Sentences with phrase «first as a community school»

Last school year was Glenwood's first as a community school, while Gerald R Ford Academic Center has been with KSSN for seven years.

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The advisory review committee invited and reviewed commentary from those within the Haskayne School of Business and from the external community, and reviewed a submission from Dr. Dewald highlighting major accomplishments attained in his first term to date as dean, along with an examination of a proposed vision for a second term.

I started at Hope International University in Fullerton, which felt a bit like a homecoming as it was one of the first schools I visited when I began speaking, and one of the most welcoming and hospital communities you will meet.

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 great denominational schools of America are among the first to admit this; but few of them are in a position to press their perception of the diversity of the Christian community as systematically, as hourly, as are the great ecumenical seminaries.

Organizations such as the American Red Cross offer courses in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in local places like schools, hospitals, and community centers.

At Concord, he served as the faculty advisor to the nation's first Gay - Straight Alliance (GSA) leading him in 1990 found GLSEN, a national education organization bringing together lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and straight teachers, parents, students, and community members who wanted to end anti-LGBT bias in our schools.

The President in the run up to the 2012 elections as a key campaign pledge, promised to build 200 new community Day senior High schools in his first term as President.

«I had children in the schools, so I really knew my community and when I stepped up to say I want to fight for Hamburg, they knew I meant it,» Hochul said of her first political campaign for Hamburg Town Board as a young lawyer and activist.

Only the residents of election District 10 will continue to vote at the school, while others will now have to go to either the middle school or the community center, which will serve as a polling site for the first time.

As announced by Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña and Deputy Mayor Richard Buery, Media and Communications was one of the first 45 Community Schools launched in December 2014.

Five Buffalo teachers — supported by NYSUT — filed legal papers today with the State Education Department seeking the removal of school board member Carl Paladino for «racially inflammatory statements» about Obama, the first lady and African - Americans that have violated his duty to serve as a role model for the school community.

«It was clear from the beginning — when I first learned about homeless students being shuffled in and out of our local schools without the proper services they needed and about the homeless families that were essentially stranded in these suburban communities — that it was not appropriate to use these hotels as temporary shelters,» Matteo said.

That outcome was stunning given the speaker's long identification with the LGBT community — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity — as the 1991 campaign manager and later chief of staff to Tom Duane, the Council's first out gay member; as head of the New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project; as a demonstrator arrested year after year in protests against the exclusion of openly gay participants in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day Parade; and as a Council member who pursued a range of initiatives in support of the community, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT Communitcommunity, including a school anti-bullying law, a requirement that the city only do businesses with contractors with anti-discrimination policies in place, and funding for LGBT homeless youth services, senior services, and the capital needs of the LGBT CommunityCommunity Center.

Students in kindergarten through third grade at nine low - income New York City schools will receive more than 24,000 books they can take home, as part of a pilot literacy project launched Tuesday by the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Department of Education, First Book, The American Federation of Teachers and The New York Community Trust.

In his State of the State speech on Jan. 9, Gov. Cuomo announced an ambitious education agenda for 2013 that includes full - day pre-kindergarten in the poorest areas, community schools such as those being piloted by the UFT this year, and a «bar - like exam» to qualify future teachers that was first proposed by the AFT.

The indoor radon action levels for US homes and schools were adopted in response to the use of radioactive uranium mill tailings sand in construction and soil fill for homes and schools in the western US; recognized in the 1970's as one of the first direct community health risks from the process of uranium mining.

Kelli - Anne found the club to be a route to new opportunities, as she ended up volunteering in the school's community café and gaining three qualifications in food safety and first aid.

After all these years of choosing purity of doctrine and bloodlines over pragmatic calculation, the Hyde School today has an atmosphere charged with the dedication to first principles of a religious community as well as the air of immemorial ritual of an old Maine summer camp.

Kirsten Heard, head teacher, Raynes Park High School, said «We are proud to become the first state school accredited as a BECSLink commSchool, said «We are proud to become the first state school accredited as a BECSLink commschool accredited as a BECSLink community.

As Mapp and other experts have argued, to build meaningful partnerships that are feasible for all parents, communities, schools, and teachers must first establish what success looks like.

The school, which will be ready for students on the first day of Term 1, features modern teaching and learning space, as well as facilities the community can share so that it is fully embedded in neighbourhood life.

Armed with data looking at some 20,000 high school students in urban, rural, and suburban communities, he first examined a survey question asking teachers to identify students in their class that they perceived as having disabilities.

Cawsey says the success of the program, and the fact the school is recognised for its leadership in this area, is all the more remarkable because Rooty Hill is an L2 community - that is, no - one speaks Chinese as a first language.

As the first multiple intelligences school in the world, the Key Learning Community School has a long history with Professor Howard Gaschool in the world, the Key Learning Community School has a long history with Professor Howard GaSchool has a long history with Professor Howard Gardner.

As far as first - year principal Carol Sharp was concerned, the Susan B. Anthony Elementary School, in Sacramento, California, had lost touch with the communitAs far as first - year principal Carol Sharp was concerned, the Susan B. Anthony Elementary School, in Sacramento, California, had lost touch with the communitas first - year principal Carol Sharp was concerned, the Susan B. Anthony Elementary School, in Sacramento, California, had lost touch with the community.

My first priority is always to get to know people, and at a smaller school like Toorak College I've had the opportunity to not only become familiar with all the students and teachers, but after just a year or so I've managed to get to know many of the parents and wider community associated with the school as well.

«To me this means first acknowledging the work that community educators, mostly in communities of color, are doing to supplement the information our children receive about themselves, their histories, and the worlds in which we exist through schools and classrooms,» says Torres Covarrubias, citing as an example the work of her friend Patrisse Cullors - Brignac at Dignity and Power Now, an organization that helps people affected by the Prison Industrial Complex.

As the teacher of gifted at my school ~ I had a first grade and a second grade student working together on a community - service based project ~ which involved collecting supplies for the local animal shelter.

Tim Henman OBE, retired tennis champion, joined Raynes Park High School in south west London, as it became the first state school to be an accredited Tim Henman Foundation BECSLink Community on Friday 16th School in south west London, as it became the first state school to be an accredited Tim Henman Foundation BECSLink Community on Friday 16th school to be an accredited Tim Henman Foundation BECSLink Community on Friday 16th March.

Success at School is thrilled to announce that Dr Gordon Mizner will join the team as its first expert advisor from the business community.

This report detailed the college completion rates from the first two KIPP middle schools and offered a clearer picture of the challenges students from low - income communities face on the path to a degree, as well as the factors that help them succeed.

In conversations with community members, Grossman preaches patience — especially as students face their first round of Common Core tests at the end of the school year.

In his first year as Superintendent, Dr. McIntyre led the school system and the community through a process that produced a focused vision for the future of the Knox County Schools and a five - year strategic plan designed to achieve Excellence for All Children.

And the Northside Community School opens today, with four classes, six teachers, about 60 kindergartners and first - graders, and a board president who doubles as janitor.

And as we see first - hand in neighborhoods across New York and Connecticut, charter schools are creating avenues of hope in historically underserved Black communities, empowering Black educators and families, and educating the young Black leaders of tomorrow in unique and innovative ways.

As someone who spent a lot of time evaluating the first wave of community school models here in Chicago, I am excited to see the progress in conceptualizing the workings and impacts of community schools in ways that articulate to the broader conversation about data - informed school improvement.

Now, a year later, the Wyoming school district is celebrating the gains made as a result of its first year of partnership and is ready to begin year two with a continued focus on the mathematics achievement of all students in their diverse community.

Oakland Kids First works in partnership with the following schools as part of Oakland Unified's full service community school model across high schools:

Cary returned to the classroom as a third - grade teacher, working at Match Community Day School in Boston, Achievement First Endeavor Elementary School in Brooklyn, and Democracy Prep Harlem Prep Elementary School, a high - performing BES school in New YorkSchool in Boston, Achievement First Endeavor Elementary School in Brooklyn, and Democracy Prep Harlem Prep Elementary School, a high - performing BES school in New YorkSchool in Brooklyn, and Democracy Prep Harlem Prep Elementary School, a high - performing BES school in New YorkSchool, a high - performing BES school in New Yorkschool in New York City.

Urban school districts in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Northern Kentucky were facing similar circumstances when StrivePartnership started as one of the first cradle - to - career community in 2006.

States have set up command - and - control frameworks, viewing districts rather than schools as public education's first responders, which is at odds with school - level efforts to address the particular needs of students and communities.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

As the City Council holds a hearing this afternoon on three resolutions aimed to cap and slow the co-location of public schools, district and charter school leaders who share facilities are speaking up about their experience co-locating with other public schools; collaboration, community building and putting kids first are recurring themes among all of them, demonstrating that educators know to check politics at the door.

Prior to these roles, Devin taught social studies at ACORN Community High School, where she was selected as the model instructional classroom teacher for a network of 15 schools and led the rollout of the school's first portfolio based assessSchool, where she was selected as the model instructional classroom teacher for a network of 15 schools and led the rollout of the school's first portfolio based assessschool's first portfolio based assessments.

WHEREAS, the so - called «reform» initiatives of Students First, rely on destructive anti-educator policies that do nothing for students but blame educators and their unions for the ills of society, make testing the goal of education, shatter communities by closing their public schools, and see public schools as potential profit centers and children as measureable commodities; and

As soon as each of the first two middle schools opened, they were inundated with requests for seats from parents in the two respective communitieAs soon as each of the first two middle schools opened, they were inundated with requests for seats from parents in the two respective communitieas each of the first two middle schools opened, they were inundated with requests for seats from parents in the two respective communities.

This alternative school was chosen as the first outreach site for the «Take a Hike» Program, which incorporates academics, adventure - based learning, therapy and community involvement.

Originally established by the SF Sheriff's Department (2003) as the first charter school in the nation to operate inside of a county jail, today Five Keys is a charter management (non-profit) corporation that operates three public charter schools within the Sheriff's Department, the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, and 26 community satellite campuses in partnership with the reentry and workforce development community in SF and LA.

By choosing kindergarten readiness as the first goal of the Blueprint, the community demonstrated the clear understanding of the challenge that a significant number of children are entering the formal school system without the skills they need to succeed, as well as the underlying community responsibility that we need to do something about it.