When schools focus on their students» social and emotional well being, students are better behaved and they score higher on tests, according to a recently released research brief.
When schools focus on just the educational aspect of giftedness and the general expectation for the gifted student is to be high - achieving and receive high scores, then gifted children are seen only in light of what they can achieve academically and not who they truly are.
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When schools focus on just the educational aspect of giftedness and the general expectation for the gifted student is to be high - achieving and receive high scores...»
Her point is especially interesting, since, as she explains,
when schools focus too much on the skills of the individual teachers (teacher human capital), the potential for a strong professional team (teacher social capital) is often eroded.
That integration between subject - matter content and reading lessons, many literacy experts say, is one of the pieces that gets left out
when schools focus on basic skills.
What happens
when schools focus the majority of their efforts on boosting low - achieving kids to proficiency?
Not exact matches
She then went to business
school at Stanford to figure out her next step
when she was introduced to the team at Maveron, a consumer -
focused early stage venture firm.
He explained that even
when the children did go to
school, the constant noise and threat of air strikes meant it was hard for them to
focus anyway.
When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary
School of Business, who has run
focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.
According to the New York Times, black students have never been responsible for mass shootings that drove the national conversation about gun safety and minority
schools have never been the targets of such attacks, leaving civil rights groups wondering why black students would be the
focus when seeking to address an issue that plagues white, male students.
Many students still have trouble
focusing when they are at
school.
It is mindblowing that we do not learn more about emotional intelligence during
school, and that all businesses
focus on «IQ»
when hiring, not «EQ.»
If your business provides a service for other small businesses, like a business coach or consulting firm, you may want to build your promotions around
when you know businesses are doing their annual budgeting, or around back to
school timing and
focus on continued learning.
Tan, a Malaysian who formulated his idea for GrabTaxi back
when he was a student at Harvard Business
School, said that the company will be using the funding to be able to continue its
focus on Southeast Asia, as opposed to expanding beyond the region.
Even
when, as with the Protestant Reformers, knowledge of God is reserved for the eschaton and theological
schooling focuses on faith,
schooling remains a practice of paideia — notably, in Calvin's academy in Geneva.
Then building on these two chapters side by side, in the next two chapters I will draw out what happens
when theological
schooling is
focused through the lens or within the horizon of questions about congregations.
Focus on other things, Perry... like how you want to dismiss literally thousands of teachers
when our
schools are failing.
The 2009 biographical film about a black high
school student adopted by a white Christian family is rated PG - 13 and became something of an evangelical darling
when it released, receiving endorsements from Christianity Today and
Focus on the Family.
Only
when we can identify these matters will we be in a position to respond to objections to the very suggestion that a theological
school focus on the study of congregations.
Theological
schooling will need to
focus on those tensions and conflicts and the various strategies congregations employ in negotiating them
when they use the host culture's languages to practice their own discipleship.
It is noteworthy that, in contradistinction to the older Bible - centered training in the past, most of these students had come up through the modern graded Sunday
Schools in which not the Bible but the child has been central; in which the Bible has been brought into the
focus of attention only
when the situation demanded it.
This little trick is helpful
when you have a chunk of time earlier in the day to work on dinner, since
focusing on meal prep at «the witching hour» (AKA, 5:00 p.m. at our house) sometimes feels next to impossible between after
school activities, homework, sibling bickering, and end - of - day toddler meltdowns.
When Ramos and his sisters Betty and Miriam didn't focus, when he goofed around at school, when his report card wasn't what it should be, he was punished, sentenced to kneeling on a cheese grater on naked knees, holding books over his shoulders, the way Atlas shrugged the Ea
When Ramos and his sisters Betty and Miriam didn't
focus,
when he goofed around at school, when his report card wasn't what it should be, he was punished, sentenced to kneeling on a cheese grater on naked knees, holding books over his shoulders, the way Atlas shrugged the Ea
when he goofed around at
school,
when his report card wasn't what it should be, he was punished, sentenced to kneeling on a cheese grater on naked knees, holding books over his shoulders, the way Atlas shrugged the Ea
when his report card wasn't what it should be, he was punished, sentenced to kneeling on a cheese grater on naked knees, holding books over his shoulders, the way Atlas shrugged the Earth.
But
when you're main
focus is on high
schools, it's a different story.
I only played competitive matches
when in secondary
school, so not sure how much that accounts for:) I do remember that
focus was the key — once I had that dialed in, I was capable of ignoring the opposite fans and their bad influence.
You may recall that the original impetus for
focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that,
when it comes to long - term academic goals like high -
school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.
Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so
focused — by their parents, their
schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating
when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.
More important than the labels of «play - based» or «academic -
focused,» though, is what actually happens in the classroom and how teachers respond to emotional situations, so ask about specific scenarios
when you're considering a
school.
When you present the facts about
school breakfast, and its associated benefits — increased test scores, fewer behavioral problems, improved
focus in the classroom — you give stakeholders the opportunity to understand the measurable results that come from feeding students a morning meal.
Kicking things off in the summer months
when local produce was bountiful, Lundt and Youngbauer have decided to make local procurement a
focus for the 2016 - 2017
school year as well.
The main point of my 2011 post was to question why Jamie Oliver (whose «Food Revolution» show was then on television) was
focusing so intensely on banning chocolate milk in American
schools at a time
when there were, in my opinion, far more pressing
school food issues which would have benefitted from his celebrity and clout.
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When you know that one meal every day is going to be
school lunch, you are really
focused on making sure breakfast and dinner are phenomenal.»
This whole debacle reminds me of
when Chipotle changed their bags to state their philosophy of «Food With Integrity» and
focused on the pig, and Chipotle's FB page was inundated by high
school and college kids who plastered its walls with endless postings about their so - called ethical treatment of their factory farmed pigs.
«Often,
when we try to intervene and help promote positive peer relationships, we
focus on the
school setting, where a lot of these friendships are taking place,» Fosco said.
When FOCUS works with a
school district, it sets three main goals for
school food: making it more healthful in general, obtaining more of it from local farms, and making it sustainable.
The idea behind
FOCUS is simple: large
school districts procure so much food that they have considerable market power (second only to the U.S. military
when it comes to food purchasing), which
FOCUS helps them leverage to pressure manufacturers into producing better food.
When we think of the ideal
school meal, most of us tend to
focus on nutrition.
«At a time
when school systems have completely lost
focus on what really matters, John Hunter reminds us what we should be teaching our children.
From the time
when the Columbine
school shooting rocketed through the news, to now
when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and
focused on problem - solving.
In 2011
when her daughter started elementary
school, she rebranded the site to Ann Arbor with Kids and expanded the
focus of the site to include events for babies through tweens.
Cavities can cause toothaches, pain
when trying to eat, and serious toothaches may even prevent your child from
focusing in
school.»
They helped their children notice birds, insects, plants and other wonders of the natural world
when they were small, and then continued this
focus even
when the children decided, for a few years, to go to the local primary
school.
When I first starting looking at French and American
school lunch menus I
focused on my hometown of Toms River, NJ.
Whereas Olds» work has
focused on the challenges of becoming a parent (i.e. program limited to first - time parents), Webster - Stratton has targeted the late preschool period and the transition to formal
schooling,
when children's emotion regulation skills are becoming more stable and tested in the context of full - day
school settings.6, 22 A central
focus of Webster - Stratton's program is parent management training to promote child social competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.
When kids have the chance to run and play before
school and at recess, they
focus more and fidget less during class.
Sally wondered if the exclusive
focus on Max's dose of medication and his ability to get his homework done - they had added an evening dose
when he got in to middle
school and the academic challenges increased - had distracted them from seeing Max's true nature.
The idea arrived at a key time — nearly a decade into the No Child Left Behind era,
when schools nationwide
focused obsessively on year - to - year improvements in students» basic math and reading skills.
When we have «meet the teacher» before
school (usually 15 minutes to chat with the teacher the week before
school), I have begged another mom to just watch my daughter / son run up and down the hallways while I actually
focus on the other child.
In a time
when we should be
focused on the issues of respect and unification, I personally find it unacceptable for anyone who touches the lives of our children to speak in this manner... This kind of language does not belong within the context of our communities and our
schools.
How does a capitalist government
focus on these
when it brings to direct control such
schools in the hands of private and profit oriented individuals?».