Sentences with phrase «few creative school»

Flying under the radar will be the reform choices of the few creative school boards that are willing to make changes in order to reward and retain their best teachers and find ways to devote more money to the classroom.

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These are just a few examples of creative ways to engage with schools.

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

A few creative ways to get that work space ready before back - to - school time hits once again.

A few weeks ago, we were fortunate to have New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña visit our World of Creative Experiences Center, which serves PAL's youngest, ages 3 - 5 years.

Few would argue that video games can do it all in terms of education, says Scot Osterweil, a research director in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies program and creative director of the school's Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote learning.

The program plans to strengthen the school system through; «higher expectations of social responsibility; more time to be playful and creative in order to learn more effectively when in the classroom; fewer standardised tests; and less time in a classroom setting (although no less rigor of content), which will create more passion in students to learn and less burnout as a result of too much time in school.»

In a lengthy response sent to Schools Week at 7.30 pm last night, DET said a «uniquely creative individual created a vision and put it into practice in a way few could ever have achieved.

«But I also came to appreciate what many students had told me about virtual learning: Compared with regular school, there's less interaction with teachers, fewer opportunities for creative expression, and little chance to bounce around ideas with classmates.

As New Hampshire has implemented countless creative education policies in the past few years that have led to these impressive results, the state has found that true success couples this progressive thinking with a focus on local authority over the schools and students they know best.

Join the ranks of talented B.F.A. graduates who move on to some of the country's top graduate and professional schools, and to exciting and fulfilling careers such as - user experience architect, web developer, web designer, animator, art director, creative director, graphic designer, shoe designer, teacher, gallery director, decorator, to name a few.

DK, Anusara's creative director added that the name was Village Anusara not Anusara Village, so the focus would be on the inclusiveness, on the community, and not on their school of yoga.John was only at Wanderlust for a few days.

Resumes of Creative Designers showcase college degrees in graphic designs with high school courses consisting of computer science, communications, geometry, web design, and art appreciation, to name a few.

Okay, well this year's pretty exciting for us here at Creative Play, we've been picked as 1 in 4 in Victoria for a pilot program for the resource «SMART» which is a spinoff of the Aussie program that has been running in primary schools for the last few years.

We still have a few weeks left before school starts, so to fill up some of these last days of summer I am going to let him be creative with jars.