Sentences with phrase «most challenging for your school»

Which of these items are the most challenging for your school?

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Theological schools, most of them somewhat strapped for resources, are struggling with the challenges and potentials of the new technologies.

Children can benefit too, offering them fresh, health - promoting foods is a priority for mums everywhere and often one of the most challenging meals of the day is school lunches.

Because one aspect of TLT of which I'm most proud is that this blog has proven to be a forum where school food providers feel as comfortable voicing their views as anyone else, and I like to think this is because I feel (and have expressed here many times) only the greatest respect for what they do and the daunting challenges they face.

Dr. Abram and his wife are the parents of a 10 - year old daughter and 7 - year old son, and despite running a school and being responsible for 260 students each day, he still finds parenting his most challenging job.

Every year my fantastic Post colleague Jay Mathews takes a great deal of time to assemble his list of America's Most Challenging High Schools, and he's just done it again for his 2014 list, which you can read all about here.

Imagine if dozens of young people from this school went on to Britain's top universities every year and imagine that most went on to challenge for the highest - paid and most respected jobs.

It is a great privilege to continue to support the Bronx Borough President's Chess Challenge with Chess in the Schools, whose mission so clearly aligns with AT&T's own commitment to creating pathways to success for New York City's most underserved students,» said Marissa Shorenstein, New York State President, AT&T.

We are not afraid of competition, it's charter schools that are afraid to take on the most challenging students, the tough cases that slow down learning for whole classes.

«If we do not have a school system that is adapting to and preparing for these challenges — a school system that is not only adapting to the amazing revolution of iTunes, whereby Harvard and Oxbridge publish their most valuable content free, but is also able to adapt to the unknown revolutions ahead - then we will face even worse crises in the years ahead.

Many assume that the most taxing years for mothers are during their children's infancies, but the new research shows that far more challenging is the middle school period.

Dr Sian Clarke from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, also a principal investigator in the research, said: «This study shows that rapid diagnostic tests can improve the use of artemisinin - based combination therapies — the most effective treatment for malaria — in drug shops, but it's not without its challenges.

It took her longer than most to finish graduate school, but she enjoyed the challenge, and the teaching experience made her more marketable for a faculty post at an undergraduate institution.

With the understanding that emergency, health care and other services» reliance on software will only grow over time, Microsoft has for the past eight years hosted a global competition that challenges high school and college students to develop applications that address some of the planet's most urgent needs.

(NaturalHealth365) For most of us, our homes represent a safe haven from the challenges of work, school and everyday living out in the world.

The most promising candidate, Fiona's cousin Artie, an underachieving Medieval high school slacker, proves to be more of a challenge than they bargained for.

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

Billy (Billy Kirkfield) narrates this tale about «the most amazing winter ever,» when a Jamaican who has never seen snow (Bobb» e J. Thompson) moves in next door and helps him challenge the class bully (Josh Flitter of «The Greatest Game Ever Played» and «Ace Ventura Jr.») for the spot at the top of «Kill Hill,» the snow mound out behind the school.

In the more substantial «Life After Film School: Rob Letterman» (21:52), three film students ask practical questions and get candid answers from the director about his Sundance and DreamWorks Animation experiences, his plans for Stretch Armstrong, and, most of all, Gulliver's Travels and its unique challenges.

Such incisive moments, though, are subordinate to the filmmakers» penchant toward deck - stacking caricature, most noxiously the character of Gwendolyn (Christina Applegate), a villainous PTA president who's so invested in her high position that she, as part of the election platform she articulates when a fed - up Amy eventually challenges her presidency, seriously advocates for a 365 - day school year, citing Genghis Khan as a model.

The program — for and about teachers — will focus on the most important challenges and opportunities facing America's teachers, and feature examples of great teaching from various schools and classrooms across the country.

One of the most challenging lessons for schools to learn in implementing iPads is that the iPad is not a laptop.

Since 1990 the New York - based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than 7,000 teachers in some of the nation's most challenging school districts.

As you note, given the constraints of an industrial - era school model and the wide range of student needs, the challenges of personalization are just too hard for most teachers.

U.S. Schoolchildren Tumble in International Reading Exam Rankings, Worrying Educators (The Washington Post) Marty West discusses the impact the Great Recession may have had on school systems and what that means for improving educational outcomes for the most challenged students.

This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation's schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.

Love Kerry, especially for the work she has done to support the arts as a strategy to turn around one of our most challenging schools in DC, but the answer is very simple: Idris, Idris, and Idris!!

The challenge is that most school systems are not doing it well for a variety of reasons,» says Scott McLeod, an educational technology expert and associate professor at Iowa State University.

For the most part, the Gates early - college initiative focuses on the motivation of students, hoping that greater autonomy and more challenging material will help keep them engaged and interested in school.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

We plan to use this opportunity to push forward the national and global dialogue on how best to train multidisciplinary professionals for the complex challenges they face in working with the most vulnerable children and youth in our schools and communities.

Administrators, for their part, are finding these programs to be effective at encouraging experienced teachers to transfer to the most challenging schools.

In the spring of 2015, charter founder Ref Rodriguez (top) challenged the union - friendly incumbent Bennett Kayser for a seat on the school board in what was possibly the most expensive school - board race in history.

Developmental psychologist Richard Weissbourd, the co-director of Making Caring Common and a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, offers advice on setting the kind of classroom norms that can create a respectful environment for rich conversations about even the most challenging topics.

At the heart of the raft of pledges, is to place the very best teachers in the most challenged schools and the commitment to ensure a good primary education for every child.

Winning trust at a new school — what New Leaders tend to call «gaining entry» — is a key challenge, especially for those who have spent most of their careers outside of schools.

Headsets and gloves can cost hundreds of dollars, making it challenging for most school systems to provide universal access.

Also, most children are using the internet as a tool to complete school projects and learn new things outside of the classroom, so it's challenging for parents and educators to have it both ways.

In my view, the big parts also need a total makeover — and would be a terrific vehicle for school choice akin to Florida's McKay Scholarship Program — but everyone in Washington seems allergic to touching special ed, an issue that would challenge even the most politically sure - footed of Presidents.

The challenge for our diverse, pluralistic and democratic society — a challenge that, as ever, falls most heavily on schools, the civic institutions with the broadest reach in American life — is to blunt the sense that we are, in fact, coming apart.

Despite the challenges faced in most areas of the country, some charter schools offer high - quality pre-K programs that adapt the best assets of their distinctive models and cultures to meet the unique needs of young children and prepare them well for kindergarten.

Some of the most closely watched races were for seats on the school board in Douglas County, where the winners will decide whether to continue to defend a school voucher program set up by the district that has faced legal challenges.

Thus, the Dadaab University campus is an avenue towards offsetting this challenges that in the long run could offset the need for trained teachers at most of the 39 primary and secondary schools with the Dadaab camps.

At the ground level, students and faculty in the DC school are exploring and discussing the aspects of achieving well - being that are most challenging for Maasai women, including their emotional, intellectual, and physical wellness.

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

And though the residents» «home school» is a well - designed, high - functioning inner city school, they have structured mini-internships in some of Chicago's most challenging neighborhood schools in order to prepare them for the teaching and leadership obstacles they will face once they begin teaching.

Nine local authorities and 72 individual schools have been allocated funding from the Scottish Attainment Challenge for education initiatives and projects targeting the most deprived children.

It is typical for schools undergoing change to experience implementation problems, but new charter schools have additional and singular challenges most akin to those encountered by fledgling small businesses, including creating time for planning, cash flow constraints, and attracting students and staff.

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

The plans aim to tackle those inequalities and ensure Britain is a country that «truly works for everyone» by looking at the experience and outcomes for children who face the most challenges in mainstream school - including those at greatest risk of exclusion - such as those with special educational needs (SEN), children with autism or children in need of help and protection, including those in care.