Sentences with phrase «support of the whole child»

Such a council would focus national attention on children and highlight the need for educators and noneducators alike to come together in support of the whole child.

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Regardless of what the drug companies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), or your child's physician says, not only is there no firm scientific data to support that widespread contention, but the whole concept is irrational.

Whole Kids commits 1 % of sales to a non-profit organisation called One Percent for Our Kids to help fund and support projects and programmes to improve the health, environment and social equity of children.

In addition to helping a child grow socially and emotionally, teachers have the freedom to create an individualized plan for supporting the growth of the whole child, including his or her educational advancement.

Our method educates the whole child through a rich and meaningful, age - related curriculum devoting lots of time to play, being out in nature, incorporating a vibrant arts curriculum, and supporting core academics with integrated subject classes.

TRCCS is guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education and supports the development of the whole child.

Reposted with permission by: Dawn UndurragaMore whole grains, beans, fruits and vegetables will be on the menu for 31 million children who participate in the federally - supported National School Lunch Program (USDA Food and Nutrition Services) under new nutrition standards announced Wednesday with the hearty support of First Lady Michelle Obama.

Professional school counselors are more equipped than ever to support the development of the whole child.

Understanding what's really going on may make it easier to support your child and cope with the effects of bed - wetting on the whole family.

AGCI's standard of holistic, family - like orphan care and commitment to supporting birth families, has informed Bulgaria's goal of drastically reducing the number of children in institutions as a whole.

Support the growth of the whole child across emotional, social, physical, and cognitive domains to ensure the development of strong, confident, life - long learners.

CHALK seeks to support the development of the whole child across emotional, social, physical, and cognitive domains.

Leon Hoffman, MD, co-director of the Pacella Parent Child Center of The New York Psychoanalytic Society, adds that such treatment should focus on providing more social support for the whole family.

You may have to support your child through the reaction of others at school, but all along you will be demonstrating your celebration of your child's whole being.

In many large centers the medical team is supported by clinical directors or chiefs of the NICU who may not have direct care of your child at all times but who work with the entire team of neonatologists as well as the nurse managers to oversee the general operations of the whole unit.

Children stumble into their often unrequested roles as the older child and sibling; partners adjust to their roles as parents and your support system; grandparents enter into a whole new stage in life as parents of parents; and friends learn to be with you in a different time of your life.

«We have over 18,000 families, 42,000 children, that need to be communicated on a regular basis in a whole host of languages other than English, to make sure they're aware of where they can go to get ongoing support.»

«In addition to INSIGHTS» focus on individual children's strengths and needs, our study illustrates the importance of understanding and supporting classrooms as a whole at the transition to formal schools,» said McClowry, professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and the study's senior author.

Teachers in middle and junior high schools may differ as well, both in their knowledge of whole child development and their experience of professional support and satisfaction.

Season, a nutritional therapy practitioner, is the founder of KICK cancER, an organization that educates and empowers parents to shore up their children's health with dietary advice — emphasizing real, whole foods — and methods to support the health and quality of life of their children.

Additionally, offering a child simple, easy to digest, whole, non-processed foods accompanied by small amounts of food herbs and spices (thyme, ginger, licorice, chamomile), will strengthen and support a weak digestive system and keep mucus production and inflammation at a minimum.

Soon «The Pee - Wee Herman Show» became a nightclub act unto itself; this multi-layered skewing of the whole children's entertainment ethic included a huge supporting cast, deliberately repulsive puppets, bizarre props, and, of course, Pee - Wee himself, who cavorted about the set like a baby speed freak.

Braff plays Aidan (a strange name choice, perhaps, considering the film's focus on his Jewish roots), an out - of - work actor whose wife, Sarah (Kate Hudson), is barely supporting the whole family with her dreary dead - end job, and whose children, Grace (Joey King) and Tucker (Pierce Gagnon), are about to be booted from their yeshiva for non-payment.

Key recommendations for government in the report that won API support were: for play to be embedded within a Whole Child Strategy under the aegis of a Cabinet Minister for Children responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prChildren responsible for cross ‑ departmental roll out and co-ordination; for government to require local authorities to prepare children and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren and young people's plans including strategies to address overweight and obesity with its physical, mental and emotional consequences; for funding for play to be ring - fenced within local authority budgets; to address barriers to outdoor play for children of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play prchildren of all ages and abilities; to extend the Sport England Primary Spaces and Sport Premium programmes to all schools with a broader scope to incorporate a wide variety of physical literacy activities including play; to communicate through public information campaigns to parents and families the value of active outdoor play, including risk or benefit assessment; and to improve public sector procurement practice for public play provision.

In there, we had a whole section on why schools must be at the very heart of the strategy — and why they need the right support to help every child eat well.

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.

«Just to repeat the main message: we are committed to the development of the whole child, and we have strong programs to support students» development across all learning areas, and the areas that are often not formally assessed actually promote a school's character.»

With the support of a flock of community allies ranging from Boston Children's Hospital to the Whole Foods grocery chain, the Boston Public Schools district is helping parents select and enroll in local schools through a program called Countdown to Kindergarten.

Part of the whole school approach is ensuring that if someone has successfully supported a child through mental issues they share what they did and what worked with the rest of the staff.

At the same time, the Foundation will support the Center in developing play as a new area of focus that will center on the impact of play, whole child development and skills that are important for lifelong learning.

7) Both parents and the public as a whole remain supportive of testing and opposed to policies that would allow parents to withhold their children from state test - taking, but support for parental opt - out has gained ground among teachers.

Because the instruction via the mini-lesson is whole group, conferences with individual learners or small groups of students prove to be essential so that each child's needs are supported and developed.

Children must understand how language links with symbols because children sometimes understand that there are a whole number of words that they should say when they see a certain symbol but they don't know how to construct the mathematical words — i.e when adding and using the word «more» — when thinking about a context of I've got three «more than» Jane and she's got 8» — mathematical images supporting undersChildren must understand how language links with symbols because children sometimes understand that there are a whole number of words that they should say when they see a certain symbol but they don't know how to construct the mathematical words — i.e when adding and using the word «more» — when thinking about a context of I've got three «more than» Jane and she's got 8» — mathematical images supporting underschildren sometimes understand that there are a whole number of words that they should say when they see a certain symbol but they don't know how to construct the mathematical words — i.e when adding and using the word «more» — when thinking about a context of I've got three «more than» Jane and she's got 8» — mathematical images supporting understanding.

«We will improve attainment of children in poverty only by supporting the whole family.

This resource is a mixture of Quiz Quiz Trade cards to help support children's knowledge of adding and subtracting fractions with a common denominator, converting between improper fractions and whole numbers, multiplying a fraction by a whole number, identifying whether a number is prime or composite, converting between Roman numerals and Arabic numbers, and converting between different units of measurement (mm, cm, m and km).

Wraparound services will get a boost — hopefully for the sake of learning ESSA also presents a chance for states to double down on wraparound services that support whole child health and well - being.

As reported by Schools Week, they will be in charge of coordinating support within schools, helping children access specialist therapies and NHS treatment, and developing a «whole - school approach» to mental health and wellbeing.

Failing that, we would deal, before these children ever get to school, with at least some of the symptoms, with decent health and dental care, nutrition programs, food support, the whole long list of material things that are missing in these children's lives.

Despite the success of the School Food Plan, schools continue to need ongoing support, access to finance and time to improve the whole experience of food for children in school, and create an environment that enables healthy habits.

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

Working in partnership with established school partners with a successful track record in using Achievement for All programmes to support student progress and whole school improvement, the Trust's activities will be informed by a deep - rooted mission and set of aims that will drive school improvement, develop professionals, improve outcomes for children and young people as well as enhancing inclusion and social mobility.

Neither teachers nor the public as a whole express much support for the practice of mainstreaming emotionally or behaviorally disabled children.

Becky Ballbach, director of student support services, and Catherine Matthews, director of assessment and research, will share how educators in Everett are coming together on their journey to support the whole child.

«We support the report's call for children and young people's mental health to become a higher priority across the whole of government.

Supporting the whole child is at the core of our mission and everything we do at ASCD.

And what I'm wondering is: If you're elected president, will you support and fund the sorts of initiatives that Reconnecting McDowell is there for, that the Coalition for Community Schools supports, and the American Federation of Teachers nationally — the wraparound services, the things that address the whole child needs, that keep students from coming to school prepared to learn?

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, ensuring that teachers are viewed as professionals who are valued and listened to by policy makers and society as a whole is absolutely essential to the health of the profession and the schools and children it supports.

As a result of our focus on supporting children and families, Magnolia was recognized as the 2015 ASCD Whole Child Award recipient.

A central goal of the Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids (CAP4K) is to support the needs of the whole child, which includes social and emotional competencies such as 21st century skills, critical - thinking, problem - solving, communication, collaboration, social and cultural awareness, initiative, self - direction, and character.

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