Sentences with phrase «first educational children»

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The role of the family as the first educator of the child will be examined, as well as the educational theories of St John Bosco, Sofia Cavalletti and Luigi Giussani.

The earlier parts of the educational system I remember, of course, from first hand experience as a child, and experienced again, indirectly, through...

They cite first - hand accounts of children returning to school in a worse educational, health and developmental state than when they ended the previous term.

The earlier parts of the educational system I remember, of course, from first hand experience as a child, and experienced again, indirectly, through my children.

Mr. Naddaff also founded two of the first educational day care centers in the United States, Living and Learning Centers and Mulberry Child Care Centers, both of which were sold to KinderCare ®.

As I noted above, the first day of kindergarten is an important marker for our educational bureaucracies — that's the day, in most states, when «early childhood» officially comes to an end and the public becomes legally responsible for every child's education and skill development.

This may seem hard to do as you face a pile of applications to preschool for the first time, but we think if you approach this as the beginning of an educational journey and establish some ground rules early, your entire family will reap benefits from a more sane approach to child - raising.

In 1919, Rudolf Steiner founded the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Germany, initiating an educational approach that seeks to nurture the whole child, to school the «head, hands, and heart.»

First Steps Child Care Center is an educational child care provider at 1606 Mcfarland Avenue, Rossville, GeoChild Care Center is an educational child care provider at 1606 Mcfarland Avenue, Rossville, Geochild care provider at 1606 Mcfarland Avenue, Rossville, Georgia.

The first day of preschool has arrived, and it's time for your child to begin an educational journey that will last nearly two decades.

«In this time of extraordinary pressure, educational and social, perhaps a mother's first duty to her children is to secure for them a quiet and growing time, a full six years of passive receptive life, the waking part of it for the most part spent out in the fresh air.»

No matter what the occasion, a baby shower, baby's first birthday, or a successful graduation from kindergarten, Haba Toys are the perfect choice for safe, fun, educational toys for children from birth through school.

First of all the children's tv shows these days are more educational then they used to be.

Winder First United Methodist Church Preschool in Winder, Georgia, provides a quality, developmentally appropriate educational opportunity for children.

First United Methodist David Daycare Inc in Calhoun, Georgia, provides a quality, developmentally appropriate educational opportunity for children.

Ever since his first book, Whatever It Takes (2008)-- the inspirational story of one man's quest to boost educational achievement in Harlem — made headlines, Tough has become something of a seeker after the holy grail of child - development.

Optimal breastfeeding for the first 2 years of life is the single most effective intervention to prevent child deaths worldwide.1 Breastfeeding saves children's lives, supports their growth and development, preventsmalnutrition, ensures food security for infants, protects maternal and child health, reduces financial pressure on families, supports loving relationships and increases educational attainment.

Recently in 2011 Deborah founded, The Family Sleep Institute, the very first educational institution to instruct and certify child sleep consultants.

«Resources for Divorced Parents» (1-800-640-3405), a nonprofit Maine corporation committed to reducing the negative effects of divorce offers «Kids First: Parenting Through Divorce,» a four - hour educational program for parents who are involved in a court case involving rights and responsibilities of their minor children, and «The Next Step,» a six - week group program for divorcing parents who want to «learn healthy, effective ways to parent children, to resolve conflicts and empower themselves during and after the divorce process.»

The first question you should ask yourself about any school you are considering for your child is this one: What is the school's educational philosophy and what kind of curriculum does the school offer?

The first step on your child's educational journey, preschool is the beginning of an amazing adventure of learning and discovery.

In a Holyrood debate this afternoon, Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, has tabled a motion recognising «that free school meals help tackle child poverty and promote child welfare and educational attainment; further recognises that free school meals save families at least # 330 per child per year; confirms its commitment to increasing the number of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals».

This is why it's so important that Teach First continues to work in deprived communities, and works towards creating an educational system where parental income, or lack of it, won't hinder a child's future prospects.

Watching David Cameron's assured performance yesterday in the first Prime Minister's Questions of this parliamentary term, many Conservatives will have been greatly encouraged to hear him speak up in support of the «pupil premium» - a measure designed to boost educational opportunities for children living in deprived areas.

Her commitment to removing educational obstacles demonstrates her devotion to putting our children first,» said Speaker Heastie.

«More than 5,500 children will enroll in full - day pre-k for the first time over the next few months as a result of this dedicated funding for a proven educational program.

«Since her first child entered the City's public school system ten years ago, Ann Kittredge has immersed herself in learning about the many different facets of educational policy and has dedicated a great deal of her time and effort to volunteer projects aimed at improving the education experience of our children,» Borough President Katz said.

With a randomized field experiment of 587 first - graders, we tested an educational intervention designed to promote interactions between children and parents relating to math.

An NYU - Bahcesehir research team was the first to document the educational and mental health needs of Syrian refugee children, finding that an overwhelming majority are not enrolled in school in Turkey, partly as a result of language barriers, and about half suffer from PTSD and / or depression.

Despite a lack of symptoms, more than half of the children experienced stunted growth in the first two years of life, leading to irreversible damage and contributing to poor cognitive development, poor educational performance and reduced earning potential in adulthood, trapping individuals in a lifetime of poverty.

The study is one of the first to examine whether a child's participation in the federal program benefits mothers and fathers — in particular parents» educational attainment and employment.

Changing environmental influences is also important, labelling the dietary risks on animal products, policies to enforce marketing and advertisements, not marketing to children, and educational strategies could be highly effective (but difficult at first to change within policy).

The publisher said it will donate one million books in the Obama family's name to First Book, a nonprofit organization that provides educational materials to children in need.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: «We are working hard to improve educational standards across the country to make sure that every child in Scotland has the ability to achieve their potential.

The term special educational needs was first introduced by Mary Warnock in the 1970's to describe a significant group of children and young people who needed something different from or in addition to the education offered to their peers.

It focuses on children from birth through the first years of formal schooling, and offers practical guidelines, program descriptions, advice on resources, and strategies that can be used in everyday life to improve childrens reading and educational prospects.

The launch of Children First in 2002 - 2003 and the dissolution of the 32 school districts, plus five high school districts was an educational earthquake in NYC.

«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

Many parents believe that so - called «academic redshirting,» or the act of delaying a student's kindergarten entrance by one year, will give their children a leg up not only when they first enroll in school, but throughout their educational careers and later in life.

«You start with housing — the foundation of stability and permanence — quality housing, first class accommodations... you must have access to educational opportunities and focusing on the youngest the children to be the center of that community growth and of course, art is the vehicle that binds it together.

Still, more than 50 years after Sputnik — and despite boundless research and anecdotal evidence on the value of the arts as part of a child's comprehensive educational experience, not to mention art simply for art's sake — why is it still the first to go when budgets head south?

The districts must explain why the child's school is «in need of improvement» in the first place, including «how the school compares in terms of academic achievement to other elementary schools or secondary schools served by the local educational agency and the State educational agency.»

First, displaced children faced enormous educational challenges before they arrived in our U.S. classrooms.

In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.»

The Brookings Institution, the Center for American Progress and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have joined together to publish Education Governance for the Twenty - First Century, a new book that looks at how America's fragmented and decentralized system of education governance impedes school reform and how governing arrangements might be further altered to produce better educational outcomes for children.

When Jill Biden convened a gathering of researchers and university faculty to mark the five - year anniversary of Operation Educate the Educators last spring, they also celebrated significant policy gains, like the enactment of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which smooths transitions by eliminating conflicting state educational requirements, and the «military - student identifier» provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act, which requires states — for the first time — to track outcomes for these students.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University ofchildren's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University ofChildren's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

The first activity, in late August, worked to help parents see that the «dreaded» science fair experiment could be fun and educational for parent and child.

From the first day of school I found myself mixing with one of the most talented and intelligent group of people, from across the globe, from different creeds and cultures, all congregating at this one school to lead educational institutions and systems that benefit all children.