The mark of a good school is not high HSC or NAPLAN marks (I HATE Naplan), it's how they teach their students, how they lift them,
how their school community works, how they help students improve their learning.
«Harriet Bishop is example to all of
how a school community can, and is making this world a better place,» she said.
The early morning event was organized and led by three 8th grade student leaders who were inspired by a school in Vermont that flew a Black Lives Matter flag and included discussion of
how the school community is working to deepen the cultural relevancy of its practices to make sure every student sees themselves reflected in the faculty, in the books they read and in the history they learn.
Her research focused on how schools support personalized, social - emotional, and blended learning,
how school community members experience these approaches, and how education systems can support these methods.
To find out
how school communities can support children, watch our self - harm and primary school children video:
Not exact matches
«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant
community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and
how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the
school announced the new test.
«We are getting calls from superintendents from big districts saying their
community is demanding answers to
how the
school is prepared, and the superintendents are looking to us.»
Among them: intensive
community gardens that provide a therapeutic space where members are taught
how to grow their own vegetables; programs that teach young mothers about proper nutrition; workshops where local residents learn about food security and receive public - speaking training; and after -
school classes where tweens whip up healthy meals.
Speaking at
schools and
community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs
how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»
We haven't even touched upon
how many people can save a ton of money going to a public
school like I did or attend
community college for two years and then transfer to a public
school for even more savings.
At two town hall meetings on April 9, members of the
school community voiced differing opinions about
how the portion of funds allocated to victims of trauma should be divided.
By fully integrating with social networks, and cultivating a culture of helping and giving back, you will be amazed
how vibrant your Rotman
School of Management
community is!
Contact
community groups and local
schools to see
how you can work with students who could use extra academic support.
Maybe New York could look at Portland OR and see
how well religion, public
schools and
community action can work together.
Here are some specifics on
how this «always worship together rule» has now infiltrated our lives: Fred occasionally teaches Sunday
School at my Baptist Church; I fully participation in his faith
community's services and rituals during Hindu festival weekends.
I talked about this in a recent post, The Gospel According to Lady Gaga, regarding
how Christian
communities should take a more personal and active interest in protecting gay kids from being bullied in
schools.
Fuller, for example, was surprised by
how positive the interaction and
community - building has been among their online students, so the
school began piloting Fuller Formation Groups, spiritual and leadership formation groups that meet virtually.
As I go to court with poor immigrants, visit their children in
schools and translate for them in job interviews, I am always stmck by
how much social capital I have by simply being able to speak English well and to work as a professional in the
community.
You'd think that I'd focus on Dianah explaining
how the pain of her dislocated hip threatened to keep her out of
school until the ministry of Africa New Life found her a surgeon, a new hip, a
community nurse named Rebecca who oversees her recovery and physical therapy plan, all of her
school fees and complete support to keep her in high
school full time.
At bottom, changes in a
school's concrete identity come by decisions it makes, deliberately or inadvertently, about three factors we noted in chapter 2 that distinguish
schools from one another: Whether to construe what the Christian thing is all about in some one way, and if so,
how; what sort of
community a theological
school ought to be;
how best to go about understanding God.
Just
how a plurality of ways to construe the Christian thing, ways to go about understanding God, and ways to be in
community will be related to one another is finally an internal political matter settled through the
school's governance practices.
To consider
how it relates to the church, the
school, the
community and the home, we must include the top 5 or 6 percent, those above 120 or 125 I.Q..
That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the
community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial
schools as young boys where they learned
how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.
Silverton Friends Church, for instance, (where my co-author John Pattison is a member) gathered a diverse group of its members and spent most of the past
school year reading about the LGBT
community and discussing
how they would respond together to tensions about sexuality in their congregation and their denomination.
Mastering the faculty's language, learning
how to debate within the
school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out
how to be accepted in this
community and then
how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.
Its spiritual dimension is fostered and gleaned through the interplay of relationships in the
school,
how people treat each other, and the ritual gatherings that evoke a sense of continuity with the past and give a
community its identity.
David Novak wonders
how a Jew like me can teach at a Christian divinity
school in light of my «opposition to the dialogue» of the two
communities and my belief that their «relationship necessarily involves mutual repugnance» (««Instinctive Repugnance,»» May).
Speaking to the Indiana Area
School of the Prophets in August, 1980, Trotter explores
how theology and imagination are related, this time from the perspective of the words a religious
community chooses to express what is finally incapable of being expressed in any definitive way.
This week, we talk with Teresa Goines about Old
School Cafe,
how it's making a difference in the lives of young people and to actually effect change in local
communities.
Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the
community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and
community leaders alike have the needed information to know
how to best support strengthening local
schools.
The central issue here can be focused by asking the question as concretely as possible:
How does a given theological
school understand the relationship between itself as a
community and a Christian congregation as a
community?
But I must also ask a utilitarian, pietistic question:
how does God speak to me and to my
communities (family,
school, local church, denomination) through this text?
In the interest of following the recommendation that any such effort ought to be kept as concrete as possible, it would be important and fruitful to ask whether there is some one dominant assumption within the
school as a
community about (a)
how the Christian thing is best construed and (b)
how one best goes about «understanding» God.
How does the
school seem to understand itself as a
community in relation to churches?
Finally, the answers made to these two types of questions will interconnect in complex ways with answers made to the question of
how the
school as
community is related to church
communities: Is the
school itself an ordered Christian congregation; is it an expanded version of the academic aspect of the work of ministerial leadership in a settled congregation; is it an agency for the extension education of practicing clergy?
The collaboration of Madison Public
Schools and Backyard Farms shows
how communities can deliver creative solutions to health and wellness needs.
Inquiring
school authorities wondered
how the Bahamas figured in Warsaw
Community High's redistricting, and there was no senior year for him.
«I loved
how the people were so friendly and it felt like a
community like St. Francis,» said LaRocco, who was recruited by more than 200
schools.
Paul will discuss grit, character, and
How Children Succeed with David Levin, co-founder of KIPP, and Dominic Randolph, head of the Riverdale Country
School, at the Jewish
Community Center in New York City as part of the JCC's Learning Matters conversation series hosted by John Merrow.
I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative ways, organized presentations for parents in the local
community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about
how Challenge Success ties into Jewish values at my Hebrew
School.
Paul will discuss
How Children Succeed in a
community conversation at Ottawa Hills High
School, 2055 Rosewood Ave SE, presented by First Steps, the Grand Rapids Public
Schools, and Believe 2 Become.
I can't tell you
how many phone chats or coffees I had with friends or random people that friends referred me to, in order to get a sense of the
community and opportunities offered by each
school.
That means, in part, caring not just about your own child but about other children in the building and about
how the whole
school community functions.
We also address
how to secure sponsorships from local businesses and vendors to market your
school food program in the
community in our Marketing and Lunchroom Education course.
Here are some fun photos we took of Andrew's new OshKosh B'gosh outfits and at the end of this post, I'm going to share
how you can team up with OshKosh B'gosh to make a difference in YOUR
community, Save 20 % on your in store or online purchase, AND one lucky reader will have a chance to WIN a $ 50 OshKosh B'gosh Gift Card in time to pick up some fun Back to
School items for your students!
Small group discussions were organized for participants to reflect on two of the Core Principles and share
how they are in evidence in their
school community.
Describe best practices for
how to assess the feasibility of implementing
community eligibility in
schools that qualify for the provision on the lower end of the identified student percentage range;
We will also discuss
how to successfully market your program to stakeholders (students, parents,
school administrators, the
community).
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.
Jack Petrash ponders
how to best serve our children and
school communities in the age of Donald Trump.