Sentences with phrase «for schools and school systems»

Alexandria, VA (4/22/2014)-- ASCD is pleased to announce an innovative new teaching framework designed for schools and school systems worldwide to ensure that high - quality teaching and learning occurs in every classroom.

Because our members prepare future leaders for schools and school systems, our community extends into districts, schools, and classrooms — the very spaces where children learn and grow.

Although our member faculty and deans come from different states and regions, we all share the same goals of building knowledge for the field and providing quality preparation and lifelong learning experiences for school and school system leaders.

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It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

The growing desire for academic excellence and lack of resources in our school systems are the drivers behind today's boom.

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

Public schools are continually reducing their commitment to art and music classes for students, so you can try to work with the public school system to supplement their efforts in those areas.

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

(Laughs) I've done things in IT and engineering but after school I joined the Navy, where I designed cockpit systems for the Department of Defense.

CrisisGo was started in 2013 by three co-founders — Reynolds, an education software sales rep, Songwei Ma, a software engineer, and Jim Spicuzza, who had launched and sold a business that made content - management systems for school websites.

Parents and students should first determine their earliest deadlines for filing for aid and whether their school or state uses a first - come, first - served system for any of its aid, Chany said.

The company's plan, which prioritized community amenities, called for affordable homes that Hershey workers could rent or own, as well as public schools, an all - boys orphanage, shops, restaurants, and a trolley system.

Consider the interests of your employees, and consider what might compliment your type of business — for example, if you sell reading software to schools, you may want to volunteer somewhere in the school system.

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, discusses the need for states to bolster education spending and fund the American school system.

Just consider the ways in which patients are clamoring for more telemedicine and virtual doctor visit options while medical schools are harnessing virtual reality systems like Microsoft's Hololens to teach anatomy to young surgeons.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

The squeeze system Sharei then designed to temporarily disrupt cell membranes — for which he's been granted most of his 10 patents — is the basis for SQZ Biotech, the company he co-founded in 2013 with the pioneering MIT professors he worked for: Klavs Jensen, the school's head of chemical engineering, and Robert Langer, a renowned bioengineer and serial entrepreneur.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

He'd spent decades conducting economic development for the school system, and he noticed a recurring theme from investors.

She was a substitute teacher for over 20 years, she volunteered at the local library, she helped raise grants for the public school system, and was a key contributor to Keep Dickinson Beautiful.

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So beyond the thought leaders, and politicians and school systems you have to have respect for yourself.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

A Miami Herald series on abuses in the Florida juvenile justice system is a finalist for the 2018 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School announced Wednesday.

This is one of the wealthiest and most exclusive areas in the country and it's known for its large, historical homes, rich architectural history and top - notch school system.

The STOP School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention School Violence Act, which Kashuv strongly supported, creates an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems for school safety (and doesn't mention school safety (and doesn't mention guns).

The Role of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaSchool Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populaschool completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populations.

You can qualify for Federal Perkins Loan cancellation if you are a teacher and have served full - time in a public or nonprofit elementary or secondary school system:

For almost a half - hour after a school shooter dropped his assault - style rifle and escaped Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school's security sschool shooter dropped his assault - style rifle and escaped Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school's security sSchool, police officers thought they were seeing his actions live on the school's security sschool's security system.

David M. Lampton, director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, said it was not surprising for China to balk at the idea of an American company using Hong Kong, and China's own «one country, two systems» policy, as a way around censorship.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.&school system.»

The spending legislation, which was viewed as the last opportunity this year for Congress to enact major new gun restrictions before the midterm elections in November, included only some school safety measures and modest improvements to the background check system.

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

In the House, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced a vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systems.

The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.

The STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407 - 10 WednSchool Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns in any substantive way but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems to bolster school safety, passed 407 - 10 Wednschool safety, passed 407 - 10 Wednesday.

It also provides money to improve school security, strengthens the system of background checks on gun buyers, and provides some funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on gun violence.

The Florida high school student, a survivor of the February 14 shooting in Parkland who recently helped organize the March For Our Lives, said four different campuses in the University of California school system have turned him down: UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine.

Moderator: Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS, System Patient Safety Officer and Director, Center for Advancing Patient Safety, Stanford Health Care, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. Mitesh B. Rao, MD, MHS is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine Physician and internationally - recognized expert in Patient Safety, Quality, and Innovation.

As students walked out of the classrooms, the House passed the bipartisan STOP School Violence Act, a school safety measure that provides $ 50 million to schools for training programs and revamped reporting sySchool Violence Act, a school safety measure that provides $ 50 million to schools for training programs and revamped reporting syschool safety measure that provides $ 50 million to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

The STOP School Violence Act might be just that, although House Republican leaders voiced some support for the Senate's Fix NICS Act, which would only reinforce existing laws requiring state and federal agencies to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits and a strong national defense.

The Education Super Centre, like all currently owned and planned rental units, will be located directly by local transit systems in the core of Vancouver, allowing students to travel with ease for both school and recreation.

School funding's been decimated by the recession and by taxpayers who want the best education system in the world but don't want to pony up the taxes to pay for it.

On the other hand, I think completing the move to the metric system is probably far more important right now in making us competi.tive, not to mention increasing magnet schools, de-emphasizing sports and ensuring that only those who want and are ready for children have them.

How often would you hear Christians standing up and apologising for the influx of creationism in our public school systems?

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

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