Sentences with phrase «just priority schools»

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The staff at J.J. «Jake» Pickle Elementary and Mendez Middle School welcomed us with open arms, and answered our many questions about why BIC is a priority in Austin ISD, and how schools are making the program not just work, but succeed.

It is just not an urgent priority in the financing of school s or career metrics of anyone at the local level.

I just joined ours this year and feel like I'm just getting my feet wet, but we've made competitive food (both the authorized foods sold by HISD but also the unauthorized fast food sold by student and school groups at lunch time to raise money) our number one priority this year.

Although I have been told many times by many people, that it's possible and that people just need to set their priorities, and I know many families who are happily home schooling, but for most families it still means sacrifice, and trading some nice things for the benefits of home schooling.

For me, it was just the right balance of time - saving tips, techniques for figuring out your own priorities, and specific advice about schools, holidays and birthdays, vacations, chores, allowance, and all the other minutae of parenting.

«We want to prevent mass shootings from happening and while this could have happened with other types of weapons, NeverAgain believes school safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun coschool safety should be priority right now, not just background checks,» said Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun coSchool student Kali Clougherty, 18, referring to a campaign for gun control.

Speed cameras have less legislative momentum, but language was included in the Assembly's budget priorities that would allow them to be placed in 290 school zones — double the existing authorization, which expires at year's end — and allow cameras within a quarter - mile of schools, not just on adjacent streets.

«This government has made it a priority to help children in their early years and this initiative does just that, providing every child with a free school meal in their first years at primary school,» she said.

On the individual measures, everything was approved of, with the most divisive policy being spending money on new free schools — 41 % thought this was a good idea, 38 % the wrong priority (interestingly that wasn't just a partisan answer — a third of Tory voters also thought it was the wrong priority).

As a teacher in an environmental stewardship magnet school, I saw just how interested students could be in worms crawling in a compost heap, and how kids can work together to make recycling a priority.

But it's not just developing great teachers and leaders — our offer extends to other programmes that we know are priorities for schools, including our highly successful Futures programme which helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities.

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with, not just because of the economy but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.

Beyond just limiting priorities to what matters most, schools need to have a very clear sense of where to start and focus their energies on what the management literature calls «putting first things first».

It would authorize the state to open just twelve new charters a year, with priority given to school operators seeking to locate in low - performing districts.

School leaders recognize the need for literacy instruction to become a schoolwide priority — in all courses, not just English and the humanities.

In commenting on hopes for the future for science education in primary schools, we must hope that science is given priority, not just on an individual school agenda but also on a national agenda.

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with — not just because of the economy, but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.

In the school we just visited [Whitten Elementary School in Marianna, Arkansas], technology is one of the real priorschool we just visited [Whitten Elementary School in Marianna, Arkansas], technology is one of the real priorSchool in Marianna, Arkansas], technology is one of the real priorities.

My first priority is always to get to know people, and at a smaller school like Toorak College I've had the opportunity to not only become familiar with all the students and teachers, but after just a year or so I've managed to get to know many of the parents and wider community associated with the school as well.

In 2008, the team found that 60 % of teachers surveyed said that struggling students were a «top priority» at their schools while just 23 % said the same of «academically advanced» students — even on a question to which teachers could provide multiple answers.

NJ explained in its round 3 Race to the Top application that all curricular programs in state schools will be aligned to the Common Core by this school year and that the 70 priority schools and many of the over 150 focus schools will use the NJ Model Curriculum and assessments, which in fact are just the Common Core repackaged.

In the end, the lesson for district leaders to learn is that — if school safety is a true priority, not just a nicely worded goal — they can make their schools safer.

Teachers who received the bonus were more likely to remain teaching in a priority school compared with those just below the cutoff.

It is the priority of FCE partners to encourage parents to lead in schools and in education policy just as they are leading in their homes and in their neighborhoods.

When you're dealing with focus and priority schools, it's important to have relationships built and to know your schools, to know their school improvement plans forwards and backwards, to be able to know what types of supports are already in place and what supports we need to add to so that we're not just coming for a one - stop snapshot because, «I'm here to monitor and do a report» — no, this is real support.

The analysis also found that the KIPP school in its first year had drawn just half of its students from the Lanning Square neighborhood, despite the strictures of the model that made drawing students from that section of the city a top priority.

Just to emphasise this point further, we recently undertook research amongst Head Teachers and senior leaders within schools and Multi-Academy Trusts, to explore current concerns, priorities and objectives when it comes to workforce management.

The clarity, alignment, and cohesion created when schools commit to just one or two instructional priorities can result in powerful teaching and learning — and results for students.

What is disgraceful is the fact that the first priority after Katrina was to dismantle the public school system just to destroy the union.

We have just got to make it a priority of the principal and the school leadership and teachers.

She said a key priority will be reaching out to leaders of the nation's second largest school district who, just two days ago, publicly opposed the plan developed by the Broad Foundation.

Ensuring high school completion is not just a school or regional priority.

«The Theory of Action serves to anchor the school in its priorities, not just for students and teachers, but also anchors the leadership team in the commitments they've made to teachers.

Although just one component of the greater accountability system, school classification systems are a top priority for states.1 As states design these systems, much of their attention is focused on which indicators of school quality or student success they will use for a more holistic measure of school performance.2 According to ESSA, these new indicators may measure one or more of the following: 3

For example, one school saw a dramatic improvement in five high - priority metrics included in the culture plan, including a 59 % reduction in the amount of out - of - school suspensions between the 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14 school years, a 56 % reduction in classroom off - task / disruptive behaviors across nine grade levels, and an increase from 57.2 % to 59 % in Academic Performance Index in just one school year, with a Value Added grade of C for the first time in more than five years.

For nearly six years as a founding leader of the ASD, I have had the privilege of working alongside just such dedicated warriors: educators, school operators, district and state leaders, community members, and student support providers all helping families zoned to TN's Priority schools get the attention they deserve; to be heard above the din of competing zoning, funding and political priorities that if left unchecked can perpetuate systemic injustice.

There are many schools that sit just outside the priority school window that have been harmed in the pursuit of shoring up their staff.

I always think of it as a deep honor and a high priority for students and young adults to come to me needing quotes and stories for their school projects or just advice.

Through online study you don't need to sacrifice any of your priorities just to go to school and study.

The Thamarrurr, Territory and Australian governments agreed education was a priority and just last week there was a massive increase in the number of children attending school.