Sentences with phrase «schools and supporting»

This program was successful at networking 59 schools and supporting collaborative efforts by arts and classroom teachers to effectively integrate arts in the curriculum.

Our members are working to connect principals with high - quality professional learning opportunities focused on building schools and supporting teachers that prioritize the whole child.

The course also covers the area of exam related anxiety and gives practical advice and measures schools and those supporting young people can put in place to manage this time of year more effectively.

Let the big science and technology organizations in government — the federal labs, all the places that need technological people — become part of First the same way corporate sponsors do: by adopting high schools and supporting teams.

Those four questions are at the core of a fascinating (and slim) new book, Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, by John Quelch and Emily Boudreau — which grew out of a conference of the same name held in April at Harvard Business School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Help us celebrate them for outstanding contributions to the business world, the community, the university, the Haskayne School and support of current students.

The successful candidate will deliver high quality football and sports coaching in Wigan primary schools and support the Kicks project.

Support your school and support the school lunch leaders who want change.

Whichever organization is at your child's school, you can be assured that their main goal is one of strengthening the school itself and supporting children's education.

«The goal should be to provide relative stability for taxpayers while accounting for the costs needed to provide services — many of which are required of public schools and supported by their communities.»

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña applaudedTuesday's full ratification of a United Federation of Teachers contract, which will usher in reforms that transform New York City schools and support the teaching profession — and do so within the City's commitment to fiscal responsibility.

«I've sat in your kitchens to figure how we can stop high - stakes testing and bring arts and music and sports into our schools and support that in our schools.

We share our passion for yoga and spin with local sports teams and schools and support local charities.

The biggest challenge for me and my staff has been simply that it is time - consuming and requires an unbelievable amount of mental and emotional energy to start up a school and support our students throughout the process.

«These should include things like encouraging parents to stop driving their children to school and supporting the new Mayor's proposals for an expanded and strengthened Ultra Low Emission Zone.»

Despite financial education now being part of the statutory secondary curriculum, the research shows that the government should encourage the importance of financial education in schools and support organisations that provide the resources needed to assist and train teachers to confidently deliver it.»

«And I can announce that based on evidence from local authorities, schools and the support service, over 99 per cent of schools now have a plan in place to deliver universal free school meals in September.

School administrators and educators can identify chronic absenteeism early on and help keep students on track; schools and support programs can provide extra resources for students who may need them to graduate and be prepared for college; and finally ~ we can strive to provide all students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and realize their passions while in school.

Instead, we defined clear outcomes for schools and supported teams with substantive resources — Knowledge Modules — to give all teams, regardless of prior engagement in education, the fundamental building blocks of design to inform and guide their work.

«The realities of becoming an academy are that the financial gains are not as great as you might think and the governing body needs to strike a balance between challenging the school and supporting its aims and ethos,» says Marie Lister, executive principal of South Axholme Academy in Doncaster.

CAS aims to promote the teaching of computing at school and supports teachers across the country.

Project Tutor was created to prepare community volunteers to work in the neediest schools and support reading and math instruction.

It is up to states to lead the improvement of teacher evaluation systems in order to improve schools and support educational equity for historically underserved students.

In five cities, we helped students and teachers conduct survey research about their own schools and supported dialogue and constructive action around their research results.

That teacher, Allison Levine, helped them plan for a specialized «advisory» that would be devoted to reducing the amount of bullying in their school and supporting those who were being bullied.

According to the just - released 2013 Education Next annual poll, which Michael Henderson and I discuss in an article in Education Next, two - thirds of the public support Common Core standards and three - fourths favor an end to social promotion in elementary school and support high school graduation exams.

CCER's political agenda includes more taxpayer funds for charter schools and support for the incredibly unfair «teacher evaluation» system that is designed to denigrate and undermine Connecticut's public school teachers and the teaching profession.

Josh oversees all facility acquisitions and facilities management, transportation, school operations and safety, nutrition programs, as well as technology for all schools and support structures organization - wide.

On Monday, March 5, 2012, members of the broad alliance of Florida education advocacy groups including: Citizens for Strong Schools, 50th No More, Florida PTA, Fund Education Now, Marions United for Public Education, Save Duval Schools and Support Dade Schools traveled to Tallahassee to join a press conference at 9:30 A in Room 301 of the Florida Senate Office Building.

Once again, Mayor de Blasio needs to acknowledge that charter schools are public schools and support lifting the cap for charter schools as well as continued expansion of progressive models such as the PROSE program for traditional public schools that are both high and low performing.

Strong bonds with local businesses and community groups (for mentoring, guest speakers, service learning, and financial support) and opportunities for community use of school facilities after school and in the evening can contribute to the quality of the school and the support that it enjoys in the community.

Second, districts should place strong leaders in these schools and support them to the fullest so the schools improve.

Ensure enrollment policies, practices and timelines maximize equitable access to quality schools and support the ability of schools to accurately budget and hire staff

Not exact matches

The larger effort will now support 200 middle school STEM programs by 2020 and aim to reach 5 million students with free technology resources, teacher training, STEM curricula, and connectivity.

-- Stacey Boyd, founder and CEO of Olivela, a luxury e-commerce site which has grown revenue 240 percent this year, and founder of Schoola, an online retailer that sells gently - worn clothing to support schools in need

According to a new Washington Post - Schar School poll, 50 % of likely voters support Jones and 47 % support Moore in their race to fill a Senate seat most recently vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

The idea was proposed by a Nebraska high school student named Shelbi Klingsporn as part of a private education program partnership with NASA and is now being supported by Medtronic.

New York City — which, through the Bloomberg years put outsized emphasis on boosting the startup ecosystem, and finding solutions to a dearth of programmers — has been quick to show support for The Flatiron School.

It also funds the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is based out of the London School of Economics, and it supports Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change.

Local giving efforts include back - to - school drives for backpacks, assembling bagged lunches for local shelters, winter coat and glove drives, and support for cancer patients and their families.

She brought along the lizard and bird to inspire the audience to support her business, which consists of school and birthday party activities and a «rent - a-reptile» program.

She co-founded and is the chair of the African American Student Union at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, an organization that supports African - Americans working in architecture, real estate and urban planning.

It inhibits companies from raising money that funds future pharmaceuticals, schools, food, energy and all the ancillary industries that support these efforts.

Microsoft gave a timeline of how it plans to stop supporting Flash for its old - school Internet Explorer browser and its newer Microsoft Edge browser.

But she and her husband have since had to postpone their retirement by a couple of years to help support their 21 - year - old daughter, who's now going off to university, and their 27 - year - old son, who's moving back home to pursue culinary school.

Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

Recruits, hires, trains, places, and manages substitute teachers and school support staff for more than 250 client schools.

«This implies that the comparatively low degree of emotional support business undergraduates appear to receive in school has lasting consequences, as Gallup has established that there are differences in well - being and employee engagement among alumni who have had these experiences.»

Northeastern University has a summer program supporting middle - school students in the sciences, and MIT has a program to encourage women to pursue STEM degrees.