Sentences with phrase «new kind of school»

Two mothers who themselves understood the challenges of finding appropriate educational options for their sons, committed themselves to creating a new kind of school — one that would offer a high quality education to all of it's students at no cost to their families.

Opened in the fall of 2012, the idea was to create a bold new kind of school district that was run by the state and less restricted by administrative red tape, in order to do some radical turn - around work in some of Michigan's worst schools.

The TV ads pitch a new kind of school where the power of the Internet allows gifted and struggling students alike to «work at the level that's just right for them» and thrive with one - on - one attention from teachers connecting through cyberspace.

Little Kids Rock has invented an entirely new kind of school music program which we call Modern Band.

These days, with the federal Race to the Top program and state legislation loosening teacher tenure, many districts across the country are looking for a new kind of school leader — principals with an intense focus on evaluating teachers, helping them improve, rewarding those deemed «most effective,» and firing ones who are persistently substandard.

But the Perry Preschool was going to be a new kind of school.

œThe goal of this program is to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice, Fischer says.

œThe goal of this program, according to Fischer, œis to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice.

Microsoft has had plenty of opportunities to observe how difficult it can be to create a new kind of school.

â $ œThe goal of this program, â $ according to Fischer, â $ œis to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice.

â $ œThe goal of this program is to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice, â $ Fischer says.

«The goal of this program is to build a new kind of school - university partnership that provides a solid, long - term foundation for meaningful connection of research and practice,» Fischer says.

The second company, EDUmetrika, is working with a school to develop a new kind of school information system that emphasizes the use of data — metrics and key performance indicators — to help with decision - making.

Waldorf Academy Biography In 1986 a small group of parents in the downtown area of Toronto came together inspired by a vision of a new kind of school for their children — a Waldorf school.

It's imperative that we create new kinds of schools, freed from an educational system deeply rooted in the distant past and the kinds of schools so many of us attended many decades ago.

George Lucas believes our educational system is stuck in the past: «It's imperative that we create new kinds of schools.»

«Authorizers should open lots of innovative and new kinds of schools, but they also have to be able to close them if they fail kids.

The legacy of the Charter School movement in the US - KIPP in particular - echoes through the rapid emergence of new kinds of school organisation in the UK — federations clustered around «Teaching Schools» which, partnered with a university, provide professional development from initial teacher training to leadership and management across groups of schools; independent yet state - funded chains of academies and the new «Free Schools».

Not exact matches

When Kasia Urbaniak first started a new kind of power - training school for women, she had a tough time getting people to understand what the place was all about.

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

During most MBA programs, business school students read numerous case studies, evaluating the strategies of many different kinds of companies, analyzing the cost of bringing new product lines to market and novel methods to cut expenses.

«Even though I was born and raised in the Midwest, when you have a father from New York, it kind of rubs off on you in terms of your aggressiveness,» Simon told a group of Wharton School students in 2009.

«The largest competition of its kind in Canada, the RBC Fast Pitch Competition sets the Haskayne School of Business apart by providing startup cash, advisory support and mentorship, and it has led to the creation of new opportunities for students from all disciplines across our great campus,» says Kim Neutens, director of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

Indeed, after the fall of Jerusalem the new rabbinic Judaism under the guidance of Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai and his school undertook something of the kind.

I learned quickly at the Divinity School that full respect was reserved chiefly for the mainline Protestant churches of the old New England kind, including Congregationalists, Anglicans, Unitarians, and Presbyterians, with considerable respect also for the mainstream Lutherans (less so for the Missouri Synod) and some Methodists, but very little for the Baptists and those others from «the left wing of the Reformation.»

The large number of women and minority students has transformed the schools into new kinds of communities.

Suburban schools are also unprepared for new kinds of students who enter the system from non-English speaking or reading impoverished backgrounds.

We don't really have any idea what kind of team Billups would want to put together; or if he is more tied to the old - school eye test, new school analytics or a mixture of both.

That kind of cash grab, sources say, is rubbing ESPN and Fox the wrong way because any new schools would not carry the profile of most power five schools, which is what the networks are paying for.

After spending time at home with her now - first grade daughter, she's bringing in another kind of dough at Oui Chef, her new Lincoln Park cooking school that's not only adding kids into the mix, but changing the way they see — and taste!

My fear is that the new series will focus even more on JO's party line that the schools are «the bad guys» and «getting away with murder», which really does not promote any kind of constructive dialog between parents and their school nutrition director.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

We often hear this kind of thinking from people who are new to the school food reform movement, or from students just starting to get involved with trying to make changes.

Starting school can be daunting even when a child has been to preschool first however if reception year or kinder is their first experience of school it's a minefield of new experiences that you can help prepare them for this summer with playful ideas.

Tanner left the world of managing retirement portfolios in pursuit of something that would leave «a different kind of legacy,» enrolling as a food policy grad student at New York University with the intention of becoming a school food services director.

Maybe on the high school level, you could put together an ad campaign of photographs of ridiculously sexy people saying their biggest turn - off is a picky eater, in order to kick start the process of obtaining that adult realization that you want to be seen as the kind of person who tries new things.

They discuss the current emphasis on these kinds of skills in American education, and the emphasis on standardized testing, and then turn our attention to a growing body of research that suggests we may be on the verge of a new approach to some of the biggest challenges facing American schools today.

World events and disasters of all kinds can make it harder to deal with other difficult or traumatic personal situations such as illness or death in the family, divorce, a move to a new town or school.

While General Mills supported some of the new rules, the company had previously urged USDA to delay implementation of the standards and asked for more flexibility about what kinds of food could be sold in schools.

I'm kind of disappointed to see so few comments considering we would have pretty lengthy conversations prior to the new school lunch rules.

I'm so excited to share a wonderful new video series with you that will show you all kinds of great ideas for packing healthy school lunches!

I know Governor Paterson likes to cut money from schools, because the state is so broke, but maybe the money that will be made hosting huge MMA events in New York could help the state recover from the economic shortfalls, and little Jimmy and little Susie can get the kind of education that New York State should be offering.

Wiley, who will take over as chair next month, calls herself a racial and gender justice advocate and says those roots make her move from legal adviser inside City Hall to head of the outside agency — as well as professor at the New School — a kind of homecoming.

The common denominator between the old school and the new is the kind of students it serves.

While the response from the gun lobby has been remarkably similar — blaming the massacre on mental - health issues, advocating for policemen or armed teachers in schools as well as the need for «good guys with guns» — they have a new kind of adversary.

All of the progressive things that California's doing and Oregon and Washington — campaign finance reform and voting reform and fully funding our schools and being a leader in renewable energy and enacting real criminal justice reform... this is the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.

The agency is responsible for giving away $ 76 million in cash and making sure Columbia delivers $ 30 million for construction of a new K - 8 school in conjunction with Teachers College, $ 20 million for an affordable housing fund and $ 20 million in in - kind benefits.

New York just made history when the City Council approved the nation's first bills of their kind to provide free tampons and pads in all public schools, homeless

Nixon pointed to issues like campaign finance reform, criminal justice reform, renewable energy and school funding as «the kind of stuff we want to be doing in New York.»