Sentences with phrase «keep kids in school when»

Stella Connell Levy, president and executive director of the Restorative Schools Vision Project — a human rights organization that uses restorative justice to keep kids in school when they make mistakes — emphasizes that the circle and other such activities come to function as «safe spaces.»

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However, keep in mind that this could result in your having to work when the kids are asleep or at school.

I am proud because my kids kept fighting, and when it's Kentucky and they come with All - American players when they were in high school, you could get discouraged, but our kids did not get discouraged.»

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

Look for added extras on school backpacks that your child will actually use, such as pockets, key chains, lunch kits, water bottle holders, cell phone holders, etc. (But keep in mind there is such thing as too many pockets when a kid is looking for misplaced lunch money.)

When Bob Bilton and his wife decided to move up from their former Buffalo Grove house to a new one with a finished basement for their soon - to - be-teenagers and a larger yard for their four - legged kids, the schools kept them in town.

«When we send our kids to school, we expect that they won't be eating the kind of fatty, salty, sugary foods that we try to keep them from eating at home,» Obama said in a news release.

Designed to guide parents in all aspects of feeding their family through the school year, this book is perfect for those with school - aged kids who need both the how and the what when it comes to food and keeping their littles well fed.

«School kids living in homeless shelters must contend with unimaginable levels of stress and hardship, and are at a tremendous disadvantage when trying to keep up with their housed peers in class,» said DAVE GIFFEN, Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless, the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless men, women and children.

Keep wearing those heels — when my kids were in elementary school I regularly wore heels while doing crossing guard duty.

«I don't know if it was deliberate or not,» Trish Williams, executive director of EdSource, a California nonprofit, told me last winter, «but I know that when my kids were in middle school, one of the best in California, one of the teachers told me that her job was to just hold them and keep them safe until they get through puberty.

Silva also credits diversity at CRLS as being responsible in some degree for keeping the school safe: «When you look at schools like Columbine, semihomogenous places with obvious «in» and «out» crowds, some kids feel marginalized.

«I don't know if it was deliberate or not,» recalls Trish Williams, executive director of EdSource, a California nonprofit, «but I know that when my kids were in middle school, one of the best in California, one of the teachers told me that her job was to just hold them and keep them safe until they get through puberty.

The Zone was born in 1994, when Canada (then a director of a truancy - prevention program in Harlem) concluded that his only hope of keeping kids in school and out of prison was to take a holistic approach.

While Bill and Hillary Clinton have been charter supporters going back to his presidency in the 1990s (when the first schools opened), late last year Hillary Clinton recited some of the critic's points in a speech where she said too many charters «don't take the hardest - to - teach kids, or if they do, they don't keep them.»

So that's — and the third one is just getting the research into the hands of the policy makers, because I believe that teachers and educators, when they see these connections that it's true that you can keep kids in school, pursue an alternative method of discipline and improve test scores, improve climate, improve graduation rates.

When busing ended I had the sense that many in Denver felt that the district could get back to business as usual, maintaining traditional neighborhood schools and creating magnets seemingly designed to keep white middle class kids in the district.

«While well intentioned, the collection of data for the interests of faraway authorities would not get to the root of the issue — keeping kids in school and on track,» Brown wrote in 2014 when rejecting the bill to track truancy.

So, I'm cruising down the 91 today in our long - term Mini Countryman — taking the kids to school and minding my own business in the carpool lane — when a Nissan Leaf gets all over my tail and keeps it planted a few feet off my rear bumper.

When I was a kid, I was creepily fascinated by the wrongheaded idea, current in my grade school, that your hair and your fingernails kept growing after you died.

On the flip side of the high education costs, keeping the kids entertained during the summer when they aren't in school is pretty cheap in Vermont.

When you are a ginger life is pretty hard Years of ritual bullying in the school yard Kids calling you Ranga and Fanta Pants No invitation to the high school dance But you get up and learn to hold your head up You try to keep your cool and not get het up But until the feeling of I'll is truly let up Then the word is ours and ours alone