Sentences with phrase «island schools»

The grant will also allow the development of educational materials for the local island school.

For example, shortly after I joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers from my post as the President of Rhode Island School of Design, six other venture capital firms brought in designers into their partnerships.

Rossiter, a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, lovingly illustrates a late winter / early spring New England tradition: harvesting sap from maple trees and turning it into maple syrup.

Although the original number of NASCAR fans in the Long Island school of 600 students was impressive, their ranks only increased as a result of «Start Your Engines.»

A group of Rhode Island school districts that hired a private contractor to save money on school - lunch programs is having to swallow more than it bargained for.

«We are probably able to do more for our kids in this school than [schools can do] across the bridge in Old Town, Bradley, and Orono because of that funding,» explained Linda McLeod, principal of Indian Island School, in describing towns bordering the reservation.

While Kerr was at the Staten Island School of Civic Leadership, the school was the highest - ranking elementary, middle school and pre-K in the city, Oddo said.

When Deborah Gist became commissioner of Rhode Island schools in 2009, she pledged to make every decision in the best interests of children — something we've heard before and rarely seen happen.

Mental Health Counseling students from Rhode Island schools who go on to become psychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, counselors, etc. have a good chance at finding employment.

«Using the SAT and PSAT at the high school level and partnering with Massachusetts in grades 3 - 8, we are using recognizable, successful assessment instruments that will be understood and supported by parents, teachers and the community,» Timothy Ryan, executive director of the Rhode Island School Superintendents» Association, said in a statement.

Compass has partnered with major foundations to enrich other Rhode Island schools with our best practices.

In addition to Hamburg, officials from the Tonawanda City, Frontier, Lake Shore and Grand Island school districts were at the table.

Amanda Ward is a National Board Certified Teacher in the Bainbridge Island School District where she serves as an instructional coach.

At a recent gathering of Long Island school leaders, Tisch was asked about the Fellows.

The Mercer Island School District and school teams have recently revisited expectations for student behavior to address student safety.

The Samuel F. Heffner Alumni House at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., received the Crow Island School Citation for exemplary school design in 1991 in American School & University's first - ever Educational Interiors Showcase.

«I wouldn't like school as much without native studies,» Gregory, ten, a fifth grader at Indian Island School told Education World.

Holy Island School Nestled in north Northumberland lies Holy Island Church of England First School.

At Vashon Island School District in Washington, high school students from an alternative school taught teachers in the local, rural district about service learning.

This is the second year teaching first and second grade students in the Washington Island School District for Alyssa Wagner.

Educators on the ground also sounded warnings about the Common Core, as award - winning Long Island school principal Carol Burris did at The Washington Post.

RILINK is offering a shared Destiny system for Rhode Island school libraries, which we call RICAT.

April 10, 2018 Xaviera Simmons Gary Metz Lecturer Road Island School of Design, Providence, RI Visit Website

the work draws on his own feeling of displacement, when he arrived in the U.S. in 1991 from his native country, to study at the rhode island school of design (RISD), an experience which led him to measure spaces as a means of establishing a relationship with his new environment.

Forcefield (the Rhode Island school alumni Mat Brinkman, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg and Ara Peterson) was exceptional in that it achieved national recognition during its own lifetime when the group was in the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

Think of lead contaminated water at Vancouver Island schools, asbestos exposure at a school in Abbotsford and delays in upgrading seismically unsound schools across the Lower Mainland.

L.I.F.E Lopez Island Farm Education Orca Garden - Seattle Orcas Island School Garden Quilcene School Garden & blog Franklin Pierce School District Natural Science Resource Center («the Farm»), Tacoma, WA

The Whole Systems Design client list includes The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; Cape Eleuthera Island School, Bahamas; Vermont State Prison Farm; and a significant installation at Teal Farm / LivingFuture in Vermont.

Crow Island School first grader Will Knight, 7, tucks the ham and cheese sandwich he prepared in a cooler which was delivered to a Chicago shelter.

A candidate for the Eastport - South Manor, Long Island school board who has a manslaughter conviction said last night he planned to stay in the race, according to a text message he sent during a candidate forum and read aloud by the event's moderator.

Leaders of the New Suffolk school district, the only Long Island school system to propose piercing the state's property tax cap, said last night that doing so is necessary to preserve key educational services.

Jericho Superintendent Henry Grishman, a veteran Long Island schools chief and former president of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, said he did not support proposals to place armed guards outside schools.

The incident in the Nassau County district was one of at least two at Long Island schools involving social media.

The number of threats against Long Island schools reported to police have surged this year, most notably since the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, officials say.

Prevention efforts in his proposal include expansion of a Staten Island school prevention program Citywide, creation of a «Synthetics Task Force» with federal, state and city law enforcement and «develop [ing] clearer standards for prescribing opioids.»

She also served the community on the Friends of Grand Island Memorial Library Board, Grand Island Historical Society, St. Stephen's Church, Grand Island School Business Alliance (GISBA), and the Grand Island Relay for Life: Survivor Tent.

Now they are threatening him to keep Long Island schools whole in the education budget — and I fear he will shrink before them.

Summons totals from Staten Island school zone speed cameras from the months of June through October, according to New York City's open data website.

Long Island schools put their budgets up for vote Tuesday.

He also announced plans to buy salad bars for seven Staten Island school cafeterias, funding for a mobile command vehicle for the Sanitation Department during snowstorms and emergencies, and the Department of Transportation's plan to replace many of the boroughs lights with LEDs.

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story included incorrect information from a Long Island school official who questioned the way numbers in the proposed 2017 - 18 executive budget were calculated.

Chancellor Betty Rosa of the Bronx, in a brief exchange with mothers from more than a half - dozen Island school districts, said the board is preparing to launch discussions of a revamped statewide diploma system.

For Cuomo, triangulation includes supporting gay marriage, defending abortion and calling for the closing of a nuclear power plant, while pushing a property tax cap, blocking tax increases and making sure Long Island schools received greater shares of school aid in Republican districts.

A national education expert told Long Island school administrators Tuesday that they should join parents in the revolt against Common Core.

Located on a Maryland island that is only three miles long, Deal Island School has a population of 125 students in grades pre-K to 5.

In the education department's 2009 — 10 report — assembled by its Office for Civil Rights from surveys of 57,000 schools — on average, half the teachers in the 208 Rhode Island schools surveyed were absent more than 10 days during the year, surpassing teacher absences in Hawaii, Arkansas, Oregon, and New Mexico by only a whisker.

As headteacher of an Orkney island school of eight pupils, I was given a pony for the children to ride.