Sentences with phrase «school itself the focal point»

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Our goal is to continue growing and become a focal point for finance students at the Haskayne School of Business.

The individual described in this article that attended Catholic school and Mass on a regular basis, but somehow was not «exposed» to Jesus Christ, clearly missed the entire focal point of the Catholic service.

Bart became the focal point of his father's uncontrollable anger and was consistently abused until high school.

As they became a focal point of my high school figure, I despised them even more.

This exceptional location supports the school as a dynamic center for learning in which the arts and the natural environment are utilized as focal points for education.

After sharing some alarming statistics about the unfitness of both potential military recruits and a significant portion of those already in the military, Mission Readiness argues that «[w] ith children consuming up to half of their daily calories while at school and out of sight of their parents, schools should be a focal point in the nation's effort to combat childhood obesity.»

Science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, education has become a focal point for schools throughout New York and the nation.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that the new policy will make it harder for schools to be readily available for after - school, late night and weekend events and to serve as focal points for neighborhood activities.

The tensions between parental expectations and students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.

«Once we consider how important schools are to American ideas about economic opportunity and upward mobility, we can better understand why school settings are revealed in our research as focal points of violent responses to increased unemployment,» said Hagan, who also is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation.

Hot, humid conditions have made high school football a focal point for heat exhaustion as heat - related deaths have tripled since 1994.

While selecting the right device for your school is essential, making it the focal point is not the best way to deliver it.

Use the constraints of a school's tight spaces or long hallways to your benefit: find a focal point with an amazing object, image or art piece that draws people's attention.

What if we could design a school where the student was at the center of every decision we made, rather than the adults» schedule being the focal point... what would that look like?»

«This position continues to be the focal point of decision - making, especially in a site - base managed school,» says Alan Rummel, principal at Delahunty Middle School in Hermitage, Pennsylschool,» says Alan Rummel, principal at Delahunty Middle School in Hermitage, PennsylSchool in Hermitage, Pennsylvania.

Honan encourages school administrators on the receiving end of grants to be cognizant that foundations often bring «different focal points of interest, assumptions, and ways of working» to an educational enterprise than they may have experienced in interactions with state or local policymakers.

What happens to students within schools, not only differences between schools, became the focal point.

The new research schools - which will each receive # 200,000 in funding over three years — will become focal points of evidence - based practice in their region and build networks between large numbers of schools.

It is hoped that the school will become a focal point for the long term development of the area helping to bring the community together.»

According to Greening, these schools will become «focal points of evidence - based practice» in their regions over the next three years.

These students struggling in math or language arts can sometimes become the focal point of school improvement teams and school - based content specialists.

The fitness stream consists of three focal areas: The Fitness Business School, offering business acumen for fitness professionals; Practical Coaching, with theoretical and practical application of topical trends and speaking points designed to improve client's results; and the Gym Operators conference to support the effective running of a fitness centre.

Gratnells Callero trolleys can be used to create a focal point for study and resources within the classroom, while the Rover trolley allows these resources to be easily transported around the school site.

«The best way to make a mission statement the focal point of a school is to have everyone involved in creating it, including the community, and then put it everywhere — on banners, letterhead, newsletters, seat cushions,» explained Bond.

Schools should again become a focal point for communities in the broadest sense, not for limited, sectional interests.

IEL is partnering with FWI to implement a strategy for using MITM and the Seven Essential Skills (a research - based approach to improving children's Life Skills and success) as a focal point for building bridges between early childhood systems and schools while promoting educational innovation in community schools.

But at last, American schools will have a focal point.

This is clearly reflects the extension of the principal «s leadership influence across various focal points of school improvement.

To understand the distribution of leadership one needs to explore evidence of actual behaviors and influences associated with core leadership practices and specific focal points of school - improvement activity.

Although schools can be the focal point in a community's attempt to meet students» needs, districts can not do it alone.

Scholars recently have focused considerable attention on the properties and complexities of leadership distribution in schools and districts — sources, focal points, functions, interactions, contexts, and outcomes.106 We know that leadership may be distributed in various patterns, though consensus on a typology and terms remains elusive.

Without this focal point, our schools have twisted and turned over the years, swinging from one reform to another.

(Wash.) For generations, schools have served as a focal point for anti-drug campaigns and prevention education, but today with the opioid epidemic raging out of control, public health officials are looking in a new direction for help: the school bus driver.

Meols Cop High School, Samuel Ward Academy Trust, Rosendale Primary School, The Academy at Shotton Hall, Sandringham School and Durrington High School will each get # 200,000 to become «focal points of evidence - based practice» in their regions.

Mrs Hims reported, «Everyone at our school enjoys the collaborative work with Keresley Community Library, which is the focal point of our local community, bringing our families together».

The new Chartered College of Teaching is committed to «enabling teachers to connect with rigorous research and evidence»; The Education Endowment Foundation's Research Schools, a focal - point for evidence - based practice in their regions, are expanding in numbers; and researchED, a grass - roots, teacher - led organisation, aims to improve teacher research literacy and to «dismantle myths in education».

Barbara Taylor, the secretary of the National Association of Small Schools who chairs the governors at a school with 49 pupils in south Oxfordshire, accepted that some underperforming small schools may have to close, but argued «most» perform well and are a «focal point of the community&Schools who chairs the governors at a school with 49 pupils in south Oxfordshire, accepted that some underperforming small schools may have to close, but argued «most» perform well and are a «focal point of the community&schools may have to close, but argued «most» perform well and are a «focal point of the community».

Teacher evaluation had already become a national focal point due to the release of several studies asserting that the classroom teacher is the most important school - based factor in improving student achievement.

The Charter Schools Division (CSD) in the California Department of Education serves as the focal point for the development and oversight of state policies, regulations, and procedures relating to charter schools, including fiscal status, liability, and accountaSchools Division (CSD) in the California Department of Education serves as the focal point for the development and oversight of state policies, regulations, and procedures relating to charter schools, including fiscal status, liability, and accountaschools, including fiscal status, liability, and accountability.

The Public School Forum identified the need to lift race as a focal point of public education in the 2016 Top 10 Education Issues, and has already been in discussion with local education agencies seeking to address racial disparities.

Christie has made charter school expansion and a complete overhaul of the education system a focal point of his administration's agenda.

This policy enhancement could effectuate (a) a broader accountability system for both academic performance and social - emotional development, and (b) a greater system of care for child mental health with schools as the focal point.

The education secretary has revealed the names of these 11 new research schools, which will each receive # 200,000 to become «focal points of evidence - based practice» in their regions over the next three years.

While Huntsman hasn't made his education policies a focal point of his campaign, there is at least one report of him impressing an inquisitive teacher on the campaign trail with a «detailed response that included adding charter schools and an emphasis on early education.»

Of course, the focal point of just about any school - age kid's dream backyard is a play structure — whether it's a playhouse, swing set or jungle gym.

Since then, the garden has become a focal point of school life, used by geometry students who apply math to building projects, by English students to write poetry, by environmental science classes to study sustainable agriculture and irrigation.

Type: Beach Skill Level: Beginners to advanced Direction: Right and left Tide: All tides — Rising and falling tides Location: Lat: 85 ° 40» 33.64 ″ W Long: 85 ° 40» 11.88 ″ W Guiones is the focal point of the local surf scene, and it's forgiving waves have cemented it's reputation as a surf school Shangri - La.

Safety is of course one of our surf schools major focal points and we will make sure you are safe in and out of the water and that you can build your confidence while learning.

Old school gamers will remember it as the focal point of the Konami code (up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, «B», «A».)

Another focal point of the launch was the opening of Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, featuring a selection of close to 40 works from Evans» legacy collection of African American art - from 19th - century landscape paintings of the Hudson River School to works by masters of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as examples from the Federal Art Project of the 1930s and later 20th - century works by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, among others.