Sentences with phrase «often schools and systems»

We noted how often schools and systems assumed that any teacher in a supervisory position would know how to observe a class and give constructive feedback aimed at improvement.

Not exact matches

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.

How often would you hear Christians standing up and apologising for the influx of creationism in our public school systems?

And often, school systems will go beyond the court rulings and try to ban permitted activities that are Christian in natuAnd often, school systems will go beyond the court rulings and try to ban permitted activities that are Christian in natuand try to ban permitted activities that are Christian in nature.

The latest in an ongoing scandal at UNC that's included dozens of revelations, McCants» comments detail the «paper - class» system often used by student - athletes at the school, his own academic issues and apparent knowledge of the situation by legendary head coach Roy Williams.

For disadvantaged students, however, especially those whose stress - response systems have been compromised by early experiences of adversity, this question can feel vital and urgent, often dominating their experience of school.

«A Teachable Moment,» August 17, 2008 «While it is true that for decades the children of New Orleans toiled in a substandard school system, they have also continually faced countless other obstacles to success — inadequate health care, poorly educated parents, exposure to high rates of violent crime and a popular culture that often denigrates mainstream achievement.»

There is something fundamentally «off» about schooling it seems, as it works often in contradiction to the child's natural developmental stages - I wish I could reconcile my own knowledge about the system, and just try to be comfortable with it.

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.

Specifically, the SNA is asking to: keep the level of whole grains in the total number of grain foods served at 25 %; avoid further reductions in sodium; eliminate the requirement that kids take fruit or a vegetable with their meal (returning to the old system in which kids could — and often did — pass up those healthful foods); and allow schools to sell on a daily basis a la carte items like pizza and fries, as opposed to the current plan which would allow these items to be sold only on the same day they appeared on the main lunch line.

The largest food vendor for the District's public school system has agreed to pay $ 19 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the company overcharged the city and mismanaged the school meals programs, with food often arriving at schools late, spoiled or in short supply.

Interestingly, parents of children in the often maligned New York City public school system gave Mayor Bloomberg a more positive rating, with 46 percent saying he'd succeeded and 48 percent saying he'd failed, according to the paper.

«Those working in neuroscience who are interested in neurofeedback often have no way of studying the technique within the broader framework of a feedback system and its theoretical foundations,» says Moses Sokunbi, Researcher at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste.

Christopher Doughty, faculty member in the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University, asks that question often.

Well, you'd have to experience it for yourself, but Dr. Helen Lavretsky, a psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA told the New York Times that participants will often experience «deep mental and physical relaxation» that would «increase the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system tone» and decrease the stress response.

A course that fills an urgent need in the health care field because literally no Medical School teaches anything more than a lesson or two on this polarizing and diverse subject often leaving Licensed MD and NDs alike at a severe disadvantage when it comes to being able to interpret Vaccine Ingredients, How to Identify Vaccine Injuries, and How to Report Them as well per the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System established by the 1986 National Vaccine Law.

Usually spread in highly populated settings like schools and offices, cold and flu viruses can often be avoided by strengthening your immune system so that it can fight the illnesses with its full strength.

People with food allergies often have questions about eating out, traveling, navigating the school system and more.

In addition, women are overtaking men more often for top spots at universities and graduate schools, extending the time they spend in the education system.

More often than not, when I ask school systems and principals about their approach to instructional technology, I hear one of two things.

Where I get hung up, though, is with the idea that great leaders can make schools — and especially school districts — work well, given the dysfunction of the larger system within which they must work, and the Gordian knot that's been tied by decades of contradictory, often compromising, laws and regulations, not to mention the impossible politics often created by unruly elected school boards.

It is true, as would - be reformers often argue, that statutes, policies, rules, regulations, contracts, and case law make it tougher than it should be for school and system leaders to drive improvement and, well, lead.

Education secretary Kirsty Williams, said: «We know that adopted children often need extra support when it comes to their education and this new guide aims to help parents make the right choices for their child as they navigate the school system.

One of the primary complaints I hear from teachers is, «I just don't feel appreciated» (echoed often also by principals and other administrators in our school system).

They often resemble a dysfunctional family, composed of three unlovable types: 1) aspiring politicians for whom this is a rung on the ladder to higher office; 2) former employees of the school system with a score to settle; and 3) single - minded advocates of one dubious cause or another who yearn to use the public schools to impose their particular hang - up on all the kids in town.

«In reality, though, the system often seemed to set schools up to take the low road of improving test scores, not to encourage them to look deeply at the learning and teaching happening in classrooms.»

If an additional level of support was required, schools could also explore pro-active remote services which are focussed on freeing up network teams by performing automated or standardised tasks such as system updates and security checks; tasks which are necessary, but often overlooked when network teams are busy firefighting more pressing issues.

The parents are often not set up to punish the child, and the school system can't really do much to punish the child.

And yet our school system too often puts up barriers to high - achievers.

Until then, Aldine thought it had a decent school system; its students often received awards and scholarships and the local press wrote favorably about them.

There's no hope for improving education policy if we don't keep the facts and evidence distinct from the public - school system's party (and often partisan) line.

The new evaluation systems have forced principals to prioritize classrooms over cafeterias and custodians (and have exposed how poorly prepared many principals are to be instructional leaders) and they have sparked conversations about effective teaching that often simply didn't happen in the past in many schools — developments that teachers say makes their work more appealing.

True, the school system often functions as a jobs program for adults, but jobs and money aren't the reason the mother of a second grader who has a derelict teacher regards someone pledging to fire the teacher as a demon.

Middle school students often have difficulty understanding outlining and other organizational systems.

The best technology - based simulations available do require relatively modern computers or handhelds, and often global - positioning - system technology and broadband connections as well, which not all schools have.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

Poor school districts, which often count tired buildings and outdated equipment among their many troubles, are increasingly focusing on brick - and - mortar issues as they challenge state school - finance systems.

Amthal has worked directly with the school to update its intruder system and integrate CCTV and access control solutions, which can easily be added to as and when the school adds new, often prefabricated, buildings on site.

Since I write a blog through our school board email system and am fairly active on social media, I often have new ELA teachers emailing me to ask about something I've written about or an activity I'm doing with my students.

«The extraordinary demands of educating disadvantaged students to higher standards, the challenges of attracting the talent required to do that work, the burden of finding and financing facilities, and often aggressive opposition from the traditional public education system have made the trifecta of scale, quality, and financial sustainability hard to hit,» concludes the report, «Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools.»

Yet because NCLB has made accountability tests the tail that wags the dog of the whole education system — threatening remediation and state takeover for schools that fall short — what's not tested often isn't taught.

Schools and school systems are often on the receiving end of lots of new and exciting opportunities.

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

But over the range of spending commonly observed among school systems in the United States, the effect on student achievement is often swamped by how wisely the money is spent, by bureaucratic and contract rigidities, and by a host of important policies and decisions that have nothing at all to do with money.

If choice through vouchers can create conditions that promote academic achievement, and if it can put political pressure on what are often intractable urban school systems, it merits serious consideration.

Here the compulsory education system is less strictly enforced, as it costs the government a fair amount in both money and effort to make sure students stay in schools — so it often just neglects doing so.

The promise of a personalized education system is enormous: we are witnessing an era when new school models and structures, often supported by technology, can tailor learning experiences to each student and allow students more choice in how they access and navigate those experiences.

Too often urban school systems begin initiatives and never perfect them, preferring new initiatives that attract publicity and give the appearance of doing something.

School districts — or, less often, states — ran their own transportation systems and food services, among the biggest budget items after teacher salaries.

With a profound effect on our education system, these changes often initiate a new school of thought (no pun intended) surrounding teaching and learning provisions.