Sentences with phrase «school strategies foster»

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We work with parents across North America looking for help with things like establishing healthy sleep patterns, potty training their child, implementing positive discipline strategies, transitioning into daycare and schooling, dealing with picky eating, fostering giftedness, and so many more issues.

Executives from a broad range of health care - focused organizations — including hospitals, health centers, medical schools and public health departments — across the U.S. and from other countries participate in a two - day training session in Boston that focuses on defining disparities and their causes, developing strategies to identify and address disparities and fostering the leadership and change - management skills to implement those strategies.

These strategies can help schools and families foster a more targeted learning experience for each student, McWilliams says.

«Fostering strong linkages between schools and the community is one important strategy to make transitions successful.»

This special report examines challenges and strategies for educating some of the most vulnerable students in the nation's schools, including youths in juvenile detention facilities, immigrant students fearing deportation, homeless students with disabilities, and foster children.

A Brown University study has examined the strategies used to foster collaboration and mathematical inquiry among elementary school teachers in an online professional - development program.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.

In addition, one of the crucial elements of this strategy is getting companies, universities and schools working together to foster creative thinking towards business, technology, and national development.

His welcoming project — which resulted in a series of strategies schools can use to ease transitions — is an antidote to that invisibility, and it provides tools schools can use to help orient other highly mobile student populations, like homeless children, foster children, or immigrants.

Nationwide, educators use Responsive Classroom strategies to foster safe, challenging, and joyful elementary classrooms and schools.

Their collaborative strategies help to foster new, more fruitful working relationships: between national and local government; between administrators and practitioners; within and between schools; and between schools and their local communities.

With this in mind, the strategies developed in Greater Manchester helped to foster new, more fruitful working relationships: within and between schools; between schools and their local communities; and between national and local government.

Once the eighth lowest - performing middle school in the state, Cochrane Collegiate reversed course and is swiftly raising student achievement by investing in research - based teaching strategies, enhancing teacher excellence, and fostering strong relationships.

The report cites yearly national exams, a new curriculum focused on learning results and a new data driven system of school evaluation as further strategies which fostered higher quality schools.

Find compassionate perspectives and evidence - based strategies to foster school environments that promote psychological well - being and support students experiencing behavioral, emotional, or social challenges.

Along with advice on how to foster a more positive relationship between disengaged students and sports programs, the ASC suggests schools consider these strategies to work at building students» excitement and connection with sport: allowing students to spend the full school day in their sport uniform; inclusion of some form of novelty in the program; and, allow opportunity for versatile aspects to a sports program, because some students might prefer to spend the time concentrating on personal fitness, while others are more interested in the social aspect of PE.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

KIPP teachers utilize a range of strategies (including restorative justice, trust circles, and peer mediators) to help foster a positive school culture and encourage children to develop self - control.

Is mutual trust part of Finland's national identity and if that's the case, how does that inform our thinking about the strategies US educators use to foster relational trust in schools back home?

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

Through a holistic approach to the challenges of leadership, it provides strategies to achieve a balance between tackling the many issues faced: from adapting to change to fostering a productive school culture to finding a vision that will guide the school for years to come.

We're not a charter school organization, or a blended learning organization, or a governance reform organization, but we think any strong harbormaster should have strategies dedicated to creating a vibrant charter sector, fostering blended learning pilots, and transforming outdated governance models.

In place of the practices above, states and districts can adopt strategies that foster efficiency at both the school and district level, such as adopting «activity - based cost» (ABC) accounting; empowering principals as school - level CEOs; adopting performance - based dollar distribution formulas and school - level financial budgeting; centralizing health insurance at the state level; and outsourcing operational services where proven to save money.

To that end, schools need strategies that foster a safe and supportive learning environment.

Teach strategies to foster emotional wellness among faculty and students as part of a healthy school climate.

Highland Park incorporated its own version of restorative circles in some classrooms and there's no doubt this strategy, when practiced effectively, can slowly restore the peace and trust schools must foster since they are the safe havens so many children look to for stability in their lives.

When advances in the neurosciences, social sciences and evidence - based instructional strategies are coupled with an understanding of ACEs, educators are in a better position to create school and classroom cultures, policies and procedures that foster a sense of belonging, trust, and support.

If candidates are exposed to high quality ELL content knowledge and leadership strategies then they will modify the school environment to foster ELL success.

What conditions (political, social, etc.) and strategies can districts and school networks pursue to foster the creation and spread of innovative, learner - centered models (learning environments / «schools») throughout their system?

Armed with a mandate to foster excellence and equity, Klein prioritized four strategies: establish the Three C's (centralized control stripped of bureaucratic inefficiencies; a coherent citywide curriculum; and capacity - building for teachers), dramatically expand school choice, empower principals by coupling increased autonomy with strict accountability, and catalyze innovation.

We use the Responsive Classroom Model ® and its Middle / High School counterpart, Developmental Designs, which provide an array of strategies designed to foster safe and positive learning communities where students are connected, responsible and engaged in learning.

Vanessa Gonzalez is the VP of Operations and Strategy at Education Forward DC, a local nonprofit that accelerates the work of visionary education leaders to foster a city of high - quality, equitable public schools for every DC student and family.

Programs and strategies designed to improve principals» ability to include teachers in decision making, foster positive school cultures, and create learning communities are particularly effective.

E4E teachers and Stone spoke passionately in favor of the non-exclusionary discipline strategies teachers have begun implementing in their schools to foster safer environments that support students» academic, social and emotional growth.

VDOE promotes, fosters and develops strategies, solutions and policies that support innovation in digital learning, student achievement and school and community partnerships by:

She is enthusiastic about connecting schools and youth development programs with research and strategies to foster engagement, social belonging, mindset, and other competencies that prepare youth for success in learning and in life.

To help attendees foster stronger relationships with community partners, they will learn about new NEA research on strategies to involve parents and communities in schools, a key reform strategy that is often ignored.

What we learned is that ExpandED Schools offers a powerful strategy for schools to advance their culture, foster healthy social and emotional development of young people, and promote academic prSchools offers a powerful strategy for schools to advance their culture, foster healthy social and emotional development of young people, and promote academic prschools to advance their culture, foster healthy social and emotional development of young people, and promote academic progress.

Learn specific strategies for leading instruction, valuing diversity, fostering a positive school culture, and communicating effectively with a variety of constituencies.

To foster and accelerate each learner's progress toward college and career readiness and success, schools must leverage individualized learning strategies for all students (National Center on Response to Intervention, 2010).

Experienced school leader and author William Sterrett offers strategies and examples for fostering teacher leadership, facilitating professional learning, and promoting «growing habits» to help translate key points into practical action steps.

It also offers educators tools and strategies for fostering communication and knowledge sharing, and bridging the divide between school and home.

In this engaging webinar, you'll learn from licensed mental health therapist Kristin Souers and veteran school principal Pete Hall, coauthors of Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma - Sensitive Classroom, about how to care for yourself, recharge when you need it most, and be on your A-game for your valuable and vulnerable students.

CCSSO supports school improvement in states by fostering a sense of urgency among chiefs that the SEA plays a central role in improving persistently low - performing schools, equipping all states with strategies and approaches to meet the needs of all children, and fast - tracking efforts in states who are willing to take bold, relentless action to address persistent low - performance.

Pilot programs and incubator initiatives offer states a way to incrementally foster and seriously support local efforts to redesign high school; they also help to identify challenges and successful strategies when it comes to implementing innovation beyond the idea stage.

Schools can enhance emotional wellness in children through early prevention efforts, appropriate assessment strategies, and an improved school climate to foster emotional growth for all children.

This year, Innovate kicked off a yearlong leadership development series to support Rocketship principals to foster the mindset, leadership skills, and school design strategies needed to ensure that their schools serve students exceptionally well from day one of the upcoming school year.

With five strands to help your team take advantage of the engaging, varied content, whether you're a teacher looking for strategies to foster social emotional intelligence; a school leader creating effective partnerships; an administrator assessing the effectiveness of your brand; or a board member hoping to diversify your fundraising strategy.

Following each training session, supports are provided to districts so that, at the end of the training, participants will know how to: • Determine a school's greatest area of need (GAN) • Write a SMART school - improvement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaschool's greatest area of need (GAN) • Write a SMART school - improvement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaschool - improvement goal • Use SMART targets for progress monitoring • Use a variety of templates and graphic organizers to foster collaboration in their districts and schools • Lead the SMART School Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaSchool Improvement Process • Support schools in the development of action plans for carrying out school - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaschool - wide improvement strategies • Coach teams and individuals in the use of SMART tools, templates and methods • Facilitate job - embedded professional learning The cost of the year - long training is $ 3,200 per participant and includes materials, training and coaching.

Co-authors, Karin Sprow Forté, D.Ed., and Denise G. Meister, Ph.D highlight school based strategies which include: providing dedicated time for collaboration, creating a culture and context for collaboration, and using professional learning to foster collaboration.