Sentences with phrase «school climate while»

The following excerpt shows teachers and administrators how to create a safe and connected school climate while concurrently implementing a threat assessment program.

guidelines and programs for in - service education programs for all district staff members to ensure effective implementation of school policy on school conduct and discipline, including but not limited to, guidelines on promoting a safe and supportive school climate while discouraging, among other things, harassment, bullying and discrimination against students by students and / or school employees; and including safe and supportive school climate concepts in the curriculum and classroom management; and

Not exact matches

If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

Aren't you discounting the work of missionaries who left family and forsook more lucrative futures, traveled to distant continents, braved hostile societies, climates and disease to build churches, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure, all while sharing the Gospel?

Peace Builders is an inclusive school climate pro-gram, which creates a peaceful learning environment, decreasing violence and disruptive behavior while increasing positive respectful, thoughtful behavior.

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.

While today's schools work hard to develop friendly social climates, you will want to consider how well your child will get along with their new peers.

That would be my reaction, too, but a new report out today from Friends of the Earth makes a compelling case that climate - friendly school food menus can actually save districts money while at the same time improving the nutritional profile of school meals.

And while a lot is being done to eradicate bullying and improve school climates, bullying will always exist to some degree.

Forand also cited DiNapoli's audits of state and local governments and school districts that save taxpayers millions of dollars statewide while using the investment clout of the pension fund to influence corporate behavior such as in addressing climate change.

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

Mr Balls, the former schools secretary, told The Daily Telegraph that the invasion had been a «mistake» for which Britain paid a heavy price while Ed Miliband, the former climate change secretary, said it had resulted in a «catastrophic loss of trust» for Labour.

«In a three - way race, I think that a candidate who wants a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage, health care for all, a Green New Deal to provide full employment while acting on climate change, and who supports progressive taxes to adequately funds our schools and local governments will have the most support among the voters,» stated Hawkins.

Encouraging the social - emotional development of students while teaching traditional academic subjects builds a positive school climate focused on fairness and caring about others — and helps to foster healthy, confident adults.

Greens have never known a Climate Secretary superior to Miliband, while he has had affinity with those that life has dealt a tough hand, who the SNP and UKIP argue Labour has distanced from, since his days at Haverstock School.

Lead researcher Dr Konstantinos Chalvatzis, of UEA's Norwich Business School and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said: «China's energy sector is under pressure to achieve a secure and affordable supply while at the same time reducing its carbon emissions.

While outright racist suppression is relatively rare, Ray said, women of color face a «chilly climate» in graduate school.

While significant research has explored the environmental impacts of climate change, far fewer studies have considered its psychological effect on humans, said UA researcher Sabrina Helm, an associate professor of family and consumer science in the UA's Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year - old son Sam finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition.

An exhibit like Climate Change can satisfy a high school standard, she says, while an elementary school teacher can meet those standards by focusing on the intricacies of the local ecosystem.

Together with smaller environmental initiatives at the school, like widespread installation of energy - efficient compact fluorescent «twisty bulbs» and automatic light sensors, the various components of the Bloom effort have begun to save the school thousands of dollars in energy costs while simultaneously helping many of the school's 1,700 students understand the science behind the climate crisis.

While a healthy school climate and culture can be the underlining components of a successful open house.

Each school must gather and analyze data on incidents of mistreatment and victimization, and tap student voice and involvement and student and staff perception of climate, using anonymous surveys that allow for disaggregation of data while protecting confidentiality.

Ultimately, working with others to establish a strong, sustainable school culture of high expectations for everyone, while maintaining a climate of psychological safety and camaraderie is essential.

The National School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&School Boards Association's general counsel criticized that DCL for «creating an expectation that school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&school officials are to respond to each and every offensive incident as if it were a civil rights violation,» thus «needlessly drain [ing] school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.&school resources and attention from the more crucial task of fostering an appropriate climate while minimizing the professional discretion of local educators to craft workable, individualized solutions.»

While more dedicated media education in schools would be great, it is little more than a pipe dream in the current climate of low budgets and high - stake tests.

Researchers suggested that the economic climate could be the reason for the sense of seriousness and the need to do well at school; teenagers in 2005 had grown up in a time of sustained economic growth - while those in 2014 were aware of the tough competition for jobs and the difficulty in affording somewhere to live.

A sustained positive school climate promotes students» social, mental and emotional development, and behavioural and learning outcomes, while guaranteeing both physical and social safety (Zullig et al., 2010, Loukas and Robinson, 2004).

While many will apply, you will want to focus on a small number, just three to five, that you will seriously try to implement as part of school culture and climate.

Pascal Eveillard, deputy vice president for sustainable development and director for sustainable habitat at Saint - Gobain, said: «Buildings in general, and schools in particular, need to be designed and built for the wellbeing of each of us, while addressing the challenges of resource efficiency and climate change.»

While the evidence does suggest that school climate is worse when exclusionary discipline practices are more widespread, this evidence is not causal.

And while neither may sound like a good match, the principal of Jefferson Elementary School in Berwyn, Illinois, is crediting a school - wide yoga program for improving school climate, test scores and student behSchool in Berwyn, Illinois, is crediting a school - wide yoga program for improving school climate, test scores and student behschool - wide yoga program for improving school climate, test scores and student behschool climate, test scores and student behavior.

While there's no doubt that climate change, artificial intelligence, automation, technologies and the need to accommodate an ever - expanding global population will remain key issues, it's hard to foresee what else we'll be dealing with by the time today's school age students enter the workforce.

Often taught in the classroom, social - emotional learning gives tomorrow's workforce the tools for success, while educators find it contributing to a positive school climate and increased academic success.

SEL creates a positive school climate that supports learning and academic success while narrowing the achievement gap.

While academic turnarounds take time, efforts to create a healthier school climate seem to be paying off.

In the original memo that unveiled the new performance report, NJDOE's Chief Performance Officer / Assistant Commissioner of Data, Research, Evaluation and Reporting, Bari Erlichson (2013) stated: While [sic] the evaluation of student outcome data is crucial for school improvement, we know that these data alone can not capture the dozens of other essential elements of schools such as a positive school climate, participation in extracurricular programs and the development of non-cognitive skills.

While principals play a crucial role in school - improvement initiatives, the school culture or climate is also crucial.

Such research would, in a single effort, examine school level factors (e.g., building climate, home - school relations, schoolwide organization for reading, collaborative efforts) while examining classroom / teacher factors (e.g., time spent in reading instruction, time on task, student engagement, approaches to word recognition and comprehension instruction, teachers» interactive styles).

The Virginia Early Warning System (VEWS) relies on readily available data — housed at the school — to predict which students are at risk for dropping out of high school; target resources at the school - and division - level to support students not on track to graduate while they are still in school and before they drop out; examine patterns and identify school climate issues that may contribute to disproportionate dropout rates.

While centralization worked for England's school inspections, Jerald acknowledges a call to centralize a government service likely would be «a hard pill to swallow» in America's current political climate.

Doing away with zero tolerance and suspension and expulsion in favor of SEL and proactive approaches that help create healthy school climates will decrease the achievement gap while benefiting all students.

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 typically showcase the total school climate, the power of character education is most important for the difference it makes for students.

The webinar is aimed at fostering a classroom climate that facilitates student and teacher empathy, while providing trauma - informed, culturally relevant resources for teachers and school leaders.

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.

Building student agency beyond exercising grit and self - determination, to recognize injustice in current and historical contexts while building school climates that make it safe for students to employ SEL — empathy, perspective - taking, self - regulation, and social problem - solving skills — to humanely and effectively address injustice when they encounter it

All of this has been done while the school, in the current economic climate, saw a 300 % rise in their numbers of free and reduced lunch.

The closed questions offered educators the opportunity to describe changes to the climate in their school after the election, while the open - ended ones gave them the opportunity to provide examples and descriptions of the kinds of behavior and interactions they had witnessed among students and how educators are handling the situation.

Whether deciding school policy for an upcoming year or debating the consequences for an individual student arising from a single incident of misbehavior, educators juggle several factors: striking a balance between an orderly campus and a welcoming climate conducive to learning; protecting the safety of all students while recognizing the rights of individuals; treating students equitably but, when warranted, considering individual circumstances that influence behavior; and, in concert with every school's educative mission, convincing students who are behaving badly to correct their behavior while also standing ready to banish anyone who interferes with the learning of others.