Sentences with phrase «of city classrooms»

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For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

AMA Mexico catalyzed community members to plant 3,000 new trees in the park and weekly meetings focused on community development take place in the on - site classrooms built by the city of Puebla.

Noting that we do not live in a sacred world valuing «received knowledge» from holy writ, but in a profane world harshly criticizing that tradition, Victoria Erickson of Union Theological Seminary in New York City wondered if we dared invite our worst critics into our classrooms for dialogue.

Cry out in the city gates and in pulpits and online and in classrooms: we bring you tidings of great joy!

A former inner - city high school teacher, Farrington left the classroom after 15 years to get a Ph.D. in urban - education policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In prior careers she was a church musician (organist, choir director), classroom and private music teacher at Brent International School in Baguio City, Philippines and King of Kings School in Roseville, Minnesota; middle school Spanish teacher at The Blake School in Hopkins, Minnesota; and business owner.

In prior careers she was a church musician (organist, choir director), classroom and private music teacher (Brent International School in Baguio City, Philippines; King of Kings School in Roseville, Minnesota), middle school Spanish teacher (at The Blake School in Hopkins, Minnesota), and business owner.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

Faculty members at the Waldorf School of Garden City are gifted teachers who have dedicated themselves to working closely with students in and out of the classroom.

«The Park District's summer day camps and programs are an essential resource that help children across the city continue to learn and grow outside of the classroom,» said Mayor Rahm Emanuel in a news release.

Each study details the implementation of universal breakfast - in - the - classroom pilot programs, one in Memphis City Schools and the other in Dallas Public Schools.

Medical City Dallas Children's Hospital - ground floor classrooms A and B (to the far left of the entrance)

«I was in 8th grade then and came from a classroom of 50 kids back in the city.

An emerging initiative has been implementing a classroom breakfast program in all of the city's schools, and 50 have signed on so far; the system also has grab - and - go breakfast kiosks in six schools.

The number of New York City kids eating free breakfasts in public school classrooms is growing, but the obesity rates are not, a new study finds.

Every preschool in our city denied our son admission because they either didn't want to deal with the «liability of a food allergic child,» didn't want to learn how to operate an EpiPen Jr., or didn't want to monitor a nut - free classroom.

With over 20 classrooms, the Waldorf School of Garden City provides a completely wireless environment.

When Memphis City Schools dietitian Kim Stewart wrapped up the session she did so with a short but effective anecdote about a teacher who had a real change of heart about breakfast in the classroom.

-- $ 600 million — including $ 177 million for New York City — of the Governor's $ 1.4 billion in devastating school aid cuts is restored, providing direct classroom support and property tax relief to working families throughout New York State.

Suspensions of children in kindergarten through second grade have dropped in New York City public schools after City Hall's push to keep the littlest learners in their classrooms.

The city's incoming schools chancellor on Sunday defended the limited practice whereby certain teachers accused of wrongdoing buy their way back into the classroom.

She has been part of the city budget process assisting in the allocation of over $ 5 million for infrastructure projects to renovate parks and upgrade technology in classrooms, and the designation of over $ 600,000 to increase and expand programming throughout the district.

Fariña took on the role of chancellor promising to restore «dignity» and «joy» to city classrooms after a tumultuous relationship between former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city's vast teaching force.

Nearly a third of the «educators» mothballed in the city Absent Teacher Reserve were banned from the classroom because of alleged misconduct and incompetence, Department of Education figures show — ...

But as the husband of a teacher who has taught for years in city classrooms, it also seemed as if there was only one practical and moral resolution:

The Mayor and the Chancellor have argued that those schools rejected by the city would have meant the displacement of special needs students and overcrowded classrooms.

BY ANDY HUMM City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, the Council's LGBT Caucus, and two other Bronx councilmembers are calling on Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark to secure an order of protection for Abel Cedeno — the gay student charged in the September 27 classroom fight that left Matthew McCree dead — from McCree's brother, -LSB-...]

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh City School District is in the process of incorporating the latest technology into classrooms through the state's Smart Schools Bond Act.

Mayor De Blasio and Cardinal Timothy Dolan toured a pre-K classroom at the Catherine Corry Academy at the Saint Francis of Assisi School in Wakefield on Thursday, where the Mayor spoke about a continued push to provide more prekindergarten to the city's children.

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job on Monday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, Mayor Bill de Blasio.

There is not one parent in New York City who would willingly accept one of these ATRs into their child's classroom.

In the classroom, Shafran said parents deserved more input on how the city plans to improve the quality of education throughout the borough.

New York City's new schools chancellor, Richard Carranza, got his first full taste of the job yesterday, as he visited classrooms in the Bronx to highlight the agenda of his boss, de Blasio.

At 1 p.m., an annual UFT survey has found that for the first time in five years the number of overcrowded NYC classrooms has shown a significant decline, UFT President Mike Mulgrew and elected officials will call on the state meet its obligations under the Contract for Excellence, including lowering all city classes to the state average, steps of Tweed Courthouse, 52 Chambers St., Manhattan.

Last week, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would revoke the city's offer of free classrooms in public schools for three charter schoCity Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he would revoke the city's offer of free classrooms in public schools for three charter schocity's offer of free classrooms in public schools for three charter schools.

The Rochester City School District is in the midst of hiring season for the next school year, and is pushing to add more teachers with diverse backgrounds to classrooms.

Some New York City teachers who got in trouble for insubordination or sleeping on the job who are part of the Absent Teacher Reserve could be permanently back in classrooms, as the Education Department places them in jobs this month.

Overcrowding in New York City schools is reaching its limit, with 80 percent of classrooms exceeding the state capacity.

Sen. Charles Schumer (D - NY) says this funding is essential for the grandparents who help in Syracuse classrooms, by way of the Senior Corp Chapter in the city of Syracuse.

Funding for the program, which reimburses educators for out - of - pocket spending on classroom supplies, received a 63.5 percent increase in the final city budget passed on June 6.

According to Haimson, a plan the city created in 2007 aimed to reduce the number of students in classrooms from 20 to 25, depending on the grade.

Let's hope de Blasio is willing to learn from his new chancellor — rather than surround him with political minders who frustrate Carranza's goal of creating «joyful learning» in city classrooms.

Four - out - of - five New York City voters (80 %) support a new teacher evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores, with 56 % supporting such a system strongly.

In the Watervliet City School District, a 1,500 student district in a largely poor and working - class sliver of Albany County, teachers and administrators have already begun to notice a marked change in the classroom.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

ALBANY, NY — Senate Co-Leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) and Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan (D - Queens) celebrated passage of legislation that would protect existing school playground space in New York City from the long term displacement caused by ongoing construction or temporary classrooms.

The formerly weed - choked vacant lot will be a classroom for a new venture called Farm School NYC: The New York City School of Urban Agriculture.

All of the classrooms at the High School of Fashion Industries on West 24th Street will have air conditioning by the fall as part of a plan to install AC units in every classroom throughout the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at an event at the school Wednesday.

He said Rochester city schools offer the least amount of classroom instruction time in the area.