Sentences with phrase «student body of children»

She began her career at an elementary school, where she provided individual and group play therapy to a diverse student body of children ranging from the ages of 4 - 11.

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The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been criticised by Muslim and secular leaders for choosing Judaism instead of Islam, given that the latter is the second largest religion in the UK after Christianity, and that Muslim children can form up to 90 percent of the student body in some Catholic schools in Britain.

«By teaching [students] that this «gender identity» is their «authentic self,» disassociated from the body, we are actively training children into a state of «gender dysphoria» as the normal,» Davies Arai states on her blog, Transgender Trend.

If you have never seen the eyes of a student looking to you for hope as life seeps from their body or sat with a mother asking God why her child is gone — why her child had to die — I doubt you will understand the pain and the effect of what guns are doing on the streets of Chicago.

Qualified child nutrition professionals will provide students with access to a variety of affordable, nutritious, and appealing foods that will meet the health and nutrition needs of students; will accommodate the religious, ethnic and cultural diversity of the student body in meal planning; and will provide clean, safe, allergy aware and pleasant settings with adequate time for students to eat.

08.23.2012 Healthy Vending & Removal of Junk Food in Schools Linked to Healthy Weight in Children A recent study finds that students in schools with stronger junk food restrictions are more likely to be at healthier body weights.

Dr. Eichler: The most favorite parts of the job are: 1) making new discoveries and contributing to the body of scientific knowledge especially as it relates to the evolution of our species, 2) seeing students mature into independent scientists as well as helping to launch new independent research careers, and 3) seeing your work directly benefit families who are struggling to understand their children's illness.

Slowly, slowly, a small but persuasive body of work is emerging which raises curriculum to an object of pressing concern for educators, and expresses long overdue appreciation for the idea that the instructional materials we put in front of children actually matter to student outcomes.

Teaching children to read is central to a teacher's calling, but a large body of evidence shows that teachers get weak training in individual learning differences and in teaching reading to students with diverse backgrounds and abilities.

Myers, who is not a member of Pillar of Fire, said Eden Grove, which once had a mainly white student body, draws children almost exclusively from the nearby neighborhood — in part, because the transportation schedule that Cincinnati Public Schools offers isn't convenient for students living farther away.

So much so that a minimum of 15 per cent of the student body is reserved for orphans and children with limited physical capabilities.

District staff members started the process by measuring the body mass index (BMI) for all students in kindergarten through eighth grade, a total of 17,000 children, except for second graders, between September and November of 2004.

A large body of research indicates that the type of television content children watch is a truer determinant of students» future academic success than the amount of time they spend watching.

Philanthropic foundations that support education causes are interested in serving as many poor and minority children as possible; when 30 % to 40 % of a student body is made up of white or affluent students, the school is deemed suspect, as reform - minded foundations see such programs as «wasting» a third of their seats.

With the recent emphasis that has been placed on the importance of early childhood education, Tominey's body of work helps educators understand how they can truly take advantage of this essential period in childhood development to cultivate emotional skills that can help young children turn into successful students.

Supporters of choice claim that parents look mainly for the best academic opportunity for their children; critics charge that parents will just as often search for a school on the basis of ethnic, religious, or ideological preferences, the quality of the sports program, or how blue the student body's blood is.

Should schools with student bodies primarily from low - income families spend less on the education of those children than is spent on the education of other students in the same school district?

Parents and children across the nation would be fortunate indeed if the Administration and Congress were to adopt a federal tax credit because it would facilitate access to a quality education for another 1 million students — most of whom will graduate and go on to college as the body of research into these programs clearly demonstrates.

The students will be offered reading lists, and website links for multicultural books, suggested ideas for family outreach initiatives, multicultural learning strategies within the classroom, challenging inner biases and / or stereotypes about children from other cultures, getting to know the whole child, understanding the cultural family dynamic of your students, and learning to adapt the classroom to the needs of your diverse body of students, etc..

As a start - up public charter school sponsored by the SC Public Charter School District, LLCS will serve school - aged children living in rural West Ashley, surrounding communities, and neighboring counties, and as such, have a potential student body reflective of the demographic character of the region thus bringing back the neighborhood school concept.

In her first year as principal at Harvard Elementary in 2012 - 13, Aisha McCarthy was confronted with a school failing to meet No Child Left Behind standards, more than 96 percent of the student body coming from low - income households and a shocking 11 percent of students currently homeless.

To sum up, a massive body of evidence says that reading and mathematics achievement have strong ties to underlying intellectual ability, that we do not know how to change intellectual ability after children reach school, and that the quality of schooling within the normal range of schools does not have much effect on student achievement.

A school is supposed to nurture children's intellectual growth — that is, to promote students» increasing command of significant bodies of knowledge and key cognitive skills.

In the decade since Katrina, New Orleans» teaching force has dropped from 71 percent black to 49 percent black, according to Tulane University's Education Research Alliance — in a city where black children are 85 percent of the student body.

The group that will be most affected by the transfer from one authority, the RSD, to another, the OPSB, are the nearly 90 % of the city's children that makeup the charter school's student body.

As a Latinx parent with school age children in Boston, I think it's disheartening that Latinos account for four times more of the student body than they do of the teaching force.

A huge body of research shows that parental involvement in a child's education results in higher student achievement, both academically and behaviorally.

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Research shows that the movement of these children from a low SES school to a higher SES school in Australia undermines the «quality» (cultural and social capital) of the remaining student body in the low SES school.

the body of work «paries pictus», running till the 16th of march, 2013, is the result of a collaboration with students participating in a non profit program called «time in», which connects children in the city to its cultural network of galleries, operas, and museums.

Made on stretched canvases, works like Mother and Child (2016), with its horizon line and eclipsed celestial bodies, have a strong relationship to landscape (a genre that greatly interested the artist in his student years at the Rhode Island School of Design), as well as to the modular paintings, with their strong geometric forms painted and primary colors.

A significant aspect of the partnership program is to involve the entire student body of each partner school in annual programs that focus on a specific theme particularly relevant to children, explored in the Kidspace exhibition.

In addition to seeing clients at the Wayzata office she is in partnership with Hope Academy in South Minneapolis where she provides individual, family and parent child guidance to the student body in order to navigate both the world within the context of school as well as their family and community.

Our scope and reach covers peak bodies including consumer groups (such as the Country Women's Association of Australia and the Isolated Children's Parents» Association), the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health sector, health professional organisations (representing doctors, nurses and midwives, allied health professionals, dentists, pharmacists, optometrists, paramedics, health students, and health service managers) and service providers (such as the Royal Flying Doctor Service).

A recent study of 10th - graders at a Vancouver high school found that students who spent an hour a week helping children in after - school programs over 10 weeks had lower levels of inflammation and cholesterol, plus a lower body - mass index.