Sentences with phrase «new voices in the school»

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How well are the churches addressing the tensions felt in the minds of many educated Christians who internally hear two choruses: on the one hand, the voices of their pastor and Sunday school, the scriptures and tradition; on the other, the voices of their high school science teacher, their college biology professor and the science section of the New York Times?

The Guardian: Louisiana education case highlights Bobby Jindal's creationism state Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal is rapidly emerging as a new «moderate» Republican voice, but a court case beginning Wednesday is set to shine light on a controversial policy in his state which sees government funding given to schools that teach creationism.

One boy, a new arrival at Polaris that year, had been kicked out of his previous school for breaking into the principal's office, and while he was doing better at Polaris, Brady said, he had clearly not left his troubles behind; he was the only student during the round of handshakes and greetings to report (in a quiet voice) that his spring break had been red.

New Voices commissioned the production company, Footpath Pictures, to make the documentary, which offers insight into daily school life for children who are hampered in their speech or mobility but who have good academic potential, and some of whom are gifted.

Within two weeks, one of the most influential voices in American nutrition — author and New York University professor Marion Nestle — found Fed Up With Lunch and reported on her Food Politics blog that «an intrepid school teacher, Mrs. Q, has vowed to eat school lunches every day for a year.

And if you'd like to add your own voice to the conversation, you can send this letter to McDonald's new CEO, Steve Easterbrook, asking the company to cease in - school marketing and to retire Ronald once and for all.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Senator Andrea Stewart - Cousins will hosted the rally in partnership with other elected officials and community groups throughout Westchester County including the Immigration Justice Clinic at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, the Lower Hudson Valley Chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Cabrini Immigrant Services, Community Voices Heard, the Yonkers Islamic Center, the Muslim American Society of Upper New York, St. Catherine AME Zion Church, Calvary Baptist Church, the Minister's Fellowship Council of White Plains and Vicinity, the Westchester Black Women's Political Caucus, and Temple Beth Shalom in Hastings - on - Hudson.

With the 2016 legislative session just getting underway, parent advocates who live in low - income communities across New York City and have children who attend both district and charter schools wanted to make sure their voices were heard.

Kevin Lafferty, who applied last week to replace Carl Paladino as the new Buffalo Public Schools board member representing the Park District, says it's important to have a voice on the board whose children attend school in the district.

«Senator Espaillat understands what New York schools need and will make sure the voices of teachers, parents and students are heard in Congress,» Mulgrew said.

Finding your way and finding your voice in the New York City school system: A short guide for parents.

I am proud to endorse him to be New York City's next comptroller because we need his voice in this city speaking out for good government, good jobs and good schools.»

In a statement released after the vote this afternoon, the union's president, Michael Mulgrew, praised Mr. Espaillat's record on education, and argued the Washington Heights lawmaker «understands what New York schools need and will make sure the voices of teachers, parents and students are heard in Congress.&raquIn a statement released after the vote this afternoon, the union's president, Michael Mulgrew, praised Mr. Espaillat's record on education, and argued the Washington Heights lawmaker «understands what New York schools need and will make sure the voices of teachers, parents and students are heard in Congress.&raquin Congress.»

The Town of Lewiston, Niagara County Legislature and the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown, as well as the Lewiston - Porter school district, have voiced their dissent despite the risk of losing out on the millions of dollars in revenue from taxes and fees that CWM would pay over the lifetime of the new landfill.

Outside City Hall in March, he voiced support for making the Lunar New Year a school holiday.

Even the frequently voiced complaint about the «economisation» of schools is nothing new: after all, the creation of the secondary school in the 1830s was largely based on economic considerations.

New studies of what these infants hear and don't hear during their weeks in the hospital suggests that some may be missing out on the positive impact of a mother's voice and heartbeat, and are instead training their brains to prioritize background noise over human voices, said Amir Lahav, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

There are no new ideas, no very funny new characters, but one frankly unfunny new character: a retired Merlin - wizard figure, voiced by Eric Idle, who used to teach spells in high school.

In the school's gymnasium, Principal Pynchley (voice of Walt Dohrn) was about to announce the winner of the new Mascot Contest - when Shrek arrived and declared himself the school's mascot.

On their first day in their new school, Alvin (voice by Justin Long), Simon (voice by Matthew Gray Gubler) and Theodore (voice by Jesse McCartney) are party to plenty of adolescent antics involving swirlies, wedgies and other forms of rough play.

The story begins with great potential as we come to learn about Mary (voiced by Ruby Barnhill) who is bored in the countryside while staying with her great aunt (Lynda Baron) because she arrived there a week early prior to the start of the new school year.

If you're wondering where you've heard Coach Burgess on the opposing junior high school team, he is actor Patrick Warburton who voiced Kronk in the Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove (which happens to be my favorite Disney animation).

A graduate of Dartmouth College and NYU Graduate Film School, recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation Award and Spike Lee Fellowship, Rashaad Ernesto Green has been included on the Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film list and indieWIRE's Ten Exciting New Voices in Black Cinema.

In a modern, cold, cookie - cutter world, a little girl (voiced by Interstellar's Mackenzie Foy) and her mother (Rachel McAdams) settle into a new home, chosen because it will allow the girl to attend a nearby prestigious school.

A year after a police shooting set off racially charged riots in Ferguson, Mo., the school system and its new superintendent are looking to correct educational disparities and «give kids a voice» in determining their future.

Sessions on day one included staff at Dakabin State High School sharing details of their pedagogical framework and explicit instruction guide known as «The Hive» model, an update on a student voice program at Pakuranga College in New Zealand and a case study on collaborative professional learning at Campbelltown Performing Arts High School in New South Wales.

Educators from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Teaching Systems Lab, and the instructional design firm Fresh Cognate have created Youth in Front, a new hub of learning - oriented resources and multimedia assets for young activists and the educators and adult allies interested making their voices heard — particularly those who are stepping into activism for the first time, and for the educators who are responding to action in their schools and communities.

The principal at West Middle School in Mount Gilead North Carolina, Derek took an active role in participating in the chat on November 2 and was a voice of support to new teachers during that hour.

Ponder those odds in light of Weingarten's explanation to the New York Times for the P.S. 194 lawsuit blocking the expansion of Harlem Success: «Parents should have a voice when it comes to their children's education, and by eliminating community schools without public hearings, the D.O.E. is taking away that voice.»

More Than Reading Scores and Stereotypes: The Voices of City Teachers and Students During an Education World visit to three New York City schools, the children offered insights about their lives in and out of school, and the adults talked about their struggle and dedication to help these children overcome challenges.

In this conversation between Bruce Dixon and I, we cover a range of topics, everything from student voice to homeschooling to new schooling to developing a modern lens for learning in schoolIn this conversation between Bruce Dixon and I, we cover a range of topics, everything from student voice to homeschooling to new schooling to developing a modern lens for learning in schoolin schools.

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The parents union, along with the parent empowerment efforts of StudentsFirst's New York affiliate (which is helping families in the Big Apple's traditional district fight for school libraries as well as lobby for teacher quality and other reforms), is actively helping families do more than just have a voice.

The ideas of student action research and students as allies in school reform are both relatively new ideas, stemming from a growing appreciation of the importance of student engagement and voice.

Gov. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia has endorsed a plan in the legislature that would give citizens a powerful new voice in determining whether schools in their communities consolidate.

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With the goal of creating 20,000 new seats in innovative schools of choice by 2024, we believe that sharing the voices of families in Idaho's many communities can help our schools, educators, and policy leaders increase access to great learning opportunities in the communities with the greatest need for better school options.

When center - left officials and institutions (such as the NAACP) support arbitrary caps, they are dismissing the voices of three million current charter school students and their parents, and the one million more who want to enroll their child in a charter school, but due to high demand, were only able to get on a waiting list (this includes: 8,640 parents in Washington, D.C., 44,000 in New York, 34,000 in Massachusetts, and a whopping 158,000 in California).

In addition to voices from parents, the New York Times» Editorial Board published a piece calling the NAAP's proposed moratorium «A Misguided Attack on Charter Schools.»

NSBA is committed to equity and excellence in public education through school board governance, and with the onset of a new administration and a new Congress, will amplify the voice of 90,000 school board members across the country, to maintain and strengthen the ability of local districts and school boards to act in the best interests of students, parents, and communities.

We invest in organizations and projects that elevate the voices of teachers, cultivate new teacher leaders, and foster outstanding school principals.

Before engaging in the nonprofit sector, Dr. McDowell created and implemented an environmental science and biology program at Napa New Technology High School, infusing 1:1 technology, innovative teaching and assessment, and leveraging student voice in the classroom.

The growth of youth organizing groups signals that the new generation can be a powerful voice in the movement toward equity and excellence in the public schools.

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

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This insight was voiced by participants in a secondary school redesign initiative sponsored by the New Jersey Department of Education.

July 21, 2016 (New York)-- Educators 4 Excellence - New York (E4E - New York), a teacher - led organization that seeks to elevate the voices of teachers in policy discussions, released the following statements on proposed actions for improving school climate released today by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the New York City Department of Education.

... Evan Stone, co-founder of Educators 4 Excellence, an advocacy group that seeks to elevate teachers» voices in policy, said his New York City members reported that some schools were using that weekly period well but others weren't.

Against a backdrop of the opportunities provided by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the challenges for education posed by the new federal administration, the Annenberg Institute for School Report has released an issue of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) and an online supplement that proposes performance assessment as a personalized and rigorous alternative Read more about Performance Assessment: Fostering the Learning of Teachers and Students (update)-LSB-...]