Sentences with phrase «kids in classrooms where»

We put kids in classrooms where they can't hear, but we'd never put them in a classroom with the lights turned off.»

Maybe not, but as an educator and a mother I want to be the one making that difference for kids, and I want my own kids in the classroom where the teacher is making a difference.

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If they don't and the teacher is differentiating in the classroom and observe a classroom where she's truly differentiating for different levels of kids, fine.

She could not safely move about and learn in a classroom where 23 kids were allowed to eat as they please as that would leave contaminated surfaces, manipulatives and carpets.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

Our engaging online courses give you a front row seat in Chef Ann Cooper's classroom, where you can learn directly from a leader in school food change on how to transition school meal programs to scratch - cooked operations that provide real, healthy food to kids at school every day.

If your child hasn't already encountered a person with a disability, it's likely he will at some point in school, where children with special needs are often in the same classroom with other kids.

Get them involved with extracurricular activities during the summer where they are participating with kids in their classroom.

Kids lucky to be in these classrooms look forward to that time in the day where they can get comfortable and dive into worlds of their own.

Academic discourse takes on a new dimension in classrooms where kids can sprawl and wiggle.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

«When you go into a classroom where teachers lead kids in that way, management is not the problem we tend to think it is because kids feel empowered and interested and invigorated,» she continues.

What we were [recommended] to do was put the kids back in the classroom and have, in the case of where there's an Education Assistant, the Education Assistant supported the student with their learning while the teacher was running the classroom instruction.

Unlike many public schools, where kids purchase bottled water from vending machines, Namaste provides a water cooler in each of its six classrooms.

What we need is kinds of activity in the classroom where the teacher is learning at the same time as the kids and with the kids.

The kids she saw in Japanese classrooms were happily engaged in mathematics — boisterous, energetic, with arguments abounding about solutions to problems — whereas in the United States, she saw dull classrooms where children unhappily practiced procedures.

What I created in my classroom space was a place where kids could explore learning and create.

So, an art initiative and a science initiative between the Elementary School, the Middle School and the High School where there are kids P / K -12 working together and learning together in probably more of an authentic way than happens sometimes traditionally in the classroom.

When teachers engage kids in talking about their particular strengths, weaknesses, interests, and ways of learning — and in developing a classroom where everyone gets the help and support they need to grow as much as possible — I see kids who are very enthusiastic about that approach to teaching and learning.

And this is what we're looking for in a 21st Century classroom... what skills are we really giving these kids to be able to make their way through this complex world, where there are volumes of information available at the click of a button?

From a series of articles that examine «What Kids Can Do with Challenging, Inspiring Schoolwork,» this posting gives a vivid close - up glimpse into a second grade classroom in Reno, Nevada, where students are using Core Knowledge Language Arts materials to study the Civil War.

Seniority, tenure, bumping rights, LIFO — all of these policies make it easier for teachers to choose (and remain in) the schools they want and harder for administrators to assign them — especially the most senior and likely most effective among them — to schools where they might do more good in classrooms with more challenging (but needier) kids.

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Changing the incentives and changing the systems — the accountability system, the data system — those are all things that are very worthy things to do in the district, but those don't filter down all the way to the classroom, especially in a district where the issues the kids bring to the classroom are so extreme.

So instead of questioning the choices of your students in moments where your classroom feels like it is out of control or where conflict has occurred between kids, start questioning your own choices.

I did not see a single classroom where the kids were sitting in rows, quietly listening to a lecturing teacher.

Labour have also caused concerned parents to send their kids to private schools, grammar schools or personally have them home - educated rather than leaving them in bog - standard bureaucratic comprehensive schools, where classroom sizes are too big.

How many generations of kids will we leave in classrooms where teachers denigrate and stifle them?

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«I've seen huge disparities, where I've gone into classrooms in urban districts and the paint is peeling and there's not a computer in sight, to very high - end districts where every kid has an iPad they can bring home,» said Lisa Gillis, president of Integrated Educational Strategies, a national nonprofit based in California that helps schools implement digital curricula.

«We will make sure our kids are safe, we will see our way through these issues and our kids will be back in the classroom where they belong,» Emanuel said.

Schools where students are engaged and adults are skilled in positive, preventive discipline see big drops in the frequency with which kids are sent out of the classroom because of misbehavior.

It is called «Classrooms and Kids» because in THIS budget that is exactly where the money goes.

She spoke passionately about all the things we do not currently measure that matter, such as feeding hungry students, noisy classrooms where active learning is happening, and kids getting messy in the classroom.

Shift schedules where you've got to squeeze in twice as many kids into a building as can fit there, by putting them on shifts, and having the teachers, you know, teach for three months, and close down a classroom for a month, and then open it for three months.

I've been in classrooms where kids are lapping up facts, words, and ideas that will serve them well in high school and beyond.

There's only one place where kids should be this fall and every fall — in the classroom.

Standardized exams often get pilloried in the larger culture, where their use is equated with disrupting classroom instruction, pressuring kids, and shaming schools.

We believe this is an important step in putting the focus where it should be — on kids — while helping hard - working teachers and keeping them in classrooms.

I think that educators are coming to realize they need more time, they need more time with kids, they need more time with themselves that the work is far more collaborative, it has to be far more collaborative than it has been, so this notion of the egg crate school, where everybody's in her own little egg crate; you kind of have to kind of abandon that; you can't stay in your classroom and close the door.

Our teachers are working towards a Math Workshop model in their classroom where they push small groups of kids towards working independently, but they need another program for teaching others at the same time.

It's an approach where students develop basic skills through daily individualized online instruction in a «Learning Lab» — and one that enables classroom teachers to focus on critical - thinking, building rich classroom experiences, and providing extra help to kids who are struggling.

«Equally important is the excitement of ordering from the Scholastic book flyer where kids get to choose and own the books they want to read and the thrill when the book box arrives in the classroom.»

Families enjoyed a live program from the only traveling shark show in the country, Haai Inc.'s Live Shark Encounter; had the opportunity to enter a Kids Aquarium Contest; and participated in the Betta Toss, where winners of a ball toss game took home a betta fish of their own, with proceeds benefiting Pets in the Classroom, a non-profit organization that helps fund classroom pets.

Its classrooms literally whisk students away to alternate worlds coinciding with their subjects, where kids can do anything from arguing the value of capitalism with Joseph Stalin in History to offering a fist bump to Oedipus in Literature.

Here we are, kids, hours away from Apple's big education event where we're expecting to learn about the company's strategy to reclaim dominance in classrooms, crucial for the incubation of the next generation of consumers.

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.

«The most productive order comes in classrooms that are communities, where kids know that they are secure and cared for.»