Sentences with phrase «fabric of the school»

In this article we look at the physical fabric of the school and how it can help create a highly active place to learn in.

What we do not know is whether the new practices have been embedded sufficiently in the ordinary fabric of schooling in the district to endure.

In light of this, I have concluded that I can not be part of reforms that eat away at the moral fabric of our schools.

Westwood Elementary, one of six schools in the district, has been weaving the Six Pillars of Character into the very fabric of our school ever since.

We learned that meaningful student voice must: be inclusive, be woven into the daily fabric of school, target substantive issues, involve asking and listening by all parties, and lead to constructive action.

In order to be truly sustainable and highly effective, Positive Education requires a whole - school approach in which all staff (teaching and non-teaching) are trained in Positive Education so that the principles can be modelled and supported, and woven throughout the entire fabric of the school.

The OneApp will likely enjoy long - term public support only if it is woven into a larger fabric of school options and choice.

The NETS were «standards that describe the technology skills that should be interwoven in the curricular fabric of our schools» (Thomas & Knezek, 1999, p. 27).

But if there's one thing we've learned, if student voice is to be successful, it must be woven into the everyday fabric of school — it needs to be rooted in meaningful activities and it needs to be routinized.

Their schools have implemented security solutions that compliment the very fabric of the school.

Rachel Toms, leader of the Design Council's Active by Design programme, looks at how the physical fabric of a school can be altered to encourage a more active lifestyle among school children

We learned that meaningful student voice must: be inclusive, be woven into the daily fabric of school, target substantive issues, involve asking and listening by all parties, and lead to constructive action.

Barbara Kelly, principal of the Paul Revere Innovation School, says, «The BOKS program has become vital to the fabric of our school.

It's helpful to view the integration of mindfulness into the fabric of a school as a marathon, not as a sprint.

When we consider that asbestos is often integrated into the fabric of a school building, it is probably easier to demolish a school than it is to remove the asbestos from the buildings.

The HSE commented that the trust «should have controlled this potentially lethal risk by identifying the type, location and condition of any asbestos - containing - materials within the fabric of the school, and by implementing suitable precautions to prevent its disturbance.

This means the technology gets embedded into the fabric of the school from the start and the benefits are reaped quickly.»

In short, I think the work of teaching is so extraordinarily complex and teachers are so tightly woven into the fabric of school communities that any attempt by faraway federal officials to tinker with evaluation systems is a fool's errand.

High - stakes tests are pervasive in the fabric of school culture.

Much of the music is just for fun and woven into the fabric of our school year.

«It's so woven into the fabric of the school that it is difficult to think about the school without it,» Tousent added

For many, the standards movement represents an opportunity to weave into the fabric of our schools a more intellectually demanding program.

The standards movement represents an opportunity to weave into the fabric of our schools a more intellectually demanding program.

Schools are building it into the formal curriculum, the informal curriculum and the fabric of the school.

The collaborative - learning style incorporated into the fabric of the school helps students to be resilient by aiding them with identifying their resources (peers) and testing their theories to see if they are on the right track all while developing habits of mind that form the foundation of scholarship.

What makes this different from previous fire safety guides, which were primarily concerned with adequate provision for means of escape in the event of fire, is that it stresses the additional importance of protecting the fabric of schools, effectively making them a sustainable asset for years to come.

I think the outcomes for families are not just that the children have parents who are more engaged, but also that parents become a deeper part of the fabric of the schools.»

The best defence against such a threat is to ensure that any and all people who may be tasked on working on the fabric of the school building have the appropriate asbestos training.

Educators are deeply versed in the fabric of schooling and experience the unintended consequences of reforms.

Commission is studying how to make social, emotional, and academic development «part of the fabric of every school.»

Talented teachers and leaders form the fabric of their school communities and work tirelessly each and every day to help their students learn and grow.

In short, a program will have the greatest impact when it is woven into the fabric of the school culture.

The work of teaching is so extraordinarily complex and teachers are so tightly woven into the fabric of school communities that any attempt by faraway federal officials to tinker with evaluation systems is a fool's errand

In her current role as Associate Superintendent, Dr. Gray is responsible for integrating the community school strategy into the fabric of the school district.

«Everything is integrated into the fabric of the school culture.»

The National Commission's goal is to explore how to make social, emotional, and academic development part of the fabric of every school by drawing from research and promising practices.

It also discusses the conditions that made teams effective in these schools, such as sacrosanct time in the schedule for team meetings; the school principal's active engagement with teams; facilitation of teams by teacher leaders; and the integration of other supports for teacher growth into the fabric of the school.

The authors make clear that these are not five standalone components, but five areas that are interwoven throughout the fabric of our schools.

NYC Students Weave Student Voice into the Fabric of Their Schools (2013) The NYC Department of Education calls its approach to ranking public schools «hard - nosed accountability,» says Avaris, a senior at Vanguard High School in Manhattan.

Rather it is the next evolution of «wrap - around» or support services — an approach to schools that integrates ALL the supports and opportunities students need to be successful into the very fabric of a school.

Replete with checklists, surveys, and worksheets, 10 Steps to Managing Change in Schools is a practical guide for educators determined to seamlessly weave new practices or procedures into the fabric of the school.

The authors state, «Community collaboration works to challenge the perception of traditional school - community partnerships and is something that is ongoing, systemic, and part of the very fabric of a school's interwoven culture.»

Using evaluations to strengthen teaching is part of the fabric of the school at DC Preparatory Academy, which serves 275 middle school students in northeastern Washington, D.C..

Yes, religion is woven into the fabric of these schools, but that shouldn't justify governmental indifference to their plight, especially given the paucity of other great schools in these communities.

Summary: This video consists a presentation made by Dr. Maurice Elias explaining how the Developing Safe And Civil Schools program provides a school with a coordinated approach to improving school culture and climate while embedding social, emotional, and character development in the fabric of the school.

Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is most powerful when it's integrated into the fabric of a school's culture.

The goal is to «change mindsets, practices, and beliefs» so that teachers, principals and other school leaders «have a complex understanding about how structural bias and structural racism works within the fabric of schooling» resulting in disproportionality.

Your school's research - and - innovation team needs to learn enough about the theory and practice of change management to have its change effort become embedded in the fabric of the school.