Sentences with phrase «like teachers and families»

Not exact matches

I have been teaching for over a year now, and the teachers who work at my studio have become like a family to me.

There are some specifics, but much is vague promise or things like the above, «Give every family access to a great school and good teachers».

It's also allowed Steve to see others in their true light, like the teachers, coaches, and friends who have been willing to give of themselves to help the family in any way they can.

If my child brings home worksheets that clearly look like busy work on a night when we have a special family gathering planned, you can bet I'm going to nix the homework (and nicely explain why to the teacher).

As a therapist who has taught on the national level for over a decade to families and childcare organizations like Parents As Teachers, First Steps, Children's Hope International, and more about the value of attachment, I knew that truly gentle sleep support for parents was hard to come by and too often attached to a big price tag (from $ 50 to sometimes $ 350 for private coaching, site memberships, books / videos, etc).

These printable Christmas themed EOS lip balm cards are perfect to give as gifts to teachers, neighbors, family and friends and anyone that likes the all - natural EOS lip balms.

Every child wants, needs and deserves to feel accepted, liked, loved, valued and appreciated by parents, family, friends, caregivers, teachers, classmates and community.

The PA Family Support News Brief covers topics like Parents as Teachers model fidelity and training, strengthening families protective factors, prevention of child abuse, childhood injury prevention, and more.

In my family, we always stress that school is just like business, teachers and classmates deserve the consideration of being on time and looking ready to learn.

But the event also comes as Cuomo is taking a post-budget victory lap and as he faces fresh skepticism from organizations like the Working Families Party and the statewide teachers union over his fiscal priorities.

As president of New York State United Teachers — a union whose 600,000 - plus membership is more than 70 percent women — I am proud to be leading a steering committee that is exploring issues of particular importance to women in today's society — issues like the minimum wage, child care and paid family leave.

Demonstrations are set to continue well into the evening, with liberal groups like the Working Families Party and the American Federation of Teachers urging supporters to join them at the airfield at 6 pm.

But a source close to the IDC said it was the progressive Working Families Party, the teacher union - backed Alliance for a Quality Education, and other groups like Make The Road, which works on immigrant issues.

There are many different sources of guidance in our lives — authors, spiritual teachers, friends and family, Spirit Guides, and psychics (like me!).

Your teacher is Jamie Chung and today she'll be discussing how the key to combining graphic and floral patterns (like this girlie skirt and her kimono blazer, both Lela Rose) is sticking to no more than two color families, in this case, black and white.

A beautiful and youthful 31 year old school teacher who likes to have fun, loves sports, and my family especially my 2 year old!

Like Milo, Maggie is impulsive and self - destructive, and serially cheats on Lance, just as Milo makes bad choices, one of them being his teen aged affair with a high school teacher, an event that was hushed up, and provoked the family estrangement.

Instead, the characters portrayed here are dealing with problems regular people handle, like feeling let down by parents or acquaintances, school fights that are broken up by teachers and administrative staff, or family pets that get sick.

«We would like all teachers and schools, both public and private, to be aware that the SchoolNotes.com service is available to help facilitate family - school - community partnerships that strengthen education by improving communication,» said Bocinsky.

I come from a family of teachers, and I know many teachers are longing for places like that.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

Teachers should limit homework assignments over vacations and holidays and assign a few family - based projects over the course of the year like researching your family tree.

A popular routine for teachers with families is to stay at the school until all of your work for the night is done (it might feel like a longer work day, but at the end of it, you should have some uninterrupted time for friends and family).

Leaning on social belongingness is an alternative strategy for teachers to consider when they would like to nudge families to foster home reading and, in doing so, capitalise on shared family literacy opportunities.

I would like to be a level 5 because this would mean that I am passing sixth grade and will mean that I will be happy, teachers and family.

But baking that expectation, quite literally, into accountability systems is destined to deflate the grades of schools like Sawgrass and demoralize their teachers, students, and families.

These schools relentlessly supervise and monitor the behavior of their students, and yet at the same time there is strong sense of personal, family - like connection between teacher and student,» Whitman said.

Like other educators I interviewed, she stresses the importance of training staff (not only teachers) to create a supportive environment for all families, from the first point of contact with a receptionist to the lunchroom monitors to teachers and administrators.

More research is needed to understand how school closures affect factors like teacher performance, student and staff morale, and family engagement over time.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

We've constructed a hundred thousand schools that way; we've trained nearly 4 million teachers to do their best in that kind of structure; and we've socialized the families of some 55 million youngsters into believing that «that's what school looks like and that's how it works.»

As part of the program, district staff members — including school psychologists, social workers, and teachers — received training so they can coach their colleagues on topics like embracing family diversity and preventing bias - based bullying.

She calls her teachers, even her principal, by their first names, freely comes and goes to and from school like an employee passing from the office to lunch to an afternoon meeting, and, with the help of her peers, her teachers, and her family, has taken control of her own learning.

Doug Pratt of the Michigan Education Association protested, «When you walk into a building in the middle of winter, the flu bug that's going around and sidelining students and staff can spread like wildfire... Do you want a teacher whose parent or partner is undergoing chemotherapy that morning — and because of the reasonable amount of time they've bargained — gets to be with their family member and take care of what they need to?

By contrast, in 13 states, including high cost - of - living ones like California, preschool teachers make less than half what kindergarten teachers make, and in six states preschool teachers salaries were below the poverty level for a family of four.

As the new school year approaches, explore a selection of digital tools recommended by teacher educator Curtis Chandler that can help you streamline lesson planning, create secure class websites, connect with families, and gather information on how your new students like to learn.

True educational equity comes from comprehensive school reform, which incorporates academic improvements along with health care, housing policy, funding changes, family support and other policies that allow students to go to class safely and actually focus on their work, and that provides teachers with a work environment and enough support to operate creatively, not like infantilized robots.

Our schools are designed to create a small, family - like environment that allows each student and teacher to know one another and ensure that no one «falls through the cracks.»

Not surprisingly this big money campaign is full of plenty of doublespeak as the «Families and Teachers for Antonio» group would more accurately be named «a handful of rich white guys for Villaraigosa because he hates teachers and wants to bust their unions like we doTeachers for Antonio» group would more accurately be named «a handful of rich white guys for Villaraigosa because he hates teachers and wants to bust their unions like we doteachers and wants to bust their unions like we do.»

At New Beginnings we were more than students and teachers - we were a family and we were expected to treat each other like family.

«AACTE would like to express its deepest sympathy for the teachers, students, parents and community of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, who mourn the loss of family and friends victimized by the school shooting on February 14, 2018.

To overcome discord and violence, and instead promote healing, teachers must learn to use restorative practices and work with students, families, and the school community to defuse conflicts and reintegrate students when they experience a crisis like the one Elijah experienced after school.

When I decided to change careers and become a teacher like both of my parents and half of my greater family, I was told be everyone of them that everything changes every two to three years.

In places like Revere, north of Boston, where nearly 80 percent of students come from low - income families, many of those dollars were spent on people: to hire and keep good teachers and give them better training.

Through parent outreach activities like the the Language Cultural Liaison and Parents as Teachers programs, AKPIRC impacted thousands of families every year.

Like students, the families, teachers, and staff within a school system are uniquely positioned to provide actionable feedback about performance that simply can't be captured through other measures.

They also said that the teachers «are like family» to them and will not let them get away with not trying their best.

Like crawfish boils in the spring, this question has become a staple in the social lexicon of families, teachers, church mothers, and reformers in New Orleans.

E4E - NY teacher Tamara Gilkes awaits the day when families like hers and her students» in the Bronx won't have to sacrifice their dreams of owning a home for...

As the kids and families in my neighborhood begin the process of recovering from the trauma of recent events, Patty and teachers like her in Back of the Yards will be key resources to help them develop resilience.