Sentences with phrase «revitalizing schools»

The author asserts that the most effective means of revitalizing schools is nurturing the personal and spiritual development of individual educators.

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

But Ravitch's book reveals that as necessary as these changes may be, revitalizing our schools ultimately depends more on restoring liberal education to its rightful place at the center of the American curriculum and breaking the grip of harmful progressive ideas (particularly the progressive antipathy to subject matter) on educational policy and practice.

Providing the scientific foundation and research data, Dr. Ratey has been drafted into the groundswell of those whose mission it is to revitalize schools, combat the obesity crisis, stave off the encroaching epidemic of Sedentarism, by returning to evolutionary principles of physical exercise and proper diet thereby combating syndrome X, the underlying causation of much chronic disease.

«We really tried to tell the story as, «We are not getting rid of this horrible institution» — although it was failing kids and was a huge injustice — but we tried to tell the public that, «We are revitalizing the school to restore its proper place in the community,»» he says.

David Skinner's article («Home Is Where the Heart Is,» features, Fall 2006) provides excellent coverage of the challenge facing Cory Booker, the newly elected mayor of Newark, New Jersey, in his effort to revitalize the school district.

Rethink classroom and campus spaces, recycle and upcycle materials, tap student ingenuity, attract charitable donors — and remake and revitalize your school without breaking the bank.

Such initiatives are «rooted in the value of teacher expertise,» and because they are more learner - focused, they build on the strengths of individual teachers, thereby revitalizing a school's learning culture, writes Barnett.

Irvin describes how incorporating three national environmental education programs — Project Learning Tree, Project Wild, and Project WET — into Oil City's curriculum and instruction revitalized the school.

Kendra remained steadfast in her objective along the way — taking instruction to the next level and revitalizing school improvement.

First, there is now broad recognition that quality teachers can lead to revitalized schools that are competitive internationally.

Some authors have suggested that teacher attrition has its positive benefits where teachers unsuited to the profession leave, and «new blood» continually revitalizes schools (Macdonald, 1999).

This is revitalizing the school system in the area, too, she adds.

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He worked with local businesses, citizens, government, realtors, and non-profits to revitalize southeast Charlotte, including the major public art project near East Mecklenburg High School, the Embrace sculpture.

• Do members imagine that a better Sunday School or hiring a youth minister will revitalize the congregation and make it grow?

Just when we thought tater tots were nothing more then the ghosts of school lunches past, Pig & Pickle in Scottsdale, Arizona, revitalizes the cafeteria mainstay.

With a starting backfield of Anu Solomon and Nick Wilson heading into its third year together and a revitalized defense under Marcel Yates, the 2016 Wildcats can become the school's most revered team by taking UA fans to the Holy Land of Pasadena for more than just a UCLA road game.»

Nearly 250 teachers, administrators, board members and parents representing public Waldorf schools spanning the east coast to the west coast and everywhere in between participated in this revitalizing weekend.

With all of the talk of education reform and what's needed to revitalize public schools, it's refreshing to read Paul Tough's new book, Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why.

«Working together, our accomplishments are many ---- a game - changing property tax cap, record support for schools and elimination of the GEA, a 20 - percent middle class income tax cut, six straight budgets that have held the line on spending, targeted investments that will create jobs and revitalize our economy, and critical road and bridge funds for every region of the state,» he said.

Mayor Byron Brown and Congressman Brian Higgins say the Allen Street Improvement Project will revitalize the neighborhood near the site of the new U.B. Medical School.

«Adriano has been an outspoken voice in the fight to reform government, improve our city's schools, protect our environment and revitalize our small businesses,» Bloomberg went on to say in the statement.

«It matters to us that our immigrants come back and repopulate our schools, they revitalize our economic corridors, bring cultural life and vitality back to our neighborhoods,» Gym said.

.@BetsyDeVos has the talent, commitment, and leadership capacity to revitalize our public schools and deliver the promise of opportunity.

He called on the support of local small businesses to revitalize a once booming city and cited vocation programs as a necessary piece to building education and keeping students in school.

The decision upholds a March ruling from a lower court, and is a blow to the Bloomberg administration's attempts to revitalize the city's education system by shutting down failing schools.

Planting permanent roots will revitalize an ailing economy, they argue, and will repopulate the school districts that are hemorrhaging students.

A new breed of schools is closing achievement gaps among students and may hold the key to a revitalized 21st - century workforce

Science graduate study, based on a 19th century model, needs serious reform to meet modern needs, but trying to «revitalize the doctorate is like moving a graveyard,» added another conference speaker, former NSF Director and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science Careers) Rita Colwell, currently a Distinguished Professor at both the University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

This week our Noggins returned in force to a stunningly renovated Franklin High, after two years of voter - approved seismic upgrades beautifully revitalized yet another Portland Public School... The message sent to students, teachers, staff and visitors is clear in school improvements — that education is a priority for this commSchool... The message sent to students, teachers, staff and visitors is clear in school improvements — that education is a priority for this commschool improvements — that education is a priority for this community.

Netflix and Scholastic Media have dropped the first trailer for the revitalized animated series, The Magic School Bus Rides Again.

The show starred Josh Radnor, continuing his trend of dramatic work, as a high school teacher who attempts to revitalize his down - trodden town by bringing a spark of life to the school's drama department.

One camp seeks to reform and revitalize public schools, while the other seeks to dismantle them through tuition vouchers and privatization.

«The senior project, without question, has revitalized the senior year at Petal High School,» Lisa Camp told Education World.

As the executive director of the Washington office of New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS), Davis is overseeing a rapidly expanding crop of new principals who are promising to revitalize a long - ailing system.

Revitalizing Family Engagement in the Transition Years Through our extensive research on family engagement, and with the support of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Harvard Family Research Project is undertaking a new project that will focus on increasing understanding and implementation of the expanded definition of family engagement at a key time in the life of a child and the family: the transition to school.

As part of a two - day national summit here on revitalizing native languages, three founders of immersion schools that are teaching children Cherokee, Ojibwe, and Native Hawaiian contended that some No Child Left Behind provisions present huge hurdles for language - immersion programs or schools and conflict with schooling rights spelled out in another federal law, the Native American Languages...

«I am very pleased that Sesame Workshop and the Harvard Graduate School of Education are revitalizing this historic relationship,» said Knell.

The district had been freed from mayoral control after more than a century, and a high - energy superintendent was leading bold moves to de-emphasize central administration, give schools greater autonomy, and engage families in a revitalized portfolio of educational choice.

The nagging problem of significant numbers of youth leaving school unprepared for career employment has revitalized interest in vocational education, particularly apprenticeships.

The real question, then, though perhaps born of necessity, is whether it's such a bad thing that responsibility for revitalizing U.S. high schools has been thrust back on states and districts, private funders, and diverse reform architects.

For which purpose, let us return to 30,000 feet and suggest that the two essential sets of data for tracking America's progress or lack thereof in revitalizing the high school are objective test scores and graduation rates.

You'll return to your school revitalized and prepared to tackle the challenges ahead.

A Denver group called Citizens United to Revitalize Education has also charged that Thomas Tancredo has used his office to attack the public schools and promote a conservative, religiously oriented organization called Citizens for Excellence in Education.

Ten Ideas for a Successful Take Your Family to School Week PTA Take Your Family to School Week is just one of the PTA programs revitalizing parent involvement in education.

CPS cited Marshall «A turnaround school that has revitalized its curriculum, culture, and climate, and is showing clear gains as a result.

Education Week, the Education Writers Association and The Hechinger Report partnered with 18 news outlets in 16 states to investigate how $ 3 billion in federal School Improvement Grants are being used to revitalize some of the nation's lowest - performing schools.

«Civic education revitalization is necessary because it's rare,» keynote speaker Dr. Meira Levinson, an associate professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, shared with attendees of the «Revitalizing Civic Education to Empower Youth» forum at Cape Cod Community College on Thursday, October 10.

Sheninger shares the story of how New Milford High School's library media specialist, Laura Fleming, developed their makerspace, sharing how trust, support, and creativity have thrived and revitalized the once drab library.

The Holmes Group's new blueprint for revitalizing education schools in research universities will include a requirement that they become nationally accredited, members of the group have decided.