Sentences with phrase «from opening classroom»

She came to Blaine after three years as an assistant principal elsewhere, and set out right away to change the culture of the school, from opening classroom doors, to empowering certain teachers to be leaders, to holding workshops for parents on how best to help their kids learn.

From open classrooms, to No Child Left Behind; from digital classrooms, to the Common Core State Standards; the veteran teacher is a member of the staff who knows that change is a constant factor in education.

Not exact matches

The course at George Brown demands more than 250 hours in the classroom and covers everything from winemaking theory to rules for food pairing to the proper technique for opening Champagne (whisper, yes; pop, no).

PARKLAND, Fla. — A heavily armed 19 - year - old who had been expelled from a South Florida high school opened fire on campus shortly before classes let out Wednesday, killing 17 people while terrified students barricaded themselves inside classrooms, police said.

When the shooter opened fire at 7:57 a.m., bystanders fled into nearby classrooms, some out of the building, some away from the school and across the street.

The courses combine classroom lectures from leading experts in the savoury snacks industry with practical interactive sessions as appropriate and are open to everyone whose job involves the manufacture of savoury snacks, or who simply wishes to improve their knowledge of this area.

Breakfast - in - the - classroom is designed to increase participation in the federal School Breakfast Program (SBP) using three proven strategies to spur higher participation: (1) Expanding free breakfast to all students (2) Moving breakfast from the cafeteria to the classroom, and (3) Serving breakfast right after the opening bell.

Hershey Montessori School invites the public to a grand opening celebration and open house for its new Upper School classroom building on Feb. 10 from 3 to 5 p.m..

The center is approximately 17,000 square feet with 10 classroom suites, a cafeteria, a resource room, a large activity gym for before and after school students, and four large play areas separated for age groups.They are open on weekdays from 6:00 am to 6:30 pm.

What was for much of the 20th century a bureaucratic and careerist behemoth dedicated to refighting the Last War, the Army has now morphed into a relatively nimble force that's opened itself to criticism and rethought its tactical doctrine, and that values the ideas and initiatives of younger officers fresh from the harsh classroom of combat.

When Mr. Muehe opened the door to the closet, he said, he found students from the next classroom hiding inside.

Using pre - and post-course surveys, open - ended questions, self - reports of section leader teaching practices, and classroom observations, the researchers compared student examination scores and end - of - course evaluations from 150 Masters - level candidates in the «Principles of Epidemiology» introductory course.

«From the classroom to the NICU: Real - world neuroscience opening new avenues.»

Schools are failing to offer sufficient opportunities for students from diverse backgrounds to engage in science - based learning outside of the classroom, and should be doing more to open up participation, according to new research published in the International Journal of Science Education.

The Latasters rarely put a foot wrong - from their static opening shot in the town of Hapert to the final frames of Miss Kiet in her classroom, this is a beautifully - judged piece.

First is an interesting alternate opening (3:33) which cuts immediately from the old Walt Disney Pictures logo into Carol's classroom, where in response to questions from a student (Abigail Breslin) she recaps the past with help from clips of the original movie and a little wooden Tim Allen doll.

I assume these fears are held by those who have not witnessed the power of a well - designed and well - executed classroom - performance task to open wide the doors on new insights, ground young adults on a foundation of sound thinking habits, and engender the confidence that comes from successfully rising to a challenge.

Lessons Learned from Howard Gardner and the TV Remote Control Teacher Max Fischer reflects on the eye - opening move from the elementary classroom to the middle school.

Remaining open to learning who your students are by the words that come from their mouths will establish an environment of trust in your classroom.

Even though my classroom door is open to all, I also recognize that our jobs at this point inherently isolate us from one another.

From the uncertainty he faced every day when he entered a classroom of teenagers to the despair he felt riding the subway home each evening, McCourt's teaching experience became an open book for students to draw upon.

It offers a range of teaching spaces from conventional classrooms to interactive open spaces.

Broward Sheriff's Detective Zachary Scott told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission that teachers trying to lock down their students as the gunman began his attack couldn't lock classroom doors from the inside, but had to grab a key, open the door, and turn the lock from the outside.

From open educational resources to common - core standards, this special report guides educators through the bewildering array of K - 12 curricular options available to classrooms today.

Although Intrinsic's main learning spaces use an open plan, they differ from the «open classrooms» of the 1960s and 1970s in important ways.

From the classroom, to the school, to the district, open the doors of your practice and grow together.

Whether editing wikis, turning in homework for a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), or learning Arabic by chatting with their language partner from Marrakesh, students know that what happens in the four walls of their classroom is only one part of their academic life.

I heard the music coming from the classroom before I opened the door — Mozart's cello concertos.

Thousands of schools — public and private, from kindergarten to college — are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public, betting that round - the - clock supervision, even from strangers, will help motivate students.

Aside from grumblings from the New York City teachers required to work under her system, there has been remarkably little open debate about the basic premises behind Calkins's approach, or even feedback on how the programs are faring in the classroom.

From these visits and my own experiences as an instructor, I'd like to offer my top 20 suggestions for keeping your classroom a safe, open, and inviting place to learn.

asks Virginia Coffey, a veteran teacher who opens her Charlottesville kindergarten classroom to would - be teachers from Curry.

KM: Sure, so we found that the noise levels coming from the other classes in the open - plan classrooms were excessive and well above the recommended limits.

The researchers used the data to create four vignettes of classroom - based experiences, mapped on a continuum from «invisible» (in a flexible, open - ended learning environment, where the intention of the activity is not known to the child and educator input and monitoring is not explicit) to «visible».

«This is one of the pieces that's easy to fix, but we don't get it right,» Mapp says, asking the audience to think about a typical school open house, where parents are shunted from the auditorium or cafeteria — where they hear from the principal about rules and requirements — to the classroom, where they hear from the teacher about more rules and requirements.

As part of opening school routines and procedures, teach your students, as they arrive to the classroom first thing in the morning, to take their clothespin and clip to one of the appropriate mini-posters to indicate their lunch plans for the day which might be: (1) a hot school lunch; (2) a salad from the salad bar at school; (3) a salad that is solely fruit from the school salad bar; and / or (4) the student may have brought his / her lunch from home.

KM: Due to the adverse affects on the students and teachers, our findings suggest that open - plan classrooms that are unable to control the noise from adjacent classes are unlikely to be suitable learning environments for young children.

Announce that only 24 children — selected exclusively from among the families attending the open house — will be admitted to each classroom in the fall.

As national magazines and newspapers debate what it means to be literate in a computer age in which students butcher language in text messages and open books less and less outside the classroom, Greenhow has found a virtual creative writing boom among students spending long hours writing stories and poetry to paste on their blogs for feedback from friends, or creating videos on social issues to bring awareness to a cause.

Internal spaces like hallways, classrooms, and cafeterias — typically separated from each other by opaque structures like walls and doorways — have given way to open layouts that emphasize glass partitions and uninterrupted lines of sight, borrowing from cutting - edge work environments like Google's and Apple's campuses.

The «Go Fund My Education» contest is open to anyone, as long as they are from the UK and are raising money for a cause related to education (e.g. classroom needs, field trips, school sports, alternative learning, tuition fees, etc.).

2017 Rosenthal Prize for Innovation and Inspiration in Math Teaching Deadline: Opens in January The Rosenthal Prize, from the National Museum of Mathematics, recognizes «hands - on math teaching in upper elementary and middle school classrooms.»

In classrooms, where lots of people congregate and there is little ventilation from open windows, air can get stuffy, stale and contain a lot more CO2 than there should be.

The approximately 3,000 MET project teachers who volunteered to open up their classrooms for this work are from the following districts: The Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools, the Dallas Independent Schools, the Denver Public Schools, the Hillsborough County Public Schools, the New York City Schools, the Memphis Public Schools, and the Pittsburgh Public Schools.

It featured an essay by Clay Christensen and Michael Horn (C&H) that anticipated a full - length account of the best way to disrupt a classroom, opened its forum to Terry Moe and John Chubb (M&C), who made a case later fleshed out in Liberating Learning, and ran an excerpt from my Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learnfrom my Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual LearnFrom Horace Mann to Virtual Learning.

Modules vary in duration and range from the nitty - gritty of classroom management — how to arrange furniture, how to grade papers, how to deal with families, how to open and close a lesson — to big - picture subjects, including literacy instruction, writing development, learning disabilities, unit planning, and character development.

On Tuesday through Thursday afternoons, the two adjoining classrooms opened up for 45 - minute activity centers, allowing children to move from room to room.

The department's main classroom is also open to some pupils before school, at break and lunchtime, and provides a social area for pupils who might benefit from a smaller and more secure social setting than the wider school offers.

Open Circle improves school climate and helps address a broad range of challenging behaviors in school, from disruption of classroom instruction to teasing, bullying, and fighting.

Combining books is easy in Book Creator, so open up the walls of your classroom and work on projects with schools from around the world!