Sentences with phrase «from school climate»

Conceptual model for Hypothesis 2: a = students» positive school climate will predict stronger school identification among students, b = the path from students» school identification to students» NAPLAN results will be significant and d = the indirect path from school climate to student achievement scores via school identification will be positive and significant.

The revised school report card statute requires «two or more indicators from any school climate survey developed by the state.»

provides status reports that demonstrate how students and schools are doing based on attendance records ~ emotional and behavioral health statistics ~ feedback from school climate surveys ~ and data from school nurses and the physical education department.

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During the 2015 - 2016 academic year, I chaired the Government of Alberta's Climate Change Leadership Panel, for which I was compensated by the government for 30 days of work with the balance of my time commitment (at least 34 additional days) being covered by a release from the Dean of the Alberta School of Business.

A revived Sunday school may temporarily find favorable growing conditions in the present conservative national climate, but for its continued health and growth it must be freed from five stereotypes.

In today's intellectual climate, where so many who invoke science in support of Christianity seem to do so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of modern science points unambiguously to the existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.

They want to know that the issues they care about, from animal welfare to climate change, have been taken care of,» said Jan Potter, Food for Thought's chairperson and headteacher at Belle Vale Primary School.

Eleven representatives from Piedmont attended the Challenge Success Fall Conference to discuss the social and academic climate at participating high schools on Sept. 25 and 26 at Stanford University.

That would be my reaction, too, but a new report out today from Friends of the Earth makes a compelling case that climate - friendly school food menus can actually save districts money while at the same time improving the nutritional profile of school meals.

The North Ranch Elementary School regularly fields calls from schools in colder climates with questions on how to deal with coats, hats, galoshes and mittens.

For instance, when the school climate is authoritative, kids from authoritative families may find it easier to fit in (Pellerin 2004).

Disclaimer: James Painter receives funding from The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Norwegian Environment Ministry.

In the past few years, students at hundreds of colleges and universities have started pushing their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies as a way to slow climate change.

Education leaders from across New York said Wednesday they'll need more money than what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has set aside for schools next year in order to avoid cuts and improve the overall climate.

Greens have never known a Climate Secretary superior to Miliband, while he has had affinity with those that life has dealt a tough hand, who the SNP and UKIP argue Labour has distanced from, since his days at Haverstock School.

Dan Kahan of Yale Law School shared findings from his research on communicating the severity of climate change and sea - level rise in southeast Florida.

«We're glad the governor went to global warming school, but he didn't learn the lessons from it,» said David Pringle, campaign director of the New Jersey Environmental Federation, about the governor's recent meetings with climate scientists.

The study involved researchers from the Schools of International Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in China and the US.

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

Edward Hanna, Professor of Climate Science and Meteorology at the University of Lincoln's School of Geography, carried out the study with Dr Richard Hall, also from the University of Lincoln, and Professor James E Overland from the US National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory.

«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»

That finding is meant to contradict the stereotype of Americans learning little science in school and being oblivious to or willfully ignorant of the scientific consensus on everything from climate change to evolution.

To perform a kind of forensic analysis of the avalanche, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences joined with two glaciologists from The Ohio State University: Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences and research scientist at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center (BPCRC), and Ellen Mosley - Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in Geography and director of BPCRC.

The two students were from Pemberton Elementary School in nearby Salisbury, Md., the first to participate in a new, three - month interdisciplinary unit called «Investigating Climate Science» that spans science, math, economics and government.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

Co-author of the study Professor Ian Hall, from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our results highlight the challenge of basing our understanding of the climate system on generally short observational records.

Lead researcher Dr Carlo Fezzi, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Climate change is a just a little bit more complicated than we previously thought.

«The new record high calendar year temperature averaged across Australia is remarkable because it occurred not in an El Niño year, but a normal year,» David Karoly, a climate scientist from the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, said in an emailed statement.

The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as climate change and ocean pollution.

Leaked documents from the free - market conservative organization The Heartland Institute reveal a plan to create school educational materials that contradict the established science on climate change.

According to a new report from the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London, that argument is half - right.

The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.

Conor Purcell from Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Using the simulations performed with our climate model, we were able to demonstrate that the climate system can respond to small changes with abrupt climate swings.

He also served as dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford from 1994 to 2002 and as the founding director of the Global Climate and Energy Project at Stanford from 2002 to 2008.

The administration also announced it will expand its Climate Data Initiative to more than 150 databases and unveiled a pledge from 30 medical and public health schools nationwide to train students on the links between climate change and meClimate Data Initiative to more than 150 databases and unveiled a pledge from 30 medical and public health schools nationwide to train students on the links between climate change and meclimate change and medicine.

«We take what we have learned from the past climate and applied it to better understand what to expect moving forward with the current state of the changing global climate,» said study co-author Ali Pourmand, an associate professor of marine geosciences at the UM Rosenstiel School.»

Climate change, resulting in more frost - free days and warmer seasonal air temperatures, can contribute to shifts in flowering time and pollen initiation from allergenic plant species, and increased CO2 by itself can elevate production of plant - based allergens.137, 15,16,17,18,19,138 Higher pollen concentrations and longer pollen seasons can increase allergic sensitizations and asthma episodes, 20,21,155,22 and diminish productive work and school days.138, 22,23

In the drive to survive changing climates, larger herbivores may fare slightly better than their smaller competitors, according to new research from the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

AMGG is closely associated with the research school on Changing Climates in the Coupled Earth System (CHESS), and is lead by Dr. Giuliana Panieri from CAGE.

The workshop received funding support from a UWA Research Collaboration Award, a UWA School of Plant Biology synthesis grant and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science (ARCCSS).

Lead researcher Prof Paul Hunter, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: «Our study has shown that the risk of dengue fever is likely to increase in Europe under climate change, but that almost all of the excess risk will fall on the coastal areas of the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas and the North Eastern part of Italy, particularly the Po Valley.»

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Launched in February 2017 with start - up support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrClimate and Health Education (GCCHE) is an international forum for health professions schools committed to developing and instituting climate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrclimate change and health curricula, in order to ensure a future cadre of highly trained health professionals who will be able to prepare and protect society from the harmful effects of climate disrclimate disruption.

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Among the goals of the group, Students and Teachers Raising Awareness Together (STRAT), is to keep students such as Adam from feeling isolated and to create a school climate that encourages consideration rather than intimidation.

-- data on school climate, student and teacher supports, and learning opportunities from student, teacher, and parent surveys.

School Climate: Reports from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey about levels of student engagement and parent involvement in schools all place Tennessee right around or below the national average.

Another major push comes from the federal Every Student Succeeds Act's encouragement of states to include school quality in their rating systems, with school climate as a key metric in many jurisdictions.

School Climate: Delaware earned the top grade for school climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national aveSchool Climate: Delaware earned the top grade for school climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national avClimate: Delaware earned the top grade for school climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national aveschool climate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national avclimate this year, though many indicators of parent involvement and student engagement from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey place the state below national averages.

The alternative and, in my view, more plausible hypothesis is that the measures are misleading due to reference bias stemming from differences in school climate between district and charter schools.