Sentences with phrase «making role of schools»

But his insights are critical for K — 12 education, particularly those of us concerned with civic education and the citizen - making role of schools.

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As business school professors, many of whom lack venture experience, studied how VCs made decisions, they observed the apparently central role of the business plan and proceeded to make the plan [not the planning], the central framework for teaching entrepreneurship.

[4] When theological schooling is defined as preparation for filling the functions that make up the role of professional church leadership, graduates turn out to be incapable of nurturing and guiding congregations as worshiping communities, the health of whose common life depends on the quality of the theology that is done there.

The words, echoing the former US Vice President Al Gore's somewhat optimistic pronouncement on the global warming discussion, are from a speech Cameron made on 9 September on the role of schools in «mending our broken society».

The Godless Monster is right, people try and influence, control, manipulate, ect in every area of life when they have a position of authority, thats human nature, or the sin nature of man if you like.Because the church has a lot of organisation, its a hot bed of oppitunity for people with ideas or assperations to lead or control to position themselves, and once there become protective of their role, it gives them a voice.You will find them in schools, governments, offices, everywhere.IT really makes no difference if it christian or athiest place, its people being people

I cant speak to every poster but perhaps every milestone passed must be celebrated as accomplishment of building a legacy, having a time off without a complete separation, perhaps switching the roles a bit, going back to school, schedule workout together, basicly to make effort to add few dimensions as an andividual and as a couple.

Producer of: The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer (PBS) and author of: Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (Harper Collins) is well known as the «Mother of Youth Sports Safety» for her tireless advocacy and solutions based work in safeguarding young athletes.

Brooke de Lench is Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Founder and Publisher of MomsTeam.com, blogger and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and the Producer / Director / Creator of the new PBS concussion documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Of course, your role is important so make sure you're taking all of the right steps to make your children successful in schooOf course, your role is important so make sure you're taking all of the right steps to make your children successful in schooof the right steps to make your children successful in school.

I would also like to think that MomsTEAM's continued efforts to educate parents about concussion risk management and our PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer,» which aired on over 300 stations last fall and which will be broadcast on almost all 387 stations in the fall of 2014, has played a role in increasing awareness.

Brooke de Lench is Executive Director of MomsTEAM Youth Sports Safety Institute, Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, Producer / Director of The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, and author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins).

Brooke de Lench is Founding Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute, Inc., Director of Smart Teams Play Safe, Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and Producer / Director / Creator of the PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»

Brooke de Lench is Executive Director of MomsTEAM Institute of Youth Sports Safety, Founder and Publisher of MomsTEAM.com, author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins), and Producer / Director / Creator of the PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer.»

They make it clear that unless the preparation provided to teachers and the consultations we provide to parents are grounded in some form of definitional consensus, our field will undermine its ability to play a greater role at the table of school reform and policy development.

So rather than getting into «Nanny State» debates about the proper role of government, my focus on this blog will always be purely pragmatic; if the school lunch program is here to stay, let's talk about how to make it better.

Donze Black explained the project's role of providing nonpartisan analysis and evidence - based recommendations to make sure that all foods and beverages sold in U.S. schools are safe and healthful.

In addition to founding MomsTEAM.com, de Lench is the author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports and producer of the documentary The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, a concussion solutions documentary that will air onPBS stations across the country this fall.

Here's a guide to the many types of schools to choose from.Education plays a vital role in your child's development, so choosing the right school is one of the most important decisions you can make.

And I think I am mostly able to accept that because I made the decision after BC was born and it was clear we had quite a journey ahead of us, that I would not work full time and his therapy / care would be my full time role - at least until he gets to school on 2011.

Schools have a critical role in the issue of gender equality and making sure that all children and young people have the best life chances, a fringe meeting organised by the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK has heard.

This, she said, had made Ghana a role model for many African countries in the provision of free education and free compulsory universal basic education and free community day Senior High Schools had increased access to education for many vulnerable groups.

«I can't thank you all enough,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew told delegates at the Dec. 7 Delegate Assembly, of their role leading up to the state Legislature's Dec. 6 agreement that will make the state tax system more progressive and earmark $ 800 million of the new revenue for schools statewide.

The proposals would also strengthen the role of School Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of princSchool Leadership Teams, composed of both teachers and administrators, by making school budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of princschool budgets more transparent and by increasing staff voice in the selection of principals.

The President made this known on Saturday, May 12, when he delivered a speech at the London Business School's Africa Summit, on the theme «Scaling for Impact — the Important role of Industrialisation.»

Mr. Addisson was one of many speakers honoring those who have made a tangible difference in the lives of our city school children as mentors, friends, advocates, and role models.

New York State United Teachers, which filed the petition on behalf of five Buffalo teachers, made the same argument, but also argued that Paladino's comments violated his duty as a board member and role model for the school community.

They argued that all of these make her «extraordinarily well qualified for her next role as Chancellor of New York City Public Schools.»

New molecular imaging technologies can make it easier to diagnose, monitor, and treat cancers while potentially saving patients from undergoing therapies that are likely to be ineffective and playing a role in minimizing side effects, according to experts from the Abramson Cancer Center and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Researchers at UNC School of Medicine have pinpointed a viral protein that plays a major role in making respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) the most common cause of hospitalization in children under one year of age.

Rie Davies said: «This study provides support for prior research by Kirschner and Tomasello (2010) 1 and also highlights the need for schools and parents to understand the important role music making has in children's lives in terms of social bonding and helping behaviours.

«If schools play an important role in residential segregation, then breaking that link and making it less important and sort of alleviating parents» concerns about where their kids are going to attend school would reduce income segregation,» Owens said.

The physicians and researchers who make up the faculty of Boston Children's Hospital hold appointments at Harvard Medical School and play a vital role in the Harvard biomedical research community.

Working with George L. King, M.D., Joslin's Chief Scientific Officer and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Aiello made a string of major discoveries about the role of VEGF in the eye.

A study reported in the Archives of Family Medicine found that kids who regularly sit down with their families for an evening meal make wiser food choices, eat more vegetables, and get more nutrients than those who do not.2 For older children, the American Psychological Association found that family mealtime plays an important role in helping teens deal with the pressures of adolescence, such as motivation for school, peer relationships, depression, and making better choices with drugs and alcohol.

By age 16, he dropped out of high school to take up acting full - time, relocating to Manhattan to make his off - Broadway debut in 1972 in Rain, and a minor role in the touring company of the hit musical Grease followed.In 1975, Travolta was cast in an ABC sitcom entitled Welcome Back, Kotter.

Davis, meanwhile, plays Nona, one of the school's few remaining conscientious members of staff, a ground - down teacher who still wants to take pride in her role as an educator, which in the reductive world of this movie makes her the teaching drama equivalent of the «Good German» in an old - school war movie.

After making her film debut in That Night (1992), Heigl balanced movie work with high school, playing a small role in Steven Soderbergh's Depression - era drama King of the Hill (1993), starring as Gérard Depardieu's difficult daughter in My Father the Hero (1994), and Steven Seagal's niece in the action sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995).

In 2006 Huston took on a small role in Terry Zwigoff's Art School Confidential, and appeared in Martha Coolidge's Material Girls opposite Hilary and Haylie Duff.In 2008, Huston joined the cast of the made - for - HBO period film Iron Jawed Angels, in which she played an activist opposed to the National Woman's Party, which encouraged rewarding American women with the right to vote and hold citizenship.

At 24 years old when this movie was made, she almost looked the part of a high school senior, but I found she played the role with the poise and confidence of a much older person, and I'd sooner believe she was a teacher at the school than one of the students.

Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.

Though Winona Ryder made a bit of a splash in 1988 in Beetlejuice, in which she's hilariously deadpan (befitting a character who starts out more interested in death than life), she truly became a star when she landed the lead role in one of the most demented high - school comedies ever made.

Trust me when I say that this is the kind of role tailor - made for those lining Franco up in their crosshairs, ready to snipe criticism at him left and right for exhibiting a school notebook's worth of despicable character traits.

The standup on making fun of Australians, his school of comedy, and why the Conchords» Bret and Jemaine are his role models

Often it is the role of the finance director to provide school leaders with all the necessary financial information before an informed decision can be made.

There should also be opportunities to create a variety of differentiated roles for teachers — so that they can pursue their strengths and don't have to be frustrated by their weaknesses (much as happens in other fields)-- as well as increasingly creative opportunities for team teaching, both in a school environment as well as virtually across geographies, to make teaching far less isolating and provide far more opportunities for recognition among one's peers.

The report makes four recommendations: Develop a new generation of school leaders by supporting career progression; Explore expanding the pool of candidates for non-teaching executive roles to those outside the profession; Support leaders more effectively and provide clear career pathways; Build positive perceptions of school leadership to encourage more teachers to step - up.

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Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

The survey found schools were willing to be flexible in order to recruit the right staff: 82 per cent of respondents said they had restructured roles in order to make sure they filled a post.