Sentences with phrase «major challenge for schools»

Reducing disruptive behavior in classrooms remains a major challenge for schools.

The winter season is a major challenge for schools when it comes to health and safety.

Dr Meenakshi Parameshwaran, a researcher for LKMco and Education Datalab, writing for Schools Week today, said the figures show recruiting a top quality workforce is still a major challenge for school leaders.

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The economy has had a huge impact on many school food service departments — this will be a major challenge for me and many of my colleagues.

In middle and high school, these issues can emerge as major challenges — particularly for a child who is coping with a disorder such as ADHD, which has an impact on her behaviors, thought processes, and social skills.

«We definitely need a much fairer tax code in New York state because right now the major challenge in New York state is how we're going to pay for our schools, our water systems, our infrastructure and just basic services the state is providing,» said Karen Scharff, the executive director of Citizen Action and a state co-chair of the Working Families Party.

Speaking at the Nigerian Army Resource Centre's Seminar with the theme «Repositioning Nigerian Army Command School for Quality Education in the 21st Century in Abuja on Thursday, Buratai who was represented by Major General Lincon Ogunewe, Chief of Policy and Plans, Army HQ, noted that children who were deprived of quality education would be ill - equipped to face the challenges of life while other nations preoccupied themselves in preparation for the 22 century.

But despite the city's efforts, such as providing free breakfast for students and placing restrictions on snacks sold in school vending machines, childhood obesity continues to pose a major challenge.

This gap and the challenges it poses for American consumers, policymakers, and business leaders was a major impetus for healthcare reform in the U.S., including delivery reforms implemented as part of the Affordable Care Act,» said senior author Ashish Jha, K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard Chan School and Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI).

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The last major challenge has been that many of our school structures don't fit within the existing framework for things like online gradebooks, student scheduling, traditional grade levels (i.e. freshman, sophomore, junior, senior), calculating credits, etc..

For schools and colleges, the growth in the use of plastic drinks bottles, cans or cups and their associated litter problems pose a major challenge.

Today's advocates for better schools are insurgent groups that challenge the establishment by encouraging parents to engage actively in K - 12 reform efforts, demanding major changes in school choice and teacher policies, as well as school governance.

Increasing numbers of school age children with allergic disease is presenting schools with a major challenge around how to make school life for pupils with allergic disease as safe as possible.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

The Windmill School will offer places for children and young people whose autism is the major barrier to their learning and would find the busy environments of both mainstream and generic special schools too challenging.»

A major shift this year was moving the challenge from after school into the regular school day for the eight weeks of structured team meetings and design thinking sessions led by outside experts.

A major challenge for all urban school leaders is improving student learning — especially in the context of the achievement gap.

The GOP's gains in the Senate and the House of Representatives could pave the way for some sharply contested education proposals, such as an expansion of private school vouchers, and discourage major legislative challenges to the No Child Left Behind Act.

In a challenging period for the education built environment industry, the sixth Building Schools Exhibition and Conference (BSEC) at London's ExCeL proved successful and a major destination for education and industry leaders, attracting delegations and decision makers from across the globe, with 49 per cent at director level and above.

But the School Workforce Census for last year shows that recruiting and retaining a top quality workforce is still a major challenge

She added: «Taken together, the latest statistics show recruiting and retaining a top quality workforce is still a major challenge for many school leaders.»

Taken together, the latest statistics show recruiting and retaining a top quality workforce is still a major challenge for many school leaders.

In a major blow to the Department for Education's workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not engaged with the government's flagship «workload challenge» programme at all, and that only # 91,000 has been spent on programmes to support workload or pupil behaviour — even though these were flagged as key issues to keep teachers in the profession.

Teacher shortages pose a major challenge for state policy makers, district leaders, and school leaders.

Further, all of these strategies can easily be replicated, and while they were created for a particular set of at - risk students, they can be used in any school, whether students are dealing with major trauma or the kinds of everyday challenges that all kids face.

It has left the community sharply divided between supporters of charter schools as a better option for students and charter opponents, who see the plan as a major threat for its potential to drain students and resources from an already financially - challenged district of more than 600,000 students.

Clearly finding a site for the Trinity Academy proved a major challenge, and free school locations remains a hot topic.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6, 2014 — Educators in at least four major cities across the United States will compete to win funds to redesign or build new schools that personalize instruction for their students through a $ 2.4 million grant to the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC), The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation announced today.

WHEREAS, a major challenge for the neighborhood Community School model has been implementation and the availability of resources to implement the elements demonstrated in the research to improve student and school suSchool model has been implementation and the availability of resources to implement the elements demonstrated in the research to improve student and school suschool success.

Mayors» Report Card on Education Early in 2014, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings approached the Bush Institute with a unique, challenging idea: Create a scorecard for mayors to use in evaluating their cities» major school district.

Research has shown above - average effects for leaders who believe their major role is to evaluate their impact, who get everyone in the school working together to understand and evaluate their impact, who learn in an environment that privileges high - impact teaching and learning, who are explicit with teachers and students about what success looks like, and who set appropriate levels of challenge and never retreat to just «do your best.»

Her employer, Bright Star Schools, reviewed the results, crafted a proposal, and on Friday won a $ 250,000 grant to improve teacher retention, which is a major problem in education and can be especially challenging for charter sSchools, reviewed the results, crafted a proposal, and on Friday won a $ 250,000 grant to improve teacher retention, which is a major problem in education and can be especially challenging for charter schoolsschools.

The teacher shortage will continue to be a major challenge for Oakland's public schools.

Major projects of the ACER Foundation include the School Readiness Initiative for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and the Australian STEM Video Games Challenge.

Although parental engagement / involvement continues to be a major challenge for many schools across the U.S., the fact is that there are many parents who are extremely well - intentioned, but simply at a loss for what to do to facilitate the educational process while their children are at home.

A few of the major challenges for district and school leaders aiming to improve teaching and learning in their organizations are to identify which elements or conditions in schools and classrooms have a significant effect on student learning; to figure out which of those elements or conditions are relatively accessible to their intervention (directly or indirectly) and finally to determine what are the most productive forms for those interventions to take.

While recognizing that public education continues to face major challenges and problems that must be addressed, Representative Ziobron has become an advocate for parents who wish to opt their children out of the Common Core tests and for policies that support, not undermine, the role of parents, teachers, and local citizens in how their local schools should be run.

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Academic Advisor — Duties & Responsibilities Recruit, train, direct, and review academic advisors and support staff ensuring effective operations Advise students in the selection of majors, minors, concentrations, and basic course load Utilize education and experience to provide students with career and personal counseling Assist students in the initiation and completion of the transfer process Responsible for the completion and coordination of all relevant paperwork Provide support to all academic departments, chairpersons, faculty, and junior advisors Coordinate School of Business Convocation and Graduation ceremonies Organize and conduct academic tutorials, workshops, and faculty presentations Design and implement Probation Program to address academic and social needs of at risk students Set academic goals, monitor progress, and provide steady encouragement and guidance Create and author departmental newsletters detailing important news and upcoming events Organize social events for students to build community and encourage healthy relationships Perform crisis intervention management for students facing personal challenges Study university literature to become an expert on all academic regulations and policies Oversee department budgets ensuring cost effective daily operations Build and strengthen professional relationships with colleagues, students, and community leaders Represent university with poise, integrity, and positivity

The class had already earned a reputation for being one of the more difficult ones in a school that considers itself the last stop for young people who have spent the majority of their student careers majoring in «Disruptive» and minoring in «Challenging.»

As reflected in the results described above, the major challenge facing private schools is how to foster a culture of achievement in a developmentally appropriate fashion, with acceptable levels of stress, strong adaptive coping abilities, and access to social and emotional resources and treatment services for students when needed.

Major projects include the School Readiness Initiative for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children, a national joint project being developed by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (SNAICC), and the ACER Foundation pilot of the STEM Video Game Challenge in Australia.

If they're very attached to their neighborhood, including the area's retail, schools, and, perhaps, proximity to major thoroughfares, it may be worthwhile for your clients to «build their way out of their home or site's challenges — and stay put,» says Dickinson.