Sentences with phrase «supporting school conversations»

Her more recent work included supporting school conversations to create and develop smaller learning communities and small autonomous schools to better prepare young people for life after school.

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Instead, our role as Christian leaders within the community can be to actively engage in conversations around education equity issues like accountability, state vision, and transparency and accessibility in reporting so parents and community leaders alike have the needed information to know how to best support strengthening local schools.

NEWTOWN — In 2 1/2 hours of conversations with teachers from Sandy Hook Elementary School Tuesday, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said the major concern that emerged is the need to ensure that adequate mental health and support services will be available for the community in the future.

«We see our materials as part of an ongoing conversation — beginning with back - to - school, followed by the parent - teacher conference, and continuing throughout the year — the goal of which is to support a kid's success in and out of school.»

To support their in - school approaches, last year these principals participated in a program of semi-structured conversations to reflect on how they considered their approaches were or were not working, and why.

The support materials that XQ provided — 13 «knowledge modules» and 250 resources that XQ curated for participants — resulted from conversations with school design teams that were competing to win XQ's approval.

Homework offers parents insight into what their children are learning, provides opportunities to talk with children about their learning, and helps create conversations with school communities about ways to support student learning (Walker et al., 2004).

As reports of harassment at schools have gained new prominence, faculty and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education have been working on projects to support educators and students — strategies to build empathy, encourage conversation across difficult topics, and protect vulnerable students.

ACHPER also recognises that educators and schools may be immersed in the «Literacy and Numeracy» conversation and pressures brought to bear by NAPLAN and the impact that this may have on decisions in regards to timetabling support for HPE.

As national conversations turn toward reframing the traditional school day and year, there remains much to be gleaned from 10 years of research and evaluation about what works to support student learning and success.

The announcement comes as education bodies, schools, teachers and parents continue to put the need for extra disability support in the classroom at the centre of the conversation.

School technology integration specialist Adam Steiner (@steineredtech) shares 10 things parents should know about tech and kids, including those important conversations about cyberbullying, setting guidelines about screen time, and how kids can support their parents» digital literacy!

A «Walking the Talk» conversation with the former president of Morehouse College on the role of HBCUs and how schools can better support and prepare black boys

What is new is the technology that can now support this kind of analysis, and in my conversation with Sahlberg this month, we discussed the latest issues and opportunities surrounding school - based formative assessments.

Parents support sex education in schools and want to be a part of the conversation.

Conversations such as «Bullying and Students With Disabilities,» «Please Call Me Jason: Supporting Our Transgender Students,» and «Don't Ask, Don't Tell in Our Schools» are good places to start.

These conversations and informal support strategies provide an opportunity for us to build the capacity of mentors, supervisors and school leaders to support early career teacher wellbeing.

«We meet with what's called a School Improvement Advisor and a School Support Consultant, myself as Director and the Team Leader of Teaching and Learning, and we have a 15 minute conversation around one of those schools that we think is worthy of a conversation.

This is highly relevant to the conversation about aspiration - building in middle and high school, helping students see there is support and they shouldn't rule themselves out when they see tuition that's more than their family income.»

The campaign is designed to facilitate deliberate conversations and strong, meaningful actions on the efforts to bolster our schools to best support the students they serve.

Get your school involved with the free online curriculum titled «The We Will Generation,» designed to encourage student - to - student conversation to educate, inspire, and support peers to create kinder and safer schools.

Given the public conversation about bias and injustice — especially recently — several prominent national education organizations including the NEA, AERA, NCTE and AFT have called for addressing equity in schools and society, specifically recommending that educators and school leaders «receive the tools, training, and support they need to build curricula with substantive exploration of prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination.»

A key component of the campaign includes fostering conversations and strong actions to allow schools to provide the best support to students.

We support schools to have the conversations that matter, to create a common purpose and to make wise decisions using Deep Democracy, Storytelling and a range of traditional and innovative facilitation methods.

SPACE: Thoughts, Ideas, Hacks on Learning Space Design by Rebecca Louise Hare and Robert Dillon supports the conversation around this necessary revolution happening in education concerning reshaping school spaces to better support learning.

The data dashboard is intended to support conversations about district - wide and school - level performance over time based on leading and lagging indicators.

He also spoke of his desire to see council education staff set up and run multi-academy trusts, but said conversations would have to happen «quite soon», with primary schools that looked to local authorities for support facing a change in that relationship as a result of forced academisation.

Much of this conversation has centered around Devos» controversial past as a supporter, lobbyist and financial donor to causes that directly support school choice and school vouchers, and how she might further this cause as the next education secretary.

In a later conversation, Jeffries also said he supports standardized testing over «five million teachers doing their own thing,» which would seem to be at odds with his belief that schools need to celebrate and uphold marginalized students.

Continuous support has been provided for district leaders as well — with the consultant and through ongoing conversations that allow the team to revise or adjust plans based on their observations in the schools.

We supported our colleague, engaging her in role - plays and conversation until she felt prepared to return to Ms. Garcia's school and effectively coach the principal toward a different practice.

«This brief is intended to serve as a tangible resource for practitioners seeking to ensure that their efforts — are based in research and targeted in ways that will produce the most positive outcomes for students — particularly given limited program resources,» said IHEP President Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D. «With the prevalence and positive impact of mentoring generating a large body of social science research, IHEP and NCAN believe it's important to make meaningfully contributions to the existing conversation about mentoring to help support students along the high school - to - college continuum, and ultimately improve student outcomes and completion rates.»

This is a critical moment for the city to stand up and support people like Dr. Perry who are unafraid to speak truth to power and have tough conversations about the urgent need to improve Buffalo schools so that every child can get a great education.

Bowman Elementary School, Lexington This project will allow for developing supports to implement academic conversation skills and strategies in K - 3 classrooms.

Noted Eroles, «Not all parents have the flexibility to volunteer at school, but they have time to motivate their children and have conversations about their learning that support academic success.»

This award acknowledges those schools that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child, making sure each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

With support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the meeting offered two days of conversation and reflection on the rationale for a new schools strategy, emerging evidence on its viability and the challenges grant - makers need to confront to support successful new schools initiatives.

Cohen points out that he's hearing more conversation about the importance of moving away from purely top - down, state - led policies to policies that support bottom - up solutions from local school systems.

But, admitted Berg, she worked to improve the ASD bill behind the scenes because she wants to be involved in any conversation that could support low - performing schools.

A conversation and some time spent with the principal observing how he or she interacts with people, what kinds of questions they ask and what they value provides evidence of whether they will accept coaching support and trust me to work with them in the school.

Rebecca Midles, executive director of performance - based systems at School District 51, said that early conversations in the district centered on making sure students feel safe and supported.

While the shifting of responsibilities and teams always has sensitivities and challenges, we have worked through these conversations with an overriding goal of determining the right team structures to best support success for our teachers, our school leaders and our kids.

Struggles and triumphs are all part of the conversation at this annual conference by NSVF, a venture philanthropy that supports education reform and puts on a conference filled with networking, internal debates and plenty of soul searching about what is working in schools.

We've worked with the the Albertson Foundation to get grant support to Grace Lutheran high school in Pocatello, and we're having conversations with the Catholic Diocese about possibly supporting the first new Catholic elementary school in the Treasure Valley in 50 years, St. Ignatius, in Meridian.

The Florida Center for Reading Research, for example, recently published guides to help staff at the state and local levels assemble teams, identify evidence - based programs and strategies, have informed conversations about the evidence supporting various options, and collaborate in their overall efforts to improve schools.

«With uncertainty dominating conversations about the future of American education policy, it is an honor to serve in this role and work with NASSP to provide school leadership with the knowledge, tools, and support they need to ensure the success of all students.»

«Principal leadership is critical in establishing and supporting school cultures that enable conversations geared toward improving teaching and learning.»

I will engage in conversations with people all over the state involved in educational training, policy and support, and will count as an ally anyone who cares enough about schools to have an opinion.

The Advocate Guest column: School choice data doesn't reflect classroom reality As school choice continues to gain support, we must broaden the conversation about effectiveness to include more than scores, and we must seek access to more data that can help us determine not just how students are performing in math and reading, but what effect expanding educational options has on them beyond graduSchool choice data doesn't reflect classroom reality As school choice continues to gain support, we must broaden the conversation about effectiveness to include more than scores, and we must seek access to more data that can help us determine not just how students are performing in math and reading, but what effect expanding educational options has on them beyond graduschool choice continues to gain support, we must broaden the conversation about effectiveness to include more than scores, and we must seek access to more data that can help us determine not just how students are performing in math and reading, but what effect expanding educational options has on them beyond graduation.

Redwood City School District in CA has posted resources for teachers to support students on collaborative conversations.