Sentences with phrase «turning around the culture»

Cumming's new boss was keenly aware of the situation and was committed to helping him turn around the culture of the school.

School change expert Michael Fullan and principal Michelle Pinchot collaborated on an experiment: As Pinchot tackled her first years turning around the culture of Heritage Elementary School in California — using ideas Fullan has promoted about school culture and leveraging teachers» power — she and Fullan checked in every few months on how the work was going.

Not exact matches

So although the inevitable stress of the holiday season is sure to bring about challenges all its own, remember to look to the culture you've built, and you should be able to turn the mood around pretty quickly.

While the policy update may have been necessary to turn around Yahoo's lackadaisical corporate culture, it was widely seen as a condemnation of telecommuting in general, Kessler says.

It wasn't as if they absolutely had to change their culture; the company was already turned around, and the Centenaris could have gone on their merry way with conventional managerial ideas.

This reduction in force is consistent with an overall turn - around program that began a year ago to correct regulatory compliance issues, reset our culture and values, increase operational efficiency, and introduce a new SaaS product and business model.

It is part of an overall turn - around program that began a year ago to correct regulatory compliance issues, reset our culture and values, increase operational efficiency, and introduce a new SaaS platform and business model.

The brand, which is spelled with the second «R» capitalized and turned around, has become synonymous with high - end marijuana culture.

When Nike management refused to acknowledge (never mind try to fix) the company's misogynist culture, female executives used something very simple, yet surprisingly effective to turn things around: a survey.

Amid a litany of accusations about Uber's «bro culture,» board member Arianna Huffington has been trying to help turn things around, and she's starting at the top — with CEO Travis Kalanick.

Because executives trust us to bring meaningful assignments to them that represent a good match for their talents, work style and professional aspirations, we are able to attract the best candidates — those who have the ability to turn around a business, build top teams or create a culture that fosters innovation.

Around the turn of the century, anthropologists realized that they could tell a great deal about a culture by studying its use of language.

Niebuhr then turns around and criticizes «Christ against culture» advocates for not being consistent in their anti-worldly profession.

And, while we have no real reason to believe that the world of television can be completely turned around, at the same time those committed to the task of trying to do so continue to hold up in their communities of faith the ideals of open and free communication and a civility in our culture which we do not yet possess.

With the newfound knowledge that yeast was a living organism and the ability to isolate yeast strains in pure culture form, the stage was set for commercial production of baker's that began around the turn of the 20th century.

It's the culture at the club and it starts with the owner... you got to held people accountable & be about winning not about turning around profit (which by the way if you win gets bigger as you attract more commercial deals & bigger players that wants to win / play for the best)!!

This, in turn, has led to another flare up of the rumbling culture war between the analytics insurgents, who believe all human endeavour can and must be reduced to a single equation, and the traditionalist old guard, who believe the only way to understand a footballer is by following him around for weeks at a time and watching everything he does, meticulously observing his breakfast habits, which way «round he arranges his toilet paper, and whether he throws chewing gum into a bin or just drops it in the street.

It's a culture of failure at Arsenal because of Wenger, that the next manager will have to battle to turn around.

In fact, you can help turn around these shocking behaviors that are becoming commonplace and representative of today's youth sports culture.

«I'm worried it might turn into an early 80s Trotskyite tribute act which has a culture around it which is very hostile to anyone who disagrees.

When will we begin to turn around NY's pay to play political culture?

The Pure Save campaign, an initiative of Stanbic Bank, was targeted at inculcating and stimulating a savings culture among Ghanaians, as well as promoting financial inclusion — an attitude the Bank believes, has a great potential to turn around the fortunes of...

«National Republicans want you to believe they have turned the page, but the Republican culture of putting the special interests first does not revolve around just one man.»

«Yet after AA147 treatment, around 70 percent of the culture turned into endothelial cells that were able to form blood vessels.

I don't have any illusions about how easy it is to turn the culture around, but I've never had any dealing with any person who didn't have some aspiration to the good.

In a culture of embryonic stem (ES) cells, a small population (around 1 %) spontaneously turns into cells that are similar to the totipotent cells of the 2 - cell stage embryo.

(The «Enterprise» package of one of the many businesses in this field will mass produce up to 1,000 blogs for the subscriber, turning out 10,000 posts a day around the 150 keywords of the subscriber's choice — a daily volume of text that quantitatively dwarfs that of entire literate cultures and historical epochs.)

Dandelion Revolution — Dandelion Revolution describes both the enduring and tenacious nature of the dandelion as well as the potential for our culture to turn around, or revolve, our view of health and well - being.

It brought a crackling comic awareness of American corruption into popular culture, and it made rapid - fire, overlapping dialogue fashionable, turning Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur into the hottest writing team around, on the Great White Way or in Tinseltown.

Made 15 years after The Room turned them into cult stars, their irreverent new buddy picture capitalizes on their pop culture personas to craft a satisfyingly strange adventure about a mortician and a homeless man looking to turn their luck around.

Despite boasting spirited supporting performances all around, including a maniacally villainous turn from Jason Momoa, who suggests Jack Sparrow crossed with the Undertaker, Wolves is probably too dark and unsexy to strike gold with the Twilight set, too schizophrenic to please genre purists, too goofy with its werewolf simulation effects to appeal to SFX geeks, and too bloated with ridiculous excesses to get by the unsheathed swords of fanboy culture unscathed.

The seemingly ever expanding teacher workload outside teaching time does see each of the aforementioned tasks becoming difficult in terms of effective turn - around for pupil growth and serves to develop the culture of «task performance» rather than a personal learning journey.

She believes a school can turn around negative student behaviors by infusing character education into its daily culture.

Two mayors and the city council gave these leaders the political cover, generous funding, and, perhaps most important, the time to make the improvements in people, systems, curriculum, and culture that are needed to turn around a failing institution.

Avi has successfully turned around struggling schools by collaborating with fellow educators on instructional and organizational innovations and blending the use of positive psychology within school culture - building.

Eventually, they should create a plan as well as a timeline for implementing the plan for turning around the school culture.

But a culture of failure doesn't turn around on a Green Dot dime.

Determined to turn things around, district leaders sought to establish a uniform set of proven structures and data analysis processes that would support a rich district - wide data - literate culture.

You can't turn around a school without student buy - in, and changing the attitude and culture of the school was an immediate priority for William Smith staff.

Maybe this guy can turn the culture around within B&N, but I wouldn't bet on it.

We need to turn things around so that authorship can once again be a sustainable career, and so that authors can continue to create the sort of work that sustains the rest of the industry — and that sustains its readers and our culture at large.

Construction begins, turning a 127 - year old lava flow into a tropical oasis — a world of experiences with boats, trams, dolphins, pools, spa, a museum quality art collection and influences from cultures around the Pacific.

She returned to New York in the early 1970s, where her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes in response to pornography, popular culture, and concerns around representation.

The origins of the blues lie in the vernacular culture of African Americans living in the Mississippi Delta and New Orleans around the turn of the twentieth century — people for whom slavery was a recent memory and basic civil rights were far in the future.

She returned to New York in the early 1970s, when her practice turned towards figurative paintings, many with erotic themes in response to pornography, popular culture, and concerns around representation.

Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei himself has risen as a cultural political pop icon due to the controversy surrounding his arrest by the Chinese government, in turn, artists around the world created politically charged pop artwork to demonstrate for his release, hence bearing witness to unforeseen polipop culture in the making.

Heartney: Well, since the culture wars have sort of died down, at least around religious issues, it turned into politics.

Kelley's imaginative world turned around working - class life in his hometown of Detroit, and as such his sublime was very much an affair of the street, of youth culture.

I also admire his energy, his hands on - get dirty approach to his interventionist contingent architectures that by turns celebrate and critique different visual cultures that bubble up all around us («judgement» is very interesting in this context).

Gustavsson's return is one that finds something other than tragedy in Orpheus» story: a profusion of painted surfaces, with no beginning or no end, In No Particular Order witnesses the radical freedom that stems from the refusal to heed the injunctions central to contemporary culture: do not touch, do not spend, do not turn around.