Sentences with phrase «affect the 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?

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.

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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.

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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).