Sentences with phrase «make schools and systems»

A big challenge on this score is that there just isn't much material or training out there on how to make schools and systems work for teachers.

But I've also met scores of practitioners who have learned to navigate bureaucracy and the shoals of policy in order to make schools and systems more supportive of their work.

Rather, it's to recognize that policy can make schools and systems do things, but it can't make them do things well.

Not exact matches

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

CrisisGo was started in 2013 by three co-founders — Reynolds, an education software sales rep, Songwei Ma, a software engineer, and Jim Spicuzza, who had launched and sold a business that made content - management systems for school websites.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

The country is $ 70 billion in debt, schools are closing by the hundreds, and infrastructural services — like the overburdened electricity system — have been overlooked in order to make way for debt payments to Wall Street creditors, according to Juan Cartagena, President and General Counsel of LatinoJustice PRLDEF, a public interest law firm.

«They are struggling to support children in a school system Christy Clark tore down, struggling to support their parents at a time when Liberals have left 9 in 10 residential care facilities understaffed, and struggling to make ends meet when we have the slowest wage growth in the country and the highest cost of living.

On the other hand, I think completing the move to the metric system is probably far more important right now in making us competi.tive, not to mention increasing magnet schools, de-emphasizing sports and ensuring that only those who want and are ready for children have them.

Why do you think the «christians» are trying so blasted hard to ruin school systems here in the states by making them teach «intelligent design» and «abstinence only»?

Schooling serves to make common sense explicit where this is thought necessary, but also to correct common sense with respect to the technical beliefs and institutional practices that constitute the reigning science, criticism, and legal system of the culture.

I was too grateful for the traffic lights the «system» had installed on the corners of the busy streets my son had to navigate on his way to school, and for the school crossing guards the city government had hired to make his daily journey less dangerous, and for the fire inspectors who regularly visited his school to check for hazards, and so on.

The city's and school system's Muslim population has mushroomed to a level that is similar to the Jewish population, and it's unfair to make such a large number of Muslim students take a «sick day» on these important holidays.

Kozol's description of the corporate presence in and influence on schools makes one wonder whether the public education system in the United States has become a domestic version of NAFTA: an effective way for companies to guarantee access to a steady supply of cheap, uneducated labor.

Finally, outside the school system, technology has made a liberal education cheaper and more accessible than ever before --- witness, for example, the wild success of the Great Courses, usefully profiled by Heather Mac Donald in the City Journal.

I don't have to believe what you believe, just as you do not have to believe what I believe... all I ask is that we start allowing out children to grow up and make the decision for themselves; that religion be kept out the government and school systems and that I don't have to hear it on the street corner... if you don't want to hear us then don't let us hear you.

In the space of time available to him, of course, Mr. Clinton could offer little more than a hasty outline of this proposal, but he did manage to make clear that what he was referring to was some sort of system whereby American high school (and, as it was to turn out, also college) graduates would exchange some years of service, either as policemen, environmental workers, or offerers of some form of assistance to poor children, in exchange for the government's subsequently paying their college tuition» a kind of GI Bill for non-GIs.

The third category of systemic approaches includes all those which aim at making the emotional climate of larger face - to - face systems (such as churches, schools, industries, and social agencies) more growth - enabling.

They have also established schools and made a significant contribution to the development of the educational system, although in several countries in recent years church schools have been taken over by the state.

When he was made Dean in 1945, he sought to make the principles of the Whiteheadian system formative of educational policy itself at the Divinity School, and he hoped to make mastery of Process and Reality a foundation for theological study.

The charity also supported local partners to rebuild schools, repair damaged water systems, help communities restore their means of making a living and prepare for future disasters.

Successful efforts have been made to raise and maintain standards through the formation of the American Association of Theological Schools and its system of accreditation.

Not surprisingly, it is the least of these — mothers and fathers struggling to grow enough food for their children, or to make enough money to send them to school — who are most affected when deforestation disrupts the earth's production system.

Within the esoteric tradition of these schools, hand and finger symbolism was cultivated to an incredibly skillful and complicated system of expression which makes it possible to express through finger and hand symbols the whole content of the school's secret doctrine in one worship service.

The Department of Education is unnecessary; since 1980, it has just been an opportunity for lobbyists and bureaucrats to interfere, to invent new regulations, to make political «contributions» to further such things as unwanted textbook imposition in a school system.

Quest Food Management Systems Inc. was founded on the idea that there's more to a school lunch program than simply making sure meals include the four food groups, and President Mike McTaggart says the company adheres to those same principles today.

Outdated ideas, bad rotation, tactics, system, plays players out of position, does not make the necessary signings to strengthen the team in the transfer window, is uninspiring on his warm seat, talks media school b@llocks in press conferences and is generally aloof.

Is the coaching staff crafting a tailor made offensive scheme for that player to maximize his strengths and minimize his weaknesses while still allowing him to grow and get better at all aspects of the game, or is the staff trying to squeeze that player into an already developed system expecting him to make mistakes in that system in order to learn and master that system (the, this is what we run, so this is what you will run, you mess up, you learn from it, we ain't changing it school of thought)?

Our next objective was to make sure that every game in this system involved a prominent and relevant school.

The organization and competitiveness of Catholic grammar school basketball gave the WCAL a ready - made farm system.

Beth Messersmith: So we think that Smart Start and early learning, the investments that we make in early childhood, for every dollar invested economists say that there is an $ 8 to $ 12 return on investment because it makes such a tremendous difference in terms of long - term wages, success in school, keeping people out of the criminal justice system.

The US public school system is unique in its bottom - up grassroots style of policy and change making.

Some school systems in the U.S. have made health-wise changes without sacrificing cost - effectiveness, so it can be done... but much thought and care must be exercised.

And we don't right now have a system for helping kids who arrive in the school system stressed out with all of the effects that that has on their ability to make it through the day, so we're not using the right kind of tools to help them.

Our kids have a reward system that they use in their classrooms at school that seems to work great so the hubby suggested that I make one similar so I designed and cut one using my Cricut Explore.

And when the rest of us pack our kids lunch and opt out of the school meal system, we absolve ourselves of responsibility to make sure every kid in DC gets great foAnd when the rest of us pack our kids lunch and opt out of the school meal system, we absolve ourselves of responsibility to make sure every kid in DC gets great foand opt out of the school meal system, we absolve ourselves of responsibility to make sure every kid in DC gets great food.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

and we should make sure schools have the funds necessary to implement a system where everyone checks out the same way.

And the transfer assurance from both UC and Cal State schools makes the future so much more certain for kids who work their through the systAnd the transfer assurance from both UC and Cal State schools makes the future so much more certain for kids who work their through the systand Cal State schools makes the future so much more certain for kids who work their through the system.

This is what my mother did when I was in Tenth Grade, as a result of her doing that and making the school system put me in a different school where I was safer, I went from being, almost a high school dropout, to being the first person in my family to graduate from college.

Ask Tough whether we'd have to reconfigure our school systems and teach «good character» to make his theories a reality, or simply add to traditional methods of teaching, and he has to think about it for a moment.

I love that we can make that choice and I also love that we have a formal school system (one which I work in) that is there and available for everyone who can't make the choice you have be it financial, lack of interest or knowledge or whatever.

We are educating young people to make sure they understand that high standards are not the problem — school cafeterias where no cooking takes place, the power of processed food industries, and lack of control over our food systems are the real problems.

The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteSchool Food Alliance, a coalition that includes the school systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteschool systems of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami - Dade, Dallas and Orlando, has commissioned a school lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost afteschool lunch dish that is made from recycled newsprint and can be turned into compost after use.

I think our Chicago schools were always experimenting with new food making systems and we were the guinea pigs.

«It's all about making radical changes to the school meals system and challenging the junk food culture by showing school they can serve fresh nutrition meals that kids enjoy eating.»

In settling the D.C. lawsuit, Chartwells agreed to make $ 14 million in credits and payments to the school system and committed to provide $ 5 million in philanthropic support for the schools, including $ 4 million to the D.C. Public Education Fund for «innovative programs» and $ 1 million to several nonprofit organizations that promote literacy and provide mentors, college scholarships and academic enrichment.

Among Paladino's gun - related initiatives are: Repeal of the Assault Weapons Ban, elimination of the Combined Ballistic Identification System (CoBIS) and a push for passage of legislation to make it possible for to teach gun avoidance techniques to school children with the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program.

Richard is the right person to lead our school system forward as we build on the progress we've made over the past four years and make our vision of equity and excellence for every child a reality.»