Sentences with phrase «how meaningful her school»

«It's another way of demonstrating to your child how meaningful her school life is to you.»

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From Challenge Success, her team learned how to use strategies, grounded in university - based research, that would change the pace at school and allow kids to work in ways that felt meaningful.

We reached out to some of our previous classes of School Nutrition Heroes to get their thoughts on why the award was so meaningful for them, and how it has helped them amplify their efforts in their own communities.

His regret is never telling that school nutrition employee how meaningful her actions were.»

But, those advocates who have been in the trenches and know what the obstacles are to better school food, those are the folks who can really get a motivated parent on the path to meaningful change in how schools (the gov really) feed kids.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

And how would state government decide which local governments and schools are taking «meaningful concrete steps» toward saving money by merging or consolidating?

Gaab frequently leads professional development workshops for teachers, participates in school «brain awareness days,» and meets with teachers and principals to help them find ways to translate research on how the brain learns into meaningful classroom applications.

If you've been wondering how to make Magic School Bus videos a bit more meaningful and purposeful, check out this simple worksheet to supplement watching the videos.

But even as she acknowledged toward the end that technology has a role to play, she missed spotlighting how technology can help us redesign schools to allow students to achieve what appears most important in her mind: the chance for students to have far more meaningful face - to - face interactions with teachers and peers — a counterintuitive yet important part of blended learning's promise for many students.

It is also clear that despite their best intentions many teachers, principals, superintendents, and professors at schools of education do not know how to address these shortcomings on a meaningful scale.

Spend time in a traditional school and see how many meaningful face - to - face interactions a typical student has.

How are school districts making professional development more relevant and meaningful for teachers?

Instructional Coaching: Driving Meaningful Tech Integration: Learn how Hampton High School in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, has employed a full - time instructional coach to support teachers by providing resources, support, and know - how on working with technology.

In the absence of a compelling reason to retain control centrally, school leaders, as the primary agents of change, should have freedom and flexibility over how best to use their resources (time, people, and money) to create meaningful changes that directly impact students.

How close does a charter school have to be located to a traditional public school to provide meaningful competition?

The school, Gray says, «helped me understand the most important issues in education and how I might build a career that was both meaningful and unique.»

They need to understand how their existing talents fit and how they can confidently apply the skills in a meaningful way to their lives outside of school.

But her residency this past year with Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland forced her to ask and keep asking: «How do I apply this theory in a meaningful way?»

Over these years, I have appreciated how Jim has supported work of more junior researchers in the field and has pushed for educational policy research to be as relevant for and meaningful to the day - to - day world of children in schools.»

So how should high schoolers begin pursing these more meaningful community service opportunities?

«Two big reasons students leave school are that they have no meaningful connection to an adult in the building, and no one knows their name or how to pronounce it,» said Trish Shaffer, the district's SEL coordinator.

With record gains being made in providing students with access to computers and the Internet, more schools are shifting their priorities toward other areas that have been simmering on the back burner — namely, figuring out how to integrate technology into the curriculum in meaningful ways.

In this Spotlight, discover the links between work students find meaningful and their levels of motivation in the classroom, see what teachers can learn from disengagement on tests, and explore how educators are building student - centered school cultures.

Finding out from kids how they feel about their school experience will give leaders an invaluable insight on how to begin to implement meaningful change that benefits everyone.

A number of schools nationwide are committed to teaching skills coaches say will last a lifetime, including how to maintain eye contact and ask meaningful questions.

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.

While neither of those things will actually happen, there is increasing danger of a compromise whereby the federal government continues to disburse billions of dollars to local schools but plays no meaningful role in determining how — or how well — that money is spent.

This fall, as school districts scattered around the country are considering «no homework» policies, teacher educator Curtis Chandler looks at research on whether and how homework can support learning and suggests teaching apps to help make it short, meaningful, and accessible.

Can the long - struggling Philadelphia school system change how we measure success by focusing on meaningful work instead of test scores?

Explore how learning space design can positively impact classroom learning, the culture of a school, healthy communities, and systems and structures that make education meaningful.

After all, if students are assigned to the public school that is closest to where they live there can not be a meaningful imbalance between the demographics of the student population of a school and that of the catchment area for that school (other than as a result of differential use of private schools and quirks in how the catchment area is identified).

Sustainability is a key watchword right now, but how can schools participate in sustainability in a meaningful way?

However, most of these will never achieve meaningful scale unless America takes a fundamentally different approach to how it brings about change in its schools.

But these conditions do require serious policy debates: How do you create meaningful autonomies for schools with or without charter statutes?

Come see how their intense focus on relevant curriculum, positive school culture, meaningful interpersonal communication, community partnerships, and a focus on social justice and equity provide their students with the tools to lead and thrive.

PL schools interested in supporting personalization through progressive teaching should ask themselves how they could use technology to support deeper, meaningful learning in ways that go beyond using tech for drill - and - skill learning.

Tom Sherrington, headteacher at Highbury Grove School, north London, on how research can be absorbed into classroom practice in a meaningful way The aim of my talk was...

Attend this webinar to learn how the leadership of the Brevard County (Fla.) Schools is accurately measuring the performance of principals and enhancing their professional growth, by using an integrated platform through which administrators conduct meaningful evaluations and provide actionable results.

How do schools and school districts build systems of practice that foster meaningful partnerships between teachers and families?

To state the association's opposition to «parent trigger laws» and to offer recommendations to federal, state, district, and school leaders about how to ensure meaningful parent and family engagement in school reform efforts for the success of all students.

If MI is to «scale up» to public school dimensions then we need to create a portfolio approach that allows schools to be compared along several meaningful dimensions, e.g., how about the 8 intelligences?

This measure should consist of both how students experience our classrooms and schools and how we provide meaningful peer feedback.

State education officials released the results of the second year of the troubling A-F school grading system Wednesday morning and just like the results last year, they are more of a statement about poverty than a meaningful measurement of how well students are doing at school.

State leaders want to include more meaningful measurements along with test scores such as absenteeism among kindergartners, how many high school freshmen pass enough classes to be on track to graduate, and the share of high school graduates who go on to college.

They are detailed here because they generally reflect school culture and show us exactly how school culture can be a barrier to Meaningful Student Involvement.

Shift our education culture to one of blame (not good enough, not enough $, what's wrong within the bureaucracy and within school walls) to one of ownership, where EVERYONE (individuals and organizations) reflects on how they can contribute to better outcomes for youth and how we each can play a meaningful role in the development of children from pre-natal to adulthood.

The panel touched on school climate and culture, what it means to have true and meaningful student voices embedded in your school, and how education truly frees students from negative situations.

«At the beginning of this new school year, we need our district and union leaders to move past the stalemate and instead, focus their energy on the important work of implementing the new system as a tool to have meaningful conversations about how teachers and students keep growing.»

Collecting data as it shows how students, peers, adults and the larger school are affected by Meaningful Student Involvement activities.