Sentences with phrase «model schools around»

This series takes a look at high - achieving education systems and model schools around the world to see what makes them successful.

At Wells Community Academy High School, principal Rita Raichoudhuri, EdD Urban Education Leadership student, models her school around a key phrase: the first step to learning is showing up.

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The retailer has been buffeted by major structural shifts in an industry where electronics heavyweights JB Hi - Fi and Harvey Norman, and the rise of online players like Amazon and Kogan.com, have undermined the old - school Godfreys retailing model built around stand - alone stores.

Guidance Materials: The Board of Education has produced a Model Wellness Policy (2012) based on science, research, and existing practices from exemplary states and local school districts around the country.»

I love the idea that we can harness the power of social media and combine it with a grassroots, community - based distribution model, including a network of home - based Ambassadors as well as retailers and schools, to create a global lifestyle brand around the concept of living Barefoot, and bringing art and story to children from all walks of life.

She has conducted numerous parenting workshops around the country on topics such as keeping kids safe from predators («live» and Internet), bullying, cyberbullying, raising nonviolent kids, sexting, anger management in kids, coping with back to school angst, how to avoid spoiling your kid, shaken baby syndrome, how to be a positive role model, teaching children how to be charitable, finding family time, girls and puberty, grand - parenting, holiday etiquette, traveling with kids, how to limit spending on your kids (particularly during the holidays), Halloween safety and money management.

It sounds fabulous, but I like to point to Brazil as a more surprising model — in fact, nations around the world are already looking to Brazil for inspiration and leadership when it comes to school lunch.

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

He said the state has «condemned» 250,000 children — often poor and of color — to failing schools, and proposed a model for turning those schools around by handing them over to nonprofits or turnaround experts to create «community schools.»

REF was modeled after school foundations that exist around the country.

A Harvard - educated proponent of reforming traditional models of education, Waronker is known for turning around dangerous and struggling public schools in New York City.

The new model funding agreement, which was released on Friday afternoon, changes the rules around employing teachers to mirror the existing rules for Free Schools.

In research published this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Dr Zoe Leinhardt and colleagues from Bristol's School of Physics have completed computer simulations of the early stages of planet formation around the binary stars using a sophisticated model that calculates the effect of gravity and physical collisions on and between one million planetary building blocks.

Groups around the country have tried to create cell and animal models of ACC but haven't been successful,» says Katja Kiseljak - Vassiliades, DO, CU Cancer Center investigator and assistant professor in the CU School of Medicine Division of Endocrinology.

Eleftheria Alexandri and Phil Jones at the Welsh School of Architecture, at the University of Cardiff in the UK, mimicked the microclimate around and inside buildings using computer modelling.

Bringing together, the school will structure the scientific community using mice as an experimental model around the infrastructure PHENOMIN and many networks in which it participates actively (CELPHEDIA, INFRAFRONTIER, IMPC...).

AMES, Iowa — Seventeen middle school team representatives from 11 schools around Iowa converged on the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory on Feb. 22 to learn about hydrogen fuel - cell technology and to build hydrogen fuel - cell model cars.

While this may sound like an unrealistic model for other schools around the country — and it certainly costs a pretty penny to send your kids to such a utopia — Amis Cameron is on a mission to spread the MUSE method of sustainable, healthy eats elsewhere.

The charity works on international projects, including the Adopt a Village model, which brings over 650 schools and school rooms to youth and provides clean water, health care and sanitation to one million people around the world, freeing children and their families from the cycle of poverty.

The level ladders are based around now, next, further and advanced so not grade or level based but easily editable to fit your school model.

The fact that each of the schools has a unique model with different needs and requirements exacerbates the problem, as firm standards around which to coalesce just don't exist yet.

«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»

As levy funding has a 24 - month shelf life, we would encourage local authorities where they have apportioned funds down to individual business units and schools to consider the use of a reconciliation model to keep the funding moving around their organisation.

The report questioned the academy model as a viable option for improving the prospects of disadvantaged pupils, claiming that evidence does not yet support the Department for Education's claims that sponsored academies are transforming the performance of the most disadvantaged pupils and turning around the worst performing schools.

Harnoor Gill is a teenager with nice ideas and he is an amazing role model to other teenagers in high school around him.

Diane Tavenner, CEO of Summit Schools, sits down with Paul E. Peterson to discuss how Summit has spent the past 15 years building a school model around what we know about what motivates students, how they learn, and what they need to be able to do.

Schools need both support and accountability to implement an educational model built around project - based learning and performance assessment.

Jacobs describes how Summit Public schools, a charter school network known for «an approach that emphasizes both project - based and self - paced learning as well as the development of cognitive skills» has been sharing its model with schools around the countroy for free with support from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

He has received so much interest in the center and its operations that he created Bringing It Back Around, a book that shares the little details that make the program such a success, as a model to help other schools establish similar programs.

To avoid creating such exponential gaps, many schools around the country have begun to adopt models of early identification and intervention for children at risk for reading difficulties.

I believe we need a new school - delivery and governance model that is city - specific and city - driven and that such a system should replace the district, not work around it.

Districts» and schools» organizational structures and long standing policies built around traditional seat - time metrics may be inhibiting their ability to move toward competency - based models.

The Data Wise Improvement Process is a collaborative inquiry model that helps schools organize their daily efforts around the continuous improvement of teaching and learning.

In 2005, the state got rid of the Carnegie unit — the core unit around which credit hours are measured — and mandated that all high schools move to a competency - based model by the 2008 - 09 school year.

A small but growing number of teacher union locals have attempted to go beyond the industrial unionism model by fashioning new ways of organizing teaching around high - quality practice and high - performing schools.

The goal is for fellows to develop made - in - New - Orleans strategies around their chosen PL project so that these strategies can be a model for other New Orleans teachers and schools.

We set up instructional rounds by going to other schools, based on the medical model where the residents would travel around with the doctor and go «Here's Mr Jones and he's got gout, tell me what his symptoms are.»

13, in Professor Fernando Reimers» course on social innovation, they came up with a business model around high school students designing and building parklets.

But with public schools starting to recognize NuVu as an ally, and with replication of the studio model cropping up around the globe, the ideas incubated in this creative space have a chance to move from the edges of education to the mainstream.

Steven R. Covey, best - selling author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, wrote this book to promote the efforts of principals around the globe who are preparing children for the 21st century by organizing their schools around Covey's «7 Habits,» a sort of accidental comprehensive school - reform model created by fans.

The Khan Lab School, which charges $ 22,000, opened with roughly 35 students and intends «to research blended learning and education innovation by creating a working model of Khan Academy's philosophy of learning in a physical school environment and sharing the learnings garnered with schools and networks around the world.&School, which charges $ 22,000, opened with roughly 35 students and intends «to research blended learning and education innovation by creating a working model of Khan Academy's philosophy of learning in a physical school environment and sharing the learnings garnered with schools and networks around the world.&school environment and sharing the learnings garnered with schools and networks around the world.»

The Commonwealth Pilot Schools model, for example, gives greater autonomy and some additional support to help schools turn around their own perforSchools model, for example, gives greater autonomy and some additional support to help schools turn around their own perforschools turn around their own performances.

The U.S. Department of Education has finalized its rules governing $ 3.5 billion in school improvement grants for states and districts, making only small changes despite criticism that its four models for turning around the nation's worst schools are too prescriptive.

In the next 10 years I hope CMOs will evolve to operate in partnership with school districts that want to turn around low - performing schools and oversee a portfolio of different school - governance models.

Inspired by the successful Harlem Children's Zone model, the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink supports Promise Neighborhoods — communities of opportunity centered around strong schools — to wrap children in education, health, and social supports from cradle to career.

They are also anchored by deeply held convictions — be they around behavioral standards, educational models, or religious practices — even as the school changes in other ways.

My great hope is that, once modeled, these types of conversations will be repeated frequently in our schools, in the United States, and around the world.

A new study by UNESCO's Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) * to be issued on 19 January proposes an economic model that would help reduce the cost of textbooks and increase their availability to students in schools around the world.

Today, almost every elementary school works with professionals from orchestras, dance companies, theaters, and museums to create programming that has become a model around the country.

In addition, will New Tech's model work for schools that lack the infrastructure to support systematic professional development around project - based learning and 1:1 computing?