Sentences with phrase «of changing schools»

Guides children through the trauma of changing schools and facing strange teachers and classmates.

«School reform» has a poor record of changing schools for the better.

The Manchester Central MP said Labour's sponsored academy programme did «a huge amount to transform a small number of failing schools in disadvantaged areas», but warned there was «no evidence» that the process of changing schools into academies «in and of itself» led to school improvement.

Williams explained how instead of changing school rules, helping children on a one to one basis was the best way to deal with the issue.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about New Yorkers re-certifying gun licenses, and the prospect of changing the school year.

«Here They Come, Ready or Not,» an Education Week special report published May 14, 1986, presented a detailed demographic portrait of the changing school - age population.

Forestry and wildlife instructor Tom Furrer has kept the United Anglers of Casa Grande High School in Petaluma, California, going for twenty - three years, an amazing feat in a world of changing school leadership, unpredictable funding, and fidgety teens with diverse interests.

In a sign of the changing school choice landscape, 26 percent of adults living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in an alternative setting that was not a traditional public school.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the authors» experience of changing school culture in Oakland, California by introducing restorative justice.

Paraprofessionals can be part of the change schools need to ensure all students achieve their highest potential.

NORMAL — The McLean County Unit 5 board of education voted unanimously in favor of changing school times at Wednesday's meeting.

Some two thirds of students in public schools have the option of changing school buildings within their districts or neighboring districts.

HCPS researches school calendar change Hopewell City Public Schools has been researching the possibility of changing the school calendar from a traditional model to what is called a balanced calendar.

The frequency of changing school grading measurements also came up on the Hill.

DeWitt also reprises information from an ASCD book that he wrote with Sean Slade on the subject of changing school climate.

• Candidates will identify how the leader makes sense of changing school demographics and how that influences her leadership

Develop professional community and organizational learning with the specific intention of changing their school culture;

School - wide achievement data would shed light onto the gains in learning for students as a result of the changed school culture and would show whether VTS affects achievement in other subjects as well.

The district subsequently formed a task force to look at the feasibility of changing school schedules, and the board eventually voted on the change.

There's talk of changing the school aid formula, which could benefit CPS.

Because school communities continually change, periodic examination of current practices and their outcomes provides insights for teams to make informed decisions to alter strategies that better meet the needs of your changing school community.

Not exact matches

On this podcast episode of «School of Greatness,» be prepared to learn something about yourself and the power you have to change the world.

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

This announcement makes Kroger the third major retailer to change its gun sale policies in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14.

This research shows that this kind of attitude adjustment will literally change the way their brain works for their better, giving them a boost at school.

But there's no doubt younger workers are changing the interpersonal dynamics of the modern workplace, much as they've already done in high schools and universities.

It also funds the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is based out of the London School of Economics, and it supports Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

Classrooms at Disselboom primary school are equipped with SchoolVision, a lighting system developed by Philips that changes the atmosphere and ambience of a classroom depending on the type of lesson being taught.

For Kersi Antia, marketing professor at Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario, that's got to change — the sooner, the better.

A $ 50 million «School of the Future» backed by Microsoft Corp. opens this September in Philadelphia, and it may redesign ideas about education as thoroughly as technology has changed the workplace.

We took the kids out of school and travelled the world to see what we could change.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

To that end, we have teamed up with the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School — a recognized leader in online business education — to create an innovative executive certificate program called: Change the World: Leading with Purpose.

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

Richard Wong, for one, found that changing his behaviour wasn't necessary after a recent promotion in recruitment at Western University's Richard Ivey School of Business.

Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

THESIS: Entrepreneurs can survive disruptive change Oleksiy Osiyevskyy PhD student University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business, Calgary

NATS said that shift had «resulted in major changes in the flows of traffic, and with many schools now breaking up the demand for flying is expected to reach new levels.»

It's not easy to implement in the face of the fierce resistance to change, which may be the only thing that many schools are still really good at.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

Even before Heinz bought Kraft, the small - town ways of Oscar Mayer were changing, says Mike Judge, former head of consumer insights and strategy there and now Director of the Center for Brand and Product Management Center at the University of Wisconsin Business School.

At the heart of the changes at Wharton is what the school is calling «pathways for fulfillment» — essentially required courses in six different «content areas» that are broader than the traditional disciplines taught at most business schools.

But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

In truth, most so - called curriculum overhauls are cosmetic marketing exercises intended to show that a school is adapting to the changing needs and demands of business.

The Financial Times global ranking, one of only two that combine U.S. schools with others around the world, provides a good picture of those changes.

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.