Sentences with phrase «new classroom center»

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Although the licensed - student capacity of the center's leased 4,016 - square - foot facility (complete with two playgrounds, seven classrooms, and a kitchen) is maxed out, a new owner could relocate to bigger digs or reproduce the center's proven business concept elsewhere, either in or out of town.

Sonoma State University Wine Spectator Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with classrooms and outdoor space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...

The Early Learning Center also serves as a learning lab where New Legacy students explore healthy child development and positive parenting and then apply the learning — in collaboration with the early learning teachers — in the classrooms.

It also will pay for a new off - campus center in the southwest part of the district, possibly Tinley Park or Orland Park, and renovations to four classroom and lab buildings.

Instruction: 97 instructional units... including classrooms that all feature smart boards (Dean Rusk MS is CCSD's first school to feature all touchscreen, flat - panel smart boards), computers and additional technology; computer labs; art and music rooms; gymnasium; cafetorium; and a Cyber Café media center and Global Learning Theatre... both featuring CCSD's new prototypical digital learning - friendly design!

The new Breakfast in the Classroom Resource Center has everything you need to help and guide you as you bring breakfast in the classroom to the children in your district.

Starting in a new preschool or child - care center, returning after a summer vacation, moving up to a new classroom, greeting an unfamiliar teacher: any of these situations can mean big adjustments for a little person.

Plans include a private lobby outfitted with a marketing wall that will be visible to all who enter or pass by, which will display programs, events and stories about those consumers that are assisted and cared for every day; new classrooms; a gym for pre-K and early intervention students; training rooms; breakout, community and education space; new offices and workstations; adaptive technology training program space; a doctor - staffed Low Vision Center; a new boardroom; private conference rooms for interviews and agency work; and displays telling the story of HKS» past and its vision for the future.

Build a new approximately 6,000 square - foot visitor center to educate visitors on the park's natural and recreational features, including exhibit space, classroom space for environmental education programs, public bathrooms and park offices.

Projects funded this year include numerous classroom upgrades, the creation of new media centers, library renovations, technology upgrades, playgrounds, auditorium renovations and other physical plant improvements in public schools across The Bronx.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

Evaluation of the above learning objectives will consist of a pre / post observational study in New England high school classrooms and will be implemented with the assistance of LSO and Harvard's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

Before each school year begins, classroom teachers and the school nurse from McIlvaine Early Childhood Center visit the homes of incoming students to identify potential health risks to students and talk with parents about how they can help their children be successful in their new classes.

When I look at the brand new cozy collaboration center in the corner of our classroom, I picture kids eager to try it out, to sit, lean or sprawl on the ottomans as they put their heads together (literally) to brainstorm, work on a project or study new concepts.

There's some good news for schools and teachers from the Center for American Progress (CAP): more new teachers are staying in the classroom after five years, up nearly 20 percentage points since 2007.

The New York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learniNew York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learninew «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learning.

That is the question that author and educator Bill Nave aims to answer in his new book from Harvard Education Press, Student - Centered Learning: Nine Classrooms in Action, in which nine teachers tell the stories of their own classrooms and how they altered their own methods to achieve greater studenClassrooms in Action, in which nine teachers tell the stories of their own classrooms and how they altered their own methods to achieve greater studenclassrooms and how they altered their own methods to achieve greater student success.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

A highly structured bureaucracy controls teacher certification and training, says C. Emily Feistritzer, president of the National Center for Education Information (NCEI) in Washington D.C. «Anyone who wants to make more new teachers available can begin by dismantling this elaborate system, which locks out potentially highly qualified teachers while accrediting many who don't belong in the classroom,» Feistritzer says in a story, («The Truth Behind the «Teacher Shortage»»), originally published by the Wall Street Journal in January.

We are experimenting with new technologies and are using student - centered approaches like the flipped classroom, genius hour, and project - based learning.

The percent of 4th grade students whose teachers say they've received training on how to integrate computers into their classroom instruction has remained flat since 2009, according to a new Education Week Research Center analysis of survey data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

New research from the Center for Promise, the research arm of America's Promise Alliance, finds that schools and educators who want to boost the prospects for English - language learners should take stock of what is happening in their lives both inside and outside the classroom.

A lead gift from Roy E. Larsen, chairman of Time, Inc. — a public school advocate — establishes the new classroom and research center on HGSE's campus.

As classrooms around the world discuss the UK's Brexit and Donald Trump's election win, Richard Wells (@EduWells) in New Zealand is «mentoring an intensive entrepreneur startup weekend centered on new ideas for educatiNew Zealand is «mentoring an intensive entrepreneur startup weekend centered on new ideas for educatinew ideas for education.

We are excited to see how our work in Pittsburgh parallels the work of the new cohort of Agency by Design Fellows in California — and how we may help contribute to the development of documentation and assessment tools for maker - centered classrooms throughout the United States and around the world.

If you love design and would like to find new ways to incorporate design into your classroom, visit our free online Educator Resource Center (ERC).

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many schools and districts, with students in analyzed school districts assessed as many as 20 times per year in the classroom.

The classroom of the next decade will be a high - technology learning center where teachers emphasize «comprehension, critical thinking, communication, and coping,» educators surveyed for a new study predict.

The foundation operates a K - 8 laboratory / demonstration school, The Greenfield Center School, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, as a place to try new methodology and classroom practices in furtherance of the Foundation's goals.

The Brown Center's talented research analyst Katharine Lindquist helped me calculate value - added measures of teacher effectiveness for 2,272 4th - and 5th - grade new teachers in North Carolina who entered the classroom between 1999 - 2000 and 2002 - 03, and tracked them for the first five years of their careers.

The modest building here that houses the southern outpost of the Parent Information Center of New Jersey is just another classroom for Marilyn Arons.

The building of «self - esteem» and «community» has been part of the same progressive project, coalescing in today's dominant K - 12 paradigm - constructivism - which combines the child - centered, nonjudgmental, nonhierarchical, teacher - as - facilitator classroom (rooted in the romantic tradition of Rousseau) with a cooperative learning regimen (rooted in Counts's vision of a New Social Man).

The survey is one in a series from the Center for Education Policy that aims to measure attitudes toward the Common Core, the controversial new K - 12 math and reading standards now taught in classrooms around the country.

Learning curves have been steep in Carrie Howell's classroom — for the students, for the teacher, and for the peers who have come to watch over the years as she worked side - by - side with Center for Educational Leadership coaches, tackling learning problems and trying on new instructional strategies.

2015 — The organization shortens its name to «Center for Educational Innovation» («CEI») and launches new initiatives focused on easing the use of technology in the classroom and helping middle schools transform for 21st - century learners.

Bringing Great Expectations to Michigan After many years in the classroom, Bruzewski took a new position as a curriculum coordinator at an education service center that focuses on professional development for educators in the Great Lakes Bay area of Michigan.

The Common Core State Standards in math and English Language Arts are beginning their slow creep into America's classrooms in 46 states and Washington, D.C., according to a new report released Wednesday by the Center on Education Policy.

EDUCATION A new report by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 94 % of teachers spend an average of $ 479 for classroom supplies per year, with teachers who work at schools with a large population of low - income students spending the most money.

Training for staff in the West Orange, New Jersey school district was centered around how to integrate brain breaks for better focus and concentration... healthy eating messages sprinkled throughout the school hallways, cafeteria, and classrooms... and nutrition education woven into PE and core curriculum K - 12!

¨ More than 2000 students will benefit from the New Teacher Induction teachers» focus on better instruction through active student - centered classrooms.

More than 400 teachers with one to six years of classroom experience attended the CEA New Teacher Conference at the Mohegan Sun Conference Center on April 6 to get training to help them be the best teachers possible and improve student performance.

At William C. Overfelt High School in San Jose, New Teacher Center last year helped design an extensive teacher collaboration program for veteran and novice teachers from different subjects to work in groups on classroom lessons and individualized improvement plans for students.

Blog # 12 — Making ESSA Work in Early Childhood Classrooms for Dual Language Learners by Alexandra Figueras - Daniel, National Institute for Early Education Research The Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) is proud to partner with New America on this blog series highlighting early learning opportunities and challenges under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

In particular, a partnership with New World Educational Center in Phoenix brought technology into their classrooms, and eventually Revive IT equipped them with a full computer lab using affordable enterprise - grade technology.

As CEEAS takes over the school in the New Orleans juvenile detention center, its teachers hope to engage students lagging in classroom basics.

Using the principles we offer above, we suggest that English language arts methods classes can infuse technology in a way that does not interfere with the content pedagogy but supports it in a way that actively involves students and prepares them with the technical and pedagogical skills for creating the new learning - centered classroom.

Aleta Margolis talks about the Common Core, fostering inquiry in the classroom, and guiding new teachers by Aleta Margolis, Executive Director, Center for Inspired Teaching Podcast in Learning Matters: December 13, 2011

At the beginning of the week, the teacher has updated the classroom learning centers to include new materials.

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

Los Angeles — A new report from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project, Suspended Education in California's Public Schools, estimates that more than 400,000 students were suspended and removed from classrooms at least one time during the 2009 - 10 school year in California — enough to fill every seat in all the professional baseball and football stadiums in the state.