It is important to know
what role schools play in this lack of progress, and if their influence extends to adult outcomes such as crime.
While these are obviously extreme examples, the answers to these questions has prompted researchers and educators to consider
what roles schools play in the development of social responsible leaders and contributors.
Not exact matches
«All I really want to know is where have you worked, where did you go to
school,
what do you do in your
role?»
«
What possibly played the most critical
role in my decision was the fact that I felt happy and excited around the
school and meeting current students.
«The
role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see
what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland
schools conference, according to the Post.
In the aftermath,
school leaders are examining every aspect of the tragedy, including
what role they can play in passing «common sense gun laws,» Bartleman said.
On the question of secularism and the Supreme Court's decisions on prayer and other religious activities in the public
schools: No doubt these decisions, which repudiated both history and the wishes of parents and state legislators alike, played a significant
role in the acceleration of
what Richard John Neuhaus later dubbed the «naked public square.»
It doesn't matter
what role we play in life whether you're a janitor at a
school or President of the United States, or everything in between.
In the 1986 Cooley Lectures at the University of Michigan Law
School, Greenawalt defends a limited
role for religious convictions in a jurisprudential culture whose ruling paradigm, called «liberalism,» is roughly identical to
what I have been calling modernism.
Marty says nothing about
what this challenge might mean for theological
schools, whose attention to these topics will play an important
role in educating the people — pastors, denominational employees, lay leaders and the like — whom he frequently singles out as important interpreters and «brokers» of the public involvement of religious groups.
What the proposal does argue is this: Study of various subject matters in a theological
school will be the indirect way to truer understanding of God only insofar as the subject matters are taken precisely as interconnected elements of the Christian thing, and that can be done concretely by studying them in light of questions about their place and
role in the actual communal life of actual and deeply diverse Christian congregations.
i actually went through his
school of spiritual direction last year, great stuff that resonates with
what you are saying about the
role of the spiritual director as not imposing but supporting, «coming alongside», helping somone else foster their relationship with God with the honed skills of listening, discernment and journeying with someone.
Thus there are
schools in which paideia's focus on students» understanding of God plays almost no
role whatever, neither in shaping
what is taught and how, nor in the conventions governing how faculty and students interrelate, how faculty are selected, and how the
school manages its common life.
Even though the creators of the National Curriculum are keen to emphasise the importance of
what they call «the English literary heritage», by which they mean «authors with an enduring appeal that transcends the period in which they were writing, and who have played a significant
role in the development of literature in English» [Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 2007, 71), their choice of recommended authors reveals a set of post-Protestant secular assumptions which need to be challenged if Catholic culture is to flourish in Catholic
schools.
Schools certainly play a very important
role in education, and my focus will be on
what goes on in them.
Yes, they contribute to
school spirit, but mostly they're about giving kids an opportunity to learn
what it means to be on a team, to work hard for a goal, to accept
roles and to grow as a person through the inevitable ups and downs of a season.
Similarly at my daughter's
school I've just taken on one
role and that's
what I stick to every year.
Even though many families think that academic skills are
what are most important for
school success, social skills play a huge
role in
school success as well.
I invited Mike to comment on that article if he desired, and ever since he and Dana have been having an intense, informative debate about
school food reform — the costs,
what's possible, the validity of Oliver's accomplishments, the
role an outsider like J.O. can or can not play, and more — that I think you'll really want to read.
His book, called Nowhere to Hide: Why Kids with ADHD and LD Hate
School and
What We Can Do About It, (Jossey - Bass / Wiley) which examines the
role of stress in learning, has received international acclaim.
Learn who the main players are, and
what their
role is, in building afterschool meals into afterschool programming:
School Nutrition Directors, Anti-hunger Advocates, Community - based Afterschool Meal Sites, and State Agency
Purvis presented the BIC concept at end - of - year meetings, explaining to
school stakeholders the implementation process, schedule changes, and
what each group's
role would be; she also took questions, and presented film of another district's breakfast - in - the - classroom program.
But districts are still unconscionably underfunded when it comes to
school food, and Big Food still plays too large of a lobbying
role in shaping
what appears on kids» trays.
Thanks for mentioning how «districts are still unconscionably underfunded when it comes to
school food, and Big Food still plays too large of a lobbying
role in shaping
what appears on kids» trays.»
In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the
role of
School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't
what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory Council and who is a daily kid - and - food blogger.
In the last few weeks I've been surprised to find myself in the
role of
School Food Reform Naysayer, which isn't
what you'd expect from someone who serves on her district's Food Services Parent Advisory Committee and its Student Health Advisory... [Continue reading]
Social - studies work may also include a basic discussion of citizenship:
What is your child's
role as a student in the class, in the
school, in the community?
* Positive Discipline * Positive Discipline for Developing Capable People * Building Self - Esteem through Positive Discipline * Keys to Developing Self - Reliance: A Gift to Our Children * The Significant Seven: Life Skills for Adults and Youth * Positive Discipline: Practical Application * Why Children Misbehave and
What to Do About It * Parenting Teenagers: · Empowering Teenagers — and Yourself in the Process * Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: * Classroom Management: Shared Responsibility through Class Meetings: Eliminating your
Role as a disciplinarian (The Kids Can Do It Better Anyway) * Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training on class meetings) * We've Got to Keep Meeting Like This (teacher in - service on class meetings) *
School Administrators: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training with Bill Scott, principal of Birney Elementary
School)
What is the role of parents in education and what can we do to support our children's school succ
What is the
role of parents in education and
what can we do to support our children's school succ
what can we do to support our children's
school success?
It is about finding a psychological identity that is separate from parents — that they have a
role in the family or at
school, they know
what that treasured and valued
role is, and that they do feel accepted and loved but also a bit «separate», a bit ready to take a view on something... there is a shift toward the child having real opinions about the world, that may be different than the parent's view, and that in this view that the child has a continuous self and therefore can participate in learning.
«Why doesn't he just retire — you know, resign — because apparently he has some issues with educated black people and it is completely in contrast to
what your
role is as
school board member.
Independent expenditure groups backed by well - funded charter
school organizations are gearing up to play a
role in battleground Senate districts, spending money that could bolster Republicans in
what is expected to be a difficult election year.
Students from Florida High
School at FSU discuss music: their preferences and why they like
what they do, the
role music plays in their lives, and similar topics.
Topics include
what the groups involved in the campaign will do, Chirlane McCray's
role in the campaign, details around the pre-K program and the status of de Blasio's search for a
schools chancellor.
In her
role as a monitor for the East Ramapo
schools, George - Fields helped the district and
school board in thinking through
what programs were already in place and creating a plan for progress and change, particularly in terms of curriculum and instruction.
The mayor's
role in this involves
what kind of funding priorities there should be when it comes to
school spending.
This also changed the
roles of the various players who define education policy in the
schools: «Whereas
school superintendents and the directors of teachers» colleges had once decided
what was to be taught in
schools, the curriculum was now being influenced by scientists and as well by teachers to an ever greater extent,» Criblez points out.
«Understanding how this extinction happened and
what role humans may have played could help us understand how extinctions are progressing today and
what we can do to prevent them,» says Siobhán Cooke, M.Phil., Ph.D., assistant professor of functional anatomy and evolution at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine and lead author of the study, described online in the Journal of Mammalogy on August 1.
«The main
role of circadian rhythm is to anticipate
what you're going to be doing at certain points of the day,» says Kristen Knutson, PhD, associate professor of neurology and sleep medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg
School of Medicine.
Old
school role - playing takes on a pirate theme with this crowd - funded adventure that gives fans exactly
what they want.
Uncle enrolls niece in
what she calls Whore
School, where the matron is played in a type - cast
role by Charlotte Rampling.
What role should racial desegregation play in 21st - century
school improvement?
In my
role, I work with the
school business manager community, and my organisation works both in
schools and the independent sector and I do find that
school business managers may have challenges but they are becoming more understanding about
what needs to be done for their
schools when it comes to ICT solutions.
But even as she acknowledged toward the end that technology has a
role to play, she missed spotlighting how technology can help us redesign
schools to allow students to achieve
what appears most important in her mind: the chance for students to have far more meaningful face - to - face interactions with teachers and peers — a counterintuitive yet important part of blended learning's promise for many students.
With mayors playing an ever more active
role in the affairs of their cities»
schools, a new effort is under way to help them share with one another some of
what they've learned.
I decided to go directly to the «customers,» though, and spent time speaking with students about their experience at the
school and
what role they play in shaping the learning.
Over the course of two months, I visited each of the selected
schools to learn about the program in place — why it was initiated and by whom;
what roles faculty, staff, and parents play;
what the key program elements are;
what the results are and how they are measured; and
what obstacles the program faces.
But so far, she hasn't said
what it might be, other than suggesting that
school personnel take on the
roles of social worker and distributors of medical services.
The evolution of the gender gaps in achievement as children mature suggests that
what occurs in
schools and classrooms may play an important
role.
What is the
role of
schools?