Sentences with phrase «nontraditional schools in»

Eric also served as the National Director of Educational Services for AMIkids, Inc., a nonprofit organization providing intervention services to youth in juvenile justice programs and nontraditional schools in nine states.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

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Parents from nontraditional families might worry about their kids being teased or even harassed in school.

Medical school curricula are being revised to reflect the explosive pace of discoveries in the clinical neurosciences and other nontraditional specialties.

«There's an increasingly favorable bias toward «nontraditional» medical school applicants: students who are more mature and have experience and achievement beyond their premed studies are generally a better bet to be successful in medical school and beyond,» Albert says.

Our Universities and Colleges are nationally and internationally accredited, nontraditional schools, granting post-secondary holistic degrees in natural health and healing, holistic nutrition, non-secular degrees, Naturorthopathic, & HygioPhysician ® degrees, as well as Certified Programs in Natural Health and Holistic Nutrition including non-secular programs.

If you are classically trained actor, you usually learn how to dance and how to play a few instruments as part of your schooling, but in today's acting world, there are many many nontraditional actors in Hollywood and elsewhere.

The school also extends the day in another nontraditional way — students are given teachers» cell phone numbers and are allowed to call them on school nights until 9 p.m. and on weekends.

Julia: For school leaders looking to transition their school to nontraditional instructional models like blended learning, what do you view as the key leadership skills they need to successfully steer their school in a new direction?

As an alumna of the Ed School's Technology in Education Program, I have had a long - standing interest in educating children through nontraditional methods.

In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11In fact, only nine of the superintendents in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11in the nation's largest urban school systems have ever been superintendents in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11in another major city (which is less than the number of nontraditional superintendents now running major school systems, of which there are 11).

Foundations have invested millions over the past decade in New Leaders for New Schools, an organization that recruits nontraditional principal candidates and prepares them for the challenges of school leadership.

«We need to become more aggressive earlier in the year about helping nontraditional candidates access networks that can help them and in helping them understand the climate of the school system,» he says.

They fit the results - oriented culture of the training ground and corporate offices that have spawned the new superintendents,» wrote Matthews in On - the - Job Learning of Nontraditional Superintendents, published in the February 1999 issue of School Administrator, AASA's online magazine.

In a setback for opponents of one - shot, «high stakes» tests, New York state Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills last week rejected a bid by about 40 nontraditional schools to substitute individually tailored projects for the English examination the state recently began to require for graduation.

Frank Stasio also speaks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen, associate director of national outreach and community building with Education Reimagined, a non-profit initiative of Convergence that works to accelerate the growth and impact of the learner - centered education movement in the United States, about the range of nontraditional school models, the educational mindset they reflect and how they prepare children for work and life.

The ecosystem of D.C. charter schools that has evolved over the last two decades represents a cornucopia of creative and nontraditional approaches to education, in addition to fairly traditional college - prep schools.

If voters pass an initiative allowing charter schools, Washington will become one of the nation's leaders in its embrace of the nontraditional mode of educating students with public funds...

There are also «nontraditional» student leaders whose influence over their peers» decision - making has not been acknowledged in school.

Participants explore how to engage traditional and nontraditional student leaders solving serious problems in their schools and transform student engagement for all learners.

WKCD's Students as Allies program, sponsored by MetLife Foundation, has had the chance to work with an extraordinary teacher and group of students at Oakland Tech High School who are part of this campaign to raise nontraditional student leaders, in a community where poverty and violence have a hard grip.

The webinar, which will be from1 - 2:30 p.m. ET, is designed for superintendents, central office instructional staff, principals, teachers and other practitioners at the district and school levels interested in nontraditional instruction.

A current policies and procedures manual that is consistent with the vision and mission of the nontraditional or alternative school, approved by the local board of education, and articulated to all stakeholders in the form of standard operating procedures (SOPs) is maintained.

An exemplary professional school counseling program that serves nontraditional or alternative students targets academic performance, is grounded in research based practices, and addresses the current and future needs of students.

Two of every 10 students in Pima County are enrolled in nontraditional schools, a category that includes charter, private, online and home schools.

An exemplary digital or virtual learning program implemented in a nontraditional or alternative school is accessible via the World Wide Web and in secure facilities.

But with the Obama administration's Race to the Top program providing billions of dollars to states and school districts that agree to evaluate all teachers according to student achievement data, attempts to «count» learning in nontraditional subjects are proliferating.

Another nontraditional way to enter the teaching profession is by teaching in a charter school, which does not require full licensure in many states but may require candidates to go through other hiring and selection processes.71 Teachers of color are better represented in charter schools: 30 percent of all charter school teachers are teachers of color, compared with 18 percent of traditional public school teachers.72

14.7 Program policies encourage the active engagement of parents / guardians as equal partners in the planning, implementation, and development of the nontraditional or alternative school.

The Advocate: Nontraditional students in Lafayette Parish may have new school option in 2017 http://bit.ly/2bbNVFR

SoundOut provided training to nontraditional student leaders at this alternative high school in suburban Seattle.

One parent remarked that in the three - plus years that she has known Richardson, she has witnessed how the school has transformed to include exciting opportunities to learn and integrate technology in both traditional and nontraditional classroom environments.

UWSP also offers a continuing education program in education for nontraditional students returning to school after many years.

During her tenure, Bartoletti partnered with the state department of education on a nontraditional principal certification program that greatly expanded the pool of competent school leaders by enabling professionals with advanced degrees in areas other than education to become principals.

Wake County Schools has so far largely met the class size reductions by putting classes in nontraditional classroom spaces.

The report begins by identifying states where combined state and local revenues are systematically lower in higher - poverty districts then goes beyond recent reports on school funding inequities to uncover some nontraditional causes of these imbalances.

NASSP believes that charter schools and other nontraditional public schools have the potential to develop innovative methods of educating diverse student populations that can then be replicated in traditional public schools.

The number of students in North Carolina's charter schools has more than doubled in the past seven years, but the number of these nontraditional public schools opening each year is slowing down.

These nontraditional school schedules not only increase students» learning time but also ensure that students can remain in a safe, engaging environment while their parents are hard at work.

Charter school policies often allow for flexibility in implementing nontraditional classroom models of education.

A safe, caring, and orderly climate and culture that promotes collegial relationships among students, parents / guardians, and staff is maintained in an exemplary nontraditional or alternative school.

That compares with 1.33 million nontraditional books and 302,000 conventional books in 2009, according to Albert Greco, a publishing - industry expert at Fordham University's business school.

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Law school ends up throwing some very high barriers in a nontraditional student's path.