But crowdsourcing tools are slowly working their way into the education policy world, designed to give teachers and district employees more say on big decisions that
affect their school environment.
Does requiring students to wear uniforms directly
affect school environment and student achievement, or is it the equivalent of painting the walls of a crumbling building — merely cosmetic?
Not exact matches
Stanford Graduate
School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical
environment, companies and their management practices profoundly
affect the human and social
environment as well.»
In line with the growing trend for self - analytics, the Mappiness app was launched by the London
School of Economics as part of a research project looking into how our feelings are
affected by features in our
environment — the amount of noise or green space we encounter, for example.
We know student nutrition is a vital part of a successful learning
environment, but it's also an aspect of
school life that's easily overlooked unless you are directly
affected by it — either as a parent or an educator.
The
school cafeteria is a learning
environment that can deeply
affect the way children understand food and its connection to our
environment.
The Harvard
School of Public Health reports that both a baby's genes and her
environment can
affect whether she will gain too much weight.
These results contribute to the evidence that significant improvement in the nutrition
environments in
schools is associated with the enactment and implementation of the new US Department of Agriculture meal standards, with corresponding improvement of student selection of nutritious foods, without negatively
affecting meal participation.
School boards also enter in contracts with third party vendors that can affect the school food enviro
School boards also enter in contracts with third party vendors that can
affect the
school food enviro
school food
environment.
By addressing
school food, we
affect public health, academic performance, economics, justice, national security, the
environment, and community well - being.
Professor Rob Heinsohn, also from the ANU Fenner
School of
Environment and Society, said groups such as foresters, environmentalists and members of the public would be severely
affected if the birds became extinct.
A team from La Trobe University's
School of Life Sciences, led by Dr Richard Peters, worked with academics from Monash University's Faculty of IT to create, using 3D animation, a series of varied environmental settings and weather conditions, comprising different plant
environments and wind conditions, to quantify how lizard displays are
affected by this variation.
A new report by the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the
School of Geography and the
Environment at the University of Oxford concludes that better governance could have lessened the impact on the poorest and most vulnerable, and
affected populations have been let down by the authorities in the past.
Researchers from the Center for Health, Work &
Environment at the Colorado
School of Public Health (ColoradoSPH) on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have identified new risk factors for a mysterious kidney illness
affecting tens of thousands of farm workers worldwide.
That's especially important since many decisions that will
affect how communities fare in a changing climate will be made locally, said Rosina Bierbaum, dean of University of Michigan's
School of Natural Resources and
Environment.
Over a period of two years, the research team analyzed various factors
affecting 330 students at 200
schools, including socioeconomic factors,
school food
environments, and cavity prevention programs.
«Urbanization
affects not just surface albedo,» says urban
environment researcher Karen Seto of the Yale
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, who was not involved in any of the research.
Major impact on West Coast The western United States and Canada, South Asia and parts of north and central Eurasia will be the most
affected, said lead author Noah Diffenbaugh, an assistant professor at Stanford and a fellow at the
school's Woods Institute for the
Environment.
My own view is that these kinds of measures are fine, but unless we can make progress in
affecting the home
environments of today's children, any progress will be modest at best, and the job of the
schools will only become more difficult.
A study into the state of the nation's
schools has revealed that an overwhelming majority of teachers and head teachers consider the
school environment to
affect pupils» academic life.
Whether these characteristics directly
affect teachers» decisionmaking or indicate other less tangible factors (such as the disciplinary climate or bureaucratic
environment at the
school) can not be determined.
Yet the decision by a small number of children to opt out of neighborhood
schools may adversely
affect the academic and social
environment in those
schools, as the remaining children are likely to have less - involved families on average.
For example, students with fewer educational resources at home may be more strongly
affected by changes in their
school environment.
The competition was launched as research carried out by Dulux revealed that a staggering two thirds of
schools lacked the funding to make basic refurbishment improvements, with an overwhelming majority of teachers and head teachers considering the
school environment to
affect pupils» academic life.
For example, including a
school safety measure that looks at the percent of expulsions at a
school might force educators into creating a dangerous
school environment because expelling or suspending students would
affect the
school's accountability designation.
Don't let online learning supporters who do not understand educational quality deceive our K - 12
schools into thinking that class sizes can be larger in a distance learning
environment and quality won't be
affected.
Big ideas should have explanatory power in relation to a large number of objects, events and phenomena that are encountered by students in their lives during and after their
school years and provide a basis for understanding issues, such as the use of energy, involved in making decisions that
affect learners» own and others» health and wellbeing and the
environment.
This way, staff can commit to their integral role in each child's life, and students can learn in a safe and secure
school environment, all without
affecting every day operations or the aesthetics of this educational facility.»
How children get to and from
school not only
affects levels of pollution in the
environment but it can also
affect their exposure to it.
Schools need to examine how pupils»
environments impact their performance and how they
affect their mental and emotional wellbeing and attainment.
The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any
school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning
environment based upon a combination of factors
affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of
school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high
school and high
school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.
For each
school identified as a poor learning
environment and placed under preliminary registration review pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph, the district shall be given the opportunity to present evidence to the commissioner that the conditions in the
school do not threaten the health or safety or educational welfare of students and do not adversely
affect student performance.
OECD clearly shows the importance of cooperation between teachers: «these activities shape the learning
environment on the
school level, i.e. the
school climate, ethos and culture, and thus directly and indirectly (via classroom - level processes)
affect student learning».
It has been said that a
school's
environment and sense of community can directly have a positive or negative
affect on student achievement.
By making all students aware of how damaging bullying can do and how bullying can
affect the overall
school culture — is very important to creating a bully - free
environment and a compassionate and empathetic student body.
We take a public health approach to addressing trauma in
schools, and have found that more safe and supportive
school environments benefit not only traumatized children and youth, but also those who are
affected by these students, including their peers and the
school personnel who work with them.
Research indicates that the condition of
school environments directly
affects the health and well - being of everyone inside.
We will end the
school to prison pipeline by opposing discipline policies which disproportionately
affect students of color and students with disabilities, and by supporting the use of restorative justice practices that help students and staff resolve conflicts peacefully and respectfully while helping to improve the teaching and learning
environment.
AS&U's «Facilities Impact on Learning» series reports that 85 % of
school administrators feel that the quality of learning is very significantly
affected by the physical
environment.
All across the country this month, hundreds of
schools and organizations are recognizing the harmful
affects of bullying through collaborative programs, initiatives, and bullying prevention measures to highlight what students and educators can do to ensure safe and healthy
school environments.
Four main factors directly
affect school connectedness: adult support, positive peer groups, commitment to education, and the
school environment.
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a flurry of research and publications focused on the condition of
school facilities and how the physical
environment affects learning.
In my interview with Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary - General at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, we discussed the cycle of poor student performance in at - risk communities, the key characteristics of
schools that
affect the level of performance, how government policy can support students, and the relevance of the PISA test in a changing education
environment.
According to the National Education Association (2015), parental involvement, or family engagement, increases the likelihood that students will raise grade point averages and earn higher test scores, and attrition rates will decrease; socially, students improve their behavior and adapt better to the
school environment, which also
affects their academic successes during grade
school and beyond.
Murray's thesis was that the dominance of family
environment and genetics in determining student achievement is such as to allow little room for
schools to
affect academic outcomes.
This not only allows
schools to offer courses for which they have no teacher or not enough teachers, but also allows students to work at a pace and in a subject area that suits them without
affecting the learning
environment of other students.
The overall effectiveness of the learning
environment in public
schools is also
affected by the individual state funding allotted to education.
For example, classroom conditions such as teacher expectations, availability of learning supports, and safety
affect student self - confidence, mindset, and performance.69 Optimal
school and classroom settings create safe spaces for social and emotional learning, and in turn, effective SEL programs establish caring learning
environments and improve classroom management and teaching.
By providing support and suggestions (e.g., information on the developmental processes of death and grieving) team members are able to utilize their areas of expertise to build a supportive
environment and enhance the social and emotional well - being in the
affected school and community.
Upasana Prabhu, freshman at Westlake High
School and CEHI volunteer, with her parents at the reception at the Dell Children's Medical Center for the Seventh Biennial Scientific Symposium, How
School Environments Affect the Health and Educational Performance of Students, hosted by the Children's Environmental Health Institute (CEHI).