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Canada's new federal government, coupled with significant provincial leadership — especially from Alberta, with its big moves on climate change — mean our country is putting its best foot forward.

With stronger climate leadership, B.C. would attract up to $ 5 billion in additional investment for renewable energy development alone over the next 10 years.

During this period the Government of Alberta introduced a $ 15 minimum wage; appointed a gender - balanced Cabinet; replaced a system of regressive flat taxes with a progressive income tax system; laid out a responsible fiscal plan that rejected austerity; implemented an ambitious jobs plan; reformed the royalty system; ended predatory lending practices while strengthening the credit union system and ATB, Alberta's publicly - owned bank; and implemented a climate change leadership plan — among many other important reforms.

The Climate Leadership Team will also advise Victoria on how the province can further its relationships with First Nations and local governments to achieve climate leadClimate Leadership Team will also advise Victoria on how the province can further its relationships with First Nations and local governments to achieve climate leadclimate leadership.

The Province of British Columbia today appointed Merran Smith, executive director of Clean Energy Canada, to a new team charged with advising the government on how best to strengthen its leadership on climate change.

That, in itself, was an oddity in a country at a time it was becoming normal for government climate policies to be cooked up in the boardrooms of Calgary oil lobby groups, as happened with B.C.'s «climate leadership plan» under former premier Christy Clark's Liberal government.

Out of an abundance of charity to Professor Leach, and with all due respect to his unimpeachable contributions as Chair of the Alberta Climate Leadership Panel, his argument may well rest on a more nuanced political assumption: that Alberta's leadership is required to bring the rest of the provinces along.

But, unlike Teitelbaum, Heschel opted to be a professor and a political activist, and not only on behalf of his fellow Jews, for Heschel was actively concerned with the moral climate of his adopted America and made that concern manifest in his leadership in both the civil rights movement and the fight against the Vietnam War.

In his time with IRRI, Dr. Morell has been instrumental in shaping the institute's research and outreach agenda, including IRRI's leadership on climate change - ready rice, healthier rice varieties, farmer - friendly crop management and value chain practices as well as encouraging the next generation of rice scientists.

Most Americans oppose Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement, with a majority saying the move will damage the United States» global leadership, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

«With the recent elections, the need for local governments to provide leadership on climate change is more imperative than ever,» said Mark Dunlea of 350NYC.

We're in the right direction but not in the leadership position that I think we need to deal with catastrophic climate change.»

As with the minimum wage, Mr. Cuomo has shown leadership on issues of national and even global importance, including climate change.

«Governor Cuomo's climate and environmental leadership now appears a cynical sham to cover up his administration's relationship with fossil fuel interests like CPV.

Many noted that even though Tillerson parts ways with Trump in saying that human - caused emissions at least play a role in driving warming, his refusal to discuss Exxon Mobil's role in obscuring climate research and his caution on U.S. leadership on global climate engagement helped fuel Democratic opposition to his confirmation.

Faced with a possible U.S. retreat on climate efforts, European officials fear a leadership vacuum will embolden those seeking to slow the fight against global warming

-- The Under Secretary shall establish a Climate Service Office and shall appoint a Director of the Office to collaborate with the leadership of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration line offices to perform the duties assigned to the Office.

«The leadership shown by Alberta's government to replace two - thirds of existing coal - fired electricity generation capacity with renewable energy will greatly help the province in achieving its ambitious climate change objectives,» adds Hornung.

The mission of the ALCC is to award time for special situations of interest to the Department with an emphasis on high - risk, high - payoff simulations in areas directly related to the Department's energy mission in areas such as advancing the clean energy agenda and understanding the Earth's climate, for national emergencies, or for broadening the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.

In addition, he praised her leadership with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in advancing the Weather Research and Forecasting model for climate research, and in projects such as the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program, as demonstration of her prominence in the atmospheric and climate science comclimate research, and in projects such as the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program, as demonstration of her prominence in the atmospheric and climate science comClimate Change Assessment Program, as demonstration of her prominence in the atmospheric and climate science comclimate science community.

By developing a framework for effective teacher teams that includes five criteria — leadership, task focus, collaborative climate, structure and process, and personal accountability — Troen and Boles provide school leaders with the tools needed to navigate this relatively new terrain and to make effective teacher teams a reality.

Some of the strategies the report suggests include conducting a survey of the school climate, cultivating student leadership to address troubling aspects of the school's climate, building student's capacity for empathy and self - regulation and their commitment to the common good, and ensuring that all students have a positive relationship with an adult mentor.

The report concludes that China's increased engagement with the UN process stems from a drive to address serious environmental impacts in its own country, on climate change and air pollution, as well as a desire to demonstrate true geopolitical leadership.

The schools with more positive climates had strong leaders that made instructional leadership a priority, she said.

It may also be that these are simply bad schools, with weak leadership, low - quality teaching, and a broken climate, and their high suspension rates are an indicator of campuses that are barely keeping it together.

The Whole Child model seeks to work with best practices to achieve engaging and challenging instruction, develop a school culture that promotes a healthy and safe climate for student learning and leadership that involves faculty, students, parents and the community to maximize the supportive potential in school and provide for long - term student success with sustainable strategies.

The completed puzzle includes a school in which young adolescents are recognized as unique learners who need strong teacher involvement, a responsive student - centered learning climate, a school with a strong parent - community network, and school leadership that builds collaboration among stakeholders.

On the back is an easy - to - read table with four major areas school performance on state tests, teacher qualifications and quality, school climate, and how the school's leadership is rated.

Learn more about the ASCD Whole Child approach and how it works in relation to school's climate and culture, building and teacher leadership, curriculum and instruction, assessment, classroom strategies, and more with ASCD's PD Online ® course, An Introduction to the Whole Child, currently available free to all educators.

Some of these traits are supporting a learning climate of continuous improvement for students and adults alike, a belief in doing what is best for student learning, practicing shared leadership and empowering teachers and students with a voice in the school, and building strong and caring relationships, among others.

· In collaboration with the school leadership team, principal and other instructional / culture and climate coaches, the individual will identify their buildings» student achievement goals that will be the focus of the instructional coach engages in.

The Community Schools model has been implemented across the country, showing that authentic engagement and shared leadership, combined with coordinated community partnerships focused on equity, can improve educational outcomes, school climate, and investment in local neighborhoods.

In that role, Dr. Mone worked with the campus» senior leadership, governance groups, and all stakeholders to develop UWM's 2020 strategic plan, and campus - level programs to improve the organizational climate.

Each student should have leadership experiences in formal and informal settings, including such responsibilities as determining how to achieve learning goals, assess personal progress and collaborate with other to measure and create change in the school climate.

The correlations suggest that improving leadership could have a «ripple» effect on other working conditions, causing teachers» overall satisfaction with their school climate to increase and thereby improving student learning.

For example, students with stable but adaptable school leadership perform better academically.58 The effect of a positive climate on achievement also endures and influences immediate and future student performance.59

AIR staff work with school leadership to implement positive behavior support systems to create a respectful climate and improve the relationships between students and teachers and students and their peers.

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.

An organisation's general capacities include factors such as staffing levels, leadership capacity, administrative availability, and the overall climate and culture in the school — all of which are foundations for a school to be able to work with any type of innovation (see Foundations - school leadership and climate).

This guide starts with two important underlying factors that influence a school's ability to implement effectively: a) treating implementation as a process b) school leadership and climate.

Such investments in struggling public schools seems all but impossible in the current political climate, but with more light being put on these issues of leadership rather than strictly teachers, these schools will be able to better combat the challenges they face.

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.

* Average citizens «understand» (recognize) uncertainties in climate science; recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the «conventional wisdom» * Media «understands» (recognizes) uncertainties in climate science * Media coverage reflects balance on climate science and recognition of the validity of viewpoints that challenge the current «conventional wisdom» * Industry senior leadership understands uncertainties in climate science, making them stronger ambassadors to those who shape climate policy * Those promoting the Kyoto treaty on the basis of extent science appears to be out of touch with reality.

The Catholic Church, working with the leadership of other religions, can now take a decisive role by mobilizing public opinion and public funds to meet the energy needs of the poorest 3 billion people, thus allowing them to prepare for the challenges of unavoidable climate and eco-system changes.

But the world is getting excited with the next leadership in the US, at least giving them a space to lead to help solve the climate in crisis.

Mr. / Mrs. Candidate: The Presidential Climate Action Project has produced the gold standard of climate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it mClimate Action Project has produced the gold standard of climate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it mclimate agendas and, with its 300 specific proposals for your administration, you can and must take dramatic action in your first 100 days in office to put the US on the fast track to a post-carbon economy and to place it in an international leadership position where it must be.

The piece is particularly important reading ahead of the United Nations climate «summit» early next week (an event that China's top leadership is skipping, along with India's and Australia's).

I will restore U.S. leadership in strategies for combating climate change and work closely with the international community.

Moreover, I would argue that Obama won an electoral mandate in 2008 for serious climate action, and simply lacked the courage and commitment to follow through with the leadership necessary to turn his promises into policy.

With his leadership, and the leadership of every world leader, we need to establish the tools and financing to help developing nations embrace clean energy, adapt to climate change, and ensure that there's not a false choice between economic development and the best practices that can save our planet.