Sentences with phrase «city as a classroom»

Every freshman at UML receives a tour of this National Park and education students learn to use the city as their classroom through the Tsongas Industrial History Center, a hands - on history, science, and professional development center named after Senator Paul Tsongas, who championed this park partnership.

WHEELS was established by NYC Outward Bound Schools in 2006 with a mission to give students hands - on learning opportunities using the «city as a classroom.»

We see our city as a classroom, and one of our goals this year has been to take advantage of all the real - world lessons that come along with it.

He prided himself on using the entire city as his classroom, offering generations of students hands - on experiences, whether the topic was social change or poetry.

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That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

But as the husband of a teacher who has taught for years in city classrooms, it also seemed as if there was only one practical and moral resolution:

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job on Monday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job yesterday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, de Blasio.

Some New York City teachers who got in trouble for insubordination or sleeping on the job who are part of the Absent Teacher Reserve could be permanently back in classrooms, as the Education Department places them in jobs this month.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

All of the classrooms at the High School of Fashion Industries on West 24th Street will have air conditioning by the fall as part of a plan to install AC units in every classroom throughout the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an event at the school Wednesday.

There were many reasons for city workers to be angry on June 16 as they rallied at City Hall to «Save Our City» from devastating budget cuts, but for classroom teachers perhaps the biggest fear was of being «excessed» — as in being placed on the Absent Teacher Reserve lcity workers to be angry on June 16 as they rallied at City Hall to «Save Our City» from devastating budget cuts, but for classroom teachers perhaps the biggest fear was of being «excessed» — as in being placed on the Absent Teacher Reserve lCity Hall to «Save Our City» from devastating budget cuts, but for classroom teachers perhaps the biggest fear was of being «excessed» — as in being placed on the Absent Teacher Reserve lCity» from devastating budget cuts, but for classroom teachers perhaps the biggest fear was of being «excessed» — as in being placed on the Absent Teacher Reserve list.

City schoolteachers will have more money than ever to spend on classroom supplies this year in what critics see as an election - year political payoff.

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

As the city school district struggles to keep students in the classroom, the mayor has decided to add 50 - more positions to target the city's most at - risk youth.

Consequently, scores of newbies are being assigned to some of the most demanding and difficult operations (such as Southern California TRACON, Potomac TRACON, and the towers in Atlanta, Miami, and Orlando) right after completing their classroom training in Oklahoma City.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

As part of an extensive education outreach campaign to heighten awareness of Thurgood Marshall in classrooms and homeschools across the country, BazanED, a leader in motion picture education, is working with officials ranging from city council members to congressional representatives and mayors to organize the initiative.

I found myself in an inner - city middle school classroom without a clue as to how to discipline students beyond the escalating volume of my come - to - order voice (I often went home hoarse) or the clacking of a wooden stick that I whacked on my desk for attention.

Just as he did for 26 years as a teacher and administrator, staff development specialist Dennis Loftus still makes time to connect with students in classrooms, in hallways, and in cafeterias in the Syracuse City School District, in Syracuse, New York.

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.

Instructional rounds, as defined by City, Elmore, Fiarman, and Teitel (2011), is a disciplined way for educators to work together to improve instruction and is a practice that combines three common elements of improvement: classroom observation, an improvement strategy, and a network of educators.

93, left the classroom as an ESL teacher in Chelsea, Mass., to serve as the director of operations at City on a Hill Charter School during its startup and first few years of operation.

The New York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learning.

If basic literacy is in fact necessary for a teacher to be effective in the classroom, the victims of this policy will be the students; in New York City, minority students will be its primary victims, as most students taught by minority teachers are of the same background.

Arana is part of the founding team of school designers that opened the Institute's flagship project, Quest to Learn, a New York City public school which focuses on integrating games and game like learning into middle and high school classrooms, where she served as Co-Director of School for 4 years.

As I wrote in our study of data use in New York City, we need to move beyond either / or dichotomies that pit classroom information against district or statewide data:

Yet observations I have conducted in more than 300 classrooms in California, Minnesota, New York City, and Massachusetts over the past 15 years indicate that local school systems have commonly used bilingual education as a generic term referring to all three types of language - instruction programs.

As children returned to Los Angeles classrooms last week, educators were buoyed by the fact that schools were all but spared in the wave of violence that swept over large chunks of the city in the wake of the Rodney G. King verdict.

When she arrived in New York City as an immigrant from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at age six, she found solace in the classroom and in the kitchen.

Our work with teachers and students has demonstrated that an inner - city classroom in Philadelphia can feel as connected to traversing the Arabian desert by camel as they do to the cross-town bus.

Without a rich repository of data to draw from (such as those maintained by research consortia in cities such as Chicago and New York), DC will not be in a strong position to assess the relative effectiveness of different community, school, and classroom policies and practices.

«One of the things I noticed in talking with teachers and students [that are using River City in their classrooms] is this idea that some students have written themselves off as not being able to do science and succeed in schools,» he says.

Over Rivera's six years as superintendent of Rochester (NY) City School District made a tremendous impact in the classroom and community.

I eventually ended up in the classroom by volunteering my time as a gardener at a neighborhood school in inner - city Houston.

The lesson includes ideas for extending their work beyond the classroom, pursuing activities such as researching local recycling options and advocating with city officials for improvements, or starting a compost pile at school or at home.

I am currently serving as a City Year Corp Member in Providence Rhode Island in a 7th grade math classroom.

Using a large data set provided by the New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE), we analyzed student test scores as well as information about the students, their teachers, classrooms, and schools.

With our New York City program, many classrooms have peace corners, where students can choose for themselves a time - in, as opposed to a teacher sending them to a time - out.

To the degree that teachers take to heart Kozol's vision of the classroom as an arena for political indoctrination and the deconstruction of Western culture, they limit the life chances of inner - city children.

This conversation could be taking place at El Verano School, in Sonoma, California, or at Hamilton Central School, in upstate New York, or in K - 8 classrooms in cities as diverse as San Francisco, San Antonio, Miami, and dozens of others whose school districts are using an art curriculum called Visual Thinking Strategies to improve critical thinking, language and writing, and academic achievement.

In 1881, New York had to refuse admission to nearly 10,000 children because the city lacked classroom space; in Chicago in 1886, had all students reported for school as required, there would have been room for only one - third of them.

She discloses honestly and unflinchingly the privileges she has experienced as a white person and connects those to her presence in city classrooms where she taught for over 25 years.

Her path as an educator began in the classroom in the Dominican Republic before teaching in New York City public schools.

No matter; New York and other cities still stock up on teachers even as they have fewer students in the classroom.

She spent two years in the classroom as a kindergarten teacher, and worked as a Founding Senior Corps Member with City Year Milwaukee as their Training project Leader.

Motivated to enter politics after a «life - shattering, perspective - shattering» experience as a Baltimore City Schools teacher, Bill's time in the classroom continues to inform his legislative efforts, most recently his leadership on the passage of an unprecedented $ 1 billion initiative to renovate and rebuild 35 city schoCity Schools teacher, Bill's time in the classroom continues to inform his legislative efforts, most recently his leadership on the passage of an unprecedented $ 1 billion initiative to renovate and rebuild 35 city schocity schools.

Appleton, which has seen several of its schools receive national recognition for their efforts in this area, is one of the cities participating in Core 4 +, better known by school leaders here as «active kids, active classrooms.»

Previously, she served as a corps member with City Year Boston in a fifth grade classroom.