Sentences with phrase «of classroom issues»

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After hearing that schools were having issues with spinners causing problems in the classroom, Alexi Roy of SpinnerList wanted to make sure the commotion was for real.

For example, in addressing the issue of creativity in the classroom he tells us, «Good teaching is at the heart of the undergraduate experience.

The judge issued a detailed injunction that prohibits the governor, the attorney general, the state board of education, and everyone else from permitting religious activity in classrooms, including vocal prayer, readings of the Bible, devotional discussions, and distribution of religious materials.

Therefore, one function of a university, whether in teaching or research, in classrooms or dormitories, is to assist all of its members, and indeed all of its constituencies, toward that achievement of moral clarity — toward the clarification of the moral issues and alternatives which are resident in the university itself and in the disciplines it practices — which surely is an essential ingredient in all responsible action.

In the give and take of a classroom, controversial issues are discussed.

First, discussion of Intelligent Design's argument against neo-Darwinism is out of place in a high - school science classroom because most scientists working in the area do not accept the Intelligent Design criticism of neo-Darwinism and because understanding the scientific issues involves sophisticated arguments far beyond the capacity of nonspecialists, let alone high - school students.

With such weighty matters come many smaller issues, and their handling will determine what effect this legislation actually has in millions of separate classrooms.

I think there are a lot of pieces to the puzzle: correctly identifying his sensory issues, getting him the right occupational therapist, getting him an aid in the classroom.

The ACSM's stance is echoed in a 2011 position statement on overuse injuries issued by the National Athletic Trainers» Association, 3 which recommends that coaches complete at least one of the numerous online or classroom coaches education programs that are now available.

My LAC 2011 experience was so powerful, and I know that ANC 2011 will also have a huge impact on the way that I understand issues like food security, farm - to - table, sustainability, meal patterns, and of course breakfast in the classroom.

Yet another excellent opportunity to tie two important issues together, you can promote the implementation of breakfast - in - the - classroom as a way to improve attendance and reduce absences and tardies.

In The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom, I address a wide variety of topics including: how wellness policies and the new federal «Smart Snacks» rules relate to classroom junk food; the tricky problem of birthday treats and how to respond to your opponents on that issue; the use of junk food as a classroom reward; the use of candy as a teaching «manipulative;» kids and sugar consumption; and much more.

But if you've been following my blog from the beginning, you know that I took issue with the number of times they appeared in my kindergartner's classroom last year.

These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

The toolkit opens up with fact sheets on the importance of breakfast, particularly for children; hungry children act out and have difficulty focusing, and breakfast in the classroom is an excellent tool to address those issues.

We didn't address the huge amounts of junk food often served at school holiday and birthday parties, but that's a classroom issue, too.

At Stevenson, voters» approval of a bond issue in 1994 allowed the school to add a pool, performing arts center, 30 classrooms and computer labs, Galloway said.

While I feel I've made a lot of strides nationally on The Lunch Tray by bringing these issues to the fore and assisting readers around the country at their children's schools, at my own son's elementary school my principal has declined to make any modifications to practices like birthday cupcakes in the classroom.

I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman, for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you — care so much about: trying hard to feed our kids well in a less - than - healthy food environment; improving school food; and yes, my pet peeve of food in the classroom for birthday treats or performance rewards.

Debby Irving brings to racial justice the perspective of working as a community organizer and classroom teacher for 25 years without understanding racism as a systemic issue or her own whiteness as an obstacle to grappling with it.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

If there's one issue that drives most Lunch Tray readers crazy, it's the steady flow of junk food in their kids» classrooms.

That's entirely different, of course, though it still raises other concerns about classroom food, such as allergy issues.

Pritchett School 3rd graders got a chance last week to walk away from their normal classroom lessons on the human body and explore such issues as disease research and the benefits of breast - feeding with real medical professionals as part of the school's health fair.

There's an article by Brian Bethune on «How Children Succeed» in the new issue of Maclean's, the Canadian weekly, featuring a photo of me in a classroom of the Montauk public school.

He has written and lectured extensively on issues pertaining to innovative classroom instruction, and is the author of Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball, which received the National Parenting Publication's gold award, and Navigating the Terrain of Childhood: A Guidebook for Meaningful Parenting and Heartfelt Discipline.

Before applying, take some time to consider the context of your school and the key issues for students in your classroom and / or school.

These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

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.

While the focus of the Beyond Breakfast blog is universal in - classroom breakfast, we haven't limited our blogroll to only that subject; you will find information on our BIC partners, relevant policy issues, general food and nutrition concerns and school lunch as well.

A $ 3 million bond issue planned by Lake County Community School District 102 to complete a middle school in Buffalo Grove and add six classrooms to a primary school in Prairie View has been called off in the wake of an Illinois Appellate Court ruling.

This policy brief outlines the reasons educators need to learn more about adoption issues, explains the negative consequences of a lack of knowledge, and proposes steps that teachers, schools, curriculum developers and institutions of higher education can make progress toward placing all children and families on a level playing field in the classroom and beyond.

«Some issues that we were hoping to see addressed were not, among them the baselining of funding in the budget for initiatives such as legal aid for anti-eviction services and Teacher's Choice, a program that reimburses educators for the purchase of classroom supplies of their choice,» she said.

After all, he's the man who will negotiate the new state budget and have a major say on such issues as raising the minimum wage, getting bad teachers out of the classroom and increasing funding for buses and subways, as well as Metro - North and the Long Island Rail Road.

While he says he believes in the election of board members, he says he would like to see different decision makers at the board table to deal strictly with education issues and how that will affect students in the classroom.

The issue of safety and bullying, specifically, came under scrutiny since a student was fatally stabbed in a classroom at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife Conservation last month.

Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a group that advocates for the Common Core, among other issues, said in a statement: «Commissioner King has fully demonstrated his commitment to listening to parents across New York State as he goes about the necessary work of bringing rich and rigorous content into the classroom.»

Ravitch, who has written about the issues and is the author of a very popular anti-Common Core blog, doesn't have anything good to say about the new, more rigorous curriculum that's taken over New York state classrooms.

For instance, irregularity of lecture times, tutors and even classrooms rather old fashioned ways of long periods of writing down dictated notes for some of the subjects, highly limited internet library facilities, some grave issues with obtaining supervision for required long paper, definitely the feeling that students, even at that graduate level, are simply expected to take instructions, since suggestions and / or protests about some of the above issues were not condemned or met with threats of victimization.»

«Theresa May is not only risking the health of some of our youngest children, but she will also create terrible inequality in the classroom,» former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said as the party launched a poster campaign on the issue in London.

Beyond Satisfactory: A New Teacher Evaluation System for New York Educators for Excellent (E4E), 2011 After five months of research and debate, E4E's Evaluation Policy Team issued this report detailing an evaluation framework for New York teachers based on what actual classroom teachers would recommend.

According to a prior New York Daily News story, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has discussed putting the 1,200 teachers, some of whom have prior disciplinary issues, back to the classroom.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed tax hike on the wealthy would pay for both operating costs for new classrooms and for pre-kindergarten's infrastructure costs, and the bond issue could ultimately lower the total cost of the mayor's signature proposal.

A group of Suffolk County school district superintendents have sent a letter to state education commissioner John King urging him to address their concerns about over-testing, the fast pace of mandating Common Core standards inside the classroom and issues with new teacher and principal evaluation programs, according to Friday's Newsday cover story.

City building inspectors had found several «illegal classrooms» in the basement of the Sanford Street school and issued a partial vacate order on Dec. 18, 2014, for a «failure to maintain the building,» city building records show.

«The governor has heard the message that we need to address the issue of overtesting, which is why he has asked the chancellor of SUNY system to come up with recommendations by June 1 on how we can minimize testing in the classroom,» said Hochul.

Societal tensions around issues such as the teaching of evolution in public science classrooms typically involve only a subset of Christians, and they have too often been depicted as more sweeping conflicts, Tippett argued.

The theme of the biennial institute, which is modeled on a similar summer gathering in Europe called the European Science Education Research School, was connecting research on science education to classroom practice and policy issues such as the Next - Generation Science Standards.

Elizabeth Hufnagel of Pennsylvania State University, who has been studying how students use emotional language in writing about environmental issues, also is interested in how teachers can use the experiences students bring to the classroom.

In last week's issue of Science, Andrew Zucker, a senior researcher with the Concord Consortium, a Concord, Mass., nonprofit that studies the use of technology in schools, and Daniel Light, a senior scientist at New York City — based Education Development Center, Inc.'s Center for Children & Technology, pointed out that the falling cost of technology is helping computers get a better foothold in the classroom but cautioned that the impact of classroom PCs is still unknown.