Sentences with phrase «making schools a place»

Co-sponsored by JOFF and Food Day, the initiative aims to make schools the place for children to learn about food, where it comes from and how it affects their bodies.

A generation of school reforms has aimed at making school a place that youngsters should want to be.

For the rest of us, we need to forget Renaissance art and reality TV for a second so we can redouble our efforts to help students acclimate to life at school; tap into each of these children and make a connection strong enough that each one will want to play by the rules; and make school a place worth showing up to every morning.

«Among them: partnerships between school districts and colleges to help communities grow their own teachers and align recruitment to high - need fields; competitive salaries as well as incentives, financial and otherwise, for hard - to - fill positions; the creation of strong mentoring programs and professional learning communities that make schools places teachers want to be; and effective leadership at the school level to maintain a supportive, collaborative school environment.»

Read an excerpt from Steele's 2007 Jacqueline P. Danzberger Memorial Lecture, «Making School a Place Where Everyone Succeeds: Belonging is Necessary for Learning.»

We are on a journey with many partners to make our schools places where all students articulate dreams and aspirations, believe in their ability to achieve, and become drivers of their own learning.

We must first make schools a place where people want to be.

More importantly, are we making schools a place where children feel empowered and protected?

The administration worked to make the school a place families wanted to be, and they had the power to hire and fire staff at their discretion, most of whom came as «subject matter experts» regardless of certification.

These include peer leadership opportunities, ways to honor student voice, and other methods of making schools a place where students want to be!

Through character education, «students learn how to be their best selves and how to do their best work while making school a place where students and educators feel comfortable and able to work.»

The article, by Jonathan Mahler, was about the heroic efforts of Ramón González, the principal of M.S. 223, a public middle school in the South Bronx, to make his school a place where his young charges can get a decent education and thus, perhaps, a better life.

Increasingly educational reformers recognize the critical role teachers play in increasing outcomes for students, and in making schools places where individual and collective growth is valued.

My job is to state the facts to my team and to be able to respond in the most responsible way without making the school a place where kids only come to be drilled on tests.»

But if you make the school a place where everyone wants to be, parents want to be there too.

So it's incumbent upon us to do everything we can to make the schools a place where everybody wants to be.

Make your school a place of emotional wellbeing and support by improving mental health provision for both pupils and staff.

We finally have an opportunity for transparency and an opening to make every school a place that inspires students» curiosity, imagination, and desire to learn.

I enjoy listening to them and finding ways to make their school a place where learning is engaging and relevant to their needs.

These include peer leadership opportunities, ways to honor student voice, and other methods of making schools a place where students want to be!

Not exact matches

It will dramatically improve the culture of the school and make Stanford — already the most selective B - school in the U.S. — an even more desirable place to earn an MBA.

Not only does the ability to capture and recall knowledge make it more likely that a child will excel at school, but having rich, vivid memories of everyday experiences also help children make sense of the world and their place in it, enriching their experiences and building essential life skills.

«Or take the disproportionate amount of unpaid family care - taking duties women do, like making sure kids get to school happy and healthy in the first place.»

Investments last longer «Places like San Francisco, New York, and Boston are great cities, but there are issues like cost of living and schools that can make it hard for entrepreneurs and their employees,» Case says.

These new - school companies don't just donate, they've developed a business model that inherently makes the world a better place and it's not all kumbaya and granola.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

Located in downtown Toronto and part of the University of Toronto, one of the world's top teaching and research universities, the Rotman School is an ideal place to work, research and make an impact in business education.

As high school football teams around the state are taking part in early spring practice, the University Interscholastic League is placing a new requirement on coaches to make the game safer.

And I know that my community, our schools and public gathering places are not made safer by any person having access to the best killing tool the Army could put in my hands.

If there are certain areas where that can't be done, we need to make sure those students are given a place that is the least restrictive environment for their ability and they can thrive,» said Broward School Board chair Nora Rupert.

We have christians fighting to make public school give them time to pray and have church clubs, but when jews or muslims do it in a public place it requires a call to the FBI and they claim the jews are being insensitive?

The school is a place where people develop there opinions and become who they are... The situations in schools are already strained, adding the church to it would make it so much worse.

If you can't name him right away, check Google... for reliability use Google to find out a report made public by the Johns Hopkins Universiity Blloomberg School of Public Health about the estimated figures on civilian casualties during the Iraq invasion... Just so you be aware that we too in America have our «Hitler», so publicly paraded in San Francisco, Rome and other places in the world during the height of the Iraqi invasion and make your own conclusion...

However, I have had four long - term secular jobs (three in schools, one in a publishing house), and in three of the four places of employment there were control freaks in high places, and they made the atmosphere unpleasant.

When she is invited to speak at places like Princeton and people try to argue that it makes little difference that Camden spends $ 4,000 and Princeton $ 8,000 per student, she retorts, «If you don't believe that money makes a difference, let your children go to school in Camden.

We offer merely an interim report on our process and program with the hope of making a small contribution to a conversation that is taking place in many schools.

So how does your school of thought apply regarding the fewest of explanations and fewest assumptions apply when it comes to God who does not want to be made readily known in the first place, but wants us to develop faith in that God instead.Your school of thought could apply well if the notion of God was a God who either wants to be made known or doesn't care whether or not to be made known, but your school of thought doesn't apply at all if said God does not want to be made known but would rather have humanity develop faith, which is not a perfect knowledge.

Regulation 7 (4) covers detriment to a pupil such that it is not permissible, in the words of the minister Baroness Andrews, «to make a child feel that the school is not a place for them».

Do they not, in the first place, reintroduce the distinction between «theoretical» and «practical» (or «academic» and «professional») which, once adopted as a way to organize the world of a theological school, ends up alienating the «theoretical» or «academic» and making it functionally irrelevant to the «practical» or «professional»?

His family background in commerce and politics and his own network of contacts made at school and university placed Runciman effortlessly within the highest circles of his time.

Alternative arrangements have been made for children in Staffordshire who feel uncomfortable on school trips to places of worship.

Progress could be made in schools, but he wants the cameras and the press and he's dragging us all into a place where no one will listen to us because we're too scary and too extreme.

«Unlike businesses and schools we can't close down, we still have a lot of in - patient care going on so [we're] moving patients away from windows, boarding up windows and making sure supplies are all in place if the hospital does get cut off and transport becomes very difficult,» he added.

In Sunday school, they always make hell out to be a place for people like Hitler, not a place for his victims.

Everyone who did so is, but this is particularly stomach churning, especially knowing that many of the victims were good church - going folk and the gunman wasn't affiliated with the school but essentially made it a place of random action.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

This human - divine cosmic event takes place at every Mass, whether in a school with 500 teenagers pretending to be bored or at World Youth Day with a million pilgrims kneeling in the mud and dust a mile from an altar where the Holy Father has just made Christpresent.

How do we bring in jobs, how do we make sure health care is affordable for people, how can children go to school, do they have a place to go to school?

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

He doesn't, it's Satan who is running wild in this country because GOD has been taken out of public places and prayer has been taken out of schools etc., when you take GOD out, you let evil in... this nation hasn't learned that yet... there will be more tragedies like this or worse unless GOD is bought back into every facet of the public as he was decades ago when prayer was allowed in school, the commandments were made visible and even on our money his name was present — BRING GOD BACK!!