Sentences with phrase «real challenges in their schools»

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Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

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Finally, in keeping with the mission of Challenge Success, both parents and schools need to recognize and agree that balance among leisure, education, creativity, physical health, and family time is vital for real «success.»

With a rising emphasis nationwide on mental health and wellness, Challenge Success is on the forefront of providing upstream solutions that support schools in making real, systemic changes that positively impact the health and well - being of students.

Dedicated to «schools that are making real and lasting changes to improve their students» lives,» «Overloaded and Underprepared» makes Challenge Success» sought - after school reform services widely available to anyone interested in doing the same.

Obstacles or challenges the bears face in Care - A-Lot, might also be related to a real life situation a child may be experiencing at home or at school.

Your older child may need to get to school earlier than in elementary school, and that means getting out of bed could become a real challenge.

But when there's real progress underway — when the White House advances early childhood education; when a culture of school food reform is the new normal in districts nationwide; when the work takes on a life of its own — then the entrepreneur is ready to take on a different challenge, and begin work anew.

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In the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengIn the piece, I address why America's school meals so often pale in comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengin comparison to those in other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challengin other countries, and the many obstacles faced by our school districts which make scratch - cooked, healthier meals a real challenge.

But even the most committed among us face real - world challenges that can make family dinners hard: late hours at the office, sports team practices, extracurricular school activities, «picky» eaters at the table, and / or a lack of confidence in our menu - planning or cooking skills, to name just a few.

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Discovering ways to understand concepts such as force and how rockets work, in school or at home, can be a real challenge for parents and teachers, however this Simple Bottle Rocket will help explain both.

This is a step - by - step guide for competing in a Real School Food Challenge.

Find out what motivates the chefs to take part in the Real School Food Challenge and what they enjoyed most about the process.

Many common themes were explored, and while session attendees acknowledged that there are challenges ahead in order to make the changes — and to make them affordable — there was a real excitement about this new opportunity to bring healthy changes to school food.

In a districts which use a central kitchen (like LAUSD and my own HISD), ensuring that food is properly reheated and assembled at hundreds of satellite schools is a real challenge that I've written about before («Many a Slip Twixt Kitchen and School.»)

The Conrad Foundation's Spirit of Innovation Challenge (SOIC) presents high school students with a very broad challenge: create an innovative product that provides solution to a real - world problem such that someone can pay for it, by applying principles in science, technology, engineering and mathematicChallenge (SOIC) presents high school students with a very broad challenge: create an innovative product that provides solution to a real - world problem such that someone can pay for it, by applying principles in science, technology, engineering and mathematicchallenge: create an innovative product that provides solution to a real - world problem such that someone can pay for it, by applying principles in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

The 20 Challenges, addressed by a team of education experts, range from «Enable students to build on their own enduring, science - related interests» to «Shift incentives to encourage education research on the real problems of practice as they exist in school settings.»

McDaniel had long wanted to apply retrieval practice in real - world schools, but gaining access to K — 12 classrooms was a challenge.

By competing and succeeding in a truly challenging course at a real university, students who have no other connection with higher education — because they often are the first in their families to complete high school, let alone consider college — receive an emotional boost and a realization that college is possible for them.

Danielle was inspired by the work of the foundation when she competed in CAF's first Real School Food Challenge, having to create a school food scratch recipe meeting the strict USDA nutrition requirements and a budget of $School Food Challenge, having to create a school food scratch recipe meeting the strict USDA nutrition requirements and a budget of $school food scratch recipe meeting the strict USDA nutrition requirements and a budget of $ 1.25.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

NAO head, Armyas Morse, commented: «Schools are facing real challenges in retaining and developing their teachers, with growing pupil numbers and tighter budgets.

However, real reform and significant progress in improving the quality and equity of Australian schooling depend on tackling our deepest and most stubborn educational challenges.

It discounts real improvements in the city's school system, ignores the tremendous challenges facing some of the city's secondary schools, and distracts from the hard work required to graduate students truly qualified for what comes next.

Author Katherine Muncaster has developed these lessons in her own school, to great acclaim, developing in pupils «a real enjoyment of learning and a confidence to tackle any challenge they encounter» (OFSTED report, 2013).

We have begun to understand that bullying affects all levels of society; it is, in a very real sense, everybody's problem, Sandra Craig, manager of The National Centre Against Bullying, reports on bullying at the challenges for Australian schools.

At a time of continued recruitment challenge, we know that schools in low income communities that are most in danger of losing out on talented individuals who could make a real difference.

Charlie Cobb was only 20 years old when he designed the Freedom Schools curriculum to enable students, as he put it, «to stand up in classrooms around the state and ask their teachers a real question» and «make it possible for them to challenge the myths of our society, to perceive more clearly its realities and to find alternatives and ultimately, new directions for action.»

I continue to believe, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, that poverty, though a real challenge, has been used as a convenient excuse by too many educators; an excuse not to improve, not to seek changes in school organization and instructional techniques, not to raise expectations.

«When teaching about space, the biggest challenge is presenting the content in a way that makes it real for the students,» says Jamie Welebob, a science teacher at the Odyssey School, a learning environment for dyslexic students in Stevenson, Maryland, who has used Amazing Space resources.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

Other schools could share their pictures and note their own classes» highest paper tower on the Google doc, showing everyone the champion of the paper tower challenge in real time.

Instead of promoting choice and letting the chips fall where they may, thoughtful leaders in cities across the country know that governments and their partners and choice advocates have important, challenging work to do if they want school choice to truly benefit families in the real world.

Today, Bellwether released a new report on the promise of charter schooling in rural America — and the very real challenges facing it.

Of course, real - time interactions can be a challenge: Time differences mean students in the U.S. are sleeping while their Korean counterparts are in school, and vice versa.

Peter Cook, teacher mentor to 2017 winners Pyro Box from Maroochydore State High School in Queensland, adds the challenge is a great way to bring real world learning into the classroom.

«Obviously in the growth suburbs you can find greenfield sites to build new schools, but it's a real challenge in the inner - city, and that's why Victoria's first vertical school will open, so with smaller parcels of land you need to go up,» he said.

Real reform and significant progress in improving the quality and equity of Australian schooling depend on tackling our deepest and most stubborn educational challenges, writes Professor Geoff Masters AO.

Education is one of the most important things in the world, but at most schools, students are told to memorize facts, formulas, and functions without any applicability to the real challenges we will face later.

«The real challenge for our education system is in lifting up all districts so all students attend well - staffed and well - resourced schools.»

By keeping the challenge appropriate, the learner is guided to be a mathematical «doer» — someone who thinks and strategizes in ways they can apply in school and in their real life experience.

Some of the findings echo much of what I observed through interviews with 13 schools in New Hampshire last year: competency - based education looks different in different contexts; schools implementing competency - based education face real technology challenges; and different students in such systems likely have different needs.

In western Michigan, for example, the many charter schools managed by National Heritage Academies pose a real challenge for Christian schools.

Unfortunately, that quickly went sour when teachers started whining about school choice policies rather than real issues with teaching challenges and issues in education.

To tackle the facility challenge for «20 in 10» schools, Bluum is partnering with Building Hope, a national, nonprofit lender and turn - key real estate developer.

The result is fascinating portrait of schools where students tackle real - world challenges in the context of supportive relationships with others.