Sentences with phrase «emphasis on school culture»

Bridgeport leaders place greater emphasis on school culture in the year ahead through expansion of a pilot program focused on emotional intelligence (CT Post).

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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.

«Peer Support Australia places an emphasis on working together with members of the school community, including administrators, teachers, students, and parents to develop a culture that is cohesive and supportive,» Greg says.

The emphasis on Native American language and culture appears to be a hit with students at both reservation schools Education World visited in northern Maine.

Schools should assume a «no excuses» culture based on strong academic attainment, a tough stance on discipline and an emphasis on good manners, says Schools Minister Nick Gibb.

Over the past two years, suspensions have declined to one - fifth of the previous figure, thanks in part to a restorative justice program and an emphasis on positive school culture.

The strongest relationship here is with Emphasis on teamwork -LRB-.45), Focus on quality -LRB-.39), District culture -LRB-.38), Use of data -LRB-.35), Jobembedded professional development for teachers -LRB-.35), Relations with schools and stakeholders -LRB-.35), Targeted improvement -LRB-.31), and Investment in instructional leadership -LRB-.23).

Particular emphasis is placed on building internal capacity by training teacher leaders, coaches, and district and school leaders, and by fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

Through a shared emphasis on the Profile, students and teachers 9 - 12 develop a school culture and climate that supports accelerated learning.

Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the principal «s role.

Solutions to this problem lie in fundamental changes to the nature of the school accountability system and to the culture of testing, not in placing more emphasis on the need for private tuition.

Imagine Schools places a strong emphasis on each child's character development and measures progress in student behavior and overall school culture.

However, when they are used as an end, problems occur and the school culture shifts further away from an emphasis on learning.

Then teachers begin to build on that to teach more of the KIPP school culture, which involves a real emphasis on the expectation that scholars will one day attend college.

Maryland's plan includes a strong focus on personalized professional learning for new and veteran teachers as well as a strong school system - focused approach to supporting all low performing and high poverty schools, with specific emphasis on turnaround leadership, talent development, instructional transformation, and culture shifts.

I'm inspired by Meria Joel Carstarphen, the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, who talks about the fundamental educational shift from a culture of punitive testing to an emphasis on the whole child.

The school follows a unique interdisciplinary curriculum with a strong emphasis on world cultures and global citizenship.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

Additionally there is a huge emphasis on becoming a life - long learner within the school culture.

In 2010, former charter - school leader David Hill was named director of academic operations for the so - called Jubilee Schools, and he instituted changes across the network — extending the school day, strengthening school culture, putting more emphasis on attracting and retaining high - quality teachers and principals.

The changes include extensive, one - on - one tutoring and mentoring, longer school days, a longer school year and an emphasis on a «no excuses» culture within a college prep atmosphere.

In addition, cross-case analyses revealed other important components not on the original list: positive school culture (marked by rituals and traditions that celebrate student accomplishment, teacher innovation, parental commitment and a shared ethos of caring, concern and commitment to helping students learn); dynamic, personalized assessment systems; emphasis on the world of work; and deliberate fostering of learning experiences that develop initiative, self - regulation, persistence and collaboration.

Service learning isn't just about fulfilling a certain number of hours, at Hancock the emphasis is on student leadership and voice as part of the culture of the school.

Without exception, these schools work to build a collective culture of achievement and college going, with repeated emphasis on college attendance and completion.

A fourth step taken within R and A during the 2011 - 12 school year to promote the importance of establishing a Data - to - Action, results - oriented culture within DPS was the increased emphasis on creating and administering surveys in an effort to assess various programs and initiatives currently active within DPS.

The term integrates three robust concepts: a school culture that emphasizes professionalism is «client oriented and knowledge based» (Darling - Hammond, 1990); emphasizes learning and places a high value on teachers» inquiry and reflection (Toole, 2001); and has a communitarian emphasis on personal connection (Louis et al., 1995).

United Arts will also consider innovative concepts / projects that contribute to a change in instructional practice, leadership in the arts or an increased emphasis on the arts in the school culture.

The methods of teaching developed at the BMC — such as an emphasis on interpretation and dialogue in the form of the student critique (or «crit»)-- are still present in many of our most advanced art schools; the language of interdisciplinarity began at BMC and the mixture of disciplines and mediums gave way to what is largely regarded as the first «happening»; and the aspirations of intentional communities, utopian ways of thinking, bridging the gap between art and life, and the creation of a counter-culture that are characteristic of American culture in the 1960s all flourished at the college in the preceding decades.

Visual literacy is every bit as important, and if our culture and school systems placed more emphasis on learning about art, people would grow up with more of a museum habit.

While the two schools of abstract expressionist painting shared certain characteristics ---- large scale; bold, gestural brushwork; emphasis on the materiality of paint; figure and ground equal or collapsed into overall, non-hierarchical compositions ---- Bay area artists, influenced by Asian cultures and the expansiveness of the western landscape, in addition to European painting, invited landscape references into their work whereas New York painters resisted such associations.

The emphasis on tragedy and pop culture in Ms. Rogers's work recalls Andy Warhol's celebrity icons and disasters, Mike Kelley's «Day Is Done» remakes of high school yearbook photographs and Karen Kilimnik's and Sue de Beer's trenchant forays into the female adolescent psyche.

It's not that the voters are too «stupid», it's that (at least in the U.S.), the dominant culture doesn't place a high value on thinking scientifically, so the public schools don't emphasis science, resulting in abysmally low levels of scientific meta - literacy in the electorate.

The program is designed to give participants the knowledge and skills to coordinate SEL implementation efforts in their own schools, with emphasis on school climate, culture, values, leadership, student voice and engagement, and SEL skills development.

I'm inspired by Meria Joel Carstarphen, the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, who talks about the fundamental educational shift from a culture of punitive testing to an emphasis on the whole child.

In addition to her interest in couple and family relationships as they impact development across the lifespan, her research interests include schools as a context for child and adolescent development, and self and social identity with an emphasis on gender, ethnicity, and culture.