Sentences with phrase «school as a ladder»

We should do aways with the sense of school as a ladder, as something you eventually ascend and do away with, and begin to see it instead as something that you do your entire life, driven by need and curiosity.

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If, as in many schools, churches and offices, your supply room is really packed, a folding step ladder is a good choice because it conserves space when not in use.

In addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Cloud.

Climbing the Ladder A large department that spans the university's graduate and medical schools as well as several campuses in the Twin Cities area, BMBB has some 40 tenured and tenure - track faculty and about 60 postdocs — or, more precisely, about 60 scientists who other departments would lump together as postdocs.

Alex Wolff is sharp as Derf, an artistic nerd who sits a rung above Jeff on the high school social ladder.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

You will understand that boosting poor kids up the ladder to and beyond college means giving them schools with a «middle class» culture as well as heavy doses of basic skills and fundamental knowledge.

Ensuring quality teachers in every classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating career ladders and increasing pay for effective teachers who serve as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such as math and science, and who excel in the classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.

I have also included self assessment ladders (I have left them as levels as all schools can therefore change to their own systems).

extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder

Instead of offering college credits to only the top high school students, the idea was to use college credits as a psychological motivator with the bottom of the socio - economic ladder who might not otherwise go to college at all.

He is a byproduct of a public school system, and his idea of climbing the career ladder was to start as a mathematics teacher and work his way up to become a top executive in New York City's Department of Education.

Officials of the District of Columbia Public Schools, or DCPS, have added teacher - voice - organization opportunities such as the Hope Street Group National Teacher Fellowship, the Teach Plus Teaching Policy Fellowship, and the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching Ambassador Fellowship to their list of leadership - training experiences in DCPS's career - ladder program for teachers known as the Leadership Initiative For Teachers, or LIFT.

The report authors argue charters have come to represent a force that «preempts traditional local control of public schools» and spends «hundreds of millions of dollars to promote itself... finance electoral campaigns up and down the political ladder and hire publicists who spread misinformation, aggressively lobby, and paint charter opponents as part of the problem they are solving.»

Productive career ladders (or lattices) can also create avenues for such sharing to occur, as teachers take on roles as mentor and master teachers, as curriculum and assessment specialists, and as leaders of school - improvement activities.

Requires SDE to develop a comprehensive plan to encourage exemplary teachers and administrators, as identified by performance evaluations under the bill and other measures, to work in the state's lowest - performing schools and school districts and enhance the education profession's career ladder in these schools.

Bangladesh has a program which covers 80 percent of teacher salaries in private schools.15 Vouchers or various other financial support structures from the government appear to be widely available in and embraced by developing countries as a means of increasing enrollment at the bottom end of their socioeconomic ladders.

So they did more teaching or became involved running a charter school or a reform group, then kept moving up the ladder as sympathetic political leaders, including Democrats (most in this network also seem to be Democrats), took over cities or states and looked for people to overhaul school systems.

For most of us, scaling the credit score ladder is not as exciting as climbing Mount Everest, seeing Paris at night or teaching Chinese grade schoolers how to speak your language.

With the addition of new event scenes, such as the massive hole in the school classroom, there are extra items such as the «Jacob's ladder» (this is a nautical term for a specialist type of rope ladder — though ironically the film came out after the game so the two are unconnected).

The body of a baby excavated from Pompeii floats in an empty school hallway; a fish drinks Coca - Cola as Los Angeles burns; a green, froglike creature perches on a white - painted metal ladder, blithely out of place.

MacEwen finds this a powerful number, though I'm a little skeptical — I think that other factors may explain the retention rate, such as increased law school tuition costs forcing women to stay in the workforce longer to repay loans and more women deferring children until they advance up the corporate ladder.

I've been a CEO of a publicly - traded company and I climbed the corporate ladder in divisions of private and public multi-national corporations and there is a common thread: the business school maxim that earning a profit is the primary goal is interpreted primarily as a toxic quest for short - term profits above all else, including the long - term health of the business, typically because executive incentive plans are pegged to short - term profit measures.

-- The Ladders ran a story on best practices for using Applicant Tracking Systems to improve quality of hire and the system I developed as the Director of Teacher Recruitment for the NYC Public Schools was featured.

No matter which path you choose, going on your own as a business owner or looking to climb the corporate ladder, whether you've recently finished school or you're seriously considering a major career change, success is achievable.

Since I have climbed up the ladder to establish myself as an individual who knows educational systems inside out, I believe that my professional profile as a school administrator will be of interest to you.

«St. Augustine Medical Assistant School's well recognized course has made me more confident in my position, as well as helping me «climb the ladder».

The plan is to eventually use the old school ladder as a library ladder in the kitchen, but for now it adds rustic charm to the dining area.