Sentences with phrase «entirely different schools»

It seems we talk about two entirely different schools.

I certainly never dreamed sitting in that first staff meeting that the best resources in my 20 years in education would be located thousands of miles from me working in entirely different schools!

Not exact matches

I often hear tales of clergy believing one thing, but preaching something entirely different because their congregation have very firmly held views on what they're willing to hear... and that's often what they were taught in Sunday school as children — they're 80 now.

I intended to post on an entirely different topic today, but then I received this robust and thought - provoking response in favor of the right to bring cupcakes (or other treats) to school on your child's birthday: As a mother, an attorney, and a... [Continue reading]

Volume XVI, Number 2 Science and the Humanities; The Great Rift in Modern Consciousness — Douglas Sloan What Stands Behind a Waldorf School — David Mitchell On Earth as It Is in Heaven: The Task of the College of Teachers — Roberto Trostli The Plight of Early Childhood Education in the U.S. — Joan Almon The Art of Knowing — Jonathan Code Painting from a Palette Entirely Different — Johannes Kiersch Authenticity in Education — Elan: Leibner Soul Breathing Exercises — Dennis Klocek

For parents, back - to - school shopping yields an entirely different type of anticipation: the fear of an empty wallet.

Maybe you went to an all - girls school and want the same experience for your daughter — or maybe you want an entirely different experience for her.

A day after winning re-election in a landslide, Mayor Bill de Blasio said his «greatest passion» in his second term will be making the public - school system «look entirely different.»

A day after winning re-election in a landslide, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said his «greatest passion» in his second term will be to make the public school system «look entirely different.»

Most graduate school exams are entirely different (and more overtly stressful) than those we took as undergraduates.

In the second high - quality trial of its kind, published in PLOS ONE, the researchers found an entirely different result to an earlier study carried out in 2012, where omega - 3 supplements were found to have a beneficial effect on the reading ability and working memory of school children with learning needs such as ADHD.

The mass die - off of nerve cells in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease may largely occur because an entirely different class of brain cells, called microglia, begin to fall down on the job, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

In graduate school, then, he took an entirely different direction: «I decided to go back to school, either in physical chemistry, which I had especially enjoyed as an undergraduate, or in social psychology, which I had come to be interested in [while] taking an evening course at the University of Rochester,» Coleman said in an interview with the sociologist Richard Swedberg.

«You'd think there would be a clear starting point, but the motivators for outsourcing IT services are different for every school as it depends entirely on the long - term and unique issues they face,» says Martin.

The solution isn't an improved traditional district; it's an entirely different delivery system for public education: systems of chartered schools.

In the spirit of the self - improving system, the review panel was composed entirely of professionals in leadership roles of different types in schools, colleges, MATs, and nurseries.

«Rather than following a more traditional professional - development model — where you take teachers out of their school or out of their classroom and «train'them and then send them back without follow - up or support — this is an entirely different process,» said Michael Patron, the headmaster...

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

During our analysis period, roughly 15 percent of teachers in our data switched to a different grade within the same school from one year to the next, 6 percent of teachers moved to a different school within the same district, and another 6 percent left the district entirely.

A school and its staff can handle an individual with a grudge but dealing with the after effects of a serious fire is something entirely different.

An entirely different matter is whether the funding loss, in turn, would actually hurt the education received by Wisconsin's 870,000 public school students and 32,000 publicly funded voucher students.

It could include # 2.5 billion for the pupil premium (Lib Dems), three million apprenticeships (Conservative), ensuring all teachers are qualified (Labour), bringing free schools and academies under local authority control (Green) or schools investigated by Ofsted on the presentation of a petition to the DfE signed by 25 per cent of parents or governors (UKIP)... or something entirely different.

Middle School is often thought to offer entirely different challenges to all students, including the gifted child.

What is needed instead is a fundamental shift in direction in federal education policy, and ESSA is not it; therefore every family that can afford it should opt out of state schooling whenever possible until No Child Left Behind's failed strategy for social improvement via annual testing and publishing the results is abandoned entirely, and until Sacramento gets serious about subsidiary devolution, which implies that assessing and reporting on the results of local schools should be left to the local districts, whose citizens may have different priorities and values that the state and federal governments should learn to respect.

In doing so, they posit an entirely different approach than the tweaks exercised by current NYC Mayor Bill de... Continue reading Politics vs. Policy: The «Urgent Moral» Case for Dramatic School Intervention

The Montgomery County school district encompasses two demographically different communities, one composed almost entirely of white and Asian professional families — residing in neighborhoods that school authorities refer to as the «green zone» — and another composed of mainly poor and minority families, who live in what the school district labels the «red zone.»

MIT education researcher Meredith Thompson shares three vignettes of three different approaches to virtual reality in K — 12: a social studies class in a suburban school district, a district - wide perspective from an urban school district and a class designed entirely around understanding and implementing VR for other classrooms.

In NYC, where I'm most familiar with school closures, the school is not just renamed, or given a new principal — those kids are strewn elsewhere, and the replacement school (s) serve an entirely different set of kids (often with higher incoming test scores).

Despite the widely held myth that the educational calendar followed farm calendars, the 178 day school year (national average) became standardized for an entirely different reason.

The totals from the two school years are not entirely comparable because they were counted using different methods.

One of NSBA's major arguments against these proposals is that public schools and private schools operate in entirely different worlds --- the former subject to extensive regulation and the latter largely devoid of the same.

There are plenty of different places and ways to learn, so whether you want to hire your own board, run into the sea and see what happens, or go to an accredited surf school with proper instructors who can teach you the ways of the waves, it's entirely up to you.

It is an entirely different proposition to graduate from law school (as many of my colleagues from Quebec did) at the age of 22, 23 or 24 and have limited job prospects than it is to graduate at the age of 27, 28 or 29 and face the daunting and demoralizing proposition of moving in with parents and delaying things like gaining financial independence, purchasing a home and starting a family.

The facts surrounding the schoolgirl's fall of 1.5 metres from a slide in her school playground were entirely different.

While you have many different options available to you which I'll get into a bit more later in this article, Aceable is entirely legit and in fact, is is probably my highest recommended online drivers ed course that I recommend to both teens and parents as well as adults for completing online traffic school.

With driving schools, it's an entirely different scenario.

They tend to work from the front end to the back end, taking a piecemeal approach that dumps all of the existing campus information systems (school sports trackers, events boards, educational content, bookstore resources, etc.) into their own separate mobile experiences, sometimes even developing for entirely different operating systems.

To narrow it down further, consider whether you'd rather work in a hospital setting, clinic, school — or something entirely different like a non-profit organization.

In this example, our engineering grad — who finished school while working in an entirely different industry — can highlight not only his educational achievements, but specific accomplishments that he achieved in his previous employment.

Although some students are dreading the start of a new school year because that means less free time and more work, some students dread it for an entirely different reason.

You are moving to another locale, need a larger home because of your growing family, empty nesting and looking to downsize, wanting to live in another school district, or perhaps your reason for selling your home is something entirely different.