Not exact matches
To me, the
solution to the attrition issue, whether it's
at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem
Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fe
Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those
children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first fe
children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed
at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.
«Based on this cooperative effort, I think we will
arrive at a good
solution for the students in Success Academy as well as the
children in traditional public school buildings.
developing skills to communicate sensitively and effectively with
children and families with diverse cultural backgrounds (eg listening skills, problem - solving skills to understand issues and
arrive at collaborative
solutions, working sensitively with a trained interpreter)
The cooperation that mediation facilitates enables parents to
arrive at innovative and thoughtful
solutions, keeping both parents heartily involved in their
children's upbringing.
It is made up of four modules that teaches parents: (a) to identify lagging skills and unsolved problems that contribute to oppositional episodes; (b) to prioritize which unsolved problems to focus on first; (c) about the Plans framework — the three potential responses to solving problems: Plan A (solving a problem unilaterally, by imposing the adult will), Plan B (solving a problem collaboratively and proactively), and Plan C (setting aside the problem for now); and (d) how to implement Plan B with their
child by gathering information from the
child to get a clear understanding of their concern or perspective, defining the adult concern on the same unsolved problem, and finally having the
child and adult brainstorm
solutions to
arrive at a plan of action that is both realistic and mutually satisfactory.
Dr. Barbara Landau, president of Cooperative
Solutions, is a Toronto psychologist, lawyer, and mediator who assists separating families in creating parenting plans, improving their communication in the best interests of their
children, and
arriving at fair financial settlements.