Sentences with phrase «conversation about school»

But there is a time of the day when I do nt know what to do or how to approach to my middle son JP of 6 years a very stong - willing boy because I know he is kind of challenging me, and the worst thing is that my little girl is starting to do the same and that time is mealtime, in Mexico we have «lunch» with the family at 2:00 pm when they come back from school and that is his worst time for JP and even when I try to prevent the explosion cooking his favorite meal, start a conversation about the school, how was their day and give him a little bit more of the attention I feel he is trying to get, he «sits» on the table and starts saying silly things or calling names to his brother LM 9 (with the one I've always had a hard time «making» him to eat and my attention «was» always on him because he eats just a few things and in a very little portion, he is very thin, etc.etc.

Will this spark a real conversation about school equity and innovation or will this bring more polarization and turf wars in public education?

The North Carolina General Assembly's answer to the Parkland shooting and a still - simmering national conversation about school safety began Wednesday with a legislative committee.

His smart, empathic, and actionable synthesis breathes new life into the national conversation about school and classroom culture.

Remember the last time you were part of a conversation about school reform that was balanced, respectful of different perspectives and focused on finding common ground?

We do this by creating virtual and physical spaces for people to reflect on four essential questions that are, alarmingly, almost completely absent from the current national conversation about school improvement:

Those of us who have been talking for years about the importance of school culture or school climate and how it can improve student achievement, are heartened by the inclusion of this topic in the national conversation about school improvement.

Educators, understandably shaken by the scale of the shooting, found creative ways to talk with their students and encourage them to make their voices part of the national conversation about school safety.

Support development of innovative practices and policies to help shift the conversation about school reform and how to respond to a markedly changing labor market.

It purposefully keeps important information about our students» knowledge, skills and academic progress out of the conversation about school quality and disproportionately hurts children of color, like the scholars I've had the privilege of teaching in urban schools across the country.

«I wouldn't say that every state is jumping on the bandwagon, but in general a lot of states are starting to have a conversation about school funding reform and equalizing funding.»

The intent of presenting this discussion concept is to encourage conversation about school finance solutions among the Council and the public.

Much of the public conversation about school quality rests on a reasonable assumption, namely that we can reliably assess school quality by the measures currently in use.

Hopefully part of the conversation about school choice can move beyond the fiscal impact and onto what really matters: what school choice means for families and their children.

School systems can and should do much more to draw upon the knowledge and expertise of these staff members, and now that the national conversation about school improvement has begun to expand beyond its narrow fixation on test - score gains in reading and math, policy makers may be ready to take a fresh look at their work.

For years, student test scores drove much of the conversation about school quality and student learning.

That question currently looms over the national conversation about school reform... [and] it is time for educators and policymakers to rethink the boundaries distinguishing the public and private in education.

After a discussion of opposition to Betsy DeVos, EdNext's Paul Peterson joined the conversation about school finance along with Linda Darling - Hammond of the Learning Policy Institute and Susan Ferriss of the Center for Public Integrity.

From the first day of school, make sure your child knows there will be a real conversation about school every evening — not just a half - hearted attempt at discussion and one - word answers.

Hosted by Healthy Schools Campaign, Cooking Up Change is a dynamic culinary competition that puts student voices front - and - center in the national conversation about school food.

Cooking up Change began in Chicago in 2007 as a way to involve a student voice in the national conversation about school food.

Over the course of about a half an hour, we had a wide - ranging conversation about school food and all the ways in which our larger food culture affects kids.

It's not a conversation about school is bad or school is not worth it.

Ask your child questions about school «The real key is communication,» says Guy Strickland, author of Bad Teachers: The Essential Guide for Concerned Parents, even with a preschooler who can't engage in long conversations about school.

Natural conversations about school are usually better than forced ones.

«Too often, students are cut out of conversations about school policies and culture.

But in the evolving landscape of public education, with ever - present conversations about school choice and concerns about school quality, that is changing.

No doubt you've felt the stress of the year winding down and you are eager to start your summer break, but what a relief it has been for me (and I think a few other colleagues) to have some important conversations about our school and how we are relating to one another before we go our separate ways for the summer.

Education Post's mission is to «elevate the voices of families and teachers» and «connect them to honest, classroom - focused conversations about our schools.»

Avoid joining negative conversations about your school, administrators, colleagues, students, or parents.

We've taken the conversations about schools outside the school and into our communities.

It was a junior high, and the University of Connecticut said, «We have no money but we can facilitate some conversations about the school community.»

The conference ended with some conversations about school finance and a networking lunch that took place steps away from a beautiful beach.

Consider other voices that might be brought into conversations about your school's future — teachers, community members, and even students who can provide input to help you plan.

There's a lot of questions and conversations about school closures in Atlanta.

We also asked them to be part of conversations about school policies on dress code, social media use, and assessment practices.

As a result of this and the change in classroom instruction, parents are engaging in different conversations about school.

Engaging our youth in open and courageous conversations about school benefits our educational leadership and stewardship by illuminating and clarifying our purpose and mission.

Students around the world are asserting themselves into local, state, national and international dialogues about education transformation and other essential conversations about schools.

When schools underwent community - driven school design, we watched school leaders open up conversations about school design that went beyond «engagement» or «partnership.»

RE-INVISIONED is a movement to catalyze a new conversation about schooling.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

In the case of Race to Nowhere (www.racetonowhere.com), however, the filmmakers wanted to move the conversation about schools beyond the movie theaters and into schools, classrooms, and homes.

Journalist Nikole Hannah Jones has become a leading voice in the conversation about schools and equality.

The desires, dreams, and possibilities students envision for school should be acknowledged, documented and assessed throughout the opportunities, particularly those of students who are not traditionally engaged in conversations about school improvement.

Not exact matches

His citations go back as far as Plato («You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation») and as recently as «Stranger Things» teen star Millie Bobby Brown («I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school.

The school is already weighing in on important conversations about education, like whether multigrade classrooms enhance learning.

According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.

Last week: The tectonic shift in the conversation about gun regulations, school safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deschool safety and mental health since the murder of 17 faculty and students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two deSchool is nothing less than amazing when, in defiance of the NRA, it produced the first successful gun control measure in Florida in over two decades!

There has been a national conversation about guns after the Feb. 14 Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and 17 wounded.