Sentences with phrase «as a classroom community»

Through creativity and communication, students were able to share a personal event that enriched their lives, and that sharing further connected them as a classroom community.

As the classroom community strengthens, they confront the impact of poverty and geographic isolation.

Large interactive displays are an important part of my classroom pedagogy, my practice, and quite honestly, the fun we have as a classroom community.

Not exact matches

The Green Barn, as it's known, is essentially a food - production and education centre, consisting of a 3,000 - square - foot greenhouse, a classroom that doubles as a café, a kitchen and several community garden plots.

In tandem with the 100,000 Opportunity Youth Initiative, Starbucks has opened four stores with classroom and training space as part of its effort to support local economic development in diverse low - to - medium income communities across the U.S.. Each of these stores creates 20 to 25 new jobs with benefits, partners with a local women - and minority - owned supplier and contractor, and works with local nonprofits to provide job - skills training to youth.

It therefore seems strained at best to speak of most classrooms as communities; perhaps they are best described, to borrow a term from Erving Goffman, as «focused gatherings.»

Rauf described the center to be built two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers - destroyed by terrorist - hijacked commercial jets on September 11, 2001 - as a «shared space for community activities, like a swimming pool, classrooms and a play space for children.»

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

FEAST extends beyond the classroom, as students develop the skills to become change makers in the community.

In September 2015, children and parents joined the Accolade Wines team to formally open the local pre-primary school following the addition of four new classrooms, two store rooms and a number of toilets, as part of the company's ongoing support of the Kayamandi community in Stellenbosch.

Strengthens communities and inspires young people to achieve their potential through hands - on education and job training, using urban, natural, and maritime resources as «living classrooms.»

«In the spirit of innovation, our vision for this program is to have a head coach who serves as a CEO and is the central leader with a collaborative staff around him that will elevate the performance of players and coaches on the field, in the classroom and in our community.

FRAC President Jim Weill cites breakfast - in - the - classroom specifically as one strategy that can help increase breakfast participation; Community Eligibility Provision expansion is another.

At Scholar's Choice, we want to make sure we are supporting teachers in the classroom through the products we offer as well as through the advice and free resources we provide on our Community Blog.

Overall the reports indicate that participation in school breakfast programs continues to rise, due in part to the success of breakfast - in - the - classroom and other alternative breakfast models, as well as the growth of the Community Eligibility Program.

Every spring we welcome our grandparents and special friends as we open our doors to our extended community for classroom visits, refreshments and an alumni forum.

As a community — whether working in the classroom or coming together during festivals, assemblies, or other activities — we strive to celebrate our common humanity.

In my community, we created a policy that requires classrooms to offer non-food parties and celebrations (in part b / c of food allergies), recess can NOT be taken away as a punishment, and our elementary schools can't sell a la carte «snack» items at lunch unless they meet certain criteria.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

But on visiting each of the three classrooms, I brightened — seeing the joy and hope on the girls» faces as they talked about what they loved studying (e.g., Amharic, English, science, math), what they hoped to be (e.g., pilot, doctor, engineer, driver, teacher, community mentor for BiruhTesfa), and what the best / worst parts of their days are (unanimously, best = being at school, worst = work hours).

If we can change our policies and our practices in the classroom, and work with researchers devoted to finding ways to help our children, we can «make a tremendous difference, not only in the lives of individual children and their families, but in our communities and our nation as a whole.»

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.

In 2001, Belsky suggested that, «as more and more children were spending more and more time in non-maternal care arrangements, at younger and younger ages, even small effects, when experienced by many children, might have broad - scale implications for how classrooms, communities and even societies operate.»

This resource can be used by school nurses and teachers in the classroom as well as a tool to introduce families in the school community to the basic concepts of food allergies.

Brittani loved volunteering as a part of Camp Kesem where she was able to apply concepts she had studied in the classroom and make an impact in the community.

Other forms of support he said he gave to the constituency in the educational sector include the provision of 1,100 teachers» note 3 lesson notes books for schools, 10 packets of roofing sheets for schools, disbursement of Gh cents 10,000 as scholarship packages for students, construction of 4 classroom blocks in four communities (Bugri, Bugpiigu, Gagbiri Natinga and Kugur), roofing of a classroom block at Bulpielise and rehabilitation of a kindergarten block at Bugri Natinga.

But on Saturday morning, as dozens of community members packed into a classroom to hear a presentation from the New Suffolk Waterfront Fund about the nonprofit's hotly contested plans for the relocation and renovation of the Galley Ho restaurant, the mood was more combative than cheerful.

The funds will go towards the purchase of new classroom equipment, security cameras as well as physical repairs to the school's like P.S. 119X, Bronx Community High School and The Parkchester School.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

They need to experience democracy as an ethos and way of life today - in their homes, classrooms and communities - if they are to meet tomorrow's challenges.

They must also go toward construction or renovation of spaces within school buildings to serve as health suites, adult education spaces, guidance suites, resource rooms, remedial rooms, parent / community rooms, and career and technical education classrooms.

With one of the classrooms for Mohawk Valley Community College's newly instituted small Unoccupied Aerial Systems degree program as the backdrop this morning, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. updated the progress being made in his Vision 2020 initiative which intends to ready the region for growth in the areas of high - tech education and training; transportation and housing and access to opportunity.

Also expressing satisfaction with the cross-fertilization of the various communities represented at the Noyce Summit, Shirley Malcom, director for AAAS Education and Human Resources Programs, said it is possible to experiment with new classroom methods and then to «backfill» according to what the research bears out in order to bolster and improve preservice education of STEM teachers, and STEM education itself, as quickly as possible.

Knowledge gained in the classroom compels medical students to serve as leaders in real - world applications in Puentes De Salud, United Community Clinic (which was recently profiled by the Penn Current), and other clinical opportunities throughout Philadelphia.

Blake's contributions to the plant biology community and ASPB span more than 20 years, including extensive editorial service (e.g., as an editorial board member for The Plant Cell), high - impact organizational and service activities, and training and instruction both in and out of the classroom.

As well, there is another seminar designed for Certified ChildLight Yoga instructors seeking to bring yoga into the classroom setting or sharing the seminar with schools in their community.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

The community will also provide a place for teachers to share content and best practice such as their own coping strategies or things that might have worked particularly well for them in the classroom.

In the Valencian Community, the More - TIC Plan was introduced for widespreading the use of technological infrastructures as whiteboards, mobile classrooms, wi - fi networks, or thin clients in the teaching - learning process of the education centers subordinated to the regional Government.

• Relevance: Students have the opportunity to connect a current activity to previous in - classroom experiences, such as science investigations, and to their lives outside the classroom, such as a need they perceive in the community.

In such classrooms, students feel safe, included, and valued as members of a learning community.

As part of a community of young creators, engineers, problem solvers, designers, collaborators, and dreamers, students can work as a classroom learning team, find inspiration in unanswered questions, and ultimately push ideas forward into a reality to make a positive impact on our worlAs part of a community of young creators, engineers, problem solvers, designers, collaborators, and dreamers, students can work as a classroom learning team, find inspiration in unanswered questions, and ultimately push ideas forward into a reality to make a positive impact on our worlas a classroom learning team, find inspiration in unanswered questions, and ultimately push ideas forward into a reality to make a positive impact on our world.

The philosophy derives from Steiner's idea called anthroposophy, which includes the concept of an unseen world complete with angels hovering above daily life (and the classroom), as well as a commitment to developing the inner self in order to serve the community.

In a 7th - grade classroom, wellness lessons are framed as broader «missions» to get students engaged with relevant topics in their community.

Through student - centered learning, differentiated instruction, and connecting the classroom to the world, Dewey proposed that students should assume an active role in their learning process so as to develop the skills for becoming successful members of their communities.

As Anika Mir, from the UAE, put it: «Parents can be our assets and our allies as teachers,» and Stephen Ritz, a teacher from the US, said «We need to push the walls of the classroom out and bring the community in.&raquAs Anika Mir, from the UAE, put it: «Parents can be our assets and our allies as teachers,» and Stephen Ritz, a teacher from the US, said «We need to push the walls of the classroom out and bring the community in.&raquas teachers,» and Stephen Ritz, a teacher from the US, said «We need to push the walls of the classroom out and bring the community in.»

Community nonprofit organizations, such as the Health Trust, in Santa Clara County, California, are bringing the program into their local classrooms.

During the past year, Bonnie Mackintosh has been conducting classroom - level observations and child assessments in community - based preschool programs throughout Boston's Circle of Promise and East Boston neighborhoods as part of an initiative to improve access to high - quality early childhood care and educational programs.

For instance, service learning programs bring curricular activities outside of the classroom and into the local community, by encouraging students to engage in civic duty such as volunteering.

Sarah: I think often about the values I want to impart to my students in the classroom, such as empathy, courage, community, and resilience.