Sentences with phrase «weeks of school building»

My fourth graders are spending some time these last few weeks of school building their to - read lists.

A high - energy romantic comedy that follows three My fourth graders are spending some time these last few weeks of school building their to - read lists.

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This course from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is a five - week lesson that shows you how to correctly build an operation that is both stable and scalable.

Last week, Zeif tweeted a screenshot of text messages he and his younger brother, Matthew, sent to each other while both boys were inside the school building during the shooting.

Offer productive paid work to help students build on the skills learned in school Has an office environment with four or more co-workers There must be a supervisor to provide the student with guidance, opportunities to meet their learning objectives, and conduct a performance evaluation (form to be provided) A guaranteed minimum of a 35 hour work / week Work terms to coincide with school semesters which starts in January, May, and September for a minimum of 13 weeks employment

That morphed into a dual use of the building — church on Sunday, school during the week (a la Little House on the Prairie:)-RRB- The state paid for the schools which were part of the church.

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

With moral indignation he disclosed that members contributed an average of only 25 cents each to the church each week and that they sent their children to church school in a building that violated seventeen fire code regulations.

My 6 year old came out of school last week incredibly happy and excited as they'd spent the afternoon building sweetie houses.

The fate of a northwest suburban Head Start program is in doubt this week because the building being used by the program is being taken over by Arlington Heights Elementary School District 25 to house students displaced by construction work.

Similarly, I once met a dynamic culinary arts teacher in my district, Kellie Karavias, who worked with the principal at her former school to completely integrate health and nutrition programs throughout the day, including the building of an in - school, instructional kitchen, «Five a Day Fridays» where children bought fresh fruit and vegetables from a cart each week, and an after - school program that offered counseling and exercise to obese children and their families.

A park district committee listened for more than an hour this week as members of the Plumwood Homeowners Association explained why they do n`t want the 10.5 - acre park, including lighted athletic fields, built at the southeast corner of Plum Grove Road and Thacker Street, near Conant High School.

The Chicago Park District next week will consider ending a deal that allowed the private Latin School to build a soccer field in Lincoln Park in return for having priority use of the park space, a district spokeswoman said Saturday.

The Village Board last week gave preliminary approval to a charge of $ 3,800 per house and $ 1,200 per apartment built within the school district «s boundaries.

Over the last couple of weeks, teachers and their supporters built the action and held meetings to make lunches for students who will miss school.

Members of the community have threatened to force open the school building if the D.C.E fails to make it available to them in two weeks.

In recent weeks, as Nixon began her upstart campaign, Cuomo has been talking about a budget proposal that would require school districts within cities with a population of more than 125,000 people — New York City, Buffalo, Syracuse, Yonkers and Rochester — to submit an annual plan detailing the allocation of local, state and federal funds by school building.

«In the next two weeks, we will embark on massive construction of primary school buildings across the 18 local governments.

School officials last week discussed plans for moving the Kingston City School District's administrative headquarters to the former Frank L. Meagher Elementary School, minus the option of using space in that building for a universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) program.

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.

Teams of health and building inspectors are visiting every pre-K C.B.O. in the next week before school starts, the official said.

Moskowitz, who has pledged to build out the Success network to 100 schools, is likely to continue on the warpath against de Blasio, accusing him of depriving poor and minority students of educational opportunities, as she will do at a march over the Brooklyn Bridge in a few weeks.

Ellicott Development is proceeding with its conversion of the former School 56 on West Delavan Avenue into a new apartment building, and plans to seek tax breaks from the Erie County Industrial Development Agency, after the Buffalo Planning Board gave its assent to the project this week.

Here's a letter Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. sent the president of Bronx Community College last week, asking her to reconsider plans to evict University Heights Secondary School from one of the college's buildings.

«It's important for school buildings in lower Manhattan to serve our students and our population,» Silver said at a meeting of his school overcrowding task force last week.

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.

Massey spoke at an independent Catholic school in Flatbush not run by the city — a week after having hip surgery, touring the building while wearing tapered maroon sweatpants, slip - on shoes, and with the help of a cane adorned with a silver - colored lion as the handle.

But Beloin - Saavedra, president of the city's school board, has been building a campaign organization all winter, and gathered enough petitions in the past two weeks to qualify for the primary.

The five pledges are: secure the recovery; raise family living standards; build a hi - tech economy; protect frontline investment in policing, schools, childcare and the NHS — with a new guarantee of cancer test results within a week; and strengthen fairness in communities through controlled immigration, guarantees of education, apprenticeships and jobs for young people and a crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today it was «premature» to comment on the framework deal Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the leaders of State Legislature this week on the city's rent laws, the 421a building tax credit and mayoral control of schools — a deal that left Mr. de Blasio all but empty handed.

Building on its work at the middle school level, Project 2061 has been funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to develop a six - week curriculum unit for high school biology students.

In research published this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Dr Zoe Leinhardt and colleagues from Bristol's School of Physics have completed computer simulations of the early stages of planet formation around the binary stars using a sophisticated model that calculates the effect of gravity and physical collisions on and between one million planetary building blocks.

Harvard Medical School, for example, offers life sciences graduate students a range of short - format skill - building courses, including the 2 - week Boot Camp in Quantitative Methods.

Once a week we would walk a couple blocks from the middle school to the K of C Hall located on the 3rd floor of a downtown building.

As an example of a district imitating successful charter - school practices, Denver Public Schools is, as Education Week has reported, «aiming to re-create within its own buildings the innovation seen in top charter schools, and keep the state funding.Schools is, as Education Week has reported, «aiming to re-create within its own buildings the innovation seen in top charter schools, and keep the state funding.schools, and keep the state funding.»

This Education Week special report examines how educators and policymakers are tackling critical issues facing principals already on the job and helping districts build a bench of strong school leaders.

I spent this first week of school on a myriad of community building exercises in my Constitutional Law / Government class ~ Journalism ~ and World...

Peter DeWitt, author of «Collaborative Leadership: 6 Influences That Matter Most» and Education Week opinion blogger, describes how school leaders can evaluate their impact by building collective efficacy among staff.

«HGSE students were really blown away by how quickly the New Orleans students took to us and built relationships with a group of strangers who they knew would only be there for one week,» said Orin Gutlerner, associate director of the Ed School's Undergraduate Teacher Education Program.

The Broward County sheriff's deputy assigned to Stoneman Douglas High School took position outside of a building during the mass shooting there last week, but he never entered to try to stop the gunman, Sheriff Scott Israel said.

In this half - hour discussion with attendees at Education Week's Leaders To Learn From event in Washington, Janice K. Jackson, discusses her work to support principals and build community trust as CEO of Chicago Public Schools.

Officials from the Education Commission of the States and the Coalition of Essential Schools last week announced plans for an unusual joint project that will link state - level education reforms with building - level restructuring efforts.

At least a week's worth of work geared to building students» confidence in asking and answering questions about school subjects.

Last week, I spent time organizing the volume of keys for the building (it is an old school that did not believe in master keys).

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

As part of the Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, Improving Quality in Education Systems: Building Quality Schools, participants spent two weeks tackling tough issues like how to build sustainable schools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality sSchools, participants spent two weeks tackling tough issues like how to build sustainable schools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality sschools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality schoolsschools.

«Building a school Web site was a completely new challenge for us, but success was immediate — beginning with our designation as Education World's Cool School of the Week,» Simeoneschool Web site was a completely new challenge for us, but success was immediate — beginning with our designation as Education World's Cool School of the Week,» SimeoneSchool of the Week,» Simeone said.

Walter H. Annenberg, who died last week at age 94, built a lucrative media empire, played host to presidents and princes, and established two respected schools of communications that bear his name.

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The charter school office distributes a 17 - page pre-opening checklist that gives a week - by - week accounting of all the paperwork required of a school: from organizational charts to budgets to teacher contracts to insurance coverage to zoning, land, and building permits, and safety documentation.