Sentences with phrase «more about a school system»

While her husband worked, Palomera and her daughter began attending classes at a local chapter of the Toyota Learning Program, a family engagement and child development program, to improve their English and learn more about the school system.

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If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

Although the percentage of Canadians who accept the modest proposal of putting more content about Asia in the curriculum has now grown to 50 per cent, a stunning 58 per cent oppose putting more emphasis on Asian languages in the school system.

For instance, you will know a lot more about the structure and learning systems being used by different schools.

Kate Adamick knows more about how the school food financial system works than anyone I know.

She sees the program as a way to not only better educate parents about their school system, but also to encourage more parents to become active school volunteers.

But after blogging about «How to Pack a Cheap and Easy Waste Free Lunch», the «Challenges of Going Green in the Schools» and my son's Camp Eco-Challenge, I realized that purchasing a «waste - free lunch system» is just one more expense that many would rather avoid.

The more I read about the connection between our industrial food system and global warming (See especially Anna Lappe's new book, Diet for a Hot Planet), the more I become convinced of the tremendous importance of changing the way we feed our children at school.

«If the government believes that a national funding formula represents the ideal system, it should begin the transition soon and be more transparent about which schools and local authorities could be most affected.

He also said the mayor's office should communicate more with lawmakers about how the school system is run.

At Wednesday's Buffalo School Board meeting, the long struggle over getting more minority and women - owned businesses among the vendors to the district system turned into a discussion about using student labor.

Some people say the old system gave parents more of a say in decisions about the schools in their community.

Easton talks about the impact of the governor's proposed education budget, accountability in the education system, charter schools and much more.

«What's great about our system is that the user doesn't have to be an artist for the sketch to be accurate, yet is able to retrieve images in a more precise manner than text,» said co-developer Dr Yi - Zhe Song, Director of the SketchX Research Lab, from QMUL's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science.

We could soon be learning more about black holes and binary star systems, according to Marianna Yuling Mao, of Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, Calif..

People with food allergies often have questions about eating out, traveling, navigating the school system and more.

In school they have their own Japanese class where they are taught Japanese and they have a chance to visit and learn more about the Japanese schools system.

More often than not, when I ask school systems and principals about their approach to instructional technology, I hear one of two things.

In Finland, world renowned for its successful public school system, I talked to leading school improvement consultant and teacher, Mikko Salonen (of ENIRDELM, the European education network) about his work to help struggling schools turnaround and become more successful.

Gladwell's call to innovation and experimentation in our schools got me thinking about the idea of educational entrepreneurship and how supporting a spirit of adventure and risk within the boundaries of our public school system may allow us to realize more of the gains that we were hoping for rather than more of the same like the past two decades of tight control and, as Gladwell suggests, regimentation.

The parts can be used pictorially, to map out an image of a spaceship or a monster; or more structurally, with one school using a loose - parts system to create make - shift air raid shelters when learning about the London Blitz in the Second World War.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

Thus, while Koretz has reason to be concerned about the perils of test - based accountability, evidence from DCPS suggests that it can work — when «it» is a nuanced system that uses more than tests alone to evaluate schools and teachers (more on this below).

While there's still plenty about the accountability systems of many states to criticize — and implementation challenges lie ahead for all of them — the school ratings at least represent more of an improvement on NCLB - era systems than a repudiation of them.

However, others expressed skepticism about what I shall call the Overregulation Theory, and proposed alternative explanations for the LSP's poor results, while a few more raised concerns about the impact of a more free - market school choice system on equity.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

The new evaluation systems have forced principals to prioritize classrooms over cafeterias and custodians (and have exposed how poorly prepared many principals are to be instructional leaders) and they have sparked conversations about effective teaching that often simply didn't happen in the past in many schools — developments that teachers say makes their work more appealing.

In short, a system of school choice would prove more satisfying for educators because it could foster the creation of cohesive learning communities based on common beliefs about teaching and learning.

Parents remark that they appreciate the emphasis Moore puts on saving, and note that the system encourages students to talk more with parents about their behavior in school.

For more about how Every Student Succeeds Act came about, please read «The Long Path to ESSA,» an excerpt from The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States by Frederick M. Hess and Max Eden.

«We need to become more aggressive earlier in the year about helping nontraditional candidates access networks that can help them and in helping them understand the climate of the school system,» he says.

As scholars have grown more knowledgeable about the evolution of the Thanksgiving holiday, some teachers and school systems have encouraged what they see as a more accurate retelling of that famous feast in Plymouth, nearly four centuries ago.

Since 1979, more than 200,000 fourth graders in the Hillsborough County School System, in Tampa, Florida, have learned about the city's history and built environment through a program started by Tampa Preservation.

Schools in the nation's capital will open late for the third time in four years, triggering questions about whether the retired Army general hired to overcome the system's past management woes will offer more of the same.

Another factor, not only in a cluster - based arrangement, another thing that needs to be thought about is a more differentiated communication out to sites and out to schools, cognisant of the fact that in some schools teaching principals have significant classroom contact and yet have to address systems issues as well, and surely there are ways to have a better targeting approach to things.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

The request has been sent to 6,500 schools and colleges in bid to find out more about how changes to the marking review and appeals system might be received.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

Certainly, the interests of teachers in ensuring adequate educational investment are far stronger than they are for most voters, who don't have children in the school system and may be more concerned about holding down taxes than investing in the education of other people's kids.

Teacher chats to Dr Peter Goss about a research paper highlighting schools and education systems that are starting to do targeted teaching in a more systematic way.

Develop a communication plan and trainings for teachers and school leaders to learn more about the differentiated compensation available under the new salary systems.

However, as noted in the Review of the Australian Curriculum Final Report, state - based legislation allows both special religious instruction classes and teaching about religion and belief systems more generally in government schools.

This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost - effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance.

With more than 100,000 students are enrolled in the Louisville public school system, about 10 % of youth are counted as participating in an afterschool program.

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More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

Unfortunately, this belief about setting high standards and expectations for poor children and children of color, upon which decades of research is based, is being systematically discarded by Educrats throughout the country to make the system more fair to the adults working in schools.

Although I have some doubts about the wisdom of the Race to the Top competition, and there are other steps that I think the federal government could take that would support a more systematic transformation of our education system, this Race to the Top competition does have the potential to reset American schools» relationship with technology by encouraging a transformation from a one - size - fits all schooling model to one that can customize affordably for each student's unique learning needs.

In «Partnership Is a Two - Way Street: What It Takes for Business to Help Drive School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&School Reform» we argue, «Too often, business has put its good intentions to work in the service of ineffectual systems... If business leaders are serious about school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&school improvement, they must play a more forceful role and drive harder bargains with state officials and school district educators.&school district educators.»