Sentences with phrase «new kinds of schools»

The report recognises that the government has made progress in establishing free schools quickly but warns that opening new kinds of schools at speed gives rise to risks.

Refugee parents arrive in new countries and develop new skill sets, creating new kinds of school cultures, in collaboration with their children's educators.

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 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».

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

Have a half - baked idea for a new morning ritual or a new kind of school - wide assembly?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

«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.

This era of higher standards, greater accountability, and more at - risk students requires a new kind of school and district leader who can inspire teachers, parents, and the community to coalesce and provide better opportunities for all students to achieve at high levels.

These very equivocal findings provide a less - than - robust platform from which to launch a new kind of school into a system that already has many, but that is not the only problem.

Sen. Alberta Darling is proposing a new kind of school voucher known as an Education Savings Account specifically for children who live in low - income households and are considered to be gifted, or advanced learners.

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.

The idea met with enthusiastic support from the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers, school board members and state lawmakers, who last session passed a law giving school boards more freedom to create new kinds of 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.

I came here to answer Tennessee's urgent call to improve Priority schools and to build a new kind of school district that would put the power back in the hands of parents and teachers.

However, the existing measuring stick does mean there's an admittedly depressing possibility coming up for new kinds of schools to open, or for fledgling innovative schools to gain students.

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.