Sentences with phrase «conventional school work»

They, and their disadvantaged counterparts in big - city schools, must be protected from the fairy tale we adults so glibly tell: doing conventional school work guarantees a good job.

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EW: How is teaching in an open International Baccalaureate school different from working in a conventional middle school?

«Unlike conventional corporate consulting, where experts create a plan for change but are rarely involved in the implementation process,» Wagner explained, «the Change Leadership Group will support the growth and development of school leaders by drawing on their knowledge and working with them on the process of improvement over time.»

Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»

«I've seen work done with high school students that can convey very complicated ideas or allows space to grapple with huge community or social problems through the arts that students aren't able to do in conventional models of education,» she says.

The rigid rules in conventional schools continually distract students from important work in the classroom.

All of these encouraging studies used experimental evidence to investigate the bias of using conventional value - added scores to compare teachers working in the same school.

We tried all the conventional ways to keep him in school — home visits, police visits, court appearances — but nothing worked.

Flash forward 11 years later they are back in British Columbia, planning for their next big travel adventure, working on their websites and giving their kids a little time for conventional schooling.

But, though these abstract compositions are not conventional landscapes, his sense of shape and light is influenced by the three places he knows best: Ireland, his birthplace in 1945 and the homeland of his parents; north London, where he grew up and went to art school; and New York, where today he mainly lives and works, now a US citizen.

[20] Though the usage of the term as a kind of shorthand to designate the work of certain Post-war «schools» employing relatively specific material and generic techniques has become conventional since the mid-1980s, the theoretical underpinnings of Postmodernism as an epochal or epistemic division are still very much in controversy.

Most follow the conventional route, such as taking lots of classes on criminal law, investigative reporting and forensics in college and law school; volunteering for a clinic that handles post-conviction matters; and eventually working for, or starting a criminal law practice.