Sentences with phrase «learning climate in»

Strive to meet the standards set out in the California Standards for the Teaching Profession, and assist in establishing and maintaining an effective, and learning climate in the school

«The misuse of standardized tests and the state's over-reliance on testing continue to plague the learning climate in our classrooms,» NYSUT President Andy Pallotta said.

We are continually learning more about what does work to improve both teaching and learning climates in our schools.

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Deep learning is being touted as a way forward for climate science, medicine and genomics; it's already embedded in the way you search for something online, when you Google image search for, say, «cat,» and feline photos come up as a result of AI learning of what «cat» means.

Trajano lauds Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as «the best CEO in the world,» but said his company will face a steep learning curve in Brazil, given its notoriously tough business climate.

During the training in Seattle I learned skills and strategies for effectively communicating about climate change.

Connect with groups like the Micah Challenge (www.micahchallengeusa.org) to learn the spiritual elements involved in climate justice.

In Sulawesi, cocoa bean yields could drop by as much as 62 percent — which makes it all the more critical that farmers like Syamsuddin learn and apply climate - smart methods now.

Having just recently moved to this area, I am looking forward to learning more about gardening in this climate.

In this critical climate - focused Natural Products Expo West session moderated by Lisa Spicka, associate director for the Sustainable Food Trade Association, learn what both the trade and three inspiring natural retailers have to share about their...

I encourage farmers and ranchers in rural areas throughout the world to learn about the positive impact organic farming can have on protecting the environment, mitigating climate change and improving the health for future generations,» Straus added.

Learn more about how we advance climate resilience, improved livelihoods, and conservation in communities throughout Latin America.

Helping students make the shift in attitude that Sommers describes can seem daunting in our current educational climate, where performance is valued over learning, and where parents and teachers often resort to questionable motivational techniques («if you don't do well, you'll end up working at McDonald's») to encourage students.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

We can go a long way in creating a good climate in which that learning can take place.»

Cons: - Too warm for summer babies in hot climates - No options for pockets - Learning curve, but luckily there are plenty of videos on you tube

Learn more in the Massachusetts Climate Change Advisory Report (September 2011).

California's evolving knowledge and commitment to social emotional learning can be seen in the state's adoption of school climate and parent engagement, as meaningful state indicators.

Learn simple, fun and easy ways to create a climate of gratitude and kindness in your home, for and with your children.

You can learn more about Mass Audubon's efforts to identify areas that are critical for conservation in the face of climate change by reading our Losing Ground report.

And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students» attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem - solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.

It is highly likely that if the baby is living in a warm climate they are starting to learn how to swim (yes, it starts that young!).

I had hoped the people would have learned from his father, but noooo, we just had to have another Cuomo in Albany to keep up the climate of driving industry, younger people and business out of the area.

The format of the initiatives meant that they not only learnt about the science of environmental problems such as climate change, but were also engaged in considering solutions and how to bring them about, both in terms of their own lives and community and the wider political context.

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UFT President Michael Mulgrew and other educators at the Changing School Climate breakfast discussion on March 23 at union headquarters in Manhattan said the Positive Learning Collaborative and Community Learning Schools are proven methods to help students cope with emotional issues and improve school discipline.

Its UFT Teacher Center helps our members devise strategies that help them to enhance instruction, and the UFT — DOE restorative justice partnership, the Professional Learning Collaborative, trains every staff member in the building, reducing behavior incidents and improving school climate.

The UFT is currently interviewing candidates to run an independent assessment of the impact of the Community Learning Schools Initiative on student achievement and school climate in the participating schools.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

Readers of Scientific American first learned that excess carbon dioxide could detrimentally affect climate in a feature article that ran back in 1959 — that's right, 50 years ago.

Learn more about what the Leshner Leadership Fellows are doing in Science: AAAS Leshner Fellows help confront climate impacts.

While the documents show API learned of potential climate change risks as early as 1968 and had formed committees to examine smog pollution in the 1940s, Exxon CEO Lee Raymond said in November 1996 that climate science was unsettled.

We are all hopeful that there will be some really significant common lessons learned, and that at a minimum, we may draw some common understanding about what climate - sensitive parameters in fragile states might mean,» said Cynthia Brady, a senior conflict adviser at USAID.

Using the genomic technologies he's learned at the IGB, Woolbright hopes to develop a research program that investigates climate - driven changes in species interactions at the gene level.

His time at the U.K. Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), during which he helped write a four - page brief about international efforts to reduce deforestation ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, was a tremendous learning experience, says Richardson, who is now a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

Academic: includes lectures by international leaders in the different fields of science diplomacy (energy, environment, climate, water, global health, nuclear nonproliferation, space, etc.), exclusive online learning tools, interactive case studies, and experiential learning through role - playing exercises and simulations.

By learning more about Earth's ancient climate, scientists hope to get a glimpse of what's likely to occur in the future.

My class may be one of few opportunities they have in their lives to learn about such vital topics as global climate change, sustainability, and human biology.

«Carbon release back then looked a lot like human fossil - fuel emissions today, so we might learn a lot about the future from changes in climate, plants, and animal communities 55.5 million years ago.»

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.

60 - Second Earth In just one minute, you can learn about the world's energy future, climate change, what to do with the waste from gold mines and other cool (or hot) topics from Scientific American's 60 - Second Earth podcast.

In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.

Although scientists can learn about past climate by examining ancient lake sediments, in the Sahara the lakes dried up long ago and their sediments have blown away.

It was Curbelo's willingness to disengage from his party's climate positions that prompted the fifth - grade letter - writing project at Gateway Environmental Learning Center in Homestead, Fla..

The crash of a NASA mission this week to monitor the flows of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a big blow to climate scientists hoping to learn more about the fate of CO2 streams in the air.

Gentine and his team are now exploring ways to model how biosphere - atmosphere interactions may change with a shifting climate, as well as learning more about the drivers of photosynthesis, in order to better understand atmospheric variability.

«Additionally, we learned that the climate fluctuates naturally over the last 11,000 years and would have led to cooling today in the absence of human activity.»

The method is based on Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC), which is a machine learning method that has been developed to infer very complex models from observations, with uses in climate sciences and epidemiology among others.

In addition to finding out what they call the «recipe for disaster», they hope to learn about Earth's past climate and the history of the Himalayas.

Hammer, who came to the United States from Guatemala as a child, «has studied how the cities and regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change and sea - level rise also have large Hispanic populations — something she learned firsthand growing up in South Florida,» according to a White House statement.