Sentences with phrase «between teachers and the communities»

But Silver, then 29, persevered, determined to create an elementary school with strong family involvement and collaboration between teachers and community, all united around the vision that every student would one day go to college.

The Teacher Next Door program not only offers educators a chance to achieve that dream, but it helps build important ties between teachers and their communities.»

Many schools are sharing student activities, achievements, awards and staff interactions, which creates an open environment, bridging the traditional divide and separation between the teacher and community.

Lasting ties between teachers and the communities they're in, White says, can keep children on the right path.

«This report shows that stable and diverse schools lead to more inclusive partnerships between teachers and communities and to better overall achievement.

With both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association strongly committed to community schools, there is a significant opportunity to strengthen local ties between teachers and community partners.

The direct connection between teachers and their communities restores a relationship that predates collective bargaining.

We considered a breach in the labor - management divide, the official differentiation of teachers, the growth in teacher leadership, the growing direct connection between teachers and their communities, the emergence of teacher - led schools, the call for appropriate professional practice, and the emergence of professional quality assurance.

Not exact matches

These include practices concerning the regular scheduling of the community's time and conventions governing the patterns of relationship, mutual expectations, and responsibilities between students and teachers.

There is an important distinction between the recognition that one has found the right path, teacher, or community for themselves, and having found The One.

UCDS builds a strong community between students, teachers, staff, parents, Board of Trustees and neighborhood.

Conscious cooperation and collaboration between parents and teachers and among community members is the healthiest environment in which to educate children.

Part of what the successful teachers or principals are doing is developing a strong sense of community, attachment, and connection among the students themselves and between the students and teachers or other educators.

Montano - Vining has said she and a colleague, technology teacher George Bain, were supervising a community service clean - up session with seven students between the ages of 13 and 17 at a popular swimming hole off Rt. 23A in the town of Hunter when Allen pulled up and the confrontation began.

District 25: Danny Dromm In the three - way race in District 25, voters will choose between the two - term incumbent Councilwoman Helen Sears; Danny Dromm, a school teacher and community activist; and Stanley Kalathara, an immigration lawyer who is a relative newcomer to local politics.

Once completed, the lab at IS 228 will be used as part of the South Brooklyn Engineering Pipeline, a curriculum and teacher training partnership between K — 12 schools and Kingsborough Community College.

The contract showdown between the Buffalo Public Schools and its teachers union has been a long time coming.Perhaps surprising is that teachers are frustrated with those on both sides of the bargaining table, feeling caught time and again in the middle of what has become an epic battle shaped by politics, ideology and personalities.They feel many people in the community bl...

- Partnerships between industry and two - year and four - year colleges to strengthen education for technicians in the clean energy sector, focusing on curriculum development, teacher training, and career pathways from high schools to community colleges

Social capital is the network of relationships between school officials, teachers, parents and the community that builds trust and norms that promote academic achievement.

Theo Wildcroft is a yoga teacher working for a more sustainable relationship between our many selves, the communities that hold us, and the world that nourishes us.

Through the dialogue between individual teachers, such adjustments are passed on in the community of traditional teaching and gain further precision.

Sheila Guidry, with the Louisiana Department of Education, says the principals gain more - strategic approaches to making change: They learn how to use data, work in teams, and foster communication between administrators, teachers, parents, and the community.

National Lab Day, the day itself, is a capstone day to celebrate the yearlong efforts and collaborations between students, teachers, STEMprofessionals and community volunteers - all supporting and pursuing fun hands - on learning.

Between midday on 4th and 14th December, all donations online can be doubled, which means in the future twice as many teachers could be learning about child rights and gender - based violence, twice as many communities learning about the importance of girls» education, twice as many school - boards understanding and enforcing national policies aimed at supporting girls, and hopefully twice as many girls could be making that crucial transition from primary to secondary school, become shining beacons for hundreds of other women and girls who dream of a better future but wonder if it's possible.

Finally, teachers object strongly to the massive amount of reporting and editorializing abot MCAS results and believe that the unfair comparisons drawn between urban districts and affluent suburban communities are destructive to the educational climate and demoralizing to vast numbers of teachers, students, and parents.

The school community must have as a standard genuine, caring relationships between and among students, teachers, parents, and staff.

Otherwise, it is merely going to provoke conflict between schools and their communities and would undermine the decision - making of head teachers.»

And break down the barriers between inside of school and outside of school — have kids work on projects that are meaningful to their communities and bring people from the communities into the schools to support the teacheAnd break down the barriers between inside of school and outside of school — have kids work on projects that are meaningful to their communities and bring people from the communities into the schools to support the teacheand outside of school — have kids work on projects that are meaningful to their communities and bring people from the communities into the schools to support the teacheand bring people from the communities into the schools to support the teachers.

The program, created by the Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT) Parent / Teacher Project, bridges the communication gap between school and community by training teachers to conduct home visits.

The libraries of the 21st century provide a welcoming common space that encourages exploration, creation, and collaboration between students, teachers, and a broader community.

The teacher seeks to understand students» families, cultures, and communities, and uses this information as a basis for connecting instruction to students» experiences (e.g., drawing explicit connections between subject matter and community matters, making assignments that can be related to students» experiences and cultures).

Teacher education in community colleges should be viewed as a four - year process that combines content and pedagogical training over that time, says a report that is the outcome of a meeting between the Education Commission of the States and the National Center for Teaching Transformation.

«One of the reasons behind the gap between the research and practitioner communities is the impression among teachers and school administrators that investing in social and emotional skills will involve significant additional efforts and resources.

The management committee includes between 12 and 20 members appointed by the headmaster from among parents, teachers and community leaders.

Teachers, administrators, and other school personnel will find relevant and valuable tools and resources here for strengthening bonds between schools, families, and communities.

With the help of a few high - profile media stories and some legal cases, this view has shifted, and now most schools have an acceptable use policy covering all online communications between students, parents and teachers that impact on the school community.

With this degree, she hopes to initiate new programs based on collaboration; for example, programs that bridge the gap between teachers and organizations in the community which would like to help their students.

Collaboration is needed at all levels: between teachers and counselors, K — 12 and higher education, researchers and practitioners, schools and nonprofit / community organizations, educators and business leaders, etc..

Education consultant Linda P. Rosen made playful reference to that work to describe what she sees as a persistent divide between corporate America and math teachers in their thinking about how to improve schools in her speech, «Is the Business Community From Mars?

In addition, it may be that operating within a larger communal organization reduces agency problems; encourages interactions between parents, teachers, administrators, and students; and influences the development of professional school communities.

The question should be discussed with teachers, parents, and students to reach a balance between educational values and community expectations.»

A lot of trust and communication is developed between teachers within the learning community to talk about the students they share, and the work they are doing across the tiers.

Among the entries, we find Bambino musing about the impact of charter schools; the need in schools for more business partnerships and community involvement; the «us and them» divide between teachers and parents; the validity of the school science fair; and the need for more time to plan and reflect.

In Cincinnati, as in so many communities, the relationship between officials of the public schools and their teachers historically has been adversarial.

Fogarty says the program is a model of learning that's engaging part of the whole community in teaching and also changes the dynamic between teachers and students because it positions the conversation more about what learning is being selected, who's doing the selecting and how to balance that knowledge.

Carter works hard to create community - building and visioning processes amongst her diverse teaching staff and between the teachers and the low - income parents of color whose children attend the school.

In one program, prospective teachers are asked to look at their own cultural experiences and history, think about the match between their family community culture and their school culture, and then discuss ways in which some children's home and school cultures differ.

Those with a positive culture will typically have lots of symbols, artefacts and mottos that foster positive interactions between teachers, students, parents and the community.

Lisa Delpit, an African American literacy researcher and 1990 MacArthur grantee, has written persuasively for many years about the «culture of power» in American schools and classrooms and the «schism between liberal educational movements and that of non-White, non-middle class teachers and communities.»

Okay, you've walked down the hallways and found lots of symbols, artefacts and mottos that foster positive interactions between teachers, students, parents and the community, but you want to see if the school has those six characteristics of healthy school cultures I've just listed.