Sentences with phrase «safe school culture»

In her new position, she ensures that RCP maintains a healthy, rigorous, safe school culture that continues to foster scholars who are exemplary academically and socially.

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In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a positive impact on student outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to work collaboratively to learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional learning culture that provides a safe and authentic environment for professional enquiry and ensuring school leaders take an active role in developing professional learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.

Whole school approaches, like The Alannah and Madeline Foundation's eSmart system and the National Safe Schools Framework underline the importance of everyone working together to develop respectful and caring school cultures.

The institute includes a blend of theory and practice - based techniques for addressing student learning by strengthening instruction and better engaging communities, closing the achievement gap and establishing a positive, safe and goal - oriented school culture.

Unless a school culture feels or is perceived as «safe,» learning does not occur.

There have been plenty of studies showing the connections between school culture and academic outcomes, staff recruitment and retention, parental engagement and community support; we all learn best when we are feeling safe, contained and able to thrive.

The school has created a culture of respect for new generations of at - risk students who can feel safe and free to concentrate and succeed at school in a way that previous generations could not.

Schools across the UK are signing up to the scheme to help pupils collaborate on school projects, learn about new cultures, develop pen pans, teach children about safe social media use and send parents messages via the site.

The parent center solves all of these problems by giving them a safe space to be involved in their child's education while still being part of the school community and culture.

«Schools are not a vacuum from the larger culture... but schools do have the ability to try to create a learning community where students feel safe to share information about what has happened to them and others,» shSchools are not a vacuum from the larger culture... but schools do have the ability to try to create a learning community where students feel safe to share information about what has happened to them and others,» shschools do have the ability to try to create a learning community where students feel safe to share information about what has happened to them and others,» she says.

Safe and positive school climates and cultures positively affect academic, behavioral, and mental health outcomes for students (Thapa, Cohen, Guffey, & Higgins - D «Alessandro, 2013).

The research also found that in schools where the intercultural capabilities were a priority across the school, there were much higher levels of acceptance of diversity, more positive relations between different cultures, and these schools had safe and calm environments that facilitated learning.

So, again, [this] highlights the need for... school cultures that are culturally safe, challenging and engaging.»

This understanding reduces the pastoral care burden often experienced by pastoral leaders within the school, and encourages students, staff and families to recognise how much they can contribute to a positive, safe and supportive school culture.

Further, principals influence the culture of a school, including whether students feels safe and valued.

Our schools provide a safe and nurturing culture where students feel not only protected from physical harm, but also comfortable expressing their ideas and opinions.

Best Behavior is a professional development program designed for administrators and teachers to support their efforts in creating and maintaining a positive and supportive school culture that facilitates academic achievement and the healthy social development of students in a safe environment that is conducive to learning.

In fact, you can't disentangle this from BDEA's incredible efforts to build a strong school culture where students feel safe and feel that their teachers care about them.

The Whole Child model seeks to work with best practices to achieve engaging and challenging instruction, develop a school culture that promotes a healthy and safe climate for student learning and leadership that involves faculty, students, parents and the community to maximize the supportive potential in school and provide for long - term student success with sustainable strategies.

Our schools provide safe, ethical, joyful cultures of learning where adults and students alike can thrive and grow.

May / June 2014 — The Broad Spectrum of Principal Leadership March / April 2014 — Poverty January / February — Assessments, Evaluations, & Data November / December — Safe & Positive School Culture September / October — Early Learning September / October Supplement — Champion Creatively Alive Children

This program seeks to identify schools in South Carolina that have created a school culture with programs that exemplify one or more of the five tenets of The Whole Child Initiative: Healthy, Safe, Supported, Challenged, Engaged.

School Culture is the sum total of the behaviors and interactions of all adults and children, their attitude and norms, and the extent to which the school is safe, supportive, healthy, engaging, inspiring, and challenging foSchool Culture is the sum total of the behaviors and interactions of all adults and children, their attitude and norms, and the extent to which the school is safe, supportive, healthy, engaging, inspiring, and challenging foschool is safe, supportive, healthy, engaging, inspiring, and challenging for all.

Working in partnership with schools, teams of mental health professionals help to create a culture of openness and promote positive mental health, ensuring that potential problems can be identified at an early stage and that children can access support in a safe and familiar environment.

Safe schools are made possible by adopting clear discipline policies, offering anger management and conflict resolution sessions, and maintaining a caring and cooperative school culture that respects diversity.

Through reflection, Dr. C recognized the work that she and her staff have done to create a safe and positive school learning culture.

Teams will explore tenets of social emotional learning and the ways these must be integrated into the school and classroom culture to create safe and inclusive learning environments for each student.

This program seeks to identify a school in Washington that has created a school culture with programs that exemplify two or more of the five tenets of The Whole Child Initiative: Safe, Healthy, Engaged, Supported, and Challenged.

Visit our Professional Development page to discover how Safe & Civil Schools staff trainings and services can help you improve school culture and climate.

Enterprise Middle School has rebranded their culture as Wildcat Nation Wildcat Nation is a shared belief that the EMS community wants a safe and supportive school where everyone feels welcome, valued, and ready to School has rebranded their culture as Wildcat Nation Wildcat Nation is a shared belief that the EMS community wants a safe and supportive school where everyone feels welcome, valued, and ready to school where everyone feels welcome, valued, and ready to learn.

Everyone is contributing in some way to establishing a restorative, problem - solving - focused culture and really working at creating safe and inclusive schools where students are engaged and students stay there.

For over 30 years, Safe & Civil Schools has remained committed to improving school climate and culture using a proactive, positive, and instructional approach developed and refined by Dr. Randy Sprick.

Leaders need to be instructionally sound so they can develop safe, trusting, and collaborative cultures in schools to support and hold teachers accountable to the highest levels of instruction and student engagement.

To find out more about the Safe & Civil Schools series and how it can help you improve the culture and climate of your school or district:

But far from making schools safer, this harsh, inflexible approach to discipline has been eroding the culture of schools and creating devastating consequences for children, writes Browne - Dianis.

The Circle of Power and Respect (CPR, a daily community - building meeting) should allow us to create a safe space for working on social - emotional learning and addressing issues around our school culture.

[One is] focusing on establishing a safe, supportive engaging school culture.

By creating a safe space for anyone who's a little different, and by creating a culture where it's uncool to be a bully or a bystander, GSAs have been proven to better school climate for everyone.

So, broadening that accountability to culture and climate of a school, taking into account whether kids are safe, assessing non-cognitive skills like grit and resilience — when you look at all of these in total and ask a district to pay attention to the whole child, and the school responds to what each child needs, it will amount to better preparedness for college and career.

Explicitly writing into the plan the need for creating a strong culture and climate, which «emphasizes environment and supports needed for the sustainability of a safe school where productive work can occur (e.g., data competency, resource management, building leadership capacity, cultural awareness, communication strategies, professional learning communities, Universal Design for Learning, social and emotional learning).»

Many schools find that deep work with Facing History content and instructional strategies is key to positive classroom and school culture, as students learn how to have difficult conversations in classrooms that are safe and respectful.

We focus on creating a school culture that's safe, supportive and engaging.

Learn how this network of schools is dedicated to building safe and inclusive school culture, teaching Facing History curriculum, and growing student engagement.

Topics: Art, Safe Schools, School Culture, Media Skills, Neighborhood to Neighborhood, Bullying, Facing Technology

Over these years we've trained hundreds of staff members in the Tribes process, with the goal of transforming schools and school culture into positive, safe, caring learning spaces for all.

Anne Wheelock's 1998 book, «Safe to Be Smart: Building a Culture for Standards - Based Reform in the Middle Grades,» now has a study guide, available free at the National Middle School Association website.

Topics: Art, Choosing to Participate, Safe Schools, School Culture, Innovative Classrooms, Critical Thinking, Margot Stern Strom Innovation Grants

School Culture Recharged: Strategies to Energize Your Staff and Culture relates to the safe and supported tenents.

Legislation to help schools establish a safe learning culture for teachers and students (PDF)-- especially students with individual education plans (IEPs)-- as well as the findings from an investigation on the use of seclusion and restraints in schools (PDF), were unveiled by Senate Education Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D - IA).

We've reimagined the typical high school, creating a safe, inclusive school culture while working with colleges to maximize what works and eliminate what doesn't.