Sentences with phrase «schools moved from»

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s.

He says the state's funding and teacher certification requirements are acceptable, but he'd like to see the authorization for charter schools moved from the districts to the state.

The middle - schoolers moved from mentor to mentor trying hands - on demonstrations, learning about how the scientists got their start, and finding out what they are currently working on.

After high school I moved from my town to Riga, capital city of Latvia.

VIDEO: Teachers Meet the Challenges of PBL Implementation: Teachers at Sammamish High share their difficulties and triumphs as their school moves from traditional delivery of instruction to schoolwide problem - based learning.

Teachers at Sammamish High in Washington share their difficulties and triumphs as their school moves from traditional delivery of instruction to schoolwide problem - based learning.

Fundamentally the key issue that faces every new - build school is space, as they are now typically built by area to control cost; this method has an immediate impact on the catering facilities, particularly in those schools moving from much larger, traditional buildings.

A typical student new to a KIPP high school moved from the 48th percentile to the 59th percentile in math, and from 47th to 54th in language arts.

She helped me really dig in and figure out how to help the school move from mediocre to excellent — especially by focusing on culture, consistency, data, instruction, and accountability.

According to an accountability index used by the Washington State Board of Education, in the last two years the school moved from Level 1 (underperforming) to Level 3 (maintaining growth).

For example, South Brooklyn Community High School moved from hosting one career day to three in which they provide opportunities for mock interviews with professionals from different industries as well as seminars from Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow, a nonprofit that helps prepare young people for professional and personal responsibility.

By implementing Positive Behavior Support, the school moved from a disciplinary approach involving out - of - school suspensions, expulsions, and even placements to alternative schools to a schoolwide code of behavior that all students and adults agreed to uphold.

In addition, the school moved from having only 21 students passing industry certification exams annually, to over 350 each year.

During his tenure, the school moved from an «F» rating for fourteen years to an «A» school.

High Performance Learning helps schools move from good to world class by focusing on pedagogy and helping students develop the competencies they need for academic, workplace and lifetime success.

The school moved from the lowest to the highest in the Success network on network - wide «Quality of Education Culture» metrics.

During this exercise, your teams will be guided to navigate the complexities of the startup phase; presenting a clear path forward as your school moves from theory to reality.

Pickerington Schools Move From Traditional to «Tradigital» Math Classrooms Pickerington Local School District

Kevin Teasley, president and chief executive officer for the Indianapolis - based GEO Foundation which operates 21st Century Charter School, said the letter meant the school moved from a D rating to a C rating.

Not exact matches

Sanghavi and Shah assembled a team of six full - time employees and a handful of contractors and moved the company headquarters to Berkeley, Calif., from Chicago, Illinois, where Sanghavi had been in school.

A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

«We flew people in from Atlanta, Los Angeles, and all over the place, including some of her oldest friends from elementary school that she never gets to see and some close friends that had recently moved across the country.»

At Chicago, «Ted» Snyder oversaw the move to the school's new Hyde Park campus, brought in the largest donation to any business school in the world — a $ 300 million gift from alumnus David Booth and his family — tripled scholarship assistance to students, and more than doubled the school's endowment.

I was actually commuting to Seattle because on September 10, 2001, my wife moved from San Francisco, which is where Hotwire was, to Seattle to go to med school at the University of Washington.

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

BOSTON, March 28 - A member of a Harvard University oversight board made a rare public call for the school to divest itself from fossil fuel stocks, a move that shows continuing divisions on the issue as a new president takes over at the institution and its leading $ 37.1 billion endowment.

Actually, when I first started getting into the New York entrepreneurial community, it was because I started getting out of my school's network and moving away from my school.

The entrepreneur, who was still attending high school in Gothenburg, moved on to fish, Christmas - tree decorations, seeds and pencils, which he sold from his bicycle.

«When the central bank promises a smaller payment, reserves are a less attractive investment, so banks will... move away from reserves and into loans,» Reis, an academic at the London School of Economics, wrote in the paper.

Striving above all for efficiency, the government coldly weighs every move, from school curriculums to foreign relations, against cost - effectiveness.

MOVING from the security of the small primary school class group can often cause considerable anxiety to students starting high school.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

«They still want good restaurants, but now it's also about space, affordability and being able to send their kids to a good public school,» said Paternite, 45, who said that about 70 percent of her business now comes from young families who are making the move from Brooklyn or Manhattan.

With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

He experienced, in rapid succession, blows of the sort that can send a disturbed, isolated young man hurtling into a spiral of instability: forced to move out of his lifelong home, spurned by a girlfriend, bounced from school to school, then suddenly losing his mother, his closest companion, to a fatal illness.

Aerial footage from the scene showed a number of people lying on the ground outside the school, being treated for injuries and moved to ambulances.

They could be recent high school or college graduates, they may be transitioning from a previous career, or they may be moving from another sales organization.

In an emotional rally Saturday in Fort Lauderdale, politicians and Marjory Stoneman Douglas students called for a ban on weapons like the one used at the high school, and urged voters to kick out lawmakers who oppose the move or who take money from the National Rifle Association.

Speno said he knew Cruz from elementary school until his family moved away a couple of years ago.

I was pleased to see the PCs move away from that short - sighted approach during their final years in government and that the NDP has continued to invest in building the type of public infrastructure — schools, hospitals, roads and public transit — that Alberta's growing population will need.

Since the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last month, renewed calls for remedies to firearms violence have led to sweeping consumer boycotts and unprecedented moves by corporate America to distance itself from the powerful gun lobby.

«It's time for you to stop being politely angry,» Gbowee told CBS news anchor Norah O'Donnell in a sweeping conversation that moved from her native Liberia to the women's marches in the United States last year to the young activists who have emerged in the aftermath of the shooting in February at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

Around Thanksgiving, Nikolas Cruz moved in with the family of a friend from Stoneman Douglas High School, said Jim Lewis, an attorney representing the family.

Then he asked a former classmate from Stoneman Douglas High School whether he could move in with him.

Immediately after the shooting, aerial footage from CNN affiliate WSVN showed people lying on the ground outside the school, being treated for injuries and moved to ambulances.

Plus being in a good school district from the start means we won't have to move again until we choose.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

How can it move us to be told that Jesus gave his body as a feast «truly from heaven come down,» and then to be treated to a tableau vivant showing the children of Israel in the desert, in the style, colors and postures of bad Sunday school illustrations, with manna falling from the sky in the form of bits of fluttering paper?

Amanda and her husband Tim recently moved from the big city of Nashville to Boone, North Carolina, where Tim is in graduate school at Appalachian State University and Amanda works at Samaritan's Purse.

Stepping into the political turmoil of Israel after being steeped in the United States presidential campaign is akin to moving into an advanced seminar on theological ethics from a third - grade church school classroom.