Sentences with phrase «finding great schools for her children»

We want to help you find a great school for your child and get involved to make sure that all Bay Area children get the excellent education they deserve.

Rosezina William's journey through school choice, finding great schools for her children, and becoming an empowered parent advocate.

Not exact matches

But the last biting incident he had at school set into motion a chain of events that led us to a great child development specialist, who sent us to a kick - ass occupational therapist and also helped us find a therapeutic aide for him in the classroom.

Facebook, when not stealing your data to help the Russians tell you that Hillary Clinton is selling uranium to children in the basement of a pizza place, is a great place for the people from your high school who used to smoke things they found in ditches to scream about wisdom.

Having founded and was Administrator of my own AMI Montessori School for 20 years and raised my Children as a Montessorian and having seen all of my Grand Children attend Montessori Schools it give me great pleasure to read these articles.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, found the single greatest contributor to long - term neurobehavioral development in preterm infants is maternal involvement — and that a single - family room NICU allows for the greatest and most immediate opportunities for maternal involvement.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

He found that single - sex schooling helps to improve academic achievement, with benefits greater for girls than boys, and that underprivileged children derived the most benefit.

Mr Hammond said: «These announcements take the next steps in giving parents greater choice in finding a good school for their child, whatever their background.»

«That's why these new schools are so important - they give us the school places we need for the future, and they also give parents more choices to find a great school place in their area that's right for their child.»

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

That isn't meant to be glib; we keep finding ourselves debating that key distinction with people who argue that the external forces in a child's life represent obstacles too large for even great schools to overcome.

In a more recent, longitudinal study on schools implementing special strategies for educating disadvantaged children, Stringfield et al. (1997) found that the schools demonstrating the greatest achievement gains worked hard at both initial implementation and long - term maintenance of an innovation.

So what do you say to the thousands of families, predominantly low income African - American, who have found a great public charter school for their child?

They can choose to deny children access to a great education by continuing to enroll them in seriously low performing schools, try to find enough money to move to a more affluent neighborhood (good luck with that) or face possible jail time or probation for using another address, in another zip code, just to get a chance at a good education.

The report also found that mayors can provide great benefits to public schools in other ways, especially by enabling better integration and coordination of services for children and families.

Donald Parker chose Fenton Avenue Charter School for his children for the great education it offered, but he's also found not only a welcoming and supportive environment for students, but also for parents.

I often find it hard to answer concisely — our children and schools have many needs, and we have all acknowledged that despite progress, we have significant work to do to ensure a great school for every child.

«Rather than try to impose a one - size - fits - all mandate on these public schools of choice, policymakers should be finding ways to help charters flourish and increase choices for parents as part of a comprehensive approach to giving every child a great public school,» Grace said.

«Our primary goal is to help parents explore public school options and find a great fit for their child.

For those of you who are interested, I found a great cause called the Haiti Education Foundation, where you can donate to help put a child through school.

A mindfulness program for 522 young people aged 12 — 16 in 12 secondary schools found that rates of acceptability were high and the children who participated in the intervention reported fewer depressive symptoms and lower stress and had greater well - being at 3 - month follow - up (Kuyken et al 2013).

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

A 2014 Western Australian study found potential impacts on children include: negative emotions experienced as a result of the FIFO parent's absence; increased levels of behavior problems (particularly amongst boys) when the parent is away for longer periods; greater experiences of bullying at school; and increased pressure to succeed academically.

Research consistently indicates that children with more developed executive function skills prior to kindergarten experience greater school success.6, 7 For academic achievement, these skills may scaffold language and mathematic success.12 In fact, in a low - income sample of children, researchers have found that executive function skills prior to kindergarten predict growth in both numeracy and literacy skills across the kindergarten year.12 A successful transition to school may be particularly critical for children who have faced high levels of adversity and may be at risk for poorer school performanFor academic achievement, these skills may scaffold language and mathematic success.12 In fact, in a low - income sample of children, researchers have found that executive function skills prior to kindergarten predict growth in both numeracy and literacy skills across the kindergarten year.12 A successful transition to school may be particularly critical for children who have faced high levels of adversity and may be at risk for poorer school performanfor children who have faced high levels of adversity and may be at risk for poorer school performanfor poorer school performance.

A recent meta - analysis of parent training (Lundahl et al., 2006) across all ages of children from preschool to middle school found significant moderator effects for severity level, with greater improvement for more severe children and for children whose parents received individual rather than group treatment.

Research finds long - term benefits throughout school and beyond — including greater educational attainment and life success — especially for English learners and children from low - income households.

That said, younger home buyers with young children showed the most desire for finding a large yard and the greatest interest in living near a good school district.