Sentences with phrase «from other schools around the country»

I feel that pupils have a lot to gain from working in partnership with pupils from other schools around the country, or even the world.

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The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Additional Masses are held around the clock to accommodate the thousands of school groups, parish youth groups, families, and others who find whatever way they can to make it to Washington from all over the country for the march.

Returning to school, which was admirable for birding, being small and in the country, with nothing but fields, woods, and streams for miles around, I began to learn the small land birds of eastern Pennsylvania and in a few years knew them fairly completely without any assistance from others except the Reed's guide.

We look forward to NSBW every year; it gives us the opportunity to celebrate our favorite school meal of the day, and connect with other school breakfast fans from around the country.

That's because the arrays will also allow Butte students to get real world training for the green jobs of tomorrow, much like the semiannual Solar Decathlon, which pits students from schools around the country against each other to design and build solar - powered houses.

I joined 10 other «REUs» from around the country and eight Seattle - area high school students who were participating in the CSNE's Young Scholars Program.

To be sure, the population of public school children in New York City is different from that of many other school districts around the country.

Enrol your school to gain access to a wide range of memory - training resources, and to give your children the chance to test their memory skills against others from around the country.

During the training seminar, teachers try out the process using real data from other Efficacy schools around the country.

State school board members and other education leaders from around the country gathered here this month with a new federal education law very much on their minds.

The Hechinger Report is investigating how professional - development funds are spent in the country's largest school system — New York City — as well as in other districts around the nation to see what we can learn from schools, districts and countries that excel at ongoing teacher training.

Her choice from among leading educators and administrators from other districts around the country reflected a strong desire by the board to keep the district in the hands of someone well versed on the challenges facing the district, someone who would not need months of on - the - job learning to become familiar with issues, schools and personnel.

Compare the EEI score and other metrics for your school to up to 9 other schools from around the country, using our «similar schools engine» or select your own.

Excel hosts an average of 450 people annually from around the country, primarily other educators, who come to observe our schools in action.

Teachers here in Connecticut and around the country know that state mastery test scores do not accurately measure student growth and that it's impossible to disentangle specific teachers» effects on student scores from other home and school effects.

The group used the series court rulings to compare students from otherwise similar circumstances in different places around the country, some of whom attended schools where funding was increased, and others who did not.

And I would want school district officials who come after me here in D.C., and others around the country, to learn from those lessons.

We look forward to a productive and inspiring year of sharing work and ideas, learning from each other, and moving Deeper Learning forward in schools around the country.

NBOA membership includes more than 1,200 schools from every region in the United States as well as international schools in Canada, Mexico and 13 other countries around the globe.

As part of her training, she has been spending time in KIPP schools around the country to observe and learn from other principals.

He added that other urban districts around the country have made strides in assuring that teachers from one failing school do not end up in another failing school.

In fact, people can obtain a dog from any of the schools, save five (which serve only their own geographical regions), and many dogs from The Seeing Eye, Leader Dogs, Guiding Eyes and the other schools work on the west coast, while many dogs from Guide Dogs for the Blind work all around the country.

As I did the other day, I described the excitement surrounding an engineering contest I judged this week in which middle - school students from around the country presented their sustainable and energy - smart urban designs:

On March 14, the students walked out of their classrooms, fighting for change and joined by students from more than 3,000 other schools around the country.