Sentences with phrase «educating children from»

Mr. Alves, as he is known in the classroom, is also a teacher for the West Contra Costa Unified School district and got his renowned patience educating children from all grades in virtually all subjects (including special education).

He has run the school since 1975; it is a very successful school currently educating children from the age of three plus to 16.

A central rationale for providing these alternatives is that traditional schools fall short in educating children from low - income households and communities, children of color and children with special needs.

For a more detailed account of the initial conversations to engage families, please visit our case study — Voices of Parents on Raising and Educating Their Children from Birth to College — and the companion video.

Donald Trump proposed an unrealistic plan to shift federal funds from educating children from low - income families and children with disabilities to instead fund charter schools which have at best a mixed record of success.

One of the challenges is in educating children from diverse ethnic backgrounds in a way that respects and supports their differences as well as prepares them to succeed in mainstream U.S. society.

Clearly, however, educating children from different backgrounds alongside each other for the entirety of their schooling is vastly superior to holding the odd joint lesson, assembly, school trip, or sports match.

The addition of the upper school, which opened programming to students in grades 10 - 12 for the 2015 - 16 school year, makes Hershey Montessori School the first in the world to fully implement Dr. Maria Montessori's vision for educating children from birth through 18 years, with an adolescent residential program on a working farm.

This year we are celebrating 36 years of educating children from infancy through 8th grade.

But there are a growing number of British parents who home educate their children from the start.

Education for the students does come first, in most cases however there could be ways schools could educate children from the offset.

There will be more schools that educate children from the age of 5 to 18 for example.

While there, she recognized a desperate need in the system to better support and educate children from disadvantaged or underprivileged backgrounds at an earlier age.

We educate children from infancy through grade ten.

Discovery Lab offers camps throughout the year to engage and educate children from Pre-k to 6th grade.

Google has filmed 150 Expeditions to extraordinary locations around the world including Mount Fiji, Borneo rainforests and even Mars in a quest to help educate children from York to Hong Kong who can't visit the location on a school trip.

Not exact matches

Stagias at Francis Financial educates his clients about credit both by reviewing their credit reports with them annually and by having an event for their children, aged from 12 to 30, that discusses the proper use of credit cards, good debt versus bad credit, and other topics.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

USA Gymnastics needs a «complete cultural change» after not doing enough to educate its staff, members and athletes about protecting children from sexual abuse and failing to ensure that safeguards were being followed, according to a critical review by a former federal prosecutor.

I don't have any problem with religions (note the plural) being offered together as a Philosophy class elective — But, it would have to cover ALL religions equally from a neutral viewpoint with contexts and relevant histories to educate children on the many religious philosophies of the world.

She said she felt she had to get her son educated and protesting at a young age, because gays «are trying to get our children from the time they're in kindergarten... in the cradle even!»

The critics found themselves so alarmed, of course, because now politically, culturally, and religiously conservative parents were educating their children at home and rejecting the influence of a system in which the critics — so many of them former countercultural types themselves — were heavily invested, and from which, as a Marxist would note, so many of them drew their salaries.

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

It is no surprise that The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality, a document from the Pontifical Council for the Family, calls the witness of parents «the most valid basis for educating children in love».

This access, along with the sanitation and hygiene training provided, lead to better educated children; stronger crops; fewer deaths from water - related diseases; and more empowered women.

Science also requires an influx of new, educated young scientists, and poisoning American children's brains through miseducation has resulted in cell and molecular biologists being imported from Asia.

She seeks to do this through promoting truth - seeking expeditions, advocating gender equality, educating the Church on abuse, and aiding the rescue of men, women and children from spiritual, emotional and physical poverty.

Otherwise competent journalistic reports on research findings about male homosexuality, such as Peter and Barbara Wyden's Growing Up Straight (Stein & Day, 1968), confound the picture for the public by appealing to the fears of middle - class parents; further, they profess (without foundation) to show that parents can educate their children away from the possibility of becoming homosexual.

Just like how people today look at slavery in the United States as unacceptable and barbaric, centuries from now children being educated will read about the once predominant religions in our society and think the same thing.

Instead of raising salaries, the denominations could put aside funds for educating clergy children and for providing a home for those retiring from the ministry.

I do think Christians would benefit from learning a bit of psychology, and Christian parent would benefit from learning a bit of child psychology, then maybe they could educate themselves better about what is normal behaviour, instead of seeing their child's behaviour as sinful or wicked.

St. Paul writes of submitting to rulers because they have authority from God, and before the Enlightenment, Christian thinkers saw the ruler as being like a father, who intends the good of his children and educates them in virtue.

But from Scripture, I don't think that you can make the case stick that women are supposed to stay home exclusively to look after the cleaning and cooking and educating and raising of children.

Quite a few of us have stable relationships, raise healthy well - educated children, are free from addiction, vote, volunteer and donate to support causes that help make this society work, live in harmony with people who are different from us — I could go on, but you may get the idea that most of us do things most people would call good and have neither the inclination nor the time to do abominable things.

Contra Wolfers, less - educated people would powerfully benefit from a society - wide reinvigoration of the norm that upholds lifelong marriage and that connects children with marriage» after all, they have been the most vulnerable to the loss of these traditional norms.

«One of the saddest moments during my time as Education Secretary was the day I took a call from a wonderfully generous philanthropist who had devoted limitless time and money to helping educate disadvantaged children in some of the most challenging areas of Britain but who now felt he had no option but to step away from his commitments because his evangelical Christianity meant that he, and his generosity, were under constant attack.»

A portion of all proceeds from the event and silent auction will benefit Common Threads, a non-profit charity founded by Chicago Chef Art Smith that focuses on educating children about different cultures through food and art.

George the Farmer has become an important vehicle in educating children about where their food comes from, and to appreciate farmers» efforts, skill and time.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

As someone who has been educating sports parents about head trauma in sports for the past seventeen years, and about the very real risk posed by chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) for the last decade, it is not surprising that I receive emails from parents all the time expressing deep concern about stories in the media that have led them - wrongly - to fear that playing contact or collision sports, or suffering a sports - related concussion, especially one slow to heal, makes it inevitable that their child will develop CTE and is at greatly increased risk of committing suicide.

And yet most of our schools, especially schools educating poor kids, operate in ways that steer children away from those experiences.

• If one parent is better - educated than the other, some children may benefit from the better - educated parent undertaking more care: e.g. in Norway, girls (but not boys) have been found to do better at school when a father who was better educated than their mother took longer - than - average leave (Cools et al, 2011.)

• Fathers from lower income families tend to be both more adversely affected by the birth and to spend less time with their handicapped children than higher income and better educated fathers (for review, see Lamb & Laumann - Billings, 1997).

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But if that's not your style, you can still entertain and educate your children with the fabulous art kits from Eye Can Art.

On an individual level, if you are well - educated, middle - class parents (the children who make the biggest gains from early childhood education are those from deprived backgrounds) and use quality daycare (if you use it), you are probably not going to influence your child's outcomes all that much whatever you do.

With statistics showing that one in five children will grow up to develop skin cancer and that protecting skin from the sun during childhood and adolescence is important to reducing the risk of cancer later in life, it's vital that parents become educated about sun safety, take steps to protect their kids against the damaging effects of the sun and build safe sun habits into the family routine.

It might totally confuse you if your child requests a curriculum or workbooks, when you thought you were freeing them from such bondage by choosing to educate them at home!

Mass Audubon has received a $ 25,900 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) for our work educating children and adults throughout central Massachusetts on improving water quality and habitat, focusing on the use of cost - effective Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development (LID).

Mass Audubon has received a $ 25,900 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) for our work educating children and adults throughout central Massachusetts on improving water quality and habitat, focusing on the use of cost - effective Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development.