Sentences with phrase «of adults at the school»

But Navarro sees that changing, a shift he credits to building a network of adults at the school and within the community who work collaboratively to help even the most challenged students succeed.

But Navarro sees that changing, a shift he credits to building a network of adults at the school and within the community who work collaboratively to help even the most challenged students succeed.

Not exact matches

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

Wal - Mart said the decision was unrelated to high - profile incidents involving the rifles, including the killing of 26 students and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012.

When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary School of Business, who has run focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.

We are mourning the deaths of 17 students and adults after Wednesday's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla..

In January 2013, just weeks after 20 children and six adults were shot to death at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., three dozen law enforcement officers gathered at the Johns Hopkins University for a series of informal discussions about...

Following the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead, Dick's suspended the sale of certain kinds of semiautomatic rifles.

But after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, the Obama administration tried to add some people to the background check system, by requiring the Social Security Administration to submit records of some beneficiaries with severe mental illness.

I recall attending an adult Sunday school class at one liberal church where the diffusion of Christian identity and the dynamics of secular drift were almost palpable.

Parents of large families in which older children have already moved on to adult life report a «squash and a squeeze» effect where each child's birth makes the house a little less bearable until breaking point is almost reached... then older children spend the day at school, then they're off to university and adult life, and slowly the house becomes almost unbearably large.

A better measure of the strength of a congregation as a vehicle for maturing would be the number and proportion of the adult membership that meet in groups — disciple schooling, soma, and mission - support — outside the sanctuary at other times of the week.

Twice each year, I take two bus - loads of high school students on retreats at which they worship, walk labyrinths, talk in small groups with adults who care about them, and «hang out» in Christian community.

Of course the television world does not completely exclude the real world, but families watch more than 45 hours each week, and in households with cable and subscription services the figure jumps to 58 hours, while most adults spend only 40 hours at work and children spend only 30 hours in school.2.

«During the past decade the number of high school youth in our congregations increased fivefold, and the number of young adults increased sixfold,» said Buehrens, who this fall is a visiting professor at the UUA's Starr King School for the Ministry in Berschool youth in our congregations increased fivefold, and the number of young adults increased sixfold,» said Buehrens, who this fall is a visiting professor at the UUA's Starr King School for the Ministry in BerSchool for the Ministry in Berkeley.

The vigil, which was attended by President Barack Obama, was a high - profile part of the healing process for the families of the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14.

A study by LifeWay Research reveals that «more than two - thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church...

A knife - wielding man injured 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes Friday, police said, the latest in a series of periodic rampage attacks at Chinese schools and kindergartens.

An independent investigation found New Tribes Mission MKs suffered sexual, physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse at the hands of 12 adults at its Fanda boarding school in Senegal.

Or it can simply be enjoyed as a dessert at home — it keeps well refrigerated for a good amount of time, and a slice makes for a good component to a kid's school lunch (or adult's work snack!).

As a player: 1993 - 2002 played for Bay Oaks soccer club out of Jack London CA. 2002 - 2006 played at Fremont high school in Sunnyvale CA 2006 - 2010 played in the adult league for Chivas de Oakland in San Francisco As a coach: 2008 - 2010 head coach North Valley Soccer Club U-8 to U-10

Tyler reads stories to elementary school children and, for the past two years, has been a date at An Evening of Dreams, a Sacramento event that gives special needs teens and young adults a full prom red - carpet experience.

If you look at Facebook these days, there are plenty of first day of school photos, and plenty of photos of parents dropping their young adults off for college.

An adult family member of any Yankton School District student may submit an application at any time.

What he does point out at the top of the article is something foundational to our and our children's health and well - being: «Because of poor diets, many school children and adults have immune systems that don't operate at peak efficiency.

North Shore School of Dance is a professional dance school, offering over 100 classes a week at all levels of training for preschoolers through aSchool of Dance is a professional dance school, offering over 100 classes a week at all levels of training for preschoolers through aschool, offering over 100 classes a week at all levels of training for preschoolers through adults.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

Home schooled children are not perfect, but in general they are better at relating to others, they are more mature, they have broader interests, and are developing skills that will help them in the real world of adult society and work.

Home schooled children get a lot of one - on - one communication time with at least one adult, with the parent that is teaching them (it has been pointed out by John Holt, that most children in schools don't even get 15 minutes of direct one - on - one teaching time per week).

Home school children are better at getting along with other children (with both home schooled and institutionally schooled children), they are better at getting along with children of other ages, and they actually interact regularly and get along with adults.

What a securely attached child - OR ADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate aADULT - looks like: competent, self - confident, resilient, cheerful much of the time, anticipating people's needs (not from a co-dependent place), empathic, humorous, playful, tries harder in the face of adversity; not vulnerable to approach by strangers because won't go to strangers (as adult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate aadult, out - going without being foolhardy), good self - esteem, achieving, able to use all mental, physical, emotional resources fully, responsive, affectionate, able to make deep commitments as appropriate, able to be self - disclosing as appropriate, able to be available emotionally as appropriate, able to interact well with others at school and in jobs / careers, likely to be more physically healthy throughout life, self - responsible, giving from a «good heart» place of compassion, has true autonomy, no co-dependent self, because of well developed internal modulation system, less likely to turn to external «devices» (addictions) to modulate affect

The children of teenage mothers are more likely to have lower school achievement and drop out of high school, have more health problems, be incarcerated at some time during adolescence, give birth as a teenager, and face unemployment as a young adult.

Each adult stakeholder — whether a parent, coach, or sport or school administrator — has the obligation to give each participating youth the opportunity and support to excel as an athlete and person at his or her own levels of athletic and sport readiness, development and desired context of participation and success.

In early grade school, children tend to give up the concept of an imaginary friend, or at least keep it in their private thoughts (much the way adults have mental figures they think about privately — religious figures, like saints or guardian angels, or deceased relatives and friends).

Adults, too, clearly influenced by nostalgic memories of school meals they experienced, will enjoy a similiar menu at lunch or dinner.

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Author and educator Rosalind Wiseman helps adults create a culture of dignity at home and school.

Together with more than 100,000 members, we care for 35,000 acres of conservation land, provide school, camp, and other educational programs for 225,000 children and adults annually, and advocate for sound environmental policies at local, state, and federal levels.

The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) represents over 8,700 child and adolescent psychiatrists who are physicians with at least five years of additional training beyond medical school in general (adult) and child and adolescent psychiatry.

So according to these statistics, if your teen's high school class has 100 students in it, 20 of them will suffer from depression at some point before they become adults, 10 to 15 of them will show signs of teen depression at any given time - whether or not these signs develop into depression - and 5 of them will suffer from major depression.

There are some exceptions, but the majority of home schooled children are very good at getting along with others, and they are very comfortable talking to children of different ages (both younger and older than themselves), and to adults.

Previous studies all looked at adults, but never at the 7.8 million high school athletes in the nation — yet nutrition is especially important for these young athletes, whose bodies are still growing while also handling the heavy physical demands of athletics.

This is probably because of a number of factors, including that there is a lot less conformity and rigidity at home which encourages thinking, they have time to explore things more, they have more conversation with adults, etc., but whatever the cause, it's strong enough that even non-home schooling people, including many university professors, have observed it.

Research led by a team at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been published in the February 10, 2014 online edition of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.The research indicates that premature babies benefit from being exposed to adult talk as early as possible.

A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he completed his postgraduate medical education at UCLA with training in pediatrics and child, adolescent, and adult psychiatry.

Skills that are important for kindergarten remain just as important during the rest of your child's school career and adult life, but at this age and stage, these skills begin to take root.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

And of course, with 5 - 19 children in one class (depending on age), even with 2 adults at all times, it's not something we can do at school, either.

It also brings to the forefront the topic of adult expectations and school rules for young children, and whether or not those expectations have to compromise — or overrule — the different rates at which children develop.

Come by and visit me at ourfeminist -LCB- play -RCB- school where I hope to lighten your holiday load by offering a variety of tutorials for making some quick but cute DIY holiday gifts for baby, toddler and adults!