Sentences with phrase «school in the cooperative»

Each school in the cooperative contributes one site coordinator who participates in a graduate - level course on the design and development of network - based courses and then develops a cyber course.

Not exact matches

Committed to the urban neighborhood, Sojourners is involved not only in political organizing and lobbying, but in food cooperatives, day school tutoring programs, neighborhood recreational programs, and extended - family living situations.

Education is essentially competitive, not cooperative, as illustrated by the common practice of grading on a curve, or the fact that students getting together to cooperate on their work are said to be «cheating» — so highly are the communal virtues regarded in our schools.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Now he is not in any school and the district is not too cooperative.

I was holding a 6354 dollar check to give him at his work gate Christmas day with the first vacation that any one knew of since his sophmore year of high school He had been violent the last eleven years the last Christmas in 2008 forcing two men out of the back of his fathers car at 45 mph on asphalt trying to get him into work and choking his father unconsious with another man hitting on the hood of the car from inside, He was just not being in the least cooperative with any thing he had not since 2001, Things were deadly by that point all because he wanted it his way.

They are mostly doing their best, being cooperative, living their school - age lives of friends, and words, and numbers, and rules, and four - square, and be quiet in the library, and string or percussion, and you can't say you can't play, and the topography of California, and no running in the hallway.

From its gentle beginning in the Kindergarten and Lower School to a rigorous, yet cooperative, learning environment in the Upper Grades, a Sierra Waldorf School education is a gift that prepares children and young adults to embrace learning.

Automated External Defibrillator (AED): Education Law 917 requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to provide and maintain on - site in each instructional school facility automated external defibrillator (AED) equipment.

Parents of children in Houston ISD schools can look forward to some improvements in the school food this year, thanks to a cooperative effort between HISD / Aramark's Food Services and its recently formed Parent Advisory Committee.

Sheryl holds a B.I.S. in Women's Studies in Communication from George Mason University, and she has worked in Communications as a human resource specialist and quality improvement trainer, community health trainer and supervisor, technical editor and writer, publisher, and as a writing and public speaking teacher in home school cooperatives.

She directed The School, a non-profit parent cooperative preschool in Palo Alto, and later directed Neighborhood Infant Toddler Center for Palo Alto Community Child Care.

«Our future lies in forming more cooperative ventures with the schools and the city,» added Park Board member Chip Collis.

Deerfield also was among the first suburban park districts to set aside a dog - only space, in Jaycee Park, 1026 Wilmot Rd. And its park district / school district cooperative after - school program shows how local governments can support the needs of families where both parents work.

The spirit of cooperation was evident in the Safety Town, Counselor - In - The - Park and Ecology Corps programs, all cooperative efforts between the Park District and the Village, school districts, Illinois Department of Labor, and the Junior Women's Cluin the Safety Town, Counselor - In - The - Park and Ecology Corps programs, all cooperative efforts between the Park District and the Village, school districts, Illinois Department of Labor, and the Junior Women's CluIn - The - Park and Ecology Corps programs, all cooperative efforts between the Park District and the Village, school districts, Illinois Department of Labor, and the Junior Women's Club.

In Horwood's long - range study that followed children from birth to 18 years or the completion of high school, breastfed children were rated as more cooperative and socially better students the longer they were breastfed.17 When drop - out rates were calculated, the rate was higher among children who had been bottle - fed and lowest among those who had been breastfed equal to or longer than eight months, even when data were adjusted for maternal demographics.

In Waldorf schools, there are many variations of governance models with most following a variation on the cooperative board model.

This type of cooperative is run utilizing the parents as volunteers in the classroom and as board members that oversee the operation of the school.

Q&A topics include: why the mayor and Governor Cuomo appear friendly and cooperative on pre-K when together but express different views when apart, will the city fund a single year of full day pre-K if the state does not, how many of the prospective new pre-K seats are in traditional public schools v. charter schools, what is the greatest challenge in converting existing 1/2 day pre-K sites into full day sites, how can the mayor assure that proceeds of his proposed income tax surcharge would remain dedicated solely to the pre - K / middle school program, regulatory issues around pre-K operators, how there can be space available in neighborhoods where schools are overcrowded, how many of the prospective new sites are in schools v. other locations, why the mayor is so opposed to co-locations of charter schools while seeking to co-locate new pre-K programs, the newly - announced ad campaign by charter school supporters, his views on academically screened high schools, his view on the school bus contracts, why he refused off - topic questions Friday evening despite saying on Friday morning that he would take such questions, the status of 28 charter schools expecting to open in fall 2014 in locations approved by the Bloomberg administration, his upcoming appearance on the TV series The Good Wife and his view on city employees marching in the Manhattan St. Patrick's Day Parade in uniform / with banners.

He said the administration also made impacts through the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, which feeds 3,065,000 pupils in 14 states and has employed 36,000 cooks across the country; the Conditional Cash Transfer that has seen about over 30,000 households benefit from the N5, 000 monthly stipend; the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme under which about 120,000 people have benefited from the cooperative loans; and the N - power that has employed 200,000 people.

All 15 school districts participate in cooperative bidding, promotions, recipe development, and create standardized elementary menus for each month.

«Based on this cooperative effort, I think we will arrive at a good solution for the students in Success Academy as well as the children in traditional public school buildings.

CONCLUSION However, if the management of AAUA insist on N25, 000 [Twenty Five Thousand Naira Only] damages, we will be ready to pay and the management must also be ready to bring back to life our student (s) who died as a result of the school's carelessness andincompetence, else, the experience at OSUSTECH, COOPERATIVE COLLEGE, HEALTH TECH, FECA and the host of others will be a tip of iceberg in thehistory of the state.

New York City principals give advice on how public and charter schools can share space in an effective and cooperative manner.

In a 2011 study, for example, psychologist Jennifer Bartz of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that oxytocin caused men with borderline personality disorder — another condition that involves interpersonal difficulties — to be more distrustful and less cooperative during a computer game.

Creasman and his peers discuss these needs during site visits of schools in the state and through the Kentucky Educational Development Corporation, a local cooperative of school districts whose members jointly negotiate with vendors to reduce costs for education technology.

Related but slightly different is the home - school cooperative, wherein a group of mothers (and sometimes fathers) pool their expertise, each teaching a subject she knows well to all the children in the group.

The most successful and developed cooperatives begin to look quite a bit like schools, with an adult teacher in the front lecturing to rows of students sitting quietly at desks, sometimes hiring experts to teach advanced subjects like calculus, foreign languages, or physics.

Schools tend to do best when they function in an informal, cooperative, flexible, and nurturing way - which is precisely the opposite of bureaucracy.

North Star, a Massachusetts cooperative billing itself as «self directed learning for teens,» was formed in 1996 by two disgruntled public school teachers.

This conveys to students that you have faith that they're trying to be cooperative in school, while you're also enforcing the rule.

Besides the for - profit and nonprofit providers already mentioned, charter schools in some places have formed cooperatives and associations to take advantage of economies of scale.

Being that we are a cooperative learning school ~ I had to have students in groups of four or five ~ so close proximity was a challenge.

He explains, «School activities that draw out emotions - simulations, role playing, and cooperative projects, for example - may provide important contextual memory prompts that will help students recall the information during closely related events in the real world».

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In a program sponsored by the Northwest Educational Cooperative, students come to Rolling Meadows High School to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near ChicagIn a program sponsored by the Northwest Educational Cooperative, students come to Rolling Meadows High School to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near ChSchool to participate in one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chicagin one of the 15 nongraded classes designed to offer them a deeper look into some of the subjects they study in their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chicagin their regular classes, according to Larry Chase, executive director of the cooperative, which serves 10 public - school districts near Chschool districts near Chicago.

In the Washington Post this weekend, Richard Whitmire worries that the race to embrace a style of school reform he calls «Michelle Light» — the kinds of teacher quality reforms identified with Michelle Rhee, but pursued in a gentle, cooperative way — may not be able to accomplish mucIn the Washington Post this weekend, Richard Whitmire worries that the race to embrace a style of school reform he calls «Michelle Light» — the kinds of teacher quality reforms identified with Michelle Rhee, but pursued in a gentle, cooperative way — may not be able to accomplish mucin a gentle, cooperative way — may not be able to accomplish much.

And if you want to be licensed to teach high - school social studies in Wisconsin, state law requires that you study the economics of dairy cooperatives.

After a dispiriting experience at the D.C. charter school, he moved back home in 2004, and that summer ran a summer program for children at his local food cooperative, telling parents that if they liked his approach, he'd homeschool them for free in the fall to test out his model.

What would American education look like if we had shunned IQ tests as a means of sorting children, used higher salaries to attract more able recruits to teaching, adapted the kind of engaging cooperative inquiry among both teachers and pupils that Dewey favored, and expected all children to do rigorous mathematics and science beginning in elementary school?

Ravitch sees Winnetka as one of a few public school systems that made intelligent adaptations of progressive methods — individualizing instruction, motivating children by tapping into their interests, developing cooperative group projects — in order to achieve the traditional aims of producing knowledgeable and skilled students.

... Things like cooperative and democratic attitude for example, makes sense in the schooling or classroom context in the way that a teacher would demonstrate being cooperative, providing opportunities for students to be cooperative and democratic in the way that they engage with their learning.

A growing body of academic research supports the use of project - based learning in schools as a way to engage students, cut absenteeism, boost cooperative learning skills, and improve test scores.

Professional development courses for teachers and administrators — like computer science's Hector Chacon — are offered in many school districts in the cooperative method of teaching required to make CTE a success, while professional organizations and so

Up to 45 nations participated in at least one aspect of this cooperative study of schools, teachers, students, and learning in math and science at three age levels, making it perhaps the largest survey ever undertaken in the social sciences.

They need to advocate for policies that promote cooperative problem solving among school providers, including districts in cities where thousands of students still attend traditional public schools.

In Corby's classroom, at R.E. Simpson School, students do cooperative exercises, and sometimes throw mini beach balls around, during one - minute «brain breaks» that are a chance for them to get their wiggles out.

While attention is welcome, it's disappointing that two recent studies, and other insights from Minnesota New Country School (MNCS), the original teacher cooperative, were not included in Teacher Cooperatives (features, Spring 2009).

Fighting Islamophobia in schools will lead not only to healthier and happier Muslim students, but also to more cooperative classrooms and more welcoming and equitable communities.

We can «flip» the classroom with lectures occurring at home via the Internet and rigorous project - based learning taking place in cooperative groups at school.