Sentences with phrase «schools build a culture»

We help our schools build cultures of respect, responsibility, courage, and kindness, where students and adults are committed to quality work and citizenship

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Those four questions are at the core of a fascinating (and slim) new book, Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, by John Quelch and Emily Boudreau — which grew out of a conference of the same name held in April at Harvard Business School and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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.

Building on an outstanding foundation of curriculum, programming and thought leadership at Drexel, the Close School is the engine driving the expanded culture of entrepreneurship envisioned by the University's strategic plan.

LJMS school culture is built on our four cornerstones of Integrity, Perseverance, Discovery and Service.

We are striving to build an inclusive and positive school culture, while giving our students the skills they need to take care of themselves, as well as others.

She uses her sewing skills to create «over-the-top» costumes to support school Spirit Week, and other school events, to further connect with students and help to build a positive school culture.

Sunday, in an interview with Dave Debo of WBEN News Radio, 930 AM, Heaney covered a range of related issues, including the investigation, the state's pay to play culture and the significance of Bharara's interest in allegations that LPCiminelli may have overcharged the Buffalo school system hundreds of millions of dollars to manage the reconstruction of scores of school buildings.

With consolidation on the horizon — the superintendent says it's a matter of when, not if — Browdy said decision - makers must consider factors such as neighborhood impact and school culture, not just «buildings and numbers.»

Other green roofs have been installed at the Bronx County Courthouse (10,000 square feet), Ikea in Brooklyn (70,000 square feet), Ethical Culture Fieldston School (two roofs, measuring 5,100 square feet and 1,500 square feet, in the Bronx), a Con - Edison building in Long Island City (a quarter of an acre, or about 10,000 square feet) and Hackensack Hospital in New Jersey (about 5,000 square feet).

Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.

The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) is committed to building and improving a culture that embraces and exemplifies diversity and inclusion.

Big Green is building a national school food culture that promotes youth wellness.

Our enrollment continued to grow, students gave positive feedback about their experiences, teachers continued to build out a curriculum that is aligned to our school competencies, case management and holistic service provision kicked in, and staff culture has been positive.

EDUTOPIA: What other experiences in your life — either in school or during your early years as a teacher — have influenced the culture you're building at your school now?

The schools and classrooms where I've seen the strongest relationship - based cultures are ones where students have input on establishing norms and processes, where team building happens throughout the year so that students and teachers know each other well, and, on the teacher level, where teachers have regular opportunities to collaborate to design meaningful PBL experiences for students and discuss student supports.

Edutopia.org recently checked in with a few staff members and students to record the first semester's successes and to identify some lingering challenges in building a secondary school whose academics and culture rely largely on technology.

It was the first time our students from the two sites got to meet each other, and it was a really beautiful opportunity for strengthening relationships, building culture, and cultivating school pride.

So, ensuring the safety and health of everyone who uses the school site requires a huge amount of thought and planning, whether it is practicing fire evacuations or keeping an eye on the weather, and needs the building of a culture where everyone takes responsibility.

She knew that the staff would resist any significant changes coming from someone so new to their school, so she focused first on relationships, got to know the school and its culture, and built trust before bringing in her new ideas.

In many cultures, families don't feel that it is appropriate to build relationships, albeit respectful ones, with teachers and school leaders.

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To continue to develop the culture of play and activity outside the school building, young people need to be provided with the opportunities for «free play» alongside the important sports and games which offer more structure.

Burnard says being able to build relationships face - to - face with school leaders from different parts of the world, different cultures and different education systems was refreshing.

Where these conditions have not yet been established, the principal and school leadership team have to build the capacity of the staff and culture within the school in order to build a culture suitable for coaching or mentoring conversations to be used.

Building such a culture has created a school that gets the numbers as far as achievement and growth, but does so in an environment of love, creativity, collaboration, and curiosity.

When we look back on this era in our history, I believe only then we will understand the power of the web as one of the greatest equalizers of opportunity in our society... So if this is the case, we should encourage and build a culture of participation in a conversation and celebration of our schools online.

In that time, we've learned a lot about building creative school cultures based on two essential design practices: changing your point of view and prototyping.

Diverse teams of students build a stronger school culture by working together on service projects to address community needs.

Charters that succeed with low - income children go full bore: all - out culture building in the classroom, students and staffers willing to endure longer school hours, bright teachers willing to adapt to precise training regimens and relinquish a fair amount of privacy (giving out their cell - phone number for afterschool homework questions, for example).

«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.

Superintendent Dale Marsden has built a culture of safety in the San Bernardino, Calif., schools even as his district withstood two shootings.

«Roles and responsibilities relating to when attendance is addressed — for example after three days» absence, first truancy offence, below a set percentage — must be crystal clear and the technology used to notify and address declining patterns must be streamlined as part of the whole school approach to positive school culture building.»

This approach to professional learning, developed in collaboration with academic partners from Western Sydney University (WSU), has built a strong culture of teachers as «practitioner - researchers» at a whole school level.

Learn how teachers at Albemarle County Public Schools redefine failure as a part of learning, and find out how they build physical spaces and cultures that help students learn from errors.

This means a world of teachers who lead and leaders who teach, a world where school leaders and teachers have the POWER TO DECIDE how to spend their resources, how to build their programs and school culture, how to support their own professional development, and — most importantly — about who gets the privilege of working alongside them.

However, we are also able to cross-reference that inference with context: how does the student usually respond to lessons, what is going on at home, what are you noticing in the general social dynamics of the classroom, did they get in an argument with their best friend this morning, did they eat breakfast, did they sleep well, was a new video game released yesterday, is it particularly humid in the building today, what's going on in the general school culture right now, has this student been taking tests all day, are elements like depression or anxiety potentially relevant, or is it just an «off day» for a great student?

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.

Building school cultures where every student is well known, supported and compelled to create work of value is a big part of it.

This is not to say school culture is lacking in all public schools, but it is easier to build a school culture when parents actively opt in rather than when their children are enrolled by default.

We need to build cultures of appreciation in our classrooms and schools in order to do this.

David Dublis, a creative arts specialist, said, «It was rich with current and relevant information on how to improve the climate and culture in our school building.

The difference is that these students» teachers have helped them develop the skills and mindsets necessary to produce work of exceptional quality, and have built classroom and school cultures in which exceptional work is the norm.

Efforts to build empathy and involve students in the process of change can shift the school culture to one where offending or hurting someone else, either in person or online, is not seen as cool.

We need to create a school - wide culture and curriculum that enables us to utilise the full capabilities of our teachers and by tapping into their vision, passion and discipline we can help them to build partnerships with the children and parents to prevent mental health issues.

The key in all of this is good instructional design along with a consistent vision and culture built by school administration.

Those are the three things that I'm most proud of in terms of building our school's culture.

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BRIDGE, also known as Building Relations through Inter-cultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement, is a program that allows students from each school to know more about their counterparts, including their culture and most of all their language.