Sentences with phrase «way teachers and families»

We are looking for passionate and thoughtful educators to help us redefine the way teachers and families use technology to collaborate, personalize instruction, and empower students.

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Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

What's your favorite way to show your appreciation for friends, family, teachers and neighbors?

It's also allowed Steve to see others in their true light, like the teachers, coaches, and friends who have been willing to give of themselves to help the family in any way they can.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Equally important, celebrity athletes are distant figures for children and youth, whereas a parent, teacher, coach, or family friend, in the role of mentor, can influence young athletes» everyday lives in positive ways by developing ongoing relationships with them.

What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

All parents want to feel validated in their decisions, and even if they do not intentionally seek out support, unsolicited advice will come their way — from family, friends, pediatricians, teachers, strangers, and others.

Each printable sheet includes a game idea, directions, adaptations, objectives, further reading suggestions, tips from teachers, and ways to get your whole family involved.

Rachelle Doorley is an arts educator with a passion for helping families and teachers find easy ways to set up meaningful creative projects for kids.

Lundgren says parents and other family members, teachers, religious leaders and peers should talk about and reflect on these norms and consider alternative ways of demonstrating their masculinity and femininity that lead to strong, healthy relationships.

Responding to the country's critical need for STEM teachers, and for teaching that supports students all the way to graduation and employment in ever - expanding STEM fields, education researchers and practitioners have fought hard to build effective approaches, and AAAS has helped to spearhead those efforts, said Rush Holt, AAAS CEO and executive publisher of the Science family of journals.

The OHMazing ® Way is designed specifically for families and teachers to fully and easily integrate theories and practices of yoga into your life.

«On the second day of my kids yoga teacher training there was a family yoga class and we got to see how kids yoga works THE KAY WAY.

This holiday and even throughout the year, make it a habit of sending anonymous letters of gratitude to those you admire or love: a teacher, a firefighter, a police officer, a friend, a family member or anyone else who has enriched your life in some way.

So many cute and affordable ways to show appreciation to teachers, family members, neighbors and friends.

When Smulders» Samantha discovers she's pregnant around the same time that Bean's Jasmine does too, the teacher / student relationship evolves into something different as the women, their partners and their families respond in illuminatingly different ways.

But for nearly all 107 minutes of this formally immaculate, perversely unruffled portrait of a very wealthy French family, Haneke seems to go out of his way to avoid the brutal shock tactics of «Funny Games» and «The Piano Teacher,» evincing the kind of artful restraint that may initially remind you of his crowning achievement, «Amour.»

With the initial success of #EdChat Radio, I can see future shows highlighting student voice, tips for new teachers, family engagement strategies and other reflective opportunities that might offer us deeper ways to support the work of our respective learning communities.

Innovative programs and teacher training practices build the capacity of educators and families to partner in meaningful ways.

My first exposure came in the 1950s at my family's kitchen table, where my mother, a middle school English teacher, talked about strategies for encouraging children to write, and my father, a high school principal, talked about new ways to recruit good teachers at a time when the children from the large baby boom generation were enrolling in the nation's schools.

Because teachers were considering intangible factors, even when race, gender, family income, and academic achievement are the same, there was no way to isolate the effect of being held back, much less to make reasonable conclusions about the effects of retention on a student's academic achievement or the probability of his dropping out of high school.

The efficacy of running one - to - one programs in schools is that, through this approach to technology education for students, teachers and families, schools are providing a laboratory of trial and error and figuring out a way to make sense of the fast - changing world of technology.

Bridging the relationship between home and school can be accomplished in many ways and homework should be used by the teacher to encourage family involvement.

Let us also try some promising hybrids, such as the Teacher Advancement Program, developed by the Milken Family Foundation, which enhances teacher professionalism in ways that also recall a number of the recommendations of A Nation at Risk and the latter - day «alternative view» of teacher quality Teacher Advancement Program, developed by the Milken Family Foundation, which enhances teacher professionalism in ways that also recall a number of the recommendations of A Nation at Risk and the latter - day «alternative view» of teacher quality teacher professionalism in ways that also recall a number of the recommendations of A Nation at Risk and the latter - day «alternative view» of teacher quality teacher quality reform.

When state law essentially guarantees public employment for ineffective teachers in California, low - income families pay one way or another — either in the form of salary incentives to retain and redistribute effective teachers, reductions in other services required to pay for those salary incentives, or because such policies usually fail to completely offset the burden, in terms of the lowered achievement of their children.

For the purposes of this article, self - awareness means, quite literally, to have insight into why you feel the way you do toward certain children or their families, their abilities or disabilities, and your values as an individual and as a teacher.

Justin and his family described the ways in which his schooling up to that point had been an ordeal: he had struggled to connect with teachers and classmates; he was deeply ashamed of his Asperger syndrome diagnosis, and he did not have clear aspirational goals for the future.

A student learns honesty in a deep and lasting way when a teacher explains why cheating undermines the academic mission, when a parent demonstrates the importance of telling the truth for family solidarity, when a sports coach discourages deceit because it defeats the purpose of fair competition, and when a friend shows why lies destroy the trust necessary for a close relationship.

The NEA marks National Autism Awareness Month by publicizing its ASD resources for teachers and families, including The Puzzle of Autism, a guide to assist educators, inform parents, offer ways to help identify the typical characteristics of ASDs, and provide ideas for ways to work successfully with children who have the disability.

Although there are lots of ways to engage families throughout the year, given that most open houses are fairly well attended (at least at the elementary level) and one of the first events of the school year — and sometimes the only face - to - face contact parents have with teachers — it's critical that schools rethink their back - to - school night.

We've constructed a hundred thousand schools that way; we've trained nearly 4 million teachers to do their best in that kind of structure; and we've socialized the families of some 55 million youngsters into believing that «that's what school looks like and that's how it works.»

In one program, prospective teachers are asked to look at their own cultural experiences and history, think about the match between their family community culture and their school culture, and then discuss ways in which some children's home and school cultures differ.

But if we want to limit the ability of teachers unions to advance their own interests at the expense of children, their families, and taxpayers, we need to consider ways of restricting their ability to engage in collective bargaining.

A home - school coordinator spoke to prospective teachers about her work and discussed ways in which teachers could promote family involvement.

The good news, according to Seligman, is that we are not born pessimistic or optimistic — these are ways of thinking that we learn from our families and teachers, the media, and our social context.

Finally, examples are presented of ways teachers and schools are working to increase the involvement of families with their children's education and schools.

Blackboard Teacher Communication helps teachers connect with families where they are, in a safe and consistent way, and without adding extra work for busy teachers and parents.

Recognizing the power of the app, Lincoln Public Schools has expanded its offering to students, families and teachers and continues to explore new ways to incorporate digital communication into the curriculum.

In addition, the teacher will share how she creates ongoing two - way communication with her families, community, and a global learning environment through her 1:1 implementation.

As reported in The New York Times, Family Playlists ™ transform the learning relationships between students, families, and teachers and provide a groundbreaking new way to drive student mastery and social - emotional learning.

Universalizing access to public preschool, besides being very expensive for taxpayers, amounts to a huge windfall for public schools (and their teacher unions), as well as for middle class families and communities that have already found ways of obtaining it for their kids.

Education policies to improve the quality of New York's public schools, with a focus on improving teacher quality, expanding school options for families and improving the way our school systems are governed and funds are spent.

Teachers, sending home a welcome letter to your students and their families is a great way to get started with VocabularySpellingCity.

Imagine Andrews Public Charter School has formed a partnership with Lynne Michael Blum, PhD, a leading clinical psychologist and an adjunct faculty member at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, to conduct a series of workshops and training sessions designed to help Imagine Andrews teachers and administrators improve the way they meet the needs of children from military families.

Requiring states and districts to provide information on the quality and extent of school choice options — including whether the districts have open enrollment policies and the number of seats actually available to families who are not teachers or school employees — would go a long way.

Teachers bring their unique perspective and passion for educational equity to corridors of power and lead in a way that truly puts children and families first.

Teachers are all trained one way, and then are chosen to advocate for students and families in districts without any real additional training.

Home visits and ongoing two - way communication between teachers and families build trusting relationships that have been shown to improve student success in school.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»