Sentences with phrase «primary role of school»

The primary role of the school psychologist is to evaluate children to determine the reasons for learning and behavior problems.

In Milwaukee Public Schools the primary role of a School Nurse is to support student learning.

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

While well - meaning progressive educators might be willing to criticize the manner in which humans are turned into dead objects that Marxists refer to as fetishized commodities, they are often loathe to consider the fact that within capitalist society, all value originates in the sphere of production and that one of the primary roles of schools is to serve as agents or functionaries of capital.

Surely, one of the primary roles of the school board and its representatives is to protect students.

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«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

Every parent has a right and a duty to ensure that their primary role as educators of their children is not sub-contracted out to schools.

Here, under «Home, School and Parish», a spirit of «collaboration» is mentioned and the «Church» teaching that parents are the «first teachers» (not «primary educators») is explained as «underlin (ing) the role and responsibility of parents within the home as the place where faith is formed and nurtured.»

I believe her election represents a real turn at SNA toward its historic role as a primary supporter of healthier, better, and more sustainable food for our school children.

Clever Tykes, a series of three storybooks for primary school children has been bringing positive entrepreneurial role models to the classrooms of over 50

Off topic questions included city enforcement efforts around Airbnb and Airbnb's hiring of de Blasio's campaign manager, why a proposed ban on carriage horses has taken far longer than initially promised by the mayor, Tim Wu's comments on the mayor's central role on defeating Wu and Zephyr Teachout in Tuesday's primary, revised statistics on NYPD chokehold incidents, charter school co-locations, the mayor's lack of a federal security clearance and resulting inability to receive classified information, school bus drivers movement toward a strike, his relationship with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and his efforts to help elect a Democratic majority in the state senate.

«The Government should increase the intake of Schools of Midwifery & Nursing to 100 and the State should devise a mechanism for safer blood transfusion by equipping one comprehensive health centre and one secondary health centre per LGA Other recommendations include, all key institutional stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health, Hospital's Management Board and the Ondo State Primary Healthcare Development Board should be strengthened to better perform their respective regulatory and implementation roles as regards the RBF in the state.

He is a local school governor for Friarswood Primary School, and maintains an active role in a number of community groups and the local cschool governor for Friarswood Primary School, and maintains an active role in a number of community groups and the local cSchool, and maintains an active role in a number of community groups and the local church.

Thompson, a graduate of New York University Law School, assumed the role of Brooklyn D.A. in January 2014, after besting incumbent D.A. Charles Hynes in the 2013 Democratic Party primary race.

A study on the role of Teaching Assistants (TAs) in primary schools has suggested that TAs perceive themselves to have a positive effect on children displaying challenging behaviour and believe that without their support many of these children would be excluded from mainstream school.

«We challenged a current dogma in the field that emphasized PLK1's role in mitosis (cell division) as a primary mechanism for cancer growth,» says Zheng Fu, Ph.D., lead investigator on the study, member of the Cancer Molecular Genetics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center and assistant professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics at the VCU School of Medicine.

The courses — designed both for academic education and professional training — take students through a blend of academic and pedagogical modules, as well as a substantial practicum experience to prepare them to take on the role of primary or secondary school teacher.

Vikram Patel, Professor of International Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «This review's primary message is that non-specialist health workers have an important role to play in delivering interventions for a range of mental disorders and can thereby play a key role in addressing the human resource shortages in mental health care in low - and middle - income countries.»

Age and gender seem to have an important role in the development of good self - control in children in kindergarten and primary school, a study in Scientific Reports indicates.

Back in the day, physicians looked at insulin as having just one single primary role in the body, the same role we're all taught in high school biology — the removal and storage of sugar from the blood after a meal.

Participants will examine their personal strengths, fears and cultural histories in relation to their role as a teacher, understand the needs of students and schools, learn classroom management techniques, write lesson plans and practice teaching Bent On Learning's yoga curriculum for primary, middle and high school students.

After spending much of his primary and secondary school education in an alternative arts school, he studied film at New York University.Louiso began his career with minor roles in such films as Stella (1989) and Billy Bathgate (1991), the latter of which provided him with an introduction to Tom Stoppard, who was the film's screenwriter.

It calls for an expanded federal role in education, which somehow or other still respects the primary role of states, districts, and schools.

Currently employed as a Subject Leader for ICT at a high performing secondary school in Yorkshire, England this management role involves him in not only leading a department, managing the staff, teaching 11 to 18 year old students in the study of ICT and Computing but also responsibilities whole school and to feeder primary schools.

Delegates attending the BNF conference heard from a panel of eminent scientific experts including Professor Ashley Adamson from University of Newcastle, Dr Graham Moore from University of Cardiff, Professor John Reilly of University of Strathclyde, and Professor Jeanne Goldberg from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, about the role and impact of a whole school approach to nutrition; the association between breakfast consumption and education outcomes in primary schools, with particular reference to deprivation; the impact of obesity, and of physical activity, on academic attainment; and research which points to the most effective methods of communicating about nutrition with school children.

Primary themes of interest to high schoolers: totalitarianism, patriarchy and misogyny, surveillance, politics and governance, gender roles.

New research has found that London's primary schools play a key role in the success of disadvantaged pupils within the capital.

The Big Life Group, linked to the Big Issue magazine, has set up a primary school, which will deliver high quality education and childcare to families in one of the poorest parts of Manchester while Everton, Bolton Wanderers and Bradford City are examples of a number of football clubs that have embedded their role in the community by leading the creation of new schools.

«Teachers have an essential role in maintaining good relationships between children in primary school and the tackling of bullying.

Karen continues her work as dead of Worcesters Primary School but also supports other schools in Enfield as part of her role as a National Leader of Education (NLE).

Shoebox Theatre c.i.c. is a small Tamworth community theatre which supports schools curricula with drama workshops, performance, storytelling and role play, using a mix of professional actors and volunteer performers to enhance primary pupils learning.

Worcestershire County Council Early Years advisor, Sheila Sage, explores the planning and setting up of a role - play area at Stanley Road Primary School.

Reville played a primary role in the drafting and passage of the Achievement Gap Act of 2010 — the most sweeping education legislation since the landmark Education Reform Act of 1993 - which included the nation's first «smart cap» lift on charter schools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theschools and created the pathway for more than 44 Innovation Schools that are now up and running across theSchools that are now up and running across the state.

For six years, the Obama administration, breaking with generations of practice, gave every indication that it saw few limits to the role of the federal government in primary and secondary schooling.

His most important proposal entails renouncing the idea that the primary function of schools and colleges is to sort and select, asking that they focus instead on their role as institutions for educating everyone.

We have also just started to extend our work into primary schools, as we know that the earlier we engage young people in thinking about their career options and meeting positive relatable role - models from the world of work the bigger the impact we can have.

All Year 6 students at Our Lady of Nativity Primary School, New South Wales, have the opportunity to take on a leadership role as part of a new focus on the importance of student voice.

In January, the school council at Boothroyd Primary Academy also hosted its own version of «Question Time» by interviewing MP Paula Sherriff on how her role supports the people of Dewsbury, and by asking what more could be done to save the local and wider environment as well as endangered animals.

Fay, who launched The Conies in a new Walking to School Journal trialled successfully across a number of Birmingham primary schools this year, aims to make the characters as much of a role model in safety education as the Green Cross Code man and Tufty the Squirrel were in their day.

Justine Greening's 18 months at the Department for Education mean that she had had one of the shortest tenures in the role, despite leaving a legacy of significant changes to school funding and primary assessment.

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What they created — first seeking buy in from the government, school leadership, teachers, and parents — was a «new» model for primary education that was child - centric, focused personalized learning, and imagined a new role for the teacher in which lectures were de-emphasized in favor of facilitation of classroom discussion and cooperative learning.

In his latest Teacher video, Greg Whitby speaks to Melanie Brown from Our Lady of Nativity Primary School about the new approach to student leadership and learning that's been implemented at her New South Wales school, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadershipSchool about the new approach to student leadership and learning that's been implemented at her New South Wales school, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadershipschool, where all Year 6 students have the opportunity to take on a leadership role.

Aimed at primary school pupils, the engaging interactive broadcast will explore the nine decades of The Queen's life, and shine a light on her role in the British constitution.

In my role as Chair of the judging panel for the annual ICT Excellence Awards in Northern Ireland, I am privileged to visit primary, secondary and special schools that are transforming learning and teaching using educational technology.

Although Perry took on the leadership role at Howard Springs Primary School, on the outskirts of Darwin in the Northern Territory, six years ago, she explains her approach to professional learning stretches back much further.

The panel is representative of teachers from the full range of roles in primary and secondary schools, from head teachers to newly qualified class teachers.

This report analyses the 2007, 2010 and 2013 Staff in Australia's Schools (SiAS) survey results to produce profiles of primary and secondary teachers who are working in a library role.

She has worked in a variety of schools in various roles; from supply teacher to Deputy Head, in one form entry infants to large inner city primaries.

Schools Week has previously reported that a quarter of primary schools with a top vacancy were forced to readvertise for headship roles in the first three months of this year, compared with 10 per cent of secondary sSchools Week has previously reported that a quarter of primary schools with a top vacancy were forced to readvertise for headship roles in the first three months of this year, compared with 10 per cent of secondary sschools with a top vacancy were forced to readvertise for headship roles in the first three months of this year, compared with 10 per cent of secondary schoolsschools.