Sentences with phrase «very challenging school»

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.

You shouldn't make that offer only to new teachers simply to entice them to teach at a very challenging school, because that — especially if I were one of the teachers who had been working in that challenging school already — would be a slap in the face.

I'm not sure how many teachers would buy into the whole «go to the students» idea, but having more time to plan, grade, assess, and collaborate sounds like an idea we could all get behind — an idea that could really support teachers who are working in very challenging schools.

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«I took it very, very seriously and quickly realized that this was even tougher than any of the other challenges in the public domain because it was my hometown, and it was my school,» says Alexander.

Very real challenges exist when it comes to the school - to - labour market transition and the generation of workers entering the labour market are being irreversibly scarred by poor economic conditions.

This tactic was taught in my High school class by a very old Doctor who challenged his classes to take him to court.

Yesterday marked the last session of a very challenging anger coping group at one of my schools.

And one of your roles is to challenge him and encourage him to do his very best in school.

Support from other home schoolers can help us with this on - going learning, and when you have a more challenging day (which happens once in a while), it is also very useful to know other home schooling parents, who can help you with ideas and give you encouragement.

As you say you are very familiar with all of the challenges to running the school meal program in SF, I wonder if you have a solution to propose to one of the largest barriers to improving the food — that is, the enormous bite that labor costs takes out of the nutrition budget.

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

Many schools work in very challenging circumstances, in some of the most deprived areas in the country, a factor that needs to be taken into account in evaluating schools» performance.

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).

«If we can't instill confidence in the young families that live here, that have chosen to make a life here, that they can send their children to school and receive good instruction and be in a safe environment, if we can't do that, then we are going to face very significant challenges in our future,» Maxwell said.

The inner - city school in Coventry was very challenging but I survived, and really benefitted from spending the last term reflecting upon what had happened to me in the university setting.

There should be no presumption that teachers will conduct these searches and schools will need to make very clear to parents the circumstances in which searches will be conducted to avoid legal or other challenges.»

By 2014/15 the government will be spending # 2.5 bn on the premium, but I would personally like to see funding in the next parliament grow towards # 5bn per year, to cover more pupils and to ensure that schools have the resources to match the very tough challenges.

He challenged those who don't believe in government seeking social justice by pointing out that the very building they were in, Hawkstone Hall, had hosted launches of Wilberforce's anti-slavery drive, the ragged school movement of Shaftyesbury (pictured) and that the spire was donated by the family of Abraham Lincoln who had drawn his inspiration from the conservative moments that had started there.

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.

Yet, at the same time, graduate school can be very exciting, a period of personal growth and self - fulfillment, filled with new experiences and new challenges.

Sara Brownell, an assistant professor with the school and senior author of the study, said there is a national movement to create biology tests that are more cognitively challenging, as these types of tests can improve students» conceptual understanding of biology; however, doing so may harm the very students they are trying to help.

«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.

«A major challenge is the difficulty of accurately diagnosing ASD, which is very heterogeneous, at an early enough age to implement the most effective treatment,» said principal investigator Eric Courchesne, PhD, professor of neurosciences and director of the Autism Center of Excellence at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

Between the challenges of school, OT and other therapies and busy home lives, the yoga classroom may very well be the only place a child with a disability is really able to relax during the week.

I'm a very busy school counselor and remembering to drink my water all day is a huge challenge.

Portraying a character from age 25 to 45 was a significant challenge, Cumberbatch says — as was capturing the attitude and vocal mannerisms specific to Patrick's class: «I went to a very posh public school, second to Eton, yet I had only one friend from the landed gentry.

Although the game is not very challenging, the design is unabashedly old - school.

I'm finished with Crash 1 (got all but two of the speedrun trophies) and really enjoy the old school challenge, though it can be very frustrating at times.

It makes clear that schools face formidable challenges over which they have very limited, if any, control.

Particularly if you have, like many high school teachers, five classes, thirty kids in each class, and to really give a kid one - on - one feedback on their work is time - consuming and very challenging.

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.»

While school leadership in the 20th Century relied on printed paper and face - to - face learning in «private» classrooms, the 21st Century challenges leaders to perform in very different ways.

The lilac cards are very challenging on purpose, as there are children in our school, who need to be really challenged!

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.

They need to either give on - the - ground educators the authority and resources to make technology adoption and implementation decisions, or they need to work very closely with students, teachers, and school leaders to ensure that top - down efforts will effectively address educators» day - to - day challenges.

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.

We are all so proud of the children who have tried their very best with this challenge and we can't wait to get started with making some changes to our school reading areas!

Today, Bellwether released a new report on the promise of charter schooling in rural America — and the very real challenges facing it.

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»!

Being a high - performing school and becoming a high - performing school are very different challenges.»

She was excited, and exhausted, and very eager to meet the challenges of the new school year when she said of her new class of kindergartners, «I forget how young they are in September.»

The systematic evidence clearly shows that school officials dominate special education, parents rarely challenge school officials» decisions, schools win most of those challenges from parents, and parents very rarely get their children placed in private schools at public expense.

Furthermore, many parents chose charters because their children were failing in district schools, meaning that charters have very challenging kids to teach.

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.