Sentences with phrase «school culture as»

Note the implicit assumption, now apparently so firmly ingrained in our perception of law school culture as to be beyond questioning, is that the «score» — in this case the LSAT score, combined with undergrad GPA — is the only thing that should matter in law school admissions.

Momentum is building toward the idea that the policy alone is not enough and that staff need to discuss the larger issue of instructional practice and school culture as initially planned.

Data - driven accountability for school safety and positive school culture as a system priority across MCPS.

The Student Support Specialist will have three primary bodies of work that are designed to support a vibrant school culture as well as rigorous and relevant academic instruction.

The School Psychologist will have three primary bodies of work that are designed to support a vibrant school culture as well as rigorous and relevant academic instruction.

«To expertly combine rigorous academics with rich school culture as we prepare the next generation for success on a global scale.»

They define school culture as an «underground flow of feelings and folkways [wending] its way within schools» in the form of vision and values, beliefs and assumptions, rituals and ceremonies, history and stories, and physical symbols.

The buzz in the staff lunchroom can be as telling of school culture as the suspension rate.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind, should make this easier to do — no longer are schools focused primarily on test scores, because ESSA encourages schools to measure social - emotional learning or school culture as well.

• an interest in valid measures of student engagement — although systems focus on academic outcomes, some try to capture school culture as well.

Clemmons, who took on the role as principal this year after having worked as assistant principal, credits a total shift in school culture as the prime reason for drastic improvements.

Alvy, Robbins: We would rate the importance of learning the school culture as more important than some of the formal responsibilities.

Together these findings suggest that the benefits of attending a career academy may relate as much to the school culture as the particular career focus, similar to the benefits of attending a small school or «school - within - a-school.»

School cultures as contexts for informal teacher learning.

Not exact matches

The school says that its graduates describe the ideal business culture as one that is flat, non-hierarchical, encourages risk - taking and has a strong culture of mentorship.

And lastly, number five: The culture of schooling really relies on extrinsic incentives to motivate learning — carrots and sticks, As and Fs.

Last October Anita Sarkeesian, the feminist pop culture critic and a notable target of Gamergate vitriol, canceled her talk at Utah State University after the school received a detailed threat promising a «Montreal style massacre» if she spoke as planned.

Along with the possibility of raising the age for purchasing a gun, the commission will study the effects of factors such as violent video games that contribute to what DeVos called a «culture of violence» in U.S. schools.

Our expert guest authors include individuals like Molly Greenberg — the community content manager for MBA@UNC, UNC Kenan - Flagler Business School's online MBA program — who offers tips on topics such as company culture.

But eradicating a culture of tax evasion is no small task, as a new paper by Nikolaos Artavanis of Virginia Tech and Adair Morse and Margarita Tsoutsoura of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business underlines.

The assumptions and techniques of psychology and therapy have found their way into business, schools, families, popular entertainment, and even the courts» so much so that it has become common to speak of our society as a «therapeutic culture.»

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

The same picture was in art books in our school library as were many other artworks of nudes but I was written up for giving a child «porn»!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! At the same time in our culture, in movies, on TV and internet, these kids could see much more graphic stuff.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Though acknowledging significant divergences between the Thomist schools and Holloway's thought, the editorial argued that Holloway had remained faithful to both the intentions of the Magisterium, which looks to St. Thomas as the theologian and philosopher par excellence, and to the essence of St. Thomas» project because he had attempted to synthesise theology with the scientific culture of his day.

Living in an academicized culture such as ours, they turned in their search not to the church but to the university — in this case a university divinity school — to find the meaning of what had happened to them.

Cultures tend to adopt some model of schooling as the standard of excellence in schooling.

Furthermore, it is compatible with the various construals of the subject matter of theological schooling (Word of God, Christian experience, Christian tradition — paideia as «Christian culture» - or various combinations of these).

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

There has also been a deliberate attempt to develop our particular situation into a strong culture for the College, mainly rooted in traditions that staff experienced in their own schools a generation ago, or in revivals of medieval traditions, such as that of the boy - bishop (a boy rules the College for a day on the feast of St Nicholas.)

As Don Browning, director of the Religion, Culture and Family Project at the University of Chicago Divinity School, has argued, churches that have articulated a normative theology of the family, tempered by a strong emphasis on human fallibility, are often better equipped to speak frankly about departures from their ideals and to offer services to members who have fallen short of those ideals.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

Instead, they were quickly stigmatized in the school's culture as «remedial».

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.

The concept of media as the cultivator of culture was first proposed by George Gerbner in articles and reports during the 1960 «s in connection with his media research at the Annenberg School of Communication.

Dean George Gerbner at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia points out that television acts as «the cultivator of our culture.

If you want to educate the citizens about Islamic culture, perhaps you could use these days as teaching tools and head down to the schools and clear up some misconceptions people have — like the Jewish parents and Islamic parents did when I was a child.

As a culture we have accepted this (more or less) and therefore it would not make sense to now add a holiday for another religion when these people have spent so much time and effort to remove all religion from school.

As they have argued, family, citizenship, church, neighborhood, community, schools, and markets need to be drawn closer together in a more integrated whole, in every aspect ranging from the built environment to the cultivation of genuine local cultures arising from the varying circumstances of diverse places.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

Festivals, musical forms, and other features of folk culture are not denounced as antiquated features of authoritarianism that seek to destroy autonomy, which seems to be what the Frankfurt School thought about folk culture.

But, he said, «the latter history of this culture is not so much a debate between these two schools of thought as a rebellion of romanticism, materialism and psychoanalytic psychology against the errors of rationalism, whether idealistic or naturalistic, in its interpretation of human nature.

Clement of Alexandria and Origen, as well as Augustine and Jerome, encouraged Christians to use secular schools, because they recognized the value of Hellenistic culture, provided it was subservient to Christian teaching.

When some of them became Christians, whether from pagan families or from Jewish families assimilated to Hellenistic culture, they came to Christianity as persons who had already been schooled in this way.

They naturally wanted their children to have as good an education as they had had themselves, but the only schools available were the grammar and rhetoric schools which offered an education based on Greco - Roman non-Christian culture.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

As we have seen, process thought not only affirms pluralism, which is reflected in our schools, universities, and colleges no less than in our society, but advocates such an attitude of openness towards individuals, groups, cultures, and ideas different from ourselves and our own groups, cultures, ideas that the possibility of increased contrast, richness of experience, of mutual transformation, without loss of integrity, is enhanced.

I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.

The school stands as the only mass medium capable of putting forward the case for what is not happening in the culture.