Sentences with phrase «lot of school culture»

You may see a lot of school culture apps that deliver data for individual classrooms or schools.

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«There are obviously companies that have cultures where a lot of people come from certain schools,» he said.

We also noticed that some junior faculty had been carefully chosen for their potential to fit the school's culture; these usually got a lot of attention from powerful senior faculty after they arrived.

An entirely new culture was going to have to be created in the school, and there were a lot of parents not happy about that!

We are home to the New College of Florida (a pretty crunchy school) & East West College of Natural Medicine... we have LOTS art / culture (home of Ringling School of Art & Design, Ringling Museum, Various art shows, Mote Marine Laboratories, and numerous venues offering local and world renowned entertainment (shows, musicals, operas, ballets, symphonies, school) & East West College of Natural Medicine... we have LOTS art / culture (home of Ringling School of Art & Design, Ringling Museum, Various art shows, Mote Marine Laboratories, and numerous venues offering local and world renowned entertainment (shows, musicals, operas, ballets, symphonies, School of Art & Design, Ringling Museum, Various art shows, Mote Marine Laboratories, and numerous venues offering local and world renowned entertainment (shows, musicals, operas, ballets, symphonies, etc.).

I was in college and Dan was in high school back then, and at those ages, a few years makes a whole lot of difference in pop culture perspective.

There's a lot of work left to do, Hammond says, primarily around ensuring that all schools foster a culture of equity and all kids have access to high - quality teaching and learning.

In that time, we've learned a lot about building creative school cultures based on two essential design practices: changing your point of view and prototyping.

«I think the other thing is that there's still a lot of work to do with regard to really embedding parental engagement as a feature of the Australian schooling culture.

So, we wanted to have things like common unit lesson plans, we also wanted to develop more of a team culture so that there's more sharing of ideas and more collaboration... But we also wanted to develop resources that could be used within the school and beyond the school, because a lot of our students, we find when they leave us they don't return to any other education environment, they're sort of outside the education system... As part of our intervention we developed a suite of teaching materials around the Certificate I in Core Skills for Employment and Training that can be used widely.

«We really thought it was important that we had a strong Asian focus here in Western Sydney because this is where we're at; we've got a large Filipino community that feeds to the school, there's a lot of interest in Asian culture, we have children from the subcontinent, [and] quite a number of Islander and Pasifika students as well.

Several forceful nonprofit groups, such as the National Math and Science Initiative, Equal Opportunity Schools, and MassInsight Education, are doing excellent work in pushing AP into kindred high schools in lots of places — and changing educator expectations and school cultures to cause more disadvantaged youngsters to enter and succeed in such rigorous cSchools, and MassInsight Education, are doing excellent work in pushing AP into kindred high schools in lots of places — and changing educator expectations and school cultures to cause more disadvantaged youngsters to enter and succeed in such rigorous cschools in lots of places — and changing educator expectations and school cultures to cause more disadvantaged youngsters to enter and succeed in such rigorous classes.

Okay, you've walked down the hallways and found lots of symbols, artefacts and mottos that foster positive interactions between teachers, students, parents and the community, but you want to see if the school has those six characteristics of healthy school cultures I've just listed.

«I am a New Zealander but we do a lot of work in Northern Territory with schools that have embraced the Culture Counts programme,» said Laurayne.

Fostering a positive school culture takes a lot of time and hard work.

A lot depends upon the culture and ethos that exists within a school, and whether this promotes an open door, risk taking culture, one where both success and failure are celebrated as part of the professional learning journey for all staff.

The teacher culture at our school is that we have a lot of perfectionists, who want their curriculum to be really good, who are revising their curriculum all the time.

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.

When Laumatia told parents she was going to create a school where learning would be individualized and fun, where kids would learn about Hawaiian culture and teachers would use art and music to teach core subjects like science and math, a lot of parents immediately said, «Where do I sign up?»

This is really a part of our school culture that might not be familiar to the ELL families so I do a lot of training to help invite them in and find a niche they can contribute to and a way they feel comfortable helping out no matter what language they speak.

Four decades of research by such familiar names as Boyer, DiMartino, DuFour, Fullan, Goodlad, Guskey, Marzano, Reeves, Schmoker, Sizer, Wiggins, and others tells us a lot about how high school students learn, about good teaching, about effective leadership, about positive school cultures, and about the working conditions under which teachers are the most productive.

I also grew up in a poor valley region in California where we have a lot agriculture and huge Hmong immigrant population so I went to school with a lot of Hmong people (little known by Americans - as there are mostly Chinese, Thai, Korean people in the bigger cities) and got to go to a few food / culture festivals and see their beautiful embroidery -

I've learned a lot about the human mind from Dan Siegel, a psychiatrist at the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development of the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine and the author of a string of related books.

There are issues of culture and cultural safety: universities and medical schools are not particularly culturally safe environments: a lot of education about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health has been framed negatively for a long time, so, for example, case studies are often fairly negative in connotation.

Teams of both YPNs and «Old PNs» (as they're affectionately known in Miami) came together with the University of Miami's School of Architecture to revive a vacant lot in West Coconut Grove with a new weekly marketplace and a vibrant landmark mural celebrating the area's Bahamian immigrant culture.