Sentences with phrase «into local classrooms»

Also on the commission are a retired four - star general, two former state governors, a Colorado teacher of the year, business leaders and philanthropists to create a pathway for social and emotional skill - building methods to be explored, modified and moved into local classrooms.

My priorities will be: (1) Get more funding into local classrooms and cut bureaucracy and waste; (2) Empower teachers and parents to make more education decisions; (3) Expand career training and college prep to ensure all students are prepared to succeed in the 21st century.

My priorities will be: (1) Get more funding into local classrooms and cut bureaucracy and waste; (2) Empower teachers and parents to make more education decisions; (3) Expand career training and college prep to ensure all students are prepared to succeed in the 21

Community nonprofit organizations, such as the Health Trust, in Santa Clara County, California, are bringing the program into their local classrooms.

If you are ever invited into a local classroom to speak about the Supreme Court's role in our nation's history, you may first want to visit Landmark Supreme Court Cases, a site developed to support educators in teaching about landmark Supreme Court cases.

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

School children in a part of Berkshire have returned to the classroom after their school was turned into a help centre for the local community during the recent floods.

Ultimately, Honey says she hopes her research will provide insight for educators and hopefully show them how important it is to incorporate local culture into the classroom.

To master the digital classroom, K - 12 teachers can tap into resources at local colleges and universities.

For instance, service learning programs bring curricular activities outside of the classroom and into the local community, by encouraging students to engage in civic duty such as volunteering.

What started as a high school student's idea to create a greenhouse for a retirement home in Bozeman evolved into a mobile classroom that visits local elementary schools that want gardens but can't afford them.

SOLV's Green Team program brings experts into classrooms and puts tools into student hands, helping students and teachers restore local streams by collecting garbage, eradicating nonnative plant species, and planting thousands of trees, among other projects.

I brought this community engagement experience into my classroom in order to promote acts of compassion within the school and our local community.

At Hood River Middle School, place - based learning makes student learning relevant and engaging by turning their local geography, culture, history, and economy into classroom lessons.

Technology can be used to advance learning by bringing exciting curricula based on real - world problems into the classroom, providing scaffolds and tools to enhance learning, such as modeling programs and visualization tools, giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision, and building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expanding opportunities for teacher learning.

Responsibility For School Spending Belongs At Local Level November 7, 2016 by Brett Kittredge A recurring theme that has been emphasized by legislative leaders during the education funding formula revamp process is a desire to get more money into the classroom.

It's clear from lesson observations, including from local authority inspectors, that the teaching staff are more confident which in turn translates into a dynamic classroom environment where students are motivated, engaged and are providing each other with peer - to - peer support.

And I will continue to prevent wasteful spending so more of our money goes into the classroom — and fight for a fair share of funding from Sacramento for local schools.

What began as a hobby, selling lesson plans to local stores, became a part - time job after a full day of teaching, and eventually blossomed into a nonstop opportunity to develop and grow Teacher Created Materials as a full - service company, and a welcome and familiar name in every classroom.

With the new flexibilities under ESSA, state and local policymakers have the opportunity to begin to translate the research on learning mindsets and skills into effective classroom practice.

But partnerships, MATs and the middle tier (in the form of Regional Schools Commissioners, local authorities, NLEs etc.) can play a valuable role in supporting teachers to translate research evidence into applicable classroom strategies.

In order to improve rural schools, authors recommend federal policymakers stop promoting private school vouchers as a way to expand educational opportunities in rural areas, and to instead boost educational opportunities in local public schools by increasing efforts to modernize rural classrooms and integrate technology into teaching and learning.

With lawmakers duking it out over whether or not to eliminate a large number of teacher aides in elementary classrooms, it's hard to imagine that the state and local school districts will be able to keep school turnaround efforts going into the future.

It has also created some worry for those schools whose budget for the 2014 - 15 school year will remain the same under the state's new Local Control Funding Formula, but will now have to dip into their pockets for classroom necessities.

Unique Partner Morning program brings local professionals into the classroom to engage with students

A spokeswoman for Alexander told The Washington Post that «The Trump Administration has a prime opportunity to significantly reduce the intrusion of the Education Department into our local schools and classrooms... When the Trump Administration enforces the Every Student Succeeds Act as written, the size of the Education Department will be necessarily and appropriately diminished.»

Public school teachers often reach into their own pocketbooks to buy essentials like pencils and copy paper for overcrowded classrooms, nevermind having the financial support to take 95 sixth graders on a bus to a local farm for project work.

Dorms and classrooms have since been renovated and turned into a thriving array of shops and local businesses.

Three years later, when Pence took office, local Tea Party groups and other activists began a campaign to repeal the standards they saw as a federal overreach into classrooms.

Under the grant, county superintendents work with the business community and the arts community to begin a systemic state (research, resources, support) and local (data gathering, education, courses of study, and professional development) approach to bringing the arts into the classroom at every grade level.

«The Trump Administration has a prime opportunity to significantly reduce the intrusion of the Education Department into our local schools and classrooms,» the spokeswoman said.

STEDI Templates for Schools focuses on the actions teachers, administrators, and staff at the local site can initiate in assisting permanent teachers and principals to more smoothly work with and integrate substitute teachers into the classroom.

And Greenberg led a small group of volunteers who turned it into a classroom for teaching the ABCs — animal birth control — to local vets, the logical next step in reducing the number of wild dogs.

Other interesting stops included lunch with a local family in Acul, a visit with the old gentleman who makes the famous black salt of Nebaj, a hike into the hills near Acul and a visit with a classroom of elementary school children.

Professional game designers serve as classroom advisors to students, and game jams held in each city offer further opportunities for students to learn game design and programming, diving deeply into the theme topics with local technologists, architects, conservationists and other civic leaders.

Receive lesson plans, engage in hands - on activities with a local guest artist, and discuss strategies for incorporating contemporary artists into your classroom.

While you may spend a bit of your time in the classroom or lab, most of your training time takes you into local clinical settings.

In particular, I enjoyed transforming an Art classroom into an inviting Play Room space over at Jockey Club Sarah Roe School and further fine tuning my non-verbal play skills by working with non-English speaking children at a local government primary school.

With all the cutbacks that our governments are imposing on education, why not ask a good local real estate agent to come into the classroom and teach something important and meaningful, such as how to acquire and maintain a place to live?