Presentation Of The Philadelphia Elementary School Plan

School shootings are a common occurrence on daily news. Students shouldn’t terrify going to school with the mindset that a shooter will show up with intention of killing people. Ideally, students leave home for school to learn, and not worried someone will come in and shoot everyone. When I was younger I would go to the bathroom worried a shooter would enter my school leaving me alone in a life or death situation. School security improvement is extremely important because children should feel safe and never in danger. Also, schools need better ways of helping children feel safe when they come for six hours everyday. More could be done for students, not only as prevention from shootings occurring but from relieving young children of unnecessary anxiety.

The main focus with the school system is for each and everyone to feel safe.

We have to provide multiple opportunities for students to grow and learn. We need to be a culturally diverse school district that accepts everyone and encourages a pluralistic culture. We need to work together with our

Matthew Countryman, in this chapter, showed how the Black Power movement in Philadelphia was successfully able to challenge the Board of Education and bring about some changes in community schools. He also discussed how the violence that occurred in the late 1960s was not just a result of black radical activism but also the result of white support for institutional racism. Countryman provided pictorial and, most likely, scholarly evidence to back up his claim. The pictorial evidence he provided was a picture of high school students on their way to the Board of Education during the mass student protest that took place on the 17th of November 1967. He cited a lot of his sources and although I was unable to peruse his bibliography, I think, based on the level of detail in the chapter, that he must have had scholarly sources like newspapers reports (on page 232, he mentioned the Greater Philadelphia Magazine) and historical documents.

Changing demographics might impact children and the way they will learn. Children learn and start to develop a sense of the world at an early age. How does a center meet the needs of these new families when they come from a demographic where those households were the norm at their center. Children and families rely on the facilities to create and welcome their diversity. Centers and Schools are realizing that demographic trends are changing and that working together with families in creating a welcoming environment in order to embrace their diversity to protect the children’s well-being.

Today when you look at our country you think of it a somewhat of a melting pot or a mixed and diverse population. When you look at the populations, even in small towns you see multiple different races and cultures. This then leads to our workforce where you see that same type of diverse culture entering the workforce in the communities they live in and the ones around them. Our workforce hasn’t only changed to multicultural, it also has more and more woman as well.. If we look back 50 years you see that woman and individuals with a race other than caucasian had a very hard time finding a place

The Ministry of Education in Ontario recognizes and encourages diversity of schools in the province through Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy. School boards across the province have been enforcing equity related policies to “establish conditions that promote inclusive education and support equity” (Ministry of Education 2009). This strategy calls for all school boards to “develop and implement equity and inclusive education policy and guidelines for the board and its schools” (Ministry of Education 2009). The Toronto District School Board, in particular, has developed a positive space initiative that is part of Ontario’s

Currently, I am student teaching at Alfred E. Zampella PS #27 School in the district of Jersey City. The school is located in a busy city, next to John F. Kennedy St. which is especially busy in the morning and during rush hour. This results in several late students on a day to day basis. On the other hand, this school is also highly accessible and as a little over a thousand students. The school has grade levels from kindergarten to 8th grade, and has a mix of general, special, and inclusion education classrooms. Typically, families that enroll their students into this school are of lower-middle socio-economic class, and tend to be majority Hispanic, Indian, and African American, with few Caucasians and Asians. This school provides a variety of special programs for their ESL students and special need students. Students may be offered speech language pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, ESL programs, reading recovery, and counseling.

The purpose of this strategic diversity plan is to ensure Lamar County School District is abiding by its mission to provide a quality education with opportunities for all students to experience success. Recognizing a deficiency in our district, such as a lack of addressing learning obstacles for Hispanic/Latino students, is important to address so all students are successful attaining an quality education. Reaffirming the district’s core values of equality, mutual respect, lifelong learning, honesty, and responsibility will enable the district to relay these values to all of our students, including this group, to provide knowledge in this continuously diverse

Taking into account the growing amount of diversity in Luther College’s student body population, I believe it would be tremendous feat for the college to take advantage of it’s opportunity to be leaders in the collegiate world by educating it’s faculty and staff on how to effectively welcome students of diverse populations. This could be achieved by first having workshops required for all faculty and staff on how to provide safe classroom and work settings to students of diverse races, ethnicities, geographical locations, gender and sexual orientations. To provide these safe environments faculty and staff could be shown more suitable ways to communicate with students so that they don’t feel singled out, offended, or of less importance than

I enjoyed reading, “Welcoming Schools: Small Changes That Can Make a Big Difference” because I found a variety of helpful tips that can be implemented easily within any school. Every strategy outlined by the authors were little, simple steps that teachers can use to create a more welcoming environment for parents and families, which is such an important aspect of our jobs as educators. When one has the support of the parents and families, that makes a world of a difference regarding that child’s success in school. The authors even stated within the article that if families feel welcomed within the school and feel like they are able to participate their “children’s attendance, interest, motivation, general achievement, and reading achievement

Our schools are becoming more and more diverse, posing a serious disparity amongst school staffs. A school staffs demographics should mirror that of its student body.

As a school system it is important to be proactive in planning for the educational needs of the students in the Applegate Public School System (APS). As a result of land developers being approved by the town council zoning board to build several townhome complexes, a new school needs to be built to accommodate the families that will be moving into those houses. The elementary school in the area that has been approved by the town council and zoning board is already at its maximum capacity. In order to prudently deal with the inevitable increase in she student population a strategic

Today there have been several devastating acts of school shootings that traumatizes the minds of staff and student . One of the examples of an bullied victim retaliation is of the kids from the Columbine shooting, where two kids who were bullied went on a murderous shooting rampage killing the lives of many at their schools and taking their own. Things like the Columbine shooting makes students afraid and scared to go to school. Schools today need to become a safe environment for students not a place of fear. There shouldn’t be one child in the United States to be afraid to go to school. Today Teachers, Principles, need to develop a plan to minimize the bullying and let students know they are safe and should not be in any type of fear when they cross through the doors of the school

School should be a community that is warm, respectful, and open. Students spend approximately 30 hours a week in the classroom and it is imperative they are able to