Sentences with phrase «challenging in schools where»

This is challenging in schools where many children are multiple grade levels behind.

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A self - described «band nerd» in high school, Rempel has honed her outspoken style by working in places where she was encouraged to challenge the status quo.

The school has introduced the HEC Challenge, where students work in teams to complete a consulting project for a specific organization.

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, where he is also Chair of the ASEAN Studies Center and UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

In the school's gym, Seth cuts quickly left and right with the ball, mimicking game situations where he will be challenged to create his own shot.

After all, the JRW Little League is rooted in the midst of several challenging Chicago neighborhoods, where crime, poverty, underperforming schools, drug dealing and other societal ills can make everyday living nothing short of a treacherous human struggle.

Denise Pope, Ph.D., is a Co-Founder of Challenge Success and a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning.

Volume IV, Number 1 ADHD: the Challenge of Our Time — Eugene Schwartz Helping Children: Where Research and Social Action Meet — Joan Almon Computers, Brains, and Children — Stephen Talbott Movement and Sensory Disorders in Today's Children — Peter Stuck, M.D. Can Waldorf Education Be Practiced in Public Schools?

And we are slightly bothered by the response from the National Peanut Board who shared their excitement that the new recommendations will inevitably allow peanuts to be plentiful in schools again, where avoidance is always a challenge.

When my son was in preschool, the school psychologist offered monthly parent meetings where we would meet for coffee and share our challenges and triumphs.

Therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers and similar facilities are safe places where troubled teen boys can receive help from professionals in overcoming their individual challenges.

Tough spends time at Riverdale Country School, an elite private school in Riverdale, New York, where school head Dominic Randolph explains the challenge there of weaving character into the curriSchool, an elite private school in Riverdale, New York, where school head Dominic Randolph explains the challenge there of weaving character into the currischool in Riverdale, New York, where school head Dominic Randolph explains the challenge there of weaving character into the currischool head Dominic Randolph explains the challenge there of weaving character into the curriculum.

In addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver ClouIn addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Clouin Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Cloud.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Even though Rockland school districts are facing challenges, they have not been hit as hard as northern counties where enrollment rates in some districts have dropped by as much as 25 percent since 2000, and are expected to continue dropping.

He cited instances where students are compelled to sit on bricks because there is not furniture for them and others also forced to sleep in toilets converted into dormitories as a result of accommodation challenges in the implementing schools.

As a result more than a fifth (22 %) say they have been forced to claim job seekers allowance; nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have access to training and professional development opportunities; Nearly two thirds (64 %) of supply teachers say they do not have any access to a mentor or line manager to discuss their work; Nearly half (44 %) of supply teachers feel they are used to cover the lessons of more challenging pupils; only 31 % of supply teachers said they were always made to feel welcome when entering a new school; over a third (35 %) of supply teachers did not always have access to food and drink facilities in the schools where they worked.

It was a challenging move to leave the heavily wooded Poconos where my group of friends meditated and swam in the waterfalls of our backyards to meet people who skipped school to go shopping at the malls.

A thoughtful high school teacher who came to yoga class recently put it so well: «Summer was a time where I was learning to be with myself in a healthy way... now my challenge is to be with other people again and this is when my yoga practice is really important.»

Frank deflects efforts by Ms. Stevenson and other staff to put Mary in a private school where she would be challenged.

But improving academic performance is especially challenging in the Silver State, where the number of public school students increased by more than 50 percent between 1994 and...

«In every area, from staffing to stationary, school leaders are having to make difficult decisions about where to cut and restrict resources to balance their budgets, and it's clear they anticipate further financial challenges ahead».

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

Last spring, the classroom activity, called Care Court, earned Floyd a finalist slot in the Dean's Challenge, a contest where Ed School students worked alongside Making Caring Common to develop simple education ideas that promote empathy.

The scheme was developed by the Rochester Bridge Trust in partnership with Rotary Great Britain and Ireland, and is based on success of the Rotary's existing Senior Technology Tournaments, where secondary school students take part in innovative engineering challenges as part of a national competition.

To promote student learning and achievement, research indicates that teacher advancement systems should compensate teachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California Teachers, 2012).

I have spent my career working in schools where students faced many challenges.

Such an aspiration is a challenge at the school, where up to 90 percent of students in the inaugural class entered with reading and math skills below grade level.

Photons for sensing and measurement is more of a high school concept, but my 11 - year - old came home last year and told me that their class had done an experiment where they had to bring in five shiny things from home and they were given a practical challenge where, in pairs, they had to figure out how to route light from one part of the classroom to another part of the classroom.

This may not hamper them in grade school where the challenges are often not great, but it can hamper them later when school becomes more difficult.

It advised the government to draw up a clear plan for teacher supply covering the next three years, detailing how targets will be met and based on better data; to set out how it will talk to school leaders about the recruitment challenges they face; to report back on the extent of teachers taking lessons in which they are not qualified; and to ensure there is clearer information on where applicants may train to become a teacher and how much it costs.

A bundle worth # 27 with speaking and writing mats and a transition pack from primary school to secondary school offered (# 5 worth)- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power - point - Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities - Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power - point)- Countries + game on flags - Talk about your nationality (gender and adjective agreement)- Definite and indefinite articles (le / la / les - un / une / des)- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)- Work on formulating simple questions in French - Avoir with a dice game and grammar activities to practise this irregular verb - Numbers up to 31 + months + seasons + birthday + date - Talk about your favorite object - Colours + adjective agreement - A worksheet to accompany each power - point - A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit - Writing end of unit test + a vocabulary test - Mon autoportrait (description of your hair and eyes)- An adjective agreement game to do in class with all the students (see explanation under the slide)- Grammar explanation on adjective agreement - A lesson on the verb «être» with various activities to practise the irregular endings (also some activities with être and adjective agreement)- A written activity on yourself and your family with a nice worksheet.

A bundle worth # 45 with a transition pack from primary school to secondary school offered (# 4 worth)- A starter activity for each lesson on the first slide + learning objective + challenge activities throughout the power - point - Vocabulary games and worksheets with challenge activities - Speaking and writing activities to be able to talk about yourself (age, name, family)- Learn this alphabet (link to songs on the power - point)- Countries + game on flags - Talk about your nationality (gender and adjective agreement)- Definite and indefinite articles (le / la / les - un / une / des)- Say where you live and where you used to live (survey activity with editable worksheet)- Work on formulating simple questions in French - Avoir with a dice game and grammar activities to practise this irregular verb - Numbers up to 31 + months + seasons + birthday + date - Talk about your favorite object - Colours + adjective agreement - A worksheet to accompany each power - point - A revision worksheet to practise the vocabulary and grammar points seen in the unit - Writing end of unit test + a vocabulary test - Mon autoportrait (description of your hair and eyes)- An adjective agreement game to do in class with all the students (see explanation under the slide)- Grammar explanation on adjective agreement - A lesson on the verb «être» with various activities to practise the irregular endings (also some activities with être and adjective agreement)- A written activity on yourself and your family with a nice worksheet.

Instead of promoting choice and letting the chips fall where they may, thoughtful leaders in cities across the country know that governments and their partners and choice advocates have important, challenging work to do if they want school choice to truly benefit families in the real world.

This includes rebalancing incentives to encourage leaders to work in challenging schools, along with the introduction of an» improvement period» where schools will not be inspected by Ofsted, which aims to take the immediate pressure off of new leaders and give them the time to make improvements after taking over a leadership role.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

A familiar debate over the origins of life — this time centered on a science - textbook sticker — is playing out in a Georgia courtroom, where parents are challenging their school district's written description of evolution as «a theory, not a fact.»

Where low expectations persist, schools face safety and discipline challenges and practice social promotion, moving kids along regardless of whether they have the skill set needed to succeed in the next grade.

However, online charter schools also create challenges in oversight within the charter regulatory context, where

Unlike hospitals, where doctors meet weekly to discuss vexing cases, many schools lack a regular forum or intellectual framework to meaningfully collaborate and debate hard challenges that arise in the classroom.

We did this by comparing changes in funding in school districts where the state's school - finance system has been ruled unconstitutional in a court challenge to funding changes in comparable districts in states where no SFJ has been issued.

Prior to his time in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized effort to improve literacy instruction.

David Skinner's article («Home Is Where the Heart Is,» features, Fall 2006) provides excellent coverage of the challenge facing Cory Booker, the newly elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, in his effort to revitalize the school district.

This is especially important in cities where both charter and district schools face similar pipeline challenges.

Some of the most closely watched races were for seats on the school board in Douglas County, where the winners will decide whether to continue to defend a school voucher program set up by the district that has faced legal challenges.

«We've had kids who were in the [Toledo Public] schools for their entire academic careers and suddenly the district wants to challenge where they live.»

The study also found that, where flipped learning worked best, teachers were able to adapt the approach to tackle challenges and barriers in their own school context.

Many middle schools use stronger co-teaching models where the special education counterpart teaches two subject areas or one subject and small groups, but even in those cases, co-teaching in middle school presents challenges.

As Henry Ford once said, «Coming together is the beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success,» and this is now the challenge for schools in MATs as we all seek to keep our individuality and individual school ethos on one hand whilst finding common ground and adopting shared approaches where they make sense.