Sentences with phrase «parents speak up for»

Of course, parents speak up for their children, but they are not always welcome.

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On behalf of all the people who want to speak up but can't: Please, make Amazon a more hospitable place for women and parents.

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As writing opened up opportunities for me to speak, my husband, my parents, my sister, my friends, my church, my mentors, my colleagues, other churches all agreed: self - selected or not, preaching and teaching were part of my calling.

After speaking up for this game on the Premier Christianity blog, I had a massive amount of positive feedback, mostly from parents who wanted to understand the game.

Aside from getting to share some of this tour with Tariku and with my parents — who showed up and have been very supportive — the most meaningful part so far has been the opportunity I've had to meet so many other members of the adoption triad (that's adoption speak for adoptees, birth families, and adoptive parents).

But before we get into that, let's look at why some parents might think it's OK to set up a social media account for someone who can't yet speak or who isn't yet born.

Not surprisingly, the media feeding frenzy has resulted, anecdotal evidence suggests, in a sharp drop in youth football registrations for this fall's season, with parents fearful that playing football will almost inevitably expose their kid to an unreasonable risk of injury (which, of course, is patently untrue; more than 7 million kids in the U.S. currently play football, very few of whom, statistically speaking and despite a few well - publicized cases - are likely to end up committing suicide because of the hits they sustained playing the sport, and millions upon countless millions who have played football over the past century without apparent ill effect).

As a public education advocate and founding member of Parents Across America, I'm one of many who are speaking up for empowering parents and educators to set the direction for our education policy — not the billionaires, hedge - funders and corporate titans who are currently drivParents Across America, I'm one of many who are speaking up for empowering parents and educators to set the direction for our education policy — not the billionaires, hedge - funders and corporate titans who are currently drivparents and educators to set the direction for our education policy — not the billionaires, hedge - funders and corporate titans who are currently driving it.

Parents are blamed for childhood obesity but also blamed when they speak up for changing things that make their job harder.

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

Parents of kids with special needs are so used to advocating for their children that they often forget to teach kids to speak up for themselves.

She has a few tips for how parents can encourage their children to speak up for themselves.

Their parents are not going to speak up for healthier food - they are grateful there is any at all.

I was also lucky to find a variety of other characters in Harlem, from teachers and administrators to students and parents, who really opened up to me, speaking candidly and eloquently about their own hopes and fears for their children and their futures.

Parents Magazine, a founding partner of Speak Up for Kids, is published monthly by Meredith Corporation and has been America's # 1 family magazine for more than 80 years.

However, there is a (continued) need for parents to speak up and advocate for their babies.

And, in addition to offering free online resources as well as an Ask an Expert page that contains clinician answers to questions parents have asked the organization, the institute creates high - impact awareness campaigns, like Speak Up for Kids.

I know all parents think their children are the smartest most amazing kids ever but I can honestly say my son is really exceptional he has hit all his milestones months before they were due to be hit and for a boy he has been AMAZING verbally his first word was mama at 4 months he was up to 10 words by 8 months and past 30 words at a year, he is now 2 and speaking in sentences.

«I applaud those students for speaking up, I applaud the students for taking action and I think the calls of the students and parents have captured the attention of the administration of the Buffalo Public Schools and the teacher's union and I'm hoping that those two entities can come together in the best interest of the education of the children at City Honors,» he said.

Duffy spoke to a crowd of about 1,400 charter school parents, children advocates who were bused up to Albany by the New York City Charter School Center for its tenth annual charter advocacy day at the Capitol.

«We finally have a mayor who will stand up for those who can't speak for themselves,» said Sonya Hampton, president of the Parent Teacher Association at P.S. 149.

So how about it, Chancellor Fariña: Will you speak up for these parents, or let your silence speak for the teachers union?

Speak Up, a national initiative of Project Tomorrow, surveyed students, teachers, parents, and others in fall 2010 to determine the benefits of certain types and uses of technology for teaching and learning.

They don't care any less about their children or value education less than English speaking parents, but understanding how the system works, let alone finding a role for themselves in it, is not as straightforward as marching up to the principal and saying, «Sign me up.»

I was tickled to hear fifth and sixth graders speak up about what it means for their parents to be involved in their school.

Instead of waiting for an issue to crop up, speak to parents and teachers.

Mr. Carranza's experience — growing up in a Spanish - speaking home with parents who were also bilingual — has shaped his passion for language.

Project Tomorrow's annual Speak Up survey held October through December provides an easy way for students, parents, and educators to participate and inform local decisions about technology, as well as contribute to the state and national dialogue about educational technology.

I do agree with this comment but the problem is that this government does not and will not listen to teachers nor parents.There have been many contentious issues over the past ten years and the government just ploughs on regardless.There needs to be a massive demonstration by society in order to protect the interests of students first.Politicians are notorious for telling us what we need and what is good for us and they have no clue what goes on in schools.I do not see a solution to this but the teacher unions must be much more vocal and really speak up for the teachers and parents in this country.

Examples of religion in those charter schools abound, though parents and students who are bothered are reluctant to speak up for fear of retribution.

But Mr Miliband said he was speaking for parents up and down the country, and he would not be lectured on ethics by the man who brought Andy Coulson to Downing Street.

«We are speaking up and we are putting ourselves, our faces, on the fight for any parents who think changes aren't going to happen,» Chacon said.

Jenny Hontz is a founding member of Speak UP, a grassroots organization helping California parents advocate for excellent, equitable education in their schools, communities and at the ballot box.

Write a note of thanks when a teacher goes above and beyond — offers to do an extra recess duty for a colleague, calls a parent in advance of a difficult conference, or speaks up in a tense faculty meeting.

We will also set up time for you to speak with current students, teachers, or parents.

The students, parents, teachers and other community members at the meeting understand the collective impact of speaking up for our students.

Speak Up 2007 for students, teachers, parents, and school leaders: Selected national findings.

STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT FOR HIGH QUALITY: * Pre - Kindergarten — College Graduation Systems * Real Parent Power through School Governance Councils * School Choice Options * Early Child Education & Afterschool Programs * English Language Learners (ELL) Supports * Children w. Special Needs & School Based Health Care Services * Effective Teacher / Principal Preparation & Evaluation Systems * High School Drop Out Prevention Supports * Children in Foster / Adoptive Care & Alternative Education Services

Parents of ELLs may forego any type of bilingual education for their children and simply place them in the same classes as English - speaking students in hopes that they'll pick up on the language.

I hope that this critique of the Common Core is part of the 2016 rallying cry for parents to opt their children out of tests on those inadequate standards, a rallying cry for school districts to not design curricula based on the intellectually bankrupt Common Core, and a rallying cry for good teachers everywhere to speak up about what learning really is and to make sure that real learning, not test prep, is what they foster in their classrooms.

Anyone who would suggest that the problem is that people need to speak up, «if you think that it is not okay for a parent to have a fifth child when they are struggling to support one through four,» should not be part of any discussion about public education, poverty, children and American society.

Ms. Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman who recently announced she would not run for mayor in 2017, was speaking at New York Law School, part of their CityLaw breakfast series, and gave what was mostly a typical Success Academy stump speech: save for an introduction that was more of a defense against recent lawsuits and media stories, and for a conclusion that saw parents of former Success students livening up the typically staid CityLaw audience to demand apologies or answers from Ms. Moskowitz.

She spends weekends helping other understand the problems facing parents looking for school choices, and the importance of speaking up on behalf of all students in the community.

Although we didn't come up with any neat and tidy answers to our original inquiry question about the best classroom placement for Mam - speaking students, we realized that the work of supporting our newcomer families is mostly about relationship building, listening, and education — education that can flow both ways, between the school and the parents.

I didn't go because I enjoy running up and down stairs, signing up for three minutes with one teacher, being told the wait will be 20 minutes, leaving to speak with another teacher, then returning to be informed that I missed... Continue reading Why I Go To Parent - Teacher Conferences, Or, The Flip Side of Accountability

Set against the promise implicit in the launching of Apollo, her touching recollection of her youth and teenage years — her strange, unhappy parents, her difficulties fitting into a new school, and her first love — speaks to universal concerns about growing up and resurrects a pivotal episode of American history and culture for a new generation.

Maggie McGuire, vice president of Parents and Kids channels for Scholastic, spoke to GoodEReader about not only the need to keep up with reading over the summer months, but also ways to foster the importance of reading for kids.

For example, if I lose my temper with my teenaged son and end up calling him an idiot (hypothetically speaking, of course), guilt would lead me to recognize it wasn't my best parenting moment, and I need to apologize.

We're working to bring out the parents and local stakeholders to speak up for their school librarian and school library program.