Sentences with phrase «engage high culture»

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The result is a culture we're proud of: empowered and engaged employees whose morale, motivation, and productivity are all high.

One sure sign of an engaged culture is that our award for «We Have Fun» is held in just as high regard as other categories such as creativity — and it may even be the most fiercely competitive category.

Put simply, «high culture» requires a leisure class or, one might say more precisely, a superfluous class of people that is not engaged in the necessary work of maintaining the material basis for society.

«It may be that the biggest barrier to intervention with troubled kids or kids engaged in high - risk behavior is their parents,» researchers concluded in a commentary accompanying the Culture of American Families survey.

Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is a solitary, cultured man whose reluctance to engage with others, especially women, is matched only by the dogged obsessiveness with which he practices his profession as a high - end antiques dealer.

What I found is that schools that exceed expectations — as well as those that are making significant improvement from a base of overall poor performance — engage in the extensive practice of six research - informed instructional strategies and develop a culture that communicates high expectations and support for all students.

We seek to move our work forward in three core areas that, taken together, can substantially reshape the college admissions process for students across race, class and culture, and help young people redefine their priorities, reimagine their high school experiences, and better prepare for ethically engaged and meaningful lives.

To quote from Fr, Heft's concluding chapter, «A Catholic high school that offers the education that it should will provide not only spiritual development, it will also provide a superior education, precisely because it will integrate knowledge; attend to both the heads and hearts of their students; engage parents more intimately in the education of their children; deepen their understanding and strengthen the practice of their faith; and prepare their graduates to enter thoughtfully a culture that offers opportunities and has needs, not just for technical skills, but even more for wisdom and generosity.»

It gave him an opportunity to interact, engage, and work with peers from different races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and cultures and learn about racism in ways that his «desegregated» high school did not provide.

Sheninger was principal of New Milford High School when he led an initiative to create a culture that, in his own words, was «transparent, relevant, meaningful, engaging, and inspiring.»

«District leaders, from superintendents to board members, are working with educators to create a culture of high expectations, data - based decision making and high - quality instruction, while fully engaging students and parents as partners.»

All school improvement strategies — particularly interventions focused on the lowest - performing schools — must inform and engage all stakeholders; support enriched curriculum; enhance the school culture; provide high - quality teaching with ongoing professional learning to improve the quality of instruction; be commensurate with the need; and offer engaging learning opportunities that involve all students, families, and staff.

Positive school climate / culture: relationship building, positive decorum with students, customer service to all visitors, opportunities for students to engage in school outside of the classroom (clubs), and high levels of engagement in class

We need to trust that teachers are the educators who best know our students and empower them to create school cultures, curriculum, instruction, and assessment that fully engage students in high quality, equitable, authentic, and relevant educational experiences.

Malverne High School has a culture that encourages students to engage in rigorous coursework while maintaining a «success for all students» philosophy that is built around expanding learning opportunities well outside the traditional school day.

The English High School, Boston This project aims to build a school - wide culture of literacy by developing a sustainable model of supplemental literacy instruction, engaging students as co-teachers and co-designers in the development of that model, and creating a professional learning community to support ELA teachers in building literacy communities in their own classrooms.

Schools that follow the Turning Points model engage in improving learning, teaching, and assessment, building a professional collaborative culture, engaging in data - based inquiry and decision making, and creating structures that support high achievement and personal development.

We find that gifted, talented and high ability scholars who engage in higher order thinking, a commitment to excellence and creative problem solving skills are most successful in our academy culture.

High - quality schools have a strong and intentional culture, rooted in mutual respect, that engages and empowers students and families in ways relevant to their culture.

As a comprehensive academic model, the roadmap is built around five elements of education - a culture of high expectations, demanding curriculum, engaging instruction, rigorous assessment, and shared leadership.

High teacher and student modeling of positive character traits that help build a caring and supportive school culture Direct instruction of character related vocabulary Students are engaged in making real world connections.

His areas of interest and expertise include leadership; emotional intelligence; high performing middle schools; positive school culture; motivating and engaging staff; leveraging time, talent, and resources (school scheduling); literacy; and character education.

This session's engaging activities will focus on ways to inspire and support high - performing teams - the structure that is needed to support a positive, robust school culture.

The realistic tension between the two cultures is balanced by Hicks» highly engaging cartooning and high - energy parkour - based chase scenes.

With the nickname Isle of the Gods, Bali attracts romance seekers for its temples, stunning mountain views, engaging culture and high - quality resorts.

His paintings and works on paper engage with the intersection between popular culture and high art, history, race, religion, society, and identity.

Now of course Raymond Pettibons's American art is in high demand, and on receiving the Bucksbaum Award from the Whitney Museum the trustees wrote that his work is remarkable because he «manages to engage in an immediate dialogue with the culture, to express the moment we are living in.»

MG As much as your work engages with non-Western traditions, it is also very much rooted in American culture, where there is a long legacy of sculptures built out of found objects — not only in «high art,» but even more so in vernacular expressions, of which your work seems keenly aware.

In both his paintings and paper works, Ofili engages with the intersection of popular culture and high art, as well as history, race, and political and social imperatives.

His choices of three - dimensional form and re-cut footage present us with High and Low Art simultaneously, the ability to engage with a family audience combined with the potential for critical thoughts in regards to culture and engagement.

From a more practical standpoint, higher tuition fees and a more elite class of law graduate will likely translate into fewer lawyers engaging in public interest practice (unless a newly robust culture of noblesse oblige ascends), and fewer lawyers willing or able to serve in under - served (i.e. rural, humble) home communities.