Sentences with phrase «schools moving toward»

We're about all the design on this end of the spectrum: teams designing completely new schools, existing high quality schools moving toward replication or significant expansion, and existing schools endeavoring to significantly or completely transform.

I see some schools moving toward locating teachers and students not departmentally but across disciplines, which better suits problem - based, integrated learning.

When schools move toward mobile learning in the classroom, they can take advantage of electronic devices such as tablets and cell phones that offer portability and ease of use.

New rules in the Boston teachers» contract have helped the city's schools move toward the ideal of finding the best person for the job, but school administrators still have a way to go before they take full advantage of the system's expanded capacity to hire teachers from outside the district, a report concludes.

Who will ensure that each of these schools moves toward higher levels of performance?

Slicing and Dicing the ELA Common Core Standards Virginia Goatley As schools move toward implementing new English language arts standards, research - based ideas help address critical issues.

Not exact matches

«Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today's economy.»

«Get the school locked down, gentleman,» Peterson says over a police radio, as Cruz moves toward a teachers» lounge at the west end of the floor.

He states: «Every form of therapy, whether it is carried on in churches, growth centers, consulting rooms or wisdom schools rests upon a vision of what man might become, a diagnosis of his present unhappiness and a prescription for how he may move toward fulfillment»

«The rhetoric is that we're still engaged in the formation of clergy,» she observes, but she worries that the school is moving further toward the religious - studies model.

But moving forward, evangelicals as far as possible given their geographic location need to move toward minorities and be in their churches and be in their schools and be in their neighborhoods to create opportunities for solidarity and reciprocity.

(0ne school characterizes its attitude toward other denominations as magnanimous; another recognizes only two church bodies — one of these in Europe — as soundly Christian; some denominational programs for the development of theological education move easily from praise of the ecumenical spirit to exclusive concern for the advancement of the denominational ministry.

The old type of madrasas and Sufi tekkes still flourish there, but new types of schools are being opened and Afghanistan is moving toward a new era of progress.

On the other hand leaders of the Bible school movement have been developing a theory of liberal arts education with the Bible at its center, and through an accrediting association have moved toward standardization and steady improvement of a program which seeks to synthesize conservative evangelical Christianity with a valid educational ideal.

Presumably because such changes help to meet this need, the study seems to approve the tendency it sees in theological schools to move toward closer affiliations with universities.

The theological school is the center where both types of intellectual activity are carried on: the kind that, supported by other actions, moves directly toward the objects of the Church's love and the kind that supports the other movements toward those objects.

For many schools, moving toward a more holistic way of teaching students is key to their future success outside of the classroom.

Knowing this information will help you determine actions you can take to improve student health and learning, strengthen your meal program finances, and move toward increased local food purchasing and farm to school engagement.

Then I observed that many home schooling parents move very strongly toward hands - on activities for their children over the first few years of home schooling.

Likewise, a positive, gentle pace is contagious too — and will help move everyone in your family toward a better day at work and school.

Celebrating a step in the right direction doesn't mean that we won't continue moving toward our end goal, so when your school makes a change for the better, spread the word!

I hope we can move American school meals toward more scratch - cooking in the future, but I'm still proud of the fact that our program feeds 31 million kids a day, 2/3 of whom are in economic need.

And in South Carolina school nutrition professionals are attending «boot camp» training classes to learn knife and cooking skills to continue moving back toward a scratch menu.

Gov. Rick Scott and top state lawmakers proposed the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades, in defiance of the NRA, though some of their ideas fell short of what student advocates pleaded for after one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.

As a professor at Fordham Law School, the author of important books on political and economic policy, a key figure in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign, and a visionary organizer on behalf of banking and business reforms, she understands that the Democratic Party must move toward progressive populism in order to become more than a tepid alternative to Republican extremism.

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

But this fall, the stakes are even higher as Hartford moves toward school consolidation.

The Rochester City School District is moving toward adopting a new code of conduct, but plans are mired in controversy.

House and Senate Republicans moved in mid-December toward a final vote on a $ 1.5 trillion tax plan that could cost the nation's public schools dearly.

It was a very significant increase and many other districts as well, made great progress in moving finally toward the elimination of what is known as the «gap elimination adjustment» that has been particularly crippling to the many school districts.

Through its Reforming Energy Vision initiative, the Cuomo administration is actively working to help municipalities — especially towns and schools — move toward getting a significant portion of their power from renewable resources.

The state education commissioner has also dismissed an East Ramapo school district challenge of the sale of the former school building, making the once controversial transaction move toward a sale after almost two years of uncertainty.

Current technological and scientific trends are building on each other, apparently moving us toward a world in which all of adult humanity, even great - grandparents, can have the sex drive of a high school senior.

He moved to America for his postdoctoral work at Harvard Medical School, where he met «the most important person for my scientific development,» Dr. Marc Kirschner, who described his former student as having «a competitive spirit toward solving the mysteries of science that does not contemplate failure to solve a problem.»

Junior Scientist Award and Lecture: Cameron Bryant Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Genes, brain and addiction traits: Moving from discovery toward validation and mechanism

I started out teaching old - school freestyle aerobics and step, but have since moved more toward Les Mills pre-choreographed classes such as Bodypump, RPM and Bodybalance.

«This grant from the Kellogg Foundation will help CISS move toward realizing our three - year plan to expand local and national training programs, extend consultative, advocating, and support services, and strengthen the important school - community - university partnerships being developed through the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Risk and Prevention Prschool - community - university partnerships being developed through the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Risk and Prevention PrSchool of Education's Risk and Prevention Program.

As part of a move toward site - based management, some schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have tried to involve parents and teachers in hiring principals and other staff members.

It calls on researchers to better explore connections among acts of bullying, discrimination, and harassment, and it attempts to nudge schools to move beyond classification and consequences and toward the kind of understanding, communication, and support that can change a culture.

Growth models track the progress of youngsters over time and could give schools credit for moving students toward proficiency.

Students at a small but growing number of high schools across the country are moving toward an integrated - mathematics pathway, in which they learn a blend of topics like algebra, geometry, and statistics each year.

In today's districts and schools that are striving to move toward more personalized and digital learning, we find three key areas of leadership that are emphasized or more critical than they were in the past.

Republicans who are informed of his position move toward it on three of the four issues: we observe a 5 - percentage - point increase in opposition to Common Core, a 15 - percentage - point increase in support for charter schools, and a 10 - percentage - point increase in support for tax credits.

We went from a failing school because of state scores to [exceeding] AYP, and now we are a VIP school, moving toward excellence, Wismer told Education World.

The customer service approach, and the move toward family - friendly schools, is being implemented district - wide or in individual schools.

Longer school days, a move toward a less segregated two - pillared system, and a push for standardized national curricula are among the various reforms adopted by the country since their initial low scores on PISA provoked change.

Vacancies in these two offices create an opportunity for resetting the district - charter relationship and moving Boston closer toward a reform strategy that takes full advantage of the city's remarkable charter schools.

When informed of Trump's position, Republicans move toward it on three of the four issues, including a 15 percentage - point increase in support for charter schools.

Washington — As bills to outlaw abortion and to end school busing moved toward legislative action last week, the Senate approved a measure endorsing voluntary prayer in public schools.