Sentences with phrase «in various school districts»

He spent most of his teaching and administration years in various school districts in Wisconsin, he told the board.

Ms. Tucker has also had the opportunity to coach and implement school improvement plans specifically for science teachers as an Educational Consultant in various school districts.

Ten school referenda will be on the ballot Tuesday in various school districts across the state.

Unfortunately for the naysayers, standardized tests are now being used as part of a teacher's evaluation in various school districts around the country.

This follows an announcement during BETT 2018 and successful trials with primary and secondary institutes in various school districts across North America.

«For example, legislators may choose to send mail to seniors regarding the EPIC program or STAR rebates; younger people about college loan forgiveness programs or people in various school districts on education aid.»

Not exact matches

I just grew up in an area where many teachers made around 70 - 100k (with bonuses, yeah our school districts gave various bonuses and I know this because all their salaries are online) so my judgements may have been biased.

There are so many things I'd love to see tackled when it comes to school lunch, especially in my children's district, like the lack of kitchen space to prepare fresh foods, the lack of variety of fruits and vegetables, and the seemingly endless breaded chicken in various forms.

Lunch Lessons offers a variety of services to assist school districts and their community partners in realizing their vision for school food service, including: educational programming through speaking engagements; workshops that address a variety of needs from fiscal to culinary training; focused analysis of various aspects of existing programs; as well as full assessments which analyze all aspects of the food service department and provide recommendations to assist in strategic planning and goal setting.

Parents are often the most invested in school district concerns, but every community member in the district has a voice, and various groups represent different perspectives.

Moreover, as USDA as anticipated — and as the School Nutrition Association has noted in its own comments on the proposal — it will place an unreasonable burden on school districts to determine the source of various nutrients in a given packaged product, absent standardized labels offering this informSchool Nutrition Association has noted in its own comments on the proposal — it will place an unreasonable burden on school districts to determine the source of various nutrients in a given packaged product, absent standardized labels offering this informschool districts to determine the source of various nutrients in a given packaged product, absent standardized labels offering this information.

In the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington PosIn the last month I volunteered, as I try to regularly, at the kitchen of a local homeless shelter; I made a donation to Mazon: A Jewish Response to Hunger; I brought canned food to a food drive; I continued to work toward improving school food in my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Posin my district by attending SHAC and Food Services PAC meetings; and I hope I increased awareness of various food policy issues through my writing on The Lunch Tray and The Huffington Post.

While the new CT State Law requires all districts provide a number for concussions diagnosed in their students, the Norwalk School Concussion Project is going a step further and shedding the light on the various types of sport and non-sport concussions across our K - 12 schools.

Officials from school districts in Pennsylvania were asked various questions to assess the extent of the health care provided to their student athletes via athletic training coverage.

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

At 1:30 p.m., the Senate Standing Committee on New York City Education Subcommittee will meet to discuss various amendments to education law - including an act in relation to requiring certain public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer food options during lunch, an act to direct chancellors of city school districts, in cities having a population of one million or more, to examine and assess the feasibility of expanding the number and types of career and technical education schools and programs within such city school districts and an act in relation to improving educational outcomes for homeless students.

«Most importantly, we note with grave concern the lack of teachers in the various schools within the district.»

The City School District of New Rochelle and various interested parties including the Mayor and the head of the teachers union have repeatedly claimed that there is no «inequality» issue in New Rochelle between North End and South End schools in the wake of an article in The Journal News last summer.

I often wonder how many of these same proud parents who post their kids» pictures on various sites are the same parents who complain to school districts about using students» pictures in printed or digital newsletters to identify their positive contributions.

«In the K - 12 public arena, school districts are expected to respond to mandates flowing from the No Child Left Behind legislation at the federal level, along with various state and local assessments,» he says.

In order to investigate the role of both the intentional and unintentional factors, we explore the extent to which various school characteristics explain variation in the allocation of resources within a school districIn order to investigate the role of both the intentional and unintentional factors, we explore the extent to which various school characteristics explain variation in the allocation of resources within a school districin the allocation of resources within a school district.

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopt them; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

Experts in the various disciplines would develop national standards for what students should know and be able to do at key points in their schooling; a federal council of distinguished citizens would review and certify the standards as worthy of emulation; states and school districts would voluntarily adopZwcm; teachers would teach to them; and students would achieve them.

In this partnership, the ministry's OFIP team plays various support roles - coach, challenger, facilitator and mobilizer of ideas and knowledge - first to help districts and schools gauge as precisely as possible student needs, and later to put in place the plans to help meet theIn this partnership, the ministry's OFIP team plays various support roles - coach, challenger, facilitator and mobilizer of ideas and knowledge - first to help districts and schools gauge as precisely as possible student needs, and later to put in place the plans to help meet thein place the plans to help meet them.

Many of the reforms he championed, namely, more accountability, more focus on standards, and growth in charter schools, are already at various levels of implementation in states and districts across the country.

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the Chicago school system in a dispute with a minority - owned company that held various contracts with the district between 1987 and 2003.

My job is literally to connect, share and teach an entire school district of strangers in various new locations.

Various political and economic pressures, constraints, and incentives may combine to induce some communities to convert their traditional school to a charter, but it is likely that the political power rural legislators and politicians enjoy will cement the status quo in most rural districts and hamper actions that promote chartering.

The idea was bringing school districts together for three days to collaborate around curating and organizing digital content that could be used in various content areas.

In recent years, Intermediate Education Units (IUs)-- multi-district consortia that provide various services to member school districts — have created online schools.

Since mid-March, superintendents of four major school systems have spent two days each meeting with the school board and various local groups in the 54,000 - student district: Anthony S. Amato of Hartford, Conn.; Winston C. Brooks of Wichita, Kan.; Patricia Harvey of St. Paul, Minn.; and Eric J. Smith of the Charlotte - Mecklenburg County schools in North Carolina.

But it was an inner - city high school, initially primarily black, in later years increasingly Hispanic, with all the attributes common to such: poor scores on the various tests, district, state and national, that have come over the years to evaluate schools; poor attendance; low graduation rates; and serious student discipline problems.

We propose parsing the information in the report into a series of smaller, more easily navigable public documents that will be useful to stakeholders from various communities, including schools, districts, OST organizations, program developers, researchers, and policy - makers.

Given the various devices, publishers, and content formats that have emerged in the education market, school districts are moving toward their digital goals in many different ways.

Recognized as a national expert, her contribution to the Greenhaven Prison Program at Vassar College, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, Vera Institute of Justice, Kings County District Attorney»s Office, Interfaith Justice Project at The Riverside Church, Open Society Institute» «s After Prison Initiative, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, Boston University»s Prison Education Program, Department of Justice» «s Norval Morris Project, and Truth Commission on Conscience in War has facilitated work with numerous schools and prisons in various states for the last 25 years.

For his part, Justice Thomas faults my citation of various studies supporting the view that school districts can find compelling educational and civic interests in integrating their public schools.

EdLeader21 member districts and schools will also have the benefit of strategic counsel and deeper implementation support in various areas from Battelle for Kids to advance their efforts to become 21st century education systems.

Some US schools and districts (mostly elementary schools that worry less about the impact on college admissions) are experimenting with ditching grades in favor of various other reports of academic mastery, sometimes coupled with separate assessments of behavior or character traits (grit, citizenship, empathy).

The jobs of about 180 teachers in the 47,000 - student Buffalo, N.Y., school district will be spared, thanks to a rearrangement of various grant funds and a last - minute infusion of state aid.

The Learning Counsel research institute has analyzed various estimates and concludes that total annual K — 12 spending on print resources (textbooks and other materials) in 2014 was $ 10.4 billion, while digital content and curriculum spending came to $ 1.8 billion at the district level and $ 4.8 billion at the school or teacher level.

If Edison, which now works in various ways in nearly 1,000 schools and serves more than 300,000 students, were a public school district, I would be one of the longest - serving heads of a major school system in the United States (average tenure for the superintendent of a major system is less than four years).

On the other hand, school district leaders may be developing and implementing their own strategic responses to various school needs for improvement, in conjunction with NCLB and state - mandated interventions.

Superintendent Cameron communicates his primary goal by being visible in the schools, where he holds regular, open talks on leadership, and outside the schools, where he meets regularly with various community groups to discuss district directions and to gather public input.

Officials GAO interviewed in all five school districts in the five states GAO visited reported various challenges with addressing student behavior, and said they were considering new approaches to school discipline.

In an effort to help school districts provide students with a well rounded education that includes the humanities and arts, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to state and local education leaders outlining creative ways they may enhance holistic education programs by utilizing in conjunction various federal resources.The department defines humanities in the letter as history, civics, government, economics, geography, literature, art, music and other non-STEM subjects not usually found in the English / language arts curriculuIn an effort to help school districts provide students with a well rounded education that includes the humanities and arts, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to state and local education leaders outlining creative ways they may enhance holistic education programs by utilizing in conjunction various federal resources.The department defines humanities in the letter as history, civics, government, economics, geography, literature, art, music and other non-STEM subjects not usually found in the English / language arts curriculuin conjunction various federal resources.The department defines humanities in the letter as history, civics, government, economics, geography, literature, art, music and other non-STEM subjects not usually found in the English / language arts curriculuin the letter as history, civics, government, economics, geography, literature, art, music and other non-STEM subjects not usually found in the English / language arts curriculuin the English / language arts curriculum.

The purposes of the observations were to gain an understanding of the instructional activities in the schools, which should assist us to better place the student achievement outcomes within a context; provide some corroboration for the claims made by the various district and building interviewees about the teaching and learning conditions in the school; and provide a basis for discussion during the teacher interviews that would follow the observations.

We used a random - assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores.

The projects have served over 2,000 schools in more than 300 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in 36 states and Washington, D.C. Based on the core premise that educators have the greatest impact on student learning across various in - school factors, TIF awards competitive grants to States, districts, or partnerships with non-profit organizations.

With the state and various cities on the brink of insolvency, it's imperative that the electorate become more informed and demand that school districts and teachers unions do their negotiating in public.

Scholars recently have focused considerable attention on the properties and complexities of leadership distribution in schools and districts — sources, focal points, functions, interactions, contexts, and outcomes.106 We know that leadership may be distributed in various patterns, though consensus on a typology and terms remains elusive.