Service-learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience‚ teach civic responsibility‚ and strengthen communities. It’s coordinated with an elementary school‚ secondary school‚ institution of higher education‚ or community service programs‚ and with the community. Service Learning is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students or the educational components of the community service
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a health professional will have to perform when he or she is a nurse in an elementary school. The school nurse does more than take a child’s temperature when they aren’t feeling well. The nurse has to have certain characteristics that will help with all the things that happen in the day in the life of a school nurse. From emergencies to screenings to meetings with parents‚ the nurse of an elementary‚ middle or high school has to have a variety of vital skills and characteristics to make them perform
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Cooper Elementary School 95688 Cooper Elementary School is located in Vacaville‚ California. Cooper has classes for grades kindergarten through sixth grade. Children in these grade are preparing themselves for middle school and must develop critical thinking skills to be successful. Precausal thinking and preoperational thinking skills are learned during these early years (McLeod‚ 2010). Cooper has many programs that are developing and honing these and other skills in preparation for higher grade
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that “students in elementary schools and high schools been taught a history that demeans American Indians”. When I was in elementary school (I went to kindergarten in 1990)‚ students where taught that the pilgrims came over on the Mayflower in 1620. Than shortly after making landing they lived in a harmonious co-existence with the Native American peoples. After receiving what could be called an extremely “white washed” or “sugarcoated” version of early American History‚ high school students (I went
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I interviewed Dan Carter‚ principal at Heritage Elementary School to gain a better understanding of how Heritage Elementary School’s budget is determined‚ how funds are allocated‚ and the timeline in which a budget has to be developed and finalized. In referring to School District Budgeting (Hartman‚ 2003)‚ I concluded that my district uses a centralized approach to budgeting. Many decisions are made at the district level by our Business Manager‚ Steve Summers and Superintendent‚ Randy Guttenburg
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Hawthorne Avenue Elementary School is located in Newark‚ New Jersey. The address of Hawthorne Ave is 428 Hawthorne Ave. Their mission statement is “ “The single greatest effect on student achievement is not a race‚ not poverty; it is the effectiveness of the teachers.” Therefore‚ the administration‚ teachers‚ staff‚ and parents of Hawthorne Avenue School are committed to providing a stimulating‚ structured‚ and safe learning environment that ensures the delivery of high- quality instruction with
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When I first started school at the very young age of six I remember stepping through the stone threshold and into a huge elementary school with diverse attributes like height‚ nationality‚ personality and race. It was amazing to see all the diverse people at the school including myself! I thought to myself that I wouldn’t fit into school with the other kindergarteners at first but I actually did because most of the kids in my class lived in my neighborhood. It felt so awesome to be in a diverse class
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individual who is motivated by a sense of calling and purpose‚ focused on what schools can be‚ and guided by a mission that has the best interests of all students at its core.” (Trump‚ p. 43) When I read that quote‚ I was saddened for my school‚ the place where my heart has lived for nine years. Christy Johnston‚ as principal of Southaven Elementary School‚ has the potential to be a phenomenal leader‚ and the school has the capacity to be great! She graduated with her Specialist in Educational
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Recently‚ in Upper Darby School District‚ one major issue has been the less than adequate performance scores on standardized testing in the literature area. Most of the elementary schools‚ and middle schools‚ have been decreasing in their scores in the reading and language arts content areas on tests like the MAP tests. However‚ students are exceeding expectations on the math and science portions of the test. When a student starts out elementary school with a poor basis in reading‚ they are already
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I never had a problem with the color of my skin until I entered elementary school. Thankfully‚ I’ve never encountered any severe forms of racism‚ but I couldn’t shake off the feeling that I was coming up short. That maybe I wasn’t as talented as the other kids at school. In hindsight‚ I definitely had potential‚ but at the moment‚ I felt like I was below average. Both my elementary school and my middle school were predominantly Caucasian. The town itself wasn’t very diverse and my mother was never
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