Sentences with phrase «greater challenges in school»

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In many ways, the school chaplain or the religion teacher is doing much of what the church should be doing with young people — namely, taking them seriously, reflecting with them on their moral priorities, sometime challenging their values, offering them a greater perspective in which to deal with their pain, their hopes, their questioninIn many ways, the school chaplain or the religion teacher is doing much of what the church should be doing with young people — namely, taking them seriously, reflecting with them on their moral priorities, sometime challenging their values, offering them a greater perspective in which to deal with their pain, their hopes, their questioninin which to deal with their pain, their hopes, their questioning.

As the oldest child in a stable middle class family, Luther endured a childhood of strict discipline at home, school and church that left him with a sense of inferiority, and emerged into university life at a time of great intellectual ferment that challenged the entire educational system as well as the corruptions of a politically powerful church.

Cooking from Scratch in Schools — The Greatest Food Service Challenge of Our TimeOur Executive Director, Beth Collins has a great article published in the August issue of Prevent Obesity about changing the way food is cooked in our sSchools — The Greatest Food Service Challenge of Our TimeOur Executive Director, Beth Collins has a great article published in the August issue of Prevent Obesity about changing the way food is cooked in our schoolsschools.

I've used my 25 years of experience in feeding children to help design healthy menus that taste great — and that's been the challenge up until now, particularly in small schools that have limited kitchen facilities.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

Mulgrew predicted that the new special education reform, set to be rolled out in all schools in September, will be one of the greatest challenges of the next school year.

It is a great privilege to continue to support the Bronx Borough President's Chess Challenge with Chess in the Schools, whose mission so clearly aligns with AT&T's own commitment to creating pathways to success for New York City's most underserved students,» said Marissa Shorenstein, New York State President, AT&T.

In our schools today, we face great challenges!

The Great Debaters (PG - 13 for profanity, mature themes, brief sexuality, and the depiction of violence and disturbing images) Denzel Washington directs and stars opposite Forest Whitaker and Kimberly Elise in this fact - based drama, set in 1935, about a professor at a small black college who inspired students to form the school's first debate team and to challenge Harvard for the national championship.

Great teachers are critical to the success of children and incentivizing them to stay on the job, or to teach in our most - challenging schools, is a reform that actually will produce results.

Paez returned to the Harvard Graduate School of Education to discuss with students in the International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management programs the opportunities and challenges of advancing reforms that seek greater social justice.

The United Neighborhood Organization (UNO), the community group that I lead in Chicago, and its network of charter schools provide Hispanic immigrant families with access to a high - quality education, thereby challenging them to fulfill their great potential while promoting American values, ideals, and our collective successes.

Author Katherine Muncaster has developed these lessons in her own school, to great acclaim, developing in pupils «a real enjoyment of learning and a confidence to tackle any challenge they encounter» (OFSTED report, 2013).

A perfect storm of greater demand for teachers, fewer people entering the profession (particularly in key subjects), severe pressures on schools funding and a restrictive migration system, means that schools are having to think outside of the normal channels of recruitment to more flexible staffing models to cope with these challenges.

The scheme was developed by the Rochester Bridge Trust in partnership with Rotary Great Britain and Ireland, and is based on success of the Rotary's existing Senior Technology Tournaments, where secondary school students take part in innovative engineering challenges as part of a national competition.

There was a focus on good governance, greater business engagement in the government's academy programme and the challenge of tackling underperforming and coasting schools.

To promote student learning and achievement, research indicates that teacher advancement systems should compensate teachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California Teachers, 2012).

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

The greatest challenge was teacher training, because Taktse asks its teachers to use open inquiry methods that are profoundly different than what most of them encountered in their own schooling.

The report, which examines the challenges of being young in modern Britain, found that being too fat or not attractive enough was of great concern for teenagers, with only fears of unemployment and not finishing school ranking higher.

Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.

PRIMARY: Girls continue to face the greatest challenges in accessing primary school.

This may not hamper them in grade school where the challenges are often not great, but it can hamper them later when school becomes more difficult.

For the most part, the Gates early - college initiative focuses on the motivation of students, hoping that greater autonomy and more challenging material will help keep them engaged and interested in school.

«There is no greater opportunity than improving a system when old structures are beginning to give way,» she says, citing shifts in Christianity, religious pluralism, and ever - changing technology among her school's challenges.

Our greatest challenge in producing these weekly series was trying to pair them in some meaningful way to uncounted general science and high school chemistry curricula — teaching different chemistry concepts, in different sequences, to greatly different «prior knowledge» levels.

When we started the @K12lab at Stanford's d.school back in 2007 we began with a hunch that design thinking would be a great tool for educators to deploy in their classrooms and schools, and that ultimately, it would be a useful process for kids working through interdisciplinary challenges.

In addition to the great suggestions found in the Building Pathways report, I would add one more: I challenge all of us in education, but especially school leaders, to share the joys of our work and the reasons we love of our jobs with our colleagues, our students, and our communitieIn addition to the great suggestions found in the Building Pathways report, I would add one more: I challenge all of us in education, but especially school leaders, to share the joys of our work and the reasons we love of our jobs with our colleagues, our students, and our communitiein the Building Pathways report, I would add one more: I challenge all of us in education, but especially school leaders, to share the joys of our work and the reasons we love of our jobs with our colleagues, our students, and our communitiein education, but especially school leaders, to share the joys of our work and the reasons we love of our jobs with our colleagues, our students, and our communities.

REC Education identified the need for more teachers in 2012 as the school system struggles to cope with present levels of demand and faces up to even greater challenges in the coming years.

It will be challenge and at the same time a great opportunity to renew and reinforce the commitments of the Education for All Campaign, launched in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990 with an enlarged conception of Education that goes beyond schools to include non-formal education processes (4)

Rural Students Produce High - Tech Projects In the rural Mendocino (California) Unified School District, a locally developed computer network eliminates one of the greatest challenges facing many small, rural, budget - tight districts.

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

Peter Cook, teacher mentor to 2017 winners Pyro Box from Maroochydore State High School in Queensland, adds the challenge is a great way to bring real world learning into the classroom.

Having learned these lessons firsthand as a business owner, I am determined as a governor to apply them to the single greatest challenge facing our public schools today — the challenge of providing the best possible teachers to students in our lowest - achieving schools.

Then the internet came along, and I realized I could build a school online and let selection bias draw the students I could best serve: those who thirst for a greater challenge than they're finding in their classrooms.

[15] It is unclear how complying with the reform would have affected students in other schools with greater implementation challenges.

«The realities of becoming an academy are that the financial gains are not as great as you might think and the governing body needs to strike a balance between challenging the school and supporting its aims and ethos,» says Marie Lister, executive principal of South Axholme Academy in Doncaster.

The Greater Manchester Challenges was a three - year initiative to improve the performance of over 1,000 schools, focusing in particular on students from low - income families.

Having co-taught in first grade, second grade and sixth grade, I feel confident in saying that the greatest challenge is finding a working model for middle school co-teachers.

White knows that the challenges of running New Orleans's 70 Recovery District schools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, Springschools are great, despite Paul Vallas's amazing progress in rebuilding a system that most educators agreed was among the worst in the nation before Hurricane Katrina destroyed more than 80 percent of its 127 schoolhouses (see «New Schools in New Orleans,» features, SpringSchools in New Orleans,» features, Spring 2011).

Commenting on Mark's involvement, Sarah Hegarty said: «It's great to have Mark involved in our school's chess challenge.

Having started my career in community development in schools, I've experienced many of these challenges first - hand, but have also witnessed some great examples of schools taking a proactive and efficient approach to responding to some of these challenges.

SEN schools share particular challenges, in that the amount of sensitive data they hold is greater than for mainstream schools, but this system is also ideal for schools with pupils across the SEN spectrum.

The plans aim to tackle those inequalities and ensure Britain is a country that «truly works for everyone» by looking at the experience and outcomes for children who face the most challenges in mainstream school - including those at greatest risk of exclusion - such as those with special educational needs (SEN), children with autism or children in need of help and protection, including those in care.

BPS was burdened by a turnover rate for new teachers of 50 percent in the first three years and, despite an abundance of university - based teacher preparation programs in the greater Boston area, lacked teachers of color, teachers equipped for urban school challenges, and those certified in the hard - to - staff areas of math, science, and special education.

The experience of being the head of a successful low challenge school does not necessarily equip anyone to lead five challenging schools and the impact of things going wrong is five times greater than it is in one.

Staggard was one of the panellists and says it was great to share how the school used the challenge in the classroom.

The challenge is just one of many initiatives that Shell is running in schools to encourage more young people from a greater range of backgrounds to further STEM learning and to consider STEM careers.

Board Chair Looks to Continue Urban Schools» Gains Despite underfunding and the challenges of recruiting qualified teachers in key subject areas, urban schools continue to make gains, according to George H. Thompson III, this year's chairman of the Council of the Great City Schools» board of dirSchools» Gains Despite underfunding and the challenges of recruiting qualified teachers in key subject areas, urban schools continue to make gains, according to George H. Thompson III, this year's chairman of the Council of the Great City Schools» board of dirschools continue to make gains, according to George H. Thompson III, this year's chairman of the Council of the Great City Schools» board of dirSchools» board of directors.

Shell today called for schools across Great Britain to enter The Bright Ideas Challenge, its national schools» science competition, now in its third year.