Sentences with phrase «class teachers and communities»

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.»

Not exact matches

Every teacher from both studios taught a class, and our entire team participated to raise money — support that only helped to boost the morale and excited amongst our community.

Whether it's an intro to marketing course or a senior leadership class, a night class speaking engagement that takes 30 minutes give you some goodwill from the college community, gets your name out there, and most likely a link from either the course syllabus, teacher's page, school events page, etc..

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.

This takes place through school visits of one to several weeks annually in North America Waldorf schools, working with teachers, classes, staff, and individual students, as well as offering lectures / workshops for parents and the wider community.

In our rural community, someone had posted a teachers name and her «success rate» (or lack thereof) in getting her class to pass the ASK, on a commercial billboard... it was a failing mark by any standard.

The grade school teacher «forms» the class of children to be a thriving community that accepts all members — acknowledging the strengths and challenges of each member and encouraging cooperation.

Be prepared to take the seat of the teacher and teach fellow teacher trainees as well as the two community classes

This is when we invite the pregnant community to come to class and the teacher trainees teach the class in a round robin style.

«The voices of the parents, teachers and the community have been heard,» said Leonie Haimson, the executive director of education blog Class Size Matters, who delivered 13,000 signatures to Steiner's apartment on the Upper East Side Monday evening urging him to deny the waiver.

«The students really enjoy being able to use their skills and what they've learned in ceramics classes to make a positive difference in their community,» said Desirae Collins, the art teacher at HFCS who spearheads the school's involvement in Empty Bowls.

I am a middle class teacher, community leader, and mother who will fight every day for the issues impacting my constituents; not my political career.

«As a New York City public school teacher for 25 years, I've seen what our children need to succeed: smaller class sizes, more parental involvement, and balanced input in the education process from all members of the community,» Dromm said in a statement.

On his website, he had cited four main objectives — returning power and choice in education to parents, teachers and local districts; pursuing governmental ethics reform beginning with the Governor's office; making sure communities are safe without abridging Second Amendment Rights; and to stimulate economic growth and bolster middle - class financial security.

Teacher training progressed, and the community classes we were required to do for graduation seemed like a million light years away.

Pam Butler is the author of Return to Life, a certified Chopra Primordial Sound Meditation instructor, a certified Hot Fusion ™ Flow yoga teacher, a Creative Insight Journey transformational coach, and a bliss coach who provides workshops, classes, and one - on - one instruction to individuals, groups, and businesses throughout the South Florida community.

The amazing community of women that teach and attend, who have become my friends and motivation and teachers that are committed to making us give our best every class!

Owned by Chris Lindley, there are 5 unique locations that features the best spin, yoga, boxing and high intensity warrior style classes I've ever seen, teacher training programs, retreats, great weight training facilities, fantastic trainers, and most of all a community of amazing people.

Guided by approximately 30 senior teachers, a personal mentor, and an entire community, students develop the fundamental skills needed to teach a well - rounded and safe yoga class.

My orientation at Unity Woods is more toward developing teachers and curriculum, networking with not only the local, but the national and international yoga community and my own classes and students.

After your yoga teacher training at the Yogalaya you will find you are one among a community of teachers that is confident and capable of conducting yoga classes more effectively.

The Oxygen Project offers regular yoga programming for youth in schools and community organizations and yoga classes and professional development for teachers and youth service providers.

From your first class until the day, perhaps, that you decide to join the ranks of Yoga Yoga Teacher Training graduates, we are here to serve the needs of our students and the yoga community at large.

You want your world - class business coach, healer, mentor, spiritual teacher and a women's community.

Useless to discuss at length, The Chorus is essentially another in a line of literally dozens of films in which an inspirational teacher changes the lives of a group of troubled / lower - class / underestimated children through will, kindness, and a rogue spark of crinkly - eyed genius that irks to no end the evil dean / headmaster / school board / community.

Aukeem Ballard, a Habits, Community, and Culture teacher, uses this same table-less circle configuration for whole - class discussions.

The main activities implemented in the program by the students, under the coordination of their teacher, are: (1) analysis of the problems of the local Roma community; (2) selection of a problem for in - depth study by the class, a problem that can be solved through local public policies; (3) collecting information about the problem from various sources, including members of the Roma community, public institutions, NGOs, specialists, and analysis of possible solutions; (4) drafting a public policy that could solve the problem; (4) developing an action plan to influence public authorities to adopt the public policy proposed by the students; (5) organizing a showcase at local level in which students present their projects; (6) reflecting on the learning experience.

Interactive boards better reflect a connected, knowledge sharing community, with large format displays, (e.g. 65» to 85» displays) and / or interactive touch screen displays enabling teachers to project media to the front of class.

There is no better cure for the social ills of our community and no better process for the education of an immigrant class than providing a great teacher, a core curriculum, a disciplined school culture, and strong accountability.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

We created an image of a teacher and students in a class with digital tools from which they can access families, the community, the environment and the world at large through the internet.

A few weeks prior, teachers rank their preferences for which community they would like to learn about based on the students in their classes and the cultural groups they feel less knowledgeable about.

And while they were able to see their teacher more clearly, in terms of a class community they felt better about actually having the TV [and camera] back in the back of the classroAnd while they were able to see their teacher more clearly, in terms of a class community they felt better about actually having the TV [and camera] back in the back of the classroand camera] back in the back of the classroom.

The latter may be influenced by students» homes and neighborhoods and may give teachers in middle - class suburban communities an advantage over those teaching in less advantaged communities.

Armed with data looking at some 20,000 high school students in urban, rural, and suburban communities, he first examined a survey question asking teachers to identify students in their class that they perceived as having disabilities.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

So, it really became a community - building exercise in my class where all of the kids kind of sat in a circle and they read out to their peers what they wished their teacher knew.

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.

The class also helps out the school community by laminating teacher's materials, making alphabet books for kindergartners, and reading to second - grade pals.

Indeed, the resources platform has been shown to be very effective at saving teachers time and helping them improve their classes by benefiting from the collective knowledge of the global teaching community.

«Professional learning is very important and I think one of the things that's helped us is flipping the classroom so we've done a lot of work in that area, developed a teacher film studio, recruited a digital coach who's very skilled in it and doing continuous work in teacher learning communities of three people to support each other, to learn how to film those lessons that are the lower order skills of remembering and understanding to allow more time in class with the teacher to do the higher order skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

Students in Tim Comolli's electronic - arts class at South Burlington High School have won awards for their 3 - D graphic designs; they've sold computer - generated logos to businesses in their South Burlington, Vt., community; and they've taught teachers how to use Internet search engines and sophisticated multimedia software.

In Professor Higgins» class we analyzed case studies about so many good ideas that failed because they failed to understand the other stakeholders in the ecosystem,» says Gulati, explaining that during the launch of Meraki, her team spent six to eight months interviewing parents, schools, teachers, and principals across India to understand the challenges of the communities.

After opening with praise («Johnny is so energetic»), the teacher brings up a specific critique («With all that energy, he can become quite disruptive in class»), and closes on a positive note («But he adds so much to our learning community»).

Teachers are encouraged to discuss the videos and math topics with other participants in an online class community.

Mike Thornton, elementary teacher, facilitates children in his class to teach educators around the world, communicating as a connected community through Twitter, Skype, and Webinar sessions.

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For instance, online AP classes serve rural communities without access to qualified teachers, and there are promising efforts to create programs that adapt to the needs of students with special learning requirements.

But the best examples may come from the recent conflicts between reform advocates and critics in which race and class have been explicit topics of the debate - when Newark's Cami Anderson is under attack for being a white interloper in a black community, or when Chicago's Rahm Emanuel is accused of being a racist murderer by the head of the Chicago Teachers Union.