Sentences with phrase «focus schools based»

The Tennessee Department of Education has released its annual list of priority and focus schools based on 2013 - 14 achievement data and the results for Metro Nashville's public schools is mixed.

Per the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) flexibility waiver provisions, ten percent of Virginia's Title I schools (72) are identified as focus schools based on reading and mathematics achievement of students in the three proficiency gap groups.

Not exact matches

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.

Based at one of Rotman's international partner schools, the DBI is an intensive course that focuses on how to do business in a specific country.

The other is focused on the distribution of plant - based entrees to schools.»

Focusing on the challenge to make theological schooling adequate to pluralism seems to require us to deny the usual basis for unifying the course of study.

Though these two elements — integration and formation — are the most costly parts of college life, they are also the only reasons not to reduce the spendy, four - year residential model to a two - year, web - based, vocation - focused, trade - school model of higher education.

Finally, one of the dangers of church - based youthwork is that the youthworker's focus can easily be on getting teens into a programme and keeping them there, and getting themselves into schools to do assemblies.

Devery.io, a blockchain - based start - up focused on supply chain tracking, signed with Tunisia's ministry of education to implement a blockchain - based tracking system for its school meals programme.

I am in the process of recruiting keen individuals from any sporting background to go into schools on a weekly basis and «take over» a Year 7 P.E session, following the curriculum but focusing on building key skills such as communication, trust and teamwork.

Our 6th - 8th grade Middle School is an authorized International Baccalaureate (IB) World School implementing the Middle Years Program (MYP), an interdisciplinary, project based learning program with a focus on global context and impact.

We selected St. Benedict Prep because of the school's high academic rigor, committed faculty, small class size and its strong faith - based, community - focused mission.

More important than the labels of «play - based» or «academic - focused,» though, is what actually happens in the classroom and how teachers respond to emotional situations, so ask about specific scenarios when you're considering a school.

«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.

Daycare centers primarily focus on infants through preschoolers; pre-schools are typically toddlers and children often must be potty - trained (ages 2 - 5); and out of school care is tailored to providing childcare of school - aged kids on a before - school or after - school basis or during school breaks, such as staff development or holidays.

Food is the primary focus in the process, in support of serving a healthy, whole food based school lunch.

From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

Other schools may choose to focus on place - based education and to make a strong effort to use their surrounding community in school lessons.

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis...

Having attended middle school lessons at our school, and reviewed several students» Lesson Books, I am impressed by the focus on cultivating powers of observation and perception as a basis for comprehending scientific principles.

The project's polls in Louisiana, Ohio, and North Carolina asked about school fundraisers, and most respondents said they preferred activity - based events such as car washes or walk - a-thons to food - focused events.

One group that spends a lot of time listening to teenagers is the Freedom Institute, a New York - based group that focuses, in its Independent School Program, on adolescents at risk for alcohol and drug use.

The school's mission has changed and the focus on academics has gotten slightly lost over the years under Kaloyeros» tenure, said UUP's Kowal, who agreed that the university president should be based in Utica.

Police and federal officials, though, countered that they remain focused on curtailing a gang that preys on immigrants and said the steps they take are based on evidence.The report by the New York Immigration Coalition and the Immigrant and Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the CUNY School of Law warns about the danger of law - enforcement agencies slipping into profiling and discriminatory policing.»

Mr Brown said a more targeted approach at school was needed, including focusing on IT projects and activity - based lessons that engaged boys the most.

«The Government needs to scrap the damaging school performance tables and focus instead on a more balanced method of assessing educational achievement based on externally marked sample tests.»

• The report also states that «Some within the Methodist Church have argued to end our involvement with faith - based schools on the grounds that they generate a privileged elite within the national system and take a disproportionate amount of the Church's attention when it should be focusing on the needs of the poorest community schools... we find it hard to understand how promoting Christianity within all schools will be assisted by removing» the privilege» of greater contact with Methodism and therefore with Christianity in 79 schools.»

«The NASUWT remains clear that a fit for purpose accountability system should consider the performance of schools in the round and not solely on the basis of narrowly focused test and examination results.»

The nanotechnology - focused school, based in Albany, is launching a partnership with Le Moyne College and a Syracuse company, Nectar Partners, to create a Clean - Tech Innovation and Commercialization Hub in Onondaga County.

The program pairs selected schools with community based organizations that focus on social and emotional support and development.

George - Fields decided not to continue into the next school year and instead focus her efforts as president and CEO of the Harlem - based educational consulting firm REACH Educational Solutions.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

The research project — based on the WHO Health Promoting Schools concept — focused on increasing the awareness of the importance of oral health among children, families, and schoolteachers in order to develop a healthy school environment, a healthy diet, regular dental care habits in young children and the use of effective fluoridated toothpaste.

Barnes, who focuses more on race - based bullying, said the team could only find two types of interventions used at schools that addressed race.

The program, which is based in the School of Computing Science, focuses on computing and engineering skills for the programming of biological systems.

This drove Preston S. Wilson, a coffee aficionado and acoustician who normally focuses on studying underwater acoustics in his role as an associate professor in The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering, to explore the potential of using the «cracking» sounds emitted by coffee beans during the roasting process — as the basis for an automated acoustical roast monitoring technique.

In a three - week series of after - school sessions hosted by Girls Inc., a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit, the participating students were introduced to basic concepts of matter and energy as they tried out classroom activities focused on the process of weight gain and weight loss and their health implications.

Efforts are being focused on programs that provide research opportunities for Native Americans in high school and at Tribal Colleges and for research efforts based in their communities.

Currently, school - based intervention programs focus heavily on individuals and peer factors, but the researchers encourage programs that widen that focus to include community and family factors.

It focuses on increasing the proportion of plant based foods relative to animal - based foods, which results in an improved nutritionally balance diet,» said Camille Lassale, Ph.D., lead author and an epidemiologist at Imperial College London's School of Public Health.

A focus on targeting higher attaining students, the high cost of providing school trips and the pressures of high - stakes testing were suggested obstacles restricting wider participation, contributing to inequality in STEM - based learning outside of the classroom.

A physician with a longstanding interest in gene therapy, Dr. High was formerly a Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Founding Director of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a Center focused on developing novel cell and gene - based therapies for genetic disease.

Description — MiNDS is a neuroscience - focused, graduate - student run community outreach initiative based at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

The School of Medicine will address society's changing needs by focusing on evidence - based medicine, coordinated and person - centered care, teamwork, technology and communication tailored to specific populations.

The school will be based on lectures on theoretical aspects of atmosphere, ocean and climate dynamics, with a focus on the present state of established knowledge and relevant mechanisms.

Samatva Yogalaya - Rishikesh, a yoga school in India registered with Yoga Alliance, offers intensive yoga courses for beginners, affordable yoga retreats and residential yoga teacher training certification based on traditional hatha yoga and hatha yoga in iyengar / ashtanga style with focus on alignment.

IIN, based in New York City, is a one - of - a-kind nutrition school that integrates 100's of dietary theories, while focusing on whole real food.

The movie is based on the comic book by Mark Millar (Wanted) and focuses on a high school kid who decides to become a superhero... with no super powers whatsoever.

Based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, Ghost World focuses on two best friends, Enid and Rebecca (Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson) who have just graduated from high school and are the only students from their graduating class not heading on to college.

This could have been potentially another High School of the Dead with a strong cast of character and well structured story, but it ends up being a mission based game where the focus is more on doing the same repetitive tasks again and again backed by a dull combat.