Sentences with phrase «alternative schooling approach»

Could she benefit from some type of alternative schooling approach?

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Responding to an increase in academic and emotional problems among kids in the United States, experts in child and adolescent well - being convened at Stanford University in July 2007 to envision a coordinated approach to helping schools and families develop alternative success models to align with research on healthy child development.

«Physicians treating ragweed allergy sufferers may soon have an alternative to the current approach to managing ragweed allergy, which usually involves weekly or monthly visits to the doctor's office for allergy shots and carries the risk of swelling and pain at the injection site, plus risk of anaphylactic shock,» says Creticos, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

These schools are both instructive and inspiring in how they implement alternative educational approaches.

An alternative is the «speed - dating» approach described by Nilda Soloman, a Brooklyn middle school leader: «An entire grade team sits in one room at different stations.

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

In particular, we wanted to find an alternative to the very punitive approach of suspension and expulsion that most western style schools adhere to.»

We also describe the alternative approaches that are gaining traction in America's schools and present the evidence on their efficacy.

Ho's research highlights contrasts between current approaches to measuring student and school proficiency and proposes alternative metrics that address some of the problems that have emerged in standardized testing since the 2001 enactment of No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Which approach do you think is preferable — reforming the existing public school system or finding an alternative to the existing public school system?

This behavior contrasts sharply with the approach of the alternative, nondistrict chartering authority in D.C., the D.C. Public Charter School Board, which has chartered nearly 20 schools, none of which has been closed.

For instance, let charter schools experiment with alternative approaches to personnel.

Additionally, the district should embrace this plan not merely as an alternative, but as a promising new approach to eventually serving students beyond the alternative school building.

This paper evaluates an alternative approach, school inspections, which may better capture the multifaceted nature of education production.

This alternative approach, which now educates more than 30 percent of public - school kids in 19 cities, requires a new structure in order to work.

If private schools are reluctant to go along with this high - regulation approach, maybe it is best just to concentrate on charter schools which have no alternative but to accept whatever regulations come with state funding.

In The Working Class: Poverty, education and alternative voices, Ian Gilbert unites educators from across the UK and further afield to call on all those working in schools to adopt a more enlightened and empathetic approach to supporting children in challenging circumstances.

The researchers» approach to measuring the causal effect of competition between private and state schools uses the fact that the amount of competition in education today has in large part been influenced by the Catholic church's efforts in the nineteenth century to construct an alternative school system wherever the state religion was not Catholic.

The president and his team may instead seek to amend the tax code to encourage donations to organizations that grant scholarships to low - income students, an approach 16 states use as an alternative to school voucher programs.

As I've noted before, alternative high schools, or dropout - recovery programs, are well - suited to forging competency - based approaches; by design, such programs take on students with varying credit and mastery levels.

Researchers also saw examples of the positive impact of schools adopting Indigenous cultural practices — including the adoption of smudging ceremonies, talking circles and eagle - feather ceremonies in Canada and an alternative approach to student discipline in New Zealand focusing on restorative practices.

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Where we can find common ground — as with initiatives to support schools that want to try alternative approaches to suspensions and the like — we should embrace it.

The teenagers wrote opinion pieces on whether all students should be encouraged to attend college, the value of alternative teacher preparation programs such as Teach For America, the importance of desegregation, or the best approach to school discipline.

California also intends to include a proportionate share of alternative schools identified under this separate approach within the five percent of schools identified for comprehensive support.

Explicitly endorsing or encouraging states to use one of the two above - mentioned approaches as an alternative to proficiency rates as the primary measure of school performance.

ALS» roots, however, lie in a more traditional approach to alternative schools: one that focused on discipline.

Over the past twenty years, educators have developed a wide variety of approaches and programs that come under the umbrella of SEL including: character education, conflict resolution and peer mediation, restorative justice and other alternatives to punitive discipline / suspension, bullying prevention, school climate work and more.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

As optional schools, some charters adopt a specific curriculum focus, such as fine arts or math, while others offer smaller classes or alternative instructional approaches.

In our alternative high school (started in 2002), we introduced a hybrid learning approach: classroom lessons combined with an online curriculum helping students stay on track.

Other research has pointed to the possibility that top - down and bottom - up approaches need not be viewed as alternatives, but can be combined.235 Recent research on the district role in school - improvement activity has focused increasingly on the identification of specific district - level policies, actions, and conditions that are related to improvement in teachers «and students «performance.

To engage in screening using this alternative approach, it is necessary to examine the base rate of risk across an entire school and within each classroom.

The documented results of these programs, together with the growing research on public alternative schools (Kleiner, Porch, & Farris, 2002), provide a knowledge base about comprehensive approaches to increasing both academic achievement and high school completion rates — which generally go hand in hand.

Add in the Toby Young connection (WLFS) and what we seem to have here is an alternative Conservative education pressure group that is clearly there to promote the Cameron / Gove approach as opposed to Mrs May's grammar schools focus.

A commitment to alternative approaches to school discipline with an enhancement in the Restorative Justice program funding.

Towards a critically conscious approach to social and emotional learning in alternative education: school staff members» perspectives.

Charter schools provide an alternative approach to education in traditional public schools (TPS).

Approaches such as breaking larger schools down into smaller learning communities and other comprehensive reform approaches, creating alternative school programs, and developing clear linkages to career skills and eApproaches such as breaking larger schools down into smaller learning communities and other comprehensive reform approaches, creating alternative school programs, and developing clear linkages to career skills and eapproaches, creating alternative school programs, and developing clear linkages to career skills and employment.

By implementing Positive Behavior Support, the school moved from a disciplinary approach involving out - of - school suspensions, expulsions, and even placements to alternative schools to a schoolwide code of behavior that all students and adults agreed to uphold.

One alternative approach to school governance has great potential for success — the democratic and distributed leadership model.

One alternative approach to school governance — the democratic and distributed leadership model — may be a more viable approach.

Charter schools claim that they are really public schools; they just utilize an alternative educational approach and environment.

Across the country, interest is increasing in alternative approaches to school staffing that provide more flexible work roles Read more about Beyond Classroom Walls: Developing Innovative Work Roles for Teachers -LSB-...]

I have discussed high - stakes testing extensively on Cloaking Inequity and an alternative approach to assessing our schools.

Threat assessment represents an important component of a comprehensive approach to school safety that gives schools an alternative to zero tolerance discipline policies that have proven to be ineffective and counterproductive.

Proponents of alternative approaches to keeping order in schools support various interventions, most of them based on an approach called social and emotional learning, or SEL, which develops students» skills in recognizing and discussing emotions, relating to and empathizing with others, and defusing and resolving conflict.

The film's Directors, Rachel Ferro and Deborah Hoard, looked at the innovative education approaches practiced by 3 public schools in the United States (Green Hills School, Bard High School / Early College, and Lehman Alternative Community School).

Three California districts, through a facilitated user - centered design process and with input from key LCFF stakeholders, are spending the 2017 - 18 school year developing alternative approaches to meeting LCFF goals.