Sentences with phrase «students running conferences»

While some parents, and even some teachers, are at first wary about students running conferences, practitioners told Education World that in most cases, the experience has left everyone pleased.

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START Summit is Europe's leading student - run conference for entrepreneurship and technology.

Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, shortly after the massive changes ushered in by the modernizing Vatican II conference in Rome, the story quickly sets up a conflict between the old - school nun who serves as principal and runs the school like a prison (played by Meryl Streep) and the young, new priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) who wants to shake things up by treating the students as fully rounded young people who deserve doses of freedom and respect as well.

The conference was the third in a series of conferences that have been held under the auspices of the Pontifical Council's «STOQ» project - the «Science, Theology and the Ontological Quest» interdisciplinary study programme that has been running now in the Roman Pontifical universities for some five years, and which allows students and scholars to investigate the links and mutual enrichment of the physical and the metaphysical sciences.

Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) is an annual student - run hospitality conference that has been an 87 - year tradition at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration.

At 11:15 a.m., Success Academy Founder and CEO Eva Moskowitz and parents of Success Academy students hold press conference to announce first court date in a lawsuit seeking to keep the network's pre-K program running, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

A mother and father of two unrelated students slain in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting will announce runs for two separate seats on the School Board of Broward County at a news conference on Tuesday.

Last month, I was lucky enough to travel to the Dynamic Landscapes conference in Burlington, Vermont, to run a workshop about student - centered advisory.

I am expecting that we may have two days per quarter that are big «event» days — kind of like a conference with breakout sessions run by students for students.»

Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government - run schools.

The idea for the student - run conference grew from a group of doctoral students, including Mansilla, who had earned Spencer Fellowships and were interested in offering a professionalized education experience to share research.

45 local schools are invited to send any prospective students and staff to the Oxbridge Admissions Conference run at St Albans School.

* Parents, self - advocate, and student rate is $ 100 per day; scholarship and volunteer opportunities are available (we can always use volunteers to help run the conference)

Running from March 6 to 8, 2010, in San Antonio, Tex., the conference provides educators with valuable professional development essential to improving student achievement in their own schools, districts, and communities.

At the Growing Without Schooling 20th Anniversary Conference, AERO's discussion on «International Homeschooling and Alternative Schools» inspires the formation of LOYO (Learn On Your Own), the first homeschool organization run by and for homeschooled students.

And now, a pair of ESEA rewrite bills headed to conference in Congress would give states acres of new running room when it comes to setting student achievement goals, figuring out how much tests matter, evaluating teachers, and more.

The California Charter Schools Conference has run annually for 20 years, offering resources, guidance, and advocacy support to a charter school movement that has grown to more than 1,000 schools serving 484,000 students.

A mother and father of two unrelated students slain in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting will announce runs for two separate seats on the School Board of Broward County at a news conference on Tuesday.

Third grade students had the opportunity to run their own parent conferences.

Running from March 26 to 28, 2011, in San Francisco, California, the conference provides educators with valuable professional development essential to improving student achievement in their own schools, districts, and communities.

Run by development education advocate Grads in Games in partnership with recruitment firm Aardvark Swift, the free conferences are aimed at students and academics and are split across two events: Art Finals and Code Finals.

In the next month, the collaborative graduate program (run by Queens College in partnership with the Queens Museum) will showcase MFA students» art at its annual group exhibition, release a textbook on social practice, and share two students» work at a major conference.

A student - led conference on Afrofuturism: Designing New Narratives to Empower the African Diaspora will be taking over The New School at Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) this weekend, running across the two locations from May 1 to May 3.

The 2017 NCECA National Student Juried Exhibition will run concurrently with Future Flux, the 51st annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.

At an conference of law student run antipoverty groups put on in Ottawa by Osgoode Hall, SLS members were seen as the radicals.