Sentences with phrase «learned about schooling over»

Indeed, everything we've learned about schooling over the last decade and half suggests the import of individual teachers.

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What it's about: A musical about a couple of teens falling in love over summer break and then learning they go to the same high school.

School's from all over Merseyside came to Anfield to learn about Safer Internet Day.

I look back at all of the conflicts we had with schools over the years (things like treating our children respectfully, struggling to provide healthy food choices, uhg) and I am ashamed to admit that my fear and ignorance about HS allowed me to justify sending my children off everyday to deal with people and situations that were not positive learning experiences for them, but often humiliating or dis - empowering.

PT: One of the ones I'm most excited about is Expeditionary Learning Schools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pSchools [now known as EL Education]-- about 150 schools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools spread out over the country in both public and charter schools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in pschools, some with well - off kids, some with kids in poverty.

What I've learned over a period of months photographing school meals, blogging about them and traveling around the country investigating the school meals program is that while the movement for healthier school food has clearly identified where cafeteria meals go wrong, it has failed to articulate a clear message about what a healthy school meal should look like and how it's to be paid for.

You can keep learning about home schooling over the years, as you do it.

Whole Foods Guy [while handing over the sugary drinks]: Well, maybe you'll be lucky enough to get one in your school, and then you can start learning about eating healthy!

If you'd like to learn more, stop by the ABC's of Nature homepage over at School Time Snippets to read all about Kristina's vision for the series and check out where all the letters can be found.

-LSB-...] Preschoolers by Mom Inspired Life 10 Ways to Play and Learn with Sand by Still Playing School 10 Ways to Learn About Colors with Your Preschooler from Life Over C's 10 Fun Math Activities to Keep Your Preschooler Learning all Summerby The -LSB-...]

The success in reaching over 9000 pupils last year is thanks, in large part, to the many partners across the UK who have helped us by showing schools how to use the inspiring model of astronaut fitness and health to change children's activity levels and diet through learning about the science behind it.»

The school has also not been able to raise the standard of teaching and learning over a number of years, which has left up to about 80 percent of second and third - year students unable to properly...

Through the successful Let's Grow programme Morrisons has given away more than # 18.5 million worth of equipment to over 26,500 schools, so that 5 million children up and down the UK now have access to Let's Grow gardening and cooking equipment, meaning half of the UK's children can learn about where real food comes from.

Under the Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials, about 10,000 school supplies have been distributed and over 30,000 teachers trained in ICT.

By the way, over the next several years, I predict we'll learn these lessons about dysfunctional measurement all over again from the craze over testing in our public schools.

By 1985, about 300 000 illiterate adults from all over the country, many of whom had never attended primary school, had learnt how to read, write and use numbers.

Over 60 young researchers from all over the world will learn more about this and other topics as they gather in outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, to participate in this week's summer school Graphene Study, arranged by Graphene FlagsOver 60 young researchers from all over the world will learn more about this and other topics as they gather in outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, to participate in this week's summer school Graphene Study, arranged by Graphene Flagsover the world will learn more about this and other topics as they gather in outside of Gothenburg, Sweden, to participate in this week's summer school Graphene Study, arranged by Graphene Flagship.

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

One highlight is the short Cours du Soir (Evening Classes), a comedy about a surreal school for well dressed businessmen learning the fine art of tripping over steps, walking into walls, and smoking a cigarette like an amateur, written by and starring Tati.

Over the course of two months, I visited each of the selected schools to learn about the program in place — why it was initiated and by whom; what roles faculty, staff, and parents play; what the key program elements are; what the results are and how they are measured; and what obstacles the program faces.

Over the last few months, the school has hosted visits by several experts who have spoken to staff and students about the importance of STEM learning.

Over ten years work with schools, colleges and the general public we have developed a set of approaches that inform our teaching and learning about sustainability.

Working with students over multiple years can provide teachers with unique understandings about learning, growth, and the potential of school.

«There is certainly a lot more to learn about time in schools, but I think the time to debate whether or not we should be trying this is definitely over,» Gabrieli said.

Over the past several years, I have presented at several meetings of California's Santa Clara County superintendents about blended learning and its potential to create schools that can personalize learning for each student to help each succeed.

Parents were sent an average of 30 texts over one school year, with content ranging from dates of upcoming tests and warnings about missed homework, to conversation prompts on what their child had learnt that day.

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

An active volunteer in Brookline Public Schools and a nurse with over 25 years of experience, Mowschenson, 48, enrolled in the Ed School's Education Policy and Management Program on a quest to learn more about education policy.

About the author With over 20 years» experience in senior management with a major educational tour operator, Ian Pearson is now the General Manager of the School Travel Forum, an independent not - for - profit organisation dedicated to promoting good practice in school travel, and a trustee of the Council for Learning Outside the ClasSchool Travel Forum, an independent not - for - profit organisation dedicated to promoting good practice in school travel, and a trustee of the Council for Learning Outside the Classchool travel, and a trustee of the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom.

«Over the past year, when I've been talking with people about the problems in schools, the answer is always «distance learning,»» says Rachel Tompkins, president of the Rural School and Community Trust, which advocates for online learning.

Over a brown - bag lunch with students and teachers, I was invited to talk about happiness: how we can learn to take charge of our happiness, and how to increase it to be more productive and engaged both in school and in life.

That prepping has taken her all over the world: working as a research assistant for an author in Venice, Italy; getting a master's degree in philosophy at the University of Cambridge in England; helping on an archeological dig of Ancient Tiberias in Israel, where she unearthed a stack of ninth - century vases; working in Iraq as a public diplomacy officer and conducting research for generals; raising money for schools in Afghanistan for Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (R - OH); traveling to China to learn about how children of migrant workers access education; learning Arabic.

Much less common is information about the progress students have made in their learning over a semester or school year — information that better indicates the amount of learning that has occurred.

Pupils watching will witness a live link - up between schools in India, Canada and the UK, and learn about Her Majesty's special relationship with Commonwealth countries the world over.

Job embedded professional learning honors adult experience, involves educators in decisions about their learning, is relevant and can be applied to immediate issues directly related to educators practice, occurs over time, engages educators in dialogue and reflection, provides educators the practice and feedback necessary to implement knowledge and skills, and occurs in a healthy school culture characterized by trust, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Diane Ravitch makes many points in her article «The Myth of Charter Schools» [NYR, November 11, 2010]-- some we agree with, some we disagree with, namely ill - informed conclusions about what we can learn from Locke High School, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inSchool, a high school of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inschool of more than three thousand students in Los Angeles that Green Dot took over from the school district inschool district in 2008.

Yet if I've learned anything over the course of the past year, it's this: Looking at Catholic schools only through the lens of what we have come to expect from traditional or charter school models misses much about what makes them special.

The campaign kicked off with the release of a letter signed by over 160 Black education and community leaders calling on the NAACP to reconsider and to learn more about the benefits of charter schools.

Over the past 15 years, however, we've learned a lot about how community schools operate, and research has pointed to some fundamental practices and principles that all effective community schools have in common and that get results when they are well - implemented.

Over the course of the programme they will design, implement and evaluate a «whole - school» improvement strategy that creates a coordinated approach to learning about careers and employability.

Interested in learning more about how Edmentum's online solutions can provide flexible summer school options to keep students engaged over the break?

Add in the tens of million spent by local school districts on computers and internet expansion so that students can take the on - line tests, along with the substitute teachers who were brought in so that full - time teachers could be pulled out to «learn about the Common Core,» and well over $ 150 — $ 200 million dollars (or more) in public funds have been diverted from instruction to the Common Core and Common Core testing disaster.

Leadership and the transformation of failing schools Armed with what we've learned about the potential for leadership over the last decade, we have cause for optimism that the education community's long neglect of leadership is at last coming to an end.

In response to public outcry over its call for a charter moratorium, the NAACP is on a listening tour across the country to learn more about charter schools.

Over the last decade, we have learned much about what effective school leadership looks like.

Annually, over 100,000 people learn about and apply to great schools through the free resources provided by GreatPhillySchools

As we learn more in the next few months about the review and approval of these ESSA state accountability plans, it's important to understand that districts and schools will see the impact of ESSA gradually over the next few years, as states begin to track the accountability data and report on school success.

The museum dispatches artists who spend one day a week at schools over a 10 - or 20 - week period helping students and teachers learn about and make art.