Sentences with phrase «visiting students at home»

«She is an innovative, caring, effective, dedicated teacher who takes so many extra steps to help her students succeed, including visiting students at home, helping parents, especially immigrants, become integrated into the school community.»

Adams 14 teachers visiting students at home to improve parent involvement (video) by Adam Hammond, News7, Denver, CO

All the teachers at her son's school — and ultimately across the district — began visiting their students at home, strengthening the parent - teacher relationship and helping parents become more active participants in the children's learning.

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Families are engaged through home visits at least once a year; if a student has a child mid-year, that student and family will receive at least two home visits during the maternity leave.

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A law firm is a public entity visited by people from all walks of life - clients, employees, students and interns and you can not relax with sauna like at home or you wouldn't want to check heater buying guide if you are talking about a law firm's toilet.

The mission for which Dumbledore summoned Harry at the outset was to visit the London home of Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), who has become reclusive since his Hogwarts days, but is now urgently needed along with his memories of the young student Tom Riddle, who grew up to become the man whose name should rhyme with Death.

On NPR, Elissa Nadworny looks at how «home visits» by preschool teachers to meet with the parents of their students are being used to raise attendance.

I met Branch at D.C.'s family - funded Flamboyan Foundation, which trains — and pays — teachers to visit their students» homes as part of a strategy to use better relations between schools and families as a means to improving academic achievement.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

From the beginning, Magnolia has conducted annual home visits to at least 25 percent of our students» homes.

Before each student starts at YES Prep, a staff member visits his or her home to collect signatures on the family contract.

At some schools, the new model of parent - teacher engagement starts with a visit by the teacher to the student's home.

Visiting students and their families at home builds strong bonds of trust and understanding — and impacts academic success.

As part of the program, teachers of younger students typically schedule one - hour visits at each child's home two times a year.

When changing such troubling habits raises objections, it's clear why it took several years to end open campus at lunch, require uniforms, have teachers greet each student with a handshake, make home visits routine, and place administrators beyond the school's gates so students could safely walk to catch city buses.

Many school districts now have programs that require teachers to visit their students» homes at least once each school year.

Some teachers have reported they were uncomfortable at first with the idea of visiting their students» homes, but most of those discomforts seem to dissipate once the actual visits begin.

Staffers also conduct summer, fall, and spring home visits between and during the sophomore and junior years to students who are at risk of not graduating because of deficiencies in course credits, the possibility of failing the state high school exit exam (a condition of graduation), or poor grades.

Farr approvingly cites the testimony of two teachers who were unable to make contact with their students» parents over the phone: «We would just start taking kids home, and we would wait at home until the parent came home, and we would just make home visits constantly,» recalls the unnamed TFAer.

In one, researchers examined how SEL intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent training with home visits, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for kindergarten students impacted their adult lives, and found that these programs led to 10 % (59 % vs. 69 % for the control group) fewer psychological, behavioral, or substance abuse problems at the age of 25 (Dodge et al., 2014).

In Denver, teachers from the Denver Public Schools have visited hundreds of students and their families at home in the weeks since school started, reports Melanie Asmar in Chalkbeat.

In Denver, teachers from the Denver Public Schools have visited hundreds of students and their families at home in the weeks since school started.

To participate in the home visit project, a school must be eligible under the federal Title I grant — provided to support large populations of disadvantaged students — and at least half of its teaching staff must indicate at least an interest in learning more about the program for the school to be selected, Levasseur said.

1647 trains and coaches teachers to conduct home visits aimed at building relationships with their students» families.

Students at all four schools enjoyed Noth's visit and some got to take home autographed copies of his book.

All teachers at Magnolia Public Schools (MPS) go the extra mile for their students; even visiting the homes of our students through our Home Visit Program to do whatever is possible to ensure our students perform at their best.

I would advocate home visits or at least a positive phone call to the home of each student during the school year.

Teachers are required to visit the homes of at least eight students per year, she said.

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Except, however, at Las Palmas Elementary School, a K - 5 school in San Clemente, California, where two kindergarten and two 1st grade teachers set out to discover what home visits would do for their students.

In addition to pounding the «UAG way» into everyone (core values include grit, collaboration and empathy), she makes sure that teachers visit every incoming ninth - grader at home before school starts — to meet family members, get a sense of the student's home environment and begin to build relationships.

Teachers who choose to participate in the project visit students» homes in pairs twice in the school year; the at - home interactions have helped increase parent involvement as well as student achievement in the public schools.

«DreamBox is one of the three blended learning elective rotations that students visit daily, plus they're accessing the software at home.

Students can access MPL's full array of online resources by visiting www.librarynow.org - school, at home, on tablets, phones, laptops or desktop computers.

A: This model is designed to help with overall school and student success by doing home visits at scale, rather than one or two designated visitors on staff.

Many CMO - run schools operate on extended calendars, offering students longer school days and years.57 To establish a strong sense of community and culture of achievement, many grow slowly, building out a single grade at a time.58 And many focus heavily on creating strong relationships between students, teachers, and families by conducting teacher home visits, requiring parents to volunteer at school, and having families, students, and teachers all sign agreements about the expectations of attending the school.57

There were regular telephone calls home, weekly check - ins with the most at - risk students and their parents, even home visits on occasion.

Teachers in the CPC program have at least a bachelor's degree along with a certification in early childhood education.18 Staff compensation is relatively high compared to most preschool staff, mirroring the salary schedule of the Chicago Public School system, which reduces teacher turnover.19 In addition to teachers and classroom aides, students also are monitored by parent volunteers, home visit representatives, clerks, nurses, speech therapists, and other administrative staff who are associated with the public school program.

At family conference time, we make home visits if necessary to ensure that teacher, parent, and student are all able to participate in a three - way conversation about our distinct roles as we establish and commit to shared goals for the child.

Air Canada offers its Student Pass, which gives students six pre-paid flights at a reduced price, so they can visit home through the year

He developed a special bond with one student, Emma, and started visiting her at her home to help her overcome the trauma.

B.A., Amherst College; creates An Image of Salomé for his senior thesis project, which is published by the artist and printed at Apiary Press, run by Baskin's students at Smith College; meets and becomes good friends with Baskin's assistant George Lockwood, who would later found Impressions Workshop in Boston; marries Gail Beckwith (later, the poet Gail Mazur), who was then a student at Smith College; begins graduate study at School of Art and Architecture, Yale University, New Haven; studies with Gabor Peterdi, Bernard Chaet, William Bailey, Rico Lebrun, Sewell Sillman, Neil Welliver, art historian Egbert Haverkamp - Begemann, and Asian - art historian Nelson Wu, as well as with visiting artists Fairfield Porter and John Scheuler; makes regular Thursday trips with other students to Peterdi's home / studio; works as a teaching assistant for both Peterdi and Bailey.

The Global Experience Project course will facilitate an immersive and experiential learning environment for students by connecting them with international visiting artists and notable scholars at their home campus and abroad.

Typically, students begin by interviewing their clients (this may be during a home visit for child welfare clients), preparing and filing initial court pleadings, and taking the lead at administrative and emergency hearings.

If they only drive the car when home visiting, some insurers offer a Student Away At School Discount.

Parents, who have ever considered removing their child from their car insurance while away at school should know that most insurance companies offer a «Student Away Discount» to ensure their child is still covered under their car policy when they come home to visit at a discounted price.

If they drive the car only when home visiting, some insurers offer a Student Away At School Discount.

For example, if someone visiting your rented Aurora condominium or student loft gets injured while at your home, you could face a potentially expensive liability situation.

Coordinated and Participated in Walk for Success events that visited many at - risk students» homes.