Sentences with phrase «schools as a good example»

I'm not so sure I would use Ivy league schools as a good example of where people get their PHD's.

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For example, Montesano said some of his clients will overlook colleges that are «top feeders» into the country's best law, business and medical schools as well as Ph.D. programs, just because they don't boast a well - known or Ivy League title.

For example, the newspaper measures such things as the diversity of the faculty, staff, board members, and students at each school, «languages,» the «international reach of the EMBA,» as well as the amount of research published by professors from each school.

Another example: you may think I am a nutjob for attending church, and that my church is full of nutjobs, but that church as given hundreds of thousands of dollars, as well of many hours of time, to improve lives from the school across the street to those in Haiti and Indonesia.

Examples are teaching from the pulpit, teaching Sunday School classes, teaching at Bible conferences, Bible colleges & on the radio, TV or internet (which is by far the greatest way that Woman preachers reach not only women but other men as well).

I read this article by charisma magazine which i thought was well written which is pro Women preaching http://www.charismamag.com/blogs/fire-in-my-bones/16851-why-i-defend-women-preachers This debate is an on going one John Piper who i respect as a bible preacher believes that scripture is clear women shouldnt have authority over men or teach in the church some go as far as saying women shouldnt preach in sunday school if the classes are mixed.Personally i think times are changing and i say that because i have a women manager she has authority over me and other men so if we follow the biblical example i shouldnt allow myself to be in that situation which is just crazy thinking.

Guidance Materials: Healthier Schools: A Brighter Tomorrow which not only acts as a guide for the development of wellness policies but also points to examples of best practices in other states.

This is not a discussion about sin, rather it's an example (such as those used in medical school) of how the ideals of natural childbirth do not translate well into the realities of pregnancy, labor and birth.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

Purpose of the Best Practice Examples: The following CSH best practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school settBest Practice Examples: The following CSH best practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school Examples: The following CSH best practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school settbest practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school setting.

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commSchool Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commschool districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

For example, in Willis Independent School District in Texas, school organizations such as parent - teacher groups and booster clubs, as well as local community groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts, are exempt from rental fees and pay only for supervision, security, and cleanup costs, while all other groups must pay $ 50 an hour to rent a school kitcSchool District in Texas, school organizations such as parent - teacher groups and booster clubs, as well as local community groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts, are exempt from rental fees and pay only for supervision, security, and cleanup costs, while all other groups must pay $ 50 an hour to rent a school kitcschool organizations such as parent - teacher groups and booster clubs, as well as local community groups such as Boy and Girl Scouts, are exempt from rental fees and pay only for supervision, security, and cleanup costs, while all other groups must pay $ 50 an hour to rent a school kitcschool kitchen.22

Topics can cover for example, the smooth running of school meals, the appeal of the food and the dishes served, as well as any other matters related to schools meals.

«If the Education Secretary genuinely wishes England to do as well as countries such as Finland, to which he frequently refers in the White Paper, he should follow its example by replacing the inspection system with school self evaluation, refrain from the publication of results by school League Tables and the setting of narrow performance targets and allow teachers to choose their own method of teaching reading.

Some people use stories like mine as an example of why grammar schools are a good idea.

Some board members cited the large number of students of color in the city school district and the impact the comments will have on them, as well as the poor example they set.

For example, he says the new town would facilitate the consolidation of the local fire districts as well as the alteration of the school district boundaries between the Monroe Woodbury and Kiryas Joel School Distschool district boundaries between the Monroe Woodbury and Kiryas Joel School DistSchool Districts.

«There is probably no clearer example of how Mike Bloomberg uses his immense private wealth for public power in a fashion that is unprecedented not only at the city level but at the state and national levels, as well,» Douglas A. Muzzio, a professor at the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, said, referring to the Doe Fund.

Going back to that question about why you got into science, for example, give your interviewer enough information to help them visualize the family farm where you grew up, and to feel the stress on your family of eight kids as your mom and dad tried to get everyone into school and off to a good start.

So argues an editorial in The Lancet, as well as recent research from the London School of Economics, and statisticians at Oregon State University, just to name a few recent examples.

Take, for example, Laurene Powell Jobs, Steve Jobs» widow and a California resident who has funneled some of her $ 20 billion fortune to school board races not only in Los Angeles, but in Denver and New Orleans as well.

The teaching at the PEDC, for example, includes modules on specialist photonic and optoelectronic topics, as well as some business courses borrowed from the Edinburgh Business School MBA.

Teaching children skills such as how to cope with bullying at school, poor performance or problems with their parents, for example, in the framework of general cognitive preventative treatment and resilience training in school, may help children to better deal with emotional turmoil and challenging situations during adolescence.

At the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, for example, mathematics educator Jim Lewis has developed The Mathematics Semester — a concentration of pedagogy and mathematics courses for undergraduates preparing to be elementary school teachers — as well as Math in the Middle, a graduate program for middle - school math teachers.

If the data occasionally seem inconsistent — 29,000 equals 15 %, for example, while 25,000 is 20 % — that should be forgiven, since the data come from different sources and the available data aren't that good overall, as Jessica Polka, a postdoc in cell biology at Harvard Medical School, acknowledges in her introduction.

There are a couple of vignettes that don't play as well as they should (the disastrous school play being an example), but then the film gets back on track, and suddenly Steve Carell is wearing a pirate shirt with the sleeves catching on fire, and everyone looks around panicking, «What the heck has happened to our family?

This is evident, for example, in the fourth - grade class, as eight students sit in a circle and share what they like best about their school.

A good example is a February 19, 2003, column about Gonzales Elementary School in Tolleson, Arizona, a school that Winerip implies had been designated, because of NCLB, as «underperforming.&School in Tolleson, Arizona, a school that Winerip implies had been designated, because of NCLB, as «underperforming.&school that Winerip implies had been designated, because of NCLB, as «underperforming.»

We could find plenty of examples of disconnect from other policy interventions, such as pre-school programs, but I am focusing on school choice because I know this literature best.

This is because for example, ParentMail should save an average school at least # 2,000 every year (bigger schools even more) by cutting paper, photocopying, phone and post bills, not forgetting the staff time involved as well.»

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

Caterers will benefit most from signs that can be reused, such as a general football themed graphic that can be used to promote various international tournaments, as well as signs for other events, for example, comic relief, Christmas menus, school sports day or pupil design competitions etc..

High - stakes tests generally have consequences for schools as well as for the students themselves — for example, monetary support may be withdrawn from schools that fail to raise scores.

The kit contains dozens of examples of how schools have celebrated in the past, as well as several lesson plans and resources related to disability issues, diversity, and community building.

For example, if the school expected every graduate to display clear and even marginally graceful expository prose, then there had to a great deal of writing, not just in Humanities but in the other domains as well.

As you might expect, the best examples of successful outdoor learning come from schools and groups who have sought to embed the right culture as well as practice, often with a school wide review, planning and staff traininAs you might expect, the best examples of successful outdoor learning come from schools and groups who have sought to embed the right culture as well as practice, often with a school wide review, planning and staff traininas well as practice, often with a school wide review, planning and staff traininas practice, often with a school wide review, planning and staff training.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

However, not all of these incidents involved student - on - student violence: they included, for example, 16 accidental deaths and 56 suicides, as well as incidents involving nonstudents, such as a teacher killed by her estranged husband, who then shot himself, and a nonstudent killed on a school playground during the weekend.

Houghton Mifflin, for example, started out with a competitive advantage in education, but over time, it struggled, thanks to the «fundamentally capricious nature of the K — 12 end market,» as well as ineffective attempts to pursue globalization (though education content is fundamentally local), technology (despite schools» resistance), and «edutainment» (rarely successful).

However, many education researchers speak and write as though they accept certain contingency - free causal connections — for example, that small schools are better than large ones; that time on task raises achievement; that summer school raises test scores; that school desegregation hardly affects achievement; and that assigning and grading homework improves achievement.

It starts with action planning in the early fall (in which schools develop and submit an improvement plan); a provincial learning session in mid-fall for staff teams from all OFIP schools in the province (knowledge is shared from previous experience as well as new learning about emerging needs - for example, student and staff resiliency in 2012, and staff learning in mathematics in 2013); mid-year conversations in early spring (monitoring and identifying mid-year successes and challenges in order to modify plans and activities); and a summative conversation in late spring (in which staff reflect on the year, successes, and challenges, and begin discussions about the coming year's OFIP strategy).

For example, district X might be interested in using Arete functionality to create district - wide competition structures deciding the best grade school, high school, etc., for any given subject or combination of subjects, just as occurs in scholastic sports at the local level.

Building 21 is an inspiring example of seeing how development is important to the entire school community — students, teachers, founders, everyone — as a means of better meeting their commitment to kids, families, and communities,» he said.

Massachusetts is widely seen as having the best school system in the country: Just 2 percent of its high - schoolers drop out, for example, and its students» math and reading scores rank No. 1 nationally.

In 2016, for example, as well as attracting many, many customers from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, we sold plays to schools in Mexico, Thailand, Vietnam, Tibet, The Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Guatemala, Malta, Gibraltar, Spain, India, China, Russia, Botswana, Nigeria and Hong Kong.

There are too many to mention here, but examples include free twilight CPD programmes to all staff within an alliance; placement schemes for senior leaders to gain experience of working in other schools and contexts; a mentoring programme for newly - employed heads; developing innovative programmes for School Direct trainees; SLEs offering one - day diagnostics as well as longer deployments focused on increasing attainment and progress in specific subjects; and the establishment of cross-alliance research groups meeting regularly to develop action research.

As I've traveled around the country, I've seen powerful examples of schools that have gone from being among our nation's worst to among our nation's best.

ClaaS is designed to help schools: · Maximise their budget with savings that can amount to as much as 40 percent when compared to an outright purchase · Release capital from their existing IT assets to help finance their new ClaaS subscription · Receive ongoing servicing, training and maintenance which is covered by the agreement, ensuring schools and teachers get the most from technology · Add more equipment and services as and when required · Potentially include other equipment and services such as; tablets, PCs, printers and Wi - Fi from other best of breed suppliers · Build in a regular refresh to ensure they always have the latest learning technology · Be flexible: choose a convenient term length (for example: 3, 4 or 5 years) with the ability to renew the contract, negotiate a new contract or end the contract at the end of the original term Jane Ashworth, UK Managing Director, SMART Technologies commented: «We are thrilled to announce Crystalised as our third distributor in the UK, effective October 1st.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

As an example, a school located near a university may well have parents who are university faculty and represent resources that could contribute to the curriculum development process.