Sentences with phrase «individual schools and classrooms»

But the city does have bright spots — individual schools and classrooms where teachers are approaching math in a new way.

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«Whether it is unaffordable housing, cuts to school classrooms, leaving seniors to suffer in understaffed care homes, long waits for basic healthcare, the lack of family doctors, or hallway medicine — ordinary individuals and families have paid the price for Christy Clark's tax cuts to the rich,» said Horgan.

Schools are retrofitting classrooms with computers, computer jacks, digital projectors for computer generated images, white boards and scanners that digitize images and notes, and interactive teleconferencing facilities that permit individuals and groups to engage in discussion from distant locations.

In the middle decades of the twentieth century, New Critical pedagogy dominated high - school and college English classrooms, prescribing close attention to individual words, images, and other nit - picking details of the literary text.

With the generous support of the Walmart Foundation, the newest phase of Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom shifts our focus from direct implementation in individual schools to a state - level expansion; this expansion will allow us to work in partnership with local organizations to provide district - and school - level technical assistance and support for start - up breakfast - in - the - classroom programs.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.

«Teachers can make a huge difference in individual classrooms and schools, and how we prepare teachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent interview.

We also need the collective will of the individual parents and teachers who are «on the ground» at schools each day to «unjunk» our classrooms.

We will be discussing factors that are important to consider during a site assessment for breakfast - in - the - classroom, including enrollment, school size, layout, equipment needs, staffing, and individual site stakeholder engagement.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

«In addition to INSIGHTS» focus on individual children's strengths and needs, our study illustrates the importance of understanding and supporting classrooms as a whole at the transition to formal schools,» said McClowry, professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and the study's senior author.

Yoga 4 Classrooms is a ChildLight Yoga affiliate focused on providing professional development training for K - 12 schools and individual school professionals interested in sustainably implementing yoga & mindfulness in their classrooms and schools to improve self - regulation, learning anClassrooms is a ChildLight Yoga affiliate focused on providing professional development training for K - 12 schools and individual school professionals interested in sustainably implementing yoga & mindfulness in their classrooms and schools to improve self - regulation, learning anclassrooms and schools to improve self - regulation, learning and climate.

The site also offers space for schools to publish school newspapers on - line and create special Web sites for extracurricular activity groups, clubs, and individual classrooms to publish student writing on the Web!

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

Since 1997, MLV has investigated the dynamics of individual and group learning and the role of documentation in supporting the development of powerful learning groups in classrooms and schools.

As at Dartington Primary School, the facilities can be configured and fitted out to the exact requirements of each individual school — as learning clusters, standalone teaching blocks and generously - sized, light, modern classSchool, the facilities can be configured and fitted out to the exact requirements of each individual school — as learning clusters, standalone teaching blocks and generously - sized, light, modern classschool — as learning clusters, standalone teaching blocks and generously - sized, light, modern classrooms.

They argued that there is a growing professional and academic understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

To do this requires that educators build community on multiple levels — across the school, in the classroom, and on an individual level — before a harmful interaction occurs.

Because we work with all students in different areas of their school life, we're able to collaborate with special educators and classroom teachers to paint a whole picture of an individual student or class.

To a large extent, the work of improving education right now is redesigning classrooms, schools, processes, tools, and incentives so that learning can be responsive to the individual needs of all students.

The morning meeting format is simple and easy for entire schools to implement at one time, but individual teachers can obtain impressive results by using the method in their own classrooms, even when it isn't a school - wide approach.

Although there is plenty of data to understand the growth of charter schools or the numbers of students in districts, because blended learning is a phenomenon that doesn't occur at the school level — it instead occurs at the level of individual classrooms and teachers — capturing what's happening is difficult.

PBIS focuses on creating and sustaining primary (school - wide), secondary (classroom), and tertiary (individual) systems of support for positive behavior.

Mehta and Fine (read sidebar) discovered that even in underperforming schools where boredom was near universal, «there were individual teachers who were creating classrooms where students were really engaged and motivated.»

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

At their most elegant, they can responsibly test only a modest number of interactions between different treatments or between any one treatment and individual differences at the school, classroom, or individual level.

Any right - thinking school leader would want — and arguably needs — that kind of flexibility so that suspensions (and other forms of discipline) can be tailored and customized to take into account an array of factors regarding individual circumstances and histories, classroom conditions, and the larger school culture.

Ed tells of a group of individuals who are not so enamored of bringing humor into classrooms and schools: private practice therapists.

If America is going to improve its schools, we must do a better job of attracting our most passionate and high - achieving individuals to the classroom.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

In some cases, curriculum units were used in individual classrooms, and in others, the approach was adopted at the school level.

Unveiled this month, the plan would potentially give the federal government far more influence over classroom practices that traditionally have been left to states, school districts, and individual teachers.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

It is indeed a good thing that we have those other measures because it's true that the Common Core era has failed to deliver on what many of us saw as one of its most valuable and important features: a platinum meter stick to be used to measure, monitor, and compare student achievement, not just between states but also among districts, individual schools, even individual classrooms and children.

This data can be reviewed on an individual school, classroom or student basis, and is designed to aid good decision - making, support best practice, demonstrate outstanding leadership, and keep students safe.

In many U.S. classrooms and schools, assessment practices aren't just about improving teaching and learning for individual students.

The task force has identified just four functions that are essential to its role in education: creating and disseminating information on school performance in each classroom and program effectiveness, including information on individual student performance; enforcing civil rights laws; providing financial support to high - need students; and enhancing competition among providers.

Tailoring classroom activities to individual students» needs, interests, and strengths makes sense — and, at this school, it has proved extremely effective.

First of all there were a lot of individual effects on the children from introducing this type of playground: children were seen to be a lot more excited going out to play; they would enter their classrooms after lunchtime and would still be talking about what they did during that play; they were a lot more engaged, they were using the space a lot more readily, so, taking these materials out - and that could be one influence on how physical activity actually increased; they were solving problems and using their creativity skills - which I can also talk about how the children use all these objects to be creative in the school playground.

While on the surface, schools suggest initiatives that promote an individual's freedom to critically think, reflect, challenge, and be challenged, though the reality is that there is very little room for true criticism or reflection in the classroom; the focus of education is not on challenging students, but rather on explicating absolute skills that can be translated in something that can be effectively numerated and explicitly bought.

Starting with the 2008 - 09 school year, individual districts must meet new size caps in each classroom, robbing school officials of the wiggle room they enjoyed during the phase - in period, when school systems were allowed to use districtwide and then schoolwide averages in calculating class sizes.

Firstly, the experience shows the importance of «system - ness» — education reform takes place in an integrated, coherent, and sustainable manner at the system, school, classroom, and individual levels.

The flipped classroom model — in which students watch video lessons for homework and receive more direct, individual instruction from teachers during class time — is rapidly gaining popularity in K - 12 schools, with websites such as Khan Academy offering thousands of free video lessons.

Information about individual performance is aggregated across pupil populations at the classroom (and teacher), school, district, state, and national levels and cumulated over time.

raised, from over 30,000 individual donations, for a range of appeals including classroom supplies, school sports and tuition fees.

Environmental issues usually come to light when a facility problem and / or defect, illnesses manifesting symptoms with environmental exposure patterns, or persistent clusters of affected individuals functioning in the same location (school, classroom, library, cafeteria) are discovered.

Early in the school year, I discuss with my classes the different modes of activity we'll use in the classroom: whole class, small group, individual, and transitions.

[1] The challenge for any educational leader is to make things happen within individual classrooms, and across their school or area of responsibility.

Web - based Tool The CTAT is a web - based observation tool that helps individual teachers understand how they are using time in their classrooms, and helps schools identify and capture effective time management strategies across classrooms.