Sentences with phrase «home schooling background»

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But a decade later, I've become aware that 12 - step programs are home to people from every religion, denomination, sect, cult, political tilt, gender identity, sexual preference, economic strata, racial and ethnic background, believers in gun rights and abortion rights and the right to home schooling, drinkers of coffee and tea, whiskey and mouthwash, people who sleep on their sides or their stomachs or sidewalks.

Sometimes kids from worse backgrounds, with worse high school grades, did better than kids from decent homes, with decent grades.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parehome games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and pareHome Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

The bill's language also stipulates that «any possible educaitonal impact differences between the school environment and the child's home environment and family background» also be used as a factor in seeking tuition reimbursement.

Rockland County Legislator Nancy Low - Hogan explained the bill's content, which states that when placing a child in a special education class, the school district must take into consideration any differences in educational impact between a school's environment and the child's home environment and family background.

BACKGROUND OR LOW - LEVEL noise in the home, work or school often disrupts people's concentration.

Sadly when I go back to school I won't have any more fun background until I come back home this summer but I will probably spread out my mural posts throughout the next week or so unless I just get too antsy to show you all!

The report's results, released in 1966, popularized the idea that a student's home life and family background mattered more than what happened at school.

He uses this information to estimate the relationship between four parental characteristics (ethnic background, educational attainment, whether both parents are in the home, and mother's employment status) and whether the parent is choosing the child's school.

Taking all these results together, one implication stands out above all: That schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent of his background and general social context; and that this very lack of an independent effect means that the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school.

We compare the test scores of students in each of the seven categories, taking into account differences in the students» socioeconomic characteristics, including parent schooling, self - reported household income, the number of non-school books in the home, and the quality of the peer groups (calculated by averaging family background and home resources for all students in the classroom).

Children typically enter school with a wide range of background knowledge and oral - language ability, attributable in part to factors such as children's experiences in the home and their socioeconomic status.

A direct measure of family social background would be better than one that mixes in such factors as books in the home and the quality of peers at school.

How can we compare one school to another in a city that educates over one million students — children with differing backgrounds, cultures, home lives, home languages, and varying degrees of special needs?

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how to use diversity as a valuable resource for instruction by gathering information about students» background knowledge from home, community, and school;

Every student brings a unique cultural background to school, and every day many students struggle to navigate the conflicting cultures between home and school.

For example, how are schools recognizing English language learners» strengths and integrating their cultural experiences, background knowledge, and home language skills into the learning environment?

Otherwise, he says, the best efforts of schools are going to be insufficient to counter the other problems facing pupils and families in their home background.

This phenomenon helps young girls of color, all races, ethnicities and backgrounds to connect with someone who «looks like them» and counterbalance the devastating effects of negative messages that bombard them in the home, school and media.

• Public and private schools achieve similar results, after taking account of their home backgrounds.

Alongside the exam, students completed a background questionnaire, which garnered information about them, their home and school environments, and their learning experiences, particularly in mathematics classes.

He said his students come from «$ 500,000 homes and group homes» and while they may all be students of color, they come from Jamaica and Africa and many other backgrounds that fill the school with different perspectives.

Some elementary schools in the Hightop district serve mostly white students from wealthy homes; others educate students from less wealthy families and minority backgrounds.

In a city in which over 40 percent of students go home to households that don't speak English as their primary language and students come to school speaking 70 different languages, Achievement First reports that less than 5 percent of its students go home to non-English speaking households and students come from backgrounds speaking only 4 different languages.

However, she often draws on her psychology background to help her students overcome challenges both at home and at school.

When teachers and school leaders expect less from students because of their racial background or their «tough home life,» their beliefs lead to behavior that conforms to those expectations.

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(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

We started the session with everyone giving a bit of background on who they are, where they went to law school, what type of law they practiced in their home country and hope to practice following their call here in Canada and what their background was in technology.

I work with adolescents and adults, from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, assisting them with decreasing emotional discomfort while increasing coping skills and building self - esteem / confidence to help manage life's challenges at school, home, work and with relating to others.»

Educator's Reference Desk An umbrella site that provides links to organizations, online communities, and other websites for a wide range of topics in education, including school - home collaboration, diversity in the classroom, background information on various ethnic cultures, parenting, and homework.

The program has been adapted for adolescents between 13 - 18 years; upper primary school students; students with a mild intellectual disability; young people with an indigenous background and students who live in out of home care.

Her background as a school social worker has allowed her to focus on treatment of severely behaviorally disturbed adolescents and youth in treatment foster care and intensive in - home services.

This guide provides background on SEL, including the importance of SEL at home and at school for children's healthy and positive development.

Ideal for a wide range of professionals working with young children birth — 5 years across school, home, and child care settings, this book - and - CD set gives readers in - depth background information, how - to strategies, and helpful tools for addressing feeding challenges.

She has a diverse background having worked in schools, hospitals, homes, and treatment centers.

In an examination of four nationally representative samples in the USA, McLanahan and Sandefur (1994) showed that adolescents raised by single mothers during some period of their childhood were twice as likely to drop out of high school, twice as likely to have a baby before the age of 20 and one and a half times more likely to be out of work in their late teens or early twenties than those from a similar background who grew up with two parents at home.

In light of evidence that children from low - income and minority backgrounds are more likely to exhibit delays in language and learning at school entry, additional work is needed to understand why these differences exist, and how to best support parents in their provision of positive home environments for their children.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary

Her background of modeling, teaching children, successfully maintained her career in real estate and amazingly home schooling her six children with her beloved husband Nestor, are just a few qualities that make Katerina truly be an example to follow.