Sentences with phrase «traditional school design»

Hayes compares traditional school design — both the physical spaces and systems — to an egg crate.

We've noted that many of those jobs — such as «make me feel successful» and «let me have fun with friends» — figure only marginally into traditional school design.

Not exact matches

By and large theological schools are still bogged down in traditional academic concerns designed more to produce scholars than strategists.

Join award winning singer, songwriter and Wiggleworms teacher at the Old Town School of Folk Music, Little Miss Ann for her joyful mix of traditional kids tunes and thoughtful original musical fun and activities designed to get every child moving and singing and learning too.

Therapeutic boarding schools and residential treatment centers are specifically designed to help troubled teens get their lives back on track when they can no longer be in traditional school or home setting.

For example, she started a multiyear project redesigning traditional ballet pointe shoes while she was still in high school; the project yielded her first publication, in the peer - reviewed journal Ergonomics in Design, in 2008.

This is an intensive course based on traditional hatha yoga designed for teachers who have already completed 200 hour yoga teacher training from a yoga school registered with Yoga Alliance.

My mission is to help you simply, quickly, and easily bless your family with good health, vibrancy and energy by using the GNOWFGLINS techniques taught in my online Traditional Cooking School, so that you can embrace every good thing that God has designed for you and your family.

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.

Middle school students engaged in Learning by Design (LBD) consistently outperformed students engaged in traditional instruction on tests of collaboration and metacognitive skills, such as checking work, designing fair tests, and explaining evidence.

Unlike traditional video platforms, Arc was designed for students and instructors in school, further education and higher education.

School curricula tend to be designed for delivery in traditional classroom settings, at a time when new technologies are transforming how courses are delivered and learning takes place.

The design and implementation of the new library at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School epitomizes this concept as they transformed their traditional space with its cubicles and stacks (which essentially thwarted collaboration) into one that fostered learning and communication.

Districts increasingly are turning away from traditional approaches to school Web - site design, as well as from commercial content management systems.

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

In our visits to PL schools, we're seeing a move away from traditional lecture - based formats in favor of lively classrooms where students tackle self - designed projects.

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology studied 240 middle school students who learned science in groups of four via Learning by Design (LBD) or traditional methods with matched teachers.

Free from traditional constraints, teachers at XP School are able to design creative projects that integrate different subjects, skills and competencies such as problem ‑ solving, critical thinking and collaboration.

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.

But in stark contrast with traditional education schools» incentives, the architects of the MET program designed their program to have financial incentives that align with the ultimate goal of producing good teachers.

Like the multi-tool, traditional public schools are designed to serve the widest variety of needs.

Although the model was originally designed for older - than - traditional - age college and graduate students, Fann believes «there's nothing stopping» the principles of competency - based education and assessment from working in primary and secondary schools.

To serve the school's 700 students in grades 7 - 12, its overall design combines a modern learning environment with the aesthetic of a traditional Pueblo village.

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.

With charter schools becoming more popular, federal officials must decide how to treat them under federal programs that were designed for traditional school districts, the General Accounting Office recommends in a new report.

We purposely chose schools that were very different (big / small, urban / rural, traditional / progressive, district / charter) so we could be certain we were designing a solution that worked for everyone.

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.

«In very traditional schools, hallways often look exactly the same,» says Stephen, of New Vista Designs for Learning.

Schools report into local municipalities, who supplement resources; the traditional culture, including a deep Lutheran cultural imprint, underlines a pragmatic and prudent design disposition; universities assure a reliable professional base, imprinting research centrally within teacher development; and the business community voice assures vocational linkages, with the national government setting a generalized core curricular frame, the main plaza in which each sector interacts.

In a shift from traditional classrooms and teaching models, Leonard says South Melbourne Primary School is designed around «learning communities» of around 150 students that facilitate both age - based and stage - based learning groups.

If a school wants to develop genuine values in anything, it will have to challenge all the traditional school structures that were designed to only recognise the importance of information and not values.

Formerly known as PTA Comunitario, the Education CAFÉ approach is still designed to transform the traditional model of parent school organizations into a more effective vehicle for parents who have previously been excluded or underserved to participate and influence their schools.

This design extends reflection on reform - based practices into teachers» first school placements, as science teachers tend to revert back to traditional practices as they experience the reality of the classroom (Simmons et al., 1999).

In Denver, the New America School, a high school designed for recent immigrants whose work and family schedules prohibit them from attending a traditional high school, will open SeSchool, a high school designed for recent immigrants whose work and family schedules prohibit them from attending a traditional high school, will open Seschool designed for recent immigrants whose work and family schedules prohibit them from attending a traditional high school, will open Seschool, will open Sept. 7.

Formerly known as PTA Comunitario, the Education CAFÉ approach is still designed to transform the traditional model of parent school organizations into a more effective vehicle...

Knowledge is Power: A Guide to the Educational Rights of New York City Students This brochure, designed especially for high - school - aged youth in foster care, explains students» basic rights in school and describes alternative options for students who are struggling in traditional high schools.

Cohort One — 2014 - 2015: LEAP launched pilots with six edtech literacy products in 15 traditional, charter and parochial schools, K - 8 Cohort Two — 2015 - 2016: More than 50 products applied to pilot in the 2015 - 2016 school year and LEAP launched pilots with eight edtech literacy and math products in 14 traditional, charter and parochial schools, K - 8 Cohort Three - 2016 - 2017: 7 math and literacy edtech products were piloted in 20 Chicago traditional, charter, and Archdiocese schools, K - 8 Cohort Four — 2017 - 2018: 32 Chicago traditional, charter, Archdiocese and suburban schools k - 12 are beginning their year long pilots of 12 math, literacy, and «Learner Demonstrated» edtech products Cohort Five - 2018 - 2019: 44 Chicago traditional, charter, Archdiocese and suburban schools K - 12 are designing their personalized learning models this Spring and undergoing a matching process with math and literacy edtech products

Today marks the beginning of National School Choice Week (NSCW), a week designed to raise public awareness about all types of effective education options for children, including traditional and charter public schools, magnet, private, online and homeschools.

Transform the traditional role of the central office from a top - down management system to a system designed to provide meaningful support to schools and effective accountability for school performance.

We have to vacate the notion that the opening of these schools is really a political agenda designed to eradicate traditional public education and focus on what's working for our kids — regardless of the category the school falls under.

The essential problem with the UTLA study is that it is designed to bolster a false argument — that charter schools are siphoning money from traditional public schools.

Charter schools differ from traditional public schools in that they have more say in the hiring and firing of teachers, and charter school teachers and parents have more freedom to design innovative curriculum and teaching strategies.

The authors recommend that the state allow schools to use «well - designed» portfolios, comprised of work from each of five different subject areas to include research essays, art work and other sophisticated projects that can't be captured on a test in place of traditional exit exams.

Throughout this period, many schools were still designed with traditional self - contained classrooms.

ABOUT THE PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMIES SCHOOL MODEL Model: «Blended learning» model that incorporates traditional classroom instruction with online learning and other techniques designed to meet individual student needs.

Charter schools have some unique traits that distinguish them from traditional public schools and are designed to increase students» chance of success:

The project will have two main components: (1) The implementation of a model, named «The Link Crew High School Orientation and Transition Model,» designed to create a shared experience for freshmen, upperclassmen, and staff, where a group of upperclassmen will serve as mentors and tour guides to help the freshmen understand how to be successful at the high school level; and (2) an overhaul of the In - School Suspension program (ISS) to transform ISS from a traditional punitive intervention to a non-punitive, strengths - based, educational setting based on Ross Greene's «Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS).&School Orientation and Transition Model,» designed to create a shared experience for freshmen, upperclassmen, and staff, where a group of upperclassmen will serve as mentors and tour guides to help the freshmen understand how to be successful at the high school level; and (2) an overhaul of the In - School Suspension program (ISS) to transform ISS from a traditional punitive intervention to a non-punitive, strengths - based, educational setting based on Ross Greene's «Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS).&school level; and (2) an overhaul of the In - School Suspension program (ISS) to transform ISS from a traditional punitive intervention to a non-punitive, strengths - based, educational setting based on Ross Greene's «Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS).&School Suspension program (ISS) to transform ISS from a traditional punitive intervention to a non-punitive, strengths - based, educational setting based on Ross Greene's «Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS).»

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Judy Helms, Steven Turckes, and Ken Hinton («A Habitat for 21st Century Teaching and Learning,» p. 66) note that the traditional design of most school buildings, and the kinds of «siloed» interaction that school designs perpetuate, differs markedly from the open layout, abundance of learning resources, and collaborative style of work most people will confront in the post-school world.