Sentences with phrase «understand school culture»

Your technical knowledge is what got you in the door, but your ability to understand school culture will ultimately determine your success.

They don't speak English, and they don't necessarily understand school culture in this country.»

Students will lead the trainings and provide strategies for organizing mass events, understanding school culture and violence, meeting with legislators, generating social media support, and amplifying student stories so policymakers can hear them.

Read their article on Understanding School Culture and its Relation to Farm to School Programming here.

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Rinearson understands the male - dominated culture of both finance and tech can lead some women to shy away from jumping into the industry, so she's made it her mission to get more women involved — starting with high schoolers.

A favorite slogan among students and faculty at Texas A&M University, a long - established school with a one - of - a-kind culture, sums it up: «From the outside looking in, you can't understand it.

The area in which schools should have a very significant role to play (and where perhaps some Catholic schools currently underperform), is the promotion of a culture in which young people understand and engage with the Church's key teachings relating to sexuality and the inherent dignity of human life.

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

By resting much of his case on the unproven assumption that schools in the past played the role he wishes they would play today, Hirsch detracts from his generally plausible argument that more could be done today to help children know and understand their culture.

I have no problem with religion being taught in schools, in fact, I think it's important everyone have an understanding of different world religions because it will help people understand other cultures as well as see what leads some people to do the things they do.

We understood our schools to be taking children of immigrants from many cultures and preparing them for participation in American democracy.

Such a culture can make LGB pupils and staff feel marginalised, and not valued or understood within the school community.»

Niebuhr treats these contradictory understandings of Christ's association with culture as motifs advanced by different theologians and schools of thought through Christian history.

My oldest son brought it in for culture day way back in elementary school (he's headed to college in the fall), and couldn't understand why the kids were hesitant to try it (although the teachers loved it).

The State of Nutrition and Physical Activity in Colorado Schools: Changing the School Culture by Understanding the Facts.

Over 40 expert organisations have come together, to produce a free training resource to help all school staff understand the importance of a good school food culture and to support them to deliver improvements in pupil health and wellbeing.

«Being able to speak and read in a different language, and understand a different culture, is a game - changer for our kids,» Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said.

During college and his first years of graduate school at the University of Hawaii, Winter soaked up indigenous Hawaiian culture while also seeking scientific tools for understanding the local environment.

«Every time we get a business school to come and do this, they do a great job and the material is didactically the same, but [it doesn't] resonate with scientists because they don't understand the culture,» says Conlan.

She quoted Nancy Edwards, a professor at Harvard Medical School (8): «If we have the audacity to believe that we can find cures for cancer and understand the human genome, why should it be hard to believe that we can fix the culture of our profession?»

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations.

Brewer seems to understand that youth culture, both as performed and as consumed, is no longer hierarchical in quite the same way that Hollywood has been portraying it as since the»50s — that high school, like so much else on the planet, no longer operates according to the traditional power pyramid.

Immediately noticeable in the background of high school teenager Spencer's bedroom are posters of various AAA Sony PlayStation 4 exclusives (Uncharted 4: A Thief's End and The Last Guardian to name a few) signaling that director Jake Kasdan (Sex Tape, Orange County, also serving as a writer on this film among a crowded bunch that get the job done successfully) and the entire filmmaking team understand video game culture.

So before crossing professional paths with Gerwig at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, Ronan's entire understanding of American high - school culture came courtesy of her favorite films and television shows.

Creating a give and take culture to navigate forward with all the key players is imperative in any school system to understand all sides and place value on all views.

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.

It calls on researchers to better explore connections among acts of bullying, discrimination, and harassment, and it attempts to nudge schools to move beyond classification and consequences and toward the kind of understanding, communication, and support that can change a culture.

Both for primary and secondary school students, the resources aim: • To deepen students» understanding of the continent of Africa • To experience African school culture • To be aware of the work of Jesuit Missions in Africa The resource contains: • A Scheme of Work and Lesson plan • A PowerPoint • A PDF with example African playground games NB: This resource has been designed for Jesuit (and Catholic) schools in particular, however, it is perfectly adaptable to suit the needs of any school.

Kate Nehring, president and founder of Infused, a leadership organization trying to create more inclusive school and nonprofit cultures, argues that change begins only with exploring and understanding personal histories and identities — and finally becoming aware of one's own biases.

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.

Change the culture of your school — if you're going to educate pupils about how to use the internet safely, you should get their buy - in and help them understand why and how they should use the school's systems rather than their own.

The goal of the Portland, Ore., public schools» multicultural - education programs, in the words of the district's school board, is to «develop in all students a better understanding and appreciation of the history, culture, and contributions to society of different ethnic groups and cultures.»

However, adjusting to a new school system, learning a new language, so different from their native languages, understanding school rules or making friends in a different culture are some of the many challenges they face.

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with, not just because of the economy but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.

djusting to a new school system, learning a new language, so different from their native languages, understanding school rules or making friends in a different culture are some of the many challenges they face.

Yet when this culture - first leader took the helm of Tennessee's new Achievement School District in 2011, he concluded that anyone's first move in that role ought to be, «Get a great lawyer, understand the legislation, and understand what you can and can not do right out of the gate.»

One is the lesser profile accorded to curriculum and instructional practice and to what happens once the teacher closes the classroom door; another is the view that random assignment is premature, given its dependence on expert school management and high - quality program implementation; and another is the view that quantitative techniques have only marginal usefulness for understanding schools, since a school's governance, culture, and management are best understood through intensive case studies.

Because he has a full understanding of the school's energy data provided by the Carbon Culture website, this enables him to keep track and compare performance with previous years.

The commission's hope was that these educators would return to their schools with a deeper understanding of Japanese society and values, and that the Japanese people would gain a better understanding of American culture after interacting with them.

TIE was ideal — it equips you to take advantage of the enormous space for innovation in education; to engage with international leaders in the field; to gain a deep understanding of education policy, leadership practices, school cultures, and student and teacher needs; to build invaluable contacts.

The challenge for schools then is to ensure that all their stakeholders, be they parents, governors, staff or students, all develop a shared understanding of conflict and identify the priority actions needed to develop a culture where people are not afraid to speak out if they have concerns.

Once a leadership team has helped the school community understand the importance of culture and climate, they are ready to consider assessing it.

The superintendent says to you, «I understand you are in a leadership position in your school's culture and climate committee.

In addition to rounding out kids» knowledge base to include a nuanced understanding of world geography and cultures, schools must teach them the skills to use this knowledge as active and engaged citizens.

Also from Elias, «You Need an Elevator Pitch About School Culture and Climate,» which highlights how your school's leadership team can help the community understand the importance of culture and climate — and improSchool Culture and Climate,» which highlights how your school's leadership team can help the community understand the importance of culture and climate — and imprCulture and Climate,» which highlights how your school's leadership team can help the community understand the importance of culture and climate — and improschool's leadership team can help the community understand the importance of culture and climate — and imprculture and climate — and improve it.

Students answer ten questions that test their ability to demonstrate understanding of vocabulary related to school, punctuation, accents, the verbs ser and estar, and the culture of various Spanish - speaking countries.

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To quote from Fr, Heft's concluding chapter, «A Catholic high school that offers the education that it should will provide not only spiritual development, it will also provide a superior education, precisely because it will integrate knowledge; attend to both the heads and hearts of their students; engage parents more intimately in the education of their children; deepen their understanding and strengthen the practice of their faith; and prepare their graduates to enter thoughtfully a culture that offers opportunities and has needs, not just for technical skills, but even more for wisdom and generosity.»

Katherine Boles helping me understand how school culture impacts teacher leadership.

And I think it needs to be an important priority of the schools to have ways of helping kids recognize that globalization is something they have to understand and respect and become one with — not just because of the economy, but also because there are all these different cultures and different peoples of the world, and if we're all going to make it together, we've got to understand each other.