Sentences with phrase «conversation about academies»

«We can have a much better conversation about academies in this new climate,» he said.

We can have a much better conversation about academies in this new climate.

Not exact matches

In the academy, where argument can so easily turn into a competitive sport, we momentarily bucked that trend with real conversations about real people.

After more than 20 years of dreaming about his chance to meet the Academy Award winner, Kevin finally had the opportunity to say hello and have a conversation with the cinematic siren.

Fusion Academy Evanston and Yellowbrick Consultation and Treatment Group are excited to present a screening of the acclaimed documentary, «Angst: Raising Awareness Around Anxiety,» a new film created to open up the conversation about anxiety and provide tools, resources, and hope.

Talking with Boyd Hooper, sdmissions director at Sundance Canyon Academy, about how to have the conversation with your struggling teenager about values.

Her decision came, in part, so that Success Academy could lobby for additional school space without facing questions about her motives, according to people familiar with her thinking, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

Star Denzel Washington and writer - director Dan Gilroy joined me onstage at the DGA Theater in front of a packed crowd of Academy and key guild voters for a conversation about where Washington's unique character came from — a socially backward activist who really has never left the spirit... Read

One uniting theme we've heard in conversations about cult horror hit «The Babadook» is what a shame it is that genre fare is so resolutely ignored by the Academy.

You can click here to read what she had to tell us about making Halloween II (2009) and working with director Rob Zombie and future Academy Award Winner Octavia Spencer, and then scroll down to check out Part 2 of our conversation!

The conversation about his sexuality extended from the fact that Franco has previously said he's gay in his work, which was to explain why he has starred in such queer films as Milk, which won Sean Penn an Academy Award for portraying gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk; Howl as poet Allen Ginsberg; Sal, which he also wrote and directed; and Interior.

In a recent staff development that I conducted at Williamsburg Christian Academy ~ Williamsburg ~ Virginia ~ we explored the power of Socratic Seminars to engage teachers in conversation about the following: 1.

In a conversation that included representatives from KIPP, YES Prep, Cesar Chavez High School for Public Policy, UNO, High Tech High, Basis, National Heritage Academies, Basis, and Democracy Prep, among others, participants talked bluntly about the need to do far better when it comes to developing character, cultivating citizenship, and monitoring their performance in these areas.

In its letter, NSBA took the opportunity to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts; from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

I love hearing what makes the Scholars tick — the questions they have about their homework, the stories they tell about the previous day's bus ride, their excitement over a good grade or accomplishment, their desire to do their best, their frustrations, their hopes — it all comes out in the little conversations I have with them every time I am at the College Success Academy.

In its two years of operation, Grimmway Academy has generated phenomenal results and has helped transform the conversation about charter schools throughout Kern County.

At the NYC Leadership Academy, we believe in meeting districts where they are, supporting them in having the hard conversations about the existence and impact of personal and systemic racism on students, and then helping them develop strategies for making and maintaining change that will work for their communities.

These Courageous Leadership Academies — a name coined by the HOPE Foundation — allow members from each school to work with HOPE counselors to engage in deep conversations about their students.

As a result of these conversations, the government has decided, while reaffirming our continued determination to see all schools to become academies in the next 6 years, that it is not necessary to bring legislation to bring about blanket conversion of all schools to achieve this goal.

A conversation with Dacia Toll, co-founder of Amistad Academy, about her successful charter school and Joel Klein, chancellor of the NYC Department of Education, about the changes Toll's success is bringing about in the NYC school system.

«For example, in Cambridgeshire, where practically all academies are either inadequate or requiring improvement, I know my regional director had a pretty tense conversation with the RSC about what are you going to do about these underperforming academies, the ones that will fail unless you intervene quickly.»

In advance of today's «Expanding Education Opportunity through School Choice» hearing, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts: from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Michael Craig - Martin, artist and guest curator of this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, will be in conversation with Lady Burlington about his 2014 exhibition at Chatsworth, his books and the ground - breaking digital portrait he made of her in 2011.

Melvin Edwards, among others, in conversation about the work of Norman Lewis, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA..

These conversations about art, cultural politics, and equity are not just being held in the academy; they are happening on the front lines of culture, in our museums and galleries.

PART ONE: THE FUNERAL and conversations about THE MUSEUM AS ACADEMY?

Frampton played a great role — not only did he inspire Andre's radical position and approach to sculpture through their conversations about art [2], he also introduced him to Brâncuși and through the Romanian artist, he became re-acquainted with Frank Stella, whom he knew from the Phillips Academy.

I am optimistic about the future of law, the legal academy, and public conversations about both — I just don't think the future will be blogged.