Sentences with phrase «kids and teachers started»

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Prior to starting Ivy Kids LLC, I was an early - education teacher, and before that, a chemical engineer, but being a good mother was always my primary concern.

It's as basic as your kids starting at a new school and finding out the main teachers are leaving — only, when it comes to multi million pound football contracts, agents are allowed to ask questions that demand straight answers.

Team Dragon's teachers are coaches who have played a lot of soccer and love working with kids as they start on their soccer journey.

He is in Preschool (started this year) at our church private school We love this school and all the people in it and even though there are no real «underlying» issues, last week his teacher implemented a behavior chart to help curb his pushing, ripping toys away from other kids, etc..

Having three kids means life is crazy and being a teacher my year does start in sept so perfect for us!

If both parents agree that homework has to be done for the entire week before the kid's weekend starts, and if the teacher says that the child's assignments aren't done from Tuesday, on Friday night the child can't start watching TV or play video games or go out until that homework's done.

If your school district is anything like my school district, once those teacher assignments come out for the upcoming school year, the feeding frenzy begins and people start interrogating everyone who has a kid older than theirs about teachers.

«But basically what they did is they changed the starting and ending time at two elementary schools from being early schools, that start at 8» o'clock to schools that starts at 9» o'clock — the kids then would get out an hour later — they did so without the knowledge of the parents, the consent of the teachers or anybody,» Rumore remarked in a WBFO interview.

The 30 - second ad, which will air for a week starting on Jan. 24, concludes with a message to the mayor: «If you really want to do right by our kids, you'll work with teachers and parents and stop playing politics with our schools.»

Her friends are now enemies, and they do things like knock things off her desk when the teacher isn't looking to embarrass her in front of the class, whisper about her (while looking right at her) at the lunch table, and start group texts about her that the kids talk about at school.

After all, Part II isn't so much of a sequel as it is a literal «part 2» — the film starts in the middle of the first Karate Kid, bringing us up to speed, and then continuing the themes and adventures of Daniel - san (Ralph Macchio) and Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita), the greatest teacher - student duo since Oscar the Grouch and Wormy.

The film starts a few years back and a young Donny is a kid with a crush on his teacher.

We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not until you start to ask kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual kids that you're doing the research for, then your impact is not going to be that great.

It held classes in the city zoo while its new building was being renovated, with six teachers and only 120 kids to start — many of them living in cars or sleeping on couches at friends» houses.

When we started this probably three years ago I started collecting data, students were still learning in the traditional maths setting, one teacher [and] 30 kids in their own classrooms, and so I started getting data mid-year, end of year, and so we've continued that so we're getting student achievement data.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

Take a look at this video and discover when kids start o get the idea that they can say and do what they want, and how teachers and parents contribute to the problem.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Teachers could start and lead schools, nonprofits could operate and support schools, and parents could match their kids to the programs that fit them best.

He didn't start connecting with and influencing schools in Chicago and teachers in Ireland with his kids» projects right away.

Farr approvingly cites the testimony of two teachers who were unable to make contact with their students» parents over the phone: «We would just start taking kids home, and we would wait at home until the parent came home, and we would just make home visits constantly,» recalls the unnamed TFAer.

«We need to stop focusing on test scores, blaming teachers and parents, and start teaching kids how to love and care for each other.»

«The bookmaking came about through an idea of starting sketchbooks in the art room,» says Bass, «and then the excitement over bookmaking and getting the kids into books culminated into teachers saying, «Well, it'd be nice if we could get the curriculum into these books, too.»

When the unions start busing in kids, parents, and teachers to rally against increases in class size or pay freezes, expect a lot of Republican governors to start quoting their good friend Arne Duncan.

Building community also means connecting with kids, so United for Success starts and ends each school day with an advisory period, during which a small group of students meet with a particular teacher, creating an in - school family of sorts to support students academically and personally as they navigate the rough waters of adolescence.

And at seven thirty in the morning, when school was supposed to start, we had a little 3rd grader or 2nd grader do the Pledge with all these kids in uniforms with moms and dads and teacheAnd at seven thirty in the morning, when school was supposed to start, we had a little 3rd grader or 2nd grader do the Pledge with all these kids in uniforms with moms and dads and teacheand dads and teacheand teachers.

Even if you started with excellent, challenging academic standards, they would quickly be gutted at the behest of teacher unions, administrator associations, and probably even parents if many kids and schools didn't meet them and were punished as a result.

The Best Ways To Integrate Special Needs Students NPR, May 2, 2012» «I think that it's important for people to start understanding that, that kids who have disabilities have a right to be educated in inclusive settings to the degree that is appropriate, but people who run schools also have an obligation to make sure that the teachers and the children get the types of supports that they need,» said Professor Thomas Hehir.»

And that they're — what the studies showed is what you really need to do is find ways to get the kids to read more challenging texts at their grade level, which means at first — and the teachers today helped explain this so, so much better than I could — that the teachers start by reading it aloud, having the kids follow aloAnd that they're — what the studies showed is what you really need to do is find ways to get the kids to read more challenging texts at their grade level, which means at first — and the teachers today helped explain this so, so much better than I could — that the teachers start by reading it aloud, having the kids follow aloand the teachers today helped explain this so, so much better than I could — that the teachers start by reading it aloud, having the kids follow along.

That's why No Kid Hungry and the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY), have teamed up to make sure teachers know about the best ways to help make sure every kid starts the school day with the food they need to thriKid Hungry and the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY), have teamed up to make sure teachers know about the best ways to help make sure every kid starts the school day with the food they need toTeachers of the Year (NNSTOY), have teamed up to make sure teachers know about the best ways to help make sure every kid starts the school day with the food they need toteachers know about the best ways to help make sure every kid starts the school day with the food they need to thrikid starts the school day with the food they need to thrive.

When school starts in August, most teachers and kids will fall back in the familiar routine of lesson plans, homework and tests.

My thesis is that is the current urban public school administration would turn upside down and focus on the bottom (kids, classrooms, parents, and teachers) by giving those at the bottom funding priority then the results that all agree is desirable will start to become manifested.

This may make for a longer year from start to finish, but with some days built in for long weekends for students it will give the kids a brief break from learning and the teachers will have a chance to meet with colleagues, focus on improving their instructional practices, and plan more engaging lessons.

In my opinion, administrators are more politicians than educators (even those who started out as teachers) which causes them to look to their management organization's needs and survival more than to living up to «Kid's First.»

Within the first month of school, I start to get a sense for which teachers are interested in my kids, and which ones aren't.

«We started with a blank slate and an empty area and asked ourselves, «How do you take the very best research and knowledge about what makes a difference for kids and empower accomplished teachers and start a new school?

I mean that, starting no later than middle school, kids set their own schedules, going in whatever directions their interests, abilities, and respect for parental and teacher opinion lead.

By increasing flexibility and portability for teacher retirement benefits, we can ensure that teachers don't have to choose between working with kids and earning a healthy start on retirement saving.

Teachers throughout the district are reporting that with the pressure to handle increasingly needy kids, and to do more with less, they are routinely working well beyond their contract hours, often starting an hour early, staying a couple of hours late and taking work home at night that involves prepping for projects or grading papers or tests.

If that is to happen, we have to start with parents, who must stop tolerating a system that is failing their kids, and start insisting on great schools and teachers.

Starting with fun and games with preschoolers and moving to primary - grade math success, Kenschaft is always aware of the role of parents and of teachers, telling mom and dad many skills they can encourage on their own and how to combat the «drill and kill» routines that have turned off so many kids from math.

No matter how we interact with children from birth to age eight — whether we're experts, early childhood teachers, first - time parents, or involved friends and neighbors — we all play a role in giving kids a strong, healthy start.

At the beginning of this school year, the staff participated in Getting Started, and a group of teachers acted out a story taking on roles of students and also Captain Kid.

«In recent years, Rhode Island has built a strong, voluntary system of evidence - based home visiting programs serving vulnerable families, including Healthy Families America, Nurse - Family Partnership, Parents as Teachers, and Early Head Start,» said Elizabeth Burke Bryant, executive director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.

In addition to Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children, campaign partners include Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Maternity Care Coalition, Pennsylvania Head Start Association, Pennsylvania Nurse - Family Partnership, Pennsylvania Parents as Teachers and Trying Together.

There's a program called the Responsive Classroom Program, and that program has shown that when teachers take the time to greet the kids warmly when they come into the classroom, when they have a morning meeting that actually takes some time to help the kids kind of reset the emotional balance from where they might have come in from before the start of the school day, and where the kids are involved in talking about and making the rules and reflecting on what happens in the class, when they take that time, quote - unquote, away from direct instruction, academic gains improve.

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The principal is excellent (and school excellence starts with the principal) most of the teachers are dedicated and there are many academically oriented kids.

After the kids» swimming lessons this week, their swimming teacher walked into the changerooms behind me, whipped off her cossie and started soaping herself in an open shower cubicle, while continuing our animated conversation.

Yes, our kids start school August 1, and we teachers have to go back in late July.