References: Bagin, D., Gallagher, D.R., & Moore, E.H. (2008). The School and Community Relations. Boston,…
Introduction: Whenever a parent gets a call from their kid's school, it is always something to be nervous about. Most of the time, it is about a fight or a problem with the student. When most parents pick up the phone, they assume that there is a serious issue going on. Connie Sowards was like most parents. From the moment she saw who the…
In this article Jerika Miller, age 17, is interviewed regarding her experience at William Smith High School, and how she believes that other high schools can be turned around like William Smith from failing high schools to successful ones. Having moved around and changed schools often, Jerika found William Smith to be a good school, and settled there for 3 years. She says that the reason she liked William Smith better that the other schools, was because it was more personal. The students are not just ID numbers, but individuals with names. Everyone knew everyone and wanted to know what was going on in each others’ lives. This school also put an emphasis on community.…
We have many families who need assistance in areas not related to education. Their children come to school hungry, dirty, and unprepared. Some students even use the facilities to shower because they do not have running water. It becomes difficult to focus on education when our school has to “provide breakfasts and lunches, help families find housing and health care...the effects of untreated physical and mental illness, and the large gaps in children’s readiness that exist at entry to school” (Darling-Hammond, 2010). Sometimes it’s enough that the students made it to school, and we do our best to meet those basic…
The school is “committed to doing all that we can to ensure that the children in our care are healthy, safe and enjoy emotional well-being. We also have a fundamental duty of care to the adults who work in and visit our school”.…
The Forest Hill Formation is a geological area that mainly stretches from west-central to southeastern Mississippi, but thins right at the border of and barely touches Clarke County, Alabama (Echols, et al., 1893). Geologist Ephraim Nobel Lowe originally proposed the name Madison Sands for this formation, due to the fact that he had studied it in Madison County, Mississippi. The name was later changed to Forest Hill by Charles Wythe Cooke. The Forest Hill Formation overlies the Red Bluff Formation in eastern Mississippi and disconformably overlies the Yazoo Formation in western and central Mississippi (MacNeil, et al., 1984). In southeastern Mississippi and southwestern Alabama this formation overlies the Red Bluff Clay and the…
Audience: This article may have been directed to confused students and parents. To explain what was going on that Friday.…
To fulfill my three-hour field experience, I observed in Kristen Yenchak’s Emotional Support (BASD) classroom at Bloomsburg Middle School, on September 21, 2016 from 11:00am – 3:00pm. Kristen Yenchak’s classroom was made up of nine students ranging from sixth to eighth grade. There were also two paraprofessionals in the classroom to help students when they came to the class and also go and assist students while they are in general education classes. By having two paraprofessionals and one teacher in the classroom it allowed for the class to have instructional sizes of 1:1 or 1:3. All nine students except for one student only came to the class for homeroom, one other period of the day, and right before dismissal. The only other time these students…
Once again 8th graders get a chance to go down to the Kindergarten to do activities with the younger students. This allows the Kindergarten teacher to have some help and allows the younger kids to interact with “The Big Kids.”…
For this assignment I decided to go walk around and spend some times in downtown Greensboro. There was not much happening downtown Saturday afternoon. I stumbled upon everyone in Greensboro who did not want to be photographed. I hope to have better luck next time.While I was wandering around downtown I noticed a guy riding a bike. He was doing some tricks and I was so excited to capture an image of him riding in the middle of the street. However, by the time I got close enough he had stopped and did not want to ride anymore. He let me take a couple of images of him sitting on his bike before he no longer wanted to be photographed. He was sitting in the perfect place because the walls around were a light color which worked to light his face…
A supply teacher is working in a Foundation Stage class alongside two regular staff members. The children are welcoming and happy because the teacher was warned them about the change . The teacher encourages them to welcome visitors to their nursery and has told them how proud she is of the way they make visitors feel welcome…
As a girl growing up in Moreno Valley, California, it was not easy overcoming the challenges I faced. Being raised in the “worst part” of town, meant I was destined to be nothing in life. Though these are what the statistics told me, I believed otherwise. I attended the “ghetto” schools of the school district in Moreno Valley, but nothing came close to Moreno Valley High School.…
The curriculum-all of the activities and experiences-of my classroom should include certain “basics” that contribute to children’s social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development. These basics include……
I am let in the children world now; they completely trust me and don’t fear me. I stepped in the classroom today and from the door the children said –“Hello”, and smiled. Child S. even gave me a hug. We had 4 indoor activities set for them today, promoting physical, creative and social development. They enjoyed them very much.…
In Lynda Barry’s narrative essay,“The Sanctuary of School,” Barry describes how schools have become a refuge for neglected children across the country, as well as how the ongoing budget, and extracurricular cuts are destroying their refuge. Barry grew up in a neglectful household, which she stated, “The high levels of frustration, depression, and anger in my house made my brother and me invisible,”(pg 1). Being a young child at that time, Barry could only rely on receiving attention at school, since she was nonexistent in her own household. One early morning, Barry arrived at her school before sunrise and was able to assist her school’s janitor. As she continued to aid the janitor, she was…