Sentences with phrase «challenging school years»

If we can enable better communication, and a sense of trust, on staff, then together we should be in a much better position to face any challenges the school year may bring.

Recalling the reasons why we teach — keeping them fresh and foremost in our minds — is, I believe, the key to sustaining ourselves during the long and challenging school year.

His latest book, On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools Are Pushing the Envelope (Jossey - Bass, 2014), follows leading charter school network Rocketship through a challenging school year to discover the key factors in its success and explore the ongoing challenges to its expansion.

Not exact matches

«This year, a different challenge has sharpened: People across Europe and the U.S. have risen up and said, «We don't feel we belong, and we don't feel we're being heard,» explained Ngaire Woods, dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, who moderated a panel discussion on the «Fourth Industrial Revolution» on Tuesday.

Nonprofit City Year Chicago has recent college grads lining up for a $ 12,000 annual salary to work in economically challenged schools.

Being young and fresh out of school, it was definitely a challenge, but after six months, a year, 18 months went by, I started to realize that this felt more like home to me than anything I'd done before.

A five - year - old lawsuit against the Ivy League school, filed by its neighbors, is challenging its tax - exempt status, Bloomberg reports.

Internships can be a bit of a challenge - adjusting to an office environment after years of school can be a bit difficult for all involved.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

A one - time star tight end (well, in middle school) and current 29 - year - old journalist, I challenged the Broncos» All - Pro cornerback to an afternoon of one - on - ones.

Fifteen years since his last high school coaching job, Floyd Burnsed takes on a new challenge at Acalanes

The Rams» senior class has the potential to be the school's most talented in years, though it has daunting challenges and plenty of games to play before making that determination.

Betters insists he wanted the players to stay, but FOCAS was going to be restructured after the school year, so they would face tuition challenges.

SAN ANTONIO — For years, we've poked fun at the glacial pace the NCAA and its member schools employ when faced with challenges that might require changes to the rules.

She comes to Challenge Success with over 20 years combined experience in strategic and operational consulting, accounting and finance, and independent school management.

Based on over 10 years of work in the field and over 20 case studies from Challenge Success schools, Overloaded and Underprepared serves as a guide for change, offering practical solutions that can be implemented in a single classroom or on a school - wide scale.

The Expeditionary Learning model was developed 25 years ago out of a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound USA, and the Outward Bound principle of building confidence and knowledge through shared challenges is still at the heart of the EL model.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

Gymnastics has been an integral part of her life since she was five years old, and though she always maintained a healthy body image she was challenged by her physical size and the criticism of others during her high school years.

Some schools attend our fall and spring conferences and work with Challenge Success coaches throughout the school year.

Check out our articles on thinking differently about time, school year activities, and kids» birthday parties, as well as book excerpts + challenges on time management, de-stressing school mornings, and taking the stress out of birthday parties.

My toddler's teacher at the end of last school year told me my little girl likes the challenge of opening things and to put things in containers that require figuring out how to open them.

Potatoes are rarely seen and french fries have been gone for years; in fact our menu reached the gold standard under the USDA's Healthy Schools challenge.

Each year their school does a Garbage Reductioin Challenge for Earth Week.

With the help of Challenge Success, JLS Principal Sharon Ofek several years ago created a «Shadow Day,» during which teachers would go through a full school day shadowing a student and then attempt to do the student's homework afterward.

Packing school lunches is one of the more challenging tasks of the school year.

But that doesn't mean the school - aged years are without challenges, especially when you're parenting solo.

Dr. Abram and his wife are the parents of a 10 - year old daughter and 7 - year old son, and despite running a school and being responsible for 260 students each day, he still finds parenting his most challenging job.

Every spring when I (somewhat begrudgingly) tackle the challenge of sorting out Laurel's summer schedule, I'm reminded of what a shock it was to go from the year - round reliable awesomeness of day care to an elementary school schedule, particularly since Laurel wasn't exactly receptive to frequent changes and transitions (e.g., different camps on different weeks) after said reliable awesomeness.

Whether they learn the entire high school program, or just the final year courses to prove previously acquired learning, or even challenge the leaving or entrance (SAT) exams, children that are motivated are serious, focused learners and nothing will stop them.

Why don't you show your child's new teacher your appreciation for their hard work and a year full of new challenges with one of these back to school teacher gifts?

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This year's theme is «Take the School Breakfast Challenge».

I've used my 25 years of experience in feeding children to help design healthy menus that taste great — and that's been the challenge up until now, particularly in small schools that have limited kitchen facilities.

The tween years offer up a number of challenges, including puberty, middle school, and the possibility that at some point in the next few years your child may encounter bullying.

Starting at parent - child classes, and continuing through the school years, students are encouraged to spend time outdoors — in all weather conditions — to explore and to challenge their mind and bodies.

Actually, the USDA memo on the two year waiver on 100 % whole grain rich foods states that «school districts that wish to take advantage of this two - year flexibility must obtain approval from their state agency by demonstrating that they experienced significant challenges in preparing and serving whole grain - rich pasta products in their schools».

Through years of daily artistic expression and an academically challenging curriculum, Waldorf education culminates in the high school grades with a conscious awakening of all the human capacities.

I only had one child myself, so I didn't face this challenge with mine, but I provided lunch and after school care for a year for two boys.

A few years ago, the Texas Department of Agriculture launched a Farm Fresh Fridays campaign to challenge schools to serve locally sourced produce on Fridays.

Denise Pope, the founder of Challenge Success, in August released a book, «Overloaded and Underprepared,» that provides practical recommendations for schools based on years of academic research on workload and achievement.

Every year my fantastic Post colleague Jay Mathews takes a great deal of time to assemble his list of America's Most Challenging High Schools, and he's just done it again for his 2014 list, which you can read all about here.

America's Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools through an index formula that's a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated thaSchools ranks schools through an index formula that's a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated thaschools through an index formula that's a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year.

This year's Community Partnerships Award winners are: Challenge Success; Stanford Language Center — International Institute of the Bay Area; and Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District.

But for families affected by special needs, the new school year has added challenges and concerns.

The middle school years are times of social pressure and rejection, as well as other challenges your tween may not have yet experienced.

You may also want to meet with your child's new teacher and / or administrator prior to the start of the school year, to talk about challenges, strengths, and strategies that work well for your particular child.

Parenting children through the preteen years means making sure they are ready for the challenges of middle school.

Mary said: «I used to work @ Marian Center in Miami 30 years ago, a school for mentally challenged children.