Sentences with phrase «let schools change»

Let schools change naturally, as their neighborhoods are changing naturally, rather than try to «change the direction of the river»?

Not exact matches

I was really interested in hearing how exactly they proposed to do that, especially in terms of changing the macho culture of the sport and breaking the «code of silence» that continues to prompt players at every level of football, whether it be N.F.L., college, high school or youth - to hide concussion symptoms in order to stay in the game and avoid being perceived as somehow letting their coach, their teammates, or their parents down.

Let's make sure all schools institute food literacy as part of the core curriculum; it's the only way we'll change our children's relationship with food, cultivate their palates and save their health.

If you're still unhappy, let the teacher know that you want to continue the discussion with her supervisor (if the teacher is the director of the preschool, you may have to consider changing schools).

Oftentimes just simply letting your teacher know — the teacher know — what's going on or the struggles your child is having will be helpful and you can begin to see some kinds of changes, some little home - school communication.

Mr. Mills» reforms nicely complemented the changes required under D.C.'s Healthy Schools Act, and under his leadership, the new requirements were met within the first year — no small feat in any school operation, let alone in a large school district.

Change our school start times already to let those kiddos sleep in!

Entitled «Healthy Food Fuels Hungry Minds: Serving Change in Public School Food,» the conference is cosponsored by Let's Talk About Food, the Massachusetts State Office of Nutrition and Health, the Harvard Food Law & Policy Clinic and the Harvard University Dining Services» Food Literacy Project.

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

But if you notice a sudden, inexplicable change in behavior — more anxiety, withdrawal, changes in appetite, or an insistence on changing certain habits, like taking the bus home from school — it's important to let your child's teacher and school administration know.

If you let your kids decide, you'll continue to change their diapers well into their school - age years.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

With almost two decades of experience under her belt, Matuszyk saw the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools grant as the perfect opportunity to bring positive change to her lunchroom and increase her average daily participation.

We recommend that parents, advocates, and teachers utilize CAF's Get Involved resources to begin that process and let us know what changes you are making in your school district and at home.

Be sure to let them know about The Lunch Box: Tools For School Food Change, where they can find tangible resources for school food recipes and menus, procurement, management, marketing, and muchSchool Food Change, where they can find tangible resources for school food recipes and menus, procurement, management, marketing, and muchschool food recipes and menus, procurement, management, marketing, and much more.

Psychological changes in the brain let grade - schoolers begin to draw moral distinctions based on internal judgment.

RT @mbrighton66 American School Lunches Need Improvement, Here's How: Let's welcome some positive changes big or... http://bit.ly/ek7W9D

: I won't spoil the surprise ending (Suburban Turmoil) «Why Mommy» enjoys Changing Times and catches the Closet Cleaning Bug, saying Out With the Old (Toddler Planet) Melinda clues non-Moms in on What Moms Really Want... (Planet Mom) School Yard Snob part 2: Moms, don't let your daughters grow -LSB-...]

Let's dedicate $ 100 million to transform every failing school in New York into a comprehensive, holistic, full - service community school and change the basic education system in this state and stop the cycle of incarceration in this state and paying for problems, rather than stopping the problems at an early age.

A new report by the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford concludes that better governance could have lessened the impact on the poorest and most vulnerable, and affected populations have been let down by the authorities in the past.

Steve: Let's also talk about your last proposal, which is you'd like to change this [the] structure of the medical school interview.

Kristina let us into her home to talk house flipping with her husband, how design changes before and after having kids, why she's glad she chose to go back to school, and which room in her house was the hardest to design (even though they all look pretty flawless to us!).

The changes would actually let us be more accurate about detecting which schools are achieving increases in learning and achievement.

In order to improve implementation of the NCLB law, President George W. Bush's second secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, allowed states to apply to participate in pilot projects to try out changes to the law, including a growth - model pilot that let states consider student progress in rating schools instead of comparing different cohorts of students to one another.

Let's start by believing that the school is the unit of change.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the NUT, the largest teachers» union, said: «The announcement that there is to be an extra # 320 million to fund up to 140 new free schools demonstrates an extraordinary lack of judgement at a time when state schools across the country are tipping out their piggy banks to search for the loose change to run their schools, let alone engaging in any capital upgrading.

«We need to let go of the idea that heroic individuals will change schools,» says Richard DuFour, an education consultant who specializes in creating professional learning communities in schools.

Don't let your school do the ol' schedule - change blitz where, for example, without warning, a child's art class is replaced abruptly with a reading class.

The School Day: It's Not a Race; Let's Change the Pace!

Systems Let Schools Call More Parents Faster School phone trees are being eclipsed by phone systems that can dial thousands of numbers in minutes and alert parents to emergencies, schedule changes, and even events, saving administrators time and stress.

You can change the way schools are inspected as many times as you like (and Ofsted does — on average two substantial changes a year to inspections frameworks or guidance since Michael Wilshaw became chief inspector in January 2012) but until you can guarantee the quality of the process (let alone the contentious debate about whether the right aspects of education are being looked at in a methodologically sound way), Ofsted inspections will be flawed.

The move away from harsh, punitive, exclusionary (and, let's face it, ineffective) discipline practices in schools and districts across the country is a welcome wave of change.

Let's change the debate to defining quality and equity and getting a system that transparently holds all schools accountable on those dimensions.

The district is waiting for state policy changes in North Carolina that would let it also exchange state - funded positions for these school - based innovations without paying a penalty to the state.

Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, chair of the education committee, said the Senate bill lets chronically underperforming schools continue without dramatic changes.

Elementary schools begin at 8:10 a.m. or later, except Newport Elementary, which begins at 7:55 a.m. (Roelofs, What happened when one Minnesota school district let high schoolers sleep in (May 31, 2016) Bridge Magazine; Wente, Study: More sleep proving beneficial for District 833 students (Jan. 9, 2014) Woodbury Bull.; Lonetree, Start time changes paying off for South Washington County schools (Jan. 4, 2014) Star Tribune; Post, Study: Exhausted teens benefit from later morning school starts (Dec. 6, 2013) MPR News [includes audio].)

This analysis is intended to help policymakers, education leaders, and advocates understand the changes in state law and policy needed to support local strategies that empower educators, promote new schooling options, and let parents choose.

When adults brag about students» presence and words without letting them say or do anything to change schools or the education system, they are tokenizing students.

«The campaign's forums — like the Changes, Challenges and Collaboration forum in New Orleans last November — let us talk with other schools going through the same struggles.

«Don't,» says Brownsburg Superintendent Jim Snapp, a member of the A-F panel tasked with revising the state's accountability system for schools, «let the State Board make major changes to a program we have spent significant time developing.»

If we have $ 200 million to give, pay teachers to stay after school longer... I'm upset because we as a legislative body, we can sit here and make these type of policies and make these type of assumptions that this would work, when in reality many of you have not stepped a foot in a classroom... let's be honest, just because you bring in a different entity you're going to change the dynamic?

I just hope that the they don't let the quality of the school inhibit their own efforts to be good teachers, because an incredible teacher can change lives even in a bad neighborhood or a poor school system.

Recent changes also mean schools can do so to let in twins or children of members of the armed forces.

Here's a simple idea: Don't let the boogeyman of change stop public charter schools in Alabama before they get started.

A growing number of parents are refusing to let their children take standardized tests this year, arguing that civil disobedience is the best way to change what they say is a destructive overemphasis on tests in the nation's public schools.

Bair explained that the families who cared about changing schools all moved to suburbia, leaving behind the people who did not care, let alone fight, for the education of Hartford students.

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School has changed - let us show you how.

As they ponder the schedule and oversight issues, legislators are also considering the idea of letting up to three work with any district that has a low - performing school, a change that might make it easier for some campuses to find partners.

So we said, let's change the law, let's go build a charter school, let's start something new and hopeful for people who shouldn't have to wait for a real opportunity.