Sentences with phrase «different school communities»

We spent approximately four years in 12 different school communities observing school meetings and events; conducting interviews and focus groups with principals, teachers, parents, and community leaders; observing classroom instruction; and talking to teachers about the progress and problems in their reform efforts.

According to A + Colorado, the report is intended to spark conversations and further investigation of the drivers for success in different school communities.

It deliberately does not rank the options or favor a particular approach, as different options may suit different school communities or schools at different stages of transformations.

Not exact matches

If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.

If there is more than one, do they shape different aspects of the school's common life (one shaping its teaching and learning, another its life of worship, perhaps another its common life as a community of students, faculty, and staff)?

We have just seen that, far from unifying them, the fact that theological schools are theological makes them irreducibly different from one another because of different theological judgments about the nature of the Christian thing, what it is to understand God, and what sort of community a theological school is.

Second, the comprehensive high school has been devised to enable students with different curricular needs to study within the same educational community.

Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

The first, superficial impression is that the Protestant theological schools in the United States and Canada do not consciously count themselves members of one community but function as though they were responsible to many different societies.

The secular and sacred lines are drawn clearly, so that in multireligious India «this can mean either a fundamental separation of the state from religious activity and affiliation, or impartial state involvement on issues relating to religious interests of different communities.52 The problem with this school of thought from the point of view of religious (Christian) and ethnocultural (Dalit and Adivasi) minorities is obvious.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Or the pattern among contrasting types of community that constitute the school might be very different.

So instead of sending kids back to school a few weeks from now with only memories of a summer filled with tragic stories, the Rev. Dorothy Caffey, pastor of Universal Community M.B. Church, wanted to impart a different message.

Every community, district and school is different.

Parents are often the most invested in school district concerns, but every community member in the district has a voice, and various groups represent different perspectives.

The disparities in resources that different schools have is a significant problem — we need to do a lot in policy to level that playing field, to give schools in poor communities more resources.

But I realised that by home educating them and going to different groups within the home education community they will gain more than even a private school can provide, such as more knowledge of the world.

It is intended to be used with school age children and is designed to meet the requirements of different settings; for instance, a home school unit, a public school classroom, the local library, or your community center.

Using examples from different school settings, this training provides key steps and strategies for consistently and meaningfully engaging dads in the parent organization, at grade - levels and at the whole school community level.

While the school population reflects the different nationalities of a very diverse greater - Princeton community, the Waldorf curriculum embraces the unifying human elements across all cultures.

Every community offers different options for school assistance, so talk to your school guidance counselor to find out what help is available to you.

WILLSBORO — Willsboro Central School will place two more plaques on the hallway outside the auditorium this summer, honoring a duo and a lady who have served their communities under very different circumstances.

Although I spent the first 17 years of my life in a black world — the segregated communities and schools of Birmingham, Alabama — I've spent the past 38 years under very different circumstances.

Hieter and Jeannie Lee, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital (and 2018 GSA President), were co-chairs of 2016's Allied Genetics Conference, which brought together over 3,000 attendees from seven different genetic research communities to exchange ideas and findings.

While Sanskrit language, mandalas, and prayer mudras might be so common in our lives that we don't perceive them as anything out of the ordinary, we need to be mindful of the fact that it is practically guaranteed that school community members, including parents, will have experiences that are different from ours.

I was in many different choirs, took voice lessons, and performed in musical theatre productions in high school and community theatre in my hometown.

The studio finally decided to pursue a story with a completely different setting and cast of characters, while still focused on the world of high school in Texas and the impact it has the community.

The story is centered on five different families in an Austin high school community, all of whom have some kind of unhealthy relationship with the Internet that Reitman builds on for the sake of social commentary.

It's very different improving an urban school versus say a coastal school or rural school in terms of its very different attracting talent, attracting good teachers is much harder in a rural community.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

I have worked in a few different schools and visited many more, and I've always wondered about the community of teachers in each of those schools.

While the relationship between leading, learning and managing change is not new, the complexities of the contemporary school environment are transforming the nature of leadership, with many education communities now calling for networked school leaders who are able to more seamlessly connect learning opportunities across different contexts.

It strengthens the school community by encouraging pupils, teachers and parents to work together in different settings.

Given that each school has its own unique interplay among staff, students and the greater communities, how each school chooses to solve problems and maximize outcomes will, and should, look different.

School start times vary considerably, both across the nation and within individual communities, with some schools beginning earlier than 7:30 a.m. and others after 9:00 a.m. Districts often stagger the start times of different schools in order to reduce transportation costs by using fewer buses.

A Rural Trust network community in Colorado has been working with a school in Alaska on writing, sharing stories and poetry from very different cultures.

Two high - need schools in Charlotte, North Carolina are trying something different to help their students catch up with students in more advantaged communities.

At interscholastic events such as high school football games, where schools of different communities come together, people feel great pride when the buses from their schools travel past.

For instance, Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center («the Met») in Providence, and the Oakland School for Social Justice and Community Development are all very different urban high schools that enroll mostly low - income black and Hispanic students.

As part of the «Strong Start, Bright Future» campaign, Waldo — deputy chief of staff for policy and programs for Duncan — accompanied the secretary on their 1,100 mile Back - to - School Bus Tour of the Southwest, visiting schools and community leaders in four different states in only five days.

At annual districtwide portfolio audits, portfolio samples are evaluated by teachers and administrators from different schools, as well as by community members.

All of these young people have gained a positive experience of the arts, learning how the arts can bring different people together, creating links with different communities and encouraging them all to feel and sense of pride in themselves, their school and their local community.

We take a different approach: What might our communities» schools — whether public, private or otherwise — learn from one another?

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The communities and environments immediately surrounding schools, whether they are situated in a bustling metropolis or a quiet rural village, offer inspiration in a variety of different ways.

«Each community and each state has a little bit different school financing system, so rural communities in some states are better off financially than in other states,» she said.

It's also why it's important to have school newspapers or journalism of some kind — podcasts or YouTube channels — where dissenting voices are encouraged and where students, parents, and community members encounter different views about controversial issues.

This involved self - reflection, interviews with several members of the school community, and also to compare the atmosphere of their school with the atmosphere of different schools, in Brazil and other countries.

Even if fraud or corruption is not obvious, school, staff, parents and the community should always stay alert for warning signs such as poor record - keeping and a lack of documents supporting financial transactions, different procurement duties being carried out by the same person rather than different people, or a school operating outside its approved budget.

«We need a more equitable approach to family engagement,» Weiss continues, «one that takes into account family strengths and a shared responsibility assumed by families, schools, and communities for children's development across time and in different settings.»