Sentences with phrase «serve at our alternative school»

In fact, my gifted students were the first volunteers to serve at our alternative school.

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At Utahns Against Hunger we work to improve participation in the School Breakfast Program and promote alternative breakfast serving models.

To be sure, there are often good reasons to place children out of district at public expense — no district can serve all students equally well — but neither are there always clear and obvious distinctions to be made between who can be educated in a regular school, those who need alternative settings and those like Adrian who run afoul of the rules so frequently, or who are penalized so often and systematically, that they simply give up and leave.

For example, Montgomery County Public Schools is one of the largest school districts in the country with more than 100,000 students, but its alternative school programs serve only about 125 students at a time.

Historical Figure Day, a celebration held at a middle school in Moorpark, California, serves as an alternative to the traditional Halloween hoopla.

Colorado requires that 95 percent of students be in a high - risk group before a school can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaschool can be labeled an AEC and the D.C. Public Charter School Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populaSchool Board is considering a proposal based on a «gap» model that would set the threshold at 60 percent high - risk students, while some other states allow schools to bypass conventional accountability systems if their missions focus on serving alternative student populations.

Consider the backlash on suspensions and expulsions, which is going to force regular schools to keep kids who might be better served at alternative placements.

Alternative schools are designed to meet the needs of at - risk student populations, and include schools that serve students who are in custody in the juvenile court system or enrolled in drop - out recovery programs and continuation schools.

Mehling's story is one of many at the Roseburg alternative school, which serves seventh - through 12th - graders and was recognized last week for its ability to help kids who have struggled elsewhere succeed.

Previously, he served as an Industrial Education and History teacher, coordinator of alternative programs, high school dean of students, and assistant principal at the middle school level.

As an alternative, competency - based systems support student advancement by awarding credit according to students» mastery of skills.1 At ROADS Charter School in the Bronx, a transfer school dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competeSchool in the Bronx, a transfer school dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competeschool dedicated to serving students who are overage and under - credited, competency - based learning has helped students re-engage in their learning as each class is structured so that students focus on mastering 10 clear, meaningful, and targeted «outcomes,» or competencies.

Dr. Mays has served in many roles including: Director of Gateway Academy Alternative High School, Newark, New Jersey; Principal of Orange Alternative High School, Orange Public Schools, Orange, New Jersey; Assistant Principal at Florence Avenue School, Staff Development Specialist, Irvington Board of Education; and Elementary Education Teacher, at Madison Avenue School in Irvington, New Jersey.

The action comes despite a 2010 ruling from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court that invalidated federal regulations allowing the practice after civil rights groups complained that teachers in the alternative programs - or internships - were disproportionately given classroom assignments at schools in low - income neighborhoods and those serving at - risk students.

* High - poverty elementary schools were primarily regular schools (98 percent); special education schools (schools that serve children with disabilities) and alternative schools (schools that serve students at risk for school failure) each made up 1 percent or less of high - poverty elementary schools.

Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) serves approximately 37,000 students at 65 elementary schools, 17 middle schools, four special programs, 14 high schools, and 11 alternative education schools.

The most common form of alternative school operating today to serve youth in at - risk situations is designed to be part of a school district's comprehensive dropout prevention program.

As managed public schools we serve [to] undertake this transition, and given the growing number of at - rick students enrolling in these schools, perceived academic performance could temporarily or permanently suffer such that these schools may become a less attractive alternative, enrollments could decline, and our financial condition and results of operations could be negatively impact.

He wrote at the time that charter schools can provide «valuable alternatives to existing options for the students they serve, particularly those charter schools focused on serving traditionally under - served groups of students like English Language Learners, foster children or children living in temporary housing.»

CPS will consider proposals from operators who seek to open charter or contract schools to serve either a «traditional» student population (grades kindergarten through 12) or an «alternative» student population of students who have dropped out or are at risk of dropping out.

She has worked for Burnsville Eagan Savage Schools for the past twenty years as a teacher and currently serves as the principal at the Burnsville Alternative School.

Will Sinclair, a skilled United States history teacher, taught at an underresourced alternative high school that served academically struggling students.

She's the Special Education Coordinator at Jennings Community School for the last 10 years, and has served on the Minnesota Association of Alternative Programs (MAAP) Board for four years as a Regional Director and Director at Large.

Offered as an alternative to the area's traditional schools, many of which serve a predominantly low - income population, Ridnouer says Veritas implements a «whole child» approach, utilizing healthy lunches, classroom breaks for exercise and at least 90 minutes of exercise per day.

Initially there were opportunities to serve as a paraprofessional teacher, K - 8, in both Missouri and Kansas, as an Early Learning Center Director within the Kansas City inner - city, an alternative high school math teacher, multiple middle and elementary school assignments, K - 8 mathematics instructional coach, culminating with the work being developed and established currently at KCNA.

Born in Asheville, N.C., Noland served in World War II before enrolling at the Black Mountain College, the alternative school that proved a formative experience for many members of the American postwar avant - garde, including Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage.

Arvizu serves on a number of Boards, Panels and Advisory Committees including the American Council on Renewable Energy Advisory Board; the Energy Research, Development, and Deployment Policy Project Advisory Committee at the Harvard Kennedy School; the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Alternative Energies; the Singapore Clean Energy International Advisory Panel; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III; the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation; and the Colorado Renewable Energy Authority Board of Directors.

Sara Slinn, a professor at the Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto, says alternative schemes that serve those who are excluded from collective bargaining could still offer some protection for workers.

Ms. Trout has also presented nationally at the international conferences of the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) in Toronto in 2001; the Family Section Conferences of ACR in 2002 and 2003 (Georgia and Colorado; respectively); the national conference for ACR in Florida in 2003 (and served as conference co-chair); the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation at South Texas College of Law in 2004; and the National Conference of Minority Professionals in Alternative Dispute Resolution at Capital University Law School in Ohio in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007, respectively.