Sentences with phrase «evolving culture of my schools»

Schools and their community partners made progress in evolving the culture of their schools to maximize the benefits of expanded time for learning.

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«We found substantial evidence that Appalachian coal communities are working to shed the culture of coal and develop new opportunities and an evolving conception of identity based on these opportunities,» said researcher Sanya Carley of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

He had just spent two years studying the «climate of values» at several midwestern high schools, interviewing students about their academic lives, their social lives, school culture, and their rapidly evolving teen culture.

In brief, the pathfinder schools» experience and time on the journey underscores the imperative of shaping a mode of schooling, a desired totality, an ecosystem, a culture that both facilitates and continually supports the successful and evolving mode of digital normalisation.

With change comes the freedom to develop the culture of reform and embrace and embed a whole - school response to SEN. Learning and teaching are different now — they have to be — and we have to evolve too.

Though some observers, including multiple - intelligences guru Howard Gardner, point to schools as the «conservators» of our culture, and therefore instinctively conservative in what they do, the resistance comes more from the fact that our public school system has evolved an extremely delicate balance between many sets of pressures — political, parental, social, organizational, supervisory, and financial — that any technological change is bound to disrupt.

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Texas and North Carolina: Both exhibit «traditional» political cultures characterized by elite influence, strong state efforts to direct schools, and evolving accountability policies that have persisted over a long period of time.

These and other pipeline strategies that effect broad - based systems must strike a balance between stability and flexibility in order for them to change as school improvement strategies evolve, say both The Wallace Foundation and education reformers such as Michael Fullan, whose concept of «motion leadership» reflects the need for a systematic culture of continuous reflection and growth.

Schools face the challenge of creating cultures in which teachers come to view appreciating and being generous to others, acting with fairness and integrity, and formulating mature and resilient ideals as evolving and subtle capacities.