Sentences with phrase «giving schools and teachers»

Accountability should lead to giving schools and teachers the space and resources to create environments that reflect authentic teaching and learning.

«We are not giving schools and teachers the tools, time and teaching environments they need.»

But passing a law that gives schools and teachers the legal right to judge a parent's participation (and, by extension, parenting skills and values) is absolutely not the answer.

«This new report looks at the best available evidence to give schools and teachers clear ideas of what works when it comes to maths teaching.

But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to hold them accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.

A major benefit of OER content is that it gives schools and teachers instructional «Legos» that they can organize, revise, and combine more easily to create custom learning solutions that meet their students» needs.

Off the back of that challenge we outlined a set of principles and a new workload protocol to ensure we gave schools and teachers a longer lead time before making significant changes to the curriculum, accountability or assessment and Ofsted committed to doing the same.

We invest in evidence - based projects and then test these ideas rigorously to give schools and teachers a better idea of «what works».

The PARCC assessments are designed to give schools and teachers more information to improve instruction.

The evidence - based Second Step Program gives schools and teachers an effective method for teaching essential communication, coping, and decision - making skills that will allow adolescents to navigate common pitfalls, such as peer pressure, substance abuse, and bullying (both face - to - face and online).

Not exact matches

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Lawmakers worked through the night to pass a state budget that gives teachers a pay raise and schools a funding bump.

Whether it's an intro to marketing course or a senior leadership class, a night class speaking engagement that takes 30 minutes give you some goodwill from the college community, gets your name out there, and most likely a link from either the course syllabus, teacher's page, school events page, etc..

Other churches are fighting on different fronts: Beacon Church Brixton has seen many young men give their lives to Christ and come off the streets thanks to the passion of a teacher in their congregation; Ecclesia Church is partnering with an education charity to provide support for young people excluded from school; and Emmanuel Pentecostal church has organised successful youth events where Christian ex-offenders share their testimonies.

My hope is that it will prove useful to participants in growth groups; to professionals (clergymen, teachers, youth workers, and school counselors,) who lead small groups as one part of their jobs; to counselors and psychotherapists who desire to give stronger emphasis to the growth approach in their groups; and to nonprofessionals who are in training to lead growth groups.

Such an understanding is essential in giving policy makers, Bishops, governors, teachers and parents the confidence to promote an authentic and positive view of Church teaching on human sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life in schools, parishes and the home.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

Failure in love and life is a requisite for success in teaching, and the problems of TV teachers are solved by leaving their profession — not by towns raising taxes, building schools, or giving higher salaries.

We are not at all prejudging anything about chronology, that is, about establishing the dates of the teachers and writings of the Mahayana schools — their roots are in the earliest times; rather we are trying to give the psychological and objective points of departure in which the speculations of the later schools were grounded and out of which they are therefore to be understood.

1 have thought of still others in writing this: Sunday school teachers, that brave breed, who give so much and are so often given too little; and that wonderful, ubiquitous «man in the street» who wants his questions answered without theological indoctrination and in such fashion as to be spared from professional initiation.

She married her high school sweetheart, Mike Leming (a fireman and soldier), became a popular teacher, and gave birth to three wonderful daughters.

There are some specifics, but much is vague promise or things like the above, «Give every family access to a great school and good teachers».

With the cost to run these programs the Catholic church in my area is closing down schools themselves due to lack of funds and in the process many teachers who have given years of service will be out on the street.

The State can not finance secular instruction if it permits religion to be taught in the same classroom; but if it exacts a promise that religion not be so taught — a promise the school and its teachers are quite willing and on this record able to give — and enforces it, it is then entangled in the «no entanglement» aspect of the Court's Establishment Clause jurisprudence [Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 666, 668].

Just as we have to pass to graduate from high school and have to give up being the football star, lots of good friends, and teachers we adore, we have to do the same thing on the spiritual path.

I think they'd be fun to bring to a holiday cookie exchange, and we gave them as teacher gifts for my son's school this year.

I just grew up in an area where many teachers made around 70 - 100k (with bonuses, yeah our school districts gave various bonuses and I know this because all their salaries are online) so my judgements may have been biased.

«(It's a) new way to give kids access to golf in the school system,» said Joe Meunier, a physical education teacher at Alisal and Program Director of The First Tee Tri-Valley chapter.

We're giving it until Friday then plan to talk w. the teacher to see what's going on, just to make sure it's normal beginning of school stuff and not something more sinister.

Finally, in Houston in 2010 — 11, he gave cash incentives to fifth - grade students in 25 low - performing public schools, as well as to the parents and teachers of those students, with the intent of increasing the time they spent on math homework and improving their scores on standardized math tests.

She has received professional honors and recognition through the Psy Chi National Honor Society of Psychology, the California Senate for excellence in school counseling, student nominated Who's Who of America's Teachers, and peer nominated Sierra Tucson's Gratitude for Giving.

You know typically things that have a longer shelf life and I'll break it into school and I leave a bag with the teacher and I say: «Whenever there's a party or something going on and there's gluten being served, please give these to my kids instead.»

These tests are given to help teachers and schools understand what your child knows when they begin kindergarten.

And teachers should be given much more of a role in creating school policy in the first place.

Breakfast - in - the - classroom has given everyone more one - on - one time: students and teachers, teachers and school nutrition staff, school nutrition staff and custodians, school nutrition staff and students.

Another notable feature in both the proposed and final rules — one likely to be of special interest to elementary school parents — is a requirement that wellness policies set nutritional standards for foods and beverages that aren't sold but instead made available to children at school, such as offerings at classroom parties or treats given out by teachers as a reward.

In rejecting an arbitrator's report Wednesday that recommended a healthy pay hike, the Chicago Teachers Union indicated it will push for a deal that gives members greater job security and a say in how the longer school day plays out next year.

It gives you direct access to teachers, other parents, and other students, and from them you get to hear a wide cross section of opinions about and experiences with school food.

At a school for difficult children, Mr. Davis, a teacher who taught eleven - and twelve - year olds, asked me if I could come to his class and give him some advice on cleaning up the foul language his students used.

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

I want to give credit to two fellow handwork artists, Patricia Livingston, handwork teacher at the Rudolf Steiner Waldorf School and Cindy Hansen of White Mountain Waldorf School, from whom this article was inspired, along with my teachers and colleagues at the Waldorf Applied Arts training in Spring Valley; and the book, «Will - Developed Intelligence» by David Mitchell and Patricia Livingston.

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

«I may not sign your referendum, but I will work for you to help you get the answers,» said Sussman, a 42 - year village resident and retired Twin Groves Middle School science teacher, who declined to give her age.

Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline; Parenting Through Crisis — Helping Kids in Times of Loss, Grief and Change; The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander — From Pre-School to High School, How Parents and Teachers Can Help Break the Cycle of Violence; and Just Because It's Not Wrong Doesn't Make It Right — From Toddlers to Teens, Teaching Kids to Think and Act Ethically.

The staff at the grade school didn't take her allergy very seriously though until a child died the next county over and then my child had a serious reaction to candy a teacher gave out at the end of the day as the kids were getting on the bus.

Palos Heights is giving out - of - town teachers and staff at a local elementary school district a discount rate on fitness classes next year at the village Recreation Center.

Giving the best teacher gift isn't impossible if you know your child's teacher but if you're feeling stuck, here's a list of favorite gifts from the teachers at my kids» elementary school, my former colleagues, and from my experience in the classroom.

In K - 12 education, teachers, educators, and school leaders can create environments in the classroom that change students» mindsets by implicitly and explicitly giving them messages around belonging and possibility.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Again in British Columbia, it is equally interesting to look at the awards and honors given to a high - school teacher and basketball coach, who according to investigative journalist Robert Cribb's March 2015 article, «Teachers» bullying scarred us say Student Athletes,» in the Toronto Star had multiple athletes report that he was bullying them (3).