Sentences with phrase «orderly schools»

NEA and its affiliates have been leaders in the fight to improve public schools - and oppose alternatives that divert attention, energy, and resources from efforts to reduce class size, enhance teacher quality, and provide every student with books, computers, and safe and orderly schools.

Building the school's capacity to promote high academic achievement, effective educators, adequate resources and facilities, safe and orderly schools, and strong parent and community relations

From where Riley and others sit, Duncan merely evidenced left - leaning tendency to see racism in the school discipline efforts of schools when the real issue is maintaining safe, orderly schools.

«School facilities are [not] maintained according to standards required for clean, safe, and orderly schools.»

The public charter school sector has demonstrated great potential to create safe, caring and orderly schools that have good reason to be proud of the academic growth of their students.

Future efforts at discipline reform must reflect fundamental fairness while also ensuring orderly schools and welcoming learning environments.

This week, the union will launch a national campaign to argue for safe and orderly schools with rigorous academic standards.

The value in reviewing policies regularly is that, in the event of litigation, such evidence can go a long way in convincing courts that educators are doing their best to be up - to - date in maintaining safe, orderly schools while safeguarding the rights of all in school communities in the face of rapid changes in the world of technology.

Those characteristics that seem to show up in all the findings include high expectations for students, a safe and orderly school climate, frequent assessment of student progress, parental involvement, collaboration among faculty and staff members, and focused and sustained professional development.

A safe and orderly school has a positive impact on student achievement.

Many of Marzano's factors relate to working conditions, including collegiality and professionalism as well as a safe and orderly school environment.

Canter's Classroom Management experts focus on establishing safe and orderly school environments that support closing achievement gaps.

Not exact matches

While out walking in London recently, I passed a group of uniformed school children moving in an orderly, single - file line, with teachers in front and rear.

As students streamed away from the school building, some ran while others walked quickly in orderly lines with their hands on or above their heads.

''... The churches do not offer solace and acceptance of the prevailing order; the schools can not maintain discipline over their pupils; the police and courts can not maintain orderly processes of action (they often infringe the very laws they are supposed to enforce); the hospitals can not cure; the jails burst at their seams; and, finally, the government itself fails to function with the respect and authority it requires.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

And like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.

A child who is organized, orderly and knows what to expect each day is more able to apply himself to structured learning activities when formal schooling begins.

When the school year ends, saying goodbye to homework is often cause for celebration, but for kids with sensory issues the loss of an orderly schedule can spell disaster.

Although you're a pro when it comes to stocking up on new clothes and school supplies, you may be a little bit out of practice when it comes to getting everyone out of the door and off to school in an orderly fashion.

Once the evidence of the «Got to Go» list became public, he added, Moskowitz claimed that her schools «provide a safe and orderly alternative to the disorderly public schools.

The de Blasio administration maintained that it allowed all students to take part in the demonstration but did permit schools to close off certain doorways to allow for an orderly egress.

At what started out as a relatively orderly meeting of the Buffalo School Board Wednesday night, board members voted to appoint an interim superintendent.

The mission of the Office of Safety and Youth Development is to help schools to create and maintain a safe, orderly and supportive school environment for students.

«What emerged was this orderly map,» says team leader Michael Long, a neuroscientist at the New York University School of Medicine in New York City.

Of the faux - David Lean white elephants that proliferated in the early «80s, Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India; it now exists in that dreary realm of antiseptic Best Picture Oscar winners, duly respected and revisited exclusively for school assignments.

Fink: Someone visiting the school over time should see an orderly learning environment characterized by intrinsic motivation, not external incentives oriented toward student compliance.

If our schools become less safe and less orderly who will suffer?

But so does nurturing the talent of our most gifted students, ensuring an orderly place for all children to learn, and achieving the civic mission of our schools.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

Aside from the fact you can not have effective teaching and learning in a disorderly classroom or school, developing an orderly learning environment also provides a mechanism for getting teachers working more consistently and towards a common end.

As her mother describes, one teenage girl had trouble adjusting to the orderly environment in the county school and was repeatedly suspended.

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

It is interesting to note in this context that the absence of an orderly learning environment is usually the first thing noticed in an under - performing school, and the major impediment to improvement and change.

One of the first hints that something is different at these schools is the orderly way in which students pass from class to class.

I gave higher service and atmosphere ratings to schools in which children were assigned some clean - up duties, encouraged to recycle utensils, and disciplined to keep lunchrooms orderly and clean.

Schools run by principals who believed a more punitive approach was necessary for an orderly environment show the opposite patterns.

Such schools need massive amounts of help in order to transform into orderly learning environments that don't have to resort so much to exclusionary discipline.

These schools are calm and orderly where teachers spend most of their time teaching not disciplining.

The ambitious plan in some ways signals the progress made by the state - run district since last year, when school leaders struggled to provide the most basic services — enough teachers, orderly classrooms, clean restrooms, and hot lunches — in the storm - ravaged city.

This is a clearly planned and elegantly detailed addition to what was already an orderly public school site.

Schools which have few disciplinary problems are safe and orderly places of learning where pupils report relatively low levels of bullying.

In one technology - heavy school, the only class Oppenheimer enjoys has a teacher lecturing to orderly rows of silent students, heads bent down and taking notes.

In doing so, we leave aside the subtler and more personal things that teachers and principals do all the time to make their schools function in an orderly way and disseminate as much learning as they possibly can.

Finally, we would ensure that schools were safe and orderly places to be — balancing the educational needs of disruptive students with the equally valuable needs of their rule - abiding peers.

The school had a calm and orderly atmosphere, better suited to his personality.

A corollary theory can be found in the discipline - heavy charter school movement, with charter leaders arguing that academic improvement can't happen without an orderly, safe classroom environment.

It's not a particularly new or radical idea that schools need to be orderly places.

Coleman found that Catholic schools achieve more educational equity than public schools because they follow a rich and demanding curriculum; provide a structured, orderly environment; offer lots of explicit instruction, including drill and practice; and expect every child to reach minimal goals in each subject by the end of the year.

High schools should establish more orderly environments and do a better job preparing students for life after high school, particularly for youths from low - income families, according to a research brief by the National High School Cschool, particularly for youths from low - income families, according to a research brief by the National High School CSchool Center.