Sentences with phrase «best social climate»

If you ask me, this is definitely the best social climate to release a pair of games about a sexy witch who has an outfit made out of hair that makes her naked any time she attacks with it.

Not the best social climate to promote a film about corruption and deadly cops.

Improve student behavior, increase student safety, and create a better social climate on the bus with In the Driver s Seat training

Not exact matches

A second type is historical (sometimes called higher) criticism, which aims to provide a better understanding of the message of the Bible by viewing its different books from the standpoint of the period when they were written and the social setting, historical circumstances, and climate of thought in those times.

It is a tale of the brightest and the best hurling themselves and their world headlong toward the abyss of October 1917 in a social and political climate suffused with the suspicion that blind fate is in charge, and blind fate is not kindly disposed toward Russia or the world.

With growing concerns around the known and unknown consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change on natural systems, food producers are experiencing greater consumer demand for environmental and social credentials as well as various decarbonisation initiatives from governments.

Our Mission: To improve the business climate for members by playing a proactive role with the legislative process, public safety entities and the Michigan Liquor Control Commission, as well as implement innovative and useful membership services to promote the moral, social and intellectual advancement of members of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association.

From fighting deforestation and climate change to building economic opportunities and better working conditions for rural people, the Rainforest Alliance is working to solve urgent environmental and social challenges.

Well, maybe not all those drastic moves but what you're about to read will probably make you a little scared for the kind of social climate our kids will face as they enter high school.

While today's schools work hard to develop friendly social climates, you will want to consider how well your child will get along with their new peers.

By thinking hard about what gets shared and liked on social media, they are helping to counter the «climate silence» and ensure that the issue remains interesting and relevant, particularly to younger audiences — something the legacy media would do well to take note of.

Finally, the Social Liberals, currently faring slightly better at the polls than the other small parties, runs on a platform combining individual and economic freedom with a focus on climate and the environment.

By, for example, examining what people in the area use different trees and shrubs for and look at how the landscape changes, we can better understand how land use, social change, climate and ecosystems interact, even in ways that can be unexpected,» says Lowe Börjeson, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.

During a 6 - 10 June training program, the 15 AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute fellows also engaged in interactive sessions on the science of science communication, public attitudes about climate change, how Americans consume science news, best practices in leveraging social media, and the fundamentals of engaging policymakers in science - based dialogue.

Addressing climate change, also found in many other countries, reflects fundamental social and political beliefs that lie well beyond the scientific evidence.

Most climate negotiation modeling studies have used social dilemma games such as the prisoner's dilemma, in which the best interests of the individual agent are not the same as those of the whole.

She also ran ICN's two news aggregations, Today's Climate and Clean Economy Wire, as well as helped with multimedia presentations, social media and website upkeep.

The scientific evidence for global warming and for humanity's role in the increase of greenhouse gasses becomes ever more unimpeachable, as the [United Nations] IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report] findings are going to suggest; and such activity has a profound relevance, not just for the environment, but in ethical, economic, social and political terms as well.

UEA is also home to to the Climatic Research Unit; the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research; International Development UEA; and the Water Security Research Centre, as well as important research groups in the areas of Science, Society and Sustainability; Global Environmental Justice; and Globalisation and Corporate Social Responsibility.

It's really no surprise that climate change is bringing heat waves with it, but the research team hopes that their study will inspire other researchers to incorporate social factors as well, such as population change, into studies of climate change impacts.

These plant chemicals help to regulate our immune, physiological and neurological responses to stress, allowing us to survive not only rough environmental / weather challenges, but also to adapt and adjust our often neurotic mental habits and crazy social / political climates as well.

Some films don't age well, and no doubt Brief Encounter had more of an emotional effect in the social climate of post-war Britain.

This dogged attachment to a romanticized social conservatism may fit our current political climate and the retro fantasies of teenage girls, but it undermines the occasional charms of such a graph plotted romantic comedy, which suffers particularly in inevitable comparison with» My Best Friend's Wedding.»

I'm not sure how well a movie set in today's high school climate but which makes zero reference to social media, will play with teens.

Two Best Picture nominees in particular are a response to our current social climate.

The Institute contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on international trade and investment, economic policy, climate change and energy, and management of natural and social capital, as well as the enabling role of communication technologies in these areas.

The Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein has declared that «the influence of social class characteristics is probably so powerful that schools can not overcome it, no matter how well trained are their teachers and no matter how well designed are their instructional programs and climates.»

Evie Blad is a reporter for Education Week who covers school climate, student engagement, social - emotional learning, discipline, nutrition, and student well - being.

CORE says it will expand measures of a school's success to include factors reflecting social and emotional learning — rates of suspension, absenteeism and as yet undefined gauges of non-cognitive skills — as well as school climate and culture, as measured by student and parent surveys, rates of identifying special education students and the progress of English learners.

This report and accompanying policy brief show that there is good reason to pursue the measurement of social - emotional learning (SEL) and school culture / climate (CC) as a way to better understand student and school performance.

The AOCC kicked off on Friday, March 3, and featured several panel discussions, as well as the Youth Action Research where Boston Public School students presented information, including survey data, about their schools» racial and social climate.

Schools support the development of good physical and mental health; strong social - emotional skills; creativity and innovation; engagement in democracy and citizenship; and provide positive school climates and quality learning environments.

We need effective and fair school discipline, with schools creating and nurturing a climate and culture that promote positive behavior, and we need targeted, consistent collaboration between the education, justice, and social service systems, as well as the communities they serve.

He told me that he wanted me to take the controls at CEP and steer it in a bold direction that would greatly broaden its impact and firmly establish it as a clearinghouse for best practices in promoting good character and cultivating a school culture of excellence and a social climate of respect.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states now have the opportunity to support and encourage increased attention to SEL and the development of a positive school climate by including measures of students» social - emotional, as well as academic, development in their accountability and improvement systems.

Adopting the development of programming that matches the needs of students in school will not only decrease the negative behavior of students, but will create a positive school climate that strengthens student - teacher relationships and better support a student's unique social - emotional needs.

School Climate is the collective perception of how well a school provides suitable conditions for learning, for positive social, emotional, and character development, for all staff to grow professionally, and for parents, families, and community resources to become engaged in the school.

In a separate study, Hough, Demetra Kalogrides, and Susanna Loeb of Stanford found 5 percent of the differences in schools» math growth in elementary school and 6 percent of the differences in math growth in middle schools, as well as 11 percent of the differences in high schools» graduation rates, could be explained by differences in their school climate and student - reported social skills.

And parents don't know that our district will be the model for all others — because we do it best — we will collect SSP data in the form of social and emotional surveys, we will change our curriculum to socially engineer our children with social and emotional instruction without parents suspecting a thing, we will assess and survey up the wazoo about academics, school climate, cyberbullying, etc. while willing parents stand by, we will enhance our teacher evaluation program and refine it into a well - oiled teacher manipulation machine, and since our kids would do well no matter what because we have uber - involved parents, it will look like everything the Administrators are doing at the State's recommendation causes the success.

Just as important, the best approaches work to change the overall school climate through ongoing messages (via parent meetings and newsletters, school information, and the classroom curriculum) that help students recognize social aggression and stick up for victims.

Social, emotional, ethical, and academic education: Creating a climate for learning, participation in democracy, and well - being.

They then complete a series of focused tasks based on a bespoke resource pack to develop an understanding of both opportunities and challenges based around a fly - in - fly - out mining industry including, remoteness, inaccessibility and climate as well as the inevitable social problems that come with migrant based mining towns.

When we measure school climate in valid ways, we recognize and value all aspects of the learning process — not just the intellectual aspect, but the social, emotional, and civic aspects as well.

Description: This set of Successful School Guidelines is drawn from the National School Climate Council Standards and related work in social - emotional and character development (SECD) and best practices.

Because of the documented harmful effects of bullying — as well as other forms of social isolation — on school climate and student achievement, educators are taking this problem seriously.

Known as the School Quality Improvement Index (SQII), it is comprised of an array of metrics related to social - emotional and culture - climate factors as well as academics.

The best programs focus at many levels, including teaching kids emotional and social skills, and fostering a caring school climate.

Based on the first two complete years of data, that includes sophisticated growth measures of achievement, Social Emotional Learning, school climate, and chronic absenteeism, she said, «there is good evidence that we can use the measures for school improvement, but it's not conclusive.»

Social - emotional and culture - climate factors include chronic absenteeism, suspension / expulsion and English learner re-designation rates as well as social - emotional skills and culture - climate ratings — the latter two determined by surveys of students, staff and paSocial - emotional and culture - climate factors include chronic absenteeism, suspension / expulsion and English learner re-designation rates as well as social - emotional skills and culture - climate ratings — the latter two determined by surveys of students, staff and pasocial - emotional skills and culture - climate ratings — the latter two determined by surveys of students, staff and parents.

-- Jonathan Cohen in «Social, Emotional, Ethical, and Academic Education: Creating a Climate for Learning, Participation in Democracy, and Well - Being»