Sentences with phrase «individual school efforts»

The virtual onsite offering of the Data Wise Leadership Institute addresses similar content and objectives as our on - campus program with a focus on individual school efforts, but takes place in the comfort of your own setting.

For these parents, a homeschool co-op that meets, say, once a week and supplements their individual schooling efforts can be a great way to extend their homeschool experience.

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The effort of Gruntvig and his school to whip up the national pride of Denmark by recalling it to the Nordic sagas and its glorious history, Kierkegaard felt to be so much public flattery and a violent poison to the real individual need of the soul.

Efforts include but are not limited to: developing and implementing marine habitat protection and restoration strategies, conducting ongoing coral reef research, training individuals in marine ecosystem research and management, as well as animal husbandry, the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife including sea turtles, manatees and dolphins, creating programs to heighten public awareness of the ocean and its inhabitants and delivering marine education programs to communities and schools.

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

This push has embraced forms of school development and quality assurance that are ubiquitous in the mainstream, while making efforts to adapt them to the special situation of Waldorf education with its focus on individual learning.

In addition to Annual Fund fundraising, ambassadors will be encouraging other SNA members in their state to apply for available scholarships, use resources provided for Breakfast in the Classroom and other Foundation programs, join in research efforts to develop best practices, and nominate individuals for the annual School Nutrition Hero awards.

Now that USDA has left the choice to use LBT up to each school district, and because individual grocery chains have always had the ability to chose to sell meat with or without it, it's been interesting to see that local efforts are starting to spring up to influence these potential LBT purchasers.

In an effort to halt the rising rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, Snacks, Sweetened Beverages, Added Sugars, and Schools, recommends families take a broader approach to nutrition, considering children's whole diet pattern — rather than simply the amount of sugar, fat, or specific nutrients in individual foods.

«Welsh Liberal Democrats are committed to the introduction of an individual pupil monitoring programme to measure all pupils» progress, allowing schools to target efforts at those students who are not meeting their potential».

A Stoneman Douglas freshman, Anthony Borges, is suing several agencies and individuals he believes were negligent in their efforts to prevent the shooting, among them the school district for its PROMISE practices.

In a collaborative effort, researchers at the FIU International Forensic Research Institute (IFRI) and the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science have zeroed in on a unique component of heroin that could help zero in on the locations of origin for individual batches.

Ninety - four of the injured individuals elected to enroll in an eight - institution study that began before the end of April 2013 through the efforts of Harvard Catalyst, the clinical and translational science center that facilitated a framework for Harvard Medical School - affiliated institutions to speed the review of human studies.

«Previous efforts to create sequential shape changing components involved placing multiple heaters at specific regions in a component and then controlling the on - and - off time of individual heaters,» explained Jerry Qi, a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.

Choosing a dating location, finding the time to make reservations, going through the effort of traveling to the location of the festivities and spending the time of enjoying the date may require more time than the individual can spend due to responsibilities of career, family, school or other constraints.

In response, a number of reform efforts are focusing on creating small schools or schools within schools where students are known and valued as individuals by other students as well as by teachers and staff.

DCPS was in the vanguard of these efforts, and was one of the first school districts in the country to link individual performance evaluations to high - stakes decisions about pay and retention when it launched IMPACT in the 2009 10 school year.

«Across the nation, committed individuals in early education settings, schools, communities, and statehouses are working tirelessly on efforts and initiatives to promote children's literacy development,» says Lesaux.

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.

Provides comprehensive data for individual states in the following categories: summary of grades, student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, resources: equity and spending.

There is no serious monitoring for cheating in most of the 13,000 school districts in the U.S., and some of the best known cases became known only because of the determined efforts of a few individuals outside the school system.

School improvement efforts can benefit individuals» earnings and balance state budgets, says Hanushek.

In an effort to significantly alter the human capital in the nine schools, 100 percent of principals, 30 percent of other administrators, and 52 percent of teachers were removed and replaced with individuals who possessed the values and beliefs consistent with an achievement - driven mantra and, wherever possible, a demonstrated record of achievement.

Taking an in - depth look at the situation in an individual school community can help target efforts to better ensure those students who want to attend college make it there.

Companies like K12, Inc. must inform students and parents up front what it's like to learn in a full - time virtual school that requires a significant amount of individual effort, parental support, and persistence before they commit and K12, Inc. receives the associated public funds.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

Organizations such as Accelerating Via Individual Determination (AVID) demonstrate the importance of effective supplemental support programs and efforts in conjunction with schools and districts.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

The school's sustainability program, mapped using the AuSSI framework, and partnership with the Maia Maia Foundation helps its students to visualise the reduction of carbon pollution in the atmosphere through individual and joint community efforts in recycling, composting, energy savings and more.

By developing personal goals in partnership with individual staff members, and showing them how their development contributes to universal improvement, they will be able to see their own value to the school, and be inspired to work towards their targets as part of the whole - staff effort.

These include: Sister Schools, Sister Cities, Rotary Clubs, and projects initiated by women, religious leaders or immigrants, all of them primarily grassroots efforts initiated by one individual who recruits others to join her.

They suggest that in a school with more teachers, «the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.»

Individual schools may not reflect the demography of their communities, but most make earnest efforts to create a diverse applicant pool.

Even in schools that make forthright efforts to teach students good social skills, there is a premium on what can be thought of as «vocational citizenship» — with its emphasis on learning socially desirable behaviors not as part of an attachment to community or nation but for the practical benefits they will provide to the individual student.

There is recognition that high quality instruction is the key to improved student learning, and teachers and school leaders are engaged in ongoing efforts to understand and meet the needs of individual learners and to improve on current teaching practices.

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Identifying feelings and recognizing the pain of negative comments are elements of a comprehensive effort at Brooklyn's PS 15 — also known as Patrick F. Daly School — to give kids the tools they need to become emotionally intelligent individuals able to move away from feelings and responses that prevent them from getting along with others, solving disputes peacefully, and concentrating on schoolwork.

The modernization of teacher evaluation systems, an increasingly common component of school reform efforts, promises to reveal new, systematic information about the performance of individual classroom teachers.

Although school culture tends to prize individual effort and achievement, many cultures (and increasingly 21st - century STEM careers) value cooperation and collaboration.

It is intended to support the efforts of districts, schools, and, most importantly, individual teachers to continually improve instruction.

We will also do a small survey of schools, targeting a few individuals in each of 120 schools, with the same effort to roster, mail and follow - up as noted above.

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The Charter School Hall of Fame recognizes individuals and organizations for their innovation, long - term commitment, and pioneering efforts in the growth of charter schools.

He has been an active consultant, presenter, and trainer for nearly twenty - five years, conducting workshops and providing guidance for schools and community organizations committed to bolstering individual and institutional equity efforts.

School leadership is increasingly recognized as another critical factor to drawing and retaining great teachers and improving their individual and joint efforts.

During the conference, the Center for Green Schools at USGBC and the Green Schools National Network announced the recipients of the 2018 Best of Green Schools Awards, which recognize individuals, institutions, projects and events that embody the most impactful efforts in school sustainability.

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The point is that focusing meaningful pressure on individual schools is more likely to prompt a response than are more general efforts at promoting competition.

Instead of funding a national network of 10 regional education labs, suppose those funds were made available on a competitive basis to individual state agencies willing to help districts track the impacts of their own efforts, to identify matched comparison groups for their initiatives (using other students and schools in a state) and to generate reports on impacts.