Sentences with phrase «take hold school»

According to Tony Habit, President of the NCNSP, «successfully redesigned individual schools are not enough — for the redesign effort to take hold these schools must be linked to a system that works with them, and they must be the inspiration for innovation in other schools.»

Not exact matches

Classes are held on weekday evenings at the school's Sudbury campus, but can also be taken online.
That's hard to say right now, but we do know that this is a drastic change, one that schools are going to have to account for before the law takes hold in 2019.
Holding signs that say, «Fear has no place in schools» and «How many more will it take
Zachary Cruz, brother of Parkland school shooter Nickolas Cruz, is being harassed by law enforcement — accused of terrorizing the community, arrested for a trivial infraction, held in jail after posting bond, and all but forced to take a conviction to avoid being unfairly jailed, according to his new lawyers.
'' it's perfectly legal to take pictures in a public area» Hang around a grade school taking pictures of the kids and we'll see how your «internet law degree» holds up in court.
According to Irving Weissman of the Stanford University School of Medicine in Palo Alto, California: «We showed that even after the tumor has taken hold, the antibody can either cure the tumor or slow its growth and prevent metastasis.»
The site posted a recording of Benham talking to a talk show host about «homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation» and «demonic ideologies» taking hold in colleges and public schools.
He held them close as they took in the news coverage of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Media education is just beginning to take hold in the public schools and it is almost altogether missing in the churches.
Murray, who after remarrying took the name Madalyn Murray O'Hair, became the major figure held responsible (by her opponents) for «taking God out of the schools» — an epithet she welcomed while leading a controversial atheist organization.
11 And Sallie McFague, professor of theology at Vanberbilt Divinity School, takes on the fundamentalist viewpoint head - on: «This may be blasphemy to the literal - minded; but it is fortunate that the New Testament writers were endowed with rich imaginations, for otherwise the New Testament would hold little chance of being revelatory.»
To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.
Bags crowding her feet hold the coffee cake she'll take to the Sunday school class she'll teach later, the Jeopardy - style game she's devised for today's lesson, and reading materials and toys to keep kids occupied.
«h0mos3xuality and its agenda is ATTACKING the nation» «DEMONIC ideologies» are taking hold in colleges and public schools.
What they are not considering is that these are young people and while some may hold tight to the chasti.ty issue, you can't expect all to but it goes beyond that, this school is failing to take in to consideration the basic health issues here... why would they not want a female to take the pill to potentially prevent cancer or help with numerous other issues?
Nevertheless, the new orientation of schooling toward employment seems to have taken hold here as well.
We took God out of school and put first person shooter games in every house hold.
It's easy enough to get your apple a day, since they are easily taken along to work or school, and make a handy snack that can hold you over a few hours until your next meal.
I often hear that schools can't implement salad bars because it takes too long for the students to make their choices and that it «holds - up» the line.
If a good midfielder means running into walls of defenders and falling over holding your ankle or being dispossessed like primary school kid having his lunch money taken then OK he is the best.
It holds true with taking a test at school, performing well at work or in all performance endeavors.
Taking part in the first heat held at Wembley Stadium were Ark Academy, St. Mary's High, Enfield Grammar School and St. Andrew the Apostle Greek Orthodox School.
He was taking a big chunk of Harlem — twenty - four blocks, back then — and he was planning to address every problem that was holding back poor kids in that neighborhood, from their families to their schools to their community.
When you visit a school like WHEELS or Polaris, it is hard not to feel hopeful, not just for the prospects of the students there, but for the possibility that a new approach to educating low - income children, rooted in the science of adversity, might be taking hold more broadly.
Therefore, we know that school food reform is has taken hold in California.
In private sessions Saturday, 22 school teams from around the country will toss around ideas on how schools can help to broaden the rigid notion of «success» that has taken hold on so many hyper - competitive campuses — high grades, top test scores and acceptance into prestigious colleges.
Pope's organization, Challenge Success, advocates school policies such as holding final exams before winter break, not publishing college acceptance lists and taking steps to make teachers approachable.
I don't know how much of a delay «Top Chef» has between filming and broadcast, so even if they took up the school lunch challenge, Congress might have already acted * — Agweek says that Sen. Lincoln (D - AR) hopes to hold a markup session in the Senate Agriculture Committee on March 26 (via Slow Food USA) and it is not inconceivable that the new legislation could pass quickly.
Bernice Tukes has worked in school nutrition for 27 years, first taking a position as a cashier and then working her way up to site support manager, a position she currently holds and which keeps her busy overseeing fifteen schools.
Schools take action because they understand something that parents can lose sight of: kids make the choice to do these things, and as a result, they should be held accountable.
I think the push towards taking noncognitive skills seriously met up with the push towards holding teachers and schools accountable.
As your kiddo ages and the imagination takes hold, developmentally appropriate toys are the stepping stones for a child's understanding of the world, creativity, and even some skills that can translate into deeper, fuller success in those grade - school years.
He held that even with the economic hardship, the state still became the cynosure of all eyes as it became the offshoot of the national take - off of school feeding programme.
At a press conference, Mayor de Blasio and schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña touted the gains as evidence that their school policies were taking hold and prodding progress.
Maybe hold off on taking a drink at NYC public schools.
«Sometimes, some of these issues take a lot longer to negotiate and compromise with, and you shouldn't be holding up funding for our schools, and funding for our roads, and funding for local governments to keep property taxes down, because of some of these major, broader public policy issues that should be kept out of the budget.»
Praise was one of eleven candidates that emerged from the 52 candidates who contested for the first round in an essay competition held at the Preventive and Border Schools to take part in the grand finale, thus the quiz competition.
Chair: Dr Philip Smith, Chairman, Global Utilities Ltd, Pulse Group Holdings Ltd, and Chair of Milton Keynes Leaders» Forum Speakers: Keith Clarke CBE, former CEO of Atkins Global and Chairman of Forum for the Future Evan Davis, broadcaster and Visiting Professor at The Open University Business School The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and takes place from 2 - 9 November 2013.
«The Government needs to take the lead in ensuring that across all schools no teacher or pupil is held back or denied the opportunity to succeed because of their colour or ethnic, cultural or religious background.»
UPDATE2: I am informed that ratings on Sunday night are actually fairly high, which holds true for most news channel (it is, after all, a school night, which I failed to take into account).
He stressed that his union holds the largest teacher population in basic and second cycle schools, «therefore if you want to take any decision that affects education in Ghana, you can not sidestep us.»
Eugene, who is one of several Brooklyn Council members to take part in Participatory Budgeting, will hold a training session on Tuesday, March 27, at Brooklyn Law School, starting at 6 p.m.
The Christmas in the Bronx event, has been held for the past four consecutive years, and this year will take place, on Tuesday, December 19, at 4:00 PM in the Auditorium of the I.S. 131 Albert Einstein School located at 885 Bolton Avenue (Corner of Story Avenue & White Plains Road), in Bronx County.
When it comes to holding principals accountable in his effort to turn around struggling city schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to take a page out of the police playbook.
That move was criticized by the teachers unions, which does not take children out of the public schools, and holds their events after school hours and on weekends.
Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.
Ms Gilbert spent 18 years in teaching, of which eight were spent as head of the Whitmore high school in Harrow, and held the post of director of education at Harrow council for five years before taking over at Tower Hamlets.
«We did some tweaking this year; we allowed them to have BOCES capital taken out of the tax cap, and we do have construction out for our schools, but we don't have it our municipalities,» said Assemblywoman Sandy Galef, a Westchester Democrat who held a (sparsely attended) hearing on the tax cap in Albany yesterday.
Advocates took to the streets to continue a years - long fight for what they say the state owes city schools — $ 2.9 billion — holding small rallies outside of four schools before classes started to demand more funding.
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