Sentences with phrase «engaging kids in a school»

But unless you are engaging kids in a school setting in which they feel they're supported and most importantly they're respected, the rest doesn't really matter.

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Though Microsoft board member Hastings has ties to the Seattle area, he stumbled upon DreamBox while visiting a school in San Jose, Calif., that happened to be using the software and was «wowed by how kids were engaged because it has some entertainment built into it,» he told the Seattle Times.

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.

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeeIn the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeein order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeein direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

We all want our kids to do well in school and to master certain skills and concepts, but our largely singular focus on academic achievement has resulted in a lack of attention to other components of a successful life — the ability to be independent, adaptable, ethical, and engaged critical thinkers.

We want kids to be engaged in school and to learn the skills that they will need to succeed in a 21st century economy, starting from the very first day they go to school.

While we know that not every camp can engage in a large evaluation process, we hope that our findings will be useful to others and inspire reflection about how camps can excel as high quality learning environments where kids can practice many of the essential skills they need for school, job, and relationship success.

Join Challenge Success as a Partner School in our 2018 - 2019 School Program and engage your community in redefining success for kids.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

And I think the opportunities to empower our teachers, change the learning process, engage kids - I've seen it with the work we're doing at Amplify, and I've been in schools that are using these products and how excited they are.

She decorates the cafeteria, she dresses up in character; she encourages the whole team to get involved and have fun, and she wants those high school kids engaged.»

Many times, kids who engage in sibling bullying at home will bully others at school.

Incredible Infant is run by Heather, a mom of three home - schooled kids, who shares different opinions about being a mom, raising kids, and family - life in an incredibly honest, funny and engaging way.

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Once school is over, it can be fun to engage kids in an interactive activity rather than burn an hour or two watching Netflix.

Our engaging online courses give you a front row seat in Chef Ann Cooper's classroom, where you can learn directly from a leader in school food change on how to transition school meal programs to scratch - cooked operations that provide real, healthy food to kids at school every day.

«We have a rich opportunity to meet kids where they are, harness the collaborative spirit of the school, and engage children in making healthy decisions.»

If your kid doesn't engage in after school activities, have them come home and have a snack and unwind a little and then knock the homework out of the way.

Action for Healthy Kids Offers free and low - cost programs and resources so that children in all schools get to learn about and engage in healthy eating and daily physical activity.

«As part of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act, the USDA will be engaging in a dialogue with schools and communities as we develop a proposed rule to implement this provision of the law,» the USDA says.

When kids in the Bronx have access to great public schools, with inspiring teachers and engaging classes, they go on to do amazing things.

«Having something so grounded in kids» everyday lives — the very building that they're going to school in — might be a way to engage them with these contexts,» said Mary Koppal, communications director of Project 2061.

Kids given too much latitude, such as regularly staying at a friend's house after school with no adults present, were more likely to engage in riskier behaviors.

I have two children who are technically under «school - age,» and many of the things I have in our school room are there to engage their creativity and keep them busy while the older kids learn.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

Back in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry and his friends were kids attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry where they learned magic and engaged in such innocent pursuits as rousing games of Quidditch.

Mr. Hundert (Kevin Kline) is the soft - spoken professor of ancient western civilization at hoity - toity St. Benedict's prep school fond of making his kids memorize the Roman emperors chronologically, engage in an annual trivia contest to crown «Mr. Caesar,» and solemnly intone Caesar's fatalistic declaration of alea jacta est — «the die is cast» — whether appropriate or not.

He does two kinds of schools: high schools that are tech related, where the kids are engaged in projected based learning and discovery, and that have deeply embedded partnerships with local industry; and also schools that are K — 8 flex programs, in which students attend school two days a week, work from home two days a week, and one day is an enrichment day.

As a result, when the school year ends, kids may have very few opportunities to engage in any type of mathematical thinking.

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

«Kids want to do a project that's real and engaging,» says Donna Cole, a middle school science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Pschool science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical PSchool, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Plates.

«But in an age when kids don't have the opportunities for unsupervised play after school, on the weekends, or during the summers, many kids today come to school not really knowing how to engage in healthy play.

The kids and parents are far more engaging than the stars in any fictional film about kids and schools.

cuts [in programs that engage kids in physical activity], there are actually more opportunities to teach and encourage kids to be more physically active in recess than there are in physical education or after - school programs,» Vialet reported.

Just to summarize, Khan Academy offers short, engaging tutorials in math, science and other subjects and is experimenting with having kids use these during homework time, freeing up school time for problem solving and collaborative work — a concept commonly called «flipping.»

I love being able to engage them in the kind of rigorous discussions they aren't ready for until around sixth grade, and then I love getting hugs once in a while (in contrast to elementary school kids, who want hugs eight times a day, every day).

For starters, Chris Aviles and his amazing students at the Innovation Lab in New Jersey's Fair Haven Schools are constantly pushing my thinking about what's possible in best practices for engaging and empowering kids.

«Watching students engage in this project affirms my belief that all kids deserve real - world learning opportunities, which are often in short supply in schools.

If tests like these succeed, they could not only provide better information about children's readiness for real life but also give educators incentive to do what they want to do anyway: teach kids in engaging ways to be well - rounded people and lifelong learners, not drill the life out of school with dry test preparation.

One movement in education that has already begun linking schools directly to communities by engaging kids in building more sustainable environments through food, water, and energy is systems thinking — the process of understanding how things influence one another other within a whole.

What's more, parents can engage directly with all the great things their kids are doing in school.

The National Dropout Prevention Center identifies mentoring as one of the most effective strategies to keep kids engaged and in school.

What's so spectacular about this school is the teachers engage the kids in the life that happens around them.

In addition to rounding out kids» knowledge base to include a nuanced understanding of world geography and cultures, schools must teach them the skills to use this knowledge as active and engaged citizens.

The newly minted secretary of education is pushing for schools to take advantage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to give every child the kind of broad background «that engages and intrigues kids, allowing them to discover interests in the arts and the sciences and world languages and so much else.»

Grades improve not because of what kids are learning in the video club, but because the video club is making them enjoy school more, so they show up more often, find a circle of like - minded friends, and become more engaged in school.

Educators from Mount Desert Elementary School in Northeast Harbor, Maine, have shared a few social and emotional learning tools and we've gathered some of our favorite resources to help educators implement positive discipline strategies, build community, and keep kids engaged.

Breaking and krumping became popular on the streets, Mad Hot Ballroom engaged kids in and out of school, and So You Think You Can Dance drew huge audiences.

It means those of us (myself included) who want to reduce discipline disparities should be focusing more of our efforts on addressing student misbehavior, via better teaching, better counseling, stronger attention to character, more engaging environments, and stronger relationships among kids and between kids and adults in a school.

Bravo Medical Magnet High School gets parents engaged by offering night classes on parenting taught in several languages and by having freshman orientation programs that parents are expected to attend along with their kids.