Sentences with phrase «provide longer school days»

San Antonio ISD is seeking 370 «master teachers» to spearhead an accelerated learning program that will provide longer school days and targeted interventions to students at risk of grade retention.

GEO Academies provide longer school days and a longer school year to ensure student success.

Jon Clark, co-director for Brooke Charter Schools, which has schools in Mattapan, East Boston, and Roslindale, said charter schools provide a longer school day and give students intensive personal attention.

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Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

Child Nutrition Services - Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) Child Nutrition Services (CNS) assists school districts and other program sponsors in providing quality nutrition programs that promote life - long healthful living while providing nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning.

The mission of the LaConner School District Food Service Program is to provide nutritious meals each day that prepare children for learning, while at the same time promoting nutritional education for life long healthful living.

Such programs - with at least 16 under way in Illinois and others planned - provide children with creative and fun ways to spend their time, while giving schools a means to deal with students who show up early each day or stay long after classes are over.

But Camren's school serves three square meals — breakfast, lunch and supper — to help students manage the long day and ensure children have a warm helping of food before they head home at a time when a record number of families nationwide are struggling to provide a basic meal.

In addition, they (along with healthy fats) are more satiating and provide long - lasting energy, which is incredibly important as kiddos need to power through their school day.

You may recall the teachers» contract does provide for a longer school day, allowing the district to add 25 - minutes for the new school year.

Cuomo's budget provides 4.4 percent more aid to schools and would fund his proposal from the State of the State address for longer school days and school years.

This provides Cash with more power to enforce contract changes, such as a longer school day, but a legal fight appears to be on the horizon.

However, the new teachers» contract provides for a longer school day.

«If you long for those high school days of being part of a team or are intrigued every time an emergency vehicle passes by, this is the time to get off your best intentions and check out your local volunteer fire department,» said Erie County Commissioner of Emergency Services Dan Neaverth Jr. «We provide the training, equipment and camaraderie.

Following a 12 - week curriculum, the program provides hour - long, before - school sessions up to three days a week.

Not only does Dr. Walker spend her days (and long nights) providing critical care to babies as a neonatologist, she is also an assistant professor of her division at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP schools across the country operate on longer days — her school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.

HGSE Grads Talk About Why Today's Kids Need Full - Service Education Last year, when Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer introduced landmark legislation to provide funding for full - service community schools, he became part of a nationwide movement aimed at making children's school days longer, more numerous, and filled with services once provided solely through other industries.

Outwardly, Success is similar to other «no excuses» (Moskowitz dislikes that term) charter schools: students are called «scholars» and wear uniforms; a longer school day and year allow for about one - third more instruction time than district schools provide; rooms are named after the teacher's alma mater; a culture of discipline and high expectations reigns.

High - performing, high - poverty schools have long been systematically providing targeted support for students within and outside the traditional school day, week, or year.

Some schools provide double blocks (class periods that are twice as long as a regular class period but still meet every day or nearly every day) in math, science, and literacy.

It will also build on plans to make a longer school day by providing new facilities or improving existing ones to make it easier for a range of extra-curricular activities to be provided.

Many do not know that a preschool program, whether it's in a dedicated preschool or a through long day care, provides the foundation for your children's future health, happiness, growth, development and learning achievements at school and in life,» said Mrs Williams.

It would not take further research: Address teacher quality; provide early childhood education for three - and four - year - old; longer school days and school years; more - challenging curricula.

Among other things, many charter schools fit more instructional hours into a year by running longer school days and providing instruction on weekends and during the summer (Wilson 2008; Hoxby, Murarka, and Kang 2009; Matthews 2009).

As long as schools were required to provide a certain number of years of a subject matter, a certain number of days of teacher training, a certain number of kids in the classroom, the bureaucracy was content.

But the longer school days, intensive support, and individual attention public charter schools provide is often exactly what it takes to level the playing field for kids from low - income backgrounds.

Changes to the existing education system to provide greater flexibility: Under the Act, student learning time in core academic subjects increased to a mandatory six and a half hours each school day (recess and study hall no longer counted).

They tend to have longer school days and a longer school year and require their teachers to aggressively provide feedback to students, offer tutoring when needed and overall rely on data - driven instruction.

The program is designed to support your day to day operations, positively impact your bottom line, and provide sustainable tools for the long term health of your school.

Then two years ago, then - chancellor George Osborne provided funding for at least a quarter of schools to run longer school days to allow extracurricular activities, though this was scrapped in favour of Justine Greening's capital scheme to build new sports facilities.

Our high - quality TUITION - FREE education provides: * Strong academic instruction in preparation for college * Extended school day and longer school year * A classroom computer for every student * NO COST after school enrichment program until 6:00 pm * NO COST field trips in nature to extend classroom learning * NO COST high school placement assistance

Cedar Middle School has teamed with Southern Utah University to provide a day of workshops and activities, which provides seventh - graders the opportunity to see a university and spark an interest to help the students become life - long learners.

Creating Learning Environments in the Early Grades that Support Teacher and Student Success profiles three expanded - time elementary schools to demonstrate how a longer school day provides educators enhanced capacity to meet the needs of young learners and foster a well - rounded education.

On - the - job training for teachers, known as professional development, encompasses everything from day - long seminars, coaching provided by in - school specialists, courses in subjects like math and reading, and teachers working with one another to improve their skills.

To get such results, each school incorporates longer school days, robust music programs and have co-teachers in select classrooms, all of which provide opportunities low - income students may not have had otherwise and incentives for middle class families to emigrate from high - quality suburban schools, says Mike Magee, CEO of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies, who spoke recently at the South by Southwest EDU conference in Austin, Texas.

Our commitment is to provide the support - via outstanding teaching, individualized daily tutoring, a long school day, relentless and ongoing outreach to parents, and quality standards - based curriculum - to ensure that every student attains this goal.

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South says that if leaders want deeper learning and greater student engagement, then projects need to last longer, crossing over various periods during the school day to cover more than one content standard and provide in - depth experiences for students.

Congress could also increase funding for programs — such as Promise Neighborhoods, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and AmeriCorps — that provide students with longer school days and access to after - school programs.

Education day, which is co-hosted and sponsored by PNC Bank, in conjunction with the show, includes an hour long «A World of Opportunities» event in which some 225 Detroit Public School pre-K students are provided with PNC «Grow Up Great» educational materials.