Sentences with phrase «on meeting the needs of schools»

These companies focus on meeting the needs of schools and libraries.

Not exact matches

While such managers wouldn't have the benefit of such unique experiences as OCS and the Basic School, the marines are quick to admit that the outside world may have expertise and management solutions that can be translated to meet their own needs — and they don't necessarily want to wait to grow such capabilities on their own.

Community programs are tailored to meet the need of the consumers in the community and include investor education and protection programs in high schools, on college campuses, in libraries, churches, senior centers, sports venues and anywhere else in the community where people meet.

This past weekend Zillow and the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering school hosted «Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions» — a weekend hackathon focused on coming up with creative solutions to make it easier for first - time home buyers, low - income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.

The only one's I see are the fleeting school auditorium and shopping mall meeting room congregations and the gigantic charismatic churches with people falling on the floor babbling during the services, whose congregants are in serious need of mental health professionals.

If we define service as «using your spiritual gifts to edify and meet the needs of others, then on Sunday morning during the church service, only the Sunday school teachers, the ushers, the music team, the pastor, and a few others are «serving.»

Free of the top 8 allergens, adhering to the GFCFSF requirements, and able to meet the needs of those on the Feingold diet, these buckets are perfect for any classroom or after - school program.

My children's needs were more than adequately met by being at home with their father / grandmother (or later on preschool and then elementary school) during the 1/3 of the day that I wasn't with them.

While there is a role for State / Federal involvement in local school food service, it is IMHO limited to [1] providing funding, especially to lower - income schools, to allow all schools to meet a minimum standard (NOT based on the needs of agri - business!

Baed on a flexible structure designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of students» needs through a positive school culture based on student leadership, personal relationships, high expectations, and celebration.

FRAC issues School Wellness Policy and Practice: Meeting the Needs of Low - Income Students to focus benefits of the new federal wellness policy mandate on those most in need.

This report focuses on one crucial set of challenges that school districts face in meeting nutrition standards for meals: the need for improved equipment and infrastructure.

From spelling test to PARCC, practice, practice, practice.A few weeks ago we had a parent meeting at my daughter's school informing us of what we needed to know before our kids took the PARCC test.That's when we received website information for the practice test.Daily Jala spent time on the site taking the practice test and getting familiar with the type of questions that would be asked and how to solve them.We both thought it was helpful because it gave her and myself insight on the testing process ahead of time.

Schools also make independent purchases on the commercial market to meet the needs of their students.

Michigan: Custody is awarded based on the best interests of the child, based on the following factors: moral character and prudence of the parents; physical, emotional, mental, religious and social needs of the child; capability and desire of each parent to meet the child's emotional, educational, and other needs; preference of the child, if the child is of sufficient age and maturity; the love and affection and other emotional ties existing between the child and each parent; the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity; the desire and ability of each parent to allow an open and loving frequent relationship between the child and other parent; the child's adjustment to his / her home, school, and community; the mental and physical health of all parties; permanence of the family unit of the proposed custodial home; any evidence of domestic violence; and other factors.

As we continue to focus on the twin issues of childhood obesity and hunger, we will increase access to good, quality meals in school cafeterias so the nutritional needs of our youngsters are better met.

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Most recently, in May, the Comptroller's office released an analysis that revealed that after spending over $ 347 million on upgrading internet services, 45 percent of teachers said their schools» internet quality «did not meet their instructional needs,» a survey of middle school teachers found.

ALBANY — Growth in school taxes on Long Island and statewide will be held next year to a baseline property - tax cap of 1.26 percent — higher than this year's near - zero limit but less than what education officials said they need to meet expenses.

«The Prime Minister must also take urgent steps to tackle the excessive workload demands already placed on teachers, including as a result of job cuts, in order that schools have the capacity to meet pupils» mental health needs.

Half of headteachers said the pressure on schools to provide help to ethnic minority pupils has increased in the last year and 65 % stated that current resources were insufficient to meet this need.

Speaking on Saturday, Mr Rashid Pelpuo, MP for Wa Central, said the NDC administration did it best to meet the expectations and developmental needs of Ghanaians, citing the construction of 50 day Senior High Schools, hospitals and roads to back his claim.

They need to meet a state deadline of April 23 for school boards to finalize the budget proposals that go before voters on May 15.

State lawmakers said they are doing their best to meet the often - competing financial needs of schools on Long Island, in New York City and elsewhere in the state.

«The current crisis in the recruitment, retention and morale of the teacher workforce is a further issue on which Ofsted and the NASUWT agree has real potential to undermine the ability of schools to meet the educational needs and entitlements of all children and young people.

A group of Indian River Central School District Board of Education members and administrators met with Congresswoman Elise Stefanik on March 20th, as a part of the National Association of Federally Impacted Schools (NAFIS) conference to discuss the critical need for continued Impact Aid funding.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and about 450 people who came to see her at George Washington Elementary School on Saturday were largely on the same political page, concluding that President Donald Trump is a danger to the nation and that the Democratic party needs to find a way to meet the needs of its citizens.

There was something for everyone on the menu: using Apple technology, developing research - based practices to teach students in the early grades, engaging students through digital instruction, understanding the new teacher evaluation system as set by state law, preventing high - risk student behaviors and how Community Learning Schools meet the needs of students and their families.

The abandonment of the cap is based on a concern to meet a need for additional school places, but the logic is flawed.

Science graduate study, based on a 19th century model, needs serious reform to meet modern needs, but trying to «revitalize the doctorate is like moving a graveyard,» added another conference speaker, former NSF Director and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science Careers) Rita Colwell, currently a Distinguished Professor at both the University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

There are also «rumors from several places that in the faculty meetings... one of the very first suggestions is that the schools should look to expand graduate enrollment» based on thinking that «we're going to end up having fewer postdocs, so now we need more grad students» — thus implicitly defining postdocs mainly as labor rather than trainees.

Class to Graduate on June 2 Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is Southern California's only Public Pharmacy School Trained to meet the needs of patients, and to become leaders in drug development and delivery in the 21st - century, 23 students will graduate f...

In the past, limited access placed a hardship on teachers to meet the diverse needs of their students, especially when school resources were limited.

Five years of studies on charter schools prove they are meeting the needs of traditionally underserved children and forcing regular public schools to change for the better, the Center for Education Reform concludes in a report released last week.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

The findings, which are based on a survey of 1,188 school leaders, outline how 86 % of schools who faced an extra demand for places believe that meeting such needs with their current budget, buildings and facilities would be difficult - 58 % stated it would be «very difficult».

Successful schools receive up to # 30,000 to spend on a range of specially created packages, such as multi-sports areas, which can be tailored to meet their needs, for use both within the national curriculum and outside traditional school hours.

With numbers like this it is virtually impossible for school counselors to meet all of the personal / social ~ academic and career developmental needs of all the students on their caseloads.

The report demonstrates the need for teachers to be given further advice and information on apprenticeships and for students to have the opportunity to meet employers (including former or current apprentices) in school, to mitigate the lack of reliable information available.

Parents would not want to go back to a system built on unequal access to schools, but they don't want to be denied options in the interest of maintaining quotas or forcing all children in a neighborhood to attend the same school whether it meets their needs or not.

Our school is going to be a high - end technology user from here on out — not because we love technology, but because it allows us to meet more needs of more kids.

The community school at IS 218, along with the other nine New York City schools with which the Children's Aid Society has partnered, is based on a simple but powerful notion: Children can succeed academically only when all of their health, nutrition, emotional, and developmental needs are met.

The real pressures on such schools and their staffs are to meet student needs that are often ubiquitous and acute in such communities (e.g., health, nutrition, remediation, attendance, language, discipline) rather than to maximize the learning of their high achievers.

AnimalKind lesson plan 10 (from a set of 23) View / order the accompanying resources and AnimalKind film at: www.AnimalKind.org.uk Objectives: • To understand that the local environment (school grounds) affords a variety of habitats that meet the basic needs of a range of animals and plants, which depend on each other in an interconnected way called an ecosystem.

«In Singapore, the demand on school leaders to be effective instructional leaders is very high — schools have the autonomy to explore innovative teaching approaches, and tailor curriculum to meet the needs of students,» says master's student Haslinda Zamani.

By the 2006 - 2007 school year, Csar Chvez had made annual yearly progress (AYP) two years in a row, and started the year in Phase Zero — meaning the school did not meet AYP for a year, and then made it back to AYP, so the school had been headed back to «in need of improvement» under NCLB, but now is back on track to meeting AYP goals.

Without appropriate planning, meeting their needs can over-stretch district budgets, especially in smaller jurisdictions (and free - standing schools such as charters), putting pressure on the education of other children, causing fiscal distress, and giving rise to political discord.

However, we do have a responsibility to find sites that meet the specific needs of schools and all technical matters, including key areas such as how the buildings will be able to work properly on the site, transport and highways issues, flood matters, other elements of planning policy form part of the criteria when deciding if a site is suitable or not.

Activities Ideas: - A range of ideas in the «Twilight» documents - Teach a Skill / Run an Activity Forms - student led in form time - Quiz on school rules and expectations (obviously will need to be adapted)- Settling in Meetings / Interview Question Sheets - Caption Competitions - Desert Island Disks Certificates (students talk about and present extracts of two songs that are important for them)- Puns and Riddles to keep their mind fresh.

«Even though there are countless obstacles confronting today's urban schools, I firmly believe that parents and community members can have a profound impact on meeting the needs of children if schools engage them in the right way,» she says.