Sentences with phrase «out of library school»

For the most recent position that we filled at my firm, although we were looking for someone with some law library experience, we ended up hiring someone straight out of library school because she had the soft skills we were looking for.

Fresh out of library school, I got a position at what I thought was a fairly forward - thinking, progressive library.

Not exact matches

A client asked me the other day why in the world he should care about getting links from a few K - 12 public school library Web sites, most of which look horrible, have very few visitors, and live way out in the middle of nowhere in the.

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

don't rush to legislation at ALL - libraries of and it does not improve life) DO N'T allow religious schools to opt out of the same national standards (yes..

So please, Christians especially, keep your religion out of our government, schools, libraries, hospitals, courthouses, bedrooms, weddings, bedrooms, and most especially, bodies.

Suppose that a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, and an agnostic» all honest historians cognizant of first - century religious movements» were locked up in the bowels of the Harvard Divinity School library, put on a spartan diet, and not allowed to emerge until they had hammered out a consensus document on who Jesus of Nazareth was and what he intended in his own time and place.

The GNAS Community Reuse Planning Task Force, which in September 1993 began to map out the fate of the land, is made up primarily of the village government, the Navy, the three school districts that serve Glenview, the village Park District and library, and Northfield Township.

CodeLagos will officially launch this April, with a roll out of coding centers across 350 public and private schools as well as public libraries across the State.

«All our excess money from revenues coming out of New York City is coming up there, supporting your real estate, your school base, your tax base and all the municipal services, the library, senior citizens services.

Critics, including Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, said charter students at the schools are getting illegal, preferential treatment, while public students are being treated like «second class citizens,» forced to learn in lesser classrooms and loosing out on their fair share of library, auditorium and lunchroom time.

Faced with a $ 2 billion budget that falls short by at least $ 101 million, the district must cut spending on each school by 6 percent, leaving district leaders to strip some or all art, music, physical education and library programs from three out of four schools next fall.

We may be living in an information age, but New York City's public school students are being cheated out of the skills they need to evaluate, process and analyze information because school libraries and librarian positions are drastically underfunded, UFT Assistant Secretary Robert Astrowsky told a City Council hearing on May 6.

98 % of people don't know what graduate school is, and even think I'm still taking out loans and studying in the library all the time.

It is in the middle of nowhere, there are more banned books in town than actual books to check out at the library, the high school history teacher teaches The War of Northern Aggression, and there are more churches than any other buildings.

I left this building exactly 60 years ago when I graduated from the USC film school and they had the ceremony out in front of the library, and I haven't been back since — not to this building.

Another resource worth pointing out is the USPTO's directory, which is a great way to find public libraries and other facilities that are available to help students conduct research outside of school.

They're all examples of ways that a growing number of educators — in school and out, at libraries, museums and other cultural institutions, at home and at community gatherings — are engaging in making things and leveraging the learning associated with that very human impulse to create.

With many of the school blocks becoming outdated, architect DSDHA were appointed to carry out the final phase of a 20 ‑ year masterplan, which would see the school gain ten classrooms for Reception level through to Year 4, generous breakout spaces, external play areas, a new library and a hall, along with staff facilities.

So Pixar, Churchill, and the needs of the school community all helped me lay out a blueprint for transforming our library into a constant learning organization — by creating a virtual campus for New Milford High Sschool community all helped me lay out a blueprint for transforming our library into a constant learning organization — by creating a virtual campus for New Milford High SchoolSchool.

Two years ago, when the three - year grant from the DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Foundation ran out, the state of Connecticut kicked in another $ 1.2 million to buy books for elementary school library media centers.

I choose not to have a teachers degree because as soon as you do in schools you are pulled out of the library to relieve for the teachers who are sick or absent.

The letter is backed by eight former children's laureates, including Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Quentin Blake and calls on Greening to «set out clear standards of library provision, and put into place the necessary funding» to ensure that every school has a library service it can be proud of.

But for many years, it has meant just that, as minority urban students have made do with out - of - date textbooks, leaking school roofs, and substandard school libraries.

«It's a lot harder to cut a program in seventy - five schools than a program in three schools,» says Gina Jacquart Thorsen, vice president of research and program development for Big Thought, the nonprofit organization that coordinates ArtsPartners and Thriving Minds, an expanded initiative to infuse creative learning into the curriculum, after - school and out - of - school programs, libraries, and neighborhood cultural centers.

These include buying school materials (clothes, supplies, and even homework) on eBay and the Internet; exchanging music on P2P sites; building games with modding (modifying) tools; setting up meetings and dates online; posting personal information and creations for others to check out; meeting people through cell phones; building libraries of music and movies; working together in self - formed teams in multiplayer online role - playing games; creating and using online reputation systems; peer rating of comments; online gaming; screen saver analysis; photoblogging; programming; exploring; and even transgressing and testing social norms.

The school has an array of age - appropriate robotics kits and Raspberry Pi bare - bones computers built for programming, which kids can check out from the library and take home.

It houses a kindergarten, primary school, gym, out - of - school child care facilities and a library.

Third, because families are the primary source of support for children's learning and development, community schools prioritize reaching out to parents and other family members to see what resources they need — from books to visiting nurse programs to mobile libraries and workforce development opportunities — and encourage them to be involved in the life of the school.

Okay, say teachers, let's build one Dorchester Reporter, January 7, 2016 In the wake of a cut in funding a decade ago, the library at the John W. McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point was closed, leaving students without a quiet, out - of - the mainstream place to study and read... read more.

While the national average for weekly visits to the school library / media center is about one visit per week per student (or 100 visits per 100 students), fewer of the poorest students and students in special education and alternative schools visit each week — 80 out of 100 students.

Supports planning and design activities for spaces that foster experimentation and creativity for youth in library - and museum - based, out - of - school - time settings

The foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and an extended school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

Out of necessity, many schools are turning to classroom libraries as a solution to the problem.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

The BCPS wireless network has been installed in the public library branches, providing access for students to systemic resources while they are out of school.

In Williams v. California, for example, teachers, parents, and students from low - income communities described overcrowded schools that had to run multiple shifts each day and multiple shifts during the school year, alternating on - months and off - months for different cohorts of students cycling in and out of the building; classrooms with more than 40 students without enough desks, chairs, and textbooks for each student to have one; lack of curriculum materials, science equipment, computers, and libraries; and crumbling facilities featuring leaky ceilings and falling ceiling tiles, sometimes overrun with rodents, and lacking heat and air conditioning.

These Connecticut school superintendents are actually developing alternative programing for students who are opting out of the testing or, at the very least, providing students with access to the school library or a particular resource room where they can attend to their school work.

In the article «Climbing to Excellence: Defining Characteristics of Successful Learning Commons,» authors David V. Loertscher and Carol Koechlin, (gurus of the school library world for you non-librarians out there!)

Out of those discussions, Morales pushed to expand MyOn, a digital library program piloted at Ramona, and Accelerated Reader, a comprehension assessment tool used in several schools, to all schools in the district.

The program empowers educators to offer workshops in community settings like libraries, museums, and out - of - school time programs.

The Foundation maintains an online library of lessons at www.wallacefoundation.org about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; helping disadvantaged students gain more time for learning through summer learning and through the effective use of additional learning time during the school day and year; enhancing out - of - school time opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

School officials in at least three towns reported that when they called the State Department of Education for guidance about the sit and stay policy they were told that the mandatory SBAC Test Administration Manual was a set of guidelines and it was up to the town to decide whether to require children who have been opted out of the SBAC test to sit and stay in the classroom or whether to relocate students to the library or some other safe location where they could read or do homework.

Similarly, a survey of the Milwaukee voucher program conducted in 2013 found that out of 110 Milwaukee voucher schools surveyed, 39 reported having no art, music, physical education, library or technology specialist teachers.

NJLA does not believe the effectiveness of a school library media specialist can be simply judged by the number of books that were checked out.

The vast majority of school districts are appropriately relocating students who have been opted out to an alternative location, such as the school library, where they can read, do homework or engage in some other educational activity during the SBAC testing periods.

The Foundation maintains an online library of lessons about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening educational leadership to improve student achievement; enhancing out - of - school - time learning opportunities; and building appreciation and demand for the arts.

If you are a school leader or a librarian, make sure to check out the Kentucky Department of Education's Proficiency @ your library page for more information on high - quality school library programs.

24 % of school libraries loan out ebook readers; about 50 % of schools have a one - to - one policy, which means that each student has his or her own tablet / device for at least part of a school day.

It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).