Sentences with phrase «of giving schools meaningful»

It read: «We were therefore mindful of the importance of supporting retention at this stage and of giving schools meaningful scope for differentiated, performance - based awards for those on the maxima of the main pay range.

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Whereas some authors of the former groups arrive at a priori - constructions lacking the broad basis of verifiable facts, the latter school seems to be too reluctant to give that interpretation to their findings which alone can make them really meaningful.

And, ultimately, what each of these models — from school lunch food trucks to give - what - you can restaurants and a technology - based food share platform — proves is that the future of food access is about both thinking outside of the box and about understanding the needs within your community to deliver something healthy and meaningful.

If Sweetgreen really wants to improve school food in this country, I wish it had given the many thousands of people who've now seen its mocked - up photos a meaningful call to action.

Newsday's calculations focus on operating funds, because those are widely considered a more meaningful measure of what a district receives than aid for school construction and renovation, which may or may not go to a district in a given year, depending on whether the work is completed then.

The beneficiaries stated that with the new intervention of «Opon Imo» in education sector, public school students have been given a meaningful recognition and equal assessment with their counterparts in private schools.

The Monuments Project: Giving students as young as middle school opportunities to do the real work of historians — and provide meaningful public service in the process — is the idea behind the Monuments Project.

Schools need a strategy to give all relevant teachers the time, resources, and support to engage with the new subject in a meaningful way, so they can develop their confidence and skills in the concepts, technology and pedagogy necessary to fully realise the potential of Digital Technologies and ultimately thrive in a world where mobile devices have become ubiquitous.

Indeed, the most important (and uncertain) premise of Reading First was that it could catalyze and support meaningful change in the SEAs — could help them build agile expert systems that gave high - quality support to schools and districts — and thereby improve reading achievement among the poor, not just in isolated schools and districts as in the past but across entire states.

«If Dan Patrick and his followers wanted to give all students and their parents a meaningful educational choice, they would more adequately fund public education, so that children of all economic backgrounds would have a full menu of academic offerings and electives in their neighborhood public schools,» said Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria.

When I ask graduate education students to define inclusion, they give the standard description, the meaningful involvement and participation of children with disabilities in general education classrooms and school environments.

In a unanimous 8 - 0 decision that advocates say expands the rights of special education students, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that school districts must give students with disabilities the chance to make meaningful, «appropriately ambitious» progress.

«What we need to be better teachers is an evaluation system that gives us meaningful feedback,» said Daniel Mejias, a seventh - grade math teacher at M.S. 22 in the Bronx, one of the 33 schools in question.

Meetings and presentations from public school leaders to the Gates Foundation have brainstormed various ideas, including»... focus on teacher training, putting the best teachers in the most challenging classrooms, giving the best teachers new roles as mentors and coaches while keeping them in front of children, making tenure a meaningful milestone, getting rid of ineffective teachers, and using money to motivate people and schools to move toward these goals.»

Though short in words, the blonde student's recognition of the deficit of schools teaching students meaningful lessons outside of career preparation summarizes one side of the arguments in these interviews: Students are not being given a relevant education they can feel invested in, thus they are disinterested.

Held to a higher standard of accountability than traditional public schools, but with the benefit of added autonomy that puts local school leaders and teachers in charge, Tennessee's public charter schools are empowered to create a challenging and focused learning environment for students, while giving parents even more direct and meaningful opportunities to participate in their children's education.

No longer are we required to give one extensive summative test each year, when the requirement can be met by using interim assessments that are already given in schools and combining those with more authentic forms of assessment that are far more meaningful to students.

We wanted to give our long - standing School Council a new lease of life, making pupil feedback and involvement more meaningful and so, when talking to the pupils about the KAR plan, I used this time to launch our Junior Leadership Team (JLT).

Meaningful use of data in school means giving all students the opportunity to achieve at high levels.

Having OBOL and Ginger come to our school gave us the opportunity to come together (all 600 of us) to hold a collection drive that was meaningful and impactful for our students.Seeing students of different ages coming with a comfort item to donate is an excellent example of social justice in action!

Building upon the success of Law Jobs: By The Numbers ™, the institute is developing a new data - fueled tool that will give prospective students access to meaningful, individualized information about the law school options available to them.

Taking the second part of your question first, I have completely given up on any expectation that law schools will reform themselves in any meaningful way.

FAMILY LAW — CHILDREN — Best interests — Where both parents seek sole parental responsibility and for the child to live with them — Where the respondent mother believes the child would settle down and accept the arrangement if the court ordered for the child to spend no time with applicant father — Where the court has a statutory mandate to make parenting orders with the child's best interests as the paramount concern — Where there is little doubt that the child would benefit from having a meaningful relationship with both parents — Where the child's clear views that he does not want to spend time with the respondent mother should be given significant weight in the circumstances — Where the child is of an age, maturity and intelligence to have principally formed his own rationally based views — Where the court is satisfied that it is in the child's best interests for the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility to be rebutted — Where the respondent father is to have sole parental responsibility and the child is to live with him — Where the applicant mother is permitted to attend certain school and sporting events of the child — Where the child should be able to instigate contact with the respondent mother as he considers appropriate to his needs and circumstances — Where the orders made are least likely to lead to the institution of further proceedings in relation to the child — Where the child is to have the outcome of these proceedings, the effect of the orders and the reasons for judgment explained to him by an expert as soon as reasonably practical.