Sentences with phrase «serving more children learning»

Today's early childhood educators are serving more children learning English as a second language than ever — in Head Start alone, nearly 30 % of the children speak a language other than English at home.

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This leads him to his key point: «Let us make no mistake; the data we now have at hand should serve as a dire warning: Unless we act decisively, many of today's converts will be one - generation Jews — Jews with non-Jewish parents and non-Jewish children,» But Sarna concludes on a note that most Jews would find more hopeful: «Learned Jews and non-Jews have been making dire predictions about the future (or end) of the Jewish people for literally thousands of years — long before William Wirt and long after him — and, as we have seen, their predictions have proved consistently wrong.

Educare, which serves more than 3,000 children at its 21 centers, is intended primarily as a demonstration that even highly disadvantaged children can enter kindergarten ready to learn — but that in order to achieve that goal, they will need early interventions that are intensive (not to mention expensive).

Learn more about healthy trends in school cafeterias, statistics on children served by school meal programs and the details on national school nutrition standards.

Local nonprofit organizations, churches, summer camps and other groups that serve Cherokee County children in need are invited to attend the meeting at 2 p.m. on Feb. 28 at the School Nutrition Office to learn more.

In addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Cloud.

With more than 25 years serving the community, Big & Little is a great place for your child to learn, grow and make friends.

As you learned earlier, children burn fat more efficiently than adults, and it appears that during exercise, this increased fat oxidation serves as a mechanism to stop any drop in blood glucose.

On the other hand, love serves to create a bond between two people for long enough to raise a child (if you want to learn more about Fisher and her work, check out our in - depth interview with her here).

High - stakes accountability with annual tests that are not tied to course content (which reading tests are not) amounted to a tax on good things and a subsidy for bad practice: curriculum narrowing, test preparation, and more time spent on a «skills and strategies» approach to learning that doesn't serve children well.

Instead, it's an experience serving as a powerful reminder that children have enough creative momentum to propel their learning, if we can tap into it more and more.

AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School, a pre-K — only charter school that serves more than 800 students on eight campuses, has used its flexibility — as well as a federal Investing in Innovation grant — to develop an integrated model that combines evidence - based curriculum, early childhood assessments, and aligned professional development to help teachers deliver effective instruction focused on improving children's language and social - emotional skills.

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Creating more high - quality early learning slots is also an opportunity to serve young children with disabilities in these programs.

Another major hurdle in bringing vouchers to rural communities is that the public schools are more than just places for children to learn: they serve a critical social and economic function by serving as the primary employer of small communities, offering healthcare for children and adults alike and frequently offering food pantries, breakfast or lunch programs and night classes.

Donald serves as chairman of the Center for Youth and Family Investment, which provides extended learning programs to more than 2,000 children daily.

Our current location's bigger and brighter classrooms allow us to serve more children in the neighborhood, and create a positive and comfortable learning environment for all of our students.

Through a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, Nexus STEM Academy Principal Tonya Randall and the Gestalt Academic Team are working with Transcend Education to take our educational model to the next level through innovation, going beyond individualized learning to an even more personalized approach that serves the whole child.

«As one example, the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program that supports out - of - school time learning has served more than 10 million children across 10,000 centers in the past five years, who would be stripped of this access under this proposed budgetLearning Centers program that supports out - of - school time learning has served more than 10 million children across 10,000 centers in the past five years, who would be stripped of this access under this proposed budgetlearning has served more than 10 million children across 10,000 centers in the past five years, who would be stripped of this access under this proposed budget.»

Excerpts from his piece appear below: One of the things that has really impressed us about the schools serving very vulnerable children in East Asia is their Read more about Social and Emotional Learning from an International Perspective -LSB-...]

As used in this paragraph, a «Covered Borrower» means any person who, at the time such person becomes obligated on a loan transaction or establishes an account for consumer credit, satisfies the requirements under any one or more of the following classifications, or is otherwise under applicable laws deemed to be a «Covered Borrower» under the Military Lending Act, 10 U.S. Code Section 987: (a) An active duty member of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force or Coast Guard, or a person serving on active Guard and Reserve duty (a person described in this clause (a) of the definition of «Covered Borrower» is hereinafter referred to as a «Service Member»); or (b) Any of the following persons, relative to a Service Member: (1) The spouse; (2) A child under the age of 21; or (3) If dependent on the Service Member for more than one half of such person's support, any one or more of the following persons: (i) A child under the age of 23 enrolled in a full time course of study at an institution of higher learning; (ii) A child of any age incapable of self support due to a mental or physical incapacity that occurred before attaining age 23 while such person was dependent on the Service Member; (iii) Any unmarried person placed in legal custody of the Service Member who resides with such Service Member unless separated by military service or to receive institutional care or under other circumstances covered by Regulation; or (iv) A parent or parent - in - law residing in the Service Member's household.

Having a tiny house as a dedicated space for learning and studying could help to keep the kids (and their parents) more focused during homeschool, and may serve as a way to make it more exciting for the children.

Learning more about this framework and how to incorporate the protective factors into their work can help family - serving providers do more to support and strengthen families, while simultaneously reducing the likelihood of child abuse and neglect.

Not only will it increase the number of children served, but it will also provide more equitable access to early learning programs across the country.

We are deeply committed to expanding and sustaining home visiting services in our state, and we're thrilled to work with Third Sector Capital to explore Pay for Success as a way to serve more children and families,» said Bette Hyde, director of the state Department of Early Learning.

While serving as a starting point for guiding the developmentally appropriate integration of digital tools in early childhood programs, the statement notes that more research needs to be done on the impact of technology, especially newer technologies, on children's learning and development, but there are ways in which educators can utilize what is known about more traditional media platforms to make smart media choices regarding new media devices.

There have been more than 450 downloads of NEAR@Home since it launched in early March from providers, agencies and organizations that serve families not only in the early learning space, but also in health, child welfare, and research and policy development.

Our Head Start network expands to serve more children and families with high - quality early learning.

Helps children learn to see more clearly the patterns of the mind, and to recognize that falling into anxious overanalysis or depressive rumination is often fueled by strong emotions, which serves only to increase the child's emotional and behavioral problems

After learning more about blogging and reflecting on how I can best serve readers of this blog, I've decided to direct posts to parents of children in Grade 4 through 7 who are reluctant readers or readers who need support to progress and keep up with their peers.

Today, Acelero Learning serves nearly 4,500 young children and families in Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the country and children in their Head Start programs make outcome gains at more than twice national averages.

In pursuit of their mission to positively affect the broader Head Start community, Acelero Learning's Training and Technical Assistance division disseminates the practices that they developed and tested in their Head Start programs to over 125 Head Start programs serving more than 100,000 children nationwide.

All of the Shine Early Learning tools and approaches were developed, implemented, and refined at Acelero Learning, a high - performing Head Start and Early Head Start program serving more than 4,400 children across the nation.

Acelero Learning currently serves more than 5,000 children and families in our Head Start centers in four states.

We currently serve more than 5,000 children and families in four states in our Acelero Learning Head Start centers.