Sentences with phrase «several key schools»

Topics in School Environmental Health shows how states have addressed several key school IAQ issues through their laws and regulations.

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The school, which is based in New York, joins several other ventures aiming to train techies, including Code Academy and Dev Bootcamp, but with some key differences from the other options.

We've certainly known this was coming, but Helena Bottemiller Evich of Politico has written an informative preview of how the new, Republican - controlled Congress is planning on rolling back several key Obama administration food policy initiatives, including improvements to school food.

She is involved in the GPS mentoring program, and she's volunteered for several years with the Keep Every Youth in School [KEYS] Program.

The Speaker and several other key lawmakers think most of that money should go directly to aid poor school districts.

The extension of the tax abatement is one of several key issues that are due to expire this month, along with rent control regulations for New York City and mayoral control of New York City schools.

Cuomo on Tuesday announced the framework of a deal with the legislature had been reached on several key issues for de Blasio, including an extension of the rent regulation laws, a revamping of the 421 - a tax break and an extension of mayoral control of schools.

Several University of North Carolina School of Medicine researchers played a key role in crafting diagnostic criteria and patient questionnaires for the Rome Foundation, an international nonprofit aimed at improving the lives of the millions of people suffering from functional GI disorders (FGIDs), while developing and legitimizing the field of FGIDs through science and research.

«We found evidence reduced levels of circulating testosterone were associated with increased phthalate exposure in several key populations, including boys ages 6 - 12, and men and women ages 40 - 60,» said one of the study's authors, John D. Meeker, MS, ScD, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI.

The results of this study highlight several key takeaways for those of us interested in implementing yoga in school settings:

As schools continue the work to integrate technology into learning, they address several key issues and structures:

ESAs offer several key advantages over traditional school - choice programs.

We disagreed immediately on several key issues such as keeping middle - school children in school while high schoolers were being tested.

Last month, Teacher magazine explored several key recommendations outlined in the Australian Autism Educational Needs Analysis — What are the needs of schools, parents and students on the autism spectrum?

As I have had the privilege to visit 100 + schools and interact with several thousand educators in the last two years, I have distilled key elements of this transition, and the deeper I look, the more I am convinced that THE key element of a successful redefinition of learning requires a reboot of the fundamental relationship between teacher, student, and knowledge.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

Philanthropy at Independent Schools examines the roles of several key fund - raisers, from the development officer to trustees to the head of the school.

Her analysis found several key associations that open the door to further research on how schools can optimize students» learning experiences.

While students at both groups of schools did better than the trends projected in the years studied, closures produced positive and statistically significant impacts on several key outcomes for displaced students versus those in the comparison group (Figure 5).

The school makes telephone calls home a key priority, with most teachers making several calls a night to communicate good news as readily as bad to the parents.

The centers, now funded at $ 981 million, were among several key after - school programs whose funding was not increased or that were targeted for elimination in the president's proposal.

The decision to construct the school's latest building using this modern method of construction was influenced by several key factors.

Reville, who directs the Education Redesign Lab, points to several key ingredients for expanding and strengthening afterschool programming — moves echoed by Hillary Salmons, the executive director of the Providence After School Alliance, and Heather Tow - Yick, Providence Public School's Chief Transformation Officer.

Program stood out for several reasons, including its crossdisciplinary approach where students experience key issues from several perspectives, including education, public policy, and business, by taking classes at both the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School.

Although federal legislation has stressed the standardization of student learning, researchers continue to debate several key aspects of these students» high school experiences, specifically, school size, curriculum focus, school structure, and philosophical mission.

Denver serves as an example that robust public school choice systems can serve as one several key catalysts in urban revitalization and redevelopment efforts.

Enota staff looked at programs offered in several other states and welcome visitors to their school as well: The Key Learning Community is a successful K - 12 public school in Indianapolis.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Our study indicates that New Orleans parents can choose from among schools that vary on several key dimensions, and that these differences are not necessarily driven by the decisions of charter governing agencies or large CMOs.

Several deficiencies identified during a 1996 audit of Hawaii's After - School Plus (A +) Program, a key initiative of Democratic Gov. Benjamin J. Cayetano's, have not been resolved, according to a recently released report conducted by state Auditor Marion M. Higa.

While we recognize that districts report this information to the CSDE at the end of the year, we are asking for several key data points more frequently and in real time to support data - driven decision - making in Alliance Districts and identified schools.»

It includes several key operational areas that support school and non-school sites, ensuring alignment of efforts towards achieving the District's vision, mission, and strategic priorities.

On another level — also unusual if not quite as intriguing — is that KIPP is coming into the Miami - Dade public school district as a welcome partner of several key players.

But several years of similar findings reinforced that implementing these four practices well was the key to successful school turnaround in Massachusetts.

Mitchell sits on the N.C. Charter School Advisory Board, which is tasked with reviewing charter school applications and monitoring their progress, and he has also contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of several lawmakers, including Sen. Jerry Tillman, a key proponent of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of SSchool Advisory Board, which is tasked with reviewing charter school applications and monitoring their progress, and he has also contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of several lawmakers, including Sen. Jerry Tillman, a key proponent of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of Sschool applications and monitoring their progress, and he has also contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of several lawmakers, including Sen. Jerry Tillman, a key proponent of charter schools who sat on the conference committee tasked with crafting the final version of SB 793.

Much of that attention has been placed on King's Academy for a poor record of performance and red flags in several key areas highlighted in this 2014 report prepared by the Schools and Communities United coalition.

Leading up to National Parental Involvement Day, Project Appleseed joined the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) in rolling out several key resources for parent engagement in school hSchool Health (DASH) in rolling out several key resources for parent engagement in school hschool health.

Dr. Patsche provided several key tips for school leaders, including «always assume positive intent» and «never ignore anyone.»

Sixteen pilot schools along with several other Lead schools in the English sector experimented with the key concepts of the program of study, as well as school organizational approaches that could be best suited to the strategies required to maximize the effectiveness of the learning environment.

Throughout college there are several crucial moments that can put a student at risk of leaving school; conversely, there are some key behaviors that keep a student on the path to graduation.

Contributing factors included the loss of several key grants, which created a shortage in teachers, money and available class periods; the teachers» refusal to make scheduling changes and a reshuffling of Jefferson's administrators just weeks before school started.

For example, at Jan's high school, (which I have told you about over several blogs), collaborative teams of teachers are well aware of the students who still need extra support and more time to master key skills and concepts and they are living an «all hands on deck» mantra to meet their needs.

His written submission highlighted several key studies we have conducted on school partnerships and cooperation.

The key performance indicators on which all eight regional commissioners are judged were not made public until December 2014, several months after the roles were created, and only came to light after they were requested by Schools Week under the terms of the freedom of information act.

In a separate study conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Amanda Olberg and Michael Podgursky looked at alternative retirement plans offered by charter schools in several key states where participation in the state system was optional.

E4E - Los Angeles Executive Director Ama Nyamekye says the LAUSD School Board has several key actions to take, such as listening to teachers and giving them more...

Research on effective schools has identified several key factors that contribute to district and school capacity to improve instructional practice and student performance.

Meanwhile, the panel moved several other key education bills including one that would rewrite the rules implementing sanctions against school officials who fail to report changes in an employee's work status while an allegation of misconduct is pending.

Teacher quality was a key theme of several sessions ranging from teacher career ladders to school leader preparation.

(Calif.) Legislation that would require all schools to stock epinephrine auto - injectors and train onsite personnel to administer them to a student suffering anaphylactic shock was one of several bills moved forward Wednesday by a key legislative panel.