Sentences with phrase «effort involving schools»

These efforts involve school districts, colleges and universities, businesses, and civic leaders working together to set regional education goals, to align leaders, resources, and decision - making, and to measure progress — all in pursuit of student success and thriving communities.

Not exact matches

Since Nicky is home - schooled, he's not able to work full - time on the company, but hopes to become more involved in the company's marketing efforts.

Other similar efforts would involve him in educational efforts with churches, schools, and agencies on the community level.

Also, 38 percent say they have become more involved in their children's school in the past year in an effort to protect their children.

Students at the school, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, have been won over by Michela's passion for meat - reducing, and have been involving their families in efforts to start the week without meat.

He is also the Chairman of the School Health Advisory Council for Laredo, involved in the Laredo Food Coalition, and an active advocate for anti-hunger efforts through the local food bank.

We know that the committee will take efforts to avoid conflicts of interest; many of the committee members have current or former financial ties to schools or conference that will be involved in the discussion, and those committee members will have to recuse themselves from discussing those teams.

Parents of achieving youngsters are involved with school, work with teachers when problems occur and tend to see failure as a lack of effort, not lack of ability or bad luck.

McCoy made the salad bar program a school - wide effort, involving her whole staff in salad bar trainings and workshops.

Every Kid Healthy ™ Week is an annual celebration of schools» wellness achievements, and is part of a wider effort to keep the spotlight on childhood obesity while providing opportunities for everyone to get involved in finding a solution!

He is involved with various fundraising and community outreach efforts for the school.

We believe making school food healthy involves the entire community and our goal is to foster and enhance collaborative efforts to that end.

Whenever I read that some big - name restaurant chef is going to get involved in the world of school food, I know I should be supportive of his efforts - but I secretly want to roll my eyes.

Glen Ellyn's involvement was a community effort involving College of DuPage, school and park districts, library, chamber of commerce, village, and volunteers who showed their home gardens or helped plant public areas.

This implementation effort involved collaboration and cooperation between school administrators and school nurses.

Get involved, Support your school's efforts to provide healthy school lunch menu options, Encourage your children to make the right food choices at school, Provide balanced meals at home

Whenever I read that some big - name restaurant chef is going to get involved in the world of school food, I know I should be supportive of his efforts — but I secretly want to roll my eyes.

If you are interested in lobbying local elected officials for policy changes that effect our neighborhood (congestion pricing, affordable housing, public school improvements), getting involved in the local community board, or participating in our club's efforts to elect progressive judges, this is the committee for you.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Off topic questions included: the ISIS in Iraq and potential threats to New York, his hair color in a World Cup themed picture, the City's negotiations with CW Capital concerning Stuyvesant Town, whether he concerned that religion - affiliated CBO's pre-K programs will involve some religious instruction or indoctrination, the Rent Guidelines Board and a possible rent increase, rating his administration on it's FOIL responsiveness, whether subway dancers are a «sign of urban decay», whether he is contemplating a special district for failing schools and whether there is symbolism is seeking to bring the Democratic National Convention to Brooklyn rather than Manhattan and whether he has coordinated that effort with Hillary Clinton.

The two suspects — Isaiah Ododomu and Toba Forejo said they were involved in illegal oil bunkering but were stopped from the business due to the renewed efforts of government against them, adding that they were arrested on Saturday at Iyana School in Lagos.

«These items could be used anywhere,» Asghar said, especially with the adaptations the group made to make the assessment materials even more useful to the school districts involved in the effort.

In a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, University College London and several other national and international partners, researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Oxford Martin School have investigated the geophysical likelihood of limiting global warming to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

«Better understanding of the association between sleep and substance use is important for parents, schools and others involved in alcohol and drug prevention efforts for this age group.»

«This relatively small increase may have been the result of an increase in the percentage of faculty hires that involve underrepresented minority faculty and efforts to increase the pipeline of medical school faculty.»

«Previous efforts to create sequential shape changing components involved placing multiple heaters at specific regions in a component and then controlling the on - and - off time of individual heaters,» explained Jerry Qi, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Students printed the hashtags on bright colored paper, which they signed and hung around school, highlighting which students were involved in the effort.

Several Princeton and Wilson School alumni have been directly involved with global health efforts and battling the recent Ebola outbreak.

«This study could help us refocus our efforts and to say, «Clearly, pushing marriage isn't a remedy,»» says Wendy Chavkin, MD, a professor of public health and ob - gyn in the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, in New York City, who was not involved in the research.

Though efforts are made by some schools to improve, it is really up to us, parents, to get involved and understand the process.

The article says that over the next several years the nea will spend $ 600,000 and involve the faculties of 29 elementary, middle, and high schools in an effort to review literature, identify objectives, and eventually develop curricula and programs in a number of subject areas.

This evidence strongly suggests that the return to neighborhood schools was not the underlying cause behind the increase in parent involvement at the time neighborhood elementary schools were re-established; rather, the increased effort of school officials at getting parents involved appear to be the source of the increase, an effort that benefited the schools undergoing busing for integration even more than the resegregated neighborhood schools.

Concurrent with my efforts to turn kids away from viewing discussion as an exercise in point - scoring, I was involved with contract negotiation between our teachers» association and the school district.

Both the campaign and ongoing communication will continue to acknowledge the efforts of all involved in the education of children, while demonstrating MTA's unique points of difference, including 220 - local staff, in - house customer service team and the largest educational resource field force — who visit schools and early childhood centres across Australia and New Zealand every day.

«This isn't a philanthropic, state, or local approach,» said Michele Cahill, who consulted extensively with the XQ project and was previously involved with New York City high - school - reform efforts.

Administrators at two of the top energy - saving schools, each of which received $ 2,000 for their efforts, told Education World that getting students as well as teachers involved helped make the difference.

Many become very involved in developing new schools, school - based enrichment programs, education policy programs, and foundation - center efforts that focus on strengthening education for children.

The challenges for schools and those involved in efforts to improve the teaching and learning of soft skills are significant given the nascent nature of the enterprise and the significant gaps in knowledge.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

It also brings the associated challenge of being prepared to abandon those activities that effectively have less «bang for our buck», so the effort, resources and time they involve can instead be directed to higher leverage strategies that will genuinely improve the school.

LACES makes an effort to get all parents involved in their children's learning by providing buses for people without their own transportation so they can attend school functions and meetings.

«One of the reasons behind the gap between the research and practitioner communities is the impression among teachers and school administrators that investing in social and emotional skills will involve significant additional efforts and resources.

Shaman points with pride to the fact that of the 27 staff members, only four are not directly involved in some after - school activity and [the after - school efforts are] all voluntary.

Another long - term effort could involve introducing middle - and high - school students to teaching careers through school curriculums.

Data - driven instruction involves collecting, interpreting, and disseminating data to improve instructional decision making in a coordinated district - wide and school - wide effort.

Efforts to build empathy and involve students in the process of change can shift the school culture to one where offending or hurting someone else, either in person or online, is not seen as cool.

Nine school districts in Maine will participate in Re: Learning, a research - based effort that encourages teachers and administrators to redesign their schools to get all students more directly involved in their learning.

Yet «Teacher preparation in family involvement lags far behind school efforts to promote family involvement,» according to a report released November 5 by Vice President Gore and Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley at the «Partners for Learning: Preparing Teachers to Involve Families» teleconference.

Schools struggling to improve student achievement must make better efforts to get parents involved, according to speakers at the Askwith Forum on Wednesday, April 25.

Literacy Efforts Over the Long Haul When staff members at one Maryland school discovered that students» reading scores weren't improving as hoped, they took action to motivate the students to read and to get parents involved.