Sentences with phrase «rebuilding school»

Rebuilding School Culture: Supporting Staff and Students Is Key After tragedy, Newtown, Connecticut, schools focus on learning and helping staff and students find a new sense of normal.

They are taking bold steps to turn around low - performing schools by investing in teachers, rebuilding school staff, lengthening the school day and changing curriculums.

Sure, rebuilding school buildings and improving systems are worthy goals after any disaster.

So instead of reductive SATs tests, we are demanding a system that focuses on teacher assessment, professional development, investment in improving diagnostic assessments and rebuilding school to school collaboration and cooperation.

Finally, if a school is in the Intervene category, it can be reconstituted, which means that principals, teachers and students might be fired or moved to other schools all with an eye to reconstituting or rebuilding the school from the inside out.

A year after a U.S. - led coalition took charge of rebuilding the school system in Iraq, the country's Ministry of Education now has the freedom to call the shots.

After weeks of wrangling over how to structure the District of Columbia's school governance, a series of 11th - hour disapprovals and dashed agreements left frustrated city officials little closer last week to rebuilding their school board than they were when the effort began.

«Happy Hearts Fund» is a non-profit dedicated to rebuilding schools and restoring opportunities to children after experiencing natural disasters.

Norwegian Cruise Line partnered with All Hands Volunteers to rebuild schools in the Caribbean and will match donations up to $ 1.25 million, while Royal Caribbean is working with World Vision and has committed to match up to $ 1 million in donations.

November 15, 2017 Fox & Friends Supermodel Petra Nemcova Helping to Rebuild Schools After Natural Disasters

The charity also supported local partners to rebuild schools, repair damaged water systems, help communities restore their means of making a living and prepare for future disasters.

Both Miliband brothers were attempting to persuade Mr Balls, who has won Labour plaudits for his recent attacks on the decision by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, to abandon plans to rebuild schools, to quit and support them.

And when you think of all we as a country invested over that period — in restoring the NHS, rebuilding schools, taking hundreds of thousands of pensioners out of poverty, ditto children — keeping the National Debt below the level they inherited from the Conservatives was a fantastic achievement.

State lawmakers have given the green light to begin the process of rebuilding the schools in the Yonkers School District.

October 5, 2012 • His plan calls for more spending on infrastructure, a tax cut for firms that hire new workers, aid to state and local governments, and a program to rebuild schools.

The fact - based «We are Marshall» (2006), however, seemed to hold more promise, with McConaughey portraying a football coach brought in to rebuild a school team after a tragic plane crash left the entire squad, coaching staff, and a large group of supporters dead.

From February 18 to 26, 24 HGSE students from the Teacher Education Program (TEP) traveled to New Orleans to volunteer their time, energy, effort, and heart in rebuilding the schools.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's plan includes «elevating» the teaching profession, rebuilding schools, breaking the school - to - prison pipeline, the expansion of affordable preschool and child care, and making college more affordable by offering free tuition at community colleges and four - year public universities.

The 84 educators and architects who turned out for last week's Programs in Professional Education institute, Learning Environments for Tomorrow: Next Practices for Educators and Architects (LEFT), are a testament to the challenges faced by those reenvisioning and rebuilding our schools.

Grants to Rebuild School Libraries Affected by 2017 Natural Disasters Deadline: Rolling The Laura Bush Foundation is offering grants to rebuild school libraries affected by major natural disasters in 2017, which include Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, as well as the California wildfires.

Restoration and rebuilding schools has been our unit's specific focus.

We found that 62 Architects in our study systematically rebuilt their schools over three years, by putting in place nine building blocks — to challenge how it operated, change its culture and improve its teaching.

But Dr Bousted, general secretary of the ATL, said that funding which should have been spent on rebuilding schools was being used to open free schools.

After 11 months of building works, this is the first rebuilt school opened under the Priority School Building Programme, which is rebuilding schools in the worst condition.

But when you ask the chief strategy officer of New Schools for New Orleans about this city's remarkable efforts to rebuild its schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he starts not with statistics but with the story of Bridget Green.

«The rapid advance of technology and the very different way teachers approach teaching today, along with the almost simultaneous [aging] of the nation's education infrastructure, is creating a tremendous need to rebuild schools — yet school officials have very little knowledge about what education will look like 10 or 20 years from now.»

District contends that it should get an additional $ 62 million in federal aid to pay for rebuilt schools.

When Washoe County School District superintendent Jim Hager hired me as a rookie 30 - year - old administrator to take the reins at Anderson in 2002, he gave me a mandate to question everything — to leave no stone unturned in the mission to rebuild the school's foundation and reclaim its former history of high achievement.

The parents would also be able to fire teachers and rebuild the school from scratch.

School officials have said these meetings will be a crucial part of the process of dividing a $ 2 billion FEMA settlement to rebuild schools across the city.

This diagnostic portrait will inform the development of action plans for raising quality, rebuilding schools, increasing access, strengthening governance, and expanding student services.

With classes now over, Baltimore's $ 1 billion plan to renovate and rebuild schools is entering its most active phase yet.

After witnessing a devastating season of storms and natural disasters this fall, the Laura Bush Foundation established the 2017 Disaster Relief Initiative to help rebuild school libraries that were damaged or destroyed in recent natural disasters in Texas, along the Gulf Coast, California, and in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

GOP leaders want you to believe that the best way to rebuild our schools is by completely wiping away the largest school district in the state of Wisconsin and building a contingency of schools with full autonomy and no accountability, even though they are entitled to public dollars.

Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books and educational materials, is responding to the loss from schools in New York and New Jersey with a donation of one million books to help rebuild the schools» libraries, as well as making educator materials like lesson plans available to teachers who have lost decades» worth of accumulated instructional materials.

Julie Walker, director of ALA's American Association of School Librarians, visited the area a few years after the flooding and witnessed 50 rebuilt school libraries in the Gulf Region.

You'll also gain street credits as you progress through the game that will help you rebuild the school and unlock extra goodies.

• Successfully completed time - sensitive assignments working with U.S. Transition Team in rebuilding schools, hospitals, police stations and local businesses in the Al Anbar province of Iraq.

I went to Haiti after the earthquake to help rebuild a school and I seriously fell in love with the kids there.

Not exact matches

In sprawling suburbia, these large swaths of land could house densely - packed residential developments, shops, community centers, libraries, schools, and all sorts of other buildings that could help rebuild a long - lost sense of community.

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

Our team is now stepping in to help with one of the island's greatest recovery needs — getting children back to school by rebuilding the Paix Bouche Primary Sschool by rebuilding the Paix Bouche Primary SchoolSchool.

Schools will have to be repaired; bridges and roads will have to be rebuilt; electrical grids must be restored.

We're helping with education through the rebuilding of schools and by using technology to support teachers and students.

«This funding will allow us to together rebuild safe, resilient schools in areas most impacted by recent natural disasters to keep children safe, but also to ensure that these communities are not forgotten when the emergency response efforts are complete.

Happy Hearts Fund (HHF), founded in 2006 by Petra Nemcova after she survived the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, rebuilds safe, resilient schools in areas impacted by natural disasters.

Children often wait four or more years for schools to be rebuilt, and I hope that more companies will take the same thoughtful actions for long - term recovery.»

The group, which owns Norwegian Cruise Line, Regent Seven Seas and Oceania Cruises, has committed to matching up to $ 1.25 million of donations from its guests, team members, suppliers and partners in order to deliver early relief response for the Florida Keys and to rebuild «safe, resilient schools» in the Caribbean islands following the destruction caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

Under Hope Starts Here, the company is committing to match up to $ 1.25 million of donations from its valued guests, team members, suppliers and partners in order to substantially help All Hands Volunteers (hands.org), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit relief organization, and Happy Hearts Fund (happyheartsfund.org) deliver early relief response for the Florida Keys, and rebuild safe, resilient schools in the Caribbean islands impacted by Hurricanes Irma and Maria.

We're still in the Response phase, undertaking mucking - and - gutting, debris removal, chainsawing, and sanitation, however, we have undertaken school rebuild projects.