Sentences with phrase «closest classroom community»

Since then, we've been the closest classroom community I've ever experienced.

I decided to give restorative justice a try in my class and challenge anyone wanting a closer classroom community where all students feel valued to do the same.

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In Chicago, the major site of the research reported on in Lost Classrooms, Lost Community, 130 Catholic schools closed or were merged with others between 1984 and 2004.

The term «professional learning community» had been used by education researchers since the 1960s to describe a more collaborative and collegial approach to teaching than the traditional isolated, closed - classroom - door model.

In a Facing History and Ourselves classroom, asking students to question and think critically is challenging every day, but especially when we read headlines about violence in communities close to home.

While no child wants to extend their classroom day, these programs can play a crucial role in closing the learning gap and opening up lifelong opportunities for children from underserved and underrepresented communities.

«Charter school educators are empowered to teach; parents are empowered to choose their school; principals set their own budgets so that more money gets to the classroom; community members form boards that oversee schools; and the district's central office, which is not close to the parents, the teachers, or the children, monitors schools but does not tell parents and teachers how to educate their children.»

In the name of closing the achievement gap, entire communities of color in cities around the country have seen classrooms converted to test prep centers, where the time spent on studying strategies for eliminating wrong answer choices has pushed out inquiry, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, the arts, and culturally relevant pedagogy.

Teachers on Tour is the first travel - based professional development program aimed at empowering K - 12 teachers to close the achievement gap through gaining a better understanding of the diverse community backgrounds of the students in their classrooms.

This has been a difficult time in our rural community as our local public school corporation has fallen on difficult financial times and has been forced to close three elementary schools in the last three years, increasing classroom sizes drastically and frustrating many parents who are now seeking a choice in their children's education.

ClassDojo classrooms and schools become close - knit communities, connected by the shared belief that they will improve education together.