Sentences with phrase «school climate so»

«The Georgia Department of Education supports the ongoing efforts of the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services to help schools improve school climate so that students can go to schools that are supportive, nurturing, safe, and secure,» said Garry McGiboney, Deputy Superintendent, Georgia Department of Education.

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Eliminate exclusionary practices that hinder college preparation and improve the school climate so that all students feel welcome.

It has also fostered a better community and school climate so that all our students can succeed.»

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So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

In today's intellectual climate, where so many who invoke science in support of Christianity seem to do so in more or less veiled forms of creationism (for example, in the «Intelligent Design» school of thought), and where the prevailing mindset is a complacent presumption that science has disproved religion, it is a matter of pressing urgency to proclaim from the housetops how the magnificent success of modern science points unambiguously to the existence of the supreme Mind of the Creator, and how the trajectory of thought which begins there leads convincingly to Jesus Christ as Lord of the Cosmos.

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

Encourage schools to proactively improve the school climate and adopt an emotion skills curriculum so that more children feel emotionally safe and empowered at school.

«We have a real shot to flip the State Senate this fall so we can build a New York that works for all of us: reforming our broken criminal justice system, fighting climate change and creating good jobs, expanding opportunities for immigrant New Yorkers, fully funding all of our schools and public universities, and taking on big money in politics to expand and protect our democracy.

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

So he went looking for entrepreneurial solutions to creating underwater habitats: school bus — size seafloor shelters that give aquanauts a pressurized, climate - controlled base, just as the International Space Station gives astronauts a hospitable home in orbit.

Professor Dan Lunt, from the School of Geographical Sciences and Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol said: «Because climate models are based on fundamental scientific processes, they are able not only to simulate the climate of the modern Earth, but can also be easily adapted to simulate any planet, real or imagined, so long as the underlying continental positions and heights, and ocean depths are known.»

«I think that this research is going to have a long - term influence on how the community evaluates air quality and climate models, because the pH of particles is so important, yet mostly overlooked,» said Athanasios Nenes, a professor and Georgia Power Scholar in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and another co-author.

So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change litiClimate Change Law at Columbia Law School in New York, who said he has no financial stake in climate change liticlimate change litigation.

One message of the study is that «the climate is changing and so is the risk of infectious disease,» said Durland Fish, professor emeritus of microbial diseases at Yale School of Public Health.

Oct 2012: School website recently revamped so shifted Climate Change onto own server.

The students» behavior and demeanor, is a strong indicator of the school climate, so take time to work with them prior to the event.

So Kettle Moraine educators met before the beginning of the 2014 15 school year to review the previous year's test data and students» answers to school climate questions posed by the test.

I teach at a Catholic school so the final lesson may not be appropriate for all schools as it relates climate change to the teachings of the bible.

The Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein has declared that «the influence of social class characteristics is probably so powerful that schools can not overcome it, no matter how well trained are their teachers and no matter how well designed are their instructional programs and climates.»

So school committees concerned with morale, discipline, and climate should ask:

We had to change the climate of the school because the physical environment had been so gray and institutional.

As a result, the state does not provide money for school construction and renovation; its failure to do so lowers its grade for school climate.

The current climate is certainly a very challenging one for schools with so much change happening at such a quick pace and with a financial climate that is putting the squeeze on every aspect of school life.

Perhaps the best way to understand how you could use this curriculum to improve the climate in your school is to take a look at the www.standupsayno.com web site so you can learn more about the various modules in the curriculum.

He demurred: «The overall climate of what people think about charters and school choice varies so much from city to city.»

Test scores are still important, but so are attendance, school climate, graduation rates, and other non-academic measures.

Given Title I's purpose of improving schools so all children may receive a high - quality education, States should choose school climate surveys specifically designed for that purpose; and

Just as Trump's flunkies exert political pressure to halt access to healthcare (or immigration or policies to address climate change), so NJEA exerts political pressure — as well as its deep pockets — to stave off the continued enrollment of children, mostly poor and of color, in high - quality alternative public schools.

Highly influential school effectiveness studies120 asserted that effective schools are characterized by an climate or culture oriented toward learning, as expressed in high achievement standards and expectations of students, an emphasis on basic skills, a high level of involvement in decision making and professionalism among teachers, cohesiveness, clear policies on matters such as homework and student behaviors, and so on.121 All this implied changes in the principal «s role.

So it's important that schools work to create this climate of mutual trust and support.

The commitment to a positive, supportive culture is so strong that a team of teachers from the Oak Street School is pursuing a Graduate Certificate in School Climate and Social and Emotional Learning at William James College.

When schools commit to promoting students» social - emotional learning, they become positioned to engage all education stakeholders and create a safe, equitable, and engaging school climate, so each student acquires and enhances the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need for interpersonal and life success.

This may be due in part to policy, or the fact that while a significant majority of charter schools in NYC participate in the climate survey, only a sliver of L.A. charters do so.

While we are making gains without formal training in restorative practices, those outcomes don't always paint a complete picture so we are hoping to continue to use alternative methods to improve the school climate for all of our students.

EN: This year, I am looking forward to communicating the recommendations made in the Climate Change policy paper to other educators, so we can unite in advocating for a better future for our schools.

So, while we discovered an abundance of research emphasizing the impact of a positive school climate, the challenge for our group was to listen to each other - and to the broader community of educators and stakeholders - and identify recommendations that would create meaningful change in our district.

«There are just so many walls built up in our school system that we need to work on tearing down, and that really just goes straight back to that school climate,» she says.

In a climate so politically and emotionally charged, however, the school district would not authorize the organization to release preliminary findings.

Emphasis in the guidance is on developing a school and classroom climate which builds a sense of connectedness and purpose so that all children can thrive.

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.

We call on them to instead to invest significant additional resources into our public schools so that they have enough money to hire the trained professionals they need, including counselors and nurses, so that they can support evidence - based programs that have demonstrated improved school climate and that prevent violent incidents before they happen.

In the current climate of burgeoning teacher shortages, it's a sellers» market; NQTs are an attractive option to schools with squeezed budgets, so you can afford to be discriminating.

So that's — and the third one is just getting the research into the hands of the policy makers, because I believe that teachers and educators, when they see these connections that it's true that you can keep kids in school, pursue an alternative method of discipline and improve test scores, improve climate, improve graduation rates.

Implementing moral engagement and bullying prevention and intervention strategies can promote a positive school climate, so everyone feels safer and more connected.

School climate has a significant impact on student performance and academic achievement, equally to or even more so than academic resources.

So one thing — one other thing is in the climate training, we handed schools their individual data, one of the things that dr. Alonzo also did was built a data system that could track suspensions, not just to the type, but the location.

But beyond the data issue, I think there's a whole income economic piece so folks who don't care about, you know, disparities and suspensions and maybe they don't respond, you know, in a warm way to talk about school climate, the economic reality is that it's incredible expensive to the taxpayer.

The purchase affects the whole child so budget items for academics, behavior, literacy, school climate, diversity, mental health, counseling, social and emotional learning, anti-bullying, parent involvement, MTSS and PBIS all work.

So how much are you spending on CPD and activities that isn't going to help the school adapt to this tough climate?