Sentences with phrase «toward classroom initiatives»

The money that would have been spent on medical bills, substitute teachers, workers» comp and other insurance premiums can go toward classroom initiatives.

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As a consequence of this initiative, not only do students» sentiments toward education improve — because classroom teachers begin paying more attention to affect — but the new superintendent is lauded as the architect of a low - cost but clearly beneficial intervention.

Now, he's bringing his entrepreneurial spirit and energy «inside» the nation's largest school system as the executive director of Innovate NYC Schools, a district initiative to discover and expand educational technologies with high potential for transforming classrooms toward more personalized, student - centered models.

How It Works: Since 1992, the company's Grand Circle Foundation has pledged $ 97 million toward education and preservation initiatives in more than 30 countries around the world, from a farming project in Costa Rica to classroom building in Zimbabwe.

Although the Pathways Project has many goals, one important objective (see others below) is to better understand how child, family, peer and school characteristics affect the attitudes children develop toward school and the level of participation children pursue in the classroom (e.g. engagement in academic and social tasks in the classroom; initiative toward schoolwork).