Sentences with phrase «schoolhouses into»

Using scientific management techniques, they transformed a set of one - room schoolhouses into the bureaucratic «one best system» of city administration that still persists today.

Progressive Era reforms transformed a set of one - room schoolhouses into the «one best system,» shifting power from the teacher and the school to the superintendent who ran the district.

That is, the consolidation of one - room schoolhouses into larger districts, the development of schools with separate grades, the September to June calendar, and the relatively common curriculum across the country all came into being because families wanted those measures.

This is the second project by CB Emmanuel involving the conversion of a former schoolhouse into affordable housing.

In nearby Kinderhook, Jack Shainman, who maintains two galleries in Chelsea, has turned a 1929 Federal - style brick schoolhouse into a clean white 30,000 - square - foot art venue.

Not exact matches

The oldest university in the state, Columbia called several locations across New York City home after its founding in 1754 — including a schoolhouse adjacent to Trinity Church in the financial district and a 40 - year occupation in Midtown — before settling into its iconic campus on 116th Street.

On October 2, 2006, Charlie Roberts - then Monville's husband - burst into a one - room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, with a handgun, a 12 - gauge shotgun, a rifle, cans of black powder, a stun gun, two knives, a toolbox and restraint devices.

The board decided to bring the building, a 1930s schoolhouse at Illinois Highways 31 and 56, into a safe and «marketable» condition after earlier bids to substantially upgrade the building topped $ 1 million.

When I stepped into the schoolhouse, I instinctively tucked my camera back inside its case.

Turning a disheveled mountain of public education into a national schoolhouse on a hill will be a daunting job.

But turning a disheveled mountain of public education into a national schoolhouse on a hill will be a job as daunting as the marvelous, half - century - long, but ongoing rendering of a statue of Crazy Horse, the great Native American warrior, out of a Black Hills mountain by the Korzczak family.

Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Elementary and Secondary Education Act outside the former one - room schoolhouse in rural Texas he'd once attended.

But as transportation improved and demand for a high - school education increased, the one - room schoolhouse organized into «recitation groups» no longer sufficed.

As John Dinan shows in «School Finance Litigation: The Third Wave Recedes» in From Schoolhouse to Courthouse, state courts have grown increasingly weary, and wary, of being drawn into these political quagmires.

Week 1: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader Week 2: Becoming a Socially - Emotionally Intelligent Leader (Continued) Week 3: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team Week 4: Building an Effective SEL Leadership Team (Continued) Week 5: Unjumbling the Schoolhouse Week 6: Assessing School Culture and Climate Week 7: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives Week 8: The Impact of Policy on SEL and School Culture and Climate Initiatives (Continued) Week 9: Leading Organizational Change to Improve School Culture and Climate Week 10: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 1) Week 11: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 2) Week 12: Bringing an SEL - Related Program Into Your School (Final Project Part 3)

Through authentic projects rooted in the adult - world, both teachers and students bring their full creative, innovative, human selves into the schoolhouse.

Some states, like New Hampshire, are putting into place some new standards that get rid of the old age - grade / time - based lockstep approach of the Carnegie unit for credit in high schools and pave the way for this one - room schoolhouse «philosophy.»

Add to that, not «charging for reviews» but requiring a «processing fee» — and still the redheaded stepchild must walk 10 paces behind on the way into the schoolhouse.

Other buildings include a restored carriage house and a 1920s schoolhouse that was transformed into suites in 2000, complete with Jacuzzi tubs, fireplaces, and private decks.

Book a room at the new Cabeça da Cabra property: a former schoolhouse transformed into a charming B&B.

Venturing down narrow stairs into the bowels of the 1895 former schoolhouse, viewers encounter Realm of the Mind (2002).

I peeked into the hallway that links Schoolhouse to ArtStrand and saw work by Mira Schor, above, and Garry Mitchell, below

In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys «and girls «heads to buy gorgeous visiting - cards — ten cents a package — and exchange.

At P.S. 1 this winter, Merrick wedges his gigantic, bright green balloon dinosaur into the former schoolhouse.

It is about not just walking into a schoolhouse, but prying into its secrets.

Highlights include a circa - 1800 barn that was adaptively repurposed into a charming residence, the Eliphalet Sturges / George Hand Wright house, which was originally built in 1764 as a simple two - room farm house and extensively remodeled in the colonial revival style by the dean of Westport artists, George Hand Wright, in 1910; «Duck Haven,» a house and cottage on the Saugatuck River adjacent to the historic low - tide crossing point; the David Judah House, circa 1760, which has gone through a meticulous restoration by its owner, who preserved every nail, piece of timber and window; a circa 1840 Italianate house whose owners uncovered an original back staircase hidden by 20th century renovations; Westport's first one - room schoolhouse west of the Saugatuck River, which includes a large collection of signed prints by abstract artist Frank Stella; a reproduction saltbox circa 1966 designed and built by well - known architect George White, which won a Historic Preservation Award this year.

(Images: Dezeen) Warehouses, schoolhouses, and factory buildings repurpose well into lofts and art studios, but draftiness and patchy temperatures often come with the terrain.

During the 2001 fair, a person relocating from Ohio visited his table and ended up buying an old schoolhouse that had been converted into a house.

In his final Painter in Residence project, Alex transformed his bedroom (once part of an old schoolhouse) into a sumptuous haven using Chalk Paint ®.

Nestled into eight acres of bucolic countryside, the Old Deacon Schoolhouse is a well - preserved example of a typical rural Ontario sSchoolhouse is a well - preserved example of a typical rural Ontario schoolhouseschoolhouse.

Leanne Ford and Brad Shaffer married, moved into a former schoolhouse, and kicked off a DIY renovation.

A month into the hunt, they finally found The Ville Cooperative, a holistic community center that rents out classrooms of an old schoolhouse to various small businesses and start - ups.