Sentences with phrase «culture of schools from»

Lucy West & Yitzchak Francus Changing the day - to - day culture of schools from one in which adults work solo in silos has been a focus of the many leaders and researchers who understand that professional learning is the key to student learning, and that professional learning requires collaboration.

Assess the physical environment and the culture of the school from the perspective of diverse students and their families.

Not exact matches

Research from Columbia Business School has shown that 92 percent of employees believe improving their firm's corporate culture would improve the value of the company.

«There are obviously companies that have cultures where a lot of people come from certain schools,» he said.

And a study from Columbia business school showed that creative directors of fashion companies produced more creative innovations after having spent a significant amount of time working in cultures very different from their own.The time diversifying their experiences expanded their point of view and forced them to problem - solve in different ways.

From the testosterone - fueled culture of the Harvard Business School case study process to the bigger than life personalities of Donald Trump, Jack Welch, Richard Branson, Russell Simmons et.

Rinearson understands the male - dominated culture of both finance and tech can lead some women to shy away from jumping into the industry, so she's made it her mission to get more women involved — starting with high schoolers.

A favorite slogan among students and faculty at Texas A&M University, a long - established school with a one - of - a-kind culture, sums it up: «From the outside looking in, you can't understand it.

Shiva Rajgopal, an accounting professor at Columbia Business School, teamed up with three others from Duke's Fuqua School of Business to conduct a study on corporate culture.

Lauren earned her MSc in Gender, Media and Culture from The London School of Economics and Political Science

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

This applies particularly to many of our time who have been schooled in the thought of Western culture, say from the period of the enlightenment through nineteenth - century philosophy and science.

As Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has argued, churches that have articulated a normative theology of the family, tempered by a strong emphasis on human fallibility, are often better equipped to speak frankly about departures from their ideals and to offer services to members who have fallen short of those ideals.

We also noticed that some junior faculty had been carefully chosen for their potential to fit the school's culture; these usually got a lot of attention from powerful senior faculty after they arrived.

Unfortunately, he claims, schools fail to do this, for they try to teach developmental skills apart from the context of the culture in which the children live.

By resting much of his case on the unproven assumption that schools in the past played the role he wishes they would play today, Hirsch detracts from his generally plausible argument that more could be done today to help children know and understand their culture.

He spoke from a culture in which caring meant controlling, directing, making decisions for children of far older than nursery - school age.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

I come from «shameless» caretakers, abandonment, ridicule, abuse, neglect — perfectionistic systems I am empowered by the shocking intensity of a parent's rage The cruel remarks of siblings The jeering humiliation of other children The awkward reflection in the mirrors The touch that feels icky and frightening The slap, the pinch, the jerk that ruptures trust I am intensified by A racist, sexist culture The righteous condemnation of religious bigots The fears and pressures of schooling The hypocrisy of politicians The multigenerational shame of dysfunctional family systems MY NAME IS TOXIC SHAME

School of Christian Spiritual Formation 2017 Conference: Moving Forward by Drawing from the Past September 22 - 24 Join the School of Christian Spiritual Formation in Marietta, Georgia, for discussions from Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant perspectives on living the Christian life in a secular culture.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

The culture of each school is conveyed through reports on the student assessments of teachers, the preferred styles of clothing, the marital hopes of women students, and the mannerisms and personality traits that endear or distance members of the communities from one another.

When some of them became Christians, whether from pagan families or from Jewish families assimilated to Hellenistic culture, they came to Christianity as persons who had already been schooled in this way.

As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than in our society, but advocates such an attitude of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility of increased contrast, richness of experience, of mutual transformation, without loss of integrity, is enhanced.

Children were removed from their homes, put in to Residential schools where they were horribly abused, forced to leave the beliefs behind for fear of severe punishment at the hands of their christian masters, forced to lose their Native Tongue... all in some warped vision to tear down a culture and destroy it.

The objection assumes that attention to the common life of congregations would tend to disengage theological schooling from serious attention to the broader world of the congregation's host culture and its global setting.

Nevertheless, signs of hope for a revival of Catholic culture in the school curriculum have emerged in recent times from some unexpected quarters.

We understood our schools to be taking children of immigrants from many cultures and preparing them for participation in American democracy.

The North Carolina School of Science and Math hosts American Indian dancers, musicians and artists from across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia for this fun way to learn about and celebrate the region's rich American Indian culture.

Many of them speak limited or no English, and some come from a culture which does not encourage parents to question «school authority.»

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 - solvFrom 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 - solvfrom the «old» way of relating — hierarchical and fear - based authority — to this «new» way: collaborative, emotionally literate, and focused on problem - solving.

The school strives to shelter younger children from the distractions of popular culture and from negative influences, particularly because it is important to nurture their magical connection to life and their sense of total safety.

Has anyone else helped get their wellness policy from a piece of paper to accepted school culture?

The report on the 9th September by the Sunday Mail Medical Correspondent Jo Macfarlane titled «Complaints culture is bleeding schools and hospitals dry» made very interesting reading from the point of view of MRSA Action UK.

But they were being hampered from doing so because of the impact of workload and the monitoring and surveillance culture in schools which was also damaging teachers mental health.

A new report from education watchdog Ofsted has revealed that a fifth of England's secondary schools are concerned about «gang culture».

Twenty - five city schools are being honored — eight for the second time — for their work creating programs that teach the importance of respecting others, celebrating diversity and creating a school culture that is free from bullying and harassment.

Ellen Jaffee, a Democratic Assembly member from Rockland County who is one of the bill's lead sponsors, said that installing a monitor to oversee the school board «has nothing to do with who they are in terms of their culture or religious background.»

Led by Dr Claire White from the University's School of Psychology, the study suggests that such risky social media posts are not just due to impulsivity, but might be a deliberate strategy to fit in with the wider social media culture that makes people believe «it's the right thing to do».

Co-author Dr Isabelle Mareschal also from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences added: «There are numerous claims in popular culture that women and men look at things differently — this is the first demonstration, using eye tracking, to support this claim that they take in visual information in different ways.»

It also has explicit guidelines for the use of healthy food in school menus, including foods that respect the culture and traditions; and it provides incentives for the purchase of diversified foods, preferably from local family agriculture.

«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»

In lab experiments using tissue samples cultured from cystic fibrosis patients, scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Marsico Lung Institute have shown that a new CF drug counteracts the intended beneficial molecular effect of another CF drug.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

A team of researchers from three departments at New Jersey Medical School, led by Michael Mathews and Hartmut Hanauske - Abel, previously showed that Ciclopirox, commonly used by dermatologists and gynecologists to treat fungal infections, inhibits the expression of HIV genes in culture.

The research was conducted by international group of researchers from Indonesia (Summit Institute of Development, the study leader, and the Center for Research on Language and Culture, University of Mataram), the United States (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the University of California, Davis, and Georgetown University) the United Kingdom (University of Lancaster) and Australia (Deakin University).

Back on campus at McGill University in Montreal, I became a part - time curatorial assistant at McGill's entomological museum, which had me delivering educational talks to school kids, cataloging specimens, and taking care of live cultures of such creepy - crawlies as giant walking sticks from Papua New Guinea and Madagascar's hissing cockroaches.

A protein that normally protects cells from environmental stresses has been shown to interact Marburg virus VP24, allowing the deadly Marburg virus to live longer and replicate better, according to a cell culture study led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Haruko Obokata of the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues at other Japanese institutions and at Harvard Medical School in Boston reported that simply subjecting blood cells from newborn mice to a moderately acidic environment for 25 minutes and then tweaking culture conditions could generate pluripotent stem cells capable of developing into nearly all of a body's cell types.

«People have been trying to figure out for quite a while whether the way that we react to music is based on the culture that we come from or on some universal features of the music itself,» says Stephen McAdams, from McGill's Schulich School of Music.