Sentences with phrase «school band programs»

Among the findings: one full - time music teacher for every 840 students, including high school band programs; one full - time visual art teacher for every 3,150 students; one full - time drama teacher for every 17,848 students; and one full - time dance teacher for every 31,235 students.

She shared her arc of learning as a student, and gushed about the joy she had as a member of both our after - school band program and our extracurricular drama program.

«[I am] who I am today because of those great opportunities that I had being in the school band program.»

Not exact matches

«We created this unique fundraising program — because schools are always fundraising for vegetable gardens or band trips anyway — where they promote us and we kick back 5 %.»

Rated among the best high schools in Florida, Stoneman Douglas has won five national math championships, has the state's top marching band and boasts science and engineering programs where students fly weather balloons and drones.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Any other coach but Adolph Rupp would have been satisfied with an 18 - 7 record, but The Baron, audibly piqued because Kentucky wasn't tournament - bound for the first time in seven years, took occasion to blame his troubles on 1) the school band, which stopped tooting for the Wildcats after midyear exams left most of its members on probation; 2) student fans, who were absent in droves for the final game; 3) the lack of a more intensive recruiting program.

«Our supper meal program is a branch of our school nutrition program in which we try to recruit existing after - school programs such as football teams, cheerleading programs, running programs, band and other programs,» explains Josh Mathiasmeier, director of nutritional services for the district.

, Massachusetts, where the high school band has performed for numerous Grammy Award programs.

«My wife and I are very satisfied with our experience with the Old Town School's Artist Engagement Program to hire a bluegrass band for our wedding ceremony and cocktail hour.

A big band dance featuring the Johnnie Kaye Orchestra and sponsored by the district's Community Education program will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday in Hersey High School, 1900 E. Thomas St., Arlington Heights.

A sports try - it event (similar to the musical instrument «petting zoos» held by your school's band and orchestra program)

«Being a part of this program just changes your life,» said Joanne Beloy, 18, who plays saxophone in the school's band.

Many of the programs build full - time bands in neighborhoods where the students live and the students agree to commit to the program from elementary school through high school, she said.

Many high schools offer band programs.

Students at Banded Peak School engaged in a number of curriculum - based activities to prepare for their participation in the program.

Students routinely experience unexpected changes, like learning that a favorite teacher will leave their school, or that a classmate will move away, or that the band program they'd hoped to join the following year will no longer be funded.

And then, back inside the school again, class formation, designing learning programs with small numbers of students across a wide range of grade bands or year levels.

Arts education remains an extracurricular, and school administrators focused on math and reading can push it aside: The arts are fine, so let kids who are interested in them study in an afterschool program like band practice.

On the Road: John Lennon Educational Tour Bus This program gets bands out of the classroom or garage and onto the road as high school students shoot video and mix tracks for their own music videos (2006).

That's why parents, schools, and a neighborhood organization there banded together to organize a Walking Bus, a program in which groups of students walk to school under the supervision of adult volunteers.

They had enough students to support strong sports programs and band classes, vocational programs and numerous after - school clubs.

Weeks went by with no response from the university, so he interviewed for a position as an assistant band director at a Texas middle school — a job far from the focus of his program at HGSE.

Most of these programs focus only on a narrow band of objectives in the formal curriculum; they have unknown levels of reliability at the school level; they are cross-sectional in nature; and the results they yield become available to schools only after lengthy time delays.

Dubbed «Opportunity Scholarships,» the program was championed by Rep. Skip Stam, who believes that all parents should be able to send their kids to any school on the taxpayer's dime — even if that school teaches kids that dinosaurs walked the earth with man or the KKK was just a band of moral - minded folks.

The schools have a rich arts program that include band, dance, visual arts, and even a harp program.

Republican House lawmakers successfully banded together Tuesday morning in an effort to block a proposal put forward by school voucher champion Rep. Paul «Skip» Stam that would have set up the state's new school voucher program for expansion.

Dolan, who knew several Mississippi lawmakers from his tenure in Washington, was aware that Mississippi allows «consortiums,» or groups of organizations and school districts to band together, creating a vehicle for innovative programs.

Inspiring teachers and thoughtful students welcomed our son in the high school freshman honors program, while the opportunity to maintain friendships with peers and perform with a masterful band director at the middle school enabled balance and fulfillment.

He had built a band program of well over 100 students with limited resources and a student body that started playing instruments far too late in their school careers.

A.J. Joaquin, right, started his own band during an after - school program run by THINK Together at Horace Mann Elementary School in Sanschool program run by THINK Together at Horace Mann Elementary School in SanSchool in San Jose.

An O. Perry Walker student performs during the 2012 Battle of the Bands at Tipitina's to benefit music programs in other schools.

Even at schools that offer instrumental music programs, the experience of learning brass is typically limited to students who join band programs and show promise at playing brass on the first attempt.

The performance, which will include the Coral Springs Middle School Jazz Band, will send proceeds to the Alex Schachter Scholarship Foundation, as well as the MSD and CSMS band programs.

During the past two years, students in the Pathways program at Mount Abraham Union Middle / High School in Bristol, Vermont, have pursued a wide - ranging curriculum, including automotive repair, rock - band management, boat building, and artificial intelligence.

Some examples of what LSCs have done in their schools include replacing principals who were not attentive to school needs, directing discretionary funds to pay for school bands and other fine arts programs, creating computer labs, fighting for repairs, renovations, additions and new schools to relieve overcrowding, implementing parent programs to increase parent involvement, and adding gifted programs.

For the 2012 - 2013 school year, the modular buildings will house upper level English and social studies classes, choir and band, a weight and fitness room, a workshop for engineering and 3D art programs and possibly a parent center.

«There are people who got a really great education in New Orleans public schools prior to Katrina, and they also had things like football, band, arts programs that supported their whole experience,» La Roche says.

The schools should have band, art, shop, drama, college prep — every program needed to grab the mixed bag of kids who show up at public schools

As part of Foreigner's commitment to music education in high school, the GRAMMY Foundation will join the band in a combined effort to fund individual high school music programs.

Some examples... are programs providing breakfast or lunch, pre-school or after school programs, all day kindergarten, field trips, or even theater, band, or athletic endeavors, all which broaden one's base of association such that it may spark inquiry, acceptance, or, otherwise, give purpose to the pursuit of an education.»

When the school's band program is cut to fund the cheerleader dance team, Gabe, the band's «fat kid,» decides to make a stand.

Wadada Leo Smith (b. 1941, Leland, Mississippi) trained as a musician through the U.S. military band program, at the Sherwood School of Music, and at Wesleyan University.

«The school band, grades 6 - 12, will be participating in the program, and it sounds like it will be a great experience,» says Perry.

Rock bands drawn from Seattle law firms will perform at The Showbox, all to raise money for elementary school music programs in the city.

The government does not actively restrict the free expression of Indigenous culture; Aboriginal political organizations are recognized and funded; Aboriginal bands and Inuit organizations have taken over responsibility for some government program administration; residential schools and missionary teachers have given way to a mixed system of federal, provincial and Aboriginal / Inuit - run schools funded by Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development (AANDC); and the paternalistic role of Aboriginal agents and bureaucrats has moved towards a technical and professional role.

Thereafter, municipal governments, law schools, and private corporations banded together to create legal aid programs.

We have been extremely pleased with the arts / music programs available thru the school - band art club advanced chorus / chorus orchestra and extra curricular drama / musical programs and step team.

The band / colorguard program and the football program are already years ahead of their time especially for a school established in 2008.