Sentences with phrase «school moving along»

It's nice to see this online traffic school moving along with the times.

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He also tagged along to watch Calvin compete in Army - organized track and field meets; when the family moved to El Paso in 1988, Kenny threw the javelin and put the shot for his middle school team.

I may throw in a few other school food - related topics as 2017 moves along.

First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, along with the USDA, are offering cash prizes for coming up with tasty, healthy recipes for inclusion on school lunch menus.

Following the rules not only makes sure all of the children get to their respective destinations safely, it can help make the whole process move along much smoother, which will leave you with a lot more time for a yummy after school snack.

While Rosenthal has worked to create new school space in the district and carefully (too slowly, to some) move along a school district rezoning plan to address racial segregation in nearby schools, she has also used her background to hold the de Blasio administration accountable related to the budget and contracting practices through her committee work.

Raubvogel, the school's principal, said moving down to the Financial District would give the students, especially the boys, more positive role models along with much - needed facilities.

Moskowitz's Success Academy charter school chain is looking to create a new Upper West Side school to open in the fall of 2014, along with five other schools across the city, and representatives said they're seeking input before moving forward with the plan.

Dr Stan Burgess, at the University of Leeds» School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, who led the research team, said: «Dynein has two identical motors tied together and it moves along a molecular track called a microtubule.

«This is the first instance I am aware of where an academic drug discovery group moved a molecule designed to hopefully treat a chronic brain disorder all the way from early discovery to human trials without there being, at some point along the way, a pharmaceutical partner,» said P. Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D., Lee E. Limbird Professor of Pharmacology in the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (VCNDD).

Our team also includes registered dietitians to provide nutritional support, pediatric oncology - focused social workers to support your family as you move along the diagnosis, treatment and survivorship journey, child life specialists, and a school liaison to support your child's education during treatment.

When I left school at 18 along with all of my friends, they all went to university while I moved away from home to volunteer for a year.

Kelly embraces his wedding proposal to her mother when it comes along, but soon finds out that their marriage will mean that she has to move to a new town and a new school.

Along the way, Dr. Hurdle created an engaging math curriculum for a start - up school in Austin before moving to Costa Rica to maintain a recently - accredited IB school and run the mathematics department while analyzing a Montessori mathematics program transitioning into direct instruction.

Teacher advocates have railed against «privatization,» ignoring the fact that moving schools along the public - private continuum in this way can offer educators the opportunity to reimagine the schoolhouse, create schools they yearn to teach in, emphasize the metrics they think are appropriate, and put teachers in charge.

In The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and «Tougher Standards,» he argues in favor of schools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along tSchools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and «Tougher Standards,» he argues in favor of schools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along tschools in which students are intellectually engaged and encouraged to grapple with rigorous problems: schools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along tschools, in other words, in which correct answers matter, but so does reaching those answers through a complex process that may involve making errors and misunderstanding concepts along the way.

Recently at Burlington Public Schools, we have moved toward opening up our course content and started organizing our faculty - created resources — presentations, assignment sheets, etc. — along with OER options.

Although the research team suggest mapping along a continuum is a useful framework for educators in monitoring a group of children as they move to the first year of schooling, they add a caveat that it should not lead to extra pressure on preschool educators to introduce visible pedagogical practices in order to «teach» literacy skills.

Where low expectations persist, schools face safety and discipline challenges and practice social promotion, moving kids along regardless of whether they have the skill set needed to succeed in the next grade.

Identifying feelings and recognizing the pain of negative comments are elements of a comprehensive effort at Brooklyn's PS 15 — also known as Patrick F. Daly School — to give kids the tools they need to become emotionally intelligent individuals able to move away from feelings and responses that prevent them from getting along with others, solving disputes peacefully, and concentrating on schoolwork.

It is expected that audit recommendations could include: moving school entrances and play areas away from busy roads; «no engine idling» schemes; changes to local roads, including improved road layouts and pedestrianisation around school entrances; green infrastructure such as «barrier bushes» along busy roads and in playgrounds to filter toxic fumes; and improvements to encourage walking and cycling to school along less polluted routes.

The primary schools incorporated into the New Largs Campus, Largs Primary and St Mary's, moved in Monday, March 12 along with Early Years nurseries.

Kids enter at one end in Baby College or preschool, move integrated after - school programs and mentoring, with hand - offs to caring adults along the way.

They include private - school vouchers, online courses and requiring third - graders to pass reading tests before they move up to fourth grade, rather than being pushed along with their peers — or «social promotion.»

«School choice is already moving along swimmingly in the states... We don't want to over-convolute the tax code and there's concern that this could get overregulated.»

Jay Willis interviews school leaders three days a week to discuss why and when these educators made the decision to move into school leadership, challenges along the journey, and stories that made it all worthwhile.

Teachers thought the school had turned a corner with the move into its permanent location, a converted industrial property along a commercial stretch of Long Beach Avenue.

With this strategy, schools identify manageable changes, quickly move to action, use clear measures to check on progress along the way, and learn and adjust as they go.

In Dissatisfied Yet Optimistic: Moving Faster Toward New Models, Transcend co-founders, Aylon Samouha and Jeff Wetzler, along with two Transcend board members, Stacey Childress and Diane Tavenner, describe a vision for better school models that prepares and inspires all students for long - term success, and an emerging theory of change for what it would take to support their design and spread in the coming years.

In this session, learn to cultivate teacher curiosity and identify and leverage bright spots to move your school along an improvement continuum that includes adopting better routines, ensuring consistency of those routines, developing professional expertise, and ultimately, encouraging innovative practices.

A comprehensive resource whether you're just getting started, or moving further along your journey, is A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children by James T. Webb, Janet L. Gore, Edward R. Amend & Arlene R. DeVries This guide offers insights for both the beginner and «advanced» parent of the gifted child, including parenting, underachievement, sensitivities, twice exceptionalities, friendships, siblings, schools, identification, and much more!

The grant program will be administered by the Department of Education and moves our state further along the path of implementing community school strategies, including defining this approach in education code.

The Legislative session continues to move along, and this week, the Assembly Education Committee passed a bill that would give county offices of education the authority to loan money to charter schools, giving them options to weather tough budgetary times.

Still, there is growing pressure to move California schools along with most of the rest of the nation to the common core.

The fact that governments (including school districts) are major employers, especially in rural areas, along with the struggle reformers often have in explaining the nuances of teacher pay (and moving away from over-simplification that lead to Matt Damon moments) should also help the NEA's and AFT's cause.

Whilst of course the move towards collaboration has hit one or two (high profile) icebergs along the way (it was always going to), I truly believe that a more collaborative approach to workforce management, both within Multi-Academy Trusts and between schools, can play a big part in tackling the skills crisis, and in re-vitalising the careers of many teachers, who currently feel disillusioned and may be considering their futures in the profession.

In elementary schools, this means foundational reading, writing and math skills and when they miss these basic lessons, they fall further and further behind as they move along in their studies.

Along with putting a new Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula into statute and moving away from — beginning in FY 2019 — the practice of allocating ECS funds to towns via arbitrary block grants, the ECS formula passed by the General Assembly incorporates several key elements to establishing a fair and equitable school funding system for Connecticut.

With a grant from the American Federation of Teachers Innovation Fund, the Meriden School District and American Federation of Teachers worked together to create a system in which teachers have increased collaboration time along with compensation for all additional hours worked as the district moved to extend the school School District and American Federation of Teachers worked together to create a system in which teachers have increased collaboration time along with compensation for all additional hours worked as the district moved to extend the school school day.40

The No - Child - Left - Behind laws challenges a school move EVERY child along, no matter who they are or where they come from.

In May, the United Federation of Teachers — along with the NAACP — sued the city for closing schools and moving charter schools into buildings with existing traditional public schools.

What's more, the unprecedented moves, along with the direct interventions in two other schools that state superintendent Tony Bennett announced in August, are likely just the beginning.

I envision them continuing along a collaborative path with partners like LAUSD, Educators 4 Excellence, Families in Schools and Great Public Schools Now to move educational equity to the next level at district and charter schoolsSchools and Great Public Schools Now to move educational equity to the next level at district and charter schoolsSchools Now to move educational equity to the next level at district and charter schoolsschools alike.

The virtual conference will explore the steps that schools and communities can take as they move along the continuum of a whole child approach to education — from implementation to sustainability to culture.

When she moved to San Diego, she worked for the Mission Valley YMCA and piloted a group of after - school literacy intervention programs at three public schools in the Linda Vista community, along with the Bayside Community Center.

And this... lets us move on as a school community, as a school district, to things that are much more important than one transfer — things like school reform, getting along with the mayor, accreditation, and all of that.»

With the growing awareness that students of color are overrepresented in school discipline data, San Diego Unified — along with many other school districts — has moved toward softer, less punitive discipline policies.

While San Diego Unified — along with many other school districts — has moved toward softer, less punitive discipline policies in recent years, some parents in southeastern San Diego are choosing The O'Farrell Charter School precisely for its stringent discipline polschool districts — has moved toward softer, less punitive discipline policies in recent years, some parents in southeastern San Diego are choosing The O'Farrell Charter School precisely for its stringent discipline polSchool precisely for its stringent discipline policies.

(Neighborhood attendance zones are the main culprit, along with magnet school programs and white parents» willingness to move away from integrated neighborhoods.)

Teachers across schools could begin to meet to look at each others» portfolios and perhaps move toward scoring them along with providing detailed feedback.