Sentences with phrase «by district culture»

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Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

The Lakes Culture project will also form a supporting strand of the World Heritage Status bid to be submitted by the Lake District National Park and partners.

Inspired by the brand's longtime alignment with nightlife, culture and art, District Perrier is the latest in a series of innovative digital campaigns Perrier has created in recent years, including the acclaimed Perrier Secret Place in 2013 and Le Club Perrier in 2011.

The district pursues excellence in education for every child at every level by focusing on quality instruction, managing systems efficiently, and sustaining a culture of excellence.

Alvord Unified School District — Pamela Lambert Innovation: Systems Change by Cultivating Community In order to create a culture supportive of healthy food and lifestyles, Pamela Lambert designed events that brought the community together around health and wellness — arranging walks with the mayor, parents, and students and a health fair in the guise of a day at an indoor trampoline park.

Citing a «culture of corruption,» Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone demanded district attorney Thomas Spota, who he described as the head of a «criminal enterprise,» resign following the latest investigative story published by Newsday today detailing the DA's office failure to prosecute crimes revealed on a wiretap.

For the past four months, the people of Manhattan have grappled with accusations of their District Attorney cultivating a pay - to - play culture in which the rich and powerful skate by serious criminal charges — if their lawyers contribute sizable donations to DA Vance's campaign.

But first, a reminder: VOTE!!!!! Here's a sprawling article about the 33rd Senate District primary race — Gustavo Rivera vs. Pedro Espada Jr. — from a new news and culture site, capitalnewyork.com, that looks like it was created by ex-Observer staffers.

On Monday, a damning report by the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, about the «deep - seated culture of violence» against adolescent inmates at Rikers Island singled out the episodes as particularly deplorable.

In a motion sponsored by Senator Fatima Raji - Rasaki representing Ekiti Central Senatorial district, she explained that Nigeria's Culture and Tourism sector runs short of United Nations standards as a result of unworkable policies of the Federal Government.

Ambode who was represented by the Special Adviser and Acting Commissioner of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Hon Adebimpe Akinshola, said the decision to renovate Tinubu Square was informed by the need to upgrade it to a level that befit the status of the Lagos Central Business District (CBD).

Detailed information about Rajasthan - districts, facts, history, economy, infrastructure, society, culture and how to reach Rajasthan by air, road and

District 9 is not only an action thriller, but a thought provoking critique on our own culture that can't be ignored as the Aliens or Prawns (derogetory term given to them by the humans) play a much larger emotional and dynamic role in the film than the trailer or bits of viral marketing let on.

How 18th - century), District 9 satirizes the numbing effect of cable news networks, as well as the dangers faced by any outcast culture trying to eke out subsistence existences on the fringes of majority society.

Executive produced by Dick Wolf, Law & Order: Los Angeles — The Complete Series follows Detectives Rex Winters (Skeet Ulrich) and Tomas «TJ» Jarusalski (Corey Stoll), members of the L.A.P.D.'s elite Robbery Homicide Division, as they work with Deputy District Attorney Morales (Alfred Molina) on cases rooted in the unique attitudes and cultures of the West Coast.

Founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in 2001, following the attacks on the World Trade Center, to spur the economic and cultural revitalization of the lower Manhattan district through an annual celebration of film, music, and culture, the Festival brings the industry and community together around storytelling.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

One important goal included building leadership by identifying roles and styles required to improve the «instructional core»; considering beliefs, cultural changes, and education strategies to promote high student achievement; reflecting on the effects of race, class, and culture within the district.

Most of the crucial decisions about how U.S. schools run and who teaches what to whom in which classrooms are still made in 14,000 semi-autonomous school districts, nearly all of them run by locally elected school boards, often with campaign dollars supplied by those with whom they negotiate collectively, and managed by professional superintendents, trained in colleges of education and socialized over the years into the prevailing culture of public education.

Thus, high - performing district or charter schools use chants, ceremonies, signs, and strong discipline to forge a culture defined by college - going and career success; at the same time, unlike schools of a half - century ago, they rarely seek to use those same exercises to help invest students in the American nation as a civic enterprise.

• Because voting patterns are shaped by the political culture of a district, unions in conservative districts sometimes find themselves supporting candidates who are less pro-union than they would like in order not to lose.

We are reminded that chartering, undertaken by a traditional district, must still navigate the clash between ingrained district culture and the dynamics associated with innovation.

By breaking down the thinking process and by making thinking visible, thinking routines foster a community of thinkers in a classroom and a culture of thinking in a school or districBy breaking down the thinking process and by making thinking visible, thinking routines foster a community of thinkers in a classroom and a culture of thinking in a school or districby making thinking visible, thinking routines foster a community of thinkers in a classroom and a culture of thinking in a school or district.

Reaching that goal requires establishment of a curriculum that has rigor and coherence; alignment of curriculum, instruction, and assessment; incorporation of internationally benchmarked performance standards that are understood by students and teachers; a system of professional development; and a culture of continuous learning throughout the district.

Discover why a culture of effective feedback is essential in a school and district, and learn strategies to make learning visible by giving and receiving effective feedback

The resulting policies are overmatched by the incentives embedded in professional and political culture, and the fact that most school leaders and district officials are neither inclined nor equipped to translate these policy dictates into practice.

Eight page booklet: define glacier keywords; map skills page to locate and name glacial areas around the World; SPAG exercise about the glaciers on Mars; page to compare advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the glacial landscape of the Lake District; moral dilemma about whether people in the UK should be concerned with the melting of Himalayan glaciers; research page about glaciers in World cultures; and finally a page about Ötzi the Iceman and how his body was analysed by archaeologists

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

Project L.I.F.T. in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg School District started by offering a complete Opportunity Culture package of career advancement roles that let great teachers stay in the classroom, help more students, and collaborate with and lead peers.

Particular emphasis is placed on building internal capacity by training teacher leaders, coaches, and district and school leaders, and by fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Dr. Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must understand why teachers continue to hold on to models or beliefs contrary to those put forth by their school or district.

Districts «sense of engagement with policy making and SEAs varies by state policy culture.

The sampling of the districts was purposive, using a «grounded theory» premise that the task of developing explanations for complex phenomena is best advanced by sequential examinations of several different contexts.299 We therefore began by examining two small districts in two states that exhibited the most distinctive differences in state policy culture.

The Opportunity Culture initiative, created by Public Impact, includes seven districts in five states in 2015 — 16.

While we would not go so far as to say that state policy culture determines how smaller districts respond, our data suggest that how districts respond to increasingly uniform standards and assessment policies will be significantly affected by the state «s political culture.

Dr. Leslie «s first priority was to change the prevailing culture of low expectations among educators in the district; his second was to improve student achievement through increased rigor, alignment of state standards to classroom practices, and implementation of mathematics standards higher than those set by the state.

A motivating opening panel of teacher - leaders, all Opportunity Culture Fellows chosen by their districts for teaching excellence and leadership, brought the message home: This works.

By removing real estate as an obstacle, charters were able to focus on curriculum, students and school culture — especially important because New York charter students receive several thousand dollars less per pupil than children in district schools.

Principals cultivate positive school cultures that are built on trust, strengthen the principal pipeline by identifying teacher leaders and nurturing assistant principals, and through interdependent relationships with superintendents, contribute to strong, district leadership.

Founded in 1979 by Jonathon Saphier, Ed.D., RBT works to strengthen organizational culture and to institutionalize the study of teaching within schools and throughout school districts.

Leading Schools and Districts to Sustainable Project - Based Learning: John Larmer will show leaders how they can model project - based learning (PBL) practices by creating a culture of inquiry, building community support, and moving from staff compliance to commitment.

New Teacher Immersion by Susan Totaro and Mark Wise An intensive orientation program gives novice teachers in one district a game - changing introduction to the instructional culture.

I would highly advise that a school district support the construction of a structure of internal collaboration at each school before setting up curriculum specialist for failure by sending them into highly divisive cultures where there is a high - likelihood of rejection.

Resiliency data can also aid in building an overall school culture of resiliency by targeting areas for school - or district - wide improvement.

For example, the brief describes how data — specifically, data that showed Highline Public Schools was making less progress than neighboring districts on closing equity gaps — ultimately created a sense of urgency that supported efforts by district leaders to change policy, practice and culture within the district.

Responding to a comment by DeVos that she couldn't think of an ongoing civil rights issue that would warrant federal involvement, Lhamon, in an op - ed for The Hechinger Report, ran down the types of cases her office had worked on: a North Carolina University revoking a student's acceptance after discovering he had cerebral palsy; a segregated Alabama school district offering advanced courses at its high schools that served primarily white students, but not at the high school that served virtually all of its black students; California district employees ignoring sexual assault cases because they considered them part of their Latino students» «urban culture.»

As the fall progressed, however, he realized the new Spanish textbooks adopted by the school district included references to many of the pop - culture questions from the pre-test.

It could become great news for students, too, if negotiations can achieve a win not only for teacher pay, but also for improvements to district practice that can drive teacher retention by improving school climate and culture.

How teachers understand practice is directly influenced by the culture of the school and district.

NISL can quickly transform school and district culture by providing training to entire school leadership teams including teacher leaders, assistant principals and principals, as well as district staff.