Sentences with phrase «what priorities their school»

over a third (34 %) have not been made aware what priorities their school has focused on to support Pupil Premium pupils;

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In many ways, the school chaplain or the religion teacher is doing much of what the church should be doing with young people — namely, taking them seriously, reflecting with them on their moral priorities, sometime challenging their values, offering them a greater perspective in which to deal with their pain, their hopes, their questioning.

Throughout OSPI there is the concept that, although our School Child Nutrition Programs are not for profit but to feed students, we should be cutting costs as a priority over what is sometimes recognized as good nutrition — a subject where many entrenched and trendy ideas prevail and are promoted by giant food manufacturers.

But it is interesting to ask: what would our children's school day look like if healthy eating was a priority?

I like Karen's question about what a school day might look like if healthful eating was a priority.

However, Mr Darling told the BBC's Andrew Marr show that he judged people «not on what school they went to but on the choices they make and the priorities they face».

Nixon has criticized Cuomo for what she said is allowing Republicans, bolstered by the Independent Democratic Conference, to remain in power, leading to a block on liberal priorities like early voting and more money for high - needs schools.

We are not saying that the school will not go ahead but we want to place priority on Oron first to see what is doable, there is no money so we must be careful before taking on new projects.»

And, in what would be a win for de Blasio, the Senate's three - year extension bill includes a provision on employee protections for school bus drivers — a legislative priority for the mayor for several years.

The de Blasio administration has made it a priority in recent years to reduce suspensions in city schools, pushing schools to use what are called restorative techniques that encourage people in conflict to talk through their differences.

The mayor's role in this involves what kind of funding priorities there should be when it comes to school spending.

It's about developing a vision; making sure you know what you want for your school, what your own priorities are for your school, for your pupils, for all of your stakeholders, and agreeing to those before you put the wider strategy in place.»

When Andrea Curtis became the education program manager for the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, her first priority was to listen to what teachers had to say, a lesson she learned from studying partnerships between Boston Public Schools teachers and area museums.

When asked what would help them at school, students identified technology (including to help with typing and their school work), being able to have a break, and having time away from others as the three top priorities.

«It is also important to look at your budget and check that what you can afford will match your school's needs, putting items of priority in order,» explains Dave Smith, Naace board member from Havering Education Services.

What should be the priorities of school leaders and managers in the remaining weeks?

In these schools, they placed a real important priority on what we called «the place and space» — and that's the architecture, the design of the buildings, the furniture, how things were laid out, the outside areas.

As a leader, can you identify what the main priorities are for your school?

Beyond just limiting priorities to what matters most, schools need to have a very clear sense of where to start and focus their energies on what the management literature calls «putting first things first».

Among them: Making sure that school, not video games, socializing, or gangs are a priority, and helping their students reach for more than what they see around them.

Line managers and staff need to be able to revisit and assess what they are doing, how effective it is and what needs to be done in terms of timely interventions linked to the priorities of that school and that individual.

For what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

What is needed is standardisation of the quality assurance process across all schools and a focus on priorities that are critical to staff development and the targets set by senior leadership teams.

Philanthropy itself is vast and it was such a great opportunity to really try and tap into all these different perspectives through the LEAPP project to see where their passions lie, how they come to a view as to which priority areas they are seeking to focus on, and when we butt that up against what the not - for - profits are saying and what the schools are saying we are able to see where there are points of connection and disconnection.

When I was in I think it was Narrabri, I was in a consultation group there where what seemed to be very much alive and well was a very substantial and significant in - school professional development program — I think it was in a cluster of schools — a strong partnership between a regional university, some really good academics had done very appropriate and relevant research, and a school which was committed to that, to teacher development, and had made it a priority in a very targeted way.

Almost a fifth (18 per cent) of teachers said they don't know what their school's main priority for pupil premium spending is.

Schools have to know how to set priorities for their students and there are a host of priorities that schools can address, but what are the most important ones given that each school is really quite unique in terms of the mix of its students and the communities that it Schools have to know how to set priorities for their students and there are a host of priorities that schools can address, but what are the most important ones given that each school is really quite unique in terms of the mix of its students and the communities that it schools can address, but what are the most important ones given that each school is really quite unique in terms of the mix of its students and the communities that it serves.

Prior to the launch, the Trustees of NASBM want to hear from as many school business professionals across the country as possible to help them understand what should be the priorities for the new Institute.

But that task paled in comparison to the challenge of anticipating what's next under President Trump, who promises big changes to education but faces uncertain legislative backing for his top priority: expanding school choice.

While it might not seem like a priority, the trouble with this approach is that nobody knows what budgets will look like in that timeframe, meaning that schools could risk spending twice as much on migration costs.

What are the biggest purchasing priorities for public and private school buyers in the United States?

Sport and activity priorities Perhaps what we should be advocating in our schools is physical activity as well as sports.

Not for many, so what are the priority areas and best approaches for schools to help pupils navigate the challenges and difficulties that they may encounter?

What the Department for Education's priorities should be for the next Spending Review period as they relate to schools and colleges.

David Perkins does not tell the reader what should be learned in schools — he takes the reader on a journey to clarify his or her own goals and priorities for «lifeworthy learning,» a truly enlightening journey.»

When asked what the bigger priority for schools should be, 80 percent of black parents chose raising academic standards and achievement, according to the survey by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan public - opinion research firm in New York City.

The Perception of Asian Dads and Masculinity Chicago Tribune, 6/10/16» «For Asian fathers, when their main concern was on survival, fitting into the new culture and bringing bread on the table, what America considers «male» was not their priority,» said Dr. Josephine Kim, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education who specializes in child development and immigrant issues.»

What this article does not mention is that Raymond raised the salary of principals and vice-principals at those «priority schools», thereby creating even more friction among principals as well.

in the sense that I suspect that not all school leaders do know what effective CPD is, or are confident that they know which aspects of CPD will help them deliver their priorities.

What forces, priorities, evidence, or interests have driven the collective belief that annual standardized achievement testing can improve schools?

«We were very excited to put on the (coalition government's) priority school building programme but we were expecting an imminent development and I'm now beginning to wonder what priority means,» he said.

«All of these 261 schools (on the priority programme) are big priorities and actually what is astounding is something like two - thirds of these schools were not even on the last government's list.»

I loved how the six domains that Tessera assesses were mapped to our school's high priority outcomes, what we call the Mount Vernon mindsets, at the start of our conversation.

Each of the tools reflects what research and evidence tells us makes the greatest impact on pupil achievement, and all of them have been designed to be used flexibly in response to each schools priorities.

It is crucial for organizations to have strategic goals and lead professional development related to those, however, teachers need the freedom to learn what is important to them as well and schools need to provide time, money and resources to make this a priority.

In her letter to the Department for Education (DfE), Ofqual chief Glenys Stacey says standards must remain the top priority, with exam boards and schools having a «good enough understanding of what is expected».

(But they didn't always know how many kids were in the school or what the budget priorities were.)

Instead of trips to the beach or a day at the ballpark, hundreds of teachers went to «summer school» to dive into professional development and to learn from their peers about what's working — and what's not — to improve education for needy students at priority schools.

«I urge this commission to really try to figure out what it takes to meet the outcomes that we desire and not to tie your hands prematurely and leave it up to the legislature to decide what's feasible, what kind of shifting of budget priorities need to be made and if tax increases are what we need to fund our schools,» said Chandra Villanueva, an analyst with the left - leaning Center for Public Policy Ppriorities need to be made and if tax increases are what we need to fund our schools,» said Chandra Villanueva, an analyst with the left - leaning Center for Public Policy PrioritiesPriorities.

«However, if Nicky Morgan is setting that as her fifth priority, a priority we would support, then clearly what she has got to do is create the climate in schools where they can actually work on creating well - rounded individuals.