Hamilton School District superintendent Kathleen Cooke said the changes had afforded teachers a greater role in developing curricula and
a greater impact on school - level decisions.
How can you have
the greatest impact on school culture?
However, unless the Phonics Screening Check is also made non-statutory there is a risk that this already heavy handed «light - touch» assessment will have an even
greater impact on school practice, as it will be the only data point between entry and the Key Stage 2 SATs.
These changes always tend to have
the greatest impact on schools serving students in the highest concentrations of poverty.
The most rewarding aspect is that you have
a greater impact on the school as a whole.
Involved parents — can you believe that one contributing factor could have such
a great impact on your school?
Not exact matches
Lyne: A suburban life was very comfortable, lots of
great clubs around, lots of good
schools for kids, but for somebody who grew up thinking, «I want to do something, I want to have an
impact on the world,» it was not necessarily the place you could do that.
Barnard served many years as secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, but his
impact on the public
school movement was perhaps
greatest in the American Journal of Education, which he began in 1855 and edited for twenty - six years.
The resolution «urge [s] all restaurants, grocery stores and
schools to offer a
greater variety of plant - based options to improve the health of San Francisco residents and visitors, and to increase the awareness of the
impact a green diet would have
on our planet».
The more people we have involved, the
greater impact we can have in helping families put a meal
on the table and send their children to
school with full tummies.
I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but
school menus have
great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.
Polk County Public
Schools have lot of
great programming, including breakfast - in - the - classroom (Polk County received Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant back in SY 2012 - 13) and a «What's That Wednesday» program where students learn about new foods; additionally, Polk has implemented CEP at 109 sites which has had a positive
impact on participation.
Introducing your child to fun, hands -
on experiences with math today can make a lifetime of
impact, from
greater success in
school, to high - demand careers.
New research shows that chocolate milk has a
greater impact on performance than regular sports beverages when high
school athletes drink it for recovery.
The choices you make about your own
schooling will have a
great impact on what your daughter sees as her own choices.
In fact, how your teen spends his summer can have a
greater impact on his life than any
school textbook ever will.
During the assembly, seniors told how
great an
impact the
school's performing arts programs have had
on their lives.
Parents know firsthand the
impact a quality
school and
great teachers have
on their child's future potential.
Poloncarz noted the
impact poverty in the county has
on the
greater community along with several actions his administration has undertaken to address poverty and its myriad effects, including the imminent opening of the new Erie County Health Mall; a new partnership with Catholic Health, the Buffalo Public
Schools and the Say Yes program to expand social work, mental health services, and clinics into Buffalo Public schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce devel
Schools and the Say Yes program to expand social work, mental health services, and clinics into Buffalo Public
schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce devel
schools; and increased collaborations with partners to bolster workforce development.
During his twelve - year term, Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a significant
impact on New York City, including
great improvements to the
school system.
When he graduated from Beijing's Peking University in 2004, he chose to go to graduate
school to study biology, believing that studying fundamental biological mechanisms would allow him to have the
greatest possible
impact on human health.
«We found that vegetation change may have a
greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren
School of Environmental Science & Management.
Prof Carlos Peres, an author
on the study from UEA's
School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Our analysis shows that even so - called «reduced -
impact logging» in tropical forests can rarely be defined as sustainable in terms of forest composition and dynamics in the aftermath of logging — never mind the
greater susceptibility of logged forests to catastrophic fires.
Other determinants, including local labor market conditions, parental education and family structure appear to have a
greater impact on child poverty levels, according to Myungkook Joo, assistant professor in Rutgers
School of Social Work, who authored the study.
They indicate that particulates are the
greatest current environmental risk to human health, with the
impact on life expectancy in many parts of the world similar to the effects of every man, woman and child smoking cigarettes for several decades,» says study co-author Michael Greenstone, the director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College and the Harris
School.
Lead author Dr Helena Legido - Quigley, Lecturer in Global Health at the London
School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our analysis is the first to look at the overall
impact of austerity measures in Spain
on the healthcare system and the findings are of
great concern.
He takes
great pride in his work of guiding and supporting people considering joining the
school; as NTI's amazing graduates go
on to have such a powerful
impact within their communities and
on the way the world is eating.
This is a
great tradition, a wonderful opportunity for parents and
school leaders to acknowledge the
impact that teachers have
on our children, while providing kids with the chance to show gratitude towards some of the most important adults in their lives.
Being able to measure the
impact that health and well - being has
on motivation, performance and retention of staff can be a
school's
greatest asset.
As a
school leader or principal, you can often focus more time
on improving teaching and learning beyond one classroom, giving others
greater confidence and
impact.
«We know that
great teaching has the biggest
impact on the learning lives of students, after that it's the
school principal and their leadership teams.»
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.
Arriving late to
school can also mean that students miss out
on activities designed to build connections with their peers, potentially
impacting their social interactions and creating a
greater sense of alienation from their classmates.
Among the biggest
impacts from the state board of education's action
on Sept. 19 could be a decrease in the state's use of foreign - trained bilingual teachers and
greater difficulty in filling substitute - teacher slots in the 432,000 - student Chicago
schools.
«Research shows that
great teachers can have a
great impact —
on both students and the
schools that serve them.
We found that although Florida's conversion charters have significantly
greater effects
on high
school graduation than do de novo charters, the
impact of non-conversion charters is still sizable (nearly equal to the estimate in Chicago).
This suggests that
school quality has a
great impact on economic productivity and growth.
This implies that
schools have a far
greater impact on brain development than we realise.
The signs are suggesting that the
greatest impact digital technology will have
on learning will come from the technology's underpinning role within a digitally - based
school ecosystem; an ecosystem that is integrated, focused and which simultaneously addresses all the variables that enhance student learning.
HEALTH & WELL - BEING Babcock Education describes why happy and healthy staff will have a positive
impact on the learning outcomes of children, and how measuring health and well - being can be a
schools greatest asset
I have realized the potential to have
greater impact, beyond just my
school,
on behalf of children who have experienced trauma or toxic stress.
Peterson also points to research by Harvard University's Martin West and German economist Ludger Woessmann, who examined the
impact of
school choice
on the performance of 15 - year - old students in 29 industrialized countries and «discovered that the
greater the competition between the public and private sector, the better all students do in math, science and reading.»
Furthermore, it is progressively
greater at higher grades, indicating a cumulative
impact of the qualities of teachers in a
school on the pupil's achievements.
«Clearly, there is a
great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both
on the
impact of
school discipline reforms and
on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective
school discipline reform but that changing
school culture can have «spillover» effects
on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.
Not every
school is fortunate to have such a large company headquartered in its backyard, but that does not mean that every
school can not have partnerships that have a
great impact on students.
«When Money Matters,» a report of a national study released in 1997 by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), determined that spending money
on smaller classes has a
greater impact on math achievement than spending
on administration,
school buildings, or hiring teachers with advanced degrees.
My adviser, Professor Fernando Reimers, has had a
great impact on my experience at the education
school.
There are simple steps that
schools may wish to use when looking to improve their financial efficiency in order to help them achieve a
greater impact on pupil outcomes from their resources and what they need to procure.
We believe that by taking a careful approach to scale, these charter
school systems will have a
greater impact on public education in the long term.
Our hopes are that through this partnership we can really help to have a
great impact on the primary
school children's health & fitness around the UK.»