Sentences with phrase «different school environments»

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At Expeditionary Warfare School, we learn to think of the joint environment as pertaining not only to the different military services, but also to nonmilitary organizations like the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

i think that, no matter where people fall in terms of what they do for their child's schooling, the most important part is that they think it through and make a wise decision, and not be afraid to change if it seems their child would thrive in a different environment.

Our international students enrich our school environment with their different experiences, perspectives and cultures.

Now, the same woman and I each have our children in a different educational environment — a public charter school.

Different environments suit different people, and neither school nor home education is necessarily always right for Different environments suit different people, and neither school nor home education is necessarily always right for different people, and neither school nor home education is necessarily always right for everyone.

As for changing schools, we have found that sometimes a new environment can yield a different response since there is no history of not talking there.

My son does not go to a Montessori preschool, but he goes to a preschool which has studied all these different disciplines and has incorporated a lot of the Montessori methods within the classroom environment, but it's not specifically a Montessori school.

«In a co-educational school environment, children learn to work and collaborate not only with classmates of different learning styles, ages, cultures and behaviors, but also of different genders.

When it happened again the next year, said John, «we started realizing that Sofia was quote unquote a different kid in the school environment.»

The process is a bit different for birds, especially those residing to tropical environments, according to German Forero - Medina, a doctoral student at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

By the time I arrived in graduate school, I had experience with five different laboratory environments in two top - tier universities.

«Under the microscope, eggs from reproductively young and old animals may look identical, but the environment in which they are growing is completely different,» said lead study author Francesca Duncan, executive director of the Center for Reproductive Science at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

In one study that confronts that idea, cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto of the New School for Social Research in New York reasoned that if people use their physical perceptions and motor experiences to construct mental simulations, then physical characteristics that cause us to interact with the environment in systematically different ways should in fact send people down different mental pathways.

A team from La Trobe University's School of Life Sciences, led by Dr Richard Peters, worked with academics from Monash University's Faculty of IT to create, using 3D animation, a series of varied environmental settings and weather conditions, comprising different plant environments and wind conditions, to quantify how lizard displays are affected by this variation.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

Professor Alvaro Mata, from Queen Mary's School of Engineering and Materials Science, said: «The technique opens the possibility to design and create biological scenarios like complex and specific cell environments, which can be used in different fields such as tissue engineering by creating constructs that resemble tissues or in vitro models that can be used to test drugs in a more efficient manner.»

«Having a group of distantly related species, representing markedly different ecologies and biology, is as important, or more important, than just having more species in general,» said Brian R. Silliman, Rachel Carson associate professor of marine conservation biology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

The Vienna Doctoral School «Molecules of Life» fosters education, cooperation and interaction among students and group leaders from different backgrounds and disciplines in an open and creative environment.

Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.

Administrators and educators must strive to create environments in high school and college math and science programs that are inviting to females if we want to prevent the likelihood of their choosing a different direction.

While the relationship between leading, learning and managing change is not new, the complexities of the contemporary school environment are transforming the nature of leadership, with many education communities now calling for networked school leaders who are able to more seamlessly connect learning opportunities across different contexts.

Sometimes schools can be guilty of having a variety of different hardware and software and this doesn't make for an effortless teaching environment.

The authors of this study note that the findings suggest that although government policies and investment have improved the healthy eating environments of schools, additional or different dissemination strategies may be required to facilitate greater adoption of policies.

Many schools invest in environment like this, but one of the elements that makes this school different is the relationship between its teachers and administration.

My argument here is that a «diverse provider» environment (where an area has an array of operators running an array of schools) allows for a very different kind of accountability system.

You see, our schools in 2013 exist in a very different context, a very different environment, than they did in 1943, 1963, or 1983.

Furthermore, the current salary schedule does not normally take into account the fact that teachers work in schools offering different levels of nonmonetary benefits, such as a safe, pleasing environment.

4 worksheets to practice with different topics (school, holidays, future aspirations, environment).

Second, it is investing in instructional approaches that increase student and parental engagement — such as differentiated school offerings for different student needs, as well as products and services for blended - learning environments, where the bulk of K — 12 online learning will ultimately be — both for its own full - time managed schools as well as for districts through its Fuel Education business.

Both attract parents looking for something different than their local schools, whether that's a more progressive environment or a more academically - rigorous one.

In order to provide a quality education and to create a suitable learning environment for the students, the school has taken different steps and according to Teron they have achieve success to some extent.

This has to start at school, with PE teachers being understanding of different girl's needs, but also creating a comfortable environment in which girls feel empowered to work within the changes they experience each month.

The current challenges in schools in the UK are leading to a new understanding that we need to approach things differently to find ways to equip staff, parents and pupils with the environment they need in order to fulfil their different roles well and sustain their own wellbeing.

The communities and environments immediately surrounding schools, whether they are situated in a bustling metropolis or a quiet rural village, offer inspiration in a variety of different ways.

this exercise is good for everyone to understand about their familiar environment... it can be also used at a different scale - their classroom within the school, their school and surroundings...

At the heart of the issue is what Weissbourd calls a «rhetoric reality gap,» where a school's mission states that it is a caring environment and the school adopts an antibullying curriculum, but a walk down the hall reveals a different story: a student saying, «That's so gay.»

The basic flaw in the CRP study is that it compares the racial composition of charter schools, which tend to be located in inner cities, with that of traditional public schools, which are located in all different kinds of environments.

You see the kids benefit from that experience of going into a different environment and learning about the issues that other schools face.

Pooling resources This is one of the reasons why School Direct works best when a group of schools work together — not only do larger partnerships enable you to predict requirements more effectively, they also make it far easier to recruit trainees, organise training, create more opportunities for trainees to learn in different environments and ensure trainees can find work when they qualify.

In addition to this, 19 per cent believed their school was not a welcoming environment for teachers of different religions (12 per cent for students).

We tend to think of K — 12 schools as collections of classrooms and administrative areas, but I would define learning environments as both physical and virtual, and encompassing the different contexts and cultures in which students learn.

«We spend a lot of time getting students to speak in different arenas, forums, and environments,» says Rachael Futo, a Year 7 coach, «so that they're ready and prepared for things like interviews where students who come from public schools often don't do as well.»

«Basically, the problems with a network strategy are distance, the differing charter laws in each state, different political environments, and different theories of action [for running a school],» Rosenstock says today.

The OECD's new report, School Leadership for Learning: Insights from Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013, specifically looks at different approaches to school leadership and its impact on professional learning communities and on the learning environment in scSchool Leadership for Learning: Insights from Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) 2013, specifically looks at different approaches to school leadership and its impact on professional learning communities and on the learning environment in scschool leadership and its impact on professional learning communities and on the learning environment in schools.

The research also found that in schools where the intercultural capabilities were a priority across the school, there were much higher levels of acceptance of diversity, more positive relations between different cultures, and these schools had safe and calm environments that facilitated learning.

Secondary schools that build upon students who have been taught a culture of trust and respect in how to use their suite of digital technologies, aptly and appropriately 24 hours a day, present a very different environment.

Boys and girls learn at different rates and in different ways, so it's advantageous to be able to tailor classes to suit the specific needs of each gender, while still enabling social interaction between the sexes in the wider school environment.

The Norwegian students, on the other hand, get to meet people who come from very different countries, cultures, and journeys than themselves — all of which contributes to a better school environment.

Host a School Chef National School Meal's week also featured the «Host a School Chef» initiative where school chefs are invited to spend a day in a different environment, such as a Michelin star restaurant, a sports stadium, or a 5 * School Chef National School Meal's week also featured the «Host a School Chef» initiative where school chefs are invited to spend a day in a different environment, such as a Michelin star restaurant, a sports stadium, or a 5 * School Meal's week also featured the «Host a School Chef» initiative where school chefs are invited to spend a day in a different environment, such as a Michelin star restaurant, a sports stadium, or a 5 * School Chef» initiative where school chefs are invited to spend a day in a different environment, such as a Michelin star restaurant, a sports stadium, or a 5 * school chefs are invited to spend a day in a different environment, such as a Michelin star restaurant, a sports stadium, or a 5 * hotel.