Sentences with phrase «schools and teachers in»

He often bashes public schools and their teachers in speeches in legislative committees.

It does, however, want the state education department to support schools and teachers in this area by explaining current research.

With the Science Explorers training app, plus engaging videos and classroom activities focused on the science of everyday environments, Science Explorers aims to support schools and teachers in encouraging engagement with science from an early age.

Those precious resources were spent developing the EngageNY curriculum materials that schools and teachers in other states have eagerly downloaded in enormous numbers; rigorous exams that reflect real - world standards of proficiency in math and reading; and teacher certification standards that are now among the highest in the nation.

We will also learn a lot about what schools and teachers in different countries are doing to promote the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that make people globally competent.»

The new standards won't actually have consequences for schools and teachers in most states until 2014 - 15.

«It's critical that we let our schools and teachers in our communities know that there are things that they can do to make a difference.»

This paper disentangles the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of student and school selection.

Education - focused rallies at the Capitol on Tuesday called for greater accountability and funding for schools and teachers in the new year.

«Cuomo declared war on public schools and teachers in his State of the State address.

We'll also talk with the Democrat & Chronicle's Justin Murphy, who has covered this issue exhaustively, and Emmy Thevanesan, a board member for Greece schools and a teacher in Spencerport.

Not exact matches

Guns have been strictly controlled in the United Kingdom for the past few decades, spurred in large part by the 1996 Dunblane massacre, when 15 children and their teacher were killed by a local man who walked into a school in the Scottish city armed with four hand guns and began shooting.

It's a question parents, teachers and students have been urgently asking since the latest school shooting tragedy in Parkland Florida that left 17 dead.

He is a founding faculty member of The School of Life in London, an empathy adviser to organizations like Oxfam and the United Nations, and a former teacher of sociology and politics at Cambridge University.

Katherine Gredley is a full - time elementary school teacher with a background in marketing and a passion for professional development.

He said in contrast to «flavor - of - the - month» technology solutions in education, The Flatiron School is «bringing technology to service that relationship and not reinvent it in a way that is both compelling and effective for students, teachers, and employers.»

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.

You may have heard of Fortnite, the new, free game that's sweeping the nation and irking teachers everywhere, but parents and school administrators may have to re-think their disciplinary plan: Fortnite could actually help kids stay in school.

We want to stand for education worldwide,» Evans said, and Oaktree has since built schools and teacher training facilities in countries such as South Africa, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Experts also advise pushing for more personal finance in the school curriculum, lobbying both your local schools for inclusion and area businesses for sponsorship or teacher training funds.

But teachers and staff in schools across the country say the spinners do nothing but distract the students, and schools now are banning them.

This is thanks in part to a new wave of educational startups that offer innovative ways for school districts and teachers to engage with technology in the classroom.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

If there's an emergency, a teacher can use the app to set off an alarm, access an evacuation plan, and chat with any other staff member in the school.

Remember when you were in grade school and you ran into your teacher at, say, the grocery store?

One of the app's main features is a «panic button» that teachers can hit to send a school - wide alert (every phone and computer in the school will sound an emergency tone).

While out walking in London recently, I passed a group of uniformed school children moving in an orderly, single - file line, with teachers in front and rear.

One of her teachers insisted that her parents put her back into school — and in 1937, she sat where you are sitting today and received a Berkeley degree.

With just 10 employees, Chalk.com is used in more than 20,000 schools worldwide and by 100,000 teachers.

She pursued engineering in college largely because her high school math teacher suggested it and her parents approved.

Chicago has had a pretty painful year — it just experienced its most violent summer in recent memory and the teacher's union strike in September paralyzed schools as they prepared to open.

Used in over 20,000 schools worldwide, Chalk.com solves the problems of lesson planning, assessment, and collaboration designed to ease teachers» pain, facilitate personalized education, and help drive student success.»

Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

I read books about the female brain, met with science and math elementary school teachers and nonprofit educators who were doing programs to get kids interested in STEM.

The ex-McKinsey consultant, school teacher and Harvard, Oxford and University of Pennsylvania alum is an expert in the qualities of successful people.

Every parent whose children have entered elementary school in recent years knows the routine: teachers and school administrators repeatedly send home notices sternly instructing caregivers to provide nut - free lunches.

Another group is planning a national walk - out on April 2o, which marks 19 years since the 1999 Columbine High School mass shooting, in which 12 students and one teacher were killed.

Besides providing school curriculum, Amazon also has created a tool for teachers to gather and share their own materials and course work, in addition to service that teachers can use to tell parents what school supplies their children will need.

And I don't mean unique in the way your elementary school teacher would attempt to compliment your art project.

Students who participate in school garden projects discover fresh food, and teachers report that students become increasingly interested in eating what they grow.

«When something like this happens — when you hear the word «Columbine» — people freak out,» says the entrepreneur, referring to the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, in which 12 students and a teacher were murdered.

Work exchanges, university sabbaticals and intra-company transfers provide people in some occupations — school teachers, professors and employees at international corporations — with a simple way to slide into another job in another country for a year or two.

In pilot projects, African farmers solved disease outbreaks after searching the Web, while in Bangladesh «online schools» bring teachers from Dhaka to children in remote classrooms through large screens and video conferencinIn pilot projects, African farmers solved disease outbreaks after searching the Web, while in Bangladesh «online schools» bring teachers from Dhaka to children in remote classrooms through large screens and video conferencinin Bangladesh «online schools» bring teachers from Dhaka to children in remote classrooms through large screens and video conferencinin remote classrooms through large screens and video conferencing.

Two years ago Sean O'Toole accepted a one - year teaching exchange, swapping his comfortable high school teaching job in Bracebridge, Ont., plus his house and truck, with a high school teacher from Darwin, Australia.

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.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

It broke ground in March that year with the help of teachers and students from a local school and, to this day, continues to work with the community, donating some of its 2,000 pounds of produce each year to local organizations.

While your high school teachers and college professors may have taught you to doubt Wikipedia's reliability, its rise to prominence since launching in 2001 is undeniable.

As an organization, we view it as part of our mission to up how we interface with all of the other incredible stakeholders in this ecosystem, especially teachers and schools, to figure out how we educate students together, not just all from one site.