Sentences with phrase «into classrooms»

The director of implementation develops the organization's strategy to help schools to integrate character development into their classrooms.

Here we were, teachers from all over the world meditating together and discussing the myriad intersections between our personal practice and what we've been able to integrate (or not) into our classrooms.

She works everyday to help teachers integrate technology into their classrooms, to help students see the strengths and weaknesses of technology usage for education, and help parents see the importance of good digital citizenship skills for the future.

But those who really want to see what success looks like have only to open their minds, believe in the possible, and step into the classrooms of schools like YES Prep.

Mark consults for Stanford's Graduate School of Education and the American School in Japan to help bring more design and innovation into classrooms worldwide.

Sylvia works in schools around the world to bring the power of authentic learning into classrooms, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects.

What helped me to take the plunge was that several teachers enthusiastically invited me into their classrooms to see the wonderful things they are doing to inspire learning.

It was around 2007 that there was an injection of ring fenced funding from the government to implement audio visual (AV) technology into classrooms.

But this is Wiseman, so viewers shouldn't expect the Cliff's Notes version — instead, the director has assembled a four - hour movie that ventures into classrooms, boardrooms, executive suites and security meetings.

Sharon also works with various groups, businesses and organizations who wish to implement her teachings into their classrooms and work environment.

I also enjoy going into classrooms and allowing teachers to see how I offer a class.

Here Comes The Sun Yoga, is offering this one - day course for teachers, administrators, camp counselors, parents, child psychologists, librarians, or any professionals who work with children and want to introduce yoga, mindfulness and meditation into their classrooms, careers and lives.

If you're going into classrooms and educating kids, it's not a place where you kind of advertise.»

A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a new study finds.

In May of 2007, despite the high - profile Dover ruling that intelligent design is not science, school board chairman Thomas J. Doland of Chesterfield County, Virginia, came under fire from parents for not introducing pro-ID textbooks into his classrooms.

That basic grounding could help teachers assess the importance of new research and find ways to incorporate it into their classrooms.

Some schools have incorporated social - emotional learning programs — like MindUP and Roots of Empathy — into classrooms while other school systems, including the new B.C. curriculum, embrace it more systemically.

«We're trying to transfer the knowledge of the relatively few autism experts available into classrooms and homes across the country.

They take education efforts into classrooms and village meetings, distributing posters and comics explaining the risks posed by the parasite.

Wolf also expected NSF to make it easy for school districts around the country to incorporate the findings into their classrooms.

Still, that has not stopped neuroscience from insinuating itself into classrooms worldwide in the form of teacher - training programs, computer applications and curriculum changes — not one of which is based on actual knowledge for the simple reason that we lack even «fundamental principles» of how the brain works, they write.

And although research can seem abstract compared with the practical work of teaching, Schoenfeld says the theoretical foundations that academics lay eventually make it into classrooms and curricula.

As children settle into their classrooms for the beginning of a new school year, parents steel themselves for the pending battle.

Fraser and Spertus hope Blockly, launched last year, will find its way into classrooms.

Science can often feel unapproachable for many people, kids and adults alike, he said, so getting scientists into classrooms and communities can put real faces to a sometimes - remote enterprise.

She said students are jammed into classrooms and her school can't afford an additional special education teacher to service all the students with special needs.

The city packed more students into its classrooms for the second year in a row, a new Department of Education report confirmed, giving students less individual time and making teachers» jobs more difficult.

The Plattsburgh City School District recently received $ 1.6 million through the state's Smart Schools Bond Act to incorporate the latest technology into classrooms.

«But they never step into the classrooms, or talk to parents and educators, and ask what is it you guys actually need?

Schools are already having to convert non-classroom space, such as music rooms and libraries, into classrooms and others have been forced to reduce playground space or expand class sizes, the association warned.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

A broad coalition of educators and organizations have gathered resources to provide interested teachers a program on plastic pollution education into their classrooms.

Today, more than ever, we need teachers integrating STEM into their classrooms.

According to the union leader,» Soldiers who were armed to teeth stormed the campus, entered every corner, even our bedrooms, arresting both students, lecturers and non-academic staff, hounding them into detention, even as they were shooting teargas sporadically into classrooms and offices.

Families for Excellent Schools, a pro-charter-school group that recently filed a lawsuit charging that city schools fail to protect kids against violence and bullying, said the latest data confirm its fear that «more and more weapons are being brought into classrooms and endangering students.»

Governor Cuomo's plan will give our best teachers $ 20,000 bonuses, will cover tuition to get the best and brightest into our classrooms, and will increase funding for all children.

For one, it appears that the city did not give in to the UFT's demand to place the 1,200 ineffective teachers currently in the absent teacher reserve (ATR) back into classrooms against a principal's will.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

PLATTSBURGH — The Plattsburgh City School District is in the process of incorporating the latest technology into classrooms through the state's Smart Schools Bond Act.

It is unconscionable to put the worst teachers into the classrooms of the neediest students,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

Currently a preschool through fifth grade, the Blue School is converting 233 Water St. into classrooms, offices as well as a planned gym, rooftop playground, -LSB-...]

The poll found wide support for State of the State proposals including universal prekindergarten and a $ 2 billion bond act to bring technology into classrooms.

Shedd Aquarium got into the holiday spirit with a fun, annual contest that gave Chicago - area teachers an opportunity to fold environmental education into their classrooms» holiday celebrations with its Wreath - Cycled Classroom Challenge.

Please feel comfortable to nurse your child in class, but we ask that you not bring food or drink into classrooms.

RACINE — With a goal of no student going hungry, Southern Local is now bringing breakfast into its classrooms.

«Bringing nutrition education and hands - on learning through cooking into classrooms is a really exciting way to see kids go through the learning process and apply what they're learning in the classroom to their everyday lives,» said Cooper.

didn't arouse any sympathy as more and more children with food allergies came into classrooms.

That said, there certainly are instances of teachers in impoverished areas bringing nutritious food into their classrooms to feed hungry students, often paying for this food out of their own pocket.

Plentiful resources and materials — including professional texts, children's literature and math manipulatives — all provided by CCM, which allow educators to immediately implement new strategies into their classrooms.

At nearly 6 and 7 1/2 I defy you to walk into their classrooms and tell me which children were fed what as infants.