Sentences with phrase «if schools and teachers»

While I myself could not attend every session, the ones I did attend were filled with insights, instructional strategies, and processes that can be replicated anywhere if schools and teachers are willing to take the leap!

She believes that the former produces the latter, for «African American students are gifted and brilliant,» and they would prosper if schools and teachers became sensitive to their culture.

«Our new study suggests that if schools and teachers feel they can't recruit girls into their computer science classes,» Master said, «they should make sure that the classrooms avoid stereotypes and communicate to students that everyone is welcome and belongs.»

There is scope to change perceptions at the Department for Education (DfE) if schools and teacher training colleges put forward good pedagogic arguments that can be linked to the need for flexible «wellness» centred spaces and strategies in schools.

Not exact matches

If Jeffrey Isquith had his way, the next time there's an active shooter inside a school, students and teachers will be able to duck for cover safely behind chairs, desks, and walls that are made with his company's bullet - resistant technology.

If there's an emergency, a teacher can use the app to set off an alarm, access an evacuation plan, and chat with any other staff member in the school.

A school district in Waukesha, Wisconsin, sent a letter to parents telling them that the school district is not involved in a walkout that is scheduled for March 14 and that teachers and students would not be excused if they participate.

«If teachers were allowed to carry weapons in school, it could easily cause additional chaos and fatalities,» she said.

«Their idea was that if you fire thousands of teachers, teachers» aides, school support workers, nurses, nurses» aides and people that work in the hospitals that somehow the price of oil would go back up,» she told a Unifor convention in Ottawa this week.

«If you had a teacher who was adept with the firearm, they could end the attack very quickly,» he said, stating that schools could arm up to 20 % of their teachers to stop «maniacs» who may try and attack them.

You can qualify for Federal Perkins Loan cancellation if you are a teacher and have served full - time in a public or nonprofit elementary or secondary school system:

Democrats tried and failed to pass amendments to the Florida Senate's school safety bill, including a provision to allow teachers to carry guns in schools if they receive training and are deputized by a sheriff's office.

How would you feel if your child attended public school and the teacher made the class fast during Ramadan?

When I was a kid, I once asked my Sunday school teacher if little children got washed away in Noah's flood along with all the other animals and rebellious people.

If the family really is the domestic church and parents the primary educators and protectors of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting and supporting them as the first and best of teachers in the home, the school of human virtues.

Our Archbishop has stated: If the provisions for contraceptives and abortions are not removed, the Archdiocese will no longer provide health insurance benefits to any of its employees, including over 1800 school teachers.

If mom and dad say God put us here, and my teacher and my schools says otherwise — how can that NOT mess a kid up??

Vocational advisement, if it is to be of real educational value, should consist not in one or a few interviews on entering or leaving school, but in a continuing dialogue between the student and his parents and teachers in all fields as well as with professional guidance officers.

You've accused me of not knowing jewish history by quoting the bible, as if that's the only authority on jewish history and I should ignore my judaism professors, parents, rabbi, peers and sunday school teacher in favor of this horribly contrived and unreliable book.

When I was in High School, I had a teacher who read 1 Corinthians 9:27 in class (I attended a Christian school), and said that all of us need to be careful how we live our lives, or else we could end up in hell if we disobeyeSchool, I had a teacher who read 1 Corinthians 9:27 in class (I attended a Christian school), and said that all of us need to be careful how we live our lives, or else we could end up in hell if we disobeyeschool), and said that all of us need to be careful how we live our lives, or else we could end up in hell if we disobeyed God.

For Protestants, a church school with teachers, subject matter, curriculum resources, age - graded classes, supplies, equipment, classrooms and, if possible, a professional church educator has been the norm; for Roman Catholics, parochial schools or some other form of catechetics.

You can ask high school teachers or youth workers about this if you like, but you really need look no further than your own teen years, when your interests and attention seemed to spiral out in a million directions that could be mistaken for having no direction at all.

Imagine for a moment, those of you who have children in grade school, if your child came home from school tomorrow, and told you that at school from now on, the children were the teachers, and the teachers were going to learn from the children.

If teachers, administrators, school boards, and parents catch a vision of schools as lifelong growth centers, the humanizing impact of this vast network of schools can be immense.

In my days as a school chaplain I remember a shocked English teacher reporting: «Do you know that today I asked my sophomores if they knew who Job was, and only one student raised her hand?»

My question is: If I was your child's Sunday School teacher and your child announced to the class: «My daddy doesn't believe in God» how can I best show the love of Jesus to your child in that moment?

But a heartening sign in the present situation is the increase of interest among these librarians in their work as teachers and the increase of concern among faculties for the development of school libraries as teaching centers)-- to enter into conversation with a continuous if not identical group of thinkers.

If the barbarian hordes could by economic necessity be forced into the government schools, teachers with the proper training might lure them from their native superstitions and win them to the American faith.

The leadership structure in most congregations operates as if a three - way division of labor between parents, Sunday School teachers, and pastors still exists and is adequate to the spiritual formation of children and youth.

If we define service as «using your spiritual gifts to edify and meet the needs of others, then on Sunday morning during the church service, only the Sunday school teachers, the ushers, the music team, the pastor, and a few others are «serving.»

The State can not finance secular instruction if it permits religion to be taught in the same classroom; but if it exacts a promise that religion not be so taught — a promise the school and its teachers are quite willing and on this record able to give — and enforces it, it is then entangled in the «no entanglement» aspect of the Court's Establishment Clause jurisprudence [Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 666, 668].

And if nothing is done, as Eric Hester (another former head teacher) has predicted in these columns [in the November issue of 2006], «then in as little as five years, outside the independent sector, there could be no truly Catholic schools remaining in England.»

But just as many more have served as models or examples; quick, now, if you attended Sunday school, think back, and some of those teachers will come to mind, Not all imported curricular materials missed the point.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

«If I could have had any other career, I would be a high school basketball coach and a history teacher,» said Big Show.

If the teachers aren't reporting or indicating that they think that there is a learning difference but a parent remains concern, a parent should absolutely follow up and ask for an evaluation whether through the school district or with someone privately in the community.

I'm a big proponent of classroom education and never would have pictured myself as a home - schooling parent, but if anything could convince me to change my tune, it's a science teacher opposing solar farms because they might suck up too much energy from the sun.

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

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«If not, ask a staff member to email photos of the school and teachers.»

If your teen has special learning or behavioral needs, meetings can be scheduled with teachers and other school staff to consider setting up or revising individualized education plans (IEPs), 504 education plans, or gifted education plans.

So if something is bugging you about kids and food — whether it's the unnecessary «refueling» with Oreos at the 10 am soccer match, the prevalence of highly processed food on your child's lunch tray, or the Sunday school teacher who hands out candy for good behavior — speak up and get involved.

Your child will thrive in school if you can create a «circle of support» that includes the three of you (your child, his teacher, and you), says Carpenter.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

It was hard, because I am a teacher during the school year, my husband works at night and then during the summers he goes on the day shift so I kind If turn into a stay at home mom, so there I was 7 months pregnant with two boys that wouldn't sleep at all.

See if you can arrange to tour the school and meet the teacher, and hopefully more than once.

If you were to brainstorm factors related to tweens» academic achievement, you might think of the quality of their school, their teacher's credentials, their inherent ability, and your involvement in their schoolwork.

However, if you're concerned by your child's excessive clinginess, and it doesn't seem to be passing, talk to your pediatrician about it (as well as your daycare provider, school teacher or anyone else who serves as a caregiver to your child).

If you think your child has a learning disability and needs an IEP, talk to your child's teacher or school administrator about having her evaluated.