Sentences with phrase «school concept meant»

I also would like to believe the old Ray Budde, Albert Shanker charter school concept meant for educators to run still has a place.

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Today a free market means that predators are free to extort any price from the public, they are free to deregulate, free to lie to consumers, free to exploit, free to load any company they want down with debt, and basically lead (us) to a world of debt peonage... So the whole concept of freedom has been turned upside down by the Chicago school and by the Bush administration.

For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

Global Concepts Charter School in Lackawanna recently received a delivery that gives new meaning to the saying, «one man's trash is another man's treasure.»

But this is a comedy — or it's meant to be — and as much as I would have loved for the sense of the sinister inherent in this concept to turn into something deeply, blackly funny (I'm thinking of Very Bad Things as a possible precedent for this, but The Hangover is never so audacious), Lucas and Moore and director Todd Phillips (School for Scoundrels, Starsky & Hutch) go for the easy, cheap laughs, things that will shock a juvenile mindset — a mother breastfeeding?

The formula for Semi-Pro is lifted right out of his very own Old School, which was a lazy concept already, whereby a bunch of misfits must somehow come together and compete in a unified fashion to make something of themselves, usually utilizing the crassest, most juvenile means possible in the process.

When academic language is largely inaccessible, so too is the school curriculum; accessing the language, however, means having the opportunity to learn academic concepts and generate ideas and questions that contribute to academic conversations, and ultimately leads to school achievement.

«The focus will be to have discussions about our school, the climate, the concept of ethical responsibility, and what it means for us as a learning community,» he says, starting with topics suggested in the survey results.

A careful assessment of what language is being used to describe such concepts should also be undertaken — «risky» does not have the same meaning as «dangerous», yet research shows primary school children equate the two, while teenagers associate risk with anti-authoritarian behaviour.

In schools, Afghanistan demonstrates some reliance on national examinations as a means to test knowledge of content from textbooks and memorization, which may not necessarily reflect their level of knowledge and understanding of relevant LTLT concepts.

This idea stemmed from the fact that Woo found that at such a large school, he was dealing with students entering Year 7 from 20 to 30 different schools, which meant they had very different mathematical backgrounds, and were all at different levels in terms of mathematical concepts.

A careful assessment of what language is being used to describe such concepts should also be undertaken --- «risky» does not have the same meaning as «dangerous», yet research shows primary school children equate the two, while teenagers associate risk with anti-authoritarian behaviour.

On the other hand, a high school diploma should mean something, signaling that a graduate has acquired knowledge and mastered essential concepts and skills.

If done well, that means that the School of One concept can apply its technologies and approaches to different local contexts.

A qualitative study found that this approach appeared to (a) promote the use of multirepresentational fluency in problem solving approaches used among preservice teachers, (b) change preservice teachers» perceptions of what it means for a student to understand a concept, and (c) change the nature of evaluations that preservice teachers felt were appropriate for high school students.

This ASCD Study Guide is meant to enhance your understanding of the concepts and practical ideas presented in Learning Transformed: 8 Keys for Designing Tomorrow's Schools, Today, an ASCD book written by Eric C. Sheninger and Thomas C. Murray.

This means selecting words, concepts, and ideas that matter most to children right from the very beginning of schooling.

Classnotes Podcast (March 29, 2011) Often, the concept of college readiness has meant offering specific courses at the high school level and focusing on students who were likely to do well.

Ultimately, it means that school leaders will need to be immersed in multicultural education concepts prior to assuming leadership roles in schools.

Despite best intentions, however, the concept of «stakeholder engagement» can often feel like a rote exercise or an invitation for inevitable conflict, instead of a meaningful and collaborative process meant to support students, families, and schools.

For many Americans, the gap year itself is a foreign concept (my guess is most Americans don't even know what it means), but for those who just graduated high school in many parts of the world, the gap year — that 6 to 12 months off before entering college, usually traveling the world, oftentimes volunteering along the way — is a right of passage.

Students at the high school, college and graduate levels are beginning to ask what these concepts mean for environmentalism.

Skip the purchase information meant for schools and read about the concepts and watch the video.

For children under 7, who don't yet understand the concept of a week, this may be too much time away from the non-custodial parent unless other means are used to stay in contact or times are made available either during the school day, during daycare hours or by way of involvement extra-curricular activities.