Sentences with phrase «kinds of school experiences»

Last Fall I traveled the US, visited schools, and talked to educators and students about what kinds of school experiences matter to them.

Ideally, these different kinds of schooling experiences could help students who are not succeeding in traditional schools — and in some places you see that.

And I think one of the best ways to do this is to find those individuals while they're still open to the idea of potentially teaching, and exposing them to the kind of school experience that is positive, has an impact, and that is joyful.

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One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

As the result of a fairly large experience in such work I have come to believe that there are two absolute necessities in arranging a parish school of this kind.

I appreciate this thought — although based on my experience of pastors, it seems you all must be schooled in being kind of dishonest about being honest.

Over and over I go back once more to the same memories, none available in this way to any other stream of experiences; always, if I want to, I can recall that I had such and such a mother and father, brothers and sister, went to such and such schools, read certain books, etc., etc., through countless items of the kind.

Alda, now 31, whose total football experience consists of two weeks of training with his high school team in Burbank, Calif., has been working out daily to get into some kind of shape for two months of training with the Lions in Florida.

Female soccer players playing elite or select soccer before high school sustained concussions at a rate higher than their high school and college counterparts, most continued to play despite experiencing symptoms, and less than half sought medical attention, a first - of - its - kind study finds.

That kind of investigative journalistic experience comes in very handy when taking on the explosive topic he addresses today: are big food service management companies (FSMC's) like Chartwells, Aramark and Sodexo passing on to school districts — as required by law — the millions of dollars in rebates and «volume discounts» they receive from food manufacturers like Kellogg's, Pepperidge Farm and others?

Starting school can be daunting even when a child has been to preschool first however if reception year or kinder is their first experience of school it's a minefield of new experiences that you can help prepare them for this summer with playful ideas.

Starting school can be daunting even when a child has been to preschool first however if reception year or kinder is their first experience of school...

If you want your children to experience a kind of education that can secure their future, Waldorf School of Baltimore is the place.

But at the same time, what I say at the end of the book is the programs I talk about are really small and represent just a small minority of the kinds of experiences kids — and especially low - income kids — are having in American schools today.

However, from my personal experience and from what I've heard from many parents in different school districts, it's not uncommon for food service to balk at changes of any kind.

She found different kinds of caregivers for different kinds of respite — college or high school students who could entertain the children while she was home, and an older, experienced nanny who could care for the family while she and her husband went away on vacation.

This wasn't the kind of summer school you attended because you didn't want to repeat 2nd grade; it was the kind that your parents paid for you to attend to give you an enriching summertime experience.

In my experience — meaning traveling the country for the last year and reporting on school food on a daily basis — everywhere you see these kinds of success stories there's a professional chef standing squarely in the middle.

In short, I had the same experience I bet a lot of other people had in high school, the kind of experience that keeps one from willingly attending high school reunions.

Paterson said he hoped the law would protect students from bullying similar to the same kind of that he experienced in school.

Kerin appreciates the excellent education her children received at public schools, and she wants to make sure that all children have the same kinds of positive experiences in public education as her children have had.

It's because of this ambivalence — especially the first kind — that right now I don't even want to talk about graduate school with anyone who hasn't been through the experience.

She believes that this kind of experience makes a smooth transition from school to a job.

The study is the first of its kind to examine the effect of Experience Corps, a national volunteer service program that trains seniors to help children in urban public schools with reading and academic success in other areas.

I'm an over-educated know - it - all ex-scientist who tends to keep to himself but has lots of stories to tell about the world, grad school, physics, near - death experiences (as in nearly died, not the metaphysical kind), and a plethora of other things when properly prompted.

Notably absent the kind of condescension that can occur when an experienced filmmaker takes on a high school story, here Famuyiwa doesn't just reorient the high school film around the experience of a young black self - confessed geek, but riffs on social and class issues, and the riddles of perception versus reality during those difficult teenage years too.

Described as some kind of «spiritual sequel» to Linklater's Dazed & Confused, this film is set in 1980 about an «incoming freshman experiencing his first weekend in college as a pitcher on the school's nationally ranked baseball team.»

I haven't met you yet, and I don't know what kind of experience you have, but after 25 years teaching middle school, I've learned a little bit about what makes for effective school leadership.

Almost one in two female teachers in Australian schools have experienced some kind of barrier or discrimination throughout their careers, according to a new survey administered by the National Excellence in School Leadership Initiative (NESLI).

Almost one in two women teachers in Australian schools have experienced some kind of barrier or discrimination throughout their careers, according to a new survey administered by the National Excellence in School Leadership Initiative.

Once identified as plausible candidates, how should inexperienced people be prepared for the responsibilities of public school principals — and how can people with solid experience in one kind of setting get the additional training they may need to do a first - rate job in another setting?

Christensen is aware of the strong class differences among children as reflected in school achievement, but he is convinced by research that shows that a great part of intellectual ability is determined by the experience of the first 36 months of life, particularly the amount and kind of language directed to children.

This same kind of introspection about the college experience can start before students arrive on campus — during the application process, as students are looking for the right school to fit their personal, social, professional, and academic goals.

Not because anybody's evil, but just because of the way the world works, we've made it really hard for teachers and kids to have that kind of joyous, wondrous, liberating experience in a lot of schools and classrooms.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

I'd never worked with sixth graders before and so I kind of have a unique experience where I'm a principal of a school with 500 sixth graders and there also has not been quite the same commitment in terms of the extra-curricular activities so it allows me a little bit more time with my own family.

As with Hamilton - Rohe's daughter, the experiences of autistic girls — both their diagnoses and services — often depend on what kind of classroom or school they're in.

With minorities composing 20 percent of the enrollment, the school could easily experience the kind of self - segregation that plagues many education institutions.

It's time to ask: What kinds of experiences in schools promote support for social equality, free speech, and respect for fair political process?

To promote equity within and across schools, communities should think about how to make these kinds of experiences available to all children in high - quality ways — without undue or unrealistic expense to families.

Pavan Dhaliwal, director of public affairs and policy at the BHA, said: «We acknowledge, of course, that there are plenty of «faith» schools out there in which problems of this kind described in some of the blogs do not arise, or do not arise to the same extent, but it remains the case that there are a huge number of people out there who have experienced indoctrination, misinformation, discrimination, neglect, and abuse during their childhoods as a result of the extensive freedoms and pervasive lack of oversight that «faith» schools of all kinds enjoy.

Others require that teachers have a particular kind of certification or even that they have experience starting up other schools before they can be authorized.

The normal, expected experience of a student could be to have truly great teachers — the kind that today most children have only a few times in a whole school career.

Charter schools, formerly an untested notion, have become more familiar and represent for these families the chance to recover the kind of parent - centered local control that they remember as being integral to happy schooling experiences before the No Child Left Behind Act.

But Hardy has tried to squeeze these kinds of experiences into the school day.

The target was sort of vague, but there were lots of requirements around how the school day would work and what kinds of experiences kids and teachers were having at school.

During an opening staff meeting, the principal outlined the district's and school's priorities for the year and also explained what kind of professional development teachers would be experiencing.

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

«That's kind of what happens to first - year teachers: They funnel you to those high - need schools that really need the most experienced teachers; but those experienced teachers choose to be elsewhere.»