Sentences with phrase «followed by other schools»

Anna Brychan, director of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) Cymru, said the new approach could be followed by other schools.

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Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.
Though stimulated by an encounter with Zen, the speculations that follow go well beyond the perspective of Zen, though not necessarily beyond those of other, more theistic schools of Buddhism such as the Pure Land traditions.
The program is excellent; the universe is a place where things are followed by other things that both correct and fulfill them; and a logic which gave us something like this movement of fact would express truth far better than the traditional school - logic, which never gets of its own accord from anything to anything else, and registers only predictions and subsumptions, or static resemblances and differences.
I read this article by charisma magazine which i thought was well written which is pro Women preaching http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/fire-in-my-bones/16851-why-i-defend-women-preachers This debate is an on going one John Piper who i respect as a bible preacher believes that scripture is clear women shouldnt have authority over men or teach in the church some go as far as saying women shouldnt preach in sunday school if the classes are mixed.Personally i think times are changing and i say that because i have a women manager she has authority over me and other men so if we follow the biblical example i shouldnt allow myself to be in that situation which is just crazy thinking.
They usually take place outside the Divinity School, and they are intended, not for specialists in religious studies of any kind, but for a general audience of people, mainly, but by no means exclusively, undergraduate, whose courses of study may lie in other fields, but who are interested in listening to a non-technical presentation of questions with which theologians are concerned and perhaps also in taking part in discussions which are arranged to follow the lectures.
Follow - up questions about what people meant by «attending church» revealed that a few were counting things other than attending worship — such as going to weddings, funerals, committee meetings, Sunday school and choir practice.
For the study of theologv and jurisprudence the classical work by al - Sanusi is available, with interlinear translation in Malay, and other works which follow the Shafi'i school of law chiefly, although the Hanafi school is also represented in some writings.
It started with an amazing trip to Paris, followed by this party, Paloma's easy switch from daycare to a school, lots of cooking and photographing, and a few other projects that we are excited to share with you very soon.
In addition to abiding by strict food laws, the industry adheres to the following voluntary guidelines as part of the Industry Commitments3: • Energy Drinks are not made available in primary nor secondary schools • Marketing and advertising activities of energy drinks are not directed at children • No promotional activities are undertaken to encourage excessive consumption of energy drinks • Labels of energy drinks do not promote the mixing of energy drinks with any other beverage.
They tend to be followed among public schools by other power - conference athletic departments like Alabama, Florida, LSU, Michigan, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
The study found that concussions were the most common injury, accounting for three in ten of all cheerleading injuries (followed by ligament sprains, muscle strains and fractures), but that concussion rates were significantly lower in cheerleading (2.2 per 10,000 athlete - exposures) than all other high school sports combined (3.8 per 10,000 exposures) and all other girls» sports combined (2.7 per 10,000 exposures).
Concussion and Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 18 -2-25a (2013) requires the governing authority of each public and nonpublic elementary school, middle school, junior high school and high school, working through guidance approved by the department of health and communicated through the department of education, to do the following: (A) Adopt guidelines and other pertinent information and forms as approved by the department of health to inform and educate coaches, school administrators, youth athletes and their parents or guardians of the nature, risk and symptoms of concussion and head injury, including continuing to play after concussion or head injury; (B) Require annual completion by all coaches, whether the coach is employed or a volunteer, and by school athletic directors of a concussion recognition and head injury safety education course program approved by the department.
Concussion or Sports - Related Head Injury: Code 20 -2-324.1 (2013) requires each local board of education, administration of a nonpublic school and governing body of a charter school to adopt and implement a concussion management and return to play policy that includes the following components: 1) an information sheet to all youth athletes» parents or legal guardians informing them of the nature and risk of concussion and head injury, 2) requirement for removal from play and examination by a health care provider for those exhibiting symptoms of a concussion during a game, competition, tryout or practice and 3) for those youth that have sustained a concussion (as determined by a health care provider), the coach or other designated personnel shall not permit the youth athlete to return to play until they receive clearance from a health care provider for a full or graduated return to play.
On the one hand, Chicago - area school systems are following the national trend of creating healthier menus, primarily by reducing the fat content of entrees; on the other, borderline junk food entrees - pizza and chicken patties - remain the most popular items among students.
The following two provisions would effectively prevent co-marketing of junk food in schools via copycat snacks: 210.30 (b)(1) Food and Beverage Marketing and Advertising: Food and Beverage Marketing and Advertising means an oral, written, or graphic statement or representation, including a company logo or trademark, made for the purpose of promoting the use or sale of a product by the producer, manufacturer, distributer, seller, or any other entity with a commercial interest in the product.
The National Athletic Trainers» Association has re-released a set of recommendations for precautions that should be followed by parents, coaches, athletic trainers, other health care professionals and participants in secondary school athletics, in order to prevent the spread of communicable and infectious diseases.
Aside from the extreme interest in academic considerations following a concussion generated by the presentation, another common area of conversation at the exhibit booth was what schools or districts without a certified athletic trainer (AT) do to monitor and manage student - athletes with concussions and other sport - related injuries.
The evaluation revealed that the nutrition integrity project had a positive impact beyond the schools that participated in the pilot; once the benefits of combi ovens were explained and publicized, other schools wanted to follow suit, either through the program or by finding other creative ways to finance their purchases.
What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.
The company also is facing the possibility of revenue losses from restrictions placed on gun sales by retailers following a shooting that killed 17 people and wounded 15 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., on Feb. 14.
Partnering with the U.S. Attorney's office, the county since March has visited four high schools to show «Chasing the Dragon,» followed by a panel to give high school students perspective on how the opioid epidemic has impacted families, law enforcement, the DEA and others.
At 11 a.m., Make the Road New York and other activists host a press conference followed by a march to call on de Blasio to end discriminatory school policing policies by eliminating the use of arrests and summons for misdemeanors and non-criminal violations in schools, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.
Prof Sharon Peacock, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «These findings suggest that the emergence of new types of E. coli is not uncommon, and is necessarily followed by successful competition with other types to become a dominant cause of infection in humans.
The remaining two people, who had no known exposure or symptoms, had positive results, but follow - up testing using different methods was negative, making Ebola virus infection very unlikely.The research team, led by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and funded by the Wellcome Trust, enrolled 300 UK and Ireland healthcare and other frontline workers ¹ for the study and sent them oral fluid collection devices.
The school will be structured around lectures delivered by members of CNL's research team and external experts in the mornings, followed by demonstrations and practical sessions in the afternoons during which students will spend time at the Zero Energy Deuterium (ZED - 2) reactor, as well as several other nuclear facilities located on the campus.
Others believe that love online is something that has to present in itself slowly followed by a romantic path but if you really like the «by chance / casual dating» better, such as the person you meet in a store, bus, school, or work then internet dating is not for you.
Among many other experiences, he follows a large group of Israeli high school students on a journey to Poland's death camps, where some admit to being afraid of leaving their hotel rooms, so frightened are they by the remarks of teachers and Secret Service agents on the dangers of anti-Semitism.
It follows three high school kids throwing a big party, played by Thomas Mann, Jonathan Daniel Brown and Oliver Cooper, but other than that it's full of unknowns, directed by an unknown, the only other big name is Todd Phillips (director of The Hangover, Due Date) as the producer of the whole thing.
• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.
A well - publicized report by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, for example, asked public parents the following question: «Is there some other school to which you would like to send your child?
As noted above, Catholic and other (non-Christian) religious schools tend to have the largest estimated impacts on college enrollment, followed by non-Catholic Christian schools and non-religious schools (with the latter having impacts that are not distinguishable from zero).
Children and young people should: keep themselves fit through regular physical activity; have a positive self - image; talk about the benefits to their health through participation in physical outdoor activities; adopt a healthy lifestyle, including healthy eating appropriate to the demands of their activities; understand the risks to fitness and health posed by smoking, alcohol and drugs, and set an example in their own lifestyle; walk or cycle where this is a realistic and safe option, or take other regular exercise; want to continue their interest in outdoor activities beyond school and into adult life; independently participate in follow up courses where these are available; understand how much exercise is required to remain healthy; and are aware of the links between physical and emotional well - being.
An inspection involves an assessment of a school's performance on academic and other measured outcomes, followed by an onsite visit to the school, typically lasting one or two days for primary schools.
Here's what this approach looks like: Administrators make frequent short, unannounced classrooms visits (at least once a month), followed promptly by face - to - face listening / coaching conversations; teacher teams meet regularly to discuss planning, pedagogy, and assessment results; and teacher assessment is saved till the end of the school year, pulling together observations, other points of contact, and teachers» self - assessments.
That is, we compare students with the same demographic characteristics, the same test scores in the current year and in a previous year, the same responses to the surveys for other social - emotional measures collected by the district, and within the same school and grade, to see whether students who look the same on all of these measures but have a stronger growth mindset learn more over the course of the following year.
Judging by the number of out - of - state and foreign educators making pilgrimages to Stanford — tour groups come through nearly weekly — other schools may follow.
Now back in Japan for the start of the school year, Narui continues her quest to fulfill her name's promise and hopes other educators will follow her lead by exploring conditions, both educational and otherwise, in other parts of the world.
Researchers need to consider ways to measure other outcomes that are meaningful in the debate, such as by designing studies with long follow - up periods to enable future research on high school graduation, college - going, and labor - market outcomes.
He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?
Beginning with the 2004 - 05 school year, each student record must contain information in the format required by the commissioner and indicating whether the student is Hispanic and indicating to which of the following racial groups the student belongs: White, Black or African American, Asian, American Indian or Alaskan Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander.
The goal of a federal educational - flexibility bill and the comparable state measures that will presumably follow it is to free these 535 new schools from the regulatory burden faced by other schools.
Out of School and Unprepared: The Need to Improve Support for Students with Disabilities Transitioning to Adulthood In March 2011, the ARISE Coalition, a group of parents, educators, advocates and other supporters of students with disabilities coordinated by Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), released this policy paper calling on New York City and New York State to follow the law with respect to transition planning and to give post-secondary transition for students with special education needs the same high priority they are beginning to give college and career readiness for other students.
Another student followed by comparing Johnson's earlier remarks about stabilizing the situation in Syria to first stabilizing Wisconsin public schools before experimenting with other reforms:
All schools must follow state and federal statutes as well as other regulatory requirements outlined by MDE and local government.
During closing remarks, Mr. Goldhaber made mention of and commended the efforts by DC Public Schools (DCPS) on being an exemplary model for other states to follow when creating policy that are clearly rooted in empirical evidence.
The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.
Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.
The two visionaries were introduced to each other by the late Sue Bragato, founder and Executive Director of the California Network of Educational Charter Schools (CANEC) following the announcement of the grant awards.
Why is the following quote on the «No Excuses» approach perceived as helpful by some school reformers, yet harmful to other reformers?
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