Sentences with phrase «with city classrooms»

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For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Faculty members at the Waldorf School of Garden City are gifted teachers who have dedicated themselves to working closely with students in and out of the classroom.

Every preschool in our city denied our son admission because they either didn't want to deal with the «liability of a food allergic child,» didn't want to learn how to operate an EpiPen Jr., or didn't want to monitor a nut - free classroom.

With over 20 classrooms, the Waldorf School of Garden City provides a completely wireless environment.

When Memphis City Schools dietitian Kim Stewart wrapped up the session she did so with a short but effective anecdote about a teacher who had a real change of heart about breakfast in the classroom.

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school year.

A charter school network's plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a war over classroom space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.

Teachers in the Kingston City School District returned to the classroom this year with more to think about than usual.

City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school yCity Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña vowed to tackle classroom segregation with school rezonings across the city in the upcoming school ycity in the upcoming school year.

The Rochester City School District is in the midst of hiring season for the next school year, and is pushing to add more teachers with diverse backgrounds to classrooms.

Blackwell said the city needs to open more schools to help the SCSD deal with «overwhelmed» classrooms.

Overcrowding in New York City schools is reaching its limit, with 80 percent of classrooms exceeding the state capacity.

Let's hope de Blasio is willing to learn from his new chancellor — rather than surround him with political minders who frustrate Carranza's goal of creating «joyful learning» in city classrooms.

Four - out - of - five New York City voters (80 %) support a new teacher evaluation system based on both classroom observations and test scores, with 56 % supporting such a system strongly.

Yet city officials wrote it would dangerous to move the 16 - and 17 - year - olds in with grown men, and take them away from established classroom spaces.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

Alleviating Overcrowding: This budget will start to address space conditions in the city's schools, reducing overcrowding and the use of trailers as classrooms with $ 4.4 billion capital investment in new space, including class size reduction.

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workcity labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workCity Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workcity workers.

«We look forward to working with officials in Albany and New York City to minimize the effects of these proposed cuts on our classrooms, and to protect the interests of the city's public school children,» said UFT President Michael MulgCity to minimize the effects of these proposed cuts on our classrooms, and to protect the interests of the city's public school children,» said UFT President Michael Mulgcity's public school children,» said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

The report also clarified longstanding questions on the viability of implementing universal pre-K across the city, with new details on how the city will provide space for the new pre-K classrooms and students, and guidelines for what constitutes «high - quality» pre-K instruction.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Syracuse City School District Superintendent Sharon Contreras marked the first day of school with a visit to a classroom at the Dr. Weeks Elementary School on Tuesday.

The Success Academy network is expected to take action Monday in a dispute with the city over classroom space in Harlem.

Success Academy honcho Eva Moskowitz is turning to the state Education Department to resolve the fight for more classroom space with the city.

John Concannon, a retired police captain who has unsuccessfully challenged City Councilman Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens) and state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), said Cuomo had not pushed to get enough educators with classroom experience on the state Board of Regents or otherwise placed them at the helm of Common Core implementation.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.

With teaching facilities in Long Island and New York City, it brings a hands - on approach to learning about biology and genomes to classrooms and homes of children in primary schools, middle schools, and high schools.

Take your kids to a new playground to play with kids whose native language is different from your own, try new ethnic cuisines while including a discussion about the culture, or encourage your child to be the one to welcome new students from a different city or country into their classroom.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

As part of an extensive education outreach campaign to heighten awareness of Thurgood Marshall in classrooms and homeschools across the country, BazanED, a leader in motion picture education, is working with officials ranging from city council members to congressional representatives and mayors to organize the initiative.

It's hard to separate truth from legend with all of the rumors that swirl around the game's launch, but there are stories about people being mugged for their copies (an exceptionally rare occurrence even in the busiest cities in Japan), offices that were supposed to be packed with workers appearing abandoned, and a whole lot of empty chairs in classrooms.

A New York City community school district, in collaboration with a local college, has opened an alternative school in East Harlem for junior - high - school students that combines community - service work with regular classroom instruction.

Bugscope also helps to close the Digital Divide — classrooms with minimal equipment, whether in the inner city or an isolated rural area, can utilize Bugscope.

My first «real» teaching job was at an inner city middle school teaching English with 40 students in my classroom.

Just as he did for 26 years as a teacher and administrator, staff development specialist Dennis Loftus still makes time to connect with students in classrooms, in hallways, and in cafeterias in the Syracuse City School District, in Syracuse, New York.

The certification pathway that New York City teachers took to their classrooms seemed to have little relationship to how effective they were in raising students» scores, concludes a study that matched some 10,000 teachers with six years of test results.

In August 2007, a few months after Moss returned from New York City, her students began transforming their storm - damaged classroom — a huge 40 - foot - by -80-foot room with 15 - foot - high walls painted an institutional blue.

Yet here she is, inside a sun - filled classroom at Lindblom Math & Science Academy on the city's South Side, throwing around tech - industry terms like «ideation» and working with friends to design her first mobile app.

WHEELS was established by NYC Outward Bound Schools in 2006 with a mission to give students hands - on learning opportunities using the «city as a classroom.»

In this project, the Education factor is present in the majority of the strands of work: approach of incorporating comprehensive sex education in the formal education system and in youth organizations; implementation of the Comprehensive Strategy of Sex Education of the Department of Education in the classrooms at the two education centres; strengthening of the institutional capacity of the health and education sectors, through the provision of health personnel, methodological tools and focusing on gender, human rights and multiculturalism; cross-sector coordination (Health - Education Departments), and with civil society to develop alliances which promote the exercising of the Sexual and Reproductive rights of the adolescents and young people of zones 3 and 7 of Guatemala City.

But principal Michelle Tubbs, a veteran of the classroom who holds a doctorate in education technology, had conducted a pilot program with blended learning at an Alliance school in the city's Watts neighborhood, where the average freshman read and did math at the 4th - grade level.

City fell in love with teaching in a closet - turned - classroom in St. Petersburg, Russia.

How Districts Are Joining the Fight to Close a Troubling Training Gap Among America's School Leaders (The 74 Million) Professor Liz City discusses how the combination of job experience with theory and classroom learning might help to close the training gap for education leaders.

Citing studies of both evangelical Christian private schools and inner - city public schools, Levine noted that classrooms are often rich with political and ideological diversity.

Twelve years later, rookie teacher Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Denis) offered her compassion and dedication to troubled students in an overcrowded New York City high school in Up the Down Staircase, while Mark Thackeray (Sidney Poitier) won the affection and respect of a classroom of rebellious students in London's East End in To Sir, with Love.

Our work with teachers and students has demonstrated that an inner - city classroom in Philadelphia can feel as connected to traversing the Arabian desert by camel as they do to the cross-town bus.

«One of the things I noticed in talking with teachers and students [that are using River City in their classrooms] is this idea that some students have written themselves off as not being able to do science and succeed in schools,» he says.

Mayne designed classrooms with long windows and glass doors overlooking courtyards and the city below.

This test consists of 20 items (with an associated answer key for the teacher) that assess the vocabulary, grammar, and cultural concepts listed below: Vocabulary Themes: History; Countries and cities; Communities Grammar Themes: Prepositions: Preterite tense in regular - ar, - er, and - ir verbs; Direct object pronouns Culture Themes: The Mayas and The Incas; Independence Age; Latin American and US Writing in Spanish: Punctuation and accents An alternate version of the test is also provided to the teacher, in case a student needs to re-take the assessment or for use in large classrooms.

7 - 14 — English: «Reconstructing Language and Learning for the 21st Century: Connecting With Our Classrooms,» conference, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English, the International Federation for the Teaching of English, and the New York University, for teachers, administrators, and researchers, to be held in New York City.

Elmore's efforts to change this began during his work in a New York City school district, where professional development for principals included spending time every day inside classrooms to re-familiarize themselves with the teaching environment.