Sentences with phrase «wider number of schools»

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The number of positive stories from schools far and wide sharing their stories of universal infant free school meals success has been overwhelming.

She has helped with a number of health and nutrition programs in the school, including a student group to create a healthy snack program, the Smarter Lunchrooms initiative and the school's Wellness, Allergy, Safety, and Health committee (WASH), taking her contributions beyond the kitchen to the wider school community.

Magic Breakfast is holding a number of parent engagement events in schools, to bring nutritional education and the importance of a healthy breakfast to the wider school community.

More than 85 local government and school district officials, as well as a number of affiliated organizations, provided a wide variety of feedback.

It's why I led the fight for mandatory kindergarten city - wide, it's why I increased the number of pre-K slots available in New York City, it's why I have been a staunch advocate for ensuring that children get access to breakfast at school, and it's why I have made reforming our public education system one of the cornerstones of my campaign.

In the new work, David Lalloo, of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, and colleagues from the University of Kelaniya used data from a nation - wide household survey conducted in Sri Lanka in 2013 and 2013 to estimate the number of snake bites and deaths from snake bites annually.

Lead author, Dominic Thorrington from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our study found that measles infection causes people to miss a large number of days at school or work, which has wider implications for education and the ecSchool of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: «Our study found that measles infection causes people to miss a large number of days at school or work, which has wider implications for education and the ecschool or work, which has wider implications for education and the economy.

Students are gaining direct experience of sustainability through a wide range of school - based «learning by doing» ESD initiatives that have been introduced in a number of countries.

Especially in schools with a large number of teachers, it may be difficult to sustain a school - wide push to mobilize the efforts of most teachers.

For schools in the bottom quartile of the number of teachers with tested students, that is, schools with approximately 10 or fewer such teachers in elementary and K — 8 schools and five or fewer in middle schools, school - wide merit pay did lead to improved student achievement.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

With this logic in mind, we examined the effect of the New York City school - wide merit pay program at schools with different numbers of teachers with test - taking students.

It turns out that the effectiveness of school - wide bonus programs may, in fact, depend on the number of teachers with tested students in a school (see Figure 1).

Wilshaw has said that while a small number of primary schools offer this form of education, more need to be involved as they are best placed, as they will have wider access to the kind of specialists that young children may need, such as speech and language therapists, behaviour management and parenting support.

Thanks in large part to the World Wide Web, the number of debate teams from low - income and rural schools has increased dramatically.

But the small yet growing numbers of public school teachers who teach about religion say religious belief, at least among their students, is as shallow as it is wide.

Rosenbrock says the annual conference has been a cornerstone of the regional facility and its PD programs as it brings together a large number of teachers from a wide area, building the foundation for plenty of collaboration and the creation of networks within schools, providing a «canvas» for educators who are keen to share in their areas of passion.

Since the start of the free schools programme, the government has acquired a huge number of land and buildings — both permanent and temporary — across a wide variety of types, from local authority and central government buildings, to office blocks, health buildings, churches and retail units.

However, the number of free schools which are opening or in development is also creating a wider range of opportunities.

And then, back inside the school again, class formation, designing learning programs with small numbers of students across a wide range of grade bands or year levels.

The APPG report makes a wide range of recommendations, including: increasing the number of specialist PE teachers in primary schools; having a designated physical activity co-ordinator in every early years setting; creating teams in every school dedicated to promoting all types of physical activity; all schools examining how they can improve the PE experience for disabled children; embedding PE into all teacher training programmes

Due in large part to the influx of immigrant families from a wide variety of nations, rural education is a rapid - growth industry, even as student numbers in urban and suburban schools are declining.

A quick glance at a number of recent partnerships between colleges and K - 12 public schools reveals a number of wide - ranging projects:

With colleagues, he began an ongoing community - wide conversation on fulfilling the promise of diversity to help prepare students to work in diverse environments, and launched Reimagining Diverse and Equitable Schools (RIDES), a project to boost the number of diverse K — 12 schools and to share best practices to help them tap into their diversity to Schools (RIDES), a project to boost the number of diverse K — 12 schools and to share best practices to help them tap into their diversity to schools and to share best practices to help them tap into their diversity to thrive.

In Pennsylvania, home to a wide digital - training divide between its high - and low - poverty schools, the numbers tell part of the story.

The principal investigator has been closely involved in the preparation of the MDRC and American Institutes for Research (AIR) response to Solicitation Number ED - IES -13-R-0035, Impact Evaluation of Training in School - Wide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS).

One criticism found in a number of the contributions is that research must take a wider perspective than the school and the classroom: it must be research on the society and its iniquities, for these clearly lie at the basis of differential achievement in education.

Minister for School Standards Nick Gibb said: «Poor numeracy still costs the UK a staggering # 20 billion every year and we want more pupils to feel confident using numbers as it can open up a wide range of options for future study, training and work.

«Year on year the numbers for the competition keep growing and we have seen everything from juniors to seniors from a wide and diverse range of schools take part.

We see a wide disparity between the states in terms of the number of students per nurse, Amy Garcia, a registered nurse and executive director of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) told Education World.

The number of innovative schools designing and launching school - wide models of personalized learning in the Regional Funds sites is anticipated to grow to nearly 100 by fall 2016.

Home schooling has gained wider attention and more - mainstream acceptance as the numbers of students learning at home doubled in the past decade — a trend driven in some measure by the expansion of online schooling options.

The question the initiative seeks to answer is: «If an urban district and its principal training programs provide large numbers of talented, aspiring principals with the right training and on - the - job evaluation and support, will the result be a pipeline of principals who can improve teaching and student achievement district - wide, especially in schools with the greatest needs?»

But the nation's fourth - largest district, with over 350,000 students and an annual budget of over $ 5 billion faced a number of big challenges, among them, a growing principal shortage, a rash of underperforming schools, and a wide achievement gap between Miami - Dade students and students in other Florida districts.

The discrepancy between enrollment and ADA numbers is wide — MDE reports a difference of over 30,000 students, meaning schools are not receiving funding for many students they may be serving.

Districts that have «moved their numbers» for all children have or are engaged in developing district - wide processes that allow for more collective use of relevant data to make smarter decisions, including the ongoing assessment of teaching and learning at the classroom, school, and district levels.

In response to the Ofsted report, Birmingham local government officials and politicians accused Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, of deliberately misrepresenting problems of governance in a small number of schools by associating them with a wider threat of Islamist extremism.

Using Cognitive Labs - Video Links (2018) These 4 video segments were developed in conjunction with the NH PACE project to illustrate how to pilot a new performance assessment with a small number of students before using it school or district wide.

In recent years, Pilewskie has observed that a number of schools in the Toledo system have implemented school - wide discipline programs designed to remind students that rules should be followed.

Snyder will also have to push hard to expand the number of charter schools and online learning opportunities in order to provide the wide array of choices that families will seek if the plan is passed.

The government is at pains to say that the grammar proposal will be part of a wider reform, only one of many measures to maximise the number of good school places.

Though she didn't offer many policy specifics, DeVos noted that the president hopes to elevate the role of technology, offer a wide number of quality options to every family, and allow parents to play the primary role in determining what school options will work best for their child.

In 2008 - 2009, the principal recognized that school - wide involvement in the education of the growing number of English learners was warranted.

High overall school - wide attendance rates can easily mask significant numbers of chronically absent students.

The new application will replace a wide variety of individual applications the schools used that families often would spend hours completing, depending on the number of schools to which they were applying.

- Chicago Public Schools began using School - wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports in 2007 and found the number of students receiving six or more disciplinary referrals fall by 50 percent over three years.

The book describes the inception and evolution of Fresno Unified School District's efforts to «provide students the greatest number of postsecondary choices from the widest array of options upon graduation.»

The report said that some RSCs would also be more challenged than others due to a wide variation in the number of schools considered to be «coasting» or have results below the government's floor targets, with one region containing 300 schools requiring attention, while another had fewer than 150.

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Charter school laws exist in 45 states, but more than half of these states place caps on the number of charter schools that may be authorized.19 Charter school policies have wide variance, but states could enable innovative high school designs and accelerate redesign efforts by maintaining and enforcing rigorous standards for authorizing and renewing charters, while also raising caps on charters as needed.