Sentences with phrase «school components into»

School Wellness Policies School wellness policies are a great way to articulate a school community's values and can build farm to school components into school food and the general food environment at schools.

Not exact matches

«The removal of this component, combined with the possibility of armed teachers in our schools, sets the stage for transforming our schools into prisons,» the NAACP said.

At the beginning of the 2004 - 2005 school year the Superintendent, Food Services Manager and Staff met to design and implement a new plan for increased nutrition in the school breakfast and lunch program and to add an educational outreach component from food services out into the rest of the campus.

I suspect this is another example of looking at very complex issues (i.e. child obesity) by breaking them down into component pieces (e.g. the menu in the school cafeteria, or the amount of exercise conducted per day, or the local socio - economic conditions, or what phase of the moon it is) and trying to reach some sort of valid conclusion.

Last year the program was expanded to five middle schools and an algebra 1 component was added, and this fall its monitors will follow the original cohort into high school.

Addressing this means beefing up effective technology - integration programs at schools of education, encouraging and enabling students to create media and to participate in collaborations with others around the world, and making sure that every computer lab — whether at a school or elsewhere — has a way for users to tap into an educational component.

Our journey into school minibuses began and has since become an essential component within our group.

Third, we develop and evaluate «self - monitoring assessments» (SMAs)-- assessments that incorporate audit components directly into operational assessments and thus can localize inflation at the level of schools — and compare performance on parts of the operational assessment and these audit components.

El - Mekki was also a Principal Ambassador Fellow at the U.S. Department of Education under Arne Duncan, and he is the founder of Black Male Educators for Social Justice, a fellowship dedicated to supporting and recruiting more African American men into the teaching profession — a critical component, El - Mekki believes, in creating more equitable schools.

Though this article may oversimplify SRL into three components, planning, performance and reflection, it does clearly provide a compelling argument that it needs to be taught in schools.

Reassemble is to break schooling into its components and recreate anew.

Finally, I again take into account whether the individual respondent endorsed voting as an essential component of good citizenship in answering the question used to gauge the school's civic climate in 1965.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

Among its components, Brockman's bill — which he co-sponsored with Charlotte - area Republicans Rob Bryan and John Bradford III — will funnel five of the state's lowest - performing schools into one state - run district, regardless of geography.

The theoretical base of Focus includes the Correlates of Effective Schools, Classroom Instruction that Works: Research - based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, and the results of a meta - analysis of classroom walkthrough data integrated into a comprehensive design with aligned components.

The bill also requires a nutrition education component be incorporated into the health education credit requirement to receive a high school diploma.

They explain that the various components of schooling fall into five categories: structure, sample, standards, strategy, and self.

T - TESS is in the second year of being piloted and is scheduled to become the new state - recommended system in 2016 - 2017, although the student growth component is not scheduled to go into effect until the 2017 - 2018 school year.

Note: Long specialists (art, music, and PE teachers) have taken the buddies and school - wide practices and combined them into an effective and sustainable component called «Buddy Block» (CEP Promising Practices Award Winner, 2006).

Friendship Public Charter School intends to enter into sole source contracts with The Teaching Strategies System for Pre-K; and The Creative Curriculum System for Preschool and all products and components associated with this and any professional development related to the curriculum; Teaching Strategies GOLD assessment system and the components, training, curriculum materials, and methodologies for licenses, curriculum materials, support and ongoing access to student information.

The Guidance Curriculum Component integrates counseling standards for career development, academic achievement, and personal / social growth into the school curriculum.

The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) has developed a Balanced Approach to Literacy (BAL) Implementation Guide to provide a basic introduction to how the District defines this work, outline how the different components of the approach work together, and share links to resources to help teachers implement the approach into their classroom.

Local school districts and county offices integrate the child nutrition program into the nutrition education component of the district's comprehensive health education curriculum.

This Excel document shows how each component of KIPP's recommended K - 8 literacy and math instructional design can fit into a school day.

Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver Giants hockey team) and one from education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components of uplifting leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.

How can schools transform evaluation from something that is «done to» teachers into an intrinsic component of their career - long learning and growth?

While these philosophies differ in many specifics, what they have in common is that they tend to not be rooted in an overly objective and rational way of knowing that causes conventional schooling to divide learning into isolated components.

Most of the roughly 70 proposals made it into the law, including the core component: a complicated formula that fundamentally changed how the state divvied up funding to school districts.

For example, interventions that take place over the summer should be one small component of a larger support framework for high school students as they transition from high school to college; developmental math reforms should also attend to students» non-academic needs; and effective math pedagogy should be integrated into all interventions intended to improve students» college math readiness.

They can be tailored to all ages and all abilities whether this be for a weekly school sport option for our local primary and high schools or for secondary school students studying a subject like Marine Science and a school wants a practical component integrated into the curriculum.

Participating high school STEM educators will develop an Applied Research STEM Curriculum Unit Portfolio that integrates components of their research into a comprehensive unit plan that utilizes NASA education resources and aligns NASA Science and STEM curricula to the Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards.

Id; see also Legomsky, supra n. 1, at 486 — 487 (proposing that law schools adopt a «pervasive strategy,» integrating an international law component into every course to ensure that all law students are exposed to international and comparative law principles).

• Assess the individual learning needs of each student in the class and create correlating lessons to meet them • Design, develop and implement lesson plans in accordance to the set curriculum and school standards • Emphasize all 4 components of learning language, such as speaking, reading, listening and writing into all lesson plans • Establish a learning environment of serious scholarship and continuous support to provide assistance to students» learning objectives

Prescriptive homework sessions are not as effective as a developmental approach involving stimulating academic interests, incorporating learning components into match activities, and developing positive relationships with school personnel.

One Colorado study showed that paraprofessional home visiting, when combined with an early - intervention program focused on children with developmental delays, resulted in improved involvement with the program.25 In North Carolina, the combination of a public health department's home - visiting program with links into private physician's offices was helpful in overcoming personal and structural barriers to care.43 The Commonwealth Fund's Healthy Steps intervention included home visiting by masters - level healthy development specialists with significant gains in the quality of well - child care, although the multifactorial nature of this intervention made it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of the home - visiting component.44 — 46 A South Carolina study showed that a program that linked school - based home visitors to group well - child visits resulted in greater retention of anticipatory guidance and improved satisfaction with care.47

The Leadership Team has built the four Components of KidsMatter into the identity and vision of the school.

After the Action Team attended Component 1 and facilitated the staff professional learning, KidsMatter Primary was written into the school Operational Plan for 2011 and 2012.

Each component is unpacked into more specific target areas and goals to help schools with their planning.

Structuring KidsMatter Primary into the four component areas is a way of making the task of working to improve student's mental and health and wellbeing in schools more manageable.

Component 2: Social and emotional learning for students helps schools to think about how to embed the teaching of social and emotional skills into the curriculum, with opportunities for children to practise these skills across a range of contexts.

The newer version of the RRP also contains an added component of 12 home or in - school visits (40 to 50 minutes each) for parents to introduce the specific emotional regulation skills, engage parents as teachers of skills, and incorporate skills into family life.

Embedded curriculum integrates CRE components into traditional school curricula and lesson plans

The elementary schools were initially divided into four groups on the basis of stage of intervention: nonintervention, the beginning stage of intervention, integration of some program components, and integration of all program components.