Sentences with phrase «voices of parenting»

In the beginning, before we know better, maybe the voice of God sounds like the voices of our parents.

Thus, the child, the voice of his parents, may claim compensation for physicians who, through their fault, some were injured and legitimate interest to be a therapeutic abortion, as granted that his mother would have been appeal if it had been duly informed of the condition during pregnancy.

Sometimes just the voice of his parents or gentle humming can be enough to palliate their grumpy mood.

The responses below are written from the voice of Parenting Journey staffer Erica Brunner.

I honestly don't know how responsive TDA will be to the voices of parents opposing these measures but we certainly should make those views known.

Try not to call home... hearing the voice of a parent tends to make homesickness worse.

A two - way baby monitor can be extremely soothing and calming for a baby since he can hear the voice of the parents as soon as he gets up.

Mulgrew said that he has gone on the record in opposition to the current system of mayoral control, which shuts out the voices of parents, educators and community members.

«I can not ignore that it seems the district is working hard to control the flow of information and in some cases limit the voices of parents and community members,» Flanagan - Priore wrote in her resignation letter.

Radford said it was his participation on the task force that led him to conclude that many of the voices of the opt - out movement were reflective of the teachers unions through parents who are also teachers, but the voice of parents who were not teachers seemed to be missing from the conversation, he said.

«The voices of the parents, teachers and the community have been heard,» said Leonie Haimson, the executive director of education blog Class Size Matters, who delivered 13,000 signatures to Steiner's apartment on the Upper East Side Monday evening urging him to deny the waiver.

There is no price tag on elevating the voices of parents demanding better schools for their kids.»

«The voice of parents empowers our children,» said Elzora Cleveland, a mayoral appointee to the Panel for Educational Policy and a parent of an 11th - grader.

For instance, he said, a premature infant who spent critical developmental weeks listening to white noise in the hospital may «prioritize» that kind of noise later in life, preferentially tuning into background sounds instead of paying attention to the voice of a parent or teacher.

It is the voice of your parents or your teachers or your ex-lover or your cultural mores.

And the voice of parents who are deeply engaged in the most important decisions of our school, like interviewing teachers for our first campus in southeast Washington DC?

The voice of parents who show up in droves to defend our schools at reauthorization hearings?

The voice of parents who drove over 100 miles every day to send their children to Rocketship, then organized parents to open a Rocketship school in their own community?

The measure, which calls for the mayor to appoint a new school board, contains provisions designed to allay fears that the voices of parents might be lost or that the mayor would exercise unchecked power.

The Education Select Committee report on Academies and Free Schools identified concerns that the voice of parents can be marginalised in some academies.

The commissioner has pursued policies that repeatedly ignore the voices of parents and educators who have identified problems and called on him to move more thoughtfully,» said NYSUT President Richard C. Iannuzzi.

Problems with SBAC and Inappropriate Penalties for Schools Speaking on House Bill 5555, CEA Research and Policy Development Specialist Ray Rossomando urged legislators to ensure that the voices of parents, educators, and voters are heard on important policy matters.

We have not done enough to elevate the voices of parents who want better options for their kids, who want transparent information and who get frustrated with being stonewalled by the system.

This kind of community engagement can be intense and narrowly focused, the Assistant Superintendent has stated, and it sometimes slows processes down, but she believes that the voices of parents, happy and unhappy, need to be heard and taken into account.

When I hear the appreciation in the voices of parents, or when I see teary - eyed parents bragging about our school, I know that the struggles, hurdles, obstacles, ridicule, and opposition we face are worth it for us to realize the change we're making in our students.

If we can foster such collaborations here in Indiana, a robust parent trigger could magnify the voices of parents who too often have not been heard.

Academy level committees can have an extremely important role in ensuring that the voices of parents, pupils, staff and the wider community are heard by the executive leadership and the board of trustees, and that reports are made to them.

«NSBA is representing the voices of parents and others who want their children focused on education and protected from lewd speech while attending public schools,» said NSBA Executive Director Thomas J. Gentzel.

The article notes that Secretary King is «not respecting the voices of parents, teachers and students; doubling down on threats to financially punish students for boycotting tests; and digging in his heels to...

«These are challenging times for all public schools and especially charter schools, which makes it more important than ever that the voices of parents are heard in Sacramento.»

Our system is one in which the voice of a parent can still be heard.

We have ASD because it was part of our RTTT application commitments and because it is what the progressives want in order to privatize education, destroy traditional public schools, destroy traditional public school teachers, eliminate elected school boards, destroy the voice of parents and local control.

They do so by marginalizing the voices of parents, community stakeholders and teachers unions, the last of which represent their strongest source of opposition.

Educators and policy makers need to be prepared to look long and hard at what we're doing in Wisconsin, and to hear the critical voices of parents like Rep. Ripp who are concerned about when and how their children's reading problems are dealt with at school.

California must be BOLD and listen to the voices of parents / caregivers; and «draw a line in the sand» by establishing clear expectations on how every school should partner and engage parents / caregivers, especially those families of the students targeted by LCFF.

«While I support any mechanism that truly elevates the voices of parents and other community stakeholders in the hard work of improving our schools, I'm not sure that Parent Trigger on its own is ultimately able to provide the kind of systematic and meaningful parent involvement and local control that turning around our schools will require.

Advocates throughout the Network are looking for ways to amplify the voices of parents and show their value as critical partners in building great schools in their communities.

There is no price tag on elevating the voices of parents demanding better schools for their kids.»

For a more detailed account of the initial conversations to engage families, please visit our case study — Voices of Parents on Raising and Educating Their Children from Birth to College — and the companion video.

As a partner of NAPCS, CSSA encourages all members to view the NAPCS ChartersWork campaign toolkit to help amplify the voices of these parents and to encourage more parents to sign on to the letter.

In other words, the exit option appears to enhance the voice of parents at their child's assigned school.

Ms. Hill, who considers herself «the voice of the parents,» wouldn't have it any other way.

Powerful teachers unions are able to use their nearly unlimited resources to create a bully pulpit for themselves — drowning out the voices of people like me — who represent the voice of parents.

As a parent of students currently in our district schools, Sequeira is eager to represent on the voices of all parents.

We worked with parents and stakeholders to create the new school conversion process, one that is designed to elevate the voice of parents in helping operators shape a model that will best serve a school community.

Boston Parent's Organizing Network keeps the voice of parents front and center for BPS.

The Board also looks forward to working with PAA's dynamic membership to continue reaching out to an ever - broader range of parents and communities, as well as strengthening the voices of parents in educational policy - making at local, state and national levels.

New Jersey education coalition campaign highlights best practices and elevates the voices of parents, educators, and students.

«We're proud to be bringing the voices of parents from around the country into key policy issues such as the overdue reauthorization of No Child Left Behind and laws that threaten to privatize our school

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,