Sentences with phrase «pioneered a school there»

(The New York Times, 1922) Elsia Clapp, an educator in Arthurdale, West Virginia, pioneered a school there that was centered on the role of the student in education in the 1920s.

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Jeanne Osgood, communications outreach coordinator for CASEL, pioneered this process when her children were in school there.

REVIEW: There are many zoos to found on the Internet but this one has uniqueness in that it is an ongoing project created, researched and documented by the 7th grade Life Science students at Pioneer Middle school in Hanford, California.

There is a school of practice in organizational learning pioneered by Bohm, Senge, Isaacs and Kahane among others which had developed dialogue tools for addressing difficult socio - political conflicts.

There is growing nonanecdotal evidence that the effect of the kind of tutoring that Match has pioneered can be an effective lever for school reform.

For sure, there are pioneers here and there, but our national mindset does not embrace the possibility that our schools could be and should be radically different.

From there, Stacey joined the Board of Trustees for Leadership High School, a high - achieving public school and became an Education Pioneer fellow developing quality community pilot schools for Oakland UnSchool, a high - achieving public school and became an Education Pioneer fellow developing quality community pilot schools for Oakland Unschool and became an Education Pioneer fellow developing quality community pilot schools for Oakland Unified.

But there are thousands of brave educators pioneering 21st - century learning who have found ways that captivate and prepare young people better than what most schools do now.

There's a whole school of thought pioneered by noble prize winner James Heckman.

Back in April 2010, in Duncan's executive conference room, there appeared two teachers, both pioneers in the movement for teachers to have real authority over their schools.

Ever since the compulsory state government education system was created more than 150 years ago there have been important educational pioneers who have disagreed with the traditional authoritarian approach of most schools.

There are a growing number of innovative schools pioneering new educational models with promising success.

There already exist model catch - up programs and policies that systems and institutions can learn from: California State University at Long Beach has pioneered a partnership to deliver bridge courses to close student - readiness gaps; Illinois has passed legislation requiring the development of transitional math courses across the state; and Tennessee has increased the scale of its Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, or Sails, program from a single district in 2012 to over 17,000 students statewide in the 2016 - 17 school year.

Though it operated for only 24 years, this pioneering school played a significant role in fostering avant - garde art, music, dance, and poetry, and an astonishing number of important artists taught or studied there.

The son of pioneering British abstractionist William Scott, James Scott studied painting and theater design at the Slade School of Fine Art in the early 1960s, but while there quickly transitioned into making films.