Sentences with phrase «rewarding schools with»

Instead, Bennett said Indiana will ask for a waiver from the mandate that instead lets the state continue putting a system in place that measures student growth, rewarding schools with high growth and sanctioning schools with low growth or decline.

The program called for rewarding schools with high and improving scores and imposing sanctions, including school closure, on low - performing schools.

These biases reward schools with resources and acclaim.

In another shift from NCLB's exclusively punitive approach, the bill would allow states to reward schools with the highest student achievement and the most growth in student achievement.

Not exact matches

Parents can schedule screen time around school, dinner, and chores, and even reward their kids with extra time when they deserve it.

When he was 17, Kamprad's father rewarded him for his performance in school with money that would become start - up capital for Ikea.

Those who prefer to play it safe in the business world often preach a «stick with what you know» mentality, but plenty of successful entrepreneurs have operated under the «no risk, no reward» school of thought and come out on top.

For example, the motives of a theological student in a required course in school are very different from those of a person not being rewarded with professional status and a way of earning a living for participating in the group — that is a lay person.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Bench, who had been valedictorian of his high school class three years before, rewarded them with more than the customary words of the modest hero returned.

Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

Every year SportStars teams up with the SF Giant's AAA Afiliates, Sacramento River Cats to hand - select and reward exemplary athletes — of nearly every school reginoally and nearly every sport.

The TeamUp initiative includes a novel rewards scheme for schools and teachers with a goal to ensure 150,000 7 -13-year-old girls have more access to team sport.

In social - science class that day, however, they were learning complex material and behaving perfectly well — and not because they were incentivized with rewards or threatened with punishments, but because school was, for that period at least, actually kind of interesting.

When they enter our school most of our students are more concerned with what is immediate â $» rewards and consequences.

When my oldest started Kindergarten, I was distressed to see that many of the lessons of personal protection I was teaching at home were being undermined at school where candy was given as a reward, class parties overloaded children with junk food, and fundraising involved peddling candy and cookies.

«Rewarding children with unhealthy foods in school undermines our efforts to teach them about good nutrition.

He entered high school this year and is doing great he run's cross country and is an Honors student, He is at school for 10 hrs a day and works his butt off and would love to reward him with something for all his hard work!!

With these potential learning and health benefits, don't be surprised if your child's school modifies its gum policy, begins to offer gum as a reward for good behavior or encourages chewing in math class.

With all the birthday celebrations, holiday parties, ice cream and candy rewards, bake sales, and sugar - fueled after - hours events, school has started to feel like one big junk food fest (SEE: Rant of the Day: Please Stop Feeding My Kids Junk Food at Schschool has started to feel like one big junk food fest (SEE: Rant of the Day: Please Stop Feeding My Kids Junk Food at SchoolSchool!).

Each month students are selected by teachers and rewarded for «random acts of kindness» with a special breakfast («Breakfast of Champions») with school principal Deb Powell.

Every day that we drive him to school, we are rewarded with a feeling of happiness and joy when we see the campus.

The site is truly comprehensive, not only covering all aspects of school food reform (including competitive food) but also related topics such as drafting a solid wellness policy, starting a school garden, or dealing with teachers who hand out candy rewards.

I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman, for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you — care so much about: trying hard to feed our kids well in a less - than - healthy food environment; improving school food; and yes, my pet peeve of food in the classroom for birthday treats or performance rewards.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

I began to volunteer at The Seattle Midwifery School in 1995 where I quickly fell in love with the families, politics, work, and rewards of being a midwife.

She has had a long and rewarding career in independent schools and finds her work with organizations supporting education, students, parents, community and Board work to be continually inspiring.

Society in turn has watched as the «available parents» have volunteered to fill that roll in schools, and rewarded those parents with the «Good Parent Awards» instead of asking the question «what's wrong with our classrooms that they can no longer function fully without additional adult help?»

Honestly, I don't have a problem with it as a reward once in awhile in middle / high school (ace major unit test, etc).

Despite potential to achieve in school and the desire to form strong, rewarding relationships with family and friends, their symptoms can interfere with their abilities, needs and dreams.

With Randy's leadership, DeSoto Trail Elementary School replaced food - based rewards for students with a menu of healthier alternatives and implemented 10 minutes of jogging or walking to start each school With Randy's leadership, DeSoto Trail Elementary School replaced food - based rewards for students with a menu of healthier alternatives and implemented 10 minutes of jogging or walking to start each schooSchool replaced food - based rewards for students with a menu of healthier alternatives and implemented 10 minutes of jogging or walking to start each school with a menu of healthier alternatives and implemented 10 minutes of jogging or walking to start each schoolschool day.

For instance, gently introduce rewards for good manners, completed chores or kindness with things like having a picnic in a field, exploring the woods after school, or barbecuing on the beach for dinner — yes, even on a weeknight!

This percentage does not account for additional treats sent home with children, given to them by teachers as rewards, or purchased in school at bake sales.

And for some parents, that means returning kids to classrooms rife with unwanted candy rewards, food - based classroom birthday celebrations, junk food sold «a la carte» in the cafeteria, vending machines with sugary juice and sports drinks, and highly processed, chemical - laden school meals.

Our school is pretty good about not giving food as rewards; however, my son is constantly coming home with his snack unbeaten because he's had a cupcake (usually head - size) instead to celebrate someone's birthday.

In my kids» school, I see a growing number of teachers getting on board with healthy parties and non-food rewards.

I responded to the reader in a series three posts: Part One offered advice for bringing about change at the classroom level (e.g., teacher rewards and snacks); Part Two dealt with changing the school - wide food culture (fundraisers, wellness programs, etc.); and Part Three talked about change at the district level.

the «competitive foods» in our schools — snack machines junk, bake sales during school hours, and the constant flow of rewards, treats, manipulatives, celebrations / party foods brought in by staff and parents to «share» with classmates... we'll never win this one.

Pinpoint other parents who don't want their kids to be rewarded with junk food — and approach school officials as a group.

Even many school nurses and other health professionals aren't aware of the potential harm of rewarding kids with food, so GET THE WORD OUT!!

Even with stronger regs on snack foods / drinks sold at schools, junk food promises to remain alive and well in the classroom thanks to food rewards, class parties and school fundraisers.

He was rewarded with extra funding to cut class sizes, and subsequently there has since 1997 been a massive increase in literacy and numeracy, and there are 42,000 more teachers than in 1997, with doubled spending per pupil in frontline [clarification needed] schools (and over 100,000 teaching assistants) through to 2010.

All the participating schools were rewarded with Fiaseman took home a plaque, citation, branded wall clock and educational materials.

Cable's return with a 52 % share of the vote was just reward for a hugely positive campaign which focused on cuts to local schools, the state of the NHS and the Tories broken promise on Heathrow expansion.

«There is a growing culture in too many schools of seeking to pay teachers on the basis of what you can get away with, rather than rewarding them for their skills and expertise.

A DfES spokesperson said: «Clearly it is better to prevent bad behaviour from happening in the first place than to punish it when it occurs and the social and emotional aspect of learning programme has reaped huge rewards in primary schools with behaviour showing a marked improvement.»

«If our losses today are part - payment for every family that is more secure because of a job we helped create, every person with depression who is treated with the compassion they deserve, every child who does a little better in school, every apprentice with a long and rewarding career to look forward to, every gay couple who know their love is worth no less than everyone else's, and every pensioner with a little more freedom and dignity in retirement, then I hope our losses can be endured with a little selfless dignity.»

«Mine starts with state schools which helped me to get into a great university and set me on course for a rewarding career... When I was diagnosed with diabetes, the NHS was there for me.

Cuomo and the legislature recently enacted a multi-year-plan that would reward taxpayers in local governments and schools with a tax freeze, if the governments and schools agree to share services and even merge two or more school districts together.

The state, along with eight others and Washington D.C., won a share of $ 3.4 billion in funding from the program which was started by the Obama Administration in July of 2009 as a way to reward improvements in public schools.