Sentences with phrase «quality school environment»

«Under the agreement, the city will provide for leasing and renovations to ensure a high - quality school environment for students,» the statement added.

Since his election to the House, Representative Zemke has fought for legislation to promote equitable school funding, effective educational services, and safe, high quality school environments conducive to providing an outstanding education for all Michigan students.

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Faculty and staff at the Haskayne School of Business are proud to be part of a dynamic environment with a strong and growing international reputation for high quality research and teaching.

The Area of OB / HRM at the Rotman School of Management aims to create a collegial environment in which faculty can pursue high - quality research in the fields of Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management.

Cities which are home to world - class schools and universities, as well as offering a high quality of life and safe environment, stand to benefit in the long - run, says the report.

«We serve restaurant - quality food in a school environment,» he declares.

From sourcing organic products, to obtaining fair trade certification, to greening our facilities and operations, to funding tree planting at schools in our local community, we are constantly seeking ways to better protect our environment and ensure a better quality of life for employees, customers, and the communities we serve.

Rather than trying to «teach» skills like grit and self - control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most likely to flourish.

Students at Forest Bluff School not only exhibit academic excellence, but also the many qualities that constitute positive character development: empathy, integrity, grit, resilience, responsibility, initiative, self - discipline, self - reflection, and respect for themselves, others, and the environment.

While we know that not every camp can engage in a large evaluation process, we hope that our findings will be useful to others and inspire reflection about how camps can excel as high quality learning environments where kids can practice many of the essential skills they need for school, job, and relationship success.

The school is well recognized for its positive, educational environment and contribution of quality dance education to the community for over 40 years.

YWCO After School at Oconee County Elementary in Watkinsville, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

It looks at the British school programmes that are working to help their pupils develop character, but points out that nothing has more influence than the home environment and the quality of the pre-school years.

Instead, what teachers need to do to help develop those qualities in their students is create an environment, in the classroom and the school as a whole, that makes students motivated to persevere.

The School Nutrition Foundation focuses on providing the resources that educate and empower SNA members to provide high - quality, low - cost meals to students across the nation to foster an environment where children achieve overall wellness and lifelong success.

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Implementation of the policy was associated with improved school food environments by increasing the nutritional quality of foods served to children.

As we enter our 43rd year of providing a quality educational environment for children aged 2 years, 9 months (and potty trained) through kindergarten, we invite you to browse our website which contains information about our school programs and the Montessori Method.

It's not mandatory, but if you want your child to learn how to exist in a classroom environment and you feel confident about the quality of the education at the school of your choice, then you should seriously consider it.

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

DASA will improve the quality of life for all of New York's public school students and will enhance their ability to thrive in a safe and nurturing educational environment.»

With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high - quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.

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She received her Ph.D. in Water Quality Modeling and Decision Analysis from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University in 2007.

«Access to high - quality early education contributes to more positive elementary school classroom environments, as well as to fewer subsequent placements in special education.»

«Essentially, we found that these elements have unique isotopic fingerprints, meaning we can use them as diagnostic tools to quantify mountaintop mining's relative contribution to contamination in a watershed,» said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Until now, research in many regions of the nation has shown that contamination from fracking has been fairly sporadic and inconsistent,» said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

«Water use and wastewater production are two of the chief environmental concerns voiced about hydraulic fracturing,» said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

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President Angela Brady said: «Our students, teachers and local communities deserve great schools - environments that are beneficial to the best - quality teaching and learning.

Investing in quality If we are to encourage schools to continue investing in appropriate 21st century furniture based on the fact that children respond better when seated in a conducive learning environment, then it is so important that schools carefully consider the quality and design of their investment.

It found that pupils who were schooled in a classroom environment which made creative and flexible use of design, natural light and noise, temperature, air quality, space and storage performed up to 25 % better than those in schools which didn't.

«While schools» focus, quite rightly, is focused on providing quality teaching to hit exam targets, studies show that the physical environment within schools can have a massive impact on its learning outcomes.

Schools should look to credible suppliers who are BESA members to ensure they receive the delivery of quality and durable product in the modern testing classroom environment.»

The schools work collaboratively to provide the best possible learning opportunities for its pupils through the provision of high - quality education within a stimulating and creative environment.

In the past, administrations emphasised school management; tomorrow the focus needs to be on instructional leadership, with leaders supporting, evaluating and developing high - quality teachers, and designing innovative learning environments.

Create a positive school culture and climate that includes high - quality teaching and learning, safety, caring relationships, supportive, and challenging learning environments, sense of community and inclusion for all students and subgroups, and distributed staff leadership

The School Music Award is presented to the educational establishment that can demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality of musical learning through the provision of a first class teaching environment.

Responsible for implementing the full project, Portuguese technology design company, JP - Inspiring Knowledge (JP - IK), has chosen the award - winning NetSupport School to be bundled with the devices to allow the Kenyan schools to provide a high - quality learning environment for their students in technology - led teaching and learning — as well as being able to support and manage school devices via the built - in Technicians» CoSchool to be bundled with the devices to allow the Kenyan schools to provide a high - quality learning environment for their students in technology - led teaching and learning — as well as being able to support and manage school devices via the built - in Technicians» Coschool devices via the built - in Technicians» Console.

Play has a hugely important place in the development of your students, which is why schools need to provide learning environments that enable opportunities for quality play.

These include: commissioning an independent evaluation of how CfE is being implemented «on the ground»; improving the quality of information available on the aspects of CfE that matter, not those that are most «readily measurable»; simplifying and clarifying core guidance on the CfE; giving local authorities a more central role in implementing the curriculum; and creating «stimulating and challenging learning environments» in secondary schools in areas of deprivation.

With this urgent requirement for additional school places fast, the modular building industry has risen to the challenge, to provide excellent quality learning environments that can be constructed to tight deadlines.

«It's not a «one size fits all» approach, but a framework that supports schools to look at the quality of the food they are serving, how they can create an environment that makes lunchtime an enjoyable experience and provide food - based education, including practical cooking, growing and visits to farms.

Lee Teitel has been studying the schools and districts that are creating high - quality, integrated learning environments for students.

The off - site solution will help us to very quickly meet the urgent need for school places and deliver more outstanding schools in a good quality and modern educational environment.

Within K - 12 education, it seems to me that any study of school choice environments should include an analysis of civil society and the role it plays in enabling the delivery of high - quality public education.

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According to «The Numbers Game: Ensuring Quantity and Quality in the Teaching Workforce,» a report of The National Association of School Boards of Education (NASBE), the first component of a satisfying job in teaching is that satisfied teachers are more likely to work in schools with supportive environments.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

Such an analysis produces the expected result: higher quality private schools are the least likely to participate in highly regulated voucher environments.