Sentences with phrase «more schools embrace»

The one off «school trip» to a theme park or activity centre at the end of the summer term is slowly becoming a thing of the past as more schools embrace an approach that makes the most of Learning Outside the Classroom throughout the year, across every subject and every age group, writes Amy Nathan, project development manager, Council for Learning Outside the Classroom

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But maybe, just maybe, the schools and the NCAA will take this opportunity to embrace a more common - sense approach to men's basketball.

As childhood obesity rates continue to rise (as I fear they will), and as we start to see ever more clearly the ill health effects of our current school food regime (replete with its a la carte junk), as well as our current agricultural policies, maybe our society will eventually embrace the idea of universal, free school food.

Like many schools, Pope John XXIII School in Evanston has embraced technology as a way to help their students become more efficient learners.

There has to be a more sophisticated approach that embraces school food reform from many different angles, using all of the available resources.

Filled with ideas to try today, Gentle Discipline helps parents of toddlers as well as school - age kids embrace a new, more enlightened way to help kids listen, learn and grow.

Some schools have incorporated social - emotional learning programs — like MindUP and Roots of Empathy — into classrooms while other school systems, including the new B.C. curriculum, embrace it more systemically.

«In the area of oncology, but even more generally, embracing the genetic diversity of disease is really important,» says Golub, who is also director of the Broad's Cancer Program, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at Dana - Farber, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Yet despite the ritual purity he maintained, he was also able to embrace, without judgment, several generations of Westerners who crowded into his yoga school year after year, who more often than not, myself included, started off with him as hapless quasi hippies.

When I tried on the same look at home, I realized that I would have to be around six feet tall to pull it off — I looked more like a mid-century school teacher than someone embracing a current trend.

There exist four major ways to develop global awareness within the international schools: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

Waiver: Comprehensive flexibility that the U.S. Department of Education has granted to more than 40 states and the District of Columbia from key requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act (the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act) in exchange for embracing certain Obama administration education - redesign priorities on teachers, testing, standards, and school turnarounds.

The ongoing work of our Institute of Positive Education continues to enable more and more schools to embrace Positive Education.

When you see how the kids embrace these lessons, hear them tell how art helps them remember concepts better, and learn about the improvements teachers have noted in student understanding and retention, it makes you wonder why more schools aren't integrating the arts in every class.

High school teachers are far more reluctant than their colleagues in the lower grades to embrace new teaching techniques, the National Science Foundation survey found.

Superintendent Michael Bennet (2005 - 2008) spearheaded Denver Public Schools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeSchools» improvement by embracing charter school expansion, giving principals more decision - making power, and using student - based funding, in which dollars followed children to their schools of choice, to spur compeschools of choice, to spur competition.

More and more of America's K - 12 schools are embracing green building design and constructMore and more of America's K - 12 schools are embracing green building design and constructmore of America's K - 12 schools are embracing green building design and construction.

Instead of shirking this responsibility, schools need to embrace the opportunity to more effectively and creatively communicate with parents, helping them make sense of the «Too Big To Know» world of the Internet, as Harvard professor David Weinberger has described it.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

What makes school leaders more or less likely to embrace cost - effective alternatives?

Either high schools will really have to embrace family incentives by becoming significantly smaller and more informal, or they will have to admit that they are large, modern organizations that require explicit systems of rewards and sanctions to enhance productivity.

The only course that is sustainable, for both chartering and urban education, embraces a third, more expansive view of the movement's future: replace the district - based system in America's large cities with fluid, self - improving systems of charter schools.

It is clear from those conversations that the impact academies have in transforming young people's life chances is widely accepted and that more and more schools are keen to embrace academy status.

Drew Gilpin Faust, the current president of Harvard University, is right in insisting that «even as we as a nation have embraced education as critical to economic growth and opportunity, we should remember that [public schools], colleges and universities are about a great deal more than measurable utility.

So in that spirit, let us make the hopeful case that many more of America's schools are on the precipice of finally embracing those ideas — and thereby boosting their students» chances of achieving the lofty goals that the Common Core standards prescribe.

By openly acknowledging the shortcomings of public schools and embracing innovation, he became a much more credible and effective voice for public education than the NEA or other defenders of the status quo.

Even more controversial among teachers than Shanker's advocacy of high standards and public school choice was his embrace of a series of reforms intended to improve the quality of the teaching profession.

Indeed, many schools that embrace technology to drive personalized learning have actually moved in the opposite direction: extending the school day to build in time for students to do more project - and team - based learning, meet one - on - one with teachers and advisors, and even just access on - site wireless Internet.

Surrounded by poverty and escalating violence, a San Francisco middle school committed to peace and embraced a program of meditation that has made students feel safer, teachers more productive, and brought unity and purpose to the school.

Since then, more than 200 new schools each week embrace Soundtrap as a preferred educational tool in their classrooms.

And when Mr. Duncan talks about states» needing to embrace charter schools to give parents more educational options,...

Yet if we're to reach the target, set by the School Food Plan, of at least 70 per cent of children having school meals, we need to get talking about change, and more importantly, embraciSchool Food Plan, of at least 70 per cent of children having school meals, we need to get talking about change, and more importantly, embracischool meals, we need to get talking about change, and more importantly, embracing it.

The more people embrace the idea that this type of learning matters in school, the more people who think there can be an alternative, the better chance there is that change will happen in schools.»

The concept of school connectedness, belonging and community will become a much more challenging problem for schools, and one which they must embrace.

However, as I work with more and more schools who are embracing this technology, I now realise that the benefits of using it are far greater than we first imagined when we created the GCSEPod.

Getting schools behind more interdisciplinary and embracing these active, inquiry - based learning strategies might be the only way to breathe life back into a profession that has been keeping our teachers bored and desk - bound to a great flaw.

Facing History's Partner Schools Network is a connected group of more than 80 schools that embrace Facing History's core themes as foundational to their mSchools Network is a connected group of more than 80 schools that embrace Facing History's core themes as foundational to their mschools that embrace Facing History's core themes as foundational to their mission.

This global network would embrace the provision of strong public schools for all children, make room in the public sector for creativity and innovation, and support teachers and schools to become the leaders of change, not implementers of more mandates.

Under her leadership the district has embraced the Board's challenge to transform schools to better and more efficiently meet the needs of all students.

In my view, one of the most heartening educational developments of the past 20 years has been this embrace of internal accountability, as some good schools have tried to move from the «individual discretion» view of professionalism that has traditionally characterized the field to the more «collective view» of professionalism that internal accountability implies.

Enduring impact: more educators who understand, embrace and use character education, leading to more schools of character that will graduate young men and women who become ethical citizens who appreciate the worth of character, the obligation of duty and the importance of kindness.

The district's central office appeared to have embraced decentralization, and, more crucially, the binding union contract seemed to ensure that school - based management would move forward.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

It is not enough anymore to say we are creating a generation of life - long learners if we are not embracing a change in our philosophy in schools to a more personalized, inquiry - driven model that connects a student's learning to the world.

Many private schools have the budget to do this, and since they do not have to meet government set standards, private schools are more free to embrace some of the cutting - edge pedagogies of the digital era.

Washington education leaders, such as D.C. Council member Kevin Chavous, embrace KIPP, although school system administrators have not been able so far to find the organization more space.

In all, more than 120 schools in Chicago are embracing the shift toward personalized learning.

The article outlines how by embracing the Facing History philosophy, the school enviornment has become more supportive, equitable and safe.

As states compete for more than $ 4 billion in federal education grants, Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made it clear that those willing to embrace charter schools and other favored innovations will get preference.

Rather than seek sweeping buy - in from its school districts, which number more than 1,000, the state tightened its focus on a group of seven districts — including Los Angeles and Long Beach — where superintendents were willing to embrace more - aggressive plans than were proposed in round one.