Sentences with phrase «offered by other schools»

Each school site offers an online course in exchange for its students having the opportunity to take courses offered by other schools.

Not exact matches

She thought she would help the search by tossing the consultant a few names of other candidates and simply offer her thoughts about the school.

Other schools such as Robert Morris University and University of Pikeville are expanding the concept of collegiate sports to include video games by creating eSports teams, offering scholarships to gamers, and building eSports facilities.

The poll commissioned by the Accord Coalition found that four out of every five people asked opposed the Conservative plan to no longer require new over-subscribed faith schools to offer 50 per cent of their places to those of other religions or none.

If the church has no other plan of salvation to offer to men than one of deliverance by force, education, idealism or planned economy, it really has no existence as a church and needs to resolve itself into a political party or a school.

That sojourn at divinity school also contributed to Lewis's masterful examination, in The Lure of God (LG) of the biblical grounding of, and justification for, many of the otherwise presumably nonclassical, neo-classical, or anti-traditional formulations of theism offered by Whitehead, Hartshorne, and other process philosophers.1

While Fed Up With Lunch takes a stark and often critical look at the school food — in her case, served by a CPS caterer called Preferred Meal Systems — Wu offers generous props to lunchroom managers, cooks and others who must prepare thousands of hot meals for often - choosy customers each day.

Just to bring everyone up to speed, «competitive» food and beverages are those offered in competition with the federally subsidized school meal, and are sold via vending machines, school stores, fundraisers, snack bars operated by the school cafeteria and other outlets.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

Children interested in the sciences should look into academic clubs offered by their school or academic camps offered through local museums or other associations.

Solution: While you can't make your child believe that back - to - school has the same perks as summer, you can make the start of school enticing by reminding him of all the things that back - to - school time offers, such as seeing his friends again, doing fun activities in school, getting to go on school trips, and doing other activities he loves to do in school (fun games in gym class or recess, making arts and crafts, singing or dancing or playing musical instruments, and more).

Between the 2012 - 2013 and 2014 - 2015 school years, OUSD reduced by 30 percent the number of meat and cheese items it served to students, instead offering more legumes and other plant - based proteins.

The installation of artificial turf, which already has been completed in other metro school systems such as Cobb, Forsyth and Fulton counties, offers other benefits in addition to the savings, such as fewer injuries to students, faster recovery time after rain and increased usage opportunities by multiple athletic teams and marching bands for both games and practices.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

One issue mentioned in Ed's post which I hadn't considered in my previous discussion of the flavored milk issue («The Chocolate Milk Wars») is the possible behavioral problems exhibited by students as a result of consuming so much sugar from the milk, especially when combined with other sugary foods offered in school.

Defra intends to help small producers to bid for school food contracts, for example by helping them collaborate with other businesses to offer a full range of fresh fruit, vegetable, dairy and meat for school meals.

I find I am contacted by other agencies supplying the same schools offering more work if I take a wage cut.»

Encourage other digital entrepreneurs to seize the opportunity offered by the free schools programme in helping to give children an authentic education for the jobs and opportunities of the digital world.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

The results can hopefully be used by other schools in order to redress the low numbers of women that major in economics — women have a lot to offer and should consider economics as a subject that is interesting and varied for a career.»

Other schools are able to offer financial assistance by covering graduate tuition and stipend, yet provide only partial medical tuition reimbursement.

The oral and poster presentations are the core of the conference, but the attendees also found value in ERN's other offerings, such as opportunities for networking, plenary talks by science leaders, and workshops on topics such as where to find funding for school.

Other forms of support include simply listening or «handling the logistics of daily life by offering to take on tasks that aren't normally yours,» such as planning meals or driving children to school, he said.

No, the role of unwavering nag is filled by Aidan's father Gabe (Mandy Patinkin), a proud patriarch who has offered to pay for his grandchildren's schooling as long as it takes place at an Orthodox yeshiva (which one child embraces with a frightening fervor, while the other rejects).

Our basic assumption was that K12's model — which relied on parents or other caretakers doing most of the instruction — wouldn't be feasible for kids living in poverty, most of whom would need the custodial care offered by traditional public schools.

Other research has focused on childcare (see sidebar) and programs offered by public schools.

Home schoolers have challenged and are increasingly overturning laws barring them from participation in high school sports and other extracurricular activities offered by public schools.

Justice Kennedy offered what he regarded as acceptable methods of considering race such as «strategic site selection of new schools; drawing attendance zones with general recognition of the demographics of neighborhoods; allocating resources for special programs; recruiting students and faculty in a targeted fashion; and tracking enrollments, performance, and other statistics by race.»

Spurred by this success, the State of California now offers millions of dollars in grants to other schools to do the same.

Schools that are members of the network will be offered enhanced CPD for a teacher in their school that provides a comprehensive grounding in foundational computer science, expertise to train other teachers and is supported by universities in the Network.

They provide one of the more succinct definitions of civil disobedience offered to high schoolers: «The right of all Americans to express their dissent against laws in these and many other ways is protected by the Constitution.

«Offered jointly by HGSE and GSAS, this new Ph.D. program will expand our intellectual and programmatic collaboration with other Schools at Harvard, while opening an opportunity for critical interdisciplinary scholarship in the area of education policy and practice,» said Michael D. Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Faculty compensation in college, unlike public high school, is also influenced by market demand for those faculty members, so people in some fields are paid significantly more than others and outside offers are sometimes matched.

«Most of the school - based technology coordinators who are already in position don't have specialized training other than the training offered by the district,» Rensel pointed out.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

«This is a new era for UNICEF and our staff, so we thought, Let's help the staff,» said Maida Pasic, an education specialist for UNICEF who helped organize the event after participating in two other institutes offered by the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education (PPE).

«Eighth graders are desperately seeking the connection and acceptance by others that CPR offers, yet they often do not know how to go about doing this in school.»

The recommendations covered raising schools» staff awareness about the opportunities offered by outdoor education, DfEs and other agencies developing teachers» confidence in an outdoor context, the need for enhanced participation in outdoor education and the need for connecting students» outdoor learning with the curriculum.

Thus I would expect that they would seek to differentiate themselves from other schools with claims of superior student achievement (difficult to prove in the absence of sophisticated and costly evaluations by third parties) and by using marketing images to persuade parents and school boards that they offer a superior education.

Schools can also form a federation with other local schools and offer support to those who are required to be mentored • All schools have to register at www.education.gov.uk • After registering you will be contacted by your named representative at the DfE Step 2 — Application and pre-approval checks • Your school's governing body needs to pass a resolution in favour of converting to an aSchools can also form a federation with other local schools and offer support to those who are required to be mentored • All schools have to register at www.education.gov.uk • After registering you will be contacted by your named representative at the DfE Step 2 — Application and pre-approval checks • Your school's governing body needs to pass a resolution in favour of converting to an aschools and offer support to those who are required to be mentored • All schools have to register at www.education.gov.uk • After registering you will be contacted by your named representative at the DfE Step 2 — Application and pre-approval checks • Your school's governing body needs to pass a resolution in favour of converting to an aschools have to register at www.education.gov.uk • After registering you will be contacted by your named representative at the DfE Step 2 — Application and pre-approval checks • Your school's governing body needs to pass a resolution in favour of converting to an academy.

Many HP / HP schools engage parents, families, and other community members by opening their doors and expanding their schedules to offer clubs, parent support and education, early childhood activities, GED programs, advisory groups, community education classes, and a host of other events and activities of interest to the community.

Fay added: «We would like to see local authorities monitor and quantify the levels of road safety knowledge gained from our initiative, and we would like to offer pupils other Conies learning aids as well as programmes to support them travelling in safety to and from school by car, bus or bicycle.»

The researchers recently released two independent studies: One expands the common characteristics of a dropout, and the other offers an alternate method of measuring dropouts and tracking those at high risk of dropping out by computer throughout their school careers.

The guidelines were released in June, shortly before The Wall Street Journal published a front - page article detailing charges by students, parents, and teachers that numerous students at Taylor Allderdice High School had offered money for homework, stolen tests, or used open dictionaries in taking college - admission tests, among other allegations.

Principals reported the greatest opportunities offered by the initiative were authentic student learning and collaboration with other schools.

From fundraising and marketing to planning and financial management, through social business young people can not only contribute to the revenue growth of the school but also develop skills not commonly offered by other learning routes.

At Symonds Elementary School, teachers have found a way to offer students support beyond academics, by holding daily morning meetings where students share how they're feeling and offer each other words of encouragement.

I create partnerships for my schools and others by offering school tours to partners and I encourage business members to work with other local schools.

We find little evidence that any New Orleans elementary schools differentiate themselves by offering more in - house support staff than other schools.

Virtual Reality offers schools opportunities that would be unachievable by other means.