Sentences with phrase «whole classroom community»

Teachers show that everyone counts by balancing the emphasis on individual achievement with a commitment to the well - being of the whole classroom community.

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If we can change our policies and our practices in the classroom, and work with researchers devoted to finding ways to help our children, we can «make a tremendous difference, not only in the lives of individual children and their families, but in our communities and our nation as a whole.»

Much of my research was done in a school setting, and some of the most effective programs that I've seen are the ones that develop community within a classroom or within a whole school.

Continuing in its mission to help teachers and pupils engage beyond the classroom, schools will now be able to share video and audio recordings of students» work and activities with parents, carers and the whole community, to support learning outside school and encourage parental involvement.

Finished comics can be shared by teachers in their own classroom gallery, where they can be read by other students, parents and the whole community.

On future walks, the tables are turned: A teacher who was previously a visitor may now host an inquisitive group — ensuring that feedback loops are continuous and that all classrooms benefit from the wisdom of the whole community.

The schools and communities featured on the map were identified by ASCD or Whole Child Partner organizations for their work to ensure that each child in every classroom is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

Providing lessons in classrooms that build the whole child will foster a classroom community of respect, collaboration, safety, and love.

Open Circle, a program of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, is a comprehensive, whole - school approach to developing safe, caring and highly engaging classroom and school communities.

«It is ASCD's mission to ensure that each child, in each classroom, in each community, is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, and our free Whole Child Virtual Conference is one of the crucial components of our multifaceted effort to support educators worldwide as they implement a whole child approach to education.&rWhole Child Virtual Conference is one of the crucial components of our multifaceted effort to support educators worldwide as they implement a whole child approach to education.&rwhole child approach to education.»

But within whole - school teacher learning communities, the classroom teachers and English specialists can plan how to teach the basic norms and language of schooling to the newcomer.

It's critical to work with teachers to help them make the best use of classroom time and ensure whole group class time is used for the types of interaction and community work that can only be accomplished when all of the students are together.

If this model was workable, you wouldn't need to turn schools into businesses; the whole lot would run on love and community spirit (an extension of the classroom if you will).

By aligning each of the school efforts — professional development, classroom instruction, assessments, and community engagement — with the mission statement and prioritizing whole child support in that mission, Magnolia Elementary has set up a successful and sustainable environment for student growth.

«ASCD believes that each student in every classroom should be healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged and that the needs of the whole child should be supported by all community members, from national leaders, state officials, and educators to community experts and families,» said ASCD Executive Director and CEO Gene R. Carter.

Site visitors are invited to grade their schools and communities on the key components of ASCD's New Learning Compact; pledge to support whole child education; share stories about great schools and classrooms; contact their local, state, and federal policymakers; and access resources to help them make the case for a well - balanced education that emphasizes academic rigor as well as the essential skills of critical thinking and creativity.

But many conflicts can lead to deeper social and emotional understanding for the students involved, and for the classroom community as a whole.

Thus, we as an ILT and a whole - school community began a multi-year-long journey toward teacher clarity by applying learning targets and success criteria to our classrooms.

With a focus on the whole child and a commitment to building capacity in both schools and communities, we address the barriers to success that students face both in and outside the classroom.

Instead, the majority of the community school conversations to date, have focused largely on advocating for a whole - child approach to education that defines teaching and learning beyond the narrow constraints of a traditional classroom and school infrastructure and practice.

To date, our study is one of only a few to have examined leadership at each organizational level in the school system as a whole — state, district, school, classroom, and community.

Classwide incentive systems are meant to be systems that motivate a whole class of students to work collaboratively towards a meaningful academic or classroom community goal.

Silver Linings is a program suitable for whole classrooms or community groups and can be completed in 6 sessions.

We used restorative practices in both the playground and the classroom but we wanted to create a whole - school community culture.»

The second strategy of school - based SEL programs involves fostering students» social — emotional development by creating safe and caring learning environments that incorporate peer and family initiatives, improved classroom management and teaching practices, and whole - school community - building activities.