Sentences with phrase «on developing the whole child»

Located in Baltimore, Maryland, the company provides a structured curriculum that focuses on developing the whole child and promoting school readiness.

At Wayside Schools, we focus on developing the whole child — emotionally, physically and socially.

IHSLP concentrates on developing the whole child and has built a competency system around four major areas that students need to master to be considered college and career ready: socio - emotional development, language development, critical thinking, and content knowledge.

This conference is designed to assist union - district collaborative teams to engage teacher leaders and community partners in developing strategies to establish school - wide communities of practice focused on developing the whole child as a learner in the 21st Century.

Under her leadership, Logandale focuses on developing the whole child by providing elective choices for students in grades 5 - 8 and extracurricular activities for students such as drama, choir, guitar club, cuatro classes, and sports.

She was fortunate to work under two outstanding leaders who lived by the motto «children first» and inspired her to become a school principal focused on developing the whole child and providing every student with the best education possible.

It's time to focus on developing the whole child and stop declaring failure based on third grade standardized test scores.

It's time to focus on developing the whole child and stop declaring failure based on third - grade standardized test scores.

It's time to focus on developing the whole child...

The curriculum focused on developing the whole child, not just cognition.

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I'm interested in hearing from them and from all of you on the ways that we, as a society, can manage the very real risk of exposure to allergens for allergic children while also trying to prevent developing allergies in the population as a whole.

But if you want to dig further and learn how a child's brain and nervous system develop, or understand Siegel's revolutionary theory of Mindsight, on which the tips are based, The Whole - Brain Child provides a rich and illuminating tour of scientific insights — all there in easy - to - read language, illustrated with real scenachild's brain and nervous system develop, or understand Siegel's revolutionary theory of Mindsight, on which the tips are based, The Whole - Brain Child provides a rich and illuminating tour of scientific insights — all there in easy - to - read language, illustrated with real scenaChild provides a rich and illuminating tour of scientific insights — all there in easy - to - read language, illustrated with real scenarios.

The current best - selling parent book, The Whole - Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, provides parents with some very practical tips on how to be parents.

Democratic schools like Longview School focus on teaching the whole child, so they not only learn rigorous academics, but also develop into more independent, responsible young adults.

On the whole, however, I would strongly recommend home education as the best way of encouraging gifted children to develop in the way that suits them best — which often bears little relation to the «average» classroom approach.

The two items I am sharing this month are ones that are fun for typically developing children but take on a whole other dimension when they are used for occupational therapy with children with special needs.

The deCODE team was able to develop such a large dataset and catalogue of these mutations correlating whole - genome sequence data from thousands of individuals and multiple generations of families with information on the age of parents at the time their children were born.

Whole school approach This whole school approach encourages the whole school to believe, lead and develop a healthy and beneficial attitude to food for life, having maximum input on staff and pupil productivity and reducing child and adulthood obesity collectiWhole school approach This whole school approach encourages the whole school to believe, lead and develop a healthy and beneficial attitude to food for life, having maximum input on staff and pupil productivity and reducing child and adulthood obesity collectiwhole school approach encourages the whole school to believe, lead and develop a healthy and beneficial attitude to food for life, having maximum input on staff and pupil productivity and reducing child and adulthood obesity collectiwhole school to believe, lead and develop a healthy and beneficial attitude to food for life, having maximum input on staff and pupil productivity and reducing child and adulthood obesity collectively.

Also, ideally children first learn about reading by being read to a lot, so they have a sense of the whole game, and as they develop their decoding skills they soon practice on simple small - scale texts that nonetheless try to be interesting and meaningful.

At the same time, the Foundation will support the Center in developing play as a new area of focus that will center on the impact of play, whole child development and skills that are important for lifelong learning.

The lesson focuses on developing children's understanding of the whole story - using a narrative WHOOSH!

The lesson focuses on developing children's understanding of the whole story - from the point of view of the antagonist.

That said, standardized tests obviously don't measure the myriad other ways children need to develop to be contributing members of society, and we need to make sure that schools don't overly focus on core subjects and fail to educate the whole child.

«We have an enviable academic reputation both locally and nationally, but it is through sport, music, dance, drama and art that we help develop the «whole child», giving them the confidence to take on the challenges of secondary education.»

Beyond Standardized Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.

Building on the rigorous traditions of urban Catholic education and focus on faith formation and development of the whole child — developing self - worth, moral character, a love of learning, and a sense of civic responsibility in all students

Finally, ISBE plans to create resources for supporting the whole child, from early education and through college and career and develop professional development opportunities for educators on Universal Design for Learning, differentiated instruction, balanced assessment, and data and assessment literacy.

Additionally, as states and districts move to develop and implement the requirements of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), ASCD calls on national leaders to oversee its implementation with fidelity so that all state plans provide an equitable, well - rounded education focused on the whole child.

Our focus on the whole child includes our robust arts, fitness, and adventure programs that help develop students» social and emotional skills.

Although wealthier children are taught through a variety of approaches that emphasize developing the whole child, the emphasis for low - income children is often on developing obedience.

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Alexandria, VA (08/16/2012)-- ASCD, the global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner, has unveiled the free, online ASCD School Improvement Tool, which is based on a whole child approach to education.

Chapters address: (1) an overview of the whole language approach; (2) examples of how special education teachers use whole language to teach children with learning disabilities; (3) suggestions on how to create a child - centered classroom; (4) the role of the teacher in a whole language classroom; (5) examples of democratic classrooms; (6) assessment procedures that are compatible with a whole language philosophy and how assessment data can be used to respond to individual needs; (7) examples of different strategies teachers use to teach students with learning disabilities reading and writing; (8) literacy development in students with disabilities and how to foster self - directed learners; (9) how teachers develop learner - centered curriculums and how to move toward an inclusive environment; and (10) one teacher's move to the whole language approach.

With ESSA's increased focus on whole child education, programs are developing and implementing innovative approaches to collecting and using data to measure family engagement and target areas for improvement.

The Texas Whole Child Initiative was developed for the Texas education community and is based on ASCD's Whole Child Initiative, which states that for a child to be educated successfully, he or she must be challenged, supported, healthy, safe and engChild Initiative was developed for the Texas education community and is based on ASCD's Whole Child Initiative, which states that for a child to be educated successfully, he or she must be challenged, supported, healthy, safe and engChild Initiative, which states that for a child to be educated successfully, he or she must be challenged, supported, healthy, safe and engchild to be educated successfully, he or she must be challenged, supported, healthy, safe and engaged.

To build on this momentum in the states and to help educators and communities translate these whole child policies into practice, ASCD has developed a variety of free tools and resources.

The event featured presenters from around the country and the world who shared their expertise on developing and sustaining a whole child approach to education.

Developed by ASCD and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with key leaders from education, public health, and school health fields, the new model combines and builds on elements of the traditional coordinated school health approach and the whole child framework to strengthen a unified and collaborative approach to learning and health.

First, the law includes a strong focus on developing the «whole child,» recognizing the potential impact of factors including race, poverty, and childhood trauma on the learning process.

ASCD, the global leader in developing and delivering innovative programs, products, and services that empower educators to support the success of each learner, has unveiled the free, online ASCD School Improvement Tool, which is based on a whole child approach to education.

NAESP is always looking for ways to support principals in developing the leadership qualities that can help make them, and their entire school communities, more focused on accountability to the whole child — beyond test scores.

Ideas about developing the whole child with arts and music and addressing the major impact poverty has on a child's education lit up the twittersphere as advocates for education across the country live tweeted from the event.

In order to build digital literacy, the libraries will run regular sessions on how to get the most from your tablet or e-reader and develop a whole range of interactive sessions for class visits, as well as regular children's, teens», and adult programs.

Skills will be developed during a series of open workshops on weekends and through a special children's exhibition map, which is part of the city - wide program Family Trip: Take the Whole Family to a Museum!

Whole life insurance guarantees that coverage will be available for the child should he or she become disabled or develops a chronic illness later on down the road.

This is an exciting time for public education in California and further evidence we are moving from the «No Child» to focusing on how best to educate and develop the Whole Child — public education's new North Star.

PARENTING WORKSHOP Based on the book «No - Drama Discipline: The Whole - Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind» by Daniel Siegel, M.D., and Dr. Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D

This working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child and the National Forum on Early Childhood Policy and Programs examines why addressing the consequences of serious depression in parents and caregivers could support the future prosperity and well - being of both children and society as a whole.

Understand the impact of maternal depression on the fetus, newborn, developing child mother, father and family as a whole;

He is author of The Whole Brain Child, Brainstorm, The Developing Mind, The Mindful Brain, and other books, and is founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.