Sentences with phrase «which teachers and families»

This orientation revealed a marked hierarchy between school and home knowledge; it did not foster a partnership in which teachers and families were likely to engage in co-inquiry through dialogue.

Ali Amente, Alene Yenew, Ivelina Borisova, Amy Jo Dowd, Lauren Pisani, Sara Dang, and Katy Anís describe the processes by which both teachers and family members have acquired simple, everyday strategies that are realistic to use in their own environments.

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A student and a teacher all his life, he lived by solid family values, which he extended to his employees, his friends, and to the community he served.

We have frozen post-secondary tuition for two years, funded teachers and nurses that the PCs were going to cut, and created the Alberta Child Benefit Plan for low - income families, which is a $ 340 - million investment in new direct help to families who need it most.

During the High Court hearing, counsel Nick Armstrong told the judge it was the only occasion on which a teacher had been killed by a pupil in a British classroom and the family were anxious «that all the lessons that can be learned from this enormous tragedy are learned».

In looking for these causes, family and teachers are urged to take into account «the contributions which various disciplines can offer.»

So on this happy day, as the students of the class of 2014 celebrate a milestone achievement with their families, their friends, and their teachers, I come to congratulate you, to wish you well, and to address each of you as a person who has received the good turn of a fine education, and who should feel a responsibility to repay the debt of that education by living well as a person, mindful of the personhood, the individuality, and the good of others around you, in the various communities through which your life will take you.

Parents, teachers and pastors all share the responsibility for seizing this opportunity, which comes at a moment when marriage and the family are crumbling in our culture and society.

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?

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.

Kara Carrero, a former high school teacher writes the fabulous blog ALLterNATIVE Learning, which has a focus on healthy, green and sustainable living in the context of the family.

In addition, students are responsible, whenever possible, for assessing themselves; twice a year, at report - card time, parents or other family members come in to the school for meetings known as student - led conferences, in which students as young as five narrate for their parents and teacher their achievements and struggles over the past semester.

The Daisy Foundation offers you via our network of teachers a truly unique range of classes and workshops across our Daisy Birthing, Daisy Parent and Daisy Baby programs, which together support women, families and infants throughout the entire peri-natal period.

His death was devastating for all of us, but my immense grief, which stretched through my teenage years and into my 20s, was made all the more lonely and isolating because almost no one around me — friends, teachers, many members of my extended family — recognized that I'd lost anyone of importance at all.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

Your teachers can even introduce you to the latest parenting style which can benefit you and your family.

The temporary records, which will otherwise be destroyed in July, includes students» family background information, teacher comments, disciplinary information and test scores.

In Solana Beach: Sandy Hill is a parent cooperative pre-school which unites family participation and teacher expertise in a natural setting.

Baroness Walmsley, co-chair of the Lib Dems» backbench education, families and young people committee, added: «We should trust the governors, teachers and parents to make their local choice in local circumstances after proper consultation, which is in the Act.»

«It is simply unacceptable and irresponsible for a government to embark on changes which will have such a profound adverse impact on the financial future of teachers and their families without having evidence to demonstrate that a problem even exists.

Recently, Ms. Moskowitz and a charter lobbying organization with which she is closely associated, Families for Excellent Schools, have criticized the Education Department as not doing more to address violence and physical abuse by teachers in the city's regular public schools.

Conference denounces the use by some companies and agencies of zero - hour contracts, which impact detrimentally on the lives of supply teachers and their families.

Layoffs of thousands of teachers, which would do irreparable harm to our children and devastate our own families, are still on the table.

The union is one of a handful of labor groups, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers» Union and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 years.

But a source close to the IDC said it was the progressive Working Families Party, the teacher union - backed Alliance for a Quality Education, and other groups like Make The Road, which works on immigrant issues.

He has moved to lock up endorsements from 11 unions so far, including those representing teachers and municipal workers, and from the Working Families Party, which has helped many Democratic candidates in their ground game.

Durre's mother typed her assignments and tests into the computer for 4 years, until the family moved to the United States and her school's vision - resource teacher was able to take over the job (which today would be accomplished with an optical scanner).

The study stands out among long - term cohort studies for its high retention rate — nearly 95 % of the original cohort has stayed with the study since it launched in 1972 — and the intimacy of the data - gathering process, which includes not just cognitive, psychological, and health assessments, but also interviews with cohort members» teachers, families, and friends and reviews of their financial and legal records.

At the UW, Mukherjee helped represent the CSNE at the UW College of Engineering's annual Engineering Discovery Days, which shares work from all UW engineering departments with 4th to 8th grade students, teachers, their families and the community.

So, how do we know which advice to take from friends and family, or from our personal trainer or yoga teacher?

Stacy Manning and Hope Connections offer hope to families, caregivers, and teachers in the form of multiple services which incorporate the use of hands - on tools.

Stacy Manning and Hope Connections offer hope to families, caregivers, and teachers in the form of multiple services which incorporate the use of hands - on tools.

My life consists of my family which is my daughter and my work - I am a teacher in the kindergarten.

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The romance between an art student at Duke University and the bullrider she meets at a local rodeo is unexpectedly impacted when they save the life of an elderly widower, compelling him to re-live his loving WWII - era marriage to an immigrant teacher who inspires him to amass a remarkable modern art collection which eventually helps the cowboy save his family's ranch.

This is a sports movie in which the emotional climax is a bout between a haunted war hero and a physics teacher family man facing imminent homelessness.

Teachers decide whether to remain at a school for a multiplicity of reasons, which can be divided into four main categories: 1) characteristics of the job, including salary and working conditions; 2) alternative job opportunities; 3) teachers» own job and family preferences; and 4) school districts» personnel pTeachers decide whether to remain at a school for a multiplicity of reasons, which can be divided into four main categories: 1) characteristics of the job, including salary and working conditions; 2) alternative job opportunities; 3) teachers» own job and family preferences; and 4) school districts» personnel pteachers» own job and family preferences; and 4) school districts» personnel policies.

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.

But nothing I've said works if it's simply adopted to try to «cover» the likely contents of a test with which ordinary teachers, families, and students can not argue or differ.

Those stories can be better understood if a teacher brings in the amount of sugar, flour, and so on to which families were entitled, and explains that most households baked their bread, made their own desserts, or rolled their own cigarettes.

On average, teacher - family communication increased the odds that students completed their homework by 40 percent, decreased instances in which teachers had to redirect students» attention to the task at hand by 25 percent, and increased class participation rates by 15 percent.»

In most schools, parents and students dread being called to the principal's office, but at Monaco Elementary, these are all «positive referrals,» for which Gerzon - Kessler reads detailed praise from a teacher to the student, in English or Spanish, as his or her family looks on.

The results of the study were that «on average, teacher - family communication increased homework completion rates by 6 percentage points and decreased instances in which teachers had to redirect students» attention to the task at hand by 32 %.»

Among the workshops the partnership offers are Opening Doors, a seminar for front office staff, secretaries and receptionists; and Creating Family - Friendly Schools, which is designed to help teachers, administrators, and support staff improve interactions between families and schools.

This educational resource provides teachers and learners with a range of questions and activities linked to the film, which is a feature - length version of the documentary TV series Planet Earth, following the migration paths of four animal families.

We created an image of a teacher and students in a class with digital tools from which they can access families, the community, the environment and the world at large through the internet.

Estimate the cost of these frantic last - minute arrangements at $ 20 per day per family, and the daily losses from the strike equal about $ 7 million per day or about $ 50 million for the strike period, which comes to about one - sixth of the salary gains that the teachers received.

Religion and extended family play that role, the teacher belonging to a «system» in which «you were apt to lose your children, where harm could come to the child or the family unit.»

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

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.