Sentences with phrase «more school capacity»

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It is similar with his teacher Donald MacKinnon and with MacKinnon's successor, Nicholas Lash: each of them had the capacity to found a school or movement but has rather done his theology in a more ruminative, interrogative mode.

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The intact mother - father team seems more invested in its children and has more success in raising children, measured by children's mental and physical health and their capacity to handle school, make friends, relate to the opposite sex and have confidence about the future.

High school is short but life is long and having belief in your principles and capacity for rational thought are going to mean a lot more in the long run than being popular with the vapid sheep you are currently surrounded by.

And it suggests that school - discipline programs might be more effective if they were to focus less on imposing punishment and more on creating a classroom environment in which students who lack self - regulatory capacities can find the tools and context they need to develop them.

The Public Waldorf high school curriculum delivers deeper and more sophisticated content as students» capacities continue to develop.

In a Waldorf school, the arts are a fundamental tool that not only furthers the students» academic skills but, more importantly, cultivates the uniquely human capacity of creativity.

Ojo also lauded Governor Rauf Aregbesola for adopting calisthenics sport as a co-curriculum activity for students in more schools across the state, saying calisthenics game has enhanced organisational capacity and understanding among the youth.

Under the proposal, Success Academy Harlem 4 would have been allowed to expand at the school, pushing capacity to more than 130 percent.

Assemblyman Francisco Moya, Rep. Joseph Crowley and state Sen. Jose Peralta gathered Monday to urge the city to reduce the density of new buildings in South Corona — saying the area's schools already are at more than 150 percent capacity and the 7 train is strained to capacity.

What is more, the majority of these institutions are in the secondary phase, creating serious surplus capacity when there is a crying need for more primary school places.

«Most of the boroughs are below capacity, but we exceed capacity at 108 percent on average,» Katz said of the more than 238,000 students enrolled in Queens schools.

While two of four elementary schools — P.S. 261 and P.S. 287 — are currently under capacity, by 2017 the neighborhood is expected to absorb more than 4,000 newly occupied apartments and 1,164 new students, leaders said.

The most overcrowded high school in New York City is Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, Katzschool in New York City is Francis Lewis High School in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, KatzSchool in Fresh Meadows, whose student population now more than doubles the school's maximum capacity, Katzschool's maximum capacity, Katz said.

«By building capacity among the school districts, instead of working in isolation, we're finding more resources to bring to our kids, resources we've lacked,» said Tracy Spagnolo, initiative representative with West Seneca schools and principal at Winchester Elementary Sschool districts, instead of working in isolation, we're finding more resources to bring to our kids, resources we've lacked,» said Tracy Spagnolo, initiative representative with West Seneca schools and principal at Winchester Elementary SchoolSchool.

We have to recognize the capacity earlier, and I'm encouraged that just last week there were some significant resources that Congress authorized to invest more heavily in our elementary schools in math and science education.

Lead author Dr Roel Brienen, from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: «Tree mortality rates have increased by more than a third since the mid-1980s, and this is affecting the Amazon's capacity to store carbon.»

59 % of women said more than 10... or more than their lip gloss capacity... Hmm... does that include school grade kisses?

Speaking to MPs on 16 September, Wilshaw claimed that too much time is spent debating structures rather than the bigger issue of capacity within the English school system, calling for a debate on how to ensure more good people are brought in.

Read more about how schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach — and how to support teachers as they expand their classroom practices, as well as their confidence and capacities.

The increase in demand for places at the school meant there was an urgent requirement for more capacity and the current school wasn't in a location to be modified successfully.

Although many schools, colleges and universities understandably feel they lack the capacity to offer one - on - one teaching, the tools for a more collaborative learning model are within reach.

To that list, we must add two critical factors that matter a lot: creating more responsive school governance structures; and expanding teachers» capacity to have more professional discretion over their own practice.

The bursary — for post-graduate teacher training courses starting in August — is the latest in a series of measures the Scottish Government is taking to recruit more teachers and develop Scotland's STEM capacity through school subjects such as maths, computing science, physics and technical education.

The Department should take more effective action to speed up the process of converting inadequate schools and should improve its understanding of the factors limiting academy sponsors» capacity to expand, or discouraging new sponsors from taking on underperforming schools.

The moves includes more than # 45 million for successful multi-academy trusts to help tackle underperformance and improve schools in areas that lack capacity.

The Local Government Association, which represents more than 370 councils in England and Wales, is highlighting that under proposals in the Educational Excellence Everywhere White Paper, councils will retain their responsibility to make sure all children get a school place, but from 2022, when all schools are academies and free schools, will have no powers to force schools to expand — even where there is demand and capacity within the school.

Secondly, schools need to be redesigned to meet the need for more capacity.

They have little to offer beyond tired bromides about needing more money for capacity building, innovative partnerships, and a host of other buzzwords that make no difference in the lives of children who attend failing schools.

Then, as others in the school community build capacity and earn the trust of the troops, let them become more involved in the real decisions of the school.

This is a much more positive and optimistic view of learners» capacities for learning than past views that individuals differed markedly in their ability to learn and that part of the role of schools was to identify these differences and to sort students accordingly.

When faced with the challenges and opportunities of the 21st Century, each leader's capacity to network is now more important for their school's development than ever before.

What's more, the needs of individual schools vary, so social - emotional programs should be adaptable to each school's context, demands, capacities, and goals.

In a statement, the DfE said: «As more schools choose to convert to academy status and struggling schools become academies with the support of a strong sponsor, it is important RSCs have the right resources to build system capacity and hold schools to account for their performance.

With pupil numbers on the increase and school places more contested, Jackie Maginnis, of the Modular Portable Building Association, looks at the fast capacity that modular buildings hold to construct more than just basic classrooms.

Over a third of Grand Rapids» schools had fallen below 60 percent of capacity, including two brand - new ones, as more and more families decamped for local charter and private schools, or moved to other districts.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

It may force states, districts, and school - level personnel to be a lot more prescriptive about curriculum and instruction that any of us might like in the short term while we enhance and build capacity for the long haul.

Schools need low - burden strategies that are easy to implement but that still promote caring and inclusive schools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far lesSchools need low - burden strategies that are easy to implement but that still promote caring and inclusive schools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far lesschools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far less cost.

She has worked in higher education for more than 10 years in various capacities including outreach, admissions, student affairs, and development, most recently at the MIT Sloan School of Management, overseeing class and reunion giving.

More important, last fall the department also issued regulations announcing that districts could no longer use a lack of capacity as an excuse to deny transfers to students in failing schools.

Some school leaders use capacities they always had but couldn't use, others learn what they need, and others quit and are replaced by people attracted to the new, more demanding job.

We are developing interventions to support young readers, helping to provide school districts and states with the capacity to use data more effectively, and engaging leaders from education systems from around the world.

The challenges of instruction, leadership, parent engagement, school culture, and professional capacity of teachers are things controlled by us, Knowles noted, pointing out that they also can lead to students 10 times more likely to make substantial improvement and 30 times less likely to stagnate.

Joanne Weiss, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan, has brought education officials from more than a dozen states to Louisiana in her capacity as a consultant to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

To systematize accessibility in a school or district takes a coordinated effort that includes examining purchasing policies, staff capacity on the issue, how accessibility legislation applies to new and emerging technologies, and much, much more.

Instead, it should «function more like a partner, building capacity and leadership at the school level and serving as an incubator for innovation.»

An analysis I did for my newspaper, the New York Daily News, compared all 6,979 transfers in the city for 2003 - 04 with the official building capacity of the receiving schools the previous school year and found that nearly 60 percent of those transfers went to schools with more than enough room to spare.

Well, what we've found from research and detailed studies of schools that are using this additional autonomy is that just giving schools more authority may make no difference at all if schools don't have a capacity to make good decisions in the interests of their students.