Sentences with phrase «schools promising rewarding»

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Even with stronger regs on snack foods / drinks sold at schools, junk food promises to remain alive and well in the classroom thanks to food rewards, class parties and school fundraisers.

Cable's return with a 52 % share of the vote was just reward for a hugely positive campaign which focused on cuts to local schools, the state of the NHS and the Tories broken promise on Heathrow expansion.

Getting you and your students to a nearby national park promises to be a rewarding experience for all of you, but if that's not possible, the NPS provides an array of park - related activities your class can benefit from without leaving school.

The authors also point out that sustained programs of professional development and support are required «if the substantial rewards promised by the research evidence are to be secured,» so that each teacher can «find his or her own ways of incorporating [feedback] into his or her own patterns of classroom work and into the cultural norms and expectations of a particular school community.»

Business enterprise efficiency would rescue the schools through organizational improvements; selection, training, assessing, and rewarding of principals and teachers on the basis of performance; and adoption of promising education technologies.

At the Francis Scott Key middle school meeting, the mentors told a 7th grader who had been tardy 58 times in three months that her attendance hadn't improved enough for her to graduate from the program and receive the promised reward, an MP3 player.

But with the ability to reward excellence in teaching and to spur creative efforts to find the best ways to reach students who aren't succeeding in existing schools, they hold great promise for kids who today are falling through the cracks.

In fairness, he does have an education platform in which he promises to «reward and replicate success» and «rescue students trapped in failing schools.»

A school principal from Washington, D.C. is challenging her students to spend one day a week this summer without using any electronic devices, and is promising a reward of $ 100 — of her own money — for each student that completes the challenge.

The program rewards states that promise to raise achievement using the Obama administration's preferred methods: adopting common core standards, promoting charter schools, linking teacher pay to student performance and turning around low - achieving schools.

There's a reason for this: without the restrictive terms of a typical union contract, charter schools are able to reward top - performing teachers and experiment with the most promising teaching methods.

We have also pressed for passage of the TEACH Act, to better prepare, mentor, and reward teachers; the Graduation Promise Act, to increase high school graduation rates; and the Expanded Learning Time and School Redesign Demonstration Prschool graduation rates; and the Expanded Learning Time and School Redesign Demonstration PrSchool Redesign Demonstration Program.

The constant public focus on standardized test scores suggests the belief that the threat of sanctions or promise of rewards (mostly in the form of increased funding) will enhance students» test scores and improve school quality — that schools can somehow be coerced or seduced into improvement.

Winning schools and student organizations / leadership teams are rewarded with cash prizes based on the percentage of the student body who make the SmartDrive PROMISE.