Sentences with phrase «school scheduling systems»

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On Monday, just hours before a scheduled press event about GE's move, the industrial giant pledged to invest $ 25 million in the city's underfunded public school system by creating a career lab and other resources.

The new system, from Dooley Education Solutions of Athens, Ga., is scheduled to be installed this summer at Central High School and Central Freshman Academy.

On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the STOP School Violence Act, a bill that doesn't address guns but provides an annual $ 50 million grant to schools for training programs and upgraded reporting systems.

Public educational systems can not accommadate every single religion when it determines the school schedule.

The government's method was to offer private schools four options: (1) continued independence with no aid, (2) integration into the public school system, (3) a permanent «contract of partnership» in which the classes under contract would be taught according to public school schedules by teachers under contract to the state, and (4) a «simple contract» of limited duration in which the designated classes would be taught by teachers hired by the school but certified by the state.

Camps are usually scheduled to coincide with the local public school system's spring break to give kids a fun alternative to staying home all week if your family isn't traveling.

Parents can start reminding students to get back into a three - meal - a-day schedule in order to regulate their system into the back - to - school mode.

Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement straSchools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the new UFT - DOE contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement straschools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments so that they are able to implement innovative school improvement strategies.

ALBANY — With just three scheduled days left in the legislative session and the fate of mayoral control over the city school system hanging in the balance, insiders are amazed at how little behind - the - scenes negotiations there's been.

«People have every right to hold me absolutely and totally accountable for everything that happens in their school system, and if they find my efforts insufficient, they literally can choose to remove me, because we have a scheduled election,» de Blasio told state lawmakers, among them Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chairman Denny «Herman» Farrell (D - Manhattan).

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) has set up a proactive schedule to clean and inspect the water filtration system at Hoosick Falls Central School (HFCS).

The matter must be resolved before the scheduled June 16 end of the legislative session or the law will expire and the city school system would revert back to the old Board of Education days.

No school systems on the Island plan to attempt overrides of their local tax cap during budget votes scheduled for May 15, according to the reports supplied to the comptroller's office.

Trying the process before school starts gives you time to learn the ins and outs of the system and to think through what questions your students may have and how you will introduce and schedule online assignments from Science Buddies.

Since I'm told that middle school scheduling is similar in complexity to programming a NASA flight control system, I'm not optimistic about this changing much in 2016 - 17.

Immigrant parents also face challenges such as language barriers, unfamiliarity with the U.S. school system, low education, difficulty assisting children with homework, and little control over work schedules.

We are a school software company offering solutions for timetabling / scheduling, daily organisation, online subject selections, parent teacher nights, attendance and welfare: a fully integrated suite of systems with seamless data flow.

Though Denver had a typical salary schedule (see Figure 1) our data overthrow many of the preconceived notions held by teacher unions, school administrators, policy leaders, and opinion makers about how teachers perceive compensation systems.

Imagine if school systems expanded upon the Healthy Mind concept and designed learning and schedules around the activities.

Dr. Lombardi's strengths as principal at Garza ECHS include the development of a positive, collaborative school culture focused on college success, the academic empowerment of students, the implementation of a common instructional framework, and the enactment of systems - thinking for discipline, grading, scheduling and interventions.

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

Moreover, the statewide schedule is typical of teacher compensation in most other public school systems nationwide.

Around the nation, most school districts and teachers recognize that traditional pay schedule for what it is — an imperfect system.

Thus the unit - credit system came to define both the structure and the meaning of a high - school education: a rigid schedule of subjects and classes, an emphasis on time served rather than amount learned, and a belief that once a student obtained the required number of graduation units, his high - school education was complete.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

Many school systems are experimenting with alternative instructional schedules in an attempt to find out.

RH: How many schools do you expect to use the scheduling system in 2017 - 18?

Moved by pressures of global competition and domestic pressures to raise achievement, many American school systems are experimenting with alternative instructional schedules in an attempt to find out.

These will often include administrative areas such as finance and HR management; school management such as attendance, reports, exam scheduling; and more general areas such as communication and content management systems.

Systems Let Schools Call More Parents Faster School phone trees are being eclipsed by phone systems that can dial thousands of numbers in minutes and alert parents to emergencies, schedule changes, and even events, saving administrators time and Systems Let Schools Call More Parents Faster School phone trees are being eclipsed by phone systems that can dial thousands of numbers in minutes and alert parents to emergencies, schedule changes, and even events, saving administrators time and systems that can dial thousands of numbers in minutes and alert parents to emergencies, schedule changes, and even events, saving administrators time and stress.

Each classroom is in a different school system and their schedules will be adjusted accordingly.

If you're interested in an actual case study, teachers from Wildwood IB World Magnet School in Chicago recently described their own processes for Edutopia, including their scheduling system and the forms they use to help students organize their presentations.

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The report, scheduled for release this week by Mass Insight Education and Research Institute, a Boston - based research and advocacy group, envisions a broad - based and highly cooperative system of rapid school improvement.

School phone trees are being eclipsed by phone systems that can dial thousands of numbers in minutes and alert parents to emergencies, schedule changes, and even events, saving administrators time and stress.

Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic, authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»

Remember, this is the same union president who vetoed the creation of a Brighton pilot school in 2004, choking off for years the system's best counter to the flexible schedules and longer school days offered by competing charter schools.

There are many reasons that districts consider contracted transportation, but more often than not the reasons fall into one of the following categories: an aging fleet and limited resources; costs increasing faster than funding; overextended resources and scheduling difficulties; changes challenging the system such as redistricting, addition of inter-district schools and parental choice; or administrative headaches such as dealing with parents, employee absenteeism, drug and alcohol testing, and mandated paperwork.

Still, supporters of the Emery / Weiner system believe more schools should take a harder look at changing their schedule to improve student performance.

Currently, the time before and after school has many teachers supervising students when they could be planning because the current schedule / system requires double bus runs.

Local school systems need more flexibility to design a schedule that works for their students.

The decision to switch to a new busing system and the new school schedules were discussed at a series of community meetings this year.

The scheduling mess at Jefferson High School emerged for many more reasons than a troubled new computer system, district officials and school administrators told LA School Report School emerged for many more reasons than a troubled new computer system, district officials and school administrators told LA School Report school administrators told LA School Report School Report today.

Learn about the methodical schedules and system of discipline and surveillance imposed on students of Indian Residential Schools.

The private companies which sold Baseline Assessment systems to schools are now trying to persuade teachers to carry on using their tests and observation schedules, on a voluntary basis.

Full implementation of the system is scheduled for the 2014 - 15 school year.

The first synchronized meeting scheduled in Module 3 allowed the VS teacher to meet the participants virtually either using Skype or the Iowa Communication Network (ICN), a two - way interactive audio - video system with studio classrooms at schools in all Iowa school districts.

In April, the Texas State Teachers Association (TSTA) sued the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and its Commissioner Mike Morath, alleging that the scheduled July 1 implementation of the new Texas Teacher Evaluation and Support System (T - TESS) violates state law by requiring that school districts base 20 % of each teacher's evaluation on student achievement growth measures -LSB-...]

Observe arts integrated co-teaching in action Gain insights into scheduling and systems designed to deepen a school's capacity for strong arts and arts integrated teaching practice Learn how musical productions can impact a school culture Enjoy a tour with student guides sharing their voices and perspectives of their school Appropriate for: for teachers, parents, teaching artists and arts organization educators

Observe arts integrated co-teaching in action Gain insights into scheduling and systems designed to deepen a school's capacity for strong arts and arts integrated teaching practice Learn how musical productions can impact a school culture Enjoy a tour with student guides sharing their voices and perspectives of their school