Sentences with phrase «schools and teachers around»

(Actually, though I work with schools and teachers around the country, I can't think of any that do this, but I figure there are probably a few out there).

But what will it take to help schools and teachers around the world adopt similar approaches and realize similar outcomes?

Not exact matches

After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to «frack» Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling.

Meanwhile, the school's teachers met Friday at Parkland City Hall, with hugs and Kleenex all around.

Many public school teachers that are Christians have been fired because of their beliefs, especially around Christmas and Easter time, when they merely mention the reasons behind the seasons and don't advocate Santa Claus and the Easter bunny with its colored eggs (funny how the different colors of eggs represent the rainbow's colors).

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

It is being used in British schools by pupils and teachers to create calm classrooms, reduce stress around exams and foster creativity.

The school of Antioch, of which Theodore was the most outstanding and influential theologian, was not so much a recognized institution with regularly appointed teachers but as a succession of brilliant scholars and thinkers in and around Antioch.

OR How about the teachers schedule their exams around religious holidays and the students are then allowed to skip attending school during their identified religion?

I met a woman who, as a little girl, watched a cross burn in her front yard and endured teachers at her new school shouting racial slurs at her because the community around her was angry about integration.

They have become teachers and administrators at schools around the country.

So when said husband encouraged me to go on a health and wellness retreat last week, I frantically packed my bags before he could change his mind and ran out the door (OK that's not true, I argued with him about the what, when, where for each kid and the logistics of leaving a 9 month old who's nursing around the clock and a 9 year old who's out of school for weeks because her teachers are on a strike that seems like it will never end.

I just grew up in an area where many teachers made around 70 - 100k (with bonuses, yeah our school districts gave various bonuses and I know this because all their salaries are online) so my judgements may have been biased.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

Sunbridge graduates enjoy teaching and administrative careers at Waldorf schools and early childhood centers, teacher education institutes, and affiliated organizations across the U.S. and around the world.

Segment 2: Engaging School Administration, Principals, and Teachers around Non-traditional Breakfast Service

In terms of school breakfast, every year we release a teacher's report in which we survey 750 K - 8 teachers from around the country in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

In K - 12 education, teachers, educators, and school leaders can create environments in the classroom that change students» mindsets by implicitly and explicitly giving them messages around belonging and possibility.

The back to school season is just around the corner, and with that comes preparing for a new teacher, -LSB-...]

Kathryn facilitated hundreds of workshops to preschool through high school aged students, teachers, and parents around the topics of sexual assault prevention, bullying, and stranger awareness, and became certified as a National Trainer for the Child Assault Prevention Program.

According to the Fall / Winter 2011 issue of Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education, published quarterly by AWSNA (the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America), «There is a drastic shortage of trained Waldorf teachers — class teachers, as well as early childhood / kindergarten... This shortage exists in North America and around the world, including in English - speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Ireland.

When you see mothers exchanging information on the playground, for instance, it may look casual — but they're often earnestly collecting information that will ensure the well - being of their offspring, such as the name of the best teacher at the local school and whether strep throat is going around.

Hopefully other teachers and schools are following suit around the country, and if these students do create a film, I'll try to get a link to post here.

The books were started because of a tradition at their Montessori school where the child does a Walk around the Sun on their birthday and the teacher shows photos and tells stories about their life, separated by years as they take one walk around the sun for each year of their life.

Laurie is lead kindergarten teacher at The Denver Waldorf School and mentors Waldorf teachers around the country.

Compared to the larger public schools around, this school gets less funding, which means less supplies and other necessities teachers need in the classroom.

It could also be significant for you and your child to plan a visit to their new school where they can walk around and meet some of their teachers.

Or just call her Mrs. Q. That's the moniker chosen by the anonymous teacher who has vowed to eat school lunches for a year and blog the results in hopes of inspiring change at her school and others around the country.

«We want to turn these schools around, but just to blame teachers and close schools and open up charter schools I think is unfair,» Heastie said.

Schools and parents are facing a chronic teacher shortage, a lack of school places, chaos around curriculum changes and primary tests, and a funding crisis.

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

Between the short time frame to demonstrate improvement and the higher stakes around teacher evaluations this year, teachers are fleeing struggling schools for schools where things aren't so bad, officials said Wednesday at a hearing in Albany.

The budget includes «$ 1.14 million to fund 80 additional school crossing guards,» which will help contribute to the mayor's Vision Zero traffic and pedestrian safety work around schools, and more money for teachers to spend on their classrooms.

DailyPost reporter gathered that the incident occurred at about 9:10 am on Monday around Ruwan Zafi area of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, where six suspected Boko Haram sect laid ambush to Shehu Sanda Kyarimi Secondary School, and killed a teacher who can not exactly be identified at the moment.

It aims to mobilize clergy, parents, teachers and community leaders around their schools.

«It could be something that New York's teachers and school districts could really get their arms around and I think New York's parents would love because it differentiates instruction to the needs of individual kids.»

The law around «faith» school employment in England, in allowing religious schools to widely discriminate — often against every teacher — on the basis of religion in who they employ, is «arbitrary» and goes beyond what is permitted by European law.

A coalition of schools groups — ranging from the umbrella organization for the state's teachers union and the Council on School Superintendents — called for a variety of funding reforms for districts around the state ahead of next year's budget negotiations.

Nick Clegg has spoken of his discomfort around three current areas of Free Schools policy: teacher qualifications, Core Curriculum and school meals standards.

«We know that the conversation around arming teachers and other school personnel was an attempt to delay substantive action on gun violence prevention and deflect attention from real policy proposals.

«One of the most important education acts the state can make to turn around struggling schools is to end the year - in, year - out cycle of shortchanging our principals, teachers and ultimately students,» the mayors» statement says, according to the Daily News.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Buhari said his government was committed to the fight against terrorism and insurgency, adding, «The security services have since been directed to put in place further measures around all schools vulnerable to attacks to ensure the safety of our pupils / students and teachers and school workers.

Emma Willard School is launching a task force to review its policies and protocols around handling reports of sexual misconduct after a former student came forward this spring to report she was raped by her teacher in 1998.

London's school system has been turned around; we can do the same in the Northern Powerhouse and I've asked outstanding Bradford head teacher Sir Nick Weller to provide us with a plan.

The dispute between Buffalo Public Schools and the Buffalo Teachers Federation centers around whether the district can cut 5 1/2 teaching positions and hire aides to perform non-supervisory roles.

In each school, around four staff members — including reading teachers, classroom teachers and coaches — will receive mentorship from the Rose Institute.

Cuomo's team claims it's all Bloomberg's fault, that the mayor has been disingenuously crusading for the end of «last in, first out» when what he really wants is the freedom to can the hundreds of teachers already rated «unsatisfactory» and the thousands drifting between schools in the reserve pool, and that Bloomberg is attempting an end run around collective bargaining.