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«We think that there's going to be a value that they'll bring to kids in the classroom by being of similar backgrounds,» Shed said.»

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The method, which he has tried in classrooms in the U.K., Italy and the U.S., begins by dividing kids into groups of four, and giving each group a computer with Internet access.

That's the motto of a new charity - Classes 4 Classes was started this year - that encourages students to give back by sponsoring kids in other classrooms all over the United States by raising money and resources.

I also positioned myself in the back of a classroom of elementary kids barricaded by the stroller and with a cover on.

I've written a lot on this blog (and, really, I mean, a LOT — see the «Related Posts» below) about classroom birthday treats, soccer snacks and the many other ways in which kids are offered junk food by people other than their parents on a regular... [Continue reading]

That's why I'm thrilled to share with you a new «white paper» on food rewards in classrooms, co-authored by my blogging colleague Casey Hinds of KY Healthy Kids, along with Dr. Alicia Fedewa of University of Kentucky, College of Education and Anita Courtney, M.S., R.D., of Tweens Nutrition and Fitness Coalition.

If you'd like to voice your objection to the bill, please consider signing this petition from Food Policy Action and this one launched on Change.org by a second grade teacher worried about the hungry kids in her classroom.

Special correspondent Molly Knight Raskin reports on a program in Kansas City, Missouri, that's trying to stem this trend by looking beyond the classroom to the issues these kids face at home.

Based on a research conducted by Dr. Steven Duwall, the home - schooled kids with disability can get so much out of home schooling when compared to kids with special needs in the classroom.

Unfortunately, schools segregate children by age (kindergarten kids are age 5, first graders are age 6, etc.), which makes it difficult for gifted children, especially highly gifted children, to find their intellectual peers in a single classroom.

Chakra Kids specializes in bringing yoga into the classroom, and it does so by partnering with various schools in the area and incorporating yoga into regular curricula.

What I liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in - classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in - classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other classrooms.

«Of course I'm sadden by the news, but I will say that I've been very fortunate to be able to serve this community, to serve my district and my city and be able to institute policies that I think that were so very great for students and kids in the classroom,» remarked McCarthy.

Teachers need to be able to pay more attention to children by having less kids in the classroom.»

Kids tend to get more colds during the school year because they are in an enclosed classroom surrounded by other children who are sharing these very common viruses.

In fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in JunIn fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in Junin the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in Junin June.

More generally, Pianta has been encouraging the instructors to communicate higher expectations by turning over some of the control in the classroom to the kids: letting them work in teams on independent projects, for instance, instead of simply lecturing.

This means if you let your kid eat a breakfast of pop tarts or crappy cereal, and then send them to school to sit by someone on the bus or in the classroom who's coughing or sneezing, they're an EASY TARGET for the germs to set up house and proliferate.

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Sessions, who was playing Mendelssohn in her otherwise - silent classroom as her students worked, said she started the year with 20 kids in her afternoon class and was down to 8 by late March.

We train our kids for real life by bottling them up behind these huge fences and in the classroom for twelve years.

Teachers who want to introduce metacognition in their classrooms might begin by reading our post Engaging Brains: How to Enhance Learning by Teaching Kids About Neuroplasticity, and also teach students about the anterior prefrontal cortex, the brain area that researchers have begun to link with metacognition.

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

Being a free tool AND collaborative we already see it being a way to better connect kids in the classroom to work together, collaboratively by creating together and bonding.

All kids spend most of the day getting challenged at their level, and no one ever sits in a classroom that's entirely segregated by race or class.

We're even more uncomfortable with the idea of grouping youngsters by ability, especially because research suggests that the bright kids in a classroom help pull up the slower learners.

Insofar as students benefit from peer effects in classrooms, corridors, and clubs, and insofar as being surrounded by other smart kids challenges these students (and wards off allegations of «nerdiness»), schools with overall cultures of high academic attainment are apt to yield more such benefits.

They are the experiences that kids remember decades later, and they can spark curiosity and learning in a way that is unrivaled by what goes on in the classroom.

Our best high schools in the top suburbs have always done this, not just in their classrooms, but in their clubs, sports and other extracurricular activities, too, combined with what well - to - do parents did for their kids by way of music lessons and internships in Congressional offices and service in down - on - their - luck countries.

Indianapolis, Indiana Kids invent their own projects by conducting research with computers, raising funds for classroom tools, and involving themselves in community initiatives.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

«By having a nurse in the building, it helps support kids and helps return them to classrooms faster.

David Liben, who works for Student Achievement Partners, a non-profit set up by the authors of the Common Core to help teachers put the standards into practice, says the «text to self» technique often puts kids from poor families at a disadvantage in the classroom.

By 2007, she had grown her school to over 120 kids on land she'd rented next door to her home, and in classrooms she'd constructed from hen houses in her own back yard.

Appleton, which has seen several of its schools receive national recognition for their efforts in this area, is one of the cities participating in Core 4 +, better known by school leaders here as «active kids, active classrooms.»

Every year untold thousands of school kids are harmed by teachers who shouldn't be allowed in a classroom.

With these designations, students are drawn to Howenstine by a desire to connect their classroom with their community, which research shows raises achievement and keeps kids in school.

«Teachers and students need immediate action, and by hitting the airwaves, we hope our leaders in Albany will hear the pleas of classroom teachers and deliver for them and the city's 1.1 million school kids.»

It's good for kids that teachers are respected and empowered and not micromanaged by bureaucrats that have never set foot in their classroom, (who have) never met their kids.

«I think we have to be judged by how well the kids do in our classrooms, because that's the nature of teaching.

High achievers may need an educational environment beyond what is offered in the average classroom, but that is not necessarily the same environment required by gifted kids to be successful.

This month's scramble by Chicago school officials to find enough cash to pay the bills is the result of «an appalling situation» years in the making — a cascading financial crisis that could hit classrooms this fall when nearly 400,000 kids return to school.

Although schools can access and use gratitude curriculum, parents and teachers can model showing gratitude at home and in the classroom by noticing when others — adults or kids — intentionally help others.

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.

KidsKonnect was founded back in 1999 by Jan Belzer, a Chicago based public school teacher, who wanted to create a safe learning environment for kids in the school classroom.