Sentences with phrase «active learning climate»

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For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

At Nolan, a climate and culture is being established that fosters student ownership of learning as students become active participants in both thinking and doing in partnership with their teachers.

Those include rates of chronic absenteeism and measures of school climate and active parent involvement — vital indicators, they said, of conditions needed for successful learning.

Alberta is an active partner of The Climate Group's Energy Transition Platform, which connects 11 highly industrialized, carbon - intensive states and regions to share their experiences and successes — so they can learn from each other and create the most effective climate poClimate Group's Energy Transition Platform, which connects 11 highly industrialized, carbon - intensive states and regions to share their experiences and successes — so they can learn from each other and create the most effective climate poclimate policies.

The key lesson to be learnt is that not only must scientific knowledge about climate change be publicly owned - the IPCC does a fair job of this according to its own terms - but that in the new century of digital communication and an active citizenry, the very practices of scientific enquiry must also be publicly owned.

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