Sentences with phrase «very culture of the school»

PBIS ultimately impacts the very culture of the school to shift attention to positive behavior and successful learning systems for children, teachers and administrators.

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And a study from Columbia business school showed that creative directors of fashion companies produced more creative innovations after having spent a significant amount of time working in cultures very different from their own.The time diversifying their experiences expanded their point of view and forced them to problem - solve in different ways.

Number four: The culture of schooling is a very passive experience, where people essentially sit all day consuming information and then regurgitating 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.

A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

While the school population reflects the different nationalities of a very diverse greater - Princeton community, the Waldorf curriculum embraces the unifying human elements across all cultures.

The report on the 9th September by the Sunday Mail Medical Correspondent Jo Macfarlane titled «Complaints culture is bleeding schools and hospitals dry» made very interesting reading from the point of view of MRSA Action UK.

The very day after Silver was arrested, Bharara gave a talk at New York Law School where he urged people to focus their outrage and join him in taking on the culture of corruption in Albany.

Hughes Andrew Rothschild The story of writer - director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980s — but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained.

Invariably the song arouses emotion in my high school and college students, because» «Ea» describes historical and contemporary Hawaiian issues, including the loss of culture and the 50 percent blood quantum required to gain the very few Hawaiian rights that are offered by the government.

Unfortunately, the school environment naturally promotes a very sedentary culture: children are required to sit for long periods, walk instead of run and be still for most of the day.

While I don't think it, in and of itself, will yield great teaching and learning, I do think it can play a very positive role in promoting coherent school cultures, empowering parents and educators, and fostering a healthy array of educational options.

In «Choice, Testing, and the Jigsaw» in the Forum section, Diane Ravitch and Nathan Glazer show how the very concept of a common culture has evaporated in the public schools even as Steiner worries about the testing culture that may be replacing it.

In their new book, An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, Ed School faculty members Robert Kegan, Lisa Lahey, Matthew Miller, and Deborah Helsing, and Andy Fleming of Way to Grow, Inc., seek to answer that very question.

«Schools have a very big responsibility to teach their students to think in more sophisticated ways about social and political controversies, to talk across differences of culture, class, and ideology and to engage in conversation with others that might have very different viewpoints,» Bermudez says.

«The fact that we even have to make the argument that thinking should be the most important aspect of school culture proves that we have gotten very far away from teaching young people how to become successful adults.»

I'm not just talking about the unions, but there is a tremendous and deep resistance — here we are in the center of capitalism, right — there is a very deep resistance to the private sector that's embedded in the culture of public schools.»

Secondary schools that build upon students who have been taught a culture of trust and respect in how to use their suite of digital technologies, aptly and appropriately 24 hours a day, present a very different environment.

«As school leaders, we have enormous opportunity to make a difference in the culture of our very own school community.

The Norwegian students, on the other hand, get to meet people who come from very different countries, cultures, and journeys than themselves — all of which contributes to a better school environment.

On the surface this may sound straightforward, but in addition to dealing with the trauma of their journey, moving to a new country, and adapting to a new culture, they have to navigate a school system very different from what they're used to — all while learning a new language.

One can even say that it is underlying disdain for the very kids in his district that is a critical reason why he is such an abject failure as a school leader: If you don't care for kids, you can not do the hard work of transforming the quality of instruction, curricula and leadership that is needed to give kids cultures of genius in which to succeed.

Making education competitive requires more than just high hopes; the very culture and rules of public schooling must be overhauled.

And it seems, for whatever reason, very hard to get the public to understand that charter schools are not a single entity with one kind of culture or philosophy; they vary and, as with everything else in existence, produce both good and bad outcomes.

Dr. Cruz also took steps in her first year to begin to break down the organizational culture of autonomous schools and autonomous units, noting: «When I walked into this district again, it was very fragmented.

He spoke of a «culture of complacency and a lack of clear accountability», which should be a warning to examine very carefully the mechanisms for managing the performance, governance, and accountability of all schools, including academies.

By making all students aware of how damaging bullying can do and how bullying can affect the overall school culture — is very important to creating a bully - free environment and a compassionate and empathetic student body.

This understanding can be very useful for leaders as they work to positively «infect» or influence the culture of their school and community.

I was very fortunate to work in a school where discussing racial dynamics was an established part of the school culture.

Yet, even in the few findings presented here, we have been able to build a better understanding of a culture of low - income families that are working together with schools and supportive organizations in their communities to produce very high levels of achievement in terms of high school graduation and college attendance.

There are many different examples of restorative culture in schools, from very informal practices to really formal protocols that are used by all of the adults.

In fact, one of the dirty secrets in education is that those very voices are the ones that are often marginalized within cultures of mediocrity and failure that are often the norm in districts and schools, thanks to policies that fail to reward and recognize good - and - great teaching, place bureaucratic obstacles to fostering this work among colleagues, and protect laggards from losing their jobs.

Charters are designed to put students first, and that means attracting and retaining the very best teachers — and it means not retaining teachers who are not performing well, are not mission driven, or are not a good fit with the culture of the school.

If you have a very professional work organization in schools where there's a lot of discretion, a lot of professional autonomy in a collaborative culture, you get unions that very much reflect that kind of stance.

I found the book very helpful during my research on the impact of school culture on pupil achievement

«The secret to good education is a culture of learning in a very strong school.»

It's one of the things we have learned about how successful charters have really developed their very strong school cultures.

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Test prep is very much part of the culture of NYC public schools, and if the mayor is truly unaware of this, he is startlingly out of touch with the reality on the ground the city's schools.

Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, authors of the book How to Create a Culture of Achievement in Your School and Classroom, facilitated this academy, and one of the days focused on this very subject.

Maintaining gestural painting's relevance in contemporary culture while also rooting its chief sources of inspiration from within the Western canon is a Herculean task, particularly as the very practice of painting as a discipline continues to erode within the art market, art schools, and public art institutions like museums.

The topics of discussion — for it really was almost all discussion and very little one - way lecturing — ranged from how early career lawyers feel about the profession (and how we are in some ways letting them down) to the future of articling (a particularly hot topic in Ontario, as we all know) to how we might infuse a culture of entrepreneurship in how lawyers are trained (including some of the interesting experiments that are taking place at Ryerson) to the more fundamental challenges of incorporating experiential learning into the law school curriculum.

In her present role she has developed a very positive and nurturing school culture and contributed reasonably to the range of extracurricular activities which the School proschool culture and contributed reasonably to the range of extracurricular activities which the School proSchool provides.

Cultivating a culture of respect, caring and inclusion of difference amongst the whole community is very important for supporting positive mental health and reducing school - based risk factors for children from CALD backgrounds.

«During the settlement process, refugees share the difficulties associated with adjusting to a new and very different culture, the limited access to information, the disruption of their lives and the schooling of their children, the issues of poor health and difficulty in accessing appropriate and affordable housing, the pressure of adjusting to a new environment, the difficulties in entering the employment market and the relative lack of understanding of their communities by Australian service providers.