Sentences with phrase «major challenges in our school»

I see two major challenges in our school this year.

Of course, a major challenge in schools is time.

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Established in 2009, the Stanford University / San Francisco Unified School District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse distSchool District Partnership brings the most advanced education research to bear on major challenges identified by the school leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse distschool leaders in one of California's largest and most diverse districts.

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.

He noted the major challenge of the association was placement of its members to schools and institutions in the country and appealed to government to absorb their graduating members to address the teacher deficit in the country.

As we have made our transition from PhD student in the lab back to being medical students, we have had to start considering one of the major challenges faced by almost all couples in medical school: the residency match.

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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Mayor Anthony D. Galluccio, in thanking President Neil Rudenstine and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education challSchool of Education, said, «this comprehensive summer school program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education challschool program marks a substantive step by a major university to work in a direct way to address Cambridge's public education challenges.

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.

Secretary of Education William J. Bennett stepped up his crusade against the National Education Association in a major speech here last week, challenging Presidential candidates to «stand firm» against the union and support accountability in the schools.

«We know that one of the major challenges in low - achieving schools is that too many of these schools employ rookie staff, many of whom are teaching on»em ergency» licenses and certificates.

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).

Although the claim of «unfunded mandate» has been asserted almost since the day NCLB was signed into law, School District of the City of Pontiac et al. v. Spellings constitutes the first major legal challenge to the historic education law to be filed in federal court.

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

I visited a couple of successful Cleveland public schools during my visit — successful in educating poor children — and while principals in each of those schools said they could use more money, neither said that money — or their students» lack of it — was their major challenge.

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.

«We recognise there could be logistical challenges faced by schools in accommodating more part - time teachers, but finding a way to overcome these difficulties may provide a major boost to teacher supply.»

«While principals benefit from the extensive management and leadership development routinely available within the business sector, business leaders are given the opportunity to gain valuable insight into the immense complexity, ambiguity and challenges faced by school principals and the social issues that drive some of the major dysfunction in South African society.»

Supply agencies have a major role to play in the development of a flexible workforce that can respond to the challenges that schools are facing.

Supply agencies have a major role to play in the development of a flexible workforce that can respond to the challenges that schools are facing, such as teacher shortages and increasing pupil numbers.

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 professioIn 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 professioin the profession.

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.

Fifty years after the March on Washington, a major challenge facing California and the West in general is increasing segregation of black and Latino students, reviving a debate that Brown v Board of Education was supposed to resolve: whether it is possible to have «separate but equal» schools.

The Institute equips school leaders with solutions to the major challenges they face in improving the performance of English language learners in their schools.

In a recent book on school district leadership (Duke, 2010a), I identified demographic change as one of the major challenges facing contemporary education leaders.

The Urban Hope Act is just a small piece of what the Christie administration seeks to accomplish in Camden, with the work on the existing district schools a major challenge given the state's track record.

Educational and political leaders understand this challenge, and a major effort is underway to raise the standard of teaching and learning in American schools.

This is a «major challenge» in areas with scarce space such as London, where free school sites can sometimes cost in excess of # 30 million.

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

Themes from students were consistent — the majority of students cited the lack of personalized attention, bullying, family or home challenges, mental or emotional struggles, and / or work obligations as major detractors from their ability to learn in traditional school settings.

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.

A major reason is that Catholic schools in particular are uniquely positioned to play a compensating role in addressing the serious challenges faced by those who grow up poor.

One of the major challenges in making Linked Learning Pathways accessible to all students is adapting the approach to small geographically isolated high schools, particularly in rural areas.

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.

Legal challenges continue to be a major obstacle in the charter school movement.

Since then, he has worked as a Challenge Adviser across South Wales challenging schools to improve performance, and is currently part of the Welsh Government team accrediting HEIs as part of the major reforms in ITE in Wales.

Officials in rural, suburban and urban areas in case study states cited various reasons why restaffing presented major challenges in all types of low - performing schools.

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.

At a time when religious and cultural differences are at the heart of major challenges at home and abroad, it is imperative that schools equip students to live in a world of diverse religions and beliefs.

Research published today contradicts previous findings which attributed the London Challenge as a major factor in the successful turnaround of schools in the capital.