Sentences with phrase «just engage parents»

And if knowledge is power a good school gateway doesn't just engage parents, it empowers them.

Not exact matches

«Other kinds of work — be it exercise, a creative hobby, hands - on parenting, or volunteering — will do more to preserve your zest for Monday's challenges than complete vegetation,» she has written before recommending that, if you really want to feel jazzed up after a break, you should proactively schedule challenging or engaging activities rather than just planning to chill and take things the days as they come.

That stay - at - home parent wheeling her infant around the neighborhood is engaged in a valuable service — just ask anyone who's paid for a week of daycare.

But in between those two extremes is a category called chronic understimulation, in which parents just don't interact very often with their children in an engaged, face - to - face, serve - and - return way, ignoring their cries or attempts at conversation, parking them in front of a screen for hours at a time.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

But being on the other side as a parent can be just as bad — getting the dreaded call from the school or another parent that your child is a bully (or, at least, engaging in bullying behavior.)

AsKate Billingham (FNP Project Director) says herself: «We're really just at the beginning of understanding how to meaningfully engage young dads in they become parents».

The authors ultimately believe it's not dinner per se that matters so much, but the amount of time parents engage meaningfully with their children, and mealtimes are just one setting where such interaction can take place.

Just like Koo encouraged the children to engage with their neighbor, parents can encourage their child's willingness to «help.»

These men want to be engaged parents and successful professionals, yet find conflicts as they try to achieve both objectives.These survey findings confirm that «balancing work and family is not just a woman's issue» said Brad Harrington, Executive Director of the Center for Work & Family.

Their parents Johnny and Sarah are just as engaging (if somewhat more damaged), and the scenes in which they gamble everything in high - risk attempts to rebuild their family are nail - bitingly suspenseful because the script (and acting) makes us genuinely care about what happens to all four of them.

We are just starting to explore engaging our parents and local community with Twitter, as well as reaching out to a global audience.

«Unless you're actually involving and engaged with your community — and I'm not just talking about parents, I'm talking about all the other opportunities that are out there — then you're not adding value to your school.»

However, Jonathan stresses that a strategy must not just exist on paper and that it only comes to life through marketing activity and through engaging with local media, parents and other stakeholders.

To quote from Fr, Heft's concluding chapter, «A Catholic high school that offers the education that it should will provide not only spiritual development, it will also provide a superior education, precisely because it will integrate knowledge; attend to both the heads and hearts of their students; engage parents more intimately in the education of their children; deepen their understanding and strengthen the practice of their faith; and prepare their graduates to enter thoughtfully a culture that offers opportunities and has needs, not just for technical skills, but even more for wisdom and generosity.»

Improving resources and science facilities has been another focus for the school - that has meant engaging not just students and teachers, but also parents.

I think the outcomes for families are not just that the children have parents who are more engaged, but also that parents become a deeper part of the fabric of the schools.»

That goes beyond just using the technology for a listing of what students will learn (log in as guest), to an open invitation to parents to participate — perhaps by creating and offering engaging questions for parents and opportunities for them to offer ideas and suggestions as well.

East Asian students learn more and score better on just about every kind of measure because they attend school for more days, work harder in school and at home after school, and have better - prepared teachers and more deeply engaged parents who encourage and coach them each day and night.

Building a movement, focusing on problem - solving, and engaging parents are just a few of the topics that this year's Champion Creatively Alive Children supplement addresses.

Either way, it was just another obstacle for González to overcome, along with developing and retaining young teachers, engaging parents and getting free eye tests for his students.

Teen Hackz helps teens understand their individual behavior style by using a teen based behavioral profiling tool developed just for them that is both engaging and fun, and helps parents understand and guide their teens by identifying and reinforcing critical factors on the path to resilience.

Just by listening to one another, we parents, students, and teacher generate the trust that lets us all support and engage in new ways to tackle teaching and learning.

«When students come from low socioeconomic backgrounds you have to think differently, and you have to teach differently to get students interested and parents engaged — you're not lowering expectations, you're just doing your work differently.»

And an effective voice for parents is apparently just too much democracy and power for the Finch loyalists who are now engaged in an undemocratic strategy to derail this important vehicle for parent involvement in Bridgeport's schools.

Parents were encouraged to engage with the school on a deeper level than just ice cream socials and pizza sales.

Addressing everything from pop culture to going off to college to handling your parents» divorce, these fun and well - made stand alone books are just engaging, while still providing teen readers with the information they crave.

«Our electronic toys just need to be turned on by the pet parent and then the toy will move, engaging the cat in play.

Many parents would think about driving lessons as just another expense but driving lessons are proven effective tool to prevent cases of vehicular accident engaging with teenagers.

There may be times when your child does not want to talk and just having a parent nearby engaging in a shared activity or giving them a cuddle is helpful.

So I think it takes just a little bit of pro-activeness on the part of the educators, to encourage parents to engage in that sort of problem - solving because sometimes you don't want to start these things on your own; it takes a little bit of encouragement.

There may be times when children don't want to talk and just having a parent or carer nearby engaging in a shared activity or giving them a cuddle is helpful.

There are designated places to stop and engage parents in reflective dialogue regarding what has just been presented.

It is often conducted with both parents, however, research shows tremendous benefit to children even when just one parent engages in positive co-parenting.

You just got engaged, or married, or pregnant... and suddenly the dynamics with your parents, your siblings, your parents - in - law, your siblings - in - law have shifted in an unexpected way.

Engaging your kids in a fun activity that makes your parenting schedule just another part of the routine can help to diminish those fears.

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