Sentences with phrase «teachers and school staff about»

Educate teachers and school staff about all types of diversity: racial, blended families, adoption and more.

Not exact matches

Generalizing about the region, Filatoy and Lunkin write of a rare phenomenon in the Orthodox Church: its «cooperation with the intelligentsia, university teachers, writers, artists and museum staff and widespread involvement of teachers in the work of Sunday schools.

Every one that I met — the assistant principal, the school foodservice staff, the afterschool teachers, parents and children — was enthusiastic about the hot supper meals.

Two major differences that parents, teachers, other school staff, private school representatives, and the kids need to know about are:

The toolkit continues with fact sheets addressing common questions about breakfast in the classroom, as well as a brief breakdown of the roles of various stakeholders; teachers, as well as custodians and school nutrition staff.

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About 3,000 teachers and school - based staff have already been laid off this summer because of school closings and cuts to individual school budgets.

Also, be sure to let teachers and school staff know about your child's needs so the school environment can be adapted if needed.

In fact, some teachers and school staff worry so deeply about the negative impact of AP courses and feel so strongly that it thwarts their ability to develop deep thinkers and engaged learners, they've dropped their AP program in favor of home grown honors / advanced courses that are not affiliated with AP testing...

Clark Creek ES STEM Academy Principal Joey Moss, left, and Assistant Principal Susan Bruno speak with teachers and staff about the upcoming school year and present each with a school spirit wear cap.

But are high schools — most of which have had to lay off teachers and staff because of budget cutbacks and are struggling to boost academic scores to keep up with new legislation — the best place to teach kids about marriage?

Baronness Buscombe, a Conservative peer, said the Deputy Prime Minister was being hypocritical by raising concerns about free schools and their staff when he was most likely taught by «brilliant» unqualified teachers as a child.

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer said in a letter that he's heard from many parents from all three schools concerned about whether «their school will be demolished imminently,» and «where the DOE will send students, teachers and staff whose buildings it has torn down,» and that these unanswered questions have created «significant anxiety.»

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Equally, they will change staff and they will change teachers, but it's about improving the capability of the school, or it might be that they realise that the school is too large for its community and it needs to be reduced.

Our enrollment continued to grow, students gave positive feedback about their experiences, teachers continued to build out a curriculum that is aligned to our school competencies, case management and holistic service provision kicked in, and staff culture has been positive.

In surveys with 300 New York City public school teachers that included an open - ended question about the largest threat to school safety, the most common response was a lack of cohesive culture and positive relationships between staff and students.

The survey which questioned over 1,000 teachers, lecturers, support staff and leaders in schools and colleges across the UK about behavioural issues, provides conclusive proof that this is something that can not be ignored.

In Collaboration, feedback and a growth mindset Teacher Editor Jo Earp spoke to Associate Professor Jane Mitchell and Dr Sara Murray about a project that involved academics partnering with school leaders and staff to develop feedback strategies that promote a growth mindset in students.

Weimer merged with another school, which added 25 staff members and about 250 students to the building, and teachers had spent time in the summer planning for the consolidation.

In partnership with CLG, the West Clermont team came to recognize that an effective and sustainable reform plan could come about only if it was initiated by those doing the school's work at the ground level, namely, teachers and administrative staff.

At the center is the National Strategies Group for school improvement (about 300 staff members); at each of the nine regions are regional strategies group; in each of the 150 local authorities are the local authority strategies group; and then at each school there is a team made up of the headmaster, parents, teachers and local business leaders.

Superintendent William A. Anton last week proposed shortening the school year from 180 to 163 days beginning next fall in an effort to save the district about $ 160 million in staff and teacher salaries and other costs.

The recommendations covered raising schools» staff awareness about the opportunities offered by outdoor education, DfEs and other agencies developing teachers» confidence in an outdoor context, the need for enhanced participation in outdoor education and the need for connecting students» outdoor learning with the curriculum.

So, you just sit down and visit or go out and purposefully talk about anything other than school, school kids, teachers, staff members, test scores.

We believe that decisions about assigning teachers and other school staff to workspaces should be deliberate, with leaders explicitly taking into account the important role of physical proximity to influence who will be talking to whom about teaching and learning.

Current users of the book have said: «this is groundbreaking stuff... so simple and so powerful...», «I feel stronger because I know what to ask about the evidence... any evidence», «my primary colleagues love this book... now we bounce off each other and have become a great school», «Dr Slater is a real living teacher and I think a modern day maverick... as soon as I hear words like «the evidence says...» I use what I got from this book...» «I want the best from my students, my staff and myself and....

When you complained to school staff about these things, they said it was critical that Rainey not see any light between mom and teacher.

Our analysis finds that physical proximity predicts staff interactions, with teachers and school leaders more likely to interact about instruction with colleagues who are located physically close to them or with whom they are likely to cross paths during the school day.

The first two districts received about 30 applications per position last year in previously hard - to - staff schools — making sustainably higher pay and increased planning time good not just for teachers, but for districts, too.

We adults (principal, counselor, teachers, support staff, and parents) asked ourselves two key questions about our readiness to help the children formulate and follow school - wide rules:

When decision making about resources, chiefly personnel, is decentralized to the school level, the principal and other site - based leaders can further their improvement efforts by hiring teachers and staff with qualifications that match the school's needs.

In 2000, WHEA became the state's first charter public high school and now has a student population of 131, a staff of 15, including eight teachers, and about 15 volunteer mentors.

Smith continued: «I would encourage teachers to visit a farm park for themselves, experience it and talk to the farm park staff about school visits, most farm parks will offer free teacher visits.

Hurse, a Lead Teacher at the school, says program staff realised early on that it wasn't just about attendance and education — there were also health, housing and cultural issues that needed to be addressed.

In his blog The Elephant In The (Staff) Room — Why We Need To Talk About Teacher Wellbeing (The Huffington Post, 14th March 2017), Nick Haisman - Smith, Chief Executive at Family Links and the Nurturing Schools Network, makes the point that «it is impossible to support the social and emotional health of young people, if we as teachers do not attend to our own emotional health».

Dressed simply in a light blue oxford — no tie, no sports coat — Gates spoke off the cuff for about five minutes to the small gathering, which also included Ed School staff and students, many of them former TFA teachers.

E-DART works in real time to provide teachers and support staff with precise and immediate information about individuals but over time has allowed the school to stop firefighting and, by analysing the data, identify and understand potential «hotspots» and change the way the school operates.

These sessions should not only make teachers and other staff members aware of school policies but should also help to ensure they are knowledgeable about recent changes in applicable rules.

K — 12 schooling already employs a large number of school - based personnel who are not teachers; support staff (including aides, librarians, guidance counselors, and so forth) account for about 30 percent of school employees.

Teacher speaks to four school leaders about taking on staff who've switched careers — and the practical experience they bring to the classroom.

During the visit, Senior Lecturer Mandy Savitz - Romer, along with her Ready, Willing and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success co-author Suzanne Bouffard, met with about 20 teachers and staff from the school to discuss college access and how identity can shape whether young people pursue and succeed in college.

More than 830 K - 12 teachers and other school - based instructional staff members who are registered users of Education Week's edweek.org website responded to an email invitation for a survey about...

«There's been a lot said about the importance of teacher quality in delivering better outcomes for students, but government has actually failed to invest in the most important resource in that equation and that is the staff in our schools,» she said.

Do teachers and school staff receive professional development about how to work with diverse families and communities?

It's early morning, and inside the Northgate Center here — a former elementary school now used as a staff - training facility by the city school system — about 30 teachers are munching bagels and sipping coffee, waiting for a professional - development workshop to begin.

What I don't yet know about Emanuel's plan in closing these neighborhood schools (pardon my ignorance) is what he plans to do with the students, teachers, and staffs.

The report said the charter has a lean administrative staff and slightly larger classes — 31 students compared with an average of about 26 or 27 in district schools — so it can pour resources into teacher pay and training.

Important characteristics of school culture include a caring atmosphere, significant family volunteering, and a supportive environment for teachers «work.158 Widespread trust among participants promotes collaboration within schools and communities.159 Parental involvement benefits students, particularly; it also seems to benefit families, enhancing their attitudes about themselves, their children «s schools, and school staff members.160

Because of the high numbers of teachers needed in England's schools and the high level of staff turnover - about 7 - 8 % of the workforce - between 35,000 and 40,000 newly trained teachers are needed every year, experts say.