Sentences with phrase «school related items»

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Sales of school - and college - related items — all those backpacks and binders, tablets and smartphones — brought in more than US$ 80 billion in the U.S. last year.

All of the previous items related to discussions to be had in the spring of the school year prior to your child entering school.

As the school year gears up for TLT» ers around the country, I wanted to share two school lunch items with you, one related to lunch in the cafeteria and the other to home - packed lunches.

Major topics include: an overview of the school lunch food system from an historical and policy perspective; food safety and sanitation; culinary math; basic knife skills; foundational cooking techniques related to proteins, grains, legumes, vegetables, sauces, and baked items; menu planning; and time management.

In an extraordinary session, the governor dictates the agenda, and Cuomo has listed just one explicit item: «Enacting legislation memorializing the agreement of the Senate and the Assembly that would extend mayoral control of the city school district of the city of New York for an additional year; specifically extending the effectiveness of chapters 91 of the laws of 2002 and 345 of the laws of 2009 relating to the organization of the city school district of the city of New York.»

It also took time to approve town tax statements, highway - related items, and the cancellation of selected village and school tax assessments.

With support from the National Science Foundation, Project 2061 has developed an online bank of high - quality test items and related assessment resources for use in middle and early high school science (http / / assessment.aaas.org), and a grant from the U.S. Department of Education is funding the development of assessment instruments for evaluating students» understanding of energy concepts from elementary through high school.

And in a number of other states, voters approved education - related ballot items, suggesting a high level of local support for public schools.

Outfitted with cell phones and GPS - enabled, handheld computers, students at each school were directed to nearby locations to interview virtual characters and inspect digital items related to a mysterious alien invasion.

Ongoing campaigns to drive standards from figures such as Jamie Oliver, combined with frequent news items such as the shortage of free school dinners, and the little food eaten by secondary school students means that there is little doubt that for parents, school dinners is likely to be one of the school - related issues at the front of their minds.

In this lesson − aligned to ACTFL standards − students will apply knowledge of vocabulary related to items and places in school, demonstrate understanding of indefinite articles, and distinguish between usage of articles in Spanish and English, and examine cultural traits of México's ancient civilizations.

The Department of Education and Training Queensland School Opinion Survey for Staff includes a group of items related to building teacher capability.

It allows children to easily relate to the lessons they are taught in school, as they are guided to conduct practical activities with items they see around them every day!

In a related study, students from 16 mainstream schools participated in structured interviews to ascertain how students reacted to the rising and falling pattern of item difficulty, a crucial feature of the tailored test design.

It asks for charter schools to comply with state guidelines for open meetings and inform parents about school - related items like traditional school do.

Items 1 through 4 assess preservice teachers» beliefs about, self - confidence in, and willingness to use GST in their future classrooms, whereas Items 5 through 8 are related more to their awareness of and beliefs about teaching spatial thinking in schools.

Other education - related items include: giving school administrators flexibility in teacher hiring and retention; restrictions on school bathroom use for transgender students; and prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to collect union dues, which would impact teachers.

On behalf of parents of public school students across Connecticut, I am writing to request that you add an agenda item to the April 6, 2015 State Board of Education Committee meeting to review and address the actions taken by your Interim Commissioner of Education and other State Department of Education staff as they relate to the issue of a parent's fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing program and how local school districts should deal with children whose parents have opted them out of the SBAC testing.

All fee - related items (school / course fees, parking permits, fee waivers, PTSO membership, etc.) are handled through the Main Office of PCHS.

The third report to be released by the end of the year will be an in depth look at teacher compensation, benefits and issues related to travel costs for school personnel which, in many cases, exceed what much larger public districts expends for the same item.

This survey includes items related to Collaboration, Problem Solving, Self - Advocacy, Self - Reflection, and Communication to measure how the culture and climate of the school impacts career readiness.

In 2010 the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, where I work, began a process of professionalization which included the development of many policies relating to collection care, access, and display of items relating to residential schools and Indigenous commuSchools Centre, where I work, began a process of professionalization which included the development of many policies relating to collection care, access, and display of items relating to residential schools and Indigenous commuschools and Indigenous communities.

In recent years, the burden of purchasing school supplies has increased as parents are now required to purchase technology related items such as headsets and flash drives for their children's school needs.

We then added items to the above questionnaire to tap variables related to anger in a sample of 89 high school seniors attending a private high school (Silver, Field, et al., 2000).

Most prior PAT items were retained; however, parents recommended changes to improve screening format (separately assessing each sibling within the family and expanding response options to include «sometimes»), developmental sensitivity (developing or revising items for ages 0 — 2, 3 — 4, 5 — 9, and 10 + years), and content (adding items related to sibling - specific social support, global assessments of sibling risk, emotional / behavioral reactions to cancer, and social ecological factors such as family and school).

School climate was measured by 7 items (α =.82) related to the respondent's perception of the school and teaSchool climate was measured by 7 items (α =.82) related to the respondent's perception of the school and teaschool and teachers.

Statistical methods included (a) exploratory and confirmatory latent variable analyses of item data, (b) evaluation of the internal consistency of the latent dimensions, (c) evaluation of latent structure concordance between school year samples, and (d) preliminary evaluation of criterion - related validity.