Sentences with phrase «school library system»

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She was a substitute teacher for over 20 years, she volunteered at the local library, she helped raise grants for the public school system, and was a key contributor to Keep Dickinson Beautiful.

Hackley School 293 Benedict Ave Tarrytown, NY 10591 www.hackleyschool.org A member of both the Ivy Preparatory League and the international schools consortium Round Square, Hackley has a 285 - acre woodland campus in Tarrytown with extensive facilities to support our K - 12 educational program, including a science building, geothermal library, competition cross-country trail system, eight athletics fields, and a new 110,000 - sq ft Center for Health and Wellness.

Sadly, 2 weeks ago, my daughter's entire backpack (complete with her Easy Lunch Boxes System and library book) was stolen from the playground before school started.

The new budget doubles the program appropriation to $ 770 million, and expands the funding eligibility list to include facilities owned by school districts, housing authorities, library systems, fire districts and private non-profit colleges and universities.

To supporters, the public pension system - covering workers in villages, towns, police and fire departments, libraries and schools - is an unchangeable pact between government and its workers.

The new libraries have already been opened for use in the respective schools with facilities such as new furniture, books, computer systems and internet facilities to improve the learning experience of the students, as well as solar powered inverters for consistent power.

Corcoran High School - $ 35.6 million - Replacement of HVAC systems and related work - Includes library expansion / relocation, cafeteria improvements, bathroom renovations, security improvements, minor interior renovations - Students remain in building during construction

With the school year beginning, the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System reminds you that one of the simplest ways to support a child's academic success is by using your local library.

Henninger High School - $ 37.4 million - Partial renovations include expanded cafeteria, enlarged library, new windows, reconfigured main entrance, gymnasium renovations, spaces for career technical education programs, support spaces, partial mechanical system replacement, bathroom renovations and security improvements - Phased construction with students remaining in building

The Italian fashion education system is split between Milan, Rome and Florence, with latter the home of the country's top ranked school, Polimoda, which ranked 9th in both BoF's BA and MA programme rankings and boasts two historic campuses within the Renaissance city and one of the most significant fashion libraries in the country.

The impetus behind creating an after - school system in Providence started with the mayor, David N. Cicilline, who jump - started the process by bringing together all middle school principals, directors of city recreation centers, and the heads of the public libraries.

One of the students» tasks would be to think of ways our school building was analogous to their assigned body function — for example, the nervous system group might see the elevator in our eight - story building as the spinal cord, the main office and library as the brain, and so on.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»

At Impero Software, we provide a keyword library that highlights questionable phrases when they're entered on school systems and patterns of dubious behaviour — a teacher might not know what «YODO» (You Only Die Once) or «DIRL» («Die in Real Life») means, but the technology does.

Information about the program (and area schools) is available at health centers and local preschools, and a partnership with 27 branches of the local library system helps parents get connected to school services — in addition to registering them for library cards to encourage reading at home.

This goes beyond our formal public school system to include community learning centers such as libraries and after - school clubs as well.

A number of school boards, libraries, and city councils have implemented such policies as part of a cultural boycott to protest the system of apartheid, or racial separation, the report notes.

It states (in section 103b): «No provision of a program administered by the Secretary or by any other officer of the Department shall be construed to authorize the Secretary or any such officer to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel of any educational institution, school, or school system, over any accrediting agency or association, or over the selection or content of library resources, textbooks, or other instructional materials by any educational institution or school system, except to the extent authorized by law.»

The managed policy system will make auto - updates to our keyword libraries seamless, ensuring that schools are always up to date with the latest safeguarding terms, based on our ongoing exhaustive research.

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.

Having purchased labour - saving systems including homework, behaviour, library or parental payment systems, many schools will end up with a number of business support suppliers.

For example, he said at his school, he implemented a system where laptop computers were checked out like library books and the school stayed open later so students could use the Wi - Fi for their work.

He also implemented a learning management system to bring courses online, created a school wide video conferencing system, and started an online electronic library using Overdrive to provide literary access to students in outlying areas.

Utilizing a sophisticated technology system to analyze student feedback against a large library of aggregate data, YouthTruth also consults and informs school leaders to make meaningful decisions on other hotbutton issues such as school safety, teacher professional development and classroom engagement.

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Libraries in the poorest schools as well as special education schools and alternative schools are less likely to have modernized catalogue and circulation systems.

School districts, charter schools, and library systems can all apply.

The complaint goes on to state that the school, which currently enrolls 70 students in grades K - 8, fails to educate students in any subjects other than basic reading, writing and math; it lacks a system to provide special education; it's understaffed and the teachers it does employ are underqualified; it doesn't have a functioning library; and teachers and administrators use excessive and exclusionary discipline on the children.

Identify and support children in using neighborhood support systems, e.g., libraries, religious and community centers, after - school support systems, YMCA and YWCA, computer access, and field trips.

Gardner provided leadership for statewide initiatives such as Texas» higher education planClosing the Gaps by 2015, the college and university electronic library resource sharing consortium, the Texas Accountability System for Higher Education, and the Texas Public Education Information Resource, which includes information on all students enrolled in Texas public schools, as well as public and private higher education institutions in Texas.

This is why we have free public schools, free public libraries, a free public internet and free public computer operating systems and programs such as the Linux operating system and the 64,000 free public software programs that come with it.

Professionals and families serving students with disabilities working with schools in our service area may reserve any items that are not labeled as «OURS ONLY» from the library system.

By a unanimous vote, the Board of Regents selected MaryEllen Elia, the recently fired superintendent of Hillsborough County, Florida, to head the New York State Education Department (NYSED) and serve as President of USNY which, in addition to overseeing the entire public K - 12 education system of 7000 schools, oversees more than 240 public and private universities, 7000 libraries, the state archives, special schools for the hearing and visually impaired, over 750,000 licensed professionals, and over 200,000 certified public school teachers.

Our school system's philosophy regarding school libraries — and their place at the heart of student learning — is affirmed by a staffing model, which ensures that all schools are staffed by a full - time certified school library media specialist.

The school is bursting with innovation — housing its library in a double decker London bus, broadcasting a weekly radio show and developing a system of learning that sees children working independently assessing their own learning and publishing to a world - wide audience.

If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.

For these districts, the comprehensive library of expert - authored online courses, combined with the ability to automatically document and track safety and compliance training in one online system were key factors in the decision to implement SafeSchools Training for the 2017 - 2018 school year.

QSLiN has created an innovative digital badging system to support professional development for all school library personnel as they explore how Leading Learning can guide their growth as they grow from library to library learning commons.

If a school library chooses several options for their ebook collection — let's say Kindles and Follett — students have to learn multiple systems and maintain multiple passwords.

Ovedrive, the premier content distribution system for schools and libraries, has a reason to celebrate.

The library system created a Drupal website that allowed librarians across 22 school districts to pool together a portion of their individual library materials aid while maintaining control over spending through a participatory selection process.

The system serves more than 1300 private, public, school, and university library members, representing more than 4200 library facilities in a 27,000 square mile area.

Although OverDrive has long served schools libraries, these days the company is pushing harder to get schools to use its system for another purpose: Borrowing textbooks and other materials for students to use in the classroom.

Zinio and Recorded Books have developed a turnkey content distribution system, not only for libraries, but schools too.

I've been writing about e-books since the early 1990s and am the author of the TeleRead chapter of Scholarly Publishing: The Electronic Frontier (MIT / ASIS), where I call for a well - stocked national digital library system carefully integrated with schools and libraries --- and the popularization of book - friendly hardware.

America's K - 12 students would benefit handsomely from a well - stocked national digital library system blended in carefully with school libraries and public libraries.

The market is much more diverse, more centered (most items are bought for K - 12 educational uses), much larger in sales than the library market, and the K - 12 publishers aren't the Big Six but rather smaller independent firms that work far closer with the school systems to survive.

«The population of adults without a high school diploma is as high as 60 percent in some of the geographic areas served by our library system,» says John Szabo, the City Librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, which serves over four million people.

Almost 75 % of all libraries and K12 schools in the USA use this system.

One of the benefits that schools and libraries can enjoy under this new system is the fact that the schools provide you with your own website that is branded towards your system.