Sentences with phrase «personal visits to schools»

Mr. Duncan had charged after an earlier personal visit to the school district that the program was «permeated with religious symbolism.»

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Partnership for Student Advocacy (PFSA): An advocacy organization that closely collaborates with schools and school communities, PFSA takes an inventory of local elected officials and reaches out through letters, phone calls, and personal visits to enlist the active support of key leaders on behalf of the schools it serves.

More than 30 scientists visited Texas schools to share their unique personal journeys with students.

Spruance and coauthors from Tulane University administered surveys to the students and tracked the school environment through personal visits.

The book profiles heroic charter school teachers and leaders and chronicles their 80 - hour work weeks, their meetings in teacher's homes to retool instruction because of new data, and their personal commitment to taking students to visit colleges.

While I made it a personal policy to visit the homes of all my ninth grade advisees, I also recognized that the impact of home visits could have been multiplied had it been a school - wide practice.

Through visits to secondary schools and community organizations, the Peer -2-Peer educators hope to provoke more kids into thinking about the source of their food and their own eating habits, and to connect those personal experiences to larger social phenomena surrounding food, nutrition, and food access.

Some students come in with specific school - related or personal projects to work on, he explains, and program managers also have a long list of starter projects to help students who visit the centers without a particular goal in mind.

(Find out how to bring the Super Subs to your school by visiting the Super Subs page at the Personal News Network.)

Volunteers from your PTA or other team should visit local businesses early in the school year to make a personal connection.

Already 79 Athlete Mentors visit schools across the UK and Ireland and use their personal stories of success to inspire students.

The Art Around the Corner Multiple - Visit Program brings fourth and fifth graders in selected District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) Title I elementary schools to the National Gallery up to ten times over two years to experience original works of art and make personal and interdisciplinary connections with them.

Hospital officials continue to visit the high school each year and talk to science and health classes about MRSA prevention and personal hygiene.

I have also seen firsthand how difficult being a child in America can be, and how abstract policies affect my kids in very real, sometimes painful, ways: how food insecurity can drive families to our school's monthly food shelf, how incarceration inequity has many of my students writing personal narratives about visiting fathers and uncles in prison, how immigration laws left one of my students trying to hide his tears over his mother's possible deportation.

As mentioned previously, before engaging in site visits, preservice teachers were paired with «buddy» students from the host school, whom they were encouraged to get to know on a more personal level.

It may be your first day at school, a visit to your grandmother or to another country, a personal communication with a rock star or the president via the Internet and so on.

PETA and other groups are out there in our school systems with personal visits and teaching materials to shape children into their way of vegan thinking.

PETA and other animal rights» groups are out there in our school systems and in our parks and on our street corners with personal visits and «teaching materials» to shape children and even adults into their way of thinking.

While visiting the great art museums and galleries of New York he was exposed to the art of Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock, Frank Stella and pop artist Andy Warhol but it was the works of the New York School of Abstract - Expressionists which fired his own personal passion to paint and influenced his style.

One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined with an early - intervention program focused on children with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction with care.47