Sentences with phrase «highlights schools and education»

The Grattan Institute research paper highlights schools and education systems that are starting to do targeted teaching in a much more systematic way.

Teacher chats to Dr Peter Goss about a research paper highlighting schools and education systems that are starting to do targeted teaching in a more systematic way.

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«Students look back at this design project and it's really a highlight, a memorable learning experience in their packaging education,» says Paul Koning, Instructor, MSU, School of Packaging.

Developed by education communication specialists Kids Media, the Australian Organic Schools website has been designed to engage teachers, students, canteen managers / volunteers and parents / carers, highlighting the benefits of healthy eating and growing food.

School highlights gifted education, inquiry - based learning, creative problem - solving, engaged peer groups, and collaborative culture.

Other: A White Paper on Health, Nutrition, and Physical Education produced by the Department of Education entitled, Healthy Children Ready to Learn (2005), highlights the need for local wellness policies and outlines steps the Department is taking to accelerate their adoption and implementation, including collaborative efforts, promoting a coordinated school health approach, and supporting state legislation supporting wellness policies.

«Our scholarship stories highlight how important it is for us to provide education for our members, because whether they are pursuing an associate's, a bachelor's, or an advanced degree, each and every one of them has a passion for what they do — for feeding kids,» explained Janet, who believes when it comes to school nutrition gaining respect as a true profession for passionate individuals — «the time has come».

Charles Nelson, professor of pediatrics and neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and professor of education at Harvard University, said the research highlights the importance of examining such potential links between early brain development and later learning difficulties.

These simple summaries highlight the hiring requirements for School Nutrition and State Agency Directors and the continuing education / training for all school nutrition persSchool Nutrition and State Agency Directors and the continuing education / training for all school nutrition persschool nutrition personnel.

BHA Education Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We welcome the conclusions of these three reports, each highlighting important areas of sex and relationships education and coming to the rational conclusion that the subject should be compulsory inEducation Campaigner Richy Thompson commented, «We welcome the conclusions of these three reports, each highlighting important areas of sex and relationships education and coming to the rational conclusion that the subject should be compulsory ineducation and coming to the rational conclusion that the subject should be compulsory in schools.

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says this year's event will highlight the hardships of wage inequality and struggling public schools.

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Hawkins chose to announce in front of the NYC Board of Education to highlight his call for adequate funding for public schools and an end to high - stakes testing.

Walsh also highlighted the Syracuse City School District's career and technical education programs, known as CTEs.

The Greens selected NYC Educator Brian Jones to highlight their opposition to Cuomo's education policies promoting privatization of the education system, including his promotion of the Common Core agenda and charter schools.

«It has highlighted the highly charged politics of the district and the forces that control the school board — none of which focus primarily on the education of children,» said former School Board President James Saschool board — none of which focus primarily on the education of children,» said former School Board President James SaSchool Board President James Sampson.

Cuomo highlighted three major sticking points: raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, the 421 - a property tax abatement program, and education funding, especially around charter schools.

Duprey, too, noted the importance of broadband and highlighted an ambitious set of priorities, including education reform: the Common Core is flawed, she said, while state schools need a bump in funding.

The program is intended «to elevate the prestige» of the profession and highlight the importance of science and math in the schools, says Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

«The continuing opioid epidemic despite state and federal actions highlights the need for people to continue supporting community - wide education on the risks and limitations of opioids, starting in medical and nursing schools, on safe opioid prescribing and how to recognize signs of opioid use disorder.»

«The findings highlight the importance of having a supply of epinephrine available in schools, and people trained to administer it during an allergy emergency,» said Michael Pistiner, MD, MMSc, FAAP, and author of the abstract and Director of Food Allergy Advocacy, Education and Prevention at MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) in Boston.

Temple Health Magazine highlights the people, activities and programs at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine and Temple University Health System that are advancing medical education, translational research and patient care.

There is new guidance on learning outside the classroom («Departmental advice for health and safety in schools» on the Department for Education's website), subject - specific support for teachers through their subject associations e.g. Association for Physical Education, and new Ofsted guidance highlighting safeguarding in lessons — ensuring that not only is the standard of teaching good, but that the standard of health and safety within each lesson is also good.

Recently, several prominent national education organizations (including the NEA, AERA, AFT, and NCTE) have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that we need to highlight the «systemic patterns of inequity — racism and educational injustice — that impacts our students,» and that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

In a 2003 report, «The Complete Curriculum: Ensuring a Place for the Arts and Foreign Languages in American's Schools,» a study group from the National Association of State Boards of Education noted that a substantial body of research highlights the benefits of arts in curriculum and called for stronger emphasis on the arts and foreign languages.

Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel, head of research, Education and Employers, said: «Our findings highlight the pressing need for closer ties between employers and state schools to ensure that all young people — regardless of gender and backgrounds — have information about all the possible career routes available to them.

MCRI said the results provided strong evidence to highlight the importance for education systems to invest in the prevention of bullying and promotion of positive peer relationships from the earliest years of school.

Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel, Head of Research, Education and Employers, said, «Our findings highlight the pressing need for closer ties between employers and state schools to ensure that all young people — regardless of gender and backgrounds — have information about all the possible career routes available to them.

S. Lynneth Solis Mind, Brain, and Education Program Current city: Cambridge Current job: Doctoral Student, Human Development and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Career highlight: Collaborating with researchers at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia to study object play experiences of children in socioeconomically diverse preschools in the city

The conference highlighted three main points around STEM education: firstly, there is a common global issue of the need for more young people to choose to study STEM subjects and move into STEM - related careers in the future; secondly, there is very limited implementation advice available for anything beyond the extremes of small projects and school - wide transformation; and, lastly, that the idea of STEM is firmly rooted in the development of 21st Century skills.

NISW highlights and celebrates the progress U.S. schools have made in using inclusive practices to ensure a quality education for an increasingly diverse student population, including students with disabilities, those from low socio - economic backgrounds, and English language learners,» according to a release from the organizers.

Carr highlighted the role that the Department for Education (DfE) can play to help EdTech companies understand what products and solutions will best drive school improvement.

The following summarize final 1999 budgets for schools and highlights of education - related action in legislatures.

The following is a summary of the fiscal 2000 state budgets for schools and highlights of education - related action in legislatures.

Highlights of the trip include meeting with the Honorable Minister of Education of Sri Lanka at the President's home, visiting with tea plantation workers and their local schools, and discussing the research topic with leaders of the Sri Lankan Commissions for UNESCO and UNICEF.

Not only will it highlight Rosenwald schools more broadly, but it will also dispel myths about African Americans and how they valued education.

The Education, Skills and the Economy Committee has been strongly critical of the government for failing to improve provision after a July report highlighted it was poor in many schools across the UK.

Sanderson Hale Doughty Human Development and Psychology Current City: Portland, Oregon Current Job: Teacher, the Portland School of Experiential Education Career highlight: Dedicating my life to early childhood education and pushing the envelope with that is possible in educating and caring for very young children in a progressive learning envEducation Career highlight: Dedicating my life to early childhood education and pushing the envelope with that is possible in educating and caring for very young children in a progressive learning enveducation and pushing the envelope with that is possible in educating and caring for very young children in a progressive learning environment.

«This important report highlights the urgent need for age appropriate sex and relationship education in every school.

However, Unions highlighted reports from MPs on the cross-party education select committee and the public accounts committee, both published last week, which criticised the academies and free schools programme and pointed to the lack of evidence that it was leading to improved standards.

Yael Karakowsky Ross Mind, Brain, and Education Current City: Houston Current job: Executive director, SER Mexico Career highlight: I was hired right after graduation by Mike Feinberg and Aaron Brenner from KIPP to work with them in a pilot project that aimed to support the creation of transformational schools internationally.

The Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education, is structured to highlight the best of what we currently know about healthy child development and high - quality systems, schools and classrooms of early learning, while also bringing in new thinking from other fields to provide insights that bear on the design of preK improvement and expansion.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Australian Education Union (AEU) Victoria president Meredith Peace highlighted Napthine's record in cuts to schools across the state and is calling for transparency and for a clear vision for the future of Victorian schools.

The memo appears to acknowledge that any attempt to open new grammars would likely face stiff opposition in the House of Lords and seemingly advises that existing grammar schools should be allowed to expand, as the Weald of Kent grammar was allowed to do last year, to highlight how they can work effectively in today's education landscape.

Presenting essays written by authorities in the fields of education, political science, and law, West and Dunn highlight the many areas of education policy that have made their way into U.S. courts to be debated and decided, and consider the implications of heightened judicial involvement for schools...

Other highlights include a discussion of the democratization of American higher education with Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier; and a conversation with district...

In her Boston Arts & Culture testimony, Cavallo highlighted the necessity for risk - taking in the mayor's office when it comes to the arts and pitched a course she developed in doctoral student Edward Clapp's module, Fostering Creativity and Innovation through Education: Applying Theory to Practice, called «Art School 617.»