Sentences with phrase «changing educational climate»

At the University, we continue to be proactive in a fast changing educational climate.

Engaging in teacher research, reading professional periodicals and texts, and regularly reflecting on our practice has helped us adapt to the ever - changing educational climate.

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I'd like to say I have this highly interesting and educational NEW post put together all about climate change, but the truth is I don't.

Rosa's selection could bring about a climate change in state educational policy, as she has been critical of the more arduous tests introduced under Tisch.

The Hudson Estuary Watershed Resiliency Project is an educational initiative designed to help municipal officials and stream - side landowners throughout the Hudson Valley prepare for floods and climate change.

Leaked documents from the free - market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs also revealed a $ 10 million educational policy to help tribes adapt to changing climate conditions.

Outdated land management practices, a dearth of local decision - making bodies with real powers, a lack of long - term planning, along with long - standing educational and financial disempowerment and marginalization are among the hurdles the prevent Arctic communities from adapting to climate change, says a McGill - led research team.

Last night, speakers at the nation's most prestigious engineering school held forth on an array of financial and educational strategies to crack the challenge of man - made climate change.

Thanks to Dr David Priddel (Senior Researcher, New South Wales Department of Environment and Climate Change) for his oversight and foresight of the project, Dianne Gordon (Team Leader, Discovery and Learning, Healesville Sanctuary) for discussions and educational advice and Dr Tim New for reviewing the manuscript.

The International Polar Foundation's highly successful educational workshop brings new interactive methods into the classroom, reaching school age children and their teachers with current science knowledge on climate change.

We want to strengthen Europe, improve integration through equal educational opportunities for everyone, drive forward the energy transition as a trigger for global climate change mitigation and firmly anchor cultural education in schools.

In 2017, Sen Whitehouse wrote a letter slamming Heartland for sending a package of educational materials which featured Legates and that questioned climate change to science teachers across the United States.

The groundbreaking and far - reaching educational recommendations for climate change and health curricula aim to expand the numbers of health professionals equipped to recognize and respond to the health challenges of a warming climate, including deadly heat waves, flooding, air pollution, and wildfires; greater spread of disease vectors like ticks and mosquitos; and growing food and drinking water insecurity.

About Blog - The Sink or Swim Project is an educational and advocacy organization focused on climate change and sea level rise in Miami and around the world Frequency - about 2 posts per month Since - Feb 2015

The Educators section features lesson plans and educational resources, the latter of which can be searched by alignment with state standards, and the site hosts virtual conferences on themes such as climate change.

A climate change - themed game developed by BAFTA - winning studio, Preloaded, poses a challenging educational premise with the aim of changing behaviors.

Shreeranya Renewable India is a scientific and educational start - up dedicated to exploring and recognizing the importance of renewable energy resources amidst climate change to protect environment and habitats, and helping the guardians of the future to understand, adopt, protect and implement renewable energy technologies and sustainable energy solutions in the day - to - day life.

Absent the ability to take risks and to innovate, systems are less likely to develop deep, systemic, and sustainable approaches to change that are so needed in the current educational climate.

The educational aspects Environmental protection, climate change and sustainability all feature in school syllabuses today.

You can expect to see lessons in propaganda as the educational norm — teachers will be obliged to extoll the wonders of free market capitalism and the American business system; they will be forced to speak in favor of the nation's latest wars; and perhaps there will be lessons devoted to creation science and the lie of global climate change.

Students advocating for educational improvement, researching classroom climate, and leading new approaches to learning and teaching stand together in the architecture of involvement, effectively demonstrating what school change looks like when the hearts, heads, and hands of students are infused throughout the process.

Students advocating for educational improvement, researching classroom climate, and leading new approaches to learning and teaching stand along side one another in the architecture of involvement that Fletcher endorses, demonstrating what school change looks like when the hearts, heads, and hands of students are infused throughout the process.

The goal of my education career has been to work for positive changes in curriculum, instruction and educational management that result in improving the quality of student achievement, school climate, and professional expertise and culture.

In our current educational climate, advances in technology around instruction, assessment, and data analysis reign king and changing demands for both teachers and students abound.

This project aims to assist museum educators in building capacity for developing educational programs and activities for public audiences and formal educators on the topics of climate change and ocean acidification.

Rockman et al collaborated with the American Museum of Natural History to evaluate onsite and online course offerings as part of the «Our Earth's Future» series of educational programming about climate change.

It is contingent on... seeing cultural differences as assets; creating caring learning communities where culturally different individuals and heritages are valued; using cultural knowledge of ethnically diverse cultures, families, and communities to guide curriculum development, classroom climates, instructional strategies, and relationships with students; challenging racial and cultural stereotypes, prejudices, racism, and other forms of intolerance, injustice, and oppression; being change agents for social justice and academic equity; mediating power imbalances in classrooms based on race, culture, ethnicity, and class; and accepting cultural responsiveness as endemic to educational effectiveness in all areas of learning for students from all ethnic groups.»

The inter-departmental change established a climate ripe for promoting and supporting a Data - to - Action, results - driven culture within R and A. Through the hiring of new, data - driven leaders to fill vacancies within the department, along with the leadership of a data - driven, results - oriented leader, R and A was re-organized and re-focused to devote its resources to serving the educational leaders and teachers of DPS.

Functions The teacher leader: a) Increases the capacity of colleagues to identify and use multiple assessment tools aligned to state and local standards; b) Collaborates with colleagues in the design, implementation, scoring, and interpretation of student data to improve educational practice and student learning; c) Creates a climate of trust and critical reflection in order to engage colleagues in challenging conversations about student learning data that lead to solutions to identified issues; and d) Works with colleagues to use assessment and data findings to promote changes in instructional practices or organizational structures to improve student learning.

To understand how we may orchestrate networks to support educational change, more research and testing is needed — and with the current climate of increased collaboration, the educational field seems open to explorations of how we can support teachers to work and learn together.

And so, perhaps, when NJEA leaders objected to the selection of Paula White because of her association with DFER, Murphy, who had breached his contract with them, made a promise he could keep, even though that decision makes Repollet look far removed from the loop of state educational leadership, makes Murphy look like Pavlov's dog when confronted with a whiff of dissension from his patron, and makes NJEA look like Pavlov himself, a metamorphosis it may welcome after a humiliating defeat of the $ 5 million campaign to unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney by replacing him with a Trump - supporting climate - change - denying immigration - foe.

The Institute's Climate Change Education & Parks program (PDF) seeks to strengthen parks as educational venues by identifying program, models, and policies that can be replicated, scaled, and adopted as policy by key decision makers.

The Institute will continue to use our strong convening power to create high - level, cross-sector events that will identify new models and methods for using parks as important educational tools on climate change.

Through a series of photos, virtual reality experiences, films and educational activities for children, the exhibit will raise awareness of the unique diversity of these reefs and the impacts of climate change on them.

Although minute in comparison to the overall measurable loss, I can't help but see his paintings as a glaring antithesis to the poster didactics, charts, and statistics in the educational portion of Vanishing Ice, calling on world citizens to do their part to help reverse, impact or halt climate change, no matter how small their act of conservation.

In 2015 he was artist in residence at FACT during the «Build Your Own» exhibition and in 2016 He worked in residence with the outreach department at Manchester School of Art on «A Whisper to a Shout» an educational recourse book and programme of events centred around climate change and the evolution of the peppered moth.

As I see, it was in 2000 too, like Loutre and Berger (I don't know that paper, as it is not online), but I remained content with making a graph with a short educational text, so that I could use it when lecturing about climate change.

The two institutions agreed to work together for the development, strengthening and consolidation of projects related to climate change in order to train the educational community on the impact of climate change and adaptation and mitigation actions.

And yet, 400 years later, here we are: watching a public official tasked with guiding the educational trajectories of his community's children rail against the accepted science on climate change — because its conclusions threaten to undermine the local political culture.

This analytical report contains information on some of the many climate change initiatives — projects, campaigns, educational tools, websites and publications — produced by the United Nations and young people, independently or in partnership.

Climate change activists are touting new evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of educational programs that seek to transform American schoolchildren into anti-carbon activists through the power of animation and freestyle rapping.

In addition, I co-taught or taught 3 climate change classes for the OASIS Center of St. Louis, which is a non-profit educational organization promoting lifelong learning for adults over 50 years old.

In addition, I have also co-taught or taught 3 climate change classes for the OASIS Center of St. Louis, which is a non-profit educational organization promoting lifelong learning for adults over 50 years old.

Founded by Al Gore in 2006, this is educational, worldwide grassroots organization has trained over 8,000 volunteers worldwide to give public climate change talks, similar to Gore's presentation in An Inconvenient Truth.

The plan seeks to implement the concept of using the campus as a kind of «living laboratory» to explore innovative and scalable ways of tackling the daunting challenges of climate change, and to use that living laboratory to enhance the educational experience of MIT's students and provide new hands - on teaching opportunities for its faculty.

Alongside the climate change mitigation, the work continues to support communities, provide educational opportunities and supports biodiversity.

It has been developed for use by teachers at all levels, aiming at 1) raising awareness of climate change through the role of education, 2) equipping and enhancing teachers with pedagogical skills and knowledge on climate change, and 3) sharing educational materials, ideas and activities in climate change education within the region.

Before joining NIDIS, Molly was an extension climate specialist with Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) and the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), where she provided science - based information and educational opportunities to stakeholders across the Midwest on the topics of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate climate specialist with Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant (IISG) and the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC), where she provided science - based information and educational opportunities to stakeholders across the Midwest on the topics of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate Climate Center (MRCC), where she provided science - based information and educational opportunities to stakeholders across the Midwest on the topics of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate climate variability, and climate climate change.

«Heartland has produced more educational material on climate change than all but a handful of organizations in the world.»