Sentences with phrase «very challenging for school»

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Homework can be very challenging, especially for high - energy kids who have a hard time sitting still at school, much less at home.

The Conrad Foundation's Spirit of Innovation Challenge (SOIC) presents high school students with a very broad challenge: create an innovative product that provides solution to a real - world problem such that someone can pay for it, by applying principles in science, technology, engineering and mathematicChallenge (SOIC) presents high school students with a very broad challenge: create an innovative product that provides solution to a real - world problem such that someone can pay for it, by applying principles in science, technology, engineering and mathematicchallenge: create an innovative product that provides solution to a real - world problem such that someone can pay for it, by applying principles in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Explaining the rationale for the implementation of policies such as Free Senior High School Education and the restoration of Teacher and Nursing Training allowances despite enormous fiscal challenges, Vice President Bawumia said any nation that seeks to achieve holistic development must necessarily invest in its human capital, «and the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, is very committed to the education of every young person in Ghana, because an educated population is a prerequisite for growth.»

Among the key reasons cited by the Assembly and the ECA for adopting a June primary date are that, in their view: an August primary would result in reduced turnout because many voters vacation during that month; identifying and training sufficient poll workers would be very difficult during a prime vacation period; schools, which are often used as poll sites, are frequently closed and unstaffed during the summer; and that, given the myriad tasks that must be completed to prepare and transmit ballots, as well as the inevitable delays caused by administrative challenges, machine malfunctions and counting of paper ballots, setting a June date would ensure better compliance with UOCAVA's 45 - day ballot transmission requirement.

We have begun to understand that bullying affects all levels of society; it is, in a very real sense, everybody's problem, Sandra Craig, manager of The National Centre Against Bullying, reports on bullying at the challenges for Australian schools.

He said, if this was happening, it could «make it very unattractive for some of our best people and the best leaders to go and teach in challenging schools.»

Love Kerry, especially for the work she has done to support the arts as a strategy to turn around one of our most challenging schools in DC, but the answer is very simple: Idris, Idris, and Idris!!

SFSU is a very student - responsive place but, like many under - funded state schools, it's short - staffed, and negotiating the bureaucracy can be a challenge for kids.

Rather than requiring all students to move lock - step with their age peers on the assumption that they are more or less equally ready for the same school curriculum, this approach would recognise that students are at very different stages in their mathematics learning and would be designed to challenge and extend every student.

«But if that is the only route for growth, you are going to end up with a very unbalanced trust which will predominantly be made up of schools that are a challenge.

At the heart of the raft of pledges, is to place the very best teachers in the most challenged schools and the commitment to ensure a good primary education for every child.

But to look at some of the possible solutions to these challenges, in terms of teaching and leading, in the report you say: «During my discussions with leaders of small schools, it became very apparent there is significant potential to free up more of a teaching principal's time for teaching and supporting learning by reducing their administration load.»

So imagine what each of us — teachers, students, and school leaders — could do as individuals, for the people we love, and the world we live in if we give our very best, if we practice smarter, embrace challenge, trust in our teachers, colleagues, mentors, and parents and replace «can't» with a deafening «yet»!

By Schools for Schools has a very clear underlying strategy for school improvement, which is that all of the challenges that arise in the system already have solutions that exist within the system somewhere.

It starts at just # 249 for primary schools though, so I've absolutely no doubt that this will very quickly prove its worth and help schools through some potentially challenging times.

This administrative issue can create very real logistical challenges for charter schools, parents, and students, such as difficulties with recruitment and children's academic stability.

Neil Carberry, CBI Director for People and Skills policy, said: «The drop in England's overall performance will be a concern to businesses as well as to thousands of school teachers across the country who are doing a very challenging job.

Indeed, it is very difficult, or uneconomic, to include them in mainstream schools where it is unlikely the facilities or training will cope with a child that has a particular mixture of these challenges; something they will not come across again for another 30 years perhaps.

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

While on the surface, schools suggest initiatives that promote an individual's freedom to critically think, reflect, challenge, and be challenged, though the reality is that there is very little room for true criticism or reflection in the classroom; the focus of education is not on challenging students, but rather on explicating absolute skills that can be translated in something that can be effectively numerated and explicitly bought.

«We're also involved in the Singapore International Mathematics Challenge, which is a very similar competition where we send a team over for about a week and they compete on a problem with schools all around the world.

He said: «All of those together clearly mean the context for schools over the coming few years is going to be a challenging one and we need to be planning now very actively in order to meet it.»

The current climate is certainly a very challenging one for schools with so much change happening at such a quick pace and with a financial climate that is putting the squeeze on every aspect of school life.

This can be very challenging, especially when you try to be sensitive to all parties involved — and finding time for all this within the school day is nearly impossible.

We don't know a lot about what kind of school will work for which kids under which circumstances — there are all these different kinds of community schools out there — so these research challenges are very important as well.

For instance, a pre-assessment that is identical to a post-assessment may be so challenging for students that most score very poorly and some become discouraged by their test performance early in the school yeFor instance, a pre-assessment that is identical to a post-assessment may be so challenging for students that most score very poorly and some become discouraged by their test performance early in the school yefor students that most score very poorly and some become discouraged by their test performance early in the school year.

This week: Very high chronic absenteeism at continuation high schools serving at - risk students, upcoming State Board approval of the plan for the Every Student Succeeds Act; a preview of California Road Trip, a new podcast about California schools taking on difficult academic challenges.

It is very easy indeed for schools to «achieve» green and blue boxes on the CA dashboard — just (1) stop suspending students (leave them in chaotic classrooms to challenge teachers and steal learning opportunities from classmates), and (2) graduate everyone regardless of achievement (since there is no longer an exit exam, college entry is being made easier and former bonehead non-credit classes are disappearing.)

The very best schools are constantly on the lookout for pupils who need further support, whether for remedial work or for extra challenge.

And while Florida's current A-F school grading system tries to adjust for the fact that schools in high poverty areas face challenges that make it very hard for their students to perform well on standardized tests, it's not enough, says Alan Ehrenhalt for Governing Magazine.

Our practice With the ARCS Framework for Sustainable School Improvement at the heart of its work, Communities for Learning invests in research that inspires schools to set challenging goals as they aspire to be the very best that they can be; enables them to ask difficult questions as they probe self - identified strengths, issues and needs; supports them with experiences and tools that develop both individual and organizational expertise; empowers them to innovate and take the actions necessary to achieve their vision.

In an extension to the original methodologies used to create highly successful programs for school leaders, NEELI programs also combine the very best leadership pedagogy from the corporate sector with an informed understanding of the challenges faced by today's educational leaders.

Teaching is a very challenging profession and the last thing we want in our schools is for teachers to fall through the cracks when support, learning and encouragement is needed.

Our organization has identified the primary challenge to Texas public education by 2020 to produce 80 % postsecondary ready high school graduates without the need for remediation — a very tall order.

One of the very realistic challenges to engaging students in school improvement is identifying their motivation for participating.

Contracts, precedents, school board policy, and state law place far too many restrictions on schools for them to be very creative, and teachers can get in a good deal of trouble if we challenge the wrong authority.

In 1980, when I became a head of department, I was paid a Social Priority Allowance to work in a very challenging school in an inner city context, where some streets in our catchment area had had 100 % male unemployment for two generations.

What fallows is Ms. Robison's courageous and deeply insightful declaration, issued to the Seattle Public Schools and the politicians who legislate education — with a challenge for them to take the very exams they are pushing on our sSchools and the politicians who legislate education — with a challenge for them to take the very exams they are pushing on our schoolsschools!

«The Flippen Group's easy to follow step - by - step approach to Capturing Kids» Hearts has enabled my staff to effectively create positive choices for challenging and disruptive students, and has made a positive impact on our school's overall climate that is measured not only in the progress seen on our school's New York City Progress Reports, but also in the very feeling of our building when you enter it.

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

Managing transportation can be very challenging for new Charter Schools.

It is perhaps no surprise that schools are finding it challenging to find the very best professional development opportunities for their staff.

As she told her radio audience; The Priority Schools Campaign is «an opportunity for school districts to access resources that the NEA has to help with special needs schools — schools that have high numbers of very challenging students or situSchools Campaign is «an opportunity for school districts to access resources that the NEA has to help with special needs schools — schools that have high numbers of very challenging students or situschools — schools that have high numbers of very challenging students or situschools that have high numbers of very challenging students or situations.

A very emotional four days in Denver - area schools showed opportunities and challenges ahead for priority schools.

By Paula Monroe, NEA Executive Committee A very emotional four days in Denver - area schools showed opportunities and challenges ahead for priority schools.

with me during Induction so that I could have been prepared for the challenges of teaching at a very tough middle school.

Transitioning from elementary to middle school and from middle to high school are very challenging times for students.

The 4 Dimensions of Instructional Leadership ™ framework equips school districts and school leaders for this very first challenge.

One of the biggest challenges for people who are writing books and who didn't go to writing or journalism school are words that sound alike, but have very different meaning.

The topics of discussion — for it really was almost all discussion and very little one - way lecturing — ranged from how early career lawyers feel about the profession (and how we are in some ways letting them down) to the future of articling (a particularly hot topic in Ontario, as we all know) to how we might infuse a culture of entrepreneurship in how lawyers are trained (including some of the interesting experiments that are taking place at Ryerson) to the more fundamental challenges of incorporating experiential learning into the law school curriculum.