Sentences with phrase «children bring to school»

These features are part of what make preschool programs successful, but too often they are woefully missing from elementary schools that are emotionally barren, devoid of resources to respond to the non - educational problems children bring to school with them, and disconnected from parents and communities.

Children bring to school the instability they experience in their lives.

«You look at all of the things children bring to school, from their traditions, home communities, and look at them as assets — and good teachers learn how to build on that.»

In developing the series we focused on the strengths that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children bring to school, getting schools ready for children as well as children ready for school, and the importance of two - way learning, with teachers and schools, and local communities learning from each other.

It also mentions the low level of academic achievement in Detroit schools, including its charters, but the level of performance does not distinguish between the difficulties that children bring to school and the success or failure of schools to improve student performance.

Among the more salient conclusions are: 1) that what children bring to school is vastly more important than what happens thereafter, as the Coleman Report found; 2) in examining all of the variables that impinge on student academic performance (teacher effectiveness, socio - economic advantage, appropriate evaluation criteria, etc.), none is demonstrably more significant than time spent learning «one - on - one»; and 3) that only an individualized computer program can address all these issues effectively and simultaneously.

But never mind the disability — the disability the child brought to school to begin with.

According to the tenets of Afrocentric teaching — which harnesses the skills African American children bring to schools to engage them in the classroom experience (Ford & Kea 2009)-- combining music with creative movement, mime, and dance is a form of expression for many African American children and engages them in shared affective experiences that are useful for empathy development (Boykin 1994; Laird 2015).

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For example, the camera could zoom onto a painting that a child brought home from school to show to a parent away on a business trip.

Williams - Moore helped her get into a special college program that lets her go to school at night, sometimes bringing her child along.

In pilot projects, African farmers solved disease outbreaks after searching the Web, while in Bangladesh «online schools» bring teachers from Dhaka to children in remote classrooms through large screens and video conferencing.

Changing entrenched views about girls and education is a long - term process, she says, but so far her organization's efforts have helped to educate 1.3 million children, including more than 80,000 girls that it has brought into the school system.

He said today that Apple will do «everything we can» to encourage Congress to make the bipartisan Dream Act — legislation that would offer a path to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of young unauthorized immigrants brought to the U.S. as children if they graduated from high school or obtained a GED — permanent.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Fear, on the other hand, is a dry nurse for the child: it has no milk; a bloodless corrector for the youth: it has no beckoning encouragement; a niggardly disease for the adult: it has no blessing; a horror for the aged: when fear has to admit that the long painful time of schooling did not bring Eternal Blessedness.

We pray for the diplomats, and those in positions of influence trying to bring about an end to conflict, and for the «little people» children in schools, people who've been displaced, those who seemingly aren't involved in either side of this bloody war, but whose lives will never be the same again.

Women suffer the most due to civil wars, being subject to rape, becoming single parents, made refugees and having to bring up children without proper schooling, social services and their traditional cultural environment of home, the extended family and village or town.

A Member of Parliament — or a magistrate, or the Head Teacher of a school, or a borough councillor - who dared to say «Children should be taught that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman, bringing new children into the world» would in all probability be denounced with vigour and forced toChildren should be taught that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman, bringing new children into the world» would in all probability be denounced with vigour and forced tochildren into the world» would in all probability be denounced with vigour and forced to resign.

She says some community leaders see schools as a way to «indoctrinate impressionable minds» and bring children up with narrow horizons.

In September one of those children brought a.22 - caliber Colt semiautomatic to school and shot and killed two of his classmates.

if a child calls another child a name... YES hit them... or things fester into bringing guns to school.

This Lobby had brought about the closure of Faith - based Adoption agencies, aggravating the crisis in placing children for adoption, and was poised to put on the Statute Book laws which would have imposed its own opinions on Faith - based schools and anyone else who disagreed.

In school, all the grand old masters of literature are brought out for the children to study and to struggle with, with those dorky Questions for Class Discussion: What rhetorical device does the writer employ when he refers to «poems they tape to the refrigerator door»?

And isn't ironic, Keith, when God was taken out of the Pledge of Allegiance, that chrildren started bringing guns to school and killing other children?

How do we bring in jobs, how do we make sure health care is affordable for people, how can children go to school, do they have a place to go to school?

If we are wholly open to him he will use us to achieve great things be it spending ten years in India fighting to build and keep Catholic schools or bringing up one's own children to know Christ.

The Government has long since established that children who are brought up by a mother and father are less likely to fall into crime and are more likely to succeed at school and be emotionally stable.

It is noteworthy that, in contradistinction to the older Bible - centered training in the past, most of these students had come up through the modern graded Sunday Schools in which not the Bible but the child has been central; in which the Bible has been brought into the focus of attention only when the situation demanded it.

Whether you sneak it into your child's lunch box or hand it to your child as an after school snack, it's sure to bring a smile.

Endlessly dedicated to her involvement with the Slow Foods Miami Chapter, Frans champions initiatives that bring light to the farm - to - table community in Miami, and devotes herself to the education of school children in healthful nutrition and sustainable farming.

The initiative launched at Carlisle College on 19 January, bringing together Carlisle & Cumbria's public health leads, school children and young people pledging to work together to tackle the health crisis brought on by too much sugar.

Waukegan, Ill. (July 15, 2015)-- With more than 40 percent of kids bringing food to school (U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service), preparing a pa - per - bagged lunch is an opportunity for parents to cook with their children and add in an educational lesson along the way.

These cookies are perfect for school treats, something to surprise your child's teachers or even to bring to a fabulous Halloween party.

his shooting is school children lvl,, and thats being kind, not sure what else he brings to the table

She is too occupied with her announcing duties for HBO, coaching Navratilova and Mayotte, speaking engagements, a fancy to get into television and film production, a new chain of play schools called the Discovery Zone that promote and study exercise for children under 12, and her longest - standing project, Team Tennis, which represents her most fervid interest: to take the sport out of elite clubs and bring it to the masses.

We've set ourselves the goal of bringing FRED to 200 schools and children's centres, reaching over 6,000 children, this year.

After the sports season is over, a school or YSO should save the PPE until the child becomes an adult because children have the right to bring lawsuits as adults for injuries they suffered as children.

If your child's school doesn't have the option for them to compost their leftover food (perhaps you can inquire about it and get a system started), ask them to bring home their leftovers rather than throw them into the trash so you can either save them if they are salvageable or compost them yourself.

Fight the temptation to bring your child's forgotten homework to school.

It has become a challenge for schools, daycares, and other institutions who want to ensure a safe environment for all children without being overly restrictive about the foods other children can bring with them.

The mission of Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School is to provide a full Waldorf education to children in Early Childhood through Grade 8 and to be a vital and active part of the Driftless region through the spiritual and cultural opportunities we bring to the greater community.

While children bring their own lunches to school at EBWS, there is a strong culture of good food and healthy eating at our school.

Or, bring our WATCH D.O.G.S. program to your children's school as a way to encourage other dads to get more involved.

I intended to post on an entirely different topic today, but then I received this robust and thought - provoking response in favor of the right to bring cupcakes (or other treats) to school on your child's birthday: As a mother, an attorney, and a... [Continue reading]

Can these children not bring a jam sandwich from home to supplement the school meal?

She has homeschooled her own children as well as others, was a founder of a private Waldorf School (Sanderling School in Carlsbad, CA) and now strives through the Charter movement to bring Waldorf education to all children at Journey School where she has worked for the past 14 years.

By reaching 40 low - income children for every 100 who get school lunch during the regular school year, Virginia could have fed an additional 161,272 kids and brought in over $ 7.3 million more to do so.

Then Jenna Pepper, a vegetable and nutrition enthusiast who blogs over at Food With Kid Appeal, brought up the point in her excellent article that if we continue to feed them junk food and don't collectively teach our kids, at home and at school, about the joys and benefits of eating real food, children will pick the crap over the good stuff when given the choice.

So by your logic if Honey Boo Boo's mom decides to bring «go - go» juice (red bull mixed with Mountain Dew) and pageant crack (pixie sticks) to class to celebrate and uses her own money, the only thing other parents can do is hope their children are trained like pit bulls to «just say no,» homeschool, or send them to a private school.

Some good examples of this would be a child refusing to put on a jacket when it's cold outside and then not having anything to wear when he feels chilled or a child repeatedly forgetting to bring money for lunch to school and then being hungry at lunchtime.