Sentences with phrase «adults leading this change»

Personalized learning is not just about how a student learns, but about how the interactions change between district office and schools, and how we organize those adults leading this change.

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This information and the improved understanding of what we had been doing led us to stop prescribing sex - change operations for adults at Hopkins — much, I'm glad to say, to the relief of several of our plastic surgeons who had previously been commandeered to carry out the procedures.

Sadly, much of the work focuses on children who have been exposed to neglect where high levels of stress hormones coupled with minimum adult interaction has resulted in permanent changes in their brain structure leading to impaired emotional wellbeing and difficulty in adjusting to stress and anxiety in adulthood (Rutter 1989 et al).

«We know that this leads to fraudulent applications and that is why things are going to change this year, starting with first - time adult customers.»

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

«In short,» said Pandey, «epigenetic reprogramming in the brain due to early life experiences or exposure to alcohol can lead to the changes in gene functions and predispose an individual to adult psychopathology.»

«Early life exposure to lead causes a long lasting impact on gut microbiome, and the change of gut microbiome may partially contribute to the increased body weight in adult life,» said lead author Chuanwu Xi, associate professor of environmental health science.

Rates of major depression, a psychiatric condition marked by intense sadness, hopelessness, insomnia and a general loss of interest or pleasure, don't markedly change from one season to another among U.S. adults, says a team led by psychologist Steven LoBello of Auburn University at Montgomery in...

For older adults, changes in physical condition and life circumstances can lead to changes for the worse in financial behavior, putting their well - being in danger.

Rising temperatures could lead to a sex change avalanche that pushes populations — and perhaps the entire species — towards a society without adult males.

She's now working on a new game, «Suddenly Cute,» in which players learn how small changes early in a vertebrate's embryonic development can lead to big differences in adults.

«These changes have occurred in the context of substantial increases in the proportion of adults reporting no leisure - time physical activity, but in the absence of any significant population - level changes in average daily caloric intake,» explains lead investigator Uri Ladabaum, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), Stanford University School of Medicine.

With these findings we can now formulate a plausible hypothesis as to why repeat head injuries to young men in their teens and 20s lead to personality changes later in adult life and dementia in old age: rotational head injury induces damage, especially around blood vessels, leading to local tangle formation, followed by a slow spread of destruction.

Since the brain circuitry is highly plastic, also in adult life, these reactions will lead to changes in the properties in these connected parts of the brain circuitry that can become emented, which may inhibit recovery.

My studies of cancer genomes have led to characterization of multiple pediatric and adult tumor types, to development of methods that identify and characterize changes in genomic heterogeneity, to defining acquired resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies and to designing novel, personalized vaccines for individual patients.

Many of these pathways are shared with humans and are affected in various disease conditions, suggesting constraint in the genetic pathways that can lead to change in adult form.

Older adults can become malnourished due to a variety of changes; taste receptors dull with aging; limitations in mobility make cooking more cumbersome, leading to canned soup or cereal as a «main»; losses of partners and peers lead to social circle diminishment and depression, making one's world smaller and less interesting.

Addison finds a few leads and follows them linearly to a conclusion, whose moral seems to be that life really can be as cruelly random as it seems to teens who, like Addison, frequently feel impotent to effect change in the adult world.

Obviously the points covered will change depending on what is set up within the area or if you have an adult led session going on.

It's important to leverage students» ability to lead their peers, and with adult guidance and trust, students are well positioned to make positive change.

Their most critical tasks are «leading organizational change, creating cultures of learning for the adults in the building, and leading instructional improvement for the children» — and «none of those sophisticated organizational changes and management issues are things they've been prepared for.»

If we want teaching and learning to change, how we interact between the school district office and school and how we organize the adults that are leading this change has to be different.

Only that misconception could lead adults to go on strike, thrusting chaos and untenable choices on the most vulnerable families least able to cope with abrupt changes in the routines of their children.

Leading Change Together explains how you and other adult learners can effect tremendous change in schools and syChange Together explains how you and other adult learners can effect tremendous change in schools and sychange in schools and systems.

We support leaders to deepen their leadership skills and knowledge of instruction, adult learning, and change processes in order to lead transformation and accelerate student learning.

These «change agents» may serve on committees, lead trainings and courses for their peers and adults, and initiate and share decision - making throughout education.

This next process that must happen if we are seeking college readiness is a very granular look at what does it mean in terms of changes in adult practice that are gonna lead to really significant changes in what students can do?

Sung - Ae joins Transcend having worked in education for about 14 years and comes with a wealth of experience in designing curriculum, coaching and leading teams, designing and executing adult learning and development and change management.

The Center believes district leaders are key to leading systemic change and redesigning their districts to foster adult and student learning.

All disruptive innovative solutions will ultimately lead to the need to change teacher and administrative behavior which is incredibly challenging in a system that typically changes everything around adults.

Meaningful Student Involvement changes can be apparent in school when students and adults address personal challenges and organizational barriers together, leading to healthier, more school democratic cultures where everyone can be engaged as partners.

Ultimately, I have discovered that we can change all the rules we want, but until the hearts and minds of adults leading the system at any level — teachers, cafeteria managers, building principals, district administrators, or boards of education — are changed, policies and rules do not really matter.

Stirling's argument rests on assuming that climate change has lead to poor condition of adult bears (possible) and that this has translated into a higher likelihood that they will cannibalize to offset their hunger (unknown).

Meant to be like a youth version of Braasch's Earth Under Fire: How Global Warming Is Changing the World, this beautifully photographed global guide offers a look at how research in diverse fields leads to an understanding of the warming climate — and what children and adults are doing about it.

At the county level, climate differences led to a ± 4 percent change in the percentage of adults in a county that believed climate change was real.

Benchmark cases successfully litigated by Leopold and his firm include those that led to significant improvements in automotive safety, including safer child seatbelt restraint systems, SUV stability and handling, safer tires and to significant changes in the managed care industry that resulted in greater access to care and treatment for catastrophically ill children and adults.

For adult clients, through developing understanding of ADHD, depression and / or anxiety, I help clients make changes in their thoughts, feelings, and actions that lead to alleviation and reduction of symptoms.»

«We are reaching more families — and changing more outcomes — with a home visiting system that we can all be proud of,» said Bette Hyde, director of DEL. «Home visiting leads to stronger families, more successful schools, more self - reliant adults and safer communities.»

I found myself, like many in the audience, trying to come up with exceptions to his philosophies — situations in which the adult must take the lead, the child does not have what they need to change or heal.

«Over the last ten years in the field, my work has focused on helping adolescent, adult and older adult clients coping with diverse biopsychosocial factors, life changes and difficult circumstances leading the individual to a variety of protective yet self - defeating responses including anxiety, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders and other compulsive behaviors, and impulse control disorders.