Sentences with phrase «enhanced learning climate»

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Its UFT Teacher Center helps our members devise strategies that help them to enhance instruction, and the UFT — DOE restorative justice partnership, the Professional Learning Collaborative, trains every staff member in the building, reducing behavior incidents and improving school climate.

Creating Effective Schools: An Inservice Program for Enhancing School Learning Climate and Achievement, by Wilbur Brookover, Laurence Beamer, Helen Efthim, Douglas Hathaway, Lawrence Lezotte, Stephen Miller, Joseph Passalacque, and Louis Tornatzky, 1982 (Learning Publications Inc., Box 1326 — Dept. CE, Holmes Beach, Fla. 33509).

«The purpose of teacher retreats is to create a separate experience that enhances positive school climate, develop collegiality, take the teachers out of the building, and provide a new learning experiences for a day,» Myrna Rubel, principal of the middle school division, told Education World.

A positive, open, and supportive climate can enhance learning and academic excellence.

Research by Jurasaite - Harbison and Rex (2010) also indicates that healthy school cultures and climates enhance informal and incidental learning as well (Jurasaite - Harbison & Rex, 2010).

Each such employee shall be required to complete at least one training course in school violence prevention and intervention, which shall consist of at least two clock hours of training that includes but is not limited to, study in the warning signs within a developmental and social context that relate to violence and other troubling behaviors in children; the statutes, regulations, and policies relating to a safe nonviolent school climate; effective classroom management techniques and other academic supports that promote a nonviolent school climate and enhance learning; the integration of social and problem solving skill development for students within the regular curriculum; intervention techniques designed to address a school violence situation; and how to participate in an effective school / community referral process for students exhibiting violent behavior.

When schools commit to promoting students» social - emotional learning, they become positioned to engage all education stakeholders and create a safe, equitable, and engaging school climate, so each student acquires and enhances the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need for interpersonal and life success.

National School Climate Center NSCC promotes positive school climate by helping schools integrate social - emotional learning with academics, thereby enhancing student performance and engagement and reducing violence and buClimate Center NSCC promotes positive school climate by helping schools integrate social - emotional learning with academics, thereby enhancing student performance and engagement and reducing violence and buclimate by helping schools integrate social - emotional learning with academics, thereby enhancing student performance and engagement and reducing violence and bullying.

A new program under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants, presents an exciting opportunity for schools and teachers to create a more well - rounded climate for learning and to enhance how and what students learn.

It isn't just another accountability or regulatory program; it's a real opportunity for schools and teachers to create a more well - rounded climate for learning and to enhance how and what students learn.

Participants examined efforts to implement the use of student and teacher feedback as a way to enhance school climate and the learning students experience.

For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

New legislation was recently introduced in the House that would help improve students» social and emotional learning (SEL) skills, ultimately boosting academic performance and enhancing school climate.

«They focus on supporting and expanding behavioral and mental health staff, changing school climate and culture and developing safety plans and procedures to enhance learning environment safety.»

HB 4056 by Rep. Toni Rose / Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr. enhances the list of best practices programs for addressing mental health concerns in schools by requiring the inclusion of programs and practices relating to building skills relating to managing emotions, establishing and maintaining positive relationships, and responsible decision - making; trauma - informed practices; positive school climate (including interpersonal relationships, teaching / learning practices, and organizational structures as experienced by students, parents and personnel); and positive behavior supports.

We were quite pleased to see the Department's emphasis on how school climate can enhance the conditions for learning reflected in the selection of keynote speakers and workshops.

I only wanted to make the point that we appreciate what we can learn from you, but also hope that you'll take the opportunity to use these discussions to enhance your own knowledge of climate phenomena so that you see the topics you discuss in an accurate perspective.

Determine specific actions to enhance climate change learning and strengthen learning institutions

The book uses neuroscience - based mental health and mindfulness research to help readers cope with and use climate - related adversities to learn, grow, and enhance personal, collective, and environmental wellbeing.

The primary goal of the EdGCM (Educational Global Climate Model) Project is to enhance the quality of climate - change science teaching and learning at the high school level through broader access to actual GCMs, and to assist teachers by providing the appropriate technology, materials and support to use these research - quality climate models effectively in the claClimate Model) Project is to enhance the quality of climate - change science teaching and learning at the high school level through broader access to actual GCMs, and to assist teachers by providing the appropriate technology, materials and support to use these research - quality climate models effectively in the claclimate - change science teaching and learning at the high school level through broader access to actual GCMs, and to assist teachers by providing the appropriate technology, materials and support to use these research - quality climate models effectively in the claclimate models effectively in the classroom.

Before the partisan framing sets in, the Tyee Solutions Society thought it might be useful to stand back and consider just what the Climate Action Plan has and hasn't accomplished so far — what's been learned from its successes and lapses, what informed observers say deserves rethinking and what the rival suitors for our support in the coming election have revealed about which elements of the pioneering plan to zero out B.C.'s carbon footprint they may scrap or enhance.

Improving Teaching and Learning of Science and Mathematics at the Undergraduate Level, 2006 - 2007, Enhancing Climate Change Science Education Through Inquiry - Based Concepts and Real - World Simulations Co-Investigator, Robert Hill (UGA COE)($ 7790).

This presentation will focus on how early childhood education programs can systematically build social - emotional learning / emotional intelligence skills in young children and enhance program culture and climate.