Meeting health needs Health and well - being are an increasing
focus for schools, and Pendlebury Centre Pupil Referral Unit has been recognised for its outstanding practice in this area.
A big
focus for the schools is that all meals should be of high quality and cater for a wide range of dietary requirements, while at the same time meeting all the new food - based standards.
Quality Reading intervention programs have become
a focus for schools throughout Tennessee.
It serves as
the focus for school field trips throughout the year.
Improving resources and science facilities has been
another focus for the school - that has meant engaging not just students and teachers, but also parents.
When asked about their spending
focus for the school year 2014/15, the survey shows that primary schools are more likely to focus spending on continuing professional development (CPD), training, teaching aids, books and digital content than in 2013/14, while reducing the focus on staffing and building works.
Investing in stationery When asked about their spending
focus for the school year 2014/15, the survey shows that primary schools are more likely to focus spending on continuing professional development (CPD), training, teaching aids, books and digital content than in 2013/14, while reducing the focus on staffing and building works.
Reflecting the impact of broader federal education policy, the research
focus for school technology has shifted from experimentation to effectiveness.
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Not only did this group have fun on the retreat, but more importantly, the time away provided an opportunity for these Pre K - 8 school and district educators to establish a clear and specific
focus for their school year.
Developing a shared
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Community engagement is also a particular
focus for the school, which is a product of countless hours of voluntary work by members of the local Emmanuel Christian Centre.
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Cheatham also spoke about the importance of building strong relationships between faculty and students through culturally responsive teaching, a district - wide
focus for this school year.
Not exact matches
He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million
for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps
schools develop and improve programs
focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).
Focusing on security around the door and adjacent areas, Allegion produces a range of solutions
for homes, businesses,
schools and other institutions.
Looking ahead, the company is
focused on beefing up mobile offerings, helping teachers share information within
schools, and creating ways
for students take ownership of their behavior.
There has to be way more tank - filling than tank - draining,» says Ruben Nieves, former Stanford University men's volleyball coach and current national director of training
for the Positive Coaching Alliance, a nonprofit organization based in Mountain View, Calif., that
focuses on teaching and encouraging positive character - building in youth and high
school sports.
An advocate
for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge
focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public
school students to switch to Bridge
schools.
The organization raised the funds to purchase micro: bits
for a pilot program
focused on 25 middle -
school classrooms, with the eventual goal of purchasing the device
for every 7th grader attending the county's
schools.
A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called
for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation -
focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French
School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.
Focusing on elite
schools to the exclusion of other factors like extracurricular participation is an especially bad idea
for a technology company that needs a steady supply of cutting - edge ideas.
«Spider - Man: Homecoming» leaves out the radioactive spider bite, the death of Parker's uncle Ben, and
focuses heavily on the difficulty that comes with trying to build confidence while still in high
school, and is all the better
for it.
That said, back - to -
school was good
for Google, whose cheap internet -
focused Chromebook laptops «had another banner quarter in the K - 12 market,» says IDC, though it doesn't provide specific figures.
«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [
for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario -
focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's
School of Public Policy and Governance.
These are obvious questions to ask, but according to a massive new analysis of more than 45 million public
school students nationwide from Stanford's Sean Reardon (hat tip to Business Insider
for the pointer), they can actually be misleading cues to
focus on.
Everybody thinks it's old
school; nobody
focuses on it anymore, which provides more opportunity
for those of us who do.
The
school, long known
for its international business
focus, is selling its Arizona campus to a
for - profit education company, kicking up a storm of controversy.
The
school, long known
for its international business
focus, is selling its Arizona campus to a
for - profit education company.
The Clinton platform also
focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public
schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds
for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.
He explained that even when the children did go to
school, the constant noise and threat of air strikes meant it was hard
for them to
focus anyway.
Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «
Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math
for building things rather than 21st century math
for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums
focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).
When young adults do ask parents
for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary
School of Business, who has run
focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.
The drug is called Acthar, and
for the past year it has been the
focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University
School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it
for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.
According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible
for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority
schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the
focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.
Launched in 2004, the Sandra Rotman Centre
for Health Sector Strategy is a strategic area of
focused research
for the Rotman
School.
«We should be
focused on arming law enforcement,» said Mr. Scott, who has proposed helping
school districts pay
for an armed police officer or sheriff's deputy at every
school, and
for every 1,000 students in large high
schools.
Robert offers this insight to explain why more marketers say they
focus on creating the right content
for the right person at the right time, yet fewer report crafting content specifically
for the buyer's journey: «It could be a semantical difference to some degree, but rather than the «old -
school» development of content
for the buyer's journey, we're seeing a
focus on dynamically serving up content in the audience's time — no matter what stage they happen to be in.
Right alongside my admiration
for the public
school students who have been so articulate and so
focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame
for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.
Almost everyone I've seen as an in house labor and employment attorney has done similar work
for a law firm but most have not
focused on this aspect of law in
school or have a theoretical grounding in labor and employment issues.
A team from the Haskayne
School of Business has won the Eller Collegiate Ethics Case Competition
for the first time — an impressive feat that rounds out three consecutive years among the top three teams in the international competition
focused on promoting ethical behaviour from business leaders.
This past weekend Zillow and the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering
school hosted «Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions» — a weekend hackathon
focused on coming up with creative solutions to make it easier
for first - time home buyers, low - income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.
Before opening my own studio, I was a strategic consultant
for public
school districts with a
focus on urban and low - income communities.
He worked at first
for Hsieh's cousin Connie Yeh at the 9th Bridge
School (which
focuses on entrepreneurship and starts at age 6 weeks).
The
focus on finding jobs
for youth is an extension of Starbucks global commitment to hiring Opportunity Youth — those between the ages of 16 and 24 who aren't in
school and aren't working.
The New York Stock Exchange has a solid lesson plan here
for high
school students that
focuses on trading.
The measure comes more than a month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17, and on the eve of the gun violence —
focused March
for Our Lives.
The slow implementation of Putonghua (Mandarin) instead of Cantonese in Hong Kong
schools, the controversial proposal
for a «Moral and National Education'that
focuses on building Chinese patriotism, and the perception that Hong Kong housing and other resources are being unequally allocated to Chinese visitors, are some of the sources of discontent expressed by certain segments of society.
If your business provides a service
for other small businesses, like a business coach or consulting firm, you may want to build your promotions around when you know businesses are doing their annual budgeting, or around back to
school timing and
focus on continued learning.