Sentences with phrase «schools leading the way»

Several decades ago, for example, Duke Divinity School led the way in racially integrating Duke University.

It is a great example of schools taking on a greater role beyond their own school gates — a self - improving, school - led system where our best schools lead the way in initial teacher training, continuing professional development, leadership and school - to - school support.

This book tells the success stories of schools leading the way to this new future.

Schools lead the way Schools are being tasked with leading the charge in establishing these early, healthy habits and are receiving some much - needed funding in the process.

High - quality homework and tireless teachers are behind the soaring success of outlier schools leading the way in new Progress 8 scores, according to new analysis.

Baton Rouge Magnet High School led the way in Louisiana this past year when it came to Advanced Placement with more students taking the colleg...

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It's been an impressive year for many business schools, but UVA - Darden's Robert Bruner is leading the way when it comes to making an MBA a globally relevant degree.

That may be the thinking of many managers (even if they try to delegate) but it's not the best way to lead according to a new book by Kellogg School professor Keith Murnighan entitled Do Nothing!

Energy retrofits of major public buildings like schools and hospitals are a direct way government can lead on energy conservation.

School groups are the same way and they should have the right to appoint or not appoint whoever they want to lead their organization.

This makes me wonder about the school she attended to obtain her Chaplain status... every graduate there must not be learning about salvation & how it is the ONLY WAY to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven (James 3:3 - 6) If I were in her shoes, I would definately be leading each & every soul to the Lord, and prompting them to make their heart right with God.

If the goal that makes a school «theological» is to understand God more truly, and if such understanding comes only indirectly through disciplined study of other «subject matters,» and if study of those subject matters leads to truer understanding of God only insofar as they comprise the Christian thing in their interconnectedness and not in isolation from one another, then clearly it is critically important to study them as elements of the Christian thing construed in some particular, concrete way.

(4) In addition to leading the church to address social justice concerns in such practical and far - reaching ways, Dr. Smith has served a term on the Oakland School Board after being elected by more than 80 percent of the vote.

We hope that what happens at Emory over the next few years will stimulate discussion, debate and creative ideas at other graduate schools, leading them to take up these challenges in their own ways and build other educational models for preparing practical theologians.

«Both schools are leading the way in health and wellness for our kids,» says Therese.

Haley Van Dyke (Washington) and Ashley Thoms (Weber State) lead the way for a school that has won four state crowns.

The way the school handled Eustachy's dismissal led players to boycott practice because they had to find out the news on Twitter.

Like they don't know that two - thirds of the way through the racing season, she leads the high school group with almost double the points of her closest competitor, Jake Mercieca.

Siena scored first, but Rider answered with a Vaughn 3 - pointer and a Marshall layup and led the rest of the way, continuing its best start in 21 years as a member of the MAAC, and has secured the school's tenth 20 - win season in 90 years of basketball.

Lee led the way with 17 points and 11 rebounds while freshman wing Jordan Cruz hit two 3 - pointers and had 16 points in the monumental win for the 77 - year - old school from the Land Park neighborhood just south of downtown Sacramento.

Williams led the way, scoring nine points in the final 2:30 of the game, to earn Sheldon the first Division I championship berth for a public school from the Sac Joaquin Section.

Really, it couldn't have been any other way: Of course the unlikeliest World Series champs in recent memory would be led by a kid who grew up a 45 - minute drive from Busch Stadium, quit baseball for a year after graduating from high school because he was burned out, and, after the Padres drafted him in the ninth round in 2006, was traded to his hometown team the next year for a childhood hero, Jim Edmonds.

Joe Milton celebrated Senior Night at Olympia High School in Orlando, Fla., in a big way last Friday, leading the Titans to a 51 - 0 victory against Windermere.

We could sit back and wait for the N.F.L., National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS), USA Football and Pop Warner to lead the way on football safety.

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

In the Chicago area, private schools are leading the way when it comes to mindfully using technology in the classroom.

Enjoy snacks, learn about CSAs and farming, explore beekeeping, and learn how WSB is leading the way on green school initiatives.

School nutrition staff attended a training led by a chef from the University of Georgia and learned new ways to integrate herbs and spices with vegetables in school luSchool nutrition staff attended a training led by a chef from the University of Georgia and learned new ways to integrate herbs and spices with vegetables in school luschool lunches.

As a way to support environmental education beyond Mass Audubon - led school programs, we offer professional development workshops for teachers, free online teaching units to use year - round, and other resources.

«You all are leading the way in farm - to - school programs.

My girl was about 90 % potty trained at 2 years 3 months via the «let school do the strict routine and let her lead the way at home» method.

But some township schools have led the way towards better nutrition.

Anore Horton, nutrition initiatives director at the nonprofit Hunger Free Vermont, explained that the way the government funds school meal service has led to the perception that it's «a program for poor kids» that's separate from the work of the school.

As a way to support environmental education beyond Mass Audubon - led school programs, Mass Audubon offers resources as well as teacher trainings.

1981 FRAC leads the way in publicizing a proposed USDA school lunch regulation that would reduce portion sizes and allow ketchup and pickle relish to be counted toward meeting vegetable requirements.

She has given presentations about breastfeeding and led support groups in various settings, including a half way house for incarcerated mothers, a crisis pregnancy center, a school for Montessori teachers, and at her church as part of the class attended by expecting and new parents in preparation for the baptism of their baby.

As we begin a new school year, Vermont schools are leading the way in providing fresh, local food to children in creative ways, thus changing how a generation of children experience their school cafeteria, their learning, and their health.»

From congressional legislation to school lunch policy, the food pyramid and what we are actually led to believe we need to live and thrive is in more ways than you would imagine completely dictated by these corporations, their lobbying efforts and Madison Avenue advertising agencies.

Earlier this school year, I signed up to be Room Mom for my kids» classrooms, thinking it would be a good way to lead the charge for healthy class parties.

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«It's another way moms provide immune information to their babies,» said Ameae Walker, a professor of biomedical sciences in the UC Riverside School of Medicine, who led the research.

«And yet, disappointingly, these changes to the admissions code represent a backwards step that could lead to «faith» schools acting in even narrower and more obfuscatory ways.»

The British Humanist Association (BHA), which responded to the consultation on the codes, believes that they «represent a backwards step that could lead to «faith» schools acting in even narrower ways.»

Findings from a project led by London's Institute of Education and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Department for International Development (DFID) show that using new ways of encouraging young children to stay in regular schooling cut drop - out rates by 42 per cent in just a year.

See, I trust Hillary to lead this country because I've seen her lifelong devotion to our nation's children, not just her own daughter, who she has raised to perfection, but every child who needs a champion, kids who take the long way to school to avoid the gangs, kids who wonder how they'll ever afford college, kids whose parents don't speak a word of English, but dream of a better life, kids who look to us to determine who and what they can be.

In public life — driving people to do great things, like setting up schools, creating public services, leading the way in charitable acts.

Asian high - school juniors led the way in SAT participation at an 89.4 percent clip — up 16.4 percentage points from 2016.

We believe MaryEllen Elia will lead the way to give all of New York's students the schools they deserve,» said the group's executive director Jenny Sedlis.

Troubled in several other ways, the district was being assessed by a state - appointed three - person monitoring team led by former New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott.

I have been proud to lead the fight in creating several high - quality schools with more on the way, opening new public parks and upgrading our waterfront, new retail, and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center.