Sentences with phrase «school culture models»

Our software, our coaching, and our support are merely conduits for the innovative school culture models that our customers employ.

# 66: Chanie Wilschanski returns to discuss her work with «The School Culture Model».

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

That paideia became the model for excellence in theological schooling was simply inherent in the way the Christian thing was construed by Christians and pagans alike in a Hellenistic culture that understood itself to be paideia

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Lastly, we'll explore the human resource challenges in a scratch - cook model, and how to create an organizational structure and culture that supports culinary professionalism in school food.

«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»

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Many of these models are based on new findings in brain research and cognitive development, and they embrace a variety of approaches: using the arts as a learning tool (for example, musical notes to teach fractions); incorporating arts into other core classes (writing and performing a play about, say, slavery); creating a school environment rich in arts and culture (Mozart in the hallways every day) and hands - on arts instruction.

Having shifted three key dimensions of any school — the teaching and learning, the system structures, and the culture — RHS is now an emerging exemplar not only of blended learning, but also the steps we must take to grow this strong model across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and even the nation.

Key to this model is understanding the role that public schools play, not only in educating our youth, but also in serving as the mediating institution to successfully transition immigrant families into the American way of life, into making American values, culture, norms, and language their own.

Administrators can create a more connected school culture by modeling Twitter use and encouraging staff to work, play, and learn through the medium.

Edutopia's director of social media strategy and marketing provides tips that administrators can use to create a more connected school culture by modeling Twitter use and encouraging staff to work, play, and learn through the medium.

Those goals include raising West Charlotte High School's graduation rate from 54 percent in 2011 to 90 percent in 2016, and she saw that the Opportunity Culture models could help by focusing on its eight feeder schools.

Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T.: New Teaching Roles Create Culture of Excellence in High - Need Schools, explains the «truly different» things that L.I.F.T. did to redesign four schools using Opportunity Culture models and prinSchools, explains the «truly different» things that L.I.F.T. did to redesign four schools using Opportunity Culture models and prinschools using Opportunity Culture models and principles.

Four of those feeder schools collectively became the first Opportunity Culture site, and for the past year, each school's design team worked diligently to discern which of the more than 20 Opportunity Culture school models would work best at their school.

At scale, Touchstone's schools, which use versions of the Opportunity Culture Multi-Classroom Leadership and Time - Technology Swap models, will meet the five Reach Extension Principles of an Opportunity Culture.

«Administrators build their credibility as instructional leaders when they consistently demonstrate classroom expertise by modeling instructional practices, collaborating on curricular initiatives, and enacting the classroom culture they envision for the whole school,» she says.

It's what our Opportunity Culture work is all about — hope for achieving extraordinary things, with sustainable school models led by proven, excellent teachers to back it up.

Districts are responding: As of spring 2014, four districts nationally are piloting Opportunity Culture models, and one, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, is taking its pilot efforts to scale based on recruiting results and demand from schools.

An Opportunity Culture using new school models that extend excellent teachers» reach makes achieving this new vision possible, particularly when tailored to allow all teachers to succeed in teams — increasing the odds of widespread improvement in teaching and learning.

Successful leaders continue to identify and model best practice, transform school cultures and support the learning of teachers and students.

Shifting a culture requires school leaders to model the very changes in mindset and skillset they want to see.

I'm off to explore the rich culture and educational models of nine schools in New Zealand.

How can we model service through our instruction, assessments, and the culture (emotional and physical design) in our classrooms and schools?

Her research demonstrates that in order to confront issues of race, a school needs a comprehensive model that addresses race in the curriculum, pedagogy, school culture, and practices.

In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, Lahey discusses An Everyone Culture and takes a look at the how the new model it proposes can make a positive impact on your company's (or school's) success.

They learned about CLG's «ecological» change model, a professional development program that simultaneously addresses issues of school culture, professional competencies, and work conditions.

When we first started drafting Opportunity Culture school models two years ago, a group of elite Teach Plus Policy Fellows advised us.

El - Amin admits she came to Harvard with hopes of building a school model steeped in addressing issues of racial inequity in the curriculum and school culture.

The Opportunity Culture models are full of career paths and variations that solve so many of the problems caused by isolated, inflexible, uniform teaching roles in most schools today.

And because this reframing of failure is modeled so publicly and systemically by the portfolio defenses, our teachers, convinced of its power, tend to recreate similar cycles of failure and redemption in their day - to - day classroom instruction, where school culture lives.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

The social reproduction of inequality can not end until we move past deficit models of schooling that require students to abandon their culture in order to become a success.

The emotional culture of a school is formed over time by the people working there, who are led by and model their behaviour on their senior leaders.

As we wrote recently, the early implementers have gotten promising results, including high growth in both reading and math by the second year in schools that used Opportunity Culture models schoolwide.

This model strengthens shared vision, school developmental planning and creates a culture of mutual accountability.

In our first article on the STAR School - Placing importance on relationships - Sorensen recalled that the goal was to create a model that not only focused on culture, but also led to high levels of student achievement.

If schools are investing in staff training they should try and move away from traditional CPD models, creating a coffee shop culture of collaboration.

The New Tech model emphasizes project - based learning, a school culture that empowers students and teachers, and the integration of technology into the classroom.

• Of the three schools that implemented Opportunity Culture models schoolwide in the first year:

In many cases, Woolf is asked to connect classes or schools with experts who can serve as role models who share the students» background or culture in order to make the experience even more powerful for the children.

Despite the challenges faced in most areas of the country, some charter schools offer high - quality pre-K programs that adapt the best assets of their distinctive models and cultures to meet the unique needs of young children and prepare them well for kindergarten.

Before tackling the most significant school challenges, schools need to build their own local resource expertise in the model of a professional learning community that builds competence and networking regarding school culture and climate and social - emotional and character development.

Living away from home to study — Boarding schools: The Wunan Foundation boarding school model seeks to foster students» connection to their home and culture.

These companies offer a model for the rest of us — for organizations and schools seeking to grow, for leaders wanting to make a cultural change, and even for individual employees who may feel stuck, say Lisa Laskow Lahey and Robert Kegan, who wrote An Everyone Culture with fellow Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Matthew L. Miller and Deborah Helsing and with organizational consultant Andy Fleming.

Probably the most thought - provoking portion of Professor Wax's essay is her discussion of how both models — no - excuses and income mixing — «assume that, to succeed in school and in life, poor children need to be taught bourgeois, middle - class values — and socialized away from their culture of birth.»

Building a culture of collegiality has strengthened our leadership model and seen the emergence of many teacher leaders across the school.

The MacArthur framework for Connected Learning (CL) provides a flexible model for exploring how schools could better cultivate the interplay between student interests, peer culture, digital tools and academic success — in other words, reconceiving schools as maker - centered environments.

By embedding physical activity in school culture, with teaching staff and senior management as role models, healthy habits will become the norm.