Sentences with phrase «whole school conversations»

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My enemies are people who would deny me my religious freedom, not Christians as a whole, and the best remedies tend to involve civil conversation, the courts, and the occasional school board meeting... When doing inter-faith work the goal is not to convert anyone or get them to agree with you, but to help them see you (and our community) as a positive.

Wow, I randomly read through some of the comments associated with this awesome recipe and holy cow that's a whole lot of conversation about high school.

But the bulk of my two conversations with Saidel centered around a new program launched by Chartwells last year, in partnership with a company called InHarvest, to bring more «intact whole grains» like farro and quinoa into schools.

Every school has one; that perfectly coiffed dreamboat, yawning in maths lessons, loitering outside the school gates with a casual cigarette, coming up with fabulously dry excuses for forgetting their homework that have the whole class guffawing — did you ever actually have an extended conversation with that person?

Some of the schools I work with in Oakland, California, are aspiring to this description of academic discourse in the classroom: «Conversations in whole and small group settings are facilitated by students and consistently involve all students in academic discourse among students.

«The whole point of the project is to allow kids to get to know each other before they go through their exchange,» says Trevena, who initiated the project after a dinner conversation with a group of teachers from both Modesto's school district and the Japanese school.

We've talked with lots of educators who get back to us a year later and say, «We're having whole different kinds of conversations in our school now.»

Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award is designed to recognize schools that that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole cWhole Child Award is designed to recognize schools that that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole cwhole child.

«By promoting the development of the whole child throughout their culture, Butterfield Trail Middle School has changed the conversation about education,» said Delisle.

This award acknowledges those schools that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child, making sure each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

Engage in conversations with representatives from each school about what it takes to design equitable learning experiences and engage the whole child in deeper learning.

«The way we talk about race is a piece of [the school leaders] asking us to bring our whole selves to our teaching, which makes us feel like we can bring our whole selves to those conversations with other teachers,» said one of my son's teacher, Michael Gervais.

The Whole Child Podcast: Changing the Conversation About Education seeks to inform and engage educators, parents, community members — and you — about what works in today's schools.

ASCD's newest Policy Priorities issue brief, «A Lexicon for Educating the Whole Child (and Preparing the Whole Adult),» examines education terms and philosophies — including character education, school climate, social - emotional learning, and 21st century skills — to provide clarity and enable thoughtful conversations on these key issues.

This award acknowledges those schools that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child: a child who is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

That same whole - child approach became central to conversations about the design of a new alternative high school that the district planned to launch, said Principal Lyle.

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.

But the whole «where you go next» conversation before you even assure that students have those common baseline schools and that common baseline knowledge seems like it's harming students more than we're helping them.

As an outsider to the school but certainly no stranger to its culture, Tehrani plans «to expand [the architecture school's] conversations with the schools of Art and Engineering, and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, to catalyze the broadening of architectural discourse within the institution as a whole.»

This award acknowledges those schools that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child: a child who is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

The session will outline ASCD's Whole Child Initiative efforts to change the conversation about education and move from a vision for educating the whole child to action that results in successful, well - rounded young people, ensuring that each child, in each school, in each community — and in each country — is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challeWhole Child Initiative efforts to change the conversation about education and move from a vision for educating the whole child to action that results in successful, well - rounded young people, ensuring that each child, in each school, in each community — and in each country — is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challewhole child to action that results in successful, well - rounded young people, ensuring that each child, in each school, in each community — and in each country — is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.