Sentences with phrase «school writing program»

During her career, Ms. Groome has held Directorships with the Philadelphia Society for Services to children, the birth center in Bryn Mawr, PA, Planned Parenthood of Philadelphia, The Community of Bosnia, The Netter Center Advisory Board at the University of Pennsylvania, and most recently, since 2010, she has headed the board of Mighty Writers, an after - school writing program in Philadelphia.

An elementary school writing program encourages students to reflect on their thinking and their capabilities as writers.

Implemented reading and writing workshops to increase student literacy and support school writing programs.

Not exact matches

She is also a craft beer enthusiast and homebrewer, and a mentor with the Digital Mentoring Program at Girls Write Now — an organization that fosters a community of mentorship between professional writers and high school - aged girls in New York.

This is a guest post from Will Warren, freelance writer online who has written several online posts about online business school programs in California and small business workshops.

Story Pirates Founded in 2003 by a group of Northwestern grads, this New York City — and Los Angeles — based nonprofit provides after - school writing and drama programs to underserved schools and produces stage shows for the public.

Philip M. Parker, Professor of Marketing at INSEAD Business School, has created a program that can write a non-fiction book in 20 minutes.

Last May — three decades after completing her BA, and with teacher's college, sommelier training and a creative writing program in between — Hogarth went back to school again.

In order to be eligible for the Army's Loan Repayment Program, the applicant is required to enlist in the Army with at least a high school diploma, score at least a 50 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, hold a loan that is guaranteed under the Higher Education ACT, agree to serve in a critical military occupational specialty, have a written contract, and decline Montgomery GI Bill enrollment.

(Indeed, fascinating histories might be written of major changes in the identities of both denominational and university - related theological schools that came about over the past thirty years not by grand vision and masterful decision but through the accumulated impact of individual decisions about particular proposed courses, programs for this and centers for that.)

«Character education» programs in public schools come in for a drubbing by Alfie Kohn, writing in Phi Delta Kappan, a publication for professional educators.

Although Justice Souter wrote an interminable (forty «nine page, thirty «two footnote) dissent, Justice Breyer broke from the Four to cast the sixth vote to uphold a program of assistance to nonpublic schools.

At the time of writing this essay, Meridith Underwood was in the joint doctoral program at The Iliff School of Theology.

The Child Nutrition Act requires all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program to write and utilize a wellness policy.

«I want to compliment the program, given everything going on in the school and portrayed in the media,» he wrote, adding that he would speak highly of the Mighty Ducks and their staff to anyone who asked about scheduling the team in the future.

Matt used to race his Mustang 5.0 in the Top the Cops program when he was in high school, and when I tell him I'm there to write about it, he's alarmed: «Are they closing it?»

Besides, can a high school junior who has written and constructed a program for three different robots but also had 69 tackles with 16 for loss and six forced fumbles really be a nerd?

I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative ways, organized presentations for parents in the local community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about how Challenge Success ties into Jewish values at my Hebrew School.

Back in December I wrote an op - ed for the Houston Chronicle urging my school district to consider moving from the use of a food service management company (Aramark) to operating its own school food program.

Edmund Knighton writes about Seven Levels of Will, Amy Bird reports on her conference workshop on Sustaining a Gardening Program, Cynthia Hoven explores the Importance of Eurythmy in Waldorf Schools, and we report on Bente Goldstein «s outstanding keynote presentation at the 2015 Conference.

Karen wrote about the new, No Kid Hungry School Calculator, designed to help school nutrition professionals calculate the hard data needed to determine whether implementing or expanding a program is financially feaSchool Calculator, designed to help school nutrition professionals calculate the hard data needed to determine whether implementing or expanding a program is financially feaschool nutrition professionals calculate the hard data needed to determine whether implementing or expanding a program is financially feasible.

But as I read through all that advice, I could only think of a post I wrote back in 2014 in which I mused that «there are few jobs on this planet harder than managing a district's school food program.»

The written report generated upon conclusion of the site assessment can be used by the district to support funding proposals to foundations for the kitchen equipment and staff training necessary to run a self - operated, cooked - from - scratch school meal program.

Here is a great article written by one of my favorite websites, The Lunchbox.org, summarizing these USDA school lunch program changes.

Every district participating in the federal meals program is required to have a written policy that includes nutrition guidelines for all foods available at school (hello, birthday cupcakes!)

She shared some creative ideas on how anti-hunger groups can help school nutrition programs through initiatives like school meal application campaigns and grant writing, and she punctuated her points with success stories from DC Hunger Solutions and DC public schools, Ohio's Children's Hunger Alliance, and Project Bread, among others.

We have written previously (here, here and here) about the benefits of music education, and pointed out the rich music education program at the Waldorf School of Baltimore.

A reader recently wrote a comment which I imagine reflects the views of a lot of people: I'm confused about the goals of the CNA [Child Nutrition Act, the legislation governing school breakfast and lunch, among other programs].

I've written many times on this blog about Recipe for Success, an innovative Houston - based, «seed - to - plate» educational program that brings gardens and cooking literacy to schools.

The Child Nutrition Act requires all schools participating in the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program to write and utilize a wellness policy.

In a piece written two days after the presidential election («The Fate of Hungry Kids in a Trump Administration,» cross-posted in Civil Eats), I expressed my own grave concerns over the fate of school food reform and other child nutrition programs under a Trump White House and a Republican - controlled Congress.

Before joining Nestlé in 2004, Molly worked for the Senate Agriculture Committee, where she was responsible for writing child nutrition policy, covering programs such as the National School Lunch Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.

I have had repeated conversations and pleaded with our mayor in Salem (who is a mother herself) where I live to help volunteer, write grants, and work on upgrading the school lunch program, and even though she cares, it is not a priority — especially when budgets are tight for good teachers and other necessary school supplies.

In response to written questions, a Chicago Public Schools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegeSchools spokesman said that recent food service improvements include the elimination of trans fats and deep - fat fryers; a universal breakfast program aimed at reaching more students; a sliced - fruit pilot program in 31 schools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegeschools featuring produce from farms within 150 miles of Chicago; and an initiative to serve local, frozen vegetables.

A written notice of termination of the home education program shall be filed in the district school superintendent's office within 30 days after said termination.

Amie wrote in to tip me off that Office Depot has a program that gives back 5 % of the money you spend on school supplies to your school.

I do not understand how USDA can make regulations around our programs when most of the people writing the regulations have never worked in or set foot in a School District.

Yesterday I wrote an impassioned post about efforts by House Republicans to gut the funding for several pieces of legislation that I personally value, including the new school food regulations, the new food safety law and the new voluntary guidelines for marketing junk food to children, along with funding for food assistance programs like WIC.

I think the director of the program created a program that schools could implement & maybe wrote a book... I'll never forget the part in Super Size Me when the school for kids kicked out of other schools changed the menu to healthy, real, cooked in a kitchen food & behavior problems diminished.

Here is an article written here concerning this cultural trait: http://brightonyourhealth.com/european-culture-and-health/differences-france-and-america-main-meal-lunch Will be doing an update on the current school lunch program situation in the States and France.

Last Friday, conservative Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote an editorial praising the School Nutrition Association's (SNA) current attempts to roll back the nutritional improvements of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA), derisively referring to the legislation as «the first lady's well - intentioned but disastrous school nutrition program, otherwise known as the Dumpster Derby.&School Nutrition Association's (SNA) current attempts to roll back the nutritional improvements of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA), derisively referring to the legislation as «the first lady's well - intentioned but disastrous school nutrition program, otherwise known as the Dumpster Derby.&school nutrition program, otherwise known as the Dumpster Derby.»

In its 2008 report, «Saved By The Lunch Bell: As Economy Sinks, School Nutrition Program Participation Rises,» the SNA wrote:

Taking Success's argument «to its logical conclusion,» Ms. Elia wrote, «would mean that D.O.E. would be required to provide charter schools» prekindergarten programs with public funding without any mechanism to ensure» that they were meeting quality requirements, and that «public funds are being spent in accordance with the requirements.»

«Mr. Schneiderman is looking into whether the schools and their recruiters misrepresent their success in finding students jobs, the quality of instruction, the cost of attending, and the program's accreditation, among other things,» Barbaro writes.

«In the federal government's first response to a lawsuit brought against it by Texas and several other states, U.S. attorneys write that the guidance to schools was just that — guidance — and not a mandate to adopt programs.

«We have declined until we know more about the program,» Joseph Giani, superintendent of the South Country school district, wrote in an email.

Since 1982, Just Buffalo has led the way for literary arts education in Western New York, bringing professional writers into Buffalo Public Schools and other communities through creative writing programs that reach 2,500 students per year.

After meeting with a gun victim's parents in Brooklyn last week Gillibrand said she would work for after - school programs as an alternative to gangs and to write «the first anti-trafficking bill» to halt the flow of illegal guns into New York.

In a letter of support for the project, U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins wrote»... this company's vision includes the first of its kind partnership with the «Say Yes Buffalo» program in which The Phoenix Brewery Apartments LLC will donate 10 % of its projects once stabilized to this board based community education collaborative to increase high school and postsecondary completion rates.»

«The statute... does not explicitly provide a schedule «to reimburse» school districts or other entities awarded grants for «programs operating in 2014 - 15,»» the advocates wrote in the letter obtained by Capital.