Sentences with phrase «more school engagement»

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«A more balanced news feed might lead to less «engagement,» but Facebook, with a market capitalization of more than $ 300 billion and no competitor in sight, can afford this,» wrote Tufekci, an associate professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Demand for our program is growing, and Challenge Success is working hard to ensure that we continue to provide research - based assessment and interventions that reduce student stress and increase academic engagement for more schools and families across the country.

School - wide reforms outside the classroom may help; but fixing the misunderstandings, and poor engagement practices in the classroom would help a lot more.

When schools expand their breakfast program through the implementation of one or more new strategies like BIC and / or CEP, there are several factors that help support a successful outcome: Strong leadership within the district, a diverse and engaged coalition of stakeholders (state agency, school nutrition department, anti-hunger and health partners, et al.), staff engagement and training on sharing the positive benefits of school breakfast, and strong overall communications and transparency.

And now, more than ever, the role of school nutrition professionals in public policy demands engagement and leadership.

If SNS put even a fraction of that effort into community engagement around getting more kids to eat school breakfast, for example, it would yield immediate benefits for the program.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Other civic engagement research suggests that when youth participate in school - sponsored activities, they are more likely to take part in civic behaviors later in life such as volunteering, voting, or reaching out to public officials.

A QR code scavenger hunt will get students moving around your school or classroom, but think of engagement as more than grabbing a student's attention.

Jaime Smith, head of school engagement at the Anna Freud Centre, said: «We need to support schools to feel confident in knowing the best ways to support children and how to work more effectively in collaboration with mental health specialists.

When students see engagement in literacy activities as a social norm outside of school, they're more likely to engage in extracurricular reading and writing themselves.

Creating more makerspaces in schools and classrooms is a great way to increase engagement for all students.

At Carlyle Infant and Nursery School we are now more able to support our lifelong learners through enabling our community to develop its own learning and engagement together.

While her husband worked, Palomera and her daughter began attending classes at a local chapter of the Toyota Learning Program, a family engagement and child development program, to improve their English and learn more about the school system.

At New York City's game - based learning school Quest to Learn, sixth graders take risks in the process of designing a Rube Goldberg machine, which enables more creativity, innovation, and engagement.

«In a region where employer engagement in schools is among the lowest in the country, it is particularly important to help students link their studies with their future and broaden their horizons, Evidence shows that if students see people «like them» have succeeded, they are more likely to believe they can too.

School leaders say not only is the approach more cost - effective, it's also increased staff engagement and attendance at PD sessions.

They didn't have more favorable academic self - conceptions or stronger school engagement.

Martinez in particular credits Senior Lecturer Karen Mapp's course on family and community engagement and Senior Lecturer Richard Weissbourd's Moral Adults: Moral Children for reinforcing her belief that schools need to teach more than just academic skills.

More interesting to me, though, was learning how Chris Barbic — former superstar charter - network leader and first and current ASD head — shaped the new body through imaginative approaches to growth, operator recruitment, school matching, community engagement, human capital, and mMore interesting to me, though, was learning how Chris Barbic — former superstar charter - network leader and first and current ASD head — shaped the new body through imaginative approaches to growth, operator recruitment, school matching, community engagement, human capital, and moremore.

Better information can help inform and improve instruction, family engagement, connections across schools and community organizations, school improvement, and yes, enable more accurate, multiple measures of school performance.

- Middle and High School Life Science Teachers - Teachers using NGSS or TEKS - Teachers who want to increase students engagement and retention - Teachers not looking to reinvent the wheel Each bundle includes 5 resources including lab station activities, individual lessons, digital scavenger hunts, readings, and lots more.

Because students enrolled in alternative school programs often tend to be unengaged in school, alternative school programs are often more motivated to focus on improving student engagement than traditional schools.

The Environment Agency's four community engagement officers — appointed to help north east communities be more flood resilient — have visited schools in the region to launch the competition.

Students learn research and community - engagement skills more commonly taught in graduate - level urban planning programs than in high school, and produce professional - quality reports incorporating data they have gathered and analyzed.

The challenges of instruction, leadership, parent engagement, school culture, and professional capacity of teachers are things controlled by us, Knowles noted, pointing out that they also can lead to students 10 times more likely to make substantial improvement and 30 times less likely to stagnate.

In fact, drawing on previous research (Martin et al., 2011), there is far more variation in motivation and engagement from student to student than there is from class to class or school to school.

«We need a more equitable approach to family engagement,» Weiss continues, «one that takes into account family strengths and a shared responsibility assumed by families, schools, and communities for children's development across time and in different settings.»

«When we change from a school sense to a more parent sense type of engagement strategy, it means really thinking about how to support families in what they are already doing at home.

Federal education minister Simon Birmingham told Education Review, «The research demonstrates that more money spent within a school doesn't automatically buy you better discipline, engagement or ambition.

First, there was far more variation in motivation and engagement throughout the school day than between school days and weeks.

Many schools started to notice the positive effect that technology was having on student engagement and therefore wanted more.

Graduates of the deeper learning schools were more likely to enroll in four - year colleges, attend selective schools, and report higher levels of academic engagement and motivation to learn.

As a result, schools are using games more than ever to drive deeper engagement in the classroom with their students.

However, if teachers are instructing students who require less intensive teacher engagement or are more likely to bounce across very different school models, then I'm less confident in the payoff.

Unlike in the U.S., where school education has become much more standardized and driven by external requirements, like bureaucratic accountability, standardized testing and scripted teaching, Finnish schools are free to focus on «good» education that leads to excellence, engagement and ethics.

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

According to the Common Good authors, Catholic high schools — and many believe that this applies to elementary schools as well — «manage simultaneously to achieve relatively high levels of student learning, distribute this learning more equitably with regard to race and class than in the public sector, and sustain high levels of teacher commitment and student engagement.»

How does a straight line graph equation get higher priority of recollection and retention over all the other info they have outside of schools that's tailored to make them want it more and presses the right buttons in their brain to get engagement?

Organizing efforts are distinguished from other more orthodox forms of educational change by their collective nature and by the active engagement of parents, teachers, and pupils in the politics of school and community change.

One of the principles guiding the transformation work at Sammamish is that student achievement and engagement will increase when students have more ownership of their school community.

At the school level, many local organizing groups have collaborated with neighborhood schools to improve safety, increase parental engagement, open community schools, and develop more culturally relevant curricula, among other things.

And we know that you are going to present to your board suggestions for spending more money on, according to the Times, five «broad priorities: early childhood education, teaching quality / principal leadership, school options, community engagement and out - of - school youth.»

«More private school parents are coming in for information and tours,» says Martine Guerrier, chief family - engagement officer for the New York City Department of Education.

Now, whole - school communication apps are becoming more sought after to help consolidate all communication methods both within the school and externally and increase parental engagement.

Putting students in charge of their own parent - teacher conferences has helped students feel more confident in their accomplishments, and led to greater engagement among both students and parents at this Chicago school.

Preliminary results from a two - year research engagement include: Newest teachers are more likely to be assigned to the least prepared students There is significant variation in Delaware teachers» impact on student test scores Teachers» impact on student test scores increases most in the first few years of teaching A significant share of new teachers leave teaching in Delaware within four years High poverty schools in Delaware have higher rates of teacher turnover...

A Foundation Phase Action Plan aims to put in place a number of supportive approaches to improve consistency of delivery, including updating initial teacher training, increasing parental engagement, more support materials, as well as school - to - school support.

The negative impact of job market pessimism on engagement was more acute for students with stronger family and school supports — the same students whom we often assume are less at risk for losing academic motivation.