Sentences with phrase «team of social studies»

Is there an administrative team, an office team, a 3rd grade team, or a team of social studies teachers?

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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 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.

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 2,500studies 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 2,500Studies 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 CSocial 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 Csocial 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.

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.

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.

A team of researchers created and tested four social studies units that improved achievement among students in high - poverty schools.

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.

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).

Members of Bennet Middle School's seventh grade Royal 7 team faced off in their social studies classes on the issue of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Native Americans of the Southwest reading passage with graphic organizer • Application / Closing / Higher Order thinking question • Answer Key for graphic organizer Students will research and analyze the lives and culture of the Native Americans of the Southwest region of the United States: present - day areas, groups, geography / climate, adaptations, cultures / spiritual rituals / roles of men and women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this resource?

FOR GOOGLE CLASSROOM Included in this resource: • Title page • Do Now / Motivation student - centered question • The Algonquian reading passage with graphic organizer • Application / Closing / Higher Order Thinking Question • Answer Key for Graphic Organizer Students will research how the Algonquian lived: location, tribes, homes, adaptation based on environment, role of women Adheres to Social Studies Common Core Standards - research, application, literacy, vocabulary; lifting evidence from text Differentiation: graphic organizer; cooperative (students may work in groups / teams / partner to complete graphic organizer based on teacher's discretion) ★ ★ Looking for the pen and paper, hard - copy version of this resource?

Each student is a member of an integrated team that provides science, social studies, mathematics, and language arts instruction to its students.

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.

Duncan soon spoke to some social scientists he had worked with before and assembled a team with the right combination of skills necessary to pull off a study to measure the effects of income on the developing brain during the first three years of life.

Mathematica Policy Research will conduct the evaluation with its study team partners American Institutes for Research, Social Policy Research Associates, and Pemberton Research under U.S. Department of Education contract number ED - IES -14-C-0028.

This team includes the supervisor and assistant supervisor of accountability; coordinator of accelerated learning and intervention; coordinator of school improvement; coordinator of teacher induction; director of special education; elementary and secondary executive directors of student performance; supervisors of English, mathematics, science, and social studies; supervisor of equity and cultural proficiency; and Title I supervisor.

Two Federal Hocking (OH) Middle School teachers — Robin Hawk, an eighth - grade social studies teacher who led the team, and Tessa Molina, a seventh - grade math teacher — took part in the Inclusion, Equity, and Opportunity Teacher Leadership Summit December 2 - 4, along with Patton College faculty Bill Elasky, instructor of teacher education and a board of education member at Federal Hocking Local Schools; Mathew Felton, assistant professor of teacher education; and Lisa Harrison, associate professor of teacher education.

As part of an Institute of Education Sciences (IES)- funded research project, our team (in collaboration with current middle school educators) is developing a professional development (PD) model specifically for middle schools to help them implement research - based reading practices in content areas, including English / language arts, science, and social studies.

She is now apart of the sixth grade team as an ELA and social studies teacher!