Sentences with phrase «organizing classrooms and schools»

It's a model that seems certain to make us question assumptions about how we organize classrooms and schools.

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If they would stop trying to push their faith into the science classroom, their organized prayers into school functions, and their faith into my bedroom and in my docotr's office, I would be happy to live and let live.

With such a wide variety of products available for your child to use throughout the school year, help you organize your home, and restock your child's classroom, SchoolSpecialty.com makes it easy to have a successful school year thanks to easy to use website that puts competitively priced products you need and want at your fingertips for home delivery.

We were greeted by Pickle Elementary cafeteria manager Oleydis Padilla and her staff, already hard at work organizing and packing breakfast - in - the - classroom for the school's more than 600 students.

«Afterschool classrooms observed to be positive, responsive, and organized had youth with greater academic skill development over the school year.

This online resource is a highly organized repository of pacing calendars, classroom - tested lesson plans, presentations, and activities shared by teachers throughout the district, as well as 40 other partner districts and charter schools across the state.

The official purpose of what we call our Quest Team is planning and organizing school enrichment, but it also provides us the opportunity to discuss current school, grade - level, classroom, and student happenings.

Celebrate the day by organizing a classroom or school celebration that engages students in activities that promote special fun and memorable learning.

Despite significant changes in schools» ethnic make - up — particularly recently — high schools are very much the same as they were 50 years ago in the way classrooms are organized and instruction is delivered.

It urged the nation to get serious about teacher standards, reinvent teacher preparation and professional development, put qualified teachers in every classroom, encourage and reward teacher knowledge and skill, and create schools organized for student and teacher success.

More specifically, suggests Snow, «Middle and high school teachers could make their classroom activities more engaging by ensuring that students are focused on an organizing question or purpose for the activities.

Yet we've organized conventional schools in an industrial model and we batch - process students in ways that made sense to «cult of efficiency» experts circa 1920, that lent themselves to uniform teachers delivering a uniform curriculum to groups of twenty to thirty same - age pupils in more - or-less identical classrooms during a six - hour day and 180 - day year that made perfect sense for a country that lacked air conditioning and that wanted to standardize the school year.

It's hard to imagine a teacher who organized literature conventions at school and had his students vote on their favorite authors (Shakespeare and Shaw tied), surviving in today's classrooms.

The idea — professional development summits organized in different parts of Nigeria and taught by experienced teachers from around the world — stemmed from Enechi's own experience as a new teacher at Brooke Charter School in the Mattapan section of Boston, where new teachers prepare for their own classrooms by spending one year learning from experienced educators.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

The parents organize school events and are encouraged to even sit in on classroom learning.

Beyond the classroom, Taylor spent several years organizing middle school sports as an Athletic Director and created a freelance business for digital illustration.

Enlist parent volunteers to lead, organize and support CFF events and committees as well as assist in classrooms and around the school.

Customizing Web - based systems to organize and disseminate strategies, resources, and tools to advance education at the state, district, school, and classroom levels.

Schools typically are organized into long, often windowless corridors, lined with 900 - square - foot classrooms — a floor plan that consigns teachers and students to working in relative isolation behind closed doors.

These students are reaching the halfway mark in their teacher education programs and one of my most important goals is to create a sense of energy and motivation as they — for the first time — take on the responsibility of working with small groups and organizing instruction for whole classrooms of students in Milwaukee's high needs urban schools.

However, during this time many educators also take the time to plan for the coming school year, by completing lesson plans, cleaning and organizing classrooms, and setting up materials for their new class.

We Volunteer Now helps schools organize service projects and gives grants to classrooms and clubs that can help them with their volunteering goals.

My principal supports our desire to teach beyond the test on every level, and her enthusiasm when she comes into the classroom or helps us to organize «Math Olympics» and other extracurricular events really helps our kids feel that the tone of our school is geared toward their success.

The SCLDA team included one primary investigator with extensive experience in the integration of museum resources in the classroom, two education staff members who organized and oversaw the PD project, and two local instructional coaches who observed teachers» classrooms (approximately four times during the school year per teacher) and provided further teacher support as needed.

These schools are not simply composites of classrooms, kind teachers, expansive hallways, and organized schedules.

Pleasant Valley Elementary School participants in this leadershop will see voice and choice in action in classrooms through morning meetings, classroom activities, arts integration experiences, a Student Council Meeting, Art Selection Board, and the bi-monthly whole school assembly which is completely designed, organized, and performed by stuSchool participants in this leadershop will see voice and choice in action in classrooms through morning meetings, classroom activities, arts integration experiences, a Student Council Meeting, Art Selection Board, and the bi-monthly whole school assembly which is completely designed, organized, and performed by stuschool assembly which is completely designed, organized, and performed by students.

By working with parents to examine their privilege and understand that their impact matters more than their intentions, Integrated Schools prepares parents to support meaningfully integrated classrooms that reflect the diversity of their district as well as school communities that respect ALL families and are galvanized around supporting ALL children Through national organizing to promote local action, we support, educate, develop and mobilize families to «live their values,» disrupt segregation, and leverage their choices for the well - being and futures for their own children, for all children, and for our democracy.

For the well - being of children and youth, educators should participate in organized efforts to solve community problems that lie outside classrooms and schools.

In addition to the larger institutes, Leadership Academy participants were also grouped into small cohorts of about 15 — organized by region — to do «learning walkthroughs» or classroom visits, to observe teachers in area schools and provide feedback.

But in addition, the Get - Go Process is completed to determine (a) what MTSS services and supports specific students will need on the first day of the next school year; (b) how to prepare teachers and other support staff to deliver needed multi-tiered programs or interventions; and (c) how to best organize students into their next year's classrooms so that differentiated instructional approaches and positive classroom interactions are maximized.

Self - check classroom and school «real estate» to make sure you're organized to showcase, celebrate, and convey messages and content that invite all learners to joyfully learn more, writes author Regie Routman.

We saw classrooms in California maximizing teacher impact through organized, intentional use of digital content, schools in Detroit abandoning the traditional pacing guide in favor of competency - based learning, and schools here in D.C. experimenting with these models as well.

A good classroom should be organized like a good high school athletics program, which usually has a varsity team, a junior varsity team and a freshman team.

Volunteers often work in the school store, tutor in the learning center, help during activities associated with the school - wide positive behavior supports program, organize fundraisers, decorate hallways, and assist in classrooms.

Be it a request for a student's education record, or a list of apps and websites used in the classroom, schools are tasked with fulfilling these types of information requests in a timely, efficient and organized manner.

While they educate a different population than a century ago, the schools and classrooms are organized much the same.

The February issue of Educational Leadership looks at ways educators can organize their schools and classrooms to ensure that all students have the opportunity to excel.

These family nights could be organized and offered school wide as large events or in smaller venues by individual teachers in classrooms.

In PreK - 3rd: Teacher Quality Matters, the third in the Foundation's series of Policy to Action Briefs, series editor Rima Shore describes 1) Why effective teaching matters for student outcomes; 2) How schools can organize to sustain effective teaching in every classroom; and 3) What high - quality instruction looks like in PreK - 3rd classrooms.

Classrooms and schools are rarely organized to respond well to variations in student readiness, interest, or learning profile (Archambault et al., 1993; Bateman, 1993; International Institute for Advocacy for School Children, 1993; McIntosh, Vaughn, Schumm, Haager, & Lee, 1993; Tomlinson, 1995; Tomlinson, Moon, & Callahan, 1998; Westberg, Archambault, Dobyns, & a and b; Salvin, 1993).

Over the 14 - week semester, students completed at least 80 hours of service in the school and were involved in one or more arts - based projects, including team teaching arts - based lessons with a classroom teacher, running arts workshops in an afterschool program, organizing a children's art exhibition, and helping to run a Creative Arts Fun Day for the entire school community.

The external evaluator observes classrooms, talks with school leaders, and uses a ten - page rubric to evaluate how well the school is organized to support student achievement.

These roles must be skillfully woven into the structures of school leadership and organized as practitioner networks that extend beyond their classrooms and schools.

Some of the work has been internal: Participating schools have organized «resilience teams» to build awareness of ACEs, re-thought discipline structures, and incorporated trauma - informed practices into the classroom.

These variables include, but are not limited to, philosophy of administrators and teachers, school leadership factors, classroom practices that support diverse learners, the degree of collaboration and joint ownership for all learners across the entire faculty, and the ability of the leaders to organize the delivery of services through innovative scheduling and staffing practices.

Using apps to organize your classroom, share experiences from a class trip or great learning moment in the class, sending regular communications such as automated weekly newsletters we encourage with ClassTag will help keep parents in the loop and foster discussion about school in the home as parents know what their children are learning.

Ultimately, every student in every school can experience meaningfulness, whether in their individual classroom experience or collective school wide experience, whether in special and specific district or state education agency opportunities, or in broad student organizing for education improvement.

Outside of the classroom, PTOs and PTAs can hold a reading, science, or math event based on interest or areas of need in your school; another option is to organize a program to help parents support their children academically.

«Our educators visit classrooms during the school year, run children's camps in the summer, and organize open houses and adoption events,» says Sue Ann Culp, CEO of the Humane Society of West Michigan.