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For international students, getting an MBA from a Chinese business school provides unique opportunities — entry into a 1.3 billion - person economy, for example — and poses considerable challenges — such as trying to say «forecasting the aggregate directly» in Mandarin.

Yet I don't think that failure has been due to a lack of commitment on the part of my district; rather, as explained to those of us on the Nutrition Services Parent Advisory Committee, a district as large as ours (300 schools) faces unique challenges in relying on local sources to supply produce for its 200,000 meals served daily.

Disciplining children of grade school age has its unique challenges and rewards.

Our national advisors not only create and maintain the tools available in our program, but are themselves resources for you to call upon to get personal direction when getting started or trying to overcome a unique challenge on the way to school health.

Among the first few challenges that parents of differently - abled kids face is that of finding a school that is accommodating and accepting of your child's unique needs.

This new professional development course offers teachers, administrators, board members and parents an opportunity to reflect on and work with the challenges of building a Waldorf School Community that is vibrant, innovative and effective, while honoring the unique contributions of each member of the community.

Understand the broad challenges in school food labor and the unique human resource challenges in scratch - cook school food programs.

Going back to school as an adult certainly presents unique challenges, like finding money to pay for school and time to dedicate to schoolwork.

Reacting to the bill's passage, East Ramapo school board president Yehuda Weissmandl said the Assembly's «spirited and lengthy debate» served well to educate members on the complex challenges faced by the unique community.

In a statement congratulating Rosa on her appointment, New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said that Rosa understood the unique challenges students face.

Also, learn how seniors and teens facing many challenges are developing a unique bond through old - school letter writing.

They conclude: «Schools should acknowledge that sex is a special subject with unique challenges, as well as the fact and range of young people's sexual activity, otherwise [they] will continue to disengage from SRE, and opportunities for safeguarding and improving their sexual health will be reduced.»

«As Dean, my goal is to build on the Watson School's unique record of keeping pace with the evolving challenges that this modern era of biology presents.»

Due to the unique challenges that exist within the High School weightroom Olympic lifting is frequently not the best option for athletic development.

In the more substantial «Life After Film School: Rob Letterman» (21:52), three film students ask practical questions and get candid answers from the director about his Sundance and DreamWorks Animation experiences, his plans for Stretch Armstrong, and, most of all, Gulliver's Travels and its unique challenges.

More research is needed to evaluate and overcome the unique challenges that pervasive digital media presents to elementary school students, says a report published by the New York City - based Joan Ganz Cooney Center, a research organization dedicated to studying technology in education.

In addition, the compact created joint initiatives to better align the student enrollment process, deepen the pipeline of well - prepared school leaders, and address the unique challenges of African American and Latino boys.

«My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement,» said Kamras referring to a challenge to segregation at Sousa that culminated in Bolling v. Sharpe, the 1954 Supreme Court case that paved the way for the desegregation of all DC public schools.

These shifting demographics pose unique challenges for rural and suburban schools, many of which are unaccustomed to educating English learners and recent immigrants — or indeed to living in diverse communities.

This discrepancy as well as other issues unique to rural schools, were addressed at the April 21 Askwith Forum, Rural Education: Regional Challenges, Promising Solutions.

The challenge of analysing and researching unique, tightly integrated, rapidly evolving school ecologies experiencing natural organisational growth is likely to be immense, and will require fundamental rethinking and different methodologies.

«There are unique challenges to homeschooling, just like there are to public school,» she says.

This generation of students presents a unique challenge to educators: How can schools continue to engage and teach children who have access to so much knowledge at their fingertips?

Schools face unique challenges in their effort to provide a first class education to students and communities in remote regions of rural America.

What's more, school buildings should relate to their surrounding community, each offering its unique set of challenges and opportunities.

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First, incorporating best pedagogical practices from the U.S. military into a public school curriculum is a unique avenue for reaching students who may never participate in ChalleNGe, JROTC, or similar programs.

The professional development programs bring approximately 3,000 educators to the School each year, providing a unique opportunity for HGSE faculty and education professionals to work together on key challenges in teaching and learning.

Despite the challenges faced in most areas of the country, some charter schools offer high - quality pre-K programs that adapt the best assets of their distinctive models and cultures to meet the unique needs of young children and prepare them well for kindergarten.

This program includes a unique opportunity to study with experienced colleagues from across the United States and around the world, building lasting connections with other veteran school leaders who share similar challenges and support each other during and beyond the program experience.

Especially for charter high schools, with students entering three, four, or five years behind, this presents a unique challenge.

«We are taking action and providing new funding to help small and rural schools deal with the unique challenges they face, such as small pupil numbers and issues in recruiting head teachers and staff.

This goal drives every aspect of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a district - based program for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of preparation.

Refreshing devices in a school is not without its challenges, which is why we are methodical in our approach, and all service deliverables can be customised to your school's unique requirements.

Each school offers a unique set of challenges and opportunities, and a good design team can help deliver the best outcomes and value if the rules allow it.

School districts, which until the advent of charter schools enjoyed an exclusive franchise, pose a unique challenge to private sector innovators: the change - averse district is both client and competitor.

And that is exactly what Colbert and her colleagues did in the 1970s when they recognized that rural schools in the country were faltering due to a lack of understanding around the unique challenges that their students faced.

Rural schools are tackling unique challenges to provide a quality education to their students.

Adam Mason, ceda's director general commented: «Like every other sector of the industry, school kitchens provide their own individual and unique challenges.

However, virtual schools — full - time schools that provide most, if not all, instruction online — raise unique challenges and opportunities for accountability.

This 2014 white paper jointly produced by AASA: the School Superintendents Association and BBA as a companion to the documentary Rich Hill illustrates the unique challenges many rural schools face in meeting their students» needs.

Each city in the consortium is unique: Oakland is BAM's largest city, is the only city located west of the Mississippi River, and has faced several external challenges during early phases of the initiative, including a transition in school district leadership and a public school budget crisis.

Our programs and services are flexible, allowing your school or district to build on success while addressing your unique needs in order to ensure all students meet the challenge of high standards.

A unique feature of our work is our practice base — we understand the joys and challenges of implementing the community schools strategy because we actually operate community schools in New York City, in partnership with our Department of Education.

Every school has its own unique challenges and as such there is no perfect blueprint for refining school culture.

a # 110,000 lump sum for every school to help with fixed costs, and an additional # 26million to rural and isolated schools to help them manage their unique challenges

Catholic school reform must be different from the education reform we have seen elsewhere, because the strengths of our schools are different, and our challenges are unique.

In addition, we've been able to share the cost of professional development and coaching support across six schools, while still being able to nimbly respond to the unique needs of a small community of schools that share similar challenges.

Although every school system has its own set of unique challenges, several challenges are universal and, therefore, would be good candidates for competitive programs: developing new models of teacher preparation; developing new forms of in - service training for teachers which actually improve student outcomes; spreading effective charter school practices; and closing the achievement gap.

A broad range of students from different grade levels will offer a unique insight into the challenges and disconnects between middle school, high school, and college.