Sentences with phrase «talking about the school system»

I think it's really talking about the school system, and the underlying problems that the society's facing when it comes to educating kids.

As a teacher I hate to talk about the school system but this school is HORRIBLE..

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Talk about freedom does not carry much conviction when school personnel have to work within an autocratic system.

Things I'm thinking about could be things like having his seat changed in class so he's next to someone he has conflict with, learning new skills at school that he's not confident about and is struggling with, some new kind of food he's ingesting at school that has something that's irritating his system (artificial dyes or sweeteners would be my first guesses), something other kids are talking about that are scaring him (movies or tv shows or stories).

«I'm perfectly entitled to talk without being shouted down about what my vision of the future of the school system should be.

The school has also had a «celebrated nutritionist and alternative therapist» talk to parents «about how we can boost our immune system naturally.

We are talking about one of the ground - zero principles of a healthy school system: extra help for those who need it.

«I'm talking about where the kids in our school system get an opportunity to talk about their experiences, their interactions with law enforcement outside of school and inside.»

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D - Manhattan) visited the North Queensview Homes Co-Op in Astoria last week, taking the time to talk about the ongoing city budget process, the school system and a reported beef with Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria).

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about issues regarding free college tuition at SUNY / CUNY schools, a teenager who fell down an open manhole into an upstate sewer system, and the impact of winter road salt on area lakes and water resources.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about an arrest of a former college student who threatened to commit a mass shooting at an unknown elementary school and a group to review teacher ratings system used by the New York State Board of Regents.

Easton talks about the impact of the governor's proposed education budget, accountability in the education system, charter schools and much more.

Explaining that the school system had earlier eliminated guidance counselors, she talked about the recent hiring of 200 to help young people with both their personal challenges and their career plans.

«Ultimately we're talking about biological systems — we're not really interested in one cell, we're interested in how analyzing many single cells can help us better understand an [entire] system,» says Adam Abate, associate professor of bioengineering in the University of California, San Francisco School of Pharmacy.

In Finland, world renowned for its successful public school system, I talked to leading school improvement consultant and teacher, Mikko Salonen (of ENIRDELM, the European education network) about his work to help struggling schools turnaround and become more successful.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, was at AEI on Tuesday, October 3 to talk with Rick Hess about her battles to reform America's education system, the topic of her new book.

In our recent report, «Schools and Software,» small - and medium - size school systems talked openly about their desperate need for a data warehouse solution to act as middleware that simplified their management of the explosion in educational software.

In this episode of the podcast, she talks with Marty West about what she learned about the Chinese education system, which is also the topic of her new book, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, A Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve.

Included: Tompkins talks about the challenges facing rural school systems.

In a one - on - one interview last week, Bill Gates, the chairman and CEO of the Microsoft Corp., talked with Staff Writer Andrew Trotter about the «Schools Interoperability Framework,» a plan by Microsoft and 18 other software companies to create technical standards that would help schools develop a «digital nervous system.Schools Interoperability Framework,» a plan by Microsoft and 18 other software companies to create technical standards that would help schools develop a «digital nervous system.schools develop a «digital nervous system.»

Meanwhile, defenders of the current system view all this talk about the achievement gap with suspicion — asserting, as they do, that schooling is hopelessly intertwined with conditions in the family and community, and thus that we can't expect results to improve much until we alleviate poverty and racism.

Amidst the summer lull, I've spent a bunch of time over the last month or two talking about «cage - busting» to school and system leaders in a bunch of districts, state gatherings, and university programs.

Podcast: Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C.

Parents remark that they appreciate the emphasis Moore puts on saving, and note that the system encourages students to talk more with parents about their behavior in school.

Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, was at at AEI on October 3, 2017 to talk with Rick Hess about her battles to reform America's education system, the topic of her new book.

Taylor shared his own journey to headship, and to becoming an expert adviser on behaviour for the government before going on to talk about a school - led system.

Cevin Soling, director and producer of The War on Kids, talked with Education World about his motivation for making the film and how he came to his perception of the public school system.

I started things off by talking with Mel Ainscow (Professor of Education at the UK's University of Manchester) about his new book, Towards Self - improving School Systems: Lessons from a City Challenge, which documents how ten years of research and work was used to shape a highly acclaimed city - wide improvement initiative involving over 1,100 schools.

Our webinar guests will talk about those efforts, describe common challenges that districts face in discussing the common core with parents, and explain how school systems can address parents» fears and misgivings about the standards.

Fryer talks about how his military training helps in running a school system.

In an interview, the schools chief talked about where he differs from Mayor de Blasio, his commitment to desegregation and his vision for the system.

Then, with straight talk and pithy examples, he shows how school, system, and state leaders can take the kinds of creative action essential to bringing about fierce change.

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

Jason Kamras, deputy to D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee in charge of human capital, talks with Education Next about the new teacher evaluation system put in place in D.C. Beginning this year, teachers in D.C. will be evaluated based on student test scores (when available) and classroom observations (by principals and master educators), and poorly performing teachers may be fired, regardless of tenure.

We are talking about merit pay and performance pay in school systems that recognize neither merit nor performance.

After surfacing all of these problems, the group then talked about what cities and school systems can do to address them.

As I put it in Letters, «When I talk to the leaders of schools or systems heralded for their success with technology, it's striking how consistently they brush past the tech in order to talk about learning, people, problem - solving, and redesign.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

D.C. public schools chancellor Kaya Henderson talked about signs of progress in her third annual State of the Schools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses systeschools chancellor Kaya Henderson talked about signs of progress in her third annual State of the Schools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses systeSchools event Wednesday night, including a recently released uptick in graduation rates, new investments in electives and college - level classes in the city's high schools, and more engaging courses systeschools, and more engaging courses system wide.

And again, we're talking about a whole range of school districts: rural, small town - yes, large city school systems that may have more resources.

When you talk about young people, who have been a part of an under performing public school system, dramatic changes to that system do not produce dramatic academic results instantaneously, not even over the course of 1 - 2 years.

But, before schools attempt to talk to students about systemic racism and oppressive systems, they must first address racist thoughts and practices that exist within the staff and that live in school practices.

«But now we are talking about kids who have come through the system who, quite frankly, have never had the benefit of the support systems schools have historically had in place,» she said.

«Excel was one of the first schools in the charter movement to really talk about systems, about the need for schools to run like a finely - tuned machine in order to create an optimal environment for learning.»

Part 1: New NYC schools chancellor discusses his priorities, the segregated school system Part 3: New NYC schools chancellor talks about school discipline, San Francisco lawsuit

Outside school, she is the co-chairperson of Border Crossers, an 11 - year - old organization troubled by New York's segregated system that instructs elementary - school teachers how to talk about race in the classrooms.

While they are happy to talk about school autonomy, the reality is that the MAT system allows this to disappear.

It's frustrating to listen to Chancellor Carmen Farina talk about the state of New York City public schools, because the school system she talks about in press conferences is so far removed from the reality that so many kids face every day.

He wanted to talk about political influence and big - money funders through the lens of two reform - oriented school systems — New Orleans (suggesting that teacher layoffs could be blamed on TFA and not Hurricane Katrina) and Chicago (pointing to school closings and mayoral control, as if either of those two policies had anything to do with TFA).