Sentences with phrase «into academic culture»

He came to reject the «inevitably» but nevertheless mistrusts the complacent assumption that Christians can assimilate into academic culture without difficulty.

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Even though Powell doesn't have the usual government or academic pedigree of recent Fed chairs, he is plugged into the Federal Reserve culture.
All you fools who are engaged in discussing whether Islam is a violent religion, a Theocracy, or suitable to merge into American culture... are lost in your academic, intellectual hypotheticals... while totally missing the reality that you are assisting an insidious enemy in creating your own demise.
In order to provide the necessary foils to our essentially homogenous academic culture, we must find ways of introducing into the academic world sustained confrontation with persons whose basic life - commitments and institutional contexts — not just their cognitive positions — are decisively different from ours.
With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.
Fusing the very different industry and academic cultures into cohesive design teams has not been a problem for any of the companies Next Wave spoke with.
Weiss's story is not a deep dive into the specifics of mathematics, but rather an effort to understand the culture of mathematics and a fascinating academic world where proofs can require hundreds of pages and reviewing them becomes an existential experience.
This includes a sketch of the history and culture of deaf people and establishes beyond any doubt, through a careful description of its morphology and syntax, the credentials of BSL as a natural language worthy of detailed academic study — a theme which continues into the heart of the work, the dictionary.
The Forum maintains productive relationships within and among our academic medical centers as well as with other societies and organizations that share common goals to ensure the recruitment and retention of our best and brightest physician scientists into the field of clinical research, developing a robust culture of support and stability for them and, facilitating cross-institutional scientific collaboration.
One of the consequences of the extraordinary decline (nearly 90 percent) in federal support for education research over the past 25 years, as reported by Richard C. Atkinson and Gregg B. Jackson in their 1992 report for the National Academy of Sciences, has been the profound loss of rigorous inquiry into how schooling can be improved academically for all and how youth culture can become more attuned to the deferred gratification of academic achievement and less oriented to the immediate imperatives of money, clothes, and other amusements.
Latest thinking suggests that the physical environment in academic buildings has a direct influence on academic work, the nature of the community, and the culture that exists within it, «transforming space into place» and contributing to sustainability goals.
In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).
Investing time and resources into developing, establishing and maintaining an emotionally healthy culture produces long term benefits for the emotional health of the whole school community as well as enduring impacts on the pupils» social, emotional and academic outcomes.
As Elizabeth wrote in her dissertation proposal, «A trend in our culture is to translate novels into motion pictures, yet no studies have been conducted to investigate how the teaching of a novel and its movie adaptation may affect students» academic and social competencies.»
In the scenario he paints, construction costs nibble into the academic budget (oops, there goes the reading specialist), the school leader's attention is diverted, and those additional kids change the school's carefully crafted culture.
A group of grade - level teachers, physical education teachers and counselors will analyze scholarly resources to determine how to integrate food, nutrition, health and culture (while maintaining Park City School District's rigorous academic standards) into existing curriculum.
This is to be expected as these schools add dozens or hundreds more students; there is an adjustment period as they work to bring these additional students into a new academic culture and instructional program.
Explore tips and strategies on how to incorporate the academic, developmental, and social needs of middle grade students into your program practices and culture.
Schools that infuse character education into their curricula and cultures, such as CEP's National Schools of Character, find improved academic achievement, behavior, school culture, peer interaction, and parental involvement.
IDRA's approach to professional learning values the role of teachers, administrators, parents and students as co-creators of a campus culture where student voices are heard and incorporated into the curriculum and other campus activities designed to strengthen both students» academic pursuits and non-cognitive factors that are crucial to their engagement and academic success.
The Academic Performance Framework (APF) was developed in an effort to combine school progress, achievement and culture data into one overall measure of school performance.
«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.
This session will provide evidence for why incorporating students» home language and culture into the classroom has social, emotional, and academic benefits, and the opportunity to explore promising practices that will lead linguistically diverse students of all ages to thrive.
Explore tips and strategies on how to incorporate the academic, developmental and social needs of secondary students into your program practices and culture.
During the 2015 - 16 school year schools in the Carver Cluster, the South Atlanta Cluster, and all middle schools began embedding SEL into their academic day and school culture.
The full implementation of VTS into the school culture occurred over multiple phases and academic years.
Having spent time with these two focused school leaders and seen the culture and climate created at these institutions, I gained a better insight into the academic advances they have been able to make and hope they have restored at these schools.»
R and A converted the immediate credibility and recognition it received from the 2011 Academic Update into momentum that would drive the Data - to - Action, results - oriented culture beyond the realms of the department to other educational arenas within DPS.
What's interesting about that school is it's the culture when you open the door, you go into a school that is very strong focus n academics and math and science, but there's ownership at the kid level at the parent level and at the teacher level.
Lesson One offers a whole school culture change that is easily integrated into each classroom's existing academic curriculum; the intervention promotes a positive school climate by teaching life skills conducive to self - control, self - confidence, responsibility, conflict resolution, and cooperation.
Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.
He brings an understanding as an academic, a tech and culture journalist, and a true reader that give him incredible insight into where all of these changes might be leading us.
Tom Russo: I came upon value investing at the Stanford Business School in the early 1980s when Berkshire chairman, CEO Warren Buffett came to our class and it was a class taught by Jack McDonald, who is a lone voice in Palo Alto towards thinking about investing as though you are acquiring pieces of companies and then assessing whether you think that the company had competitive advantage that would endure and then coupling those two discoveries into the process of investing regardless of the environmental concerns or academic principles that might be in contradiction to the bold assertion that one might just identify a company with superior economics and a strong culture that could pose the investment for the lifetime of the investor.
Her references could be literary and philosophical, what she said about her work was deep but different than an academic discourse, as much rooted in daily visual experience as in popular culture and in direct transmutation into paint of such experience.
My academic research has taken me across an array of cultures into contemporary and ancient rituals involving mortality.
** I've been thinking a lot about art practices that bring a specific «folk culture,» for want of a better word, into an academic or artistic practice and then apply a certain language to it that is supposed to lift it upwards, in a way.
He holds an MA in Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven and was affiliated with the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC in Baltimore, where he translated academic research into accessible and often confrontational exhibitions.
London — Phillips de Pury & Company is pleased to announce Important Nordic Design, an academic exploration into 20th century and contemporary Nordic design and culture curated by acclaimed architect Lee F. Mindel, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and whose firm Shelton, Mindel & Associates is the winner of the 2011 Smithsonian Cooper -LSB-...]
A group of 10 internationally recognized artists, including Mary Heilmann, Vincent Fecteau, and Keltie Ferris, presented their work, discussed their practices, and participated in panel discussions that delved into issues of material, context, theory, academic culture, art criticism, and the market.
«It's not just about law school academics; part of the equation is the personalities of the people we're hiring, and whether they fit into our culture.
If you are searching for an experienced, knowledgeable and dedicated School Administrative professional who will generate significant insight in academic excellence, and develop and oversee successful teaching, insight into the school's culture, and instructional leadership, please contact me to arrange an interview.
If you are searching for an experienced, knowledgeable and dedicated School Administrative professional who will generate significant insight in academic excellence, and develop and oversee successful school administrative operational insight into the school's culture, and instructional leadership, please contact me to arrange an interview.
During the 2015 - 16 school year schools in the Carver Cluster, the South Atlanta Cluster, and all middle schools began embedding SEL into their academic day and school culture.
«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.
Schools that infuse character education into their curricula and cultures, such as CEP's National Schools of Character, find improved academic achievement, behavior, school culture, peer interaction, and parental involvement.
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