Sentences with phrase «known community schools»

Locally, the best known community schools are run by the Children's Aid Society and Harlem Children's Zone, a network of charter schools and community programs.

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«I knew I wanted to go to business school when... I experienced the strong community at Columbia as a member of the Columbia Business School Better Halves Club (while my wife attended Columbia's full - time MBA program).&school when... I experienced the strong community at Columbia as a member of the Columbia Business School Better Halves Club (while my wife attended Columbia's full - time MBA program).&School Better Halves Club (while my wife attended Columbia's full - time MBA program).»

The American people already know that beneath all the politics lies the real answer, the need for more mental health counselors in our schools and tolerance and love for those who suffer in our community.

And I know that my community, our schools and public gathering places are not made safer by any person having access to the best killing tool the Army could put in my hands.

Maduck - Rutzki is also well - known for her contribution to community organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, Campbell Collegiate Community Council, Hawrylak School Parent Group of Volunteers, Hockey Regina, Soccer Regina and Autism Resource Centre ocommunity organizations, including Habitat for Humanity, Campbell Collegiate Community Council, Hawrylak School Parent Group of Volunteers, Hockey Regina, Soccer Regina and Autism Resource Centre oCommunity Council, Hawrylak School Parent Group of Volunteers, Hockey Regina, Soccer Regina and Autism Resource Centre of Regina.

Sandy Springs is a very family - oriented community with well - known prestigious private schools and top - rated public schools.

Sandy Springs is a very family - oriented community with well - known prestigious private schools

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.

I figured at that point — when they had friends at school, a presence in our community, a life of their own beginning to emerge — that they needed to know that their life was their own.

Schools, churches and hospitals closed that were no longer profitable, leaving the communities void.

Finally, in homes, schools, and community affairs a new emphasis should be placed on patriotism, no longer as exclusive loyalty to the sovereign nation, but as devotion to country as the organized agency of articulate relationship with all mankind.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

At the beginning of the Minnesota course, Smith and Bodin ask students to identify religious agencies (synagogues, churches, hospitals, schools), places and persons that they know in their local community.

I grew up in a very predominately white religious community in the mountains of central California (Oakhurst / Coarsegold to be exact) and have managed to separate myself from almost everyone I went to high school with / knew growing up through religious happenings on facebook.

It also means that schools communities really get to know a range of vegetarian food selections which they might be less likely to if meat was still provided every day.

I know and appreciate that Fair Trade has done many worthwhile and wonderful things for coffee growing cooperative communities, including invaluable projects such as schools and clinics.

In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.

A lot of folks in the girls high school basketball community in California know about the current Harvard - Westlake team, mostly because of the prominence of the Pepperdine - signed Ruffus - Milner twins, Jayla and Jayda, who helped lift the Wolverines to the CIF Southern Section Open Division final last season before they lost 62 - 58 to Long Beach Poly.

Gabe Jennings was born inside a teacherage — a house connected to a school — in a community known as Forks of Salmon, in the wilderness of Northern California's Klamath National Forest.

Through a program known as Project Unify ®, Special Olympics assists schools in initiating Unified Sports and whole - school involvement activities, where general education and special education students create climates of inclusion, acceptance and respect on campuses and in communities.

They want to know what measures are most effective in raising consciousness in their homes, their schools, their communities.

Getting to know parents of your children's classmates and the school's surrounding community is crucial to developing a well - rounded middle - schooler.

In high school, you have community built in, you know everyone and have established friendships.

Maybe children won't benefit any less if they stay in their local communities, but when they get to the high school level and know what sport they want to concentrate on, then they should travel to national tournaments in hopes of being seen by college scouts.

Thank you for taking a moment to get to know our school community!

Let your child know that bullying is unacceptable and that there will be serious consequences at home, school, and in the community if it continues.

No matter the demographics of the community — low - income or wealthy, private or public school, ethnically diverse or homogenous — there simply isn't a consensus of what parents want from school lunch.

Good schools — private and public — also attract and keep families, while a wealth of community services allows residents to look no further than their back yard for help and fun.

I think school districts will have done a lot of work to improve their meals but their community will not know whether or not they're going backwards.

The «pink slime» controversy has touched a nerve in the school food community and underscored how little parents know about what their children eat at school, said Kate Adamick, a noted school food consultant and author.

Until the government can solve the many problems within state schools, they have no right to interfere in the home education community.

After attending Morning Garden with both my boys, Theo is now in first grade and every day I know that my family and I truly have made the best decision to believe in this school and I am incredibly grateful to be a part of this community.»

I know one thing, the school district is as rigid as can be and it might be the case that changing our school lunch issues might have to be something that is done indirectly in our community and not directly through the school district itself.

OK, so an hour ago I noticed that Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Community Facebook page had this status update: Food Revolution Community Do you know of any really good school food blogs?

Moreover, few parents knew about the policy, or if they did, couldn't imagine how to help, consequently, most school communities sat by the sidelines, tsk - tsking, and shaking their heads.

The Center is well - known for providing high - quality, multidisciplinary services using highly professional staff for their child - centered, family - focused services in client's homes, schools, clinics and other community venues.

In addition, Julyan and Cawthra Mulock, well - known anthroposophists in the Toronto community, generously lent and then gave the school a substantial sum of money.

The psychologist can let the parents know that it is not uncommon for kids with SM to be completely verbal at home or out in the community, but be painfully shut down at school, and that kids with SM respond well to effective treatment.

Now that my stepdaughter has moved into the high school realm for sports, with their coaches, we will miss getting to know other community members & kids through the park district sporting experience!

This brief describes one of the key simplifications of community eligibility: participating schools no longer collect school meal applications.

A school with outstanding food allergy awareness is willing to 1) provide accommodations in writing for your child for their specific allergies, 2) admit what they don't know and learn, 3) follow a written health care plan (provided by your doctor) that outlines the steps to take if anaphylaxis were to occur, 4) train all necessary staff on the use of epinephrine, 5) have a school nurse in the building at all times, 6) include your child in every activity possible including field trips, 7) educate the community about food allergies, 8) refuse to allow any bullying behavior regarding food allergies, 9) find ways to celebrate without food and 10) stand up to parents (and educate them) who say that food allergies are «hogwash»!

Knowing why it is that students with a food allergy need certain accommodations is important in keeping school communities from dividing over food allergy issues.

We are the one volunteering and making the communities, schools, and churches run because we know you don't have time.

A school with outstanding food allergy awareness is willing to 1) provide accommodations in writing for your child for their specific allergies, 2) admit what they don't know and learn, 3) provide a written health care plan that outlines the steps to take if anaphylaxis were to occur, 4) train all necessary staff on the use of epinephrine, 5) have a school nurse in the building at all times, 6) include your child in every activity possible including field trips, 7) educate the community about food allergies, 8) refuse to allow any bullying behavior regarding food allergies, 9) find ways to celebrate without food and 10) stand up to parents (and educate them) who say that food allergies are «hogwash»!

We all know that the hope of Rudolf Steiner, when he helped found the first Waldorf School, was that the school would become a beacon of spiritual impulses for the local community — a center of social / spiritual reSchool, was that the school would become a beacon of spiritual impulses for the local community — a center of social / spiritual reschool would become a beacon of spiritual impulses for the local community — a center of social / spiritual renewal.

Those of us who are blessed to have our children enrolled at Berkeley Rose Waldorf School already know what a special community has been created here.

It's been a while since I've hosted a giveaway and in the spirit of my recent posts and volunteering in my community, A's school, and church I'm in the giving mood and Britax has so graciously given me one of the Pinnacle 90 car seats to give to a lucky MommyB Knows Best reader.

His School Board post includes southwest Cherokee County, and that's where he raised his three sons — who all graduated from Etowah High School — and where he became known in the community for volunteering in schools and with youth sports.

«This award confirms what we in Cherokee County have known for years: Ms. Chambers is a skilled nurse, dedicated educator and outstanding administrator, who cares deeply about her community,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.