Sentences with phrase «school library setting»

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After a quick lunch in the school cafeteria, I would head over to the library for thirty minutes before class to pore over the school library's set of Great Books of the Western World.

The article said you could sometimes borrow projectors from libraries (not true in our case) or schools (also not true around here), but once I get my mind set on something there is very little to stop me so I kept searching till I found a way to pull this off!

The Eight exhibit panels can be set up in the school library, multi-purpose room or third - grade pods.

We train schools, early years settings, libraries and others in how to engage effectively with dads, and how to run the FRED programme.

It is intended to be used with school age children and is designed to meet the requirements of different settings; for instance, a home school unit, a public school classroom, the local library, or your community center.

Lay on a blanket outside and read a book, set up a mini desk on the deck for «homework» or to «play school», bike the library instead of drive.

About 85 projects — constructing drainage pipelines, setting up classes for school dropouts and establishing a library for women, to name a few — have been implemented in Pune as a result of information - sharing efforts.

We remain inside this one set — an unbelievably spacious high school library — for nearly the full 97 - minute runtime.

Set in East Great Falls, a fire in the school's library results in the destruction of the Book of Love (the «Bible» from the first film).

Library leaders from multiple settings and contexts including colleges, universities, professional schools, K — 12 schools, public libraries, research organizations, and historic preservation / archives

PUPILS are set to ace their game after a tennis equipment lending library was launched in a pioneering scheme which has helped transform two Birmingham schools.

This program is designed for library leaders from multiple settings and contexts including colleges, universities, professional schools, K — 12 schools, public libraries, research organizations, and historic preservation / archives.

The iconic Victorian Mansion features a beautiful ballroom, a library set dressed to January 1940 and the office of Alastair Denniston, Head of the Government Code and Cypher School until 1942.

These new components are: the Link, which lightly touches the adjacent listed facade to provide a connection between the new extension and the rest of the school as well as a new library; the Reception / Teaching Wing, providing a smaller scale environment for younger children; and the Main Teaching Wing to the north, set around the verdant Dell, and accommodating a new hall below.

For the last year and a half I have set up a school library Prep to Year 12 for a Day school with over 480 students and also a Distance Education school with over 700 students from scratch.

A middle school English class selected and recorded a set of books - on - tape for the children's department of the local public library.

According to See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information, «Internet filters most frequently used by schools and libraries can effectively block pornography without significantly impeding access to online health information — but only if they aren't set at their most restrictive levels.

She suggests a mix of formal and informal learning opportunities in settings including homes, schools, libraries, museums, local cable access centers, colleges, and nonprofit organizations.

The letter is backed by eight former children's laureates, including Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson and Quentin Blake and calls on Greening to «set out clear standards of library provision, and put into place the necessary funding» to ensure that every school has a library service it can be proud of.

These include buying school materials (clothes, supplies, and even homework) on eBay and the Internet; exchanging music on P2P sites; building games with modding (modifying) tools; setting up meetings and dates online; posting personal information and creations for others to check out; meeting people through cell phones; building libraries of music and movies; working together in self - formed teams in multiplayer online role - playing games; creating and using online reputation systems; peer rating of comments; online gaming; screen saver analysis; photoblogging; programming; exploring; and even transgressing and testing social norms.

The school district also has set up computers in the district office, the public library, and other locations, where students and parents who don't have computers can still check grades online.

are free for state - funded schools and non-school settings, such as youth clubs and libraries.

While the revisions that were adopted to the $ 2.25 billion program at the Federal Communications Commission's Sept. 23 meeting generally have been welcomed, experts say there is still work to do before the program — set up in 1997 to fund discounts for schools and libraries...

In our PTO and PTA Leaders Facebook group, leaders whose schools have set up a Little Free Library say it's important to think about it differently than a regular library.

Students might learn primarily from one brick - and - mortar school, but they could also learn in other place - based settings such as museums, libraries, science centers, and sports venues.

Citing the research, and the exciting work being done by school library practitioners in realizing the vision of the new school library learning commons, the expert panel recommended that «the Council of Ministers of Education Canada (CMEC) commission a pan-Canadian assessment engaging the full range of stakeholders, to bring forward a clear and prescriptive set of directives to frame a national policy consensus on the most appropriate model for school libraries / learning commons to maximize their contribution to the K - 12 experience and its learning outcomes.»

Supports planning and design activities for spaces that foster experimentation and creativity for youth in library - and museum - based, out - of - school - time settings

In particular, funding and advice has been offered to help schools set up book clubs and establish stronger links with their local library, as a way to promote library membership among pupils.

For over a decade Sean acted, directed and designed sets for the Interact Story Theatre, a professional theatre company that has served more than 4,000 schools, museums, libraries, and festivals around the world.

Note: If you are interested in having your students read all of Farewell to Manzanar, possibly in collaboration with the literature teachers in your school, you can borrow classroom sets of the book from Facing History's library.

As an example, Rosen pointed to an assignment in a children's literature class: he'd been asked to set up his own mock library for an elementary school classroom.

Whether afterschool programs are located in schools, churches, public libraries, recreation centers, or other settings, collaboration between schools and community organizations can help bridge the gap between students» school lives and their home lives.

E-Rate 2.0 One set of Category 2 options available to E-Rate recipients is the traditional broadband delivery services provided by school - or library - owned equipment.

That's because learning happens everywhere, and we need to find ways to connect the learning that does occur in school with the learning that takes place in other arenas, such as afterschool, summer, in clubs and activities, at work (paid and unpaid), postsecondary settings, online and through technology, and in other educational environments (museums, libraries, and alternative education, for example).

Its core theme is how the school library learning commons facilitates learning, and the document sets a framework for growth.

Another example involved preservice teachers who raised money and, in consultation with the host teacher via email (conducted directly with the host teacher without faculty involvement), purchased a set of reference books for the host classroom, additional books for the school library, and supplies for the host teacher (they had found that the teacher was spending over $ 500 per year of her own money on class materials).

The program empowers educators to offer workshops in community settings like libraries, museums, and out - of - school time programs.

School officials in at least three towns reported that when they called the State Department of Education for guidance about the sit and stay policy they were told that the mandatory SBAC Test Administration Manual was a set of guidelines and it was up to the town to decide whether to require children who have been opted out of the SBAC test to sit and stay in the classroom or whether to relocate students to the library or some other safe location where they could read or do homework.

Setting up a classroom library is always one of my favorite back - to - school activities.

One elementary school principal buys a new set of classroom libraries and hires a reading tutor with Title I funds.

It's a historical novel set in the medieval period (telling the story of the real King Richard III), so I'm booking stalls at every appropriate medieval festival; it's a book aimed primarily at children aged 10 and up, so I'm making overtures to local schools about author visits and to libraries; I'm attending events at my first literature festival next week to meet and network with local authors and hand out some leaflets (maybe even sell a copy or two).

The Corporation Primary School in Jurong West, Singapore, is in the process of setting up a digital library of its own.

The ease of locating information — coupled with the fact that this reference is aligned with national science standards and supportive of school curriculum — makes this set highly recommended for high - school and public libraries.

«Their «Unpacking ESSA» tool kit provides the standards - based and outcomes - based framework that each school library stakeholder group needs to use in their particular policy setting.

They are also hosting a #TrueFriends giveaway (open till the end of November) where 15 lucky winners will win a set of all four books, and four grand prize winners will receive the books and an opportunity to host one of the four authors for a Skype visit with their class, library or school.

Before she died she set up the Siobhan Dowd Trust to provide books and support for public and state school libraries in economically challenged areas, children in care, asylum seekers, young offenders, and children with special needs.

The second page of the document lists both a set of developmental goals for students that school libraries can help with, as well as the types of resources school libraries should carry.

This chart lists both a set of developmental goals for students with which school libraries can help, as well as the types of resources school libraries should carry.

This Harry Potter Book Night is a worldwide event, but one school in the United Kingdom will win a «Professor of Potter» Book Festival event, themed around Fantastic Beasts, plus a menagerie of books for their school library consisting of: The Hogwarts Library box set, the Illustrated Edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and a hardback box set of the Harry Potter series.

NJLA President Chris Carbone has offered to set up meetings with the Woodbridge School Board members and the Superintendent to show them how a supported school library program, like those in South Brunswick and East Brunswick, can enrich education for all stuSchool Board members and the Superintendent to show them how a supported school library program, like those in South Brunswick and East Brunswick, can enrich education for all stuschool library program, like those in South Brunswick and East Brunswick, can enrich education for all students.