Sentences with phrase «traditional build schools»

The Department for Education has been promoting standardised designs for traditional build schools and it is very likely that this will soon be a feature of future engagement with the modular / off - site construction industry as they react to the demands of the market.

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Kellogg is building on its traditional strength as the top school in marketing by trying to define that asset more broadly.
Players build their personal statements using locations such as «foodbank», «local estate», «school», or «home»; different groups of people such as «homeless people», «my mates» «work colleagues» or «prisoners» and varying actions such as «visiting», «helping» or «baking», as well as more traditional interpretations of mission such as «preaching», «going» and «church».
The four - story, 77 - year - old brick building, previously a traditional high school, was vacant when flooded by Katrina and had slouched into a rotting, mold - choked shelter for displaced residents.
This covers such representations made on product packaging, school controlled - traditional and digital media, and on any property or facility owned or leased by the school district or school (such as school buildings, athletic fields, transportation vehicles, parking lots, or other facilities).
Other key Assembly Democrats said they will not lift the cap on charter schools without stricter conditions on operations of the publicly funded, privately managed schools — including restricting their ability to share building space with traditional public schools, preventing charters from «saturating» neighborhoods, and banning for - profit firms from running charters — parroting the objections of the teachers unions.
City Comptroller John Liu vowed to put a moratorium on school closures and also promised to end the policy of co-locating charter and traditional public schools in the same buildings, which he said has been disruptive at many schools.
Sources said lawmakers were looking at a proposal to help reduce the tensions that exist when a charter school moves into a building already housing a traditional public school.
Viverito last week signed on to a lawsuit to block dozens of charter schools from sharing building space with traditional public schools — including Dream Charter School on her own turf.
«Based on this cooperative effort, I think we will arrive at a good solution for the students in Success Academy as well as the children in traditional public school buildings.
«Indeed, these changes appear to be part of a sustained pattern to privilege Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools with space and resources at the expense of the traditional public schools with which they share buildings,» de Blasio wrote.
Encouraging the social - emotional development of students while teaching traditional academic subjects builds a positive school climate focused on fairness and caring about others — and helps to foster healthy, confident adults.
The fight has escalated in recent weeks, with Cuomo claiming the mantle of charter - school advocate to position himself against de Blasio, who halted plans to allow three of eight charter schools run by former councilwoman Eva Moskowitz to move into traditional public school buildings and share space with other students.
Some advocates said there is no room to allow for a big jump in charter schools seeking space in traditional public school buildings, and argued against Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call to expand charters.
High - school students build their understanding of lunar science - and lunar science careers - and translate the information for the public using traditional and new media.
Their entire brand is built on an anti-bodybuilding sentiment, a philosophy of anti-competitiveness and «no gymtimidation» and the chain is aggressively marketed as a friendlier alternative to traditional gyms, the antithesis of both the old - school hardcore gym and the boutique fitness model: a judgement - free zone away from those sweaty, steroid - addicted meatheads obsessed with lifting heavy stuff off the floor or gorgeous women with perfect bodies who'll fat shame you to death.
Ben: I don't know, and I suspect that maybe it is partially tied to the old school body building Jack Lalane, weight training, the old school kind of approach of «eat your beef, eat your meat, eat your hamburgers,» that kind of stuff, just because that is kind of like the traditional muscle gain diet; but yes, fish are really, really healthy.
Both Sunesis and Connect offer a range of educational buildings including whole schools, classroom extensions and halls that combine traditional construction methods applied to a standardised design, resulting in fixed costs and timescales.
The school was also built in 32 weeks, and traditional design and build costs were reduced by 30 per cent.
These are specialized programs sharing the same building as a traditional school.
Additionally, on the topic of rising pupil numbers, modular buildings hold the easy possibility of extension and the capability to be easily moved, far more suitable to a changing school site than a traditional construction.
Many post-war built schools generally have a number of flat roof areas, as opposed to traditional pitched roofs, and these can be prone to problems if not maintained correctly.
Did stimulus pay for things beyond the traditional school building?
Traditional districts retain an «iron grip» on ownership and deployment of school buildings.
Of equal importance, these online applications can free up time for adults in the classroom or school building to play roles beyond those of traditional direct instruction — as a tutor, mentor, coach, etc. — to drive students» learning.
Districts» and schools» organizational structures and long standing policies built around traditional seat - time metrics may be inhibiting their ability to move toward competency - based models.
Traditional buildings make up a quarter of the UK's existing building stock and school buildings account for more than 5,000 of these in England alone.
Legislation Since buildings are rarely exactly alike, legislation for the refurbishment of traditional and heritage buildings, including schools, can be as intricate as the character of the building in question.
Perfectly combining traditional craftsmanship with the latest technology, Scotts» approach is to tailor each building to every individual customer, whether that is a school, college, nursery or any other educational facility.
Accustomed to dealing with hundreds of kids in a traditional high school setting, Boston - area refugee Brennan admits she was nervous in 2005 when she began instructing at Build SF.
«The other buildings at the school are very traditional in their appearance; we wanted to be sensitive to these existing structures but also make sure the new sixth form centre stood out from the crowd.
«As a school, we're quite traditional and our buildings reflect this so for this project, we wanted something a bit different that stood out and put us on the map.
But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.
They can take down the walls in a traditional school structure built for traditional rows and desks.
Suffice to say that traditional security threats to schools typically encompass a range of crime types; for example, burglary, theft, robbery, assaults, and vandalism, and that schools need to build in counter measures for these offences alongside strategies to handle health and safety (e.g. fire procedures, criminal records checking), and tackle ongoing issues such as bullying.
Research conducted in New York City's traditional schools indicates that balanced literacy doesn't build the knowledge and vocabulary that children — especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds — need to move beyond basic literacy, but Success adds tons of content to it.
Particularly with online learning giving way to a suite of flexible learning experiences, schools may indeed move beyond their traditional role as sole academic provider, offering a breadth of non-academic resources such as mentoring, health services, and community - building activities — all of which can support healthy development and serve as powerful antidotes to chronic achievement gaps.
For the most common business use cases, even just the three built - in user types can go a long way - each representing a intuitive and recognizable role that's quite familiar from the traditional education environments; «Administrators» corresponding to a school's administrative offices, «Instructors» being the teachers, and «Students» being the learners.
The sad truth is that there is very little about the traditional structure of school that encourages people to build communities that love, serve, and create.
In addition to those former office quarters, we could also let the charters use classrooms in buildings occupied by traditional schools.
This dual mission is evident in the school's modern curriculum and facilities and in a master plan for its 114 acres designed to promote gentle use of the site at the same time it pays homage to traditional Pueblo building techniques.
Choice Media TV looks into why the NAACP joined a lawsuit to evict charter schools from buildings they share with traditional district schools in New York.
It becomes immediately apparent that these competencies and habits of mind and work can not be adequately built using only traditional teaching methods — even if your school is strong by traditional measures.
Here's my attempt at the first of those five strategies: «Build a new system via charter schools, education savings accounts, or similar mechanisms» as an alternative to today's traditional, ossified one.
In states like Colorado, where charters are perceived as public schools serving local students, advocates may find they can build bipartisan support, especially in light of traditional conservative support for charter schools and the sector's continued focus on serving disadvantaged, urban students, which appeals to liberals.
In a new article for Education Next, James Spillane of Northwestern University and Matthew Shirrell of George Washington University report that even within the limitations of traditional school building design, thoughtful classroom assignments can promote beneficial teacher interactions.
The aim wasn't to deliver full courses online, rather to complement the traditional school structure and classroom teaching built on face - to - face relationships.
Not only can modular buildings be up to 70 % quicker to construct than traditional building methods, but they can be reused and repurposed, allowing schools to adapt learning spaces to meet unique requirements.
Fundamentally the key issue that faces every new - build school is space, as they are now typically built by area to control cost; this method has an immediate impact on the catering facilities, particularly in those schools moving from much larger, traditional buildings.
For instance, post-war built schools generally have a number of flat roof areas as opposed to traditional pitched roofs.
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