greater intellectual power, Origen, his pupil and successor as head of the Alexandrian Catechetical school, Christianity is paideia, divinely given in Jesus Christ and inspired Christian scriptures, focused in a profound conversion of soul, and divinely assisted by the Holy Spirit.

It is conventional to distinguish between theological schools that focus on the education of ministers by attending to the «heart knowledge» of God that people have through their Christian experience, through their piety or spirituality, and theological schools that focus on the education of Christian intellectuals by attending to the «head knowledge» of God that people have through critical intellectual inquiry.

A Christian theological school is defined, we have repeatedly stressed, by its interest in truly understanding God by focusing study on the Christian thing; but as a matter of contingent fact it happens that the Christian thing is most concretely available for study in and as Christian congregations.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussionBy engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussionby focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

Hence a theological school does focus study on congregations, but is not defined by an interest in doing so.

That a theological school inescapably has some concrete identity and ethos does not mean that it schools by focusing study only on congregations whose own identities bear the strongest family resemblances to the school's identity.

The focus o # this chapter will be on the church school — the instrument by which the church carries on its formal educational ministry.

Naturally, I hope to persuade you of the wisdom of my own thought experiment; far more importantly, the experiment will have served its purpose if it stimulates and focuses fresh and continuing discussion of theological schooling by all of those who are involved in it, students and trustees, administrators and faculty.

Then building on these two chapters side by side, in the next two chapters I will draw out what happens when theological schooling is focused through the lens or within the horizon of questions about congregations.

The 2009 biographical film about a black high school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and Focus on the Family.

Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

The objection was that congregations are by and large far too ideologically captive to their host cultures to be suitable as the lens through which theological schooling is focused.

The proposal that has been partially elaborated in this chapter is that a theological school is a community of persons trying to understand God more truly by focusing its study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations.

Inasmuch as congregations are constituted by enactments of a more broadly practiced worship, theological schooling focused through questions about congregations must attend to their setting in time both diachronical and synchronical.

We need to identify criteria by which to judge which groups belong within the circle of Christian congregations so that we can tell concretely just what it is that we recommend theological schools select to focus their studies.

Precisely because particular congregations are constituted by their enactment of a more broadly practiced worship, theological schooling focused by questions about congregations could not be content with a sectarian attention to individual congregations.

Our proposal is that what makes a theological school theological is that it seeks to understand God more truly by focusing study of these matters through questions about Christian congregations.

However, the point is that given our working description of Christian congregations, theological schooling focused by study of congregations would welcome and endorse the most vigorous and detailed exposé of the cultural captivity and ideological functioning of congregations and their practices.

The central issue here can be focused by asking the question as concretely as possible: How does a given theological school understand the relationship between itself as a community and a Christian congregation as a community?

Since I teach in a trinitarian divinity school, it seems apt to try to convey the flavor of the whole by focusing on three chapters.

By focusing on issues in the «should we» form, this book, like a number of other recent studies of theological schooling, raises questions that must be asked constantly while we are attempting to solve the real problems of any particular theological school.

In April I took a huge leap of faith by dropping out of grad school with the single focus of finally, after years of dreaming about it, turning my blog into a business.

Start focusing on what you can eat with this informative guide packed with step - by - step advice to help you keep living your life the way you're used to, including tips on how to stock your kitchen and pack school lunches, as well as advice for hosting parties, preparing meals, modifying recipes, planning for gluten - free travel, and making sure your child eats safely wherever they go.

San Ramon Softball prides its organization in fielding experienced and professional level coaches, who focus on developing each player by teaching skills to get each and every player throughout our system ready for high school softball and beyond, regardless of their age.

Whether they are aware of it or not, by focusing both on Malik's game and building his image while he is still in high school, they represent an evolving trend.

«By focusing on and bringing in heavy representation of Pacific Northwest schools from California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado they have a real shot at making their dreams come true.

You can also support the child by asking less threatening questions that don't focus on specific schools — «Are you interested in being on the East Coast or West Coast?»

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

Geographic Expansion — reaching more schools and families across the U.S. by establishing new regional focus areas.

Accredited by the German Government and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), the GISSV offers a dual - immersion program that follows ambitious curricula, focusing on science and social studies as well as arts and sports.

They fall behind on measures of cognition and language development, and they have executive - function problems, too: They struggle with attention regulation; they are perceived by their teachers and parents as inattentive and hyperactive; they have trouble focusing in school.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

After school program helping children with academic, behavioral and social struggles by focusing on the root of the issues, the brain.

Maybe it's straying a little far from my focus on «kids and food, in school and out» but in the near future I plan to post about the unconscionable amount of unrecycled paper and styrofoam waste generated by the lunch program in my own school... [Continue reading]

This 30 minute «Coffee Break» hosted by Meagan Sheakoski on GooglePlus focused solely on school lunches and after - school snack ideas.