During her tenure with the program, she has played an instrumental role in developing and revising social studies courses and, most recently, serving as lead teacher for
the Social Studies Team.
The Curriculum Division
social studies team provides direction and leadership to the social studies program, Kindergarten through grade 12.
The case focuses on Northern High School's tenth grade
social studies team as they debate potential topics for an upcoming project, the Power of Persuasion.
Molly has served for the past three years as KAN's Assistant Principal, where she coaches math and nonfiction teachers and writes curriculum for KIPP Nashville's math, science, and
social studies teams.
Not exact matches
To figure out when the more
social among us flourish and when they struggle, the
team studied 162 Belgian business students who were separated into 27
teams as part of a class project.
Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the
team of
social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this
study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.
By measuring the dilation of their pupils — an indicator of sexual arousal, as proven by a previous
study of his published in the Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, Savin - Williams and his
team were able to conclude that women were aroused by pornography featuring women with men and women with women.
Of all the qualities she and her
team studied — health, income, IQ,
social intelligence, good looks — it was those that had the most grit who were the most successful,» Foley writes.
A 2014
study from Pennebaker and his
team found a correlation between filler words and conscientiousness, in the way the words can be seen as
social and personality markers.
A research
study published in the Personality and
Social Psychology Bulletin, led by a
team at the Rotman School of Management, shows that taking a moment to assess your best qualities leads to better results when negotiating a high - stakes deal with someone who has more power than you.
The program
team will also continue to
study the
social, economic, and environmental benefits of shade trees (including species such as durian, sesbania, and mahogany) by working with Olam to distribute these to farmers, and develop a monitoring plan that will track trees and cocoa seedlings that are distributed.
«Interestingly, [our]
study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports
team coach or other features of a school
social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing
social and cultural variables such as media messages and
social norms of behavior more broadly.»
Rogers and her
team plan to follow the babies in the
study through their first several years of life to see how they grow, focusing on their motor, cognitive and
social development.
The
team carried out a wide range of research including surveys and field - based intervention
studies investigating the impact of
social identity on various outcomes, including performance, stress, health and wellbeing.
Harold D Clarke has been a member of the British Election
Study team that received grant money from the ESRC (Economics and
Social Research Council) UK.
Cantafio is a
social studies teacher at West Seneca West High School and has been the head coach of the football
team since 2005.
While the
team plans to extend the capabilities of Squadbox to work with
social media platforms, they say that email is a particularly useful system for
studying harassment.
Similar compounds could be developed for people with mental health disorders, for whom
social ties are vital, says the
study's
team.
The research
team, led by Joshua Cinner, a
social scientist who
studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500
studies coral - reef systems at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef
Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500
Studies at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, based its analysis on data that describe conditions at more than 2,500 reefs.
For this
study the researchers targeted very specific types of GABA receptors to improve
social behaviors with clonazepam, but the
team also found that by using a different drug, they could target other GABA receptors and actually reduce the ability to socially interact in normal mice — underscoring that future medications would need to target very specific receptors so as not to diminish the drug's impacts.
A new
study by a
team of scientists from the University of Malta and the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS / Université de Montpellier) could help develop treatment strategies for a crippling disorder that was the focus of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the world's largest global
social media phenomenon.
«
Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences C
Social media data have been suggested as a way to track the spread of a disease in a population, but there is a problem that in an emerging outbreak people also use
social media to express concern about the situation,» explains study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences C
social media to express concern about the situation,» explains
study team leader Sherry Towers of ASU's Simon A. Levin Mathematical, Computational and Modeling Sciences Center.
In the case of the Ebola outbreak in the U.S., the
team was confident that the Ebola - related
social media data were due only to public concern or interest in the outbreak, and thus it was an unprecedented opportunity to
study how news media may sow panic in a population.
Conducting HIV testing among the
social and risk networks of those recently diagnosed with HIV helps identify undiagnosed cases of HIV at significantly higher rates and at a lower cost than other testing approaches, finds a new
study conducted in Ukraine by an international research
team.
So the
team made their intentions public by preregistering their
study and submitting the idea to a special issue of
Social Psychology focused on experimental replication slated to come out in spring 2014.
A
team of UCLA scientists has found that brain areas linked to
social behaviors are both underdeveloped and insufficiently networked in youths with high functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to
study participants without ASD.
In the new
study, the
team measured the
social jetlag of people ages 16 to 65 by calculating how offset sleep times were on workdays and non-workdays.
THE MOTIVE In a
study of more than 900 years of conflict in eastern China, a
team of researchers has tested the hypothesis that cold spells fuel the
social instability that leads to war.
In a double - blind, placebo - controlled
study, a
team led by Andrea King, PhD, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the University of Chicago, analyzed the subjective response of 104 young adult heavy
social drinkers to alcohol and tracked their long - term drinking habits.
Some people think there is no way that the online world can have an effect on real life; others argue that
social media is so influential that the Arab Spring was catalyzed by networking sites, says James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who led the
study in collaboration with Facebook's data - science
team.
As part of a long - term
study, King and her
team carefully screened and
studied heavy
social drinkers who reported a pattern of binge drinking behavior as young adults — at least four (for women) or five (for men) drinks per occasion, between one and five times per week.
«No
studies to date have been able to provide such a comprehensive and fine - grained account of what kinds of information individuals are exposed to [on
social media sites], and what they choose to consume,» said
study co-author Eytan Bakshy, a data scientist on the Core Science Data
team at Facebook.
For the first
study, the «local», the
team recruited 857 people in the United States and asked them to self - report their perceived
social status (from working to upper class on a numerical scale), as well as an objective indicator in the form of annual household income.
Psychologist Drew Westen led the
study, conducted at Emory University, and the
team presented the results at the 2006 annual conference of the Society for Personality and
Social Psychology.
Facebook is more than just an online «echo chamber» in which users just repeat views that match their own, according to a new
study from the
social network's own data
team.
A
team of scientists led by Virginia Tech researchers has received a $ 950,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to
study the ways that ideas and behaviors are spread through large
social networks like Twitter.
LA JOLLA, CA — A multi-institutional
team headed by Ursula Bellugi, professor and director of the Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Salk Institute for Biological
Studies, has been awarded a $ 5.5 million Program Project Grant by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to link
social behavior to its underlying neurobiological and molecular genetic basis using Williams syndrome as a model.
At the end of May, the «For the Sake of All» research
team published its final report on the health and well - being of African Americans in the St. Louis region, a multi-disciplinary
study led by Jason Purnell, an assistant professor with the Brown School of
Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis.
In a multi-disciplinary
study looking at historical texts and geological records, an international
team of scientists has found a link between massive eruptions and
social revolt in the Ptolemaic Kingdom (305 — 30 BC), the powerful dynasty that ruled following the campaigns of Alexander the Great.
The
team highlighted that their
study is a pioneer in showing that a drug treatment has the potential to solve
social problems and improve
social skills in autistic children.
It's really no surprise that climate change is bringing heat waves with it, but the research
team hopes that their
study will inspire other researchers to incorporate
social factors as well, such as population change, into
studies of climate change impacts.
He and his
team didn't analyze the content of the tweets in this
study, so they can't show whether the doctors were tweeting about drugs from those companies — and whether the doctors» conflicts of interest influence what they share on
social media.
In Galactic Mappers, a
social studies game about physical geography, students compete in
teams to create the most geographically diverse continent in a shared hemisphere.
Our
team also observed control - group classrooms to gather information about what business - as - usual
social studies instruction was like, and to determine whether any control - group teachers used PBL (none did).
A
team of researchers created and tested four
social studies units that improved achievement among students in high - poverty schools.
You may have noted more case
studies in
social learning featuring large organizations where the size and geographically spread out
teams may not have ready access to other
teams.
Students may create several exhibit pieces per module; exhibits must include contributions from each of the core subject areas: language arts, reading, math, and science or
social studies plus the related arts
teams (art, foreign languages, and library).
Kelly A. (Brizendine) Blair Language and Literacy Current city: Chicago Current job: Education Consultant (Literacy, Curriculum, Assessment, Technology) Career highlight: Leading a
team of managers and instructional designers in the development of K — 12 digital curricula and assessments in math, science,
social studies, and language arts.
Digitizing History: Exploring Moments in Time Through Web Design Students work in
teams to create home pages or small Web sites based on themes related to a recent history or
social studies lessons.
Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE
team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer),
social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).