Sentences with phrase «engaged parent community»

As schools of choice, these schools likely benefit from having a more engaged parent community than neighboring traditional public schools do.

Facebook is useful for other purposes, it's fantastic for engaging a parent community, it's awesome for closed groups, but we wanted this one to be as open as we could make it.

With the support and guidance of these four founders — Gordon, Dragon, Forman and Starrett — the CWC Schools coalition pursued a national network of charter schools providing true diversity, exceptional performance, and deeply engaged parent communities.

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Hoke believes that through training, these individuals can become successful entrepreneurs, high performing employees, engaged parents, and committed role models and leaders in their communities.

Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

Type - A Parent, established 2007, is the world's premier community and conference for lifestyle bloggers and micro influencers and the brands who want to engage them.

We believe that when parents learn together about the importance of a balanced life, communities become stronger, families prioritize well - being, and kids are healthier and more engaged in school.

Through interactive presentations at schools, libraries, work places, community centers, and other venues, we highlight the parents» role in developing and supporting healthy, engaged children.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

Parenting Ideas speakers are current experts in their fields, able to deliver inspiring keynotes, practical workshops and engaging presentations for conferences, schools and community - based organisations.

The BabyFather Initiative Barnardo's BabyFather Initiative engages directly with ethnic minority fathers, many of them young, offering a range of parenting and other community based activities and services; and also supplying relevant training and consultancy services direct to professionals.

The school district will engage a committee composed of students, parents, teachers, (including teachers of physical education), administrators, food service professionals, health professionals, and other interested community members in developing, implementing, monitoring and reviewing district - wide nutrition and physical activity goals.

These are the changes envisaged: • comprehensive new information about the changes produced and given to both parents • midwives encouraged to inform parents about registration — and the benefits of both parents» signing • the opportunity for fathers to register ante-natally in the health service records alongside the mother • training for registrars in the new way of engaging with both parents • community outreach to reach fathers as well as mothers • an «acknowledgement of paternity» event at the birth where father and mother could jointly sign a form.

Our hope is to engage the community of parents and experts to discuss the best way to discipline our children so they grow to be responsible, respectful and equipped to make good choices.

There will also be a discussion of how state school board associations can engage with other local stakeholders — advocates, parents, and members of the school community — to bring BIC to more districts in your state.

«I took a step back,» Roe said, «and realized we really need to address as a community how we define success and how we engage parents and children in conversations about ethics and virtue.»

Nixa's SHAC (School Health Advisory Council) has engaged the community by hosting free and fun wellness events where, for example, parents and kids have cooked a family meal together, designed holiday crafts together, and created their own signature seasoning blends for at home.

The Glenbard Parent Series engages top experts, parents and school staff to become proactive and informed in pursuit of the mutual goal to strengthen our communities.

Junior Chef (or «Iron Chef») Competitions are an innovative and effective way to engage students of all ages, their parents, local chefs and community members in your school food program.

In those pages, I experience a connection to a community of parents that I don't get to engage with nearly enough on a face - to - face basis.

Using examples from different school settings, this training provides key steps and strategies for consistently and meaningfully engaging dads in the parent organization, at grade - levels and at the whole school community level.

Research shows that babies who feel their parents, particularly their mother, is in tune with what they need grow up to be less stressed as teenagers and adults and more engaged in their community.

We provide a welcoming space for all families, opportunities to connect and develop community, and an intentional selection of innovative, durable, and fun products that help support engaged and practical parenting.

• The School Nutrition department partners with the Cherokee County Farm Bureau to foster an engaged farm - to - school community with support from a broad range of community members including parents, teachers, administrators, farmers, Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, the Upper Etowah River Alliance, local churches and faith - based organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, and more.

In partnership with the Boston Children's Museum, Massachusetts expanded resources to parents and communities by engaging 56 museums and 119 libraries across the state to provide STEM, early literacy, and school readiness activities to children and families.

«We must work together to ensure that all school communities, particularly parents, are engaged as partners in this ongoing work,» said Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña in a statement.

Our research with our clients» campaigns has shown that parents appear to be the most engaged, influential, and connected members of most communities.

«For months we have been engaging with elected officials, community leaders, and parents, so we can best serve the needs of students in this neighborhood,» Deputy Chancellor for Portfolio Planning Marc Sternberg said in a statement.

He or she would also look into the effectiveness of programs for the disabled and English Language learners, and how well the city is engaging parents and community members.

«Moving forward we will have a new approach in place that truly engages parents and the communities to ensure their voices are heard.»

The DOE truly listened over the course of several engaged meetings and discussions, taking into account our concerns — including that of over 1,200 parents and community members who signed the I.S. 109Q Parent Teacher Association's effective petition against the proposal.

We believe that education is a human right and we want to ensure that New York City public schools are places of learning in which all stakeholders (parents, students, educators, non-pedagogical staff, administrators and the community) are engaged in a democratic process to provide a free and quality education to all its students, from Pre-school to College.

It is going to take dedicated teachers with the right skills set, committed parents, responsive school administrations, and invested communities to engage these students and reverse the trend.

The «Shaping Healthy Choices Program» takes a holistic approach to engage students, schools, parents and community partners in building healthful habits.

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

Foster: Parents for Public Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing pParents for Public Schools (PPS) is a national organization of community - based chapters working to strengthen public schools by engaging, educating and mobilizing parentsparents.

Continuing in its mission to help teachers and pupils engage beyond the classroom, schools will now be able to share video and audio recordings of students» work and activities with parents, carers and the whole community, to support learning outside school and encourage parental involvement.

Parent and community partnerships engage in the theme and help the school maximize student opportunities.

They believe that schools fail because they're not serving the local community and they believe the way to improve the school is to actually engage with the local community, with parents and with organisations within that community and then redesign the school so that it meets those needs and, ultimately, helps transform the community.

«Engaging Families in Digital Learning Day,» from Edutopia community member Gwen Pescatore, explains the important role that parents play in celebrating digital learning and how to involve parents.

We are just starting to explore engaging our parents and local community with Twitter, as well as reaching out to a global audience.

By engaging students the impact can also carry over to their home life, and influence parents and communities.

This collection of blogs, articles, and videos aims to help educators deploy social - media tools to develop professionally, connect with parents and communities, and engage students in 21st - century learning.

For parents who are interested in engaging more deeply with their kids» teachers and school communities.

We need to engage the energy and creativity of parents and community leaders who care deeply about the schools their children attend.»

To nurture the same global citizenship in today's students, Berseth encourages educators and parents «to expose students to new cultures, whether through a trip to a neighboring U.S. state, a historic tour of Europe, hosting a cultural exchange student, or even engaging with a new community at home.»

«But we are much lousier at engaging parents and the community and much lousier at... what we do for the students.»

His leadership also led to the district achieving its best - ever dropout and graduation rates, driven largely by attention to all students, a focus on adult performance, the promotion of choice and school autonomy, and intensive efforts to engage parents and the community.

Since Knapp Elementary held its first «ParentCamp,» its learning community has been engaged in conversations far beyond those 27 discussion sessions led by local parents and teachers.

«Unless you're actually involving and engaged with your community — and I'm not just talking about parents, I'm talking about all the other opportunities that are out there — then you're not adding value to your school.»