Sentences with phrase «kinds of school cultures»

But the autonomy we have as charter schools gives us great leeway to create the kind of school culture that parents want.

And most importantly, we work together to develop the kind of school culture that drives students to success.

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Through his knowledge of Indian religion and culture, he did not submit himself to a racial theory of any kind which will fit into the scheme of «human origin» advocated by the Naturwissenschaft school.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

Unfortunately, she is typical of a breed of teenagers who have become so focused — by their parents, their schools, the culture, their peers and themselves on gaming the system, cheating when necessary and believing that money and material goods are the foundation of a life well - lived — that they have little opportunity to develop the kinds of ideas that used to be typical of teenagers.

Teenagers are still at risk because of the kinds of things they do but I would hope for increasing education and healthcare access for everyone in the professional and university ranks so the culture filters down into the high school ranks,» Russell said.

«We were drawn to this collaboration because in spite of the different environments, cultures, histories, climates and identities of the two regions, we were asking the same kinds of questions about human capacities to address challenging climate conditions,» says lead author Margaret C. Nelson, President's Professor in Arizona State University's School of Human Evolution and Social Change.

At the time you made George Washington while you were in school, what was the film community and culture like in North Carolina, and did it foster your ability to pursue the kind of films you wanted to make?

It calls on researchers to better explore connections among acts of bullying, discrimination, and harassment, and it attempts to nudge schools to move beyond classification and consequences and toward the kind of understanding, communication, and support that can change a culture.

I know that if we're going to transform our schools into the kinds of learning places where our children will thrive we need to attend to the culture of the adults who work in schools.

The 2018 Australian Schools Gender Survey is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia, and points to consistent patterns of severe bias in hiring practices, salaries and professional development plans, a boys» club culture in some schools and behavioural prejudices against women leaders within the education Schools Gender Survey is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia, and points to consistent patterns of severe bias in hiring practices, salaries and professional development plans, a boys» club culture in some schools and behavioural prejudices against women leaders within the education schools and behavioural prejudices against women leaders within the education sector.

When you create that kind of respect and relationship, it becomes part of the culture of the school.

Any right - thinking school leader would want — and arguably needs — that kind of flexibility so that suspensions (and other forms of discipline) can be tailored and customized to take into account an array of factors regarding individual circumstances and histories, classroom conditions, and the larger school culture.

«It's kind of cool being a part of something like this that can affect so much change,» adds 18 - year - old Clare R. «By being persistent, students can change the culture of their school in a positive way.

«It's easier to create a culture if you are starting from new, like a small school or charter school, because everyone is saying the kind of learning community that they want to have,» Levenson says.

Eventually, the goal is to change the culture of the school so this kind of observational learning becomes automatic.

Then of course there is the environment effect, which we do know about — the lack of support, a school culture which may require early career teachers to teach out of field (and we know that more early career teachers teach out of field than any other group), student behaviour, the workload, administration workload, all of those kinds of things are clearly issues.

If bias is a factor (the child harmed has actual or perceived minority status of some kind), the school should consider there might be a gap in school culture, so that such minorities are made especially vulnerable in this school at this time.

Schools should normalize the process of giving and receiving feedback, Brion - Meisels says — something that can not only improve the culture of an institution, but can create the kind of trust that may prompt students to report troubling behavior among peers.

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The upper and middle classes send their children to school with all the accouterments of the culture of power; children from other kinds of families operate within perfectly wonderful and viable cultures but not cultures that carry the codes or rules of power.

Opportunity Culture roles have attracted great teachers across the country, producing strong recruiting results for schools of all kinds.

And it seems, for whatever reason, very hard to get the public to understand that charter schools are not a single entity with one kind of culture or philosophy; they vary and, as with everything else in existence, produce both good and bad outcomes.

Twenty - five years isn't a long time relative to the history of public and private schooling in the United States, but it is long enough to merit a close look at the charter - school movement today and how it compares to the one initially envisaged by many of its pioneers: an enterprise that aspired toward diversity in the populations of children served, the kinds of schools offered, the size and scale of those schools, and the background, culture, and race of the folks who ran them.

The first thing is to remember that any investment of time you make to create a kinder, more accepting culture in your school will yield rewards far greater than just having students treat one another better.

Sometimes in the reform world we've sort of acted like these are soft things, and that you're being soft if you care about school culture and access to particular kinds of classes, such as the arts.

This issue gives us a brief insight into what culture is all about and how the learning spaces in schools can effectively give children an introduction into the kind of society that they are part of.

And we will work to improve school culture and combat bullying of all kinds.

These are opportunities to have different kinds of schools, schools that resonate with our culture and heritage and are successful in teaching our children.

If you have a very professional work organization in schools where there's a lot of discretion, a lot of professional autonomy in a collaborative culture, you get unions that very much reflect that kind of stance.

In New York City, where Chancellor Fariña has introduced numerous changes aimed at pursuing the kinds of practices identified by this research, a long road lies ahead to transform the culture of schools in ways that will improve student outcomes.

We do this by partnering closely with school leaders to transform their cultures and practices to support a higher level of student learning that goes beyond the basics to the kinds of Deeper Learning skills that will equip them to earn college degrees, support families, contribute to their communities, and compete in the global economy.

Did a coach — or some kind of coaching program — help create a culture that inspires collaboration in your school?

For their own personal reasons, Rosina and Erin feel equally deeply about Lucy's tragedy, so they form an anonymous group of girls at Prescott High to resist the sexist culture at their school, which includes boycotting sex of any kind with the male students.

We travel for all kinds of reason: adventure, food, spirituality, culture, school, even work.

Nevertheless, Mike Kelley tells Storr, «I think New York has a huge investment in the heroic tradition, because of the New York School and because of the politicization of that kind of work as a standard bearer for American culture.

If you teach in a culture (or department, or school, or district, or university...) that emphasizes skills and techniques as the «meat» of the curriculum, it's probably a good idea to begin talking about the kinds of skills that everyone really considers «essential».

I talked about how, if students in all the schools and faculty can get together with a sound grounding in the humanities and social sciences, then there is no reason why in the long term we can't have a kind of innovative entrepreneurial culture that spins off in financial terms.

At school, in the science stream we were required to do» general studies», to ensure that we gained some kind of» culture».

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

I don't think it has to be that complicated, particularly since there is substantial research showing that short - and - simple classroom lessons and a relationship - oriented school culture can help students want to develop these kinds of skills.