Sentences with phrase «change school cultures»

Coaching has been proven to transform relationships, increase learning, and dramatically change school cultures.

But wellness policies alone can't change school cultures.

-LSB-...] can't change school cultures.

The State of Nutrition and Physical Activity in Colorado Schools: Changing the School Culture by Understanding the Facts.

Whether it is changing a school culture, a childs life...

Are you trying to change school culture?

Of the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavior.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

The new program will introduce strategies and processes to help change school culture, address challenging behaviors like bullying, and promote students» caring and respect.

A schoolwide mindfulness program starts with a vision, teaches it as a practice, changes school culture, and frames the effort with research and verifiable results.

Whether it is changing a school culture, a childs life prospects, policymakers thoughts on accountability, or voters minds on a bond referendum, educators are constantly on the lookout for evidence that they are succeeding as change agents.

«We changed our school culture into one that focused on teacher collaboration and looking at the right data,» says Cordova.

The approach aims to change school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, designing a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavior.

He improved student achievement and changed the schools culture by setting high expectations for everyone in the building.

For Lavely, the chance to change school culture to cultivate excellence and reach high bars with all students through leading other teachers — while remaining in the classroom herself — has proved irresistible.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the authors» experience of changing school culture in Oakland, California by introducing restorative justice.

That's paid for instructional coaches for teachers, leadership coaches for principals, analysts to pore over student data, and pricey professional - development seminars on changing school culture.

The two major reasons for success, the authors believe: (1) the changed school culture; and (2) the focus on children's total development, not just their speech, language, and intellectual capabilities, but also their social, moral, physical, and psychological development.

We hope you'll join us for the second webinar and mark your calendar for the final two in the series: Principals as Transformation Leaders: Changing School Cultures (November 9) and Principals as Transformation Leaders: High - Quality Preservice Preparation (November 30), both at 3:00 p.m. EST..

How are educators changing school cultures, instructional methods, and content to better accommodate strugglers?

Principal Bruno then worked with parents to change the school culture and implemented a school - wide discipline plan that focuses on positive reinforcement.

Develop professional community and organizational learning with the specific intention of changing their school culture;

As a part of the Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, GLISI developed this professional development toolkit to help school leaders in identifying, influencing and avoiding the common pitfalls associated with changing school culture.

Intensification of leadership provides you the skill set to change your school culture and to achieve your goals for student success.

Together with Playworks, corporate partners make a meaningful difference, change school culture and create healthy communities, healthy companies, and healthy kids.

With Playworks, you will make a meaningful difference, change school culture and create healthy communities, healthy companies, and healthy kids.

School - wide achievement data would shed light onto the gains in learning for students as a result of the changed school culture and would show whether VTS affects achievement in other subjects as well.

8:15 - 10:00 Mathew Portell from the Metro Nashville Public Schools will present on ways to change school culture through understanding the effects of trauma in the lives of children and the adults who support them.

21st Century CEO Kevin Teasley says that this model can only take shape if administrators are willing to change school culture.

Collaboration changes school culture from an assembly line model to one founded on the conviction that «it takes a whole village to raise a child.»

Systems for Changing School Culture through the HOT Approach Best Practices Workshop at Nathan Hale School

More schools are working to change school culture through programs aimed at improving the social and emotional skills of students.

For younger students, programs may focus on changing the school culture or climate, in an effort to decrease aggression and promote respect among students.

Not exact matches

Start - Up Chile's creators realized that «to change the culture, you'll need to bring foreigners in,» says Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School and adviser to Start - Up Chile.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

Public schools inevitably reflect the changing values of the culture.

Radical changes of mentality and behaviour occurred within institutions, inside enterprises, schools, universities, hospitals, cultures, governments, families - and inside the Church.

His leadership in this area has been the catalyst for Special Olympics» implementation of a youth - led strategy to bring together multiple elements of the Special Olympics movement in schools and create a tipping point for culture change in schools.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

I was really interested in hearing how exactly they proposed to do that, especially in terms of changing the macho culture of the sport and breaking the «code of silence» that continues to prompt players at every level of football, whether it be N.F.L., college, high school or youth - to hide concussion symptoms in order to stay in the game and avoid being perceived as somehow letting their coach, their teammates, or their parents down.

Volume XIV, Number 2 The Social Mission of Waldorf School Communities — Christopher Schaefer Identity and Governance — Jon McAlice Changing Old Habits: Exploring New Models for Professional Development — Thomas Patteson and Laura Birdsall Developing Coherence: Meditative Practice in Waldorf School College of Teacher — Kevin Avison Teachers» Self - Development as a Mirror of Children's Incarnation: Part II — Renate Long - Breipohl Social - Emotional Education and Waldorf Education — David S. Mitchell Television in, and the World's of, Today's Children — Richard House Russia's History, Culture, and the Thrust Toward High - Stakes Testing: Reflections on a Recent Visit — David S. Mitchell Da Valdorvuskii!

The policy changes offer a golden opportunity for great school leaders and imaginative cooks to lead a transformation of the food culture in their schools.

Feedback from more than 200 participants involved in the pilot has been overwhelmingly positive, with 94 % rating the resource as «excellent» or «good» and just under two thirds (65 %) intending to make a change to their school food culture as a result.

She is also featured in Free for All: Fixing School Food in America by Janet Poppendieck (California Studies in Food & Culture, 2010) and Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children, by Ann Cooper and Lisa Holmes (HarperCollins, 2006), has been a guest on PBS's To The Contrary, and appears in the documentary film Two Angry Moms.

They had suggestions for how to make changes in the school culture and the presentation of our academics so the level of education was not compromised, but simply modified and taught in a more thoughtful way.

The more tax - payers «outside» school culture demand changes, the more those decision - makers elected by the tax payers will have to listen.

From the time when the Columbine school shooting rocketed through the news, to now when cry - it - out sleep training is being openly debated rather than just merely accepted as the norm — reflecting the huge change we, as a culture, are having on the idea of relationship — there was 1 or 2 generations of individuals who were transitioning from the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

«But we are looking to change the food and culture of our school cafeterias.»

How did a small foundation with entrepreneurial roots help change the culture of early childhood education, public school nutrition, and disaster readiness in Santa Barbara County?