#national public school

[npskudlu]

Walkathon Celebrated with great energy at National Public School - Kudlu.

National Public School Kudlu celebrated republic day in a special way. They organised a walkathon on 28th January to mark the occasion. The chief guests of the event were Sri Sundaraiah Shadakshari the Chairman of Ramanashree groups and Shrimathi Aruna Shadakshari director of Ramanashree Groups. And special guests were Shrimathi Jeevitha N founder and president of Milestone Charitable Trust and Shrimathi Nagarathna M Malagai deputy Director KSAAD.

The Walkathon conducted by National Public School located at HSR Layout was a great initiative to create awareness about physical fitness and also about the Republic Day. The event was attended by over 150 students, parents and teachers. 

The walkathon began at 9 am with few inspiring words from the host at Birla circle, kids and parents were very much thrilled wearing their white T- shirts for the Walkathon. Physical fitness is an essential component for a healthy lifestyle. It also helps to improve mental health and quality of our life. Therefore, walking is one of the best forms of exercise. 

Walkathon is a fun way of encouraging people to get involved in physical activity. The finish point was at National Public School Kudlu. The covered distance was around 1.6kms. 

The formal event began with a lamp lighting and the Principal of National Public School Kudlu, addressed the gathering. Kids enthusiastically participated in the drawing competition and won prizes for their drawings. Chief guest of the event Sri Sundaraiah Shadakshari spoke about his life experiences and also about the importance of physical fitness and republic day experience’s and also about the importance of physical fitness and republic day. 

The walkathon event conducted by NPS Kudlu for the occasion of Republic Day was a grand success. The event was well-attended by kids, their families, and other members of the community. The event was organised to promote physical fitness and to celebrate the Republic Day. The event included a 1.6km walk from Birla circle. The participants were enthusiastic and motivated to complete the walk. The event was complemented with music and other fun activities, making it a memorable experience for everyone. The event was a great success, with everyone having a great time and appreciating the efforts of the organisers.

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[nandana]

Exemplary Education provided to High School students by National Public school

At NPS Bannerghatta, we offer an exemplary high school education that has been tailored to the exact needs of our students. Our curriculum is affiliated with CBSE and follows a flexible approach so as to allow students to learn in the best possible way. We believe that students should not only have excellent academic knowledge but also grow physically, intellectually, emotionally, and ethically. Keeping this goal in mind, we offer physical education and health classes on a rotating schedule, helping our students develop healthy habits and stay fit.

Moreover, as one of the best CBSE Schools in South Bangalore, our board endorses innovative teaching methods which are student-centred. This means that our teachers motivate their pupils to be independent and take control of their own learning. The classroom activities focus on imparting critical reasoning skills, problem-solving strategies as well as thinking abilities so that students are able to exercise their minds in more creative ways. Similarly, formative feedback is provided by teachers for each class in order to ensure that all students are making progress at their own pace.

At NPS Bannerghatta, a CBSE school near Bannerghatta we believe that it is essential for us to create a learning environment which encourages the growth of young minds and helps them discover their true potential. Therefore, we have incorporated modern teaching practices such as flipped classrooms and use of technology in lessons which help foster creative thinking among our students. Additionally, we also have various extracurricular activities like music/art classes, sports tournaments etc., which provide ample opportunities for overall development of our pupils apart from academics.

To sum up, we strive to provide quality education at NPS Bannerghatta by focusing on both cognitive as well as mental development of our students through personalized learning experiences and modern pedagogical approaches. Henceforth making us one of the best CBSE schools near Bannerghatta road with excellent academic standards!

[reasonsforhope]

"Growing up, Mackenzee Thompson always wanted a deeper connection with her tribe and culture.

The 26-year-old member of the Choctaw Nation said she grew up outside of her tribe’s reservation and wasn’t sure what her place within the Indigenous community would be.

Through a first-of-its-kind program, Thompson said she’s now figured out how she can best serve her people — as a doctor.

Thompson is graduating as part of the inaugural class from Oklahoma State University’s College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation. It’s the first physician training program on a Native American reservation and in affiliation with a tribal government, according to school and tribal officials.

“I couldn’t even have dreamed this up,” she said. “To be able to serve my people and learn more about my culture is so exciting. I have learned so much already.”

Thompson is one of nine Native graduates, who make up more than 20 percent of the class of 46 students, said Dr. Natasha Bray, the school’s dean. There are an additional 15 Native students graduating from the school’s Tulsa campus.

The OSU-COM graduates include students from 14 different tribes, including Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Alaska Native, Caddo, and Osage.

Bray said OSU partnered with the Cherokee Nation to open the school in 2020 to help erase the shortage of Indigenous doctors nationwide. There are about 841,000 active physicians practicing in the United States. Of those, nearly 2,500 — or 0.3 percent — are Native American, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

When American Indian and Alaska Native people visit Indian Health Service clinics, there aren’t enough doctors or nurses to provide “quality and timely health care,” according to a 2018 report from the Government Accountability Office. On average, a quarter of IHS provider positions — from physicians to nurses and other care positions –are vacant.

“These students here are going to make a generational impact,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. told the students days before graduation. “There is such a need in this state and in this region for physicians and this school was created out of a concern about the pipeline of doctors into our health system.”

The Cherokee Nation spent $40 million to build the college in its capital of Tahlequah. The walls of the campus feature artifacts of Cherokee culture as well as paintings to remember important figures from Cherokee history. An oath of commitment on the wall is written in both English and Cherokee.

The physician training program was launched in the first year of the pandemic.

Bray said OSU and Cherokee leadership felt it was important to have the school in the heart of the Cherokee Nation, home to more than 141,000 people, because students would be able to get experience treating Indigenous patients. In Tahlequah, students live and study in a small town about an hour east of Tulsa with a population of less than 24,000 people.

“While many students learn about the problems facing these rural communities,” Bray said. “Our students are getting to see them firsthand and learn from those experiences.”

While students from the college are free to choose where to complete their residency after graduation, an emphasis is placed on serving rural and Indigenous areas of the country.

There’s also a severe lack of physicians in rural America, a shortage that existed before the COVID-19 pandemic. The Association of American Medical Colleges has projected that rural counties could see a shortage between 37,800 and 124,000 physicians by 2034. An additional 180,000 doctors would be needed in rural counties and other underserved populations to make up the difference.

Bray said OSU saw an opportunity to not only help correct the underrepresentation of Native physicians but also fill a workforce need to help serve and improve health care outcomes in rural populations.

“We knew we’d need to identify students who had a desire to serve these communities and also stay in these communities,” she said.

Osteopathic doctors, or DOs, have the same qualifications and training as allopathic doctors, or MDs, but the two types of doctors attend different schools. While MDs learn from traditional programs, DOs take on additional training at osteopathic schools that focus on holistic medicine, like how to reduce patient discomfort by physically manipulating muscles and bones. DOs are more likely to work in primary care and rural areas to help combat the health care shortages in those areas.

As part of the curriculum, the school invited Native elders and healers to help teach students about Indigenous science and practices...

Thompson said she was able to bring those experiences into her appointments. Instead of asking only standard doctor questions, she’s been getting curious and asking about her patient’s diets, and if they are taking any natural remedies.

“It’s our mission to be as culturally competent as we can,” she said. “Learning this is making me not only a better doctor but helping patients trust me more.”

-via PBS NewsHour, May 23, 2024

[madhuin]

Emphasis On Music Classes at NPS

Music is to the soul what words are to the mind.  Numerous researches conducted over the years by educationists and neurophysiologists have demonstrated that music has a significant impact on human development, particularly on children’s cognitive and physical growth.  This is one of the main reasons that schools have introduced music classes.  NPS Vidyaranyapura is one of the top schools in North Bangalore where, like other subjects, equal emphasis is given to music.

It is believed that exposure to music, particularly when children are toddlers or even before they are born, has a profound effect on the cerebral cortex area. It develops neural connections in the brain that help people comprehend language and the outside world more quickly and easily. 

It would be surprising to know how playing musical instruments will affect a child if just listening to music has such a profound effect. When a kid studies music at school, there are several advantages.  Music is an integral part of the school curriculum at NPS Vidyaranyapura because it promotes improved brain development, personal connection, academic improvement, social interaction, and stress reduction.

 Benefits of music classes at school

Enhances learning skills:  Because music is strongly connected to our everyday speech, school music programmes aid in and promote language development.  By recognising that the same region of the brain that supports language and learning also supports music, one may comprehend why music, learning, and languages are so closely intertwined.

Reduces stress:  Students are likely to have a certain amount of stress due to various reasons such as competitive spirit to top the class, fluctuating results, exam preparation, etc.  This may be stressful emotionally and physically.  For this reason, the best CBSE schools in North Bangalore conduct music programmes which can aid students in lowering stress and reducing physical health problems.  Students who participate in music lessons at their schools can relax and concentrate on their studies by synchronising their movements with the beats.

Improves problem-solving skills:  Music education aids in the development of cognitive skills. According to research, the same area of the brain that is activated by music is also involved in problem-solving and finding solutions.

Cognitive skills:  Everybody has a favourite song they can always recall, and some songs or melodies stick in our thoughts for a very long period, triggering memories of the events they were involved with. This demonstrates how effectively music improves our memory.  Music plays a significant role in improving memory retention.  NPS Vidyaranyapura, one of the top schools in North Bangalore, considers that students who listen to music have better memories and retain information.

Team spirit:  National School Public has always encouraged teamwork.  In order to learn music in the classroom, students must collaborate with other students in groups. This is an efficient method for teaching children collaboration and social skills.  Students who participate in teams or bands collaborate during both rehearsals and performances. This exposes the students to teamwork.

Some of the music activities for students at NPS include, playing an instrument, singing, dance, etc.

Conclusion:

It’s crucial to understand that music is both inexpensive and enjoyable. Students might also benefit from its therapeutic and mental effects. These characteristics make it appealing to both parents and students. The benefits of music become clear as we talk about it more.

Undoubtedly, music has always played a significant role in societies and civilizations. Every praise, whether to God, nature or even humanity, has been expressed musically, demonstrating the value that has been placed on music.

It is for these reasons that National Public School, Vidyaranyapura emphasises music equally as other academics.  This is due to our belief that music has the ability to transform our students into moral individuals who can positively impact the world.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." W.E.B. Du Bois.

[puppppppppy]

the shyest creature on earth dreams of art streaming

[prettyboysdontlookatexplosions]

In an age that witnessed considerable support for social improvement, public schools often took center stage. By the 1830s, a chorus of reform-minded people began to sing the praises of free, tax-supported schools: Thaddeus Stevens, later a prominent Republican activist in Pennsylvania; Catharine Beecher, advocate of more educational opportunities for women; Caleb Mills, an evangelical minister who later became Indiana's leading common school advocate; and even notable Southerners, who faced the greatest opposition and whose efforts bore the least fruit. Enthusiasm for social improvement through education flourished. Since the turn of the century, countless pamphlets, speeches, reports, petitions, testimonials, newspaper editorials, books, and articles had promoted the importance of education in a republic. A few dozen educational periodicals also popularized the cause of learning by promoting a class-inclusive school system, especially for white children.

In Philadelphia, New York, and other cities, the editors of workingmen's newspaper - the voice of the skilled artisan minority - despaired over the fate of youth as apprenticeships declined and unskilled factory labor increased; they endorsed instituting a common system and eliminating the stigma attached to free schools. "I think that no such thing as charities should be instituted for the instruction of youth," wrote one articulate worker in the Mechanics' Free Press in Philadelphia in 1828. He favored free schools dependent not on "private charities" but "founded and supported by the government itself." One Ohioan added, "Unless the Common Schools can be made to educate the whole people, the poor as well as the rich, they are not worthy of the support of the patriot or the philanthropist." "Give to education... a clear field and fair play," said a recent immigrant in A Treatise on American Popular Education in 1839, "and your poor houses, lazarettos, and hospitals will stand empty, your prisons and penitentiaries will lack inmates, and the whole country will be filled with wise, industrious, and happy inhabitants. Immorality, vice and crime, disease, misery and poverty, will vanish from our regions, and morality, virtue and fidelity, with health, prosperity, and abundance, will make their permanent home among us.”

Born in an age when millennial ideals, such as universal peace and prosperity following Christ's imminent return to earth, influenced wide sectors of the population, the common schools became a useful barometer of the extensive social changes that transformed the nation before the Civil War. Cities, factories, and foreign immigration generated moral panic and social fears among many northern reformers, whose search for solutions to public ills centered on a more expansive public school system. Reflecting the contradictory passions of the reformers, schools not only favored greater access to literacy and academic study but simultaneously downplayed intellectual achievement by elevating the moral aims of instruction. America's ambivalent attitude toward the life of the mind and scholarship thus found expression in the nation's emerging school system, where character development and moral uplift took precedence even as lifeless instruction in academic subjects predominated. Setting a pattern that long endured, reform-minded citizens increasingly assumed that individual welfare and social progress depended on an extensive network of public schools.

william j. reese, america's public schools from the common school to "no child left behind"

[cockroach-the-eternal]

Sebastian the Last Airbender

[blackangelism]

dpskmun '24 - day 1...

[rotzaprachim]

anyway the construct of the US as a monolingual anglophone nation is on multiple levels a white supremacist construct long before it is a reality

[prince--kiriona]

man i really need to find and read more nonfiction about romani/traveller experiences because i feel like it's the one thing that will keep me from feeling Insane about how i was treated growing up

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Emily Singer at Daily Kos:

Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters defended on Monday his decision to force his state’s public schools to show students a video in which he spews right-wing rhetoric and asks students to pray for Donald Trump. Walters told CNN’s Pamela Brown that his video is following through on Donald Trump's call for bringing prayer back to schools. "President Trump has a clear mandate. He wants prayer back in school. He wants radical leftism out of the classroom, wants our kids to be patriotic, wants parents back in charge with school choice," Walters said, avoiding Brown’s question about what authority he has to demand students be shown his Christian nationalist prayer. "We are acting upon that agenda here in Oklahoma. That's what our parents want. Every county in Oklahoma voted for President Trump. His agenda is crystal clear, and we're going to enact it in the state of Oklahoma."

[...] The email linked to this video, in which Walters criticizes the “radical left” and “woke teachers’ unions,” adding, “I pray for our leaders to make the right decisions. I pray, in particular, for President Donald Trump.” (In the video, placed on the desk before Walters are a Bible and a coffee mug with the Latin phrase “Si vis pacem, para bellum,” or “If you want peace, prepare for war.”) Many of the state's largest school districts aren't showing the video, which seemingly violates the Constitution's separation of church and state.

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s chief indoctrinator and culture wars-obsessed mascot, is rightfully facing backlash for forcing public schools across the state to show a video of him leading prayer for fascist-elect Donald Trump.

See Also:

LGBTQ Nation: MAGA education official orders schools to play video of him praying for Donald Trump

From the 11.18.2024 edition of CNN's CNN Newsroom:

[commonsensecommentary]

If you are teaching less—and students are learning less—be sure to move the goalposts in order to hide it from the public. Students are happy. Teachers are happy. Parents are happy. School administrators are happy. And America continues to slip behind our economic competitors while we remain blissfully ignorant.

[orcelito]

God, this is fucking crazy

So i only have 3 more classes to take, but it'll cost the same to take 3 classes as 4 classes. So I've been thinking about taking a 4th class just for the hell of it. Something fun and/or easy.

Out of curiosity, I looked up orchestras. I was in it in my first year, but I haven't consistently played since 2016. But I still dream about being in an orchestra again. I *miss it*. So I was like. Well, what if *that* was my 4th class next semester? What If?

I looked it up. This week is the last week they're doing auditions for it. There was only one more spot free after today. And that's *tomorrow evening*.

I haven't really played my violin much in YEARS. I'm so out of practice. But apparently they don't reject anyone outright. Auditions are just for placement. So worst case scenario, I get placed in an orchestra at a lower skill level than I was at my prime. It'd still be an orchestra.

It's crazy short notice, but I don't think I'd forgive myself if I passed it up. Bc I have just one more semester before I graduate. One last opportunity to be in a school orchestra. And if I didn't do this, I'd be left with that What If forever.

So. Crazy short notice, but I have a violin audition tomorrow!!! Hahahaha