Sentences with phrase «having conversations with students»

A few things that I notice that positively impact attendance include paying attention to it, making sure that others know how important it is and having conversations with students and families about it.

Administrators and teachers were revisiting safety protocols and having conversations with students about this.

Each term comes with a full explanation of why it is of significance and what risk it may potentially expose, helping staff to feel more confident in having conversations with students.

I have conversations with students after completing a summative assessment; we reflect on the grade of the summative and how the formative relates to the grade they received on the summative.

Counselors have conversations with their students» parents, letting them know which schools have accepted their student and the financial aid packages that each one is offering, and they make their recommendations based on those schools offering the most financial aid.

«When we begin to prepare for student - led conferences,» says Jennings, «I have a conversation with students around what they feel should be included in their binders.

One day after school, I had a conversation with a student who told me that he moved his bed into the middle of his bedroom every night to avoid the stray bullets that had hit his home before.

It's vital we have conversations with our students about the inequities in our society and empower students to take their voices beyond the classroom walls — particularly for those of us who work in schools located in communities of color.

Ensure you have conversations with students about appropriate use and consequences.

In the latter case, Rachel says teachers can then sit down and have a conversation with students to help get them back on track.

Educators teaching civics during the presidency of Donald Trump can turn to social media to provide teachable moments and have conversations with students about America's democratic process.

JB: First I have conversations with students and have them self - assess what they feel confident about or good at and see what they are interested in.

Others had conversations with students, parents, teachers, and school administrators.

If a case is particularly difficult to follow, I often have a conversation with my students about what aspects of the writing made the opinion so challenging for the reader.37 We explore questions pertaining to the opinion's organization, its lack of a roadmap or other helpful contextual clues, its overly long paragraphs that contain multiple legal points, or its ridiculously long sentences with numerous embedded clauses.

As a relationship researcher and college instructor I often have conversations with students who are experiencing difficulties in their relationships.

Not exact matches

«These Gen Zers have seen their parents struggle financially [due to the recession and student loan crisis], so parents are having conversations about finances, money and debt with kids earlier.

«I had more conversations with students, faculty and alumni in the fall than I care to remember,» she said.

Students were amazed so many of their peers took religion seriously, and those students tell me that the conversations and debates we had in the course, together with the seminar, resonate to tStudents were amazed so many of their peers took religion seriously, and those students tell me that the conversations and debates we had in the course, together with the seminar, resonate to tstudents tell me that the conversations and debates we had in the course, together with the seminar, resonate to this day.

In 1995, before leaving on a ministry trip to Australia, I read a true story about a seminary student who struck up a conversation with a teenager who had been living on the streets of Melbourne.

Robert Coles, author and child psychiatrist at Harvard, met and had several conversations with Karen Horney when he was a medical student and she was hospitalized in New York City, a few days before her death.

«I was not just having difficult conversations with students, but other teachers and administrators also emailed me to tell me I shouldn't be talking about white privilege,» Taylor said.

Meanwhile, through conversations with my undergraduate students, I had become intrigued with a movement of churches that had roots in Southern California and was spreading across the country — churches that appealed especially to unchurched baby boomers and baby busters.

CNN: Photo of woman with facial hair leads to conversation, understanding A picture of a woman with facial hair wearing a turban posted to the social media site Reddit has garnered a firestorm of Internet reaction and has taught at least two Ohio college students lessons in graciousness, humanities and religious studies.

Kozol shares part of one conversation he had with several high school students about the racial segregation of their neighborhood and school:

First of all to my parents, my father, Remus Muray, and my mother, Marianna Muray, for their part in bringing me into the world, and their love, understanding, and encouragement throughout my life; to John Cobb, my theological «godfather» who first introduced me to process thought, and to whose friendship, inspiration, encouragement, and intellectual stimulation I am more grateful than I could ever express; to David Griffin, who taught me how to think critically; to Jay McDaniel and Kevin Clark for their enduring friendship since our student days and perpetually intellectual stimulating conversations; Nancy Howell, without whose encouragement this project may not have been undertaken; William Dean, whose work has proved to be so liberating; to David and Rosanne Keller, for their friendship, the opportunity to work and play with them, and for their living relationally; Josephine Bates, for her friendship, encouragement, and support in this endeavor; the Rt..

I think students, some professors, and many others affiliated with Notre Dame are frustrated and want to take an active role in the conversation; that frustration shows why people have taken to social media to inform friends about what is happening.

Earlier that same year I had a conversation with my friend Omar, who is a student at a local college.

Members had lively interactions and conversations with the students about healthy, nutritional eating, and about making the right choices in food selection.

These summits will provide college students with the opportunity to have conversations with FRN National and other students in the region that go beyond a surface - level understanding of the issue and apply their knowledge to local problems around food waste and hunger.

I just had a great conversation with some of the students at Stoneman Douglas High School about some important / impactful things that they have planned.

I'll do my part to keep this a topic of conversation in and around the schools in my area with the hopes that we will one day have a permanent solution to feeding our students while enrolled in school.

A la carte items have been a topic of conversation with not only students, but district personnel as well.

Roe describes a conversation he had with one student, who told him that his friends had encouraged him to join student government and service organizations because «it looks good on your resume.»

Penelope's understanding of — and genuine appreciation for — Waldorf Education shines through in her conversations with prospective Sunbridge students, and we are very happy to have her represent our Institute.

If the child is unwilling to say which rewards he'd like for good behavior, simply observe the student or listen to his conversations with friends.

We have found that schools that begin the conversation with excuses or reasons why it won't work to have your food allergic child as a student aren't worth pursuing.

I've thought a lot about how to lead developmentally appropriate conversations about race with my students and my children, and what it means to be white in the context of talking about race.

De Blasio had a «productive conversation» with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Monday, four days after federal agents visited a Queens public school to inquire about a student.

The morning had been filled with impassioned but respectful conversation between the Stoneman Douglas students and lawmakers.

Mayor de Blasio had a «productive conversation» with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Monday, four days after federal agents visited a Queens public school to inquire about a student.

Mayor de Blasio had a «productive conversation» with U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly after federal agents visited a Queens public school to inquire about a student.

Lyubomirsky began studying happiness as a graduate student in 1989 after an intriguing conversation with her adviser, Stanford University psychologist Lee D. Ross, who told her about a remarkably happy friend who had lost both parents to the Holocaust.

Gottesman agrees, and has begun conversations with graduate students and NIH researchers to identify concrete ways to implement these goals.

I clearly remember the conversations I had as a Ph.D. student with other graduate students and postdocs about senior scientists who were «merely managing.»

They then arranged for the students to have a conversation with a black student on a topic not ostensibly about race (dating).

I have now picked up a good number of skills, often through great personal hardship (like that conversation with my boss), and in hopes that it might help aspiring graduate students avoid some of the pain, I'm going to share a few of them here.

«Most of today's smart devices including smart TVs, Google Home, Amazon Echo and smartphones come with built - in microphones and speaker systems — which lets us use them to play music, record video and audio tracks, have phone conversations or participate in videoconferencing,» said co-lead author Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, a UW doctoral student in computer science and engineering.

«To learn about the working environment of the lab that I'd be joining, I had numerous conversations with my prospective mentor, with other researchers who'd had previous interactions with him, and with current and former graduate students and postdocs who were working or had worked in his lab,» AAAS science policy fellow Graber remembers.

The results showed that students generally started the term in chipper moods, with most having lots of conversations, healthy sleep levels and busy activity patterns.

That's possible because «flourishing» students, as the team calls them, are often with other people and have longer conversations, while depressed students interact less with others and have disrupted, or excessive, sleep.