Sentences with phrase «in most school»

While it's true that each school library will have specific supply needs, there are some basic supplies that belong in most school libraries.

In most school site councils, the principal writes the school site plan with little or no input from the school site council, briefly presents it to the school site council at a meeting in the fall, and then expects them to vote to approve it with little or no input.

However, in most school systems, a student's choice of reading material lessens as he or she moves up to the middle and high school grades.

As we know, evaluation systems in most school districts appear to be far from rigorous.

«Fifteen years after No Child Left Behind was signed into law, race and family income still predict standardized test scores with remarkable accuracy in most school districts,» says the Report.

In most school districts, principals show up at prearranged times to observe teachers» work, and then write their observations.

Pre-Katrina, those decisions rested, as they do in most school districts, with the elected board, which hires the superintendents who hire the principals.

In most school settings, teachers are the designers of the product, and students are the producers who try to create the design that the teacher has in mind.

In most school districts, the move to high school is accompanied by an earlier school start time.

In most school boundary neighborhoods, schools have a larger share of African American students than the neighborhood population of all ages.

Not something to brag about in most school districts, but those numbers make 223 one of the top middle schools in the South Bronx.

In most school districts, virtually all teachers, good or bad, routinely get a satisfactory evaluation, it found.

In most school districts, teacher pay is based on years of experience and educational attainment levels.

In most school change efforts, educators assume a consensus on goals.

The report also emphasizes the importance of school climate in any effort to improve school security, noting that in most school shootings, «the perpetrators were students and, typically, their actions extended from their experience in school.»

Research shows that missing 10 percent of the school, or about 18 days in most school districts, negatively affects a student's academic performance.

Whether they're the result of a mandate from on high, a crisis that needs addressing, or simply a desire for improvement, change initiatives are a constant in most every school.

Which is to say that in most school districts, the annual budgetary process provides a great opportunity for all sorts of people to engage in political theatrics.

Until recently, teacher evaluation was a joke in most school systems.

«This mechanism of having access to more information on teachers to inform the tenure process is available in most school districts,» Wyckoff said.

The start of the school year in most school districts means it is that time of year to set teacher professional goals again.

Until recently, teacher evaluations were little more than a formality in most school systems, with the vast majority of instructors getting top ratings, often based on a principal's superficial impressions.

That's about two days a month, or 18 days in most school districts.

In most school districts, these tests for the first time were taken on computers, with questions that adjusted in real time to students» answers.

While awareness of restorative justice is high among school officials statewide, budgets for programs remain tiny in most school districts.

Speaking honestly about our emotional well - being is still taboo in most school environments, but we must decrease the stigma so we can get the support we need.

In fact, in most school subjects, greater knowledge, deeper understandings and more sophisticated skills develop throughout the school years.

In most school buildings, the main office serves as a hub around which all other activities revolve.

Many school board elections are held at a time different from other elections; and very little information is easily available about the candidates in most school board elections.

«In most school districts, formal evaluations have been negotiated to the point that they result in minimal observations at best,» said Young, principal (retired) of West Elementary School in Lancaster, Ohio, and past president of the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

These students are in classrooms in most school systems — and face some of the steepest odds for graduating from high school — yet only one - third of district - level leaders believe educators in their schools are prepared to effectively teach English - learners, according to an Education Week Research Center survey from late last year.

In most school subjects, progress occurs over extended periods of time, usually over many years of school.

In most school cafeterias, however, there are temptations of vending machines, pizza, and other unhealthy snacks; therefore, you need to try harder to get your kids to actually eat what you have packed.

«In most school districts, you have constant dialogue between labor and management on how to improve the teaching and learning process, and those kinds of conversations happen all through the year,» Korn said.

In a little over a month, voters in most school districts go to the polls to decide yes or know on that district's spending plan and five of them in Erie County have less state aid to work with in the recently approved state budget In Erie County, Sweet Home sees the biggest cut in overall state...

TLT: Here in Houston, as in most school districts, about $ 1 of the government's $ 2.74 reimbursement rate is spent on the food itself.

We are told over and over that there's not enough money to fix school lunch, yet we live in a country where we consistently spend 2, 3, 4 or even 5 times more for our daily coffee than we do on food for our children's school lunch, which in most school districts amounts to less than a dollar.

Love to see more parents packing their kids» lunches since the food served in most school cafeterias is abominable!

Unfortunately, the ratio of male parent volunteers to female is still less than half in most school districts.

According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, menus in most school lunch programs are too high in saturated fat and cholesterol and too low in fiber - and nutrient - rich fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.

We suggest that schools encourage students who bring packed lunches to go meat free but currently in most schools, the choice is theirs.

And right now, in most schools, they don't get those opportunities.

In most schools, the first few weeks of the school year are dedicated to discussions of class rules: incentives and disincentives, rewards and punishments, stickers and pizza parties, detentions and suspensions.

In most schools, these are the students placed in remedial classes or subjected to repeated suspensions or both — none of which makes a student likely to feel I belong here or I can succeed at this.

In most schools it is now a requirement.

Sadly, in most schools, the kids who need this schedule most (the younger ones) tend to have to eat their lunches first in the day's schedule.

There's no question it's working in most schools that have people committed to it.

TLT: What's your overall impression of school food, both around the world and in most schools in the United States?

We must not reverse the progress that was sought by school leaders and is well on its way to success in most schools.