Sentences with phrase «of school capacity»

During the session, experts will share information on specific provisions in ESSA that can be used to bolster states» school leadership investments, especially for the lowest - performing schools, schools with large, persistent achievement gaps, and other schools identified as a state priority based on other crucial indicators of school capacity and performance and student success.

How schools contribute to student achievement also has been studied in respect to dimensions of school capacity (King & Newmann, 2000).

We also set aside important issues of school capacity and potential responses to a new school choice policy (such as the opening of new schools or closing of existing ones).

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«Young people have got the potential to be great employees in a sales capacity, but they're not coming out of school completely job - ready,» says Scarborough.

If he falls in the range for 71 - year - olds with a college degree (he has a bachelor's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania), then even if his language, memory, and other mental capacities have declined over the years he is probably not suffering from early Alzheimer's or other dementia.

In my view, the disruption that does occur happens when only the best alcohol retailers make the exclusive list to serve Saucey consumers — due to limited capacity on their platform — and the rest wallow in the muck and mire of old school, in - person, sales stagnation.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear the bill banning assault rifles and large capacity magazines.

Dr. Dewald has been with the Haskayne School of Business in various leadership capacities since 2006, moving to the role of dean in 2013.

In this capacity he spoke at an APF Canada - Rotman School of Management event in Toronto to launch the fellowship on February 1, 2017.

Tallahassee, Florida (CNN) The Florida state House on Tuesday rejected a ban on many semiautomatic guns and large capacity magazines as dozens of survivors of last week's school shooting headed to the state Capitol to turn their grief into political action.

A capacity crowd of some 550 people gathered to hear Dr. Fareed Zakaria's lecture at the Rotman School of Management on February 1, 2017.

Sheryl Acquarola, a 16 - year - old junior from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, is overcome with emotion in the east gallery of the state House of Representatives after the representatives voted not to hear a bill banning assault rifles and large - capacity magazines at the Capitol in Tallahassee on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.

Connecticut expanded a ban on assault weapons, prohibited the sale of high - capacity ammunition magazines and imposed stricter background checks on gun purchases after 20 children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012.

Most recently, Finch served schools in the capacity of account executive for Troxell Communications, the education communications solutions provider.

Prohibiting the sale of high - capacity magazines such as the ones the shooter at our school — and so many other recent mass shootings used.

The influence of birth was so great that many Muslims later became convinced that one did not need to look back to the original sources of the Qur» an and the Sunnah, for they believed wrongly that no one in these Later days has a capacity for reasoning equal to that of the founders of the schools of law.

It is similar with his teacher Donald MacKinnon and with MacKinnon's successor, Nicholas Lash: each of them had the capacity to found a school or movement but has rather done his theology in a more ruminative, interrogative mode.

Schools Without Failure, for example, applies his approach to increasing the capacity of schools to help develop more effective and responsible children andSchools Without Failure, for example, applies his approach to increasing the capacity of schools to help develop more effective and responsible children andschools to help develop more effective and responsible children and youth.

In honor of Black History Month, Montpelier High School in Vermont has become the first high school in the country to raise a Black Lives Matter flag in an official capacity on school grounds, say offiSchool in Vermont has become the first high school in the country to raise a Black Lives Matter flag in an official capacity on school grounds, say offischool in the country to raise a Black Lives Matter flag in an official capacity on school grounds, say offischool grounds, say officials.

The death - of - God school tells us that the picture of God we have just outlined, save for its inclusion of love and moral justice when modified by love, has died on those who have discovered the reality of human freedom, the human capacity to act significantly, and the responsibility we have for acting in freedom.

What makes a theological school theological is neither the cultivation of academic skills nor the cultivation of practical capacities.

Conversely, does the specific way in which this school «has to do with God» have the effect of minimizing the role of the disciplines and their ability to nurture in learners» capacities for independent and rigorous critical thinking?

what makes the school a theological school is that its practices of teaching and learning yield growth in abilities and capacities to discern and respond to God in the particular and odd ways in which God is present when and if God is present.

Since conceptual capacities needed to understand God include capacities that are «existentially» significant while at the same time fully as rational and as rigorously disciplined as any other capacities to understand anything else, can academic schooling be understood adequately simply as the acquisition of capacities for disciplined accumulation and mastery of data and capacities for critical and self - critical theorizing (cf the «Berlin» model)?

Alison Gray, in a recent doctoral study on the empirical use of material relating to The Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, in relation to the teaching of Key Stage Three religious education in a Catholic school in England, has shown the inherent capacity of children to reach belief by a proper use and understanding of the illative sense.

The point to be made, then, is that as a community of persons that seeks to understand God truly, a theological school is a community seeking to learn concepts, that is, to grow in abilities and capacities relative to God.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

At the same time, and without modifications of the «againstness,» a theological school's study may be «for» Christian congregations because it is the place where people can be helped to acquire the capacities for theological judgment that, as we saw, congregations inherently need in their common life.

The schooling will be unified when the overarching goal of all of its activities is the cultivation of persons» capacities for theological judgment in their conduct of theological inquiry.

The schools recognize this problem and through special education classes and projects attempt to provide the opportunity for each person to function at the maximum level of his capacities.

The second wave — developed largely by various historicist schools of thought, especially in the nineteenth century — replaced belief in the idea of a fixed human nature with a belief in human «plasticity» and capacity for moral progress and transformation.

Mathematical studies in the curriculums of schools and colleges sharpen self - awareness in thinking, stimulate conceptual inventiveness, and develop the capacity for symbol construction and transformation.

An attitude which avoids both sentimentality and cynicism must obviously be grounded in a Christian view of human nature which is schooled by the Gospel not to take the pretensions of men at their face value, on the one hand, and, on the other, not to deny the residual capacity for justice among even sinful men.14

Even if the ecumenical schools had the capacity to absorb a majority of the 55,000 students in American and Canadian seminaries — and they do not — they should not want to do so.

She serves the Jewish and broader religious communities in a number of capacities including as a member of the Global Initiative for Faith, Health and Development of the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, as a member of the Summit on Religious Leadership in Response to HIV and as a board member of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies.

But the perception of relevance — and thus the efficacious use of practical reason — require a firm grounding in the past and the secure possession of the capacities and skills just referred to which are nurtured by the traditional school curriculum.

After she read A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Grandma called me up to tell me about a time when she was demoted from an administrative position at a Christian school because the new pastor of the associated church believed women should be forbidden from leading in any capacity.

The internal confusion of graduate professional theological schooling could be resolved, at least in part, by letting this coherent picture of ministry as pastoral direction select and organize the specific capacities the school seeks to develop in its students.

The theological school, for its part, would assume responsibility for course work that studies Christian congregations in all their variety, as well as course work that focuses on models of practice, thus cultivating students» capacities to reflect on ministerial practice (cf. 121 - 25).

First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

In the recovery of the true capacity of reasoning for both moral and religious insight and of course in the witness of lives well lived, the evidence of schools well run.»

By contrast this book urges that the overarching end or goal of theological schooling is to understand God; and «to understand» is to come to have certain conceptual capacities, habitus, that is, dispositions and competencies to act, that enable us to apprehend God and refer all things including ourselves to God.

In any case, a theological school according to this utopian proposal would reject central features of the Berlin model by denying that the capacities it cultivates in its learners are capacities for «theory» (in the «Berlin» sense of the term) which are subsequently to be «applied.»

However, the argument went, unlike the Berlin model, this proposal does not set up the cultivation of capacities for critical inquiry as the defining goal of schooling.

The model of excellent theological schooling symbolized by the inclusion of a faculty of theology in the University of Berlin tied «practical» education for a socially necessary profession (the clergy) to the «theoretical» education of a research university on the grounds that future clergy would be best equipped for their ministerial functions if they acquired capacities for rigorous critical research.

In contrast, what makes a theological school theological is that its overarching and defining goal is to understand God, and it appropriates the cultivation of capacities for variously disciplined inquiry to that end.

Cultivation of those capacities is secondary and instrumental to pursuit of theological schooling's own proper goal.

Nothing would be accomplished by recommending that a school disassociate itself from the disciplines, except loss of capacities for rigorous self - criticism in inquiry.

Although it's not at capacity yet, with current growth and the prospect of vendor contracts with the military and schools, Robson already sees the company adding another fully cooked line in the near future.

Employees from all organizations volunteered in many different capacities including the support of area schools, serving Thanksgiving meals to 5,000 underprivileged people last year and supporting numerous charitable causes, he adds.