Sentences with phrase «new school year approaches»

As the new school year approaches, teachers are preparing to return to classrooms and students are enjoying the last days of summer.

As the new school year approaches, explore a selection of digital tools recommended by teacher educator Curtis Chandler that can help you streamline lesson planning, create secure class websites, connect with families, and gather information on how your new students like to learn.

State legislators are looking to get it done quickly with the new school year approaching.

With a new school year approaching, districts around the country are issuing urgent pleas for teachers to come work for them.

«With the new school year approaching, let's ensure that each child in the community has the tools to succeed.

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With a new school year fast - approaching, you'll constantly notice the tick, tick, tick of the clock again.

Many kids (and parents) are feeling mounting anxiety over the approach of a new school year.

I approach summer camp prep like I approach getting ready for the start of a new school year — lists, lists, and more lists.

As the new school year quickly approaches, it's important that families make sure they get back to their school year sleep routine before the first bell rings.

This is close to what the French government attempted a few years ago with the introduction of a new approach to gender in school curricula.

«We are confident that the continuing roll - out of Curriculum for Excellence, the new approach to learning and teaching in Scottish schools, will lead to greater achievement for all pupils in the years ahead.

Sure Start underpins the Government's entire new approach to ending child poverty, which involves heavy intervention in the lives of disadvantaged children — from newborns to five - year - olds, and largely through the network of neighbourhood centres — to make sure they are ready to start school and make the most of it.

For years, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took a hard - line approach to reforming New York's schools, calling on the state to mandate rigorous evaluations for teachers and to turn schools that fail to meet certain standards over to an outside receiver to operate.

«We've known for several years that activating the Tie2 pathway that indirectly suppresses the effects of VEGF had great potential, and the new approach we tested in this study provides a great way to take advantage of that,» says Peter Campochiaro, M.D., the George S. and Dolores D. Eccles Professor of Ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a faculty member at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins.

It's a valid question — one that Kulreet Chaudhary, M.D., might have asked some years ago, back in medical school, before she had completely changed her approach to healthcare, which eventually led her to pen this new book, The Prime: Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss, released earlier this month.

This Online Class Wants to Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolutions The Atlantic, 12/31/13 «Harvard School of Education professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey think we need to use a different approach to change.

After years of experiencing a one - size - fits - all federal approach to school accountability and intervention, ESSA provides states with an opportunity to excel by designing new systems that reach far more children with intervention strategies that meet their needs and the needs of their schools.

A cursory tour of the guidebook will leave the reader wiser about the distinctive characteristics of charter schools (autonomous, accountable, choice - based), its innovations (longer days and years, new approaches to staffing), and key strengths (increasing parental engagement, empowering educators).

But new students, new sections and new school years require a new approach.

The PBIS approach is used in many schools, including Depew (New York) Middle School, where principal Joseph DAmato is implementing it this year.

A more constructive approach is the road we've been traveling for 20 years now: expanding school choice via new, high - quality options.

The emergence of new schools» structures over the last few years has seen the advent of new roles within these structures, where specialist roles are being developed to drive efficiencies, provide oversight and drive consistency of approach across school structures.

In light of the New Year approaching, perhaps one goal of teachers of the gifted and teachers, who instruct the gifted in their classrooms, could be to replace educational malnourishment with academically, intellectually, and emotionally satisfying curriculum and experiences — allowing gifted children to thrive in school on a daily basis.

«We are hoping that these important state leaders will be intellectually stimulated, exposed to some new tools and perspectives, refreshed by a chance to reflect in the company of experienced, knowledgeable peers and faculty, and generally reinvigorated as they approach a new school year,» Reville says, adding that it is also an opportunity for participants to form continuing relationships with HGSE and its faculty.

Citing her own state's example, Wagner says, for instance, that students coming to Minnesota from Somalia 20 years ago presented more basic EL needs, but Minnesota's newer population of Somali immigrants tend to have a very conservative approach to education, which affects how schools can involve students in art and music activities.

Flipped Learning Flipped learning, the pedagogic approach where students learn new content online by watching video lectures, reviewing presentations or conducting research, is increasingly common in schools who rolled out school - wide tablets a couple of years ago.

We therefore employ a third approach that gauges the amount of variation in principal effectiveness directly by measuring the additional fluctuation in school average achievement gains when a new principal assumes leadership, as compared to typical fluctuations from year to year.

I approach the new school year with a new outlook — and some new ideas — for reaching my hard - to - reach students.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

When Teacher published a piece by New South Wales academic David Roy earlier this year on the implementation and benefits of cross-curricular approach Queensland educator Leanne Chesterfield got in touch to share the fact that her school has spent the last few years developing a cross-curricular framework.

Jacqui Glenn, director at Argos for Business, says: «As the summer holidays are well underway and the new academic year is fast approaching, schools would benefit from ensuring their facilities are not only are ready for the new intake of pupils but also ensure their classrooms and common areas support the needs of young people with greater needs.

Last year saw a flurry of activity in support of personalized learning, new school designs, and new approaches to K - 12 education policy.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

Over the last several years, we have seen new approaches to Catholic education that shake free of the older models of how schools should be organized and run and provide proof points for a new type of Catholic school system.

The new schools will employ an «early college» approach, in which students take a high school curriculum for three years and college courses during the fourth year, allowing them to enter college as...

A break from hyperactive policymaking gives schools the time and space to finish what we started — to actually implement the higher standards that most states adopted seven years ago; to get better at giving teachers helpful feedback about their instructional practices; to find curricula worth teaching; and to experiment with new approaches to personalization.

Recognizing that enrollment numbers at the new school could still fluctuate — and not wanting to repeat the chaos of prior years — the staff opted for a new approach to the start of the school year.

A year and a half ago, Calvary approached the University of California's Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools with the curricula of some new courses it wanted to offer.

Rather than focusing on where students are in their long - term progress, this approach often treats each new topic (or school year) as a fresh start — a self - contained body of content to be taught, learnt and assessed.

In his latest Teacher video, Greg Whitby speaks to Melanie Brown from Our Lady of Nativity Primary School about the new approach to student leadership and learning that's been implemented at her New South Wales school, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadershipSchool about the new approach to student leadership and learning that's been implemented at her New South Wales school, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadership ronew approach to student leadership and learning that's been implemented at her New South Wales school, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadership roNew South Wales school, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadershipschool, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadership role.

Because the school is taking such a new approach and serves children from many different backgrounds who have varying ability levels, people have watched closely during the first year.

As the start of the school year approached, I switched my focus from creating the physical space to introducing and implementing this new classroom environment to students and parents.

In 1994, after three years of teaching elementary school in Houston through Teach for America, the pair decided to apply their classroom experience to a new approach to education — and thus KIPP was born.

But this school year, new voices, with a new approach and vision, are joining this long debate.

Many school districts are taking the slow approach to better nutrition and may not be in compliance with the National School Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy group Public Voice for Food and Health Pschool districts are taking the slow approach to better nutrition and may not be in compliance with the National School Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy group Public Voice for Food and Health PSchool Lunch Program's new guidelines for several years, according to a report released last week by the advocacy group Public Voice for Food and Health Policy.

In the event that a chosen turnaround model doesn't deliver improved results within two years, the secretary can force the school to start over with a new approach.

As a follow - up, each quarter during the school year teachers come to the district's central office for sessions to model new approaches to teaching.

It lays out approaches to maximize the opportunities presented by recent changes at the state and federal level, including CALPADS new attendance data collection for 2016 - 17 school year, and new chronic absence reporting requirements in the Every Student Succeeds Act.

Fordham even implicitly shows how its testing approach will eventually impact non-voucher private school students: «[i] f a private school's voucher students perform in the two lowest categories of a state's accountability system for two consecutive years, then that school should be declared ineligible to receive new voucher students until it moves to a higher tier of performance (emphasis added).»