Sentences with phrase «for social accountability»

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EQ is the bedrock for a host of crucial people skills that impact most everything we do and say in the workplace: decision - making, anger management, social skills, accountability, empathy and teamwork, to name a few.

They provide all of us with a sense of purpose and hope; moral validation that we are needed and part of something bigger than ourselves; comfort that we are not alone and a community is looking out for us; mentorship, guidance and personal development; a safety net; values, cultural norms and accountability; social gatherings, rituals and a way to meet new people; and a way to pass time.

In these strange times, we need the majority of business leaders to accept a higher level of accountability for reviving the economy, through commitment, innovation and a broader view of success that includes contributing to the island's social and economic advancement.

By booking her workout classes in advance, Dunnahoo - Kirsch is able to combine the commitment she makes with the social pressure from friends she works out with, into a powerful accountability hack for keeping her version of work - life balance in line.

Government Accountability — The need for accountability in government is vast, spanning social programs to business regulation, military acAccountability — The need for accountability in government is vast, spanning social programs to business regulation, military acaccountability in government is vast, spanning social programs to business regulation, military action and more.

It is therefore no shock that economists and business academics are subverting the social movement to demand corporate accountability by dismantling some of their legal advantage — most notably, personhood rights for corporations.

I am proud to announce that Maryland has become the first state in the country to pass legislation that requires transparency and accountability for social -LSB-...]

«Social media has forced higher levels of transparency, responsibility and accountability for people on a personal and business basis.

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, Workshop: CSR Governance: Assessing Ownership and Accountability of Sustainability at Your Organization, Toronto, ON, October 22, 2010.

Capital in the nature of speculative capital with the ability to move from place to place searching for quick returns has freed itself from any forms of social accountability.

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It's a project that the company had been working on ever since the partners heard what B Corps are all about: for - profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.

The Accountability Framework, an initiative being developed by a coalition of leading environmental and social organisations (including the Rainforest Alliance), will provide a clear pathway for companies on the sustainability journey — including key milestones and benchmarks to evaluate their progress.

Summer camps, while keeping children engaged, also helps in building character, accountability and social skills and enable them to fend for themselves

He has focused on legislation and policy changes to support affordable housing, protect the environment, promote economic and social justice and a more humane society, prevent gun violence, create a fairer and more open political process, and provide for greater accountability in the ways government provides services and spends our tax dollars.

Recognizing the deep need for a tenable social contract going forward should thus influence policymakers to require accountability and transparency and to guard against violations of privacy.

However, the Social - Economic Accountability Rights Project has also knocked Saraki for criticising the government's anti-corruption fight, describing it as «inappropriate».

The DLT is a simple tool that ranks the level of development in each of Ghana's 216 Districts, using six indicators across six sectors and aimed to increase social accountability — where citizens and service providers demand of, and account to each other — for improved development across Ghana.

«I am thrilled for this opportunity to continue addressing the issues I so deeply care about — criminal and social justice, honest government, national security, civil rights, and corporate accountability, to name a few.»

Former President Jerry John Rawlings called for a «new revolution» in the Party pinched on probity, accountability and social justice and that the Party would remain in political abyss if it failed to stop political monetization and allow «grassroot Democratic model» to prevail.

There are loads of online groups (social media in particular is great for this) that discuss ideas and help to add accountability to what you're trying to achieve.

Yomi is the founder of Stand Up For Fashion (STUFF) a global platform promoting social accountability and responsibility in the fashion industry.

There is no better cure for the social ills of our community and no better process for the education of an immigrant class than providing a great teacher, a core curriculum, a disciplined school culture, and strong accountability.

In standards and accountability, the American Federation of Teachers has rated Colorado's standards clear, specific, and grounded in content, except for social studies at the elementary and high school levels.

The state does not have science and social studies assessments that are aligned to state standards for elementary, middle, and high school students, which lowers its standards - and - accountability score.

While it is now widely recognised that social - emotional wellbeing is a protective factor for wellbeing and mental health, as well as a key to educational success, the current emphasis on academic achievement and data - driven accountability in schools tends to relegate social and emotional learning to one side.

Standards and Accountability: Colorado has clear and specific standards for English, mathematics, and science in all grade spans, but it has such standards only at the middle school level for social studies / history.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The criteria for the Social Innovation Leadership Award include the following: Effective and sustainable mobilization of resources in support of program and project work, including support from local communities, incorporating ethical values, efficient management of financial and human resources, good governance practices, transparency and accountability, and effective communication, and finally, involvement in communities and protection of the environment.

States must also meet several other conditions, including: 1) working with the public schools to define the academic and social skills that five - year - olds must possess in order to succeed in kindergarten; 2) developing preschool activities and materials that help poor children acquire these skills; 3) outlining an accountability program for determining whether four - year - olds are learning these skills; 4) maintaining state spending on preschool programs; and 5) continuing to provide comprehensive services.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

Standards and Accountability: Virginia has clear and specific standards at the elementary, middle, and high school levels for English, mathematics, and social studies / history.

Standards and Accountability: North Carolina has clear and specific standards at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in all subjects except social studies / history, for which standards are clear and specific in high school only.

«ESSA claws back some of the most problematic federal accountability requirements, and it emphasizes the need for social and emotional, as well as traditional academic, measures of student success,» Weiss said.

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

Authentic family engagement — where families work directly with teachers and establish mutual accountability for student growth and outcomes — can dramatically improve the academic, social and emotional growth of students.

Within our field we have also seen the emergence of national and state standards (including most recently the C3 Framework sponsored by the National Council for the Social Studies, 2013) and the rise of accountability discourse and high stakes testing.

Quality SEL assessments can support schools» accountability for having systems in place that teach social and emotional skills to students.

When I was elected to the Los Angeles School Board 11 years ago as an experienced educator and social worker, I immediately challenged the downtown school bureaucracy, fought for greater accountability and tackled the most difficult problems facing our schools.

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The districts equally weigh self - management, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and social awareness for overall school accountability.

«Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era» finds that since the enactment of NCLB, 62 percent of school districts increased the amount of time spent in elementary schools on subjects that are tested for accountability, while 44 percent of school districts cut time on science, social studies, art and music, physical education, lunch, or recess.

For instance, university researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education's John W. Gardner Center recently partnered with the California CORE districts — which include the Los Angeles Unified, Oakland Unified, Fresno Unified, Long Beach Unified, Santa Ana Unified, Sanger Unified, Garden Grove Unified, and Sacramento City Unified school districts — to design a new local school accountability system that included measures of students» social - emotional learning, growth mindset, self - efficacy, and school climate.51 Researchers found that these measures were predictive of students» test performance and correlated with other important academic and behavioral outcomes.52

Our teachers overwhelmingly suggested using social - emotional learning indicators or a school climate indicator as the additional indicator of student success for the state accountability system.

While Coates doesn't touch on education policy, he essentially makes a strong historical case for why reformers (especially increasingly erstwhile conservatives in the movement) must go back to embracing accountability measures and a strong federal role in education policymaking that, along with other changes in American society, are key to helping children from poor and minority households (as well as their families and communities) attain economic and social equality.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

But his less - than - honest autobiography has been accepted unquestioningly by allies like Arne Duncan who use it, as he does, to support needless test obsession for millions of schoolchildren, on the theory that more accountability for teachers will cure our social ills.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan posed a central question in his speech at the National Council for Social Studies Annual Conference: «How can we promote both a well - rounded education with rich offerings across all subjects — civics, geography, economics and history, the arts, foreign languages, physical education, the sciences, et cetera — and simultaneously create a system of real and meaningful accountability that doesn't lead to narrowing of the curriculum?»