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Philip Railsback. Writer: Flash of Genius. Philip Railsback was born on 3 March 1951 in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Flash of Genius (2008), The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995) and The Cross of Iberia (1990). He died on 30 May 2005 in Colfax, California, USA.
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The scenes of Kearns’s domestic life with his wife, Phyllis (Lauren Graham), a schoolteacher, and their six children convey the family’s messy, unglamorous ’60s existence. During his final push for...
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This booklet is one in a series of “hot topics” reports pro-duced by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. These reports briefly address current educational concerns and issues as indicated by requests for information that come to the Laboratory from the Northwest region and beyond. Each booklet contains a discussion of research and litera...
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R E Q U E S T S E R I E S Service Learning in the Northwest Region ◆ Tutoring: Strategies for Successful Learning ◆ Scheduling Alternatives: Options for Student Success ◆ Grade Configuration:Who Goes Where? ◆ Alternative Schools:Approaches for Students at Risk ◆ All Students Learning: Making It Happen in Your School ◆ High-Quality Professional Deve...
EDUCATION RESOURCE ADVISOR PLANNING AND SERVICE COORDINATION JUNE 2004 NORTHWEST REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL LABORATORY PORTLAND,OREGON 1 place once a student has been identified as chronically absent. Although promising practices exist across the coun-try, there are no “silver bullet” approaches proven to keep children in school. Other research has inves...
As mentioned previously, schools are not only examining attendance policies and truancy intervention programs, but are also looking at how schools can become more supportive for students, so that they will be more likely to remain in school. There are multiple factors that can affect engagement and attendance. For each one of these approaches, an e...
divide students into groups that take classes together with the same house teachers. Houses often have their own student government and social activities. Houses differ from academies in that they don’t have themes. ◆
differ from the above approaches in that they are autonomous within a larger school, and have their own culture, program, staff, students, budget, and school space. ◆
have a core focus, such as math, art, or science, in which students from around the district will take classes together in one school. Sometimes the admis-sion requirements are competitive. Key elements of effective smaller learning communities (SLC) include (Cotton, 2001): ◆ Autonomy. Smaller learning communities maintain as much control as reason...
There are many kinds of mentoring: school-based, commu-nity-based, faith-based, peer mentoring, e-mentoring (use of technology such as e-mail to facilitate and/or support a mentor/mentee relationship), and career-vocational mentor-ing. Mentoring is one way to ensure that a child has a contin-uous, sustained, and caring relationship with a trusted a...
Determining what strategies are needed to improve atten-dance can be daunting for school and district personnel. It may also be hard for school staff to evaluate their own prac-tices. An external evaluation can help schools understand what good practices they have in place, and what they need to improve. Linn Benton Lincoln (LBL) Education Service ...
Attendance services are just one part of the “positive behav-ior supports” that LBL provides. ESD attendance audit staff members, many of whom have a background in social work, do not see attendance as isolated from other schoolwide issues. Attendance is not simply a problem to be fixed and then set aside. LBL ESD has developed the Hallmarks of Eff...
recently completed an attendance audit. Susie Osborn, the assistant principal, said that having an unbiased audit process was beneficial in that both positive and critical comments came from outside the school. “We had the audit results shared with the entire faculty, and then the faculty broke into small learning groups and discussed the findings....
located in a small, rural town outside Portland, also completed an attendance audit. The district superintendent took the issue seriously enough to contract with the ESD for the audit. In addition to implementing new procedures using a computerized attendance tracking sys-tem, school staff are taking a more personalized approach to cutting down on ...
School Attendance Initiative Multnomah County, Oregon Department of School and Community Partnerships
Wilson High School has had the highest daily attendance for the past three years of all high schools in the Tacoma district. Several things have contributed to the 92 percent average daily attendance rate, including quality incentives, a focus on engaged learning, and strong family participation. Five years ago ninth-grade assistant principal Cherr...
E X T E R N A L R E V I E W Ted K. Bradshaw, Ph.D., Associate Research Sociologist and Associate Professor, Community Development, University of California, Davis Kathy Campobasso, School-to-Careers Coordinator, Rex Putnam High School, Milwaukie, Oregon Steve Hull, Superintendent, Bethel School District, Oregon Mary Reimer, Ph.D., Information Resou...
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We are delighted to be able to invite prospective parents, whose child is due to start school in September 2025, for a tour of our setting. Our open mornings will take place on: Tuesday 12th November- 9.30am - 10.30am
What is my favorite memory from elementary school? I attended Garden Oaks Elementary and was part of the last 6 th grade class (they moved 6 th grade to middle school the following year). That year, I participated in the district wide Number Sense competition.
St Barnabas and St Philip's is a popular Church of England primary school situated in the heart of London, with all the opportunities and challenges that face people working in a major world...
Oct 3, 2024 · Written for 5 to 7 year-old this atlas is ideal for teaching Key Stage 1, helping to cover geography, history, science, citizenship and literacy requirements- Written by experts Professor David...
