Sentences with phrase «same schools and classrooms»

Meanwhile, in these same schools and classrooms, you will also find students who can read, write and calculate, sometimes very well.

Not exact matches

The same three factors that cause measles to spread through a grade school classroom, writes Gladwell, can be used to explain the Hush Puppies phenomenon: (1) contagiousness, (2) the fact that little causes can have big effects, and (3) the way change often occurs at one dramatic moment rather than gradually.

In the schools they would march into any classroom every couple of hours with loud slogans repeating the same lies over and over until they became true history.

This denial comes most often in the form of a blindness to the particularity of creation, the same kind of blindness that has burdened so many of our Sunday - school classroom walls with a generalized, handsome, and Teutonic Jesus when in fact our Lord was and is no doubt far more Semitic in his actual appearance.

A school that leaves religion behind and puts all people in the same classroom, or campus would do more to promote understanding between groups than persisting in keeping them separate.

The State can not finance secular instruction if it permits religion to be taught in the same classroom; but if it exacts a promise that religion not be so taught — a promise the school and its teachers are quite willing and on this record able to give — and enforces it, it is then entangled in the «no entanglement» aspect of the Court's Establishment Clause jurisprudence [Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 666, 668].

I have had conversations with fellow moms and felt that my kids are not only in a different classroom, but that they are not even at the same school, because I have only a peripheral interest in their homework.

«Oftentimes, if a school sees the child and thinks they might be strong in a single subject, that's a reason to put them in a classroom with students of the same physical age, not the developmental age,» he says.

TJ is six and a half and in the same classroom with the first, second, third, and fourth graders at his Montessori school and he is LOVING it (yes, even summer school).

School nutrition professionals just like you tell us the same thing, time and time again — bringing hard numbers to the table helped them convince stakeholders to give breakfast - in - the - classroom a shot.

Here in Houston we've already implemented the same program district - wide, and for those unfamiliar with it, «in - class breakfast» means just that: children receive a free breakfast (regardless of economic need) and bring it into their classrooms to eat at their desks as the school day begins.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Do school students all go to a lunchroom together where all students get to mix and eat lunch at the same time, or do students stay in their classrooms and eat lunch as a class?

By: Jenny MontagueAs I begin another school year as food service director in Kalispell, Montana, I can't help but wonder if my enthusiasm, anticipation, and anxiety aren't exactly the same emotions the students are feeling as they await the return to their classrooms.

He is on the same page as I am and strongly discouraged all parents at back - to - school night from bringing high sugar foods and has instructed the teaching staff to do the same in their classrooms.

In response, I asked them, which child enters Senior High School and is seen in all three classrooms for tuition at the same time?

They will be able to log in using the same username and password they use at school and will see the same desktop that they see in most of our computer labs, libraries and classrooms.

They go to the same neighborhood elementary school and sit in classrooms right next to each other.

While yoga instructors and some classroom teachers might be excited about the prospect of implementing school - based yoga, and want to do it quickly, not all stakeholders will feel the same way.

With the distance between schools and small classroom size, we face many of the same challenges that affect rural schools all over the world when it comes to the provision and breadth of curricular choices.

Almost three decades later, during her last years in the classroom, math instruction had become a team effort, with her school's math instructors meeting often to discuss topics, sharing lesson plans, and developing common assessments to make sure everyone was on the same page.

As far back as 1928, studies that measured the effectiveness of the correspondence schools reported, «no differences in test scores of college classroom and correspondence study students enrolled in the same subjects».

Chronic absenteeism; a mix of attendance indicators; choice to re-enroll in same school; standardized observations that take into account factors including classroom organization, emotional support, and instructional support; college - readiness measured by ACT, AP, and IB participation and scores

They see us learning during the school day, they come by a classroom where it's a classroom of teachers and they see their teachers engaged in the same work that we ask them to do.

It is a matter of looking at sustainable engagement and motivation with a new perspective because engaging in education online has similarities to the training area in a business organization or the brick and mortar school classroom, but the online environment is not the same in that the boundaries of collaboration, innovation, and creativity are global and immediate in nature.

The majority of arguments for single - sex schools and classrooms focus on the effects on interactions among students, but they also present the possibility of greatly increasing the number of students with teachers of the same gender.

Then after three years obviously we'll test those four scenarios again and look to see whether they're still relevant, whether we can see indications of those stories coming true, in which case then we continue on in the same direction and look at step two - building on the foundations to shift and move the school, and what we do in the classroom and what teachers actually do to prepare ourselves for that future.

Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.

Middle and High School: Sixth grade often retains the same pattern as fifth grade; sometime before high school, however, most classrooms go to one PAT aSchool: Sixth grade often retains the same pattern as fifth grade; sometime before high school, however, most classrooms go to one PAT aschool, however, most classrooms go to one PAT a week.

Although practice tests and classroom drills have raised the pass rate for the reading section of the TAAS in high schools, few students are able to use those same skills to complete actual reading assignments outside of class, to make meaning of literature, or to connect reading assignments to other parts of the course such as discussion and writing.

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

Those leaders will no longer be able to maintain the fantasy of high - school educators floating from classroom to classroom like Mary Poppins because of their love of children while at the same time haggling over pay, benefits, and working conditions as if they were automobile workers.

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.

Think of all the times reformers have mocked «the factory model» of schooling, voiced exasperation that classrooms look the same today as they did one hundred years ago, and lamented that the school calendar still reflects an agrarian economy.

There is a long history of schools using technologies to, in effect, sustain the chalkboard and prop up the 20th - century factory model classroom with the teacher in front of 20 to 30 students of the same age.

Teachers claim that cameras in the classroom can help stamp out students» false allegations against them, providing an added level of protection for both their careers and personal integrity while at the same time affording parents full confidence in terms of how their children are being treated while at school.

Bring the climate change discussion into your classroom with this free resource produced by the Global Learning Programme to support schools wishing to use the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) as an opportunity to investigate climate change, and at the same time focusing pupils» thinking on ideas such as development, sustainability and interdependence.

In order to provide authentic bilingual education, schools must have teachers who are fluent in the language and enough English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom without combining students from more than two grade levels in one classroom.

In the 1990s when schools began shifting to mobile technology, the software purchased for classroom use was selected with a monolithic approach, which led educators to set up each computer exactly the same for all students and teachers.

«We wanted to ensure that Envoys» experiential programs had the same intentionality, curriculum, and assessment that was so critical to a quality school,» Leighton says, pointing out that education outside of the classroom can be far more than the cliché of a field trip.

The same mindset should be applied to creating great classrooms and schools.

See, many reformers say things like, «Our schools and classrooms look the same as they did 100 years ago!»

• In schools transitioning gradually over two to three years, significantly more students in OC classrooms made high growth in the second year than in non-OC classrooms in the same and similar schools — by March 2015, 42 percent to 70 percent more made high growth, depending on the comparison group.

Today, students from every definable race and ethnic category study and squirm shoulder to shoulder in the same public school classrooms, learning about something called segregation — as a vocabulary word on a pop quiz, a chapter in their history textbooks, or a topic for the debate team.

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.

The Study An investigation measured and compared the numbers of bacteria in two classrooms, both at the same primary school.

«Administrators love to boast that their school has heterogeneous grouping... but the administrators aren't in the classroom, and they don't see the disappointment on the faces of each students when a new experience is presented and not everyone remains «on the same page.»»

And those schools could be geographically remote from each other, as is the case with Aurora College, or it could be that two or three neighbouring Sydney schools could share a timetable and share a classroom teacher in this way using the same technology that we're using.&raqAnd those schools could be geographically remote from each other, as is the case with Aurora College, or it could be that two or three neighbouring Sydney schools could share a timetable and share a classroom teacher in this way using the same technology that we're using.&raqand share a classroom teacher in this way using the same technology that we're using.»

Savvy administrators can meet the needs of teachers and, at the same time, set the tone for a wonderful school year by visiting classrooms those first days and weeks routinely and regularly, making sure teachers can focus on providing excellent instruction instead of having to hunt down, for example, five additional chairs or a working projector.