Sentences with phrase «whole school effort»

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By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

Rev Coupe said he hopes the school uniform project can be bigger next year with various local churches partnering to expand the effort throughout the whole city.

Along the way, certainly, those efforts have produced individual successes — schools and programs that make a genuine difference for some low - income students — but they have led to little or no improvement in the performance of low - income children as a whole.

McCoy made the salad bar program a school - wide effort, involving her whole staff in salad bar trainings and workshops.

In an effort to comply, many schools eliminated whole milk, but then found their meals falling below the calorie minimums set by the USDA.

It would also slow efforts to make pizzas - a longtime standby on school lunch lines - healthier, with whole grain crusts and lower levels of sodium.

New school meal regulations that were put into place at the start of the 2012 - 2013 school year in an effort to add more whole grains and increase fruit and vegetable variety / intake received much national attention and critique.

In an effort to stem high childhood obesity levels, the new guidelines set limits on calories and salt, and they phase in more whole grains in federally subsidized meals served in schools» main lunch line.

In an effort to halt the rising rates of childhood obesity, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement, Snacks, Sweetened Beverages, Added Sugars, and Schools, recommends families take a broader approach to nutrition, considering children's whole diet pattern — rather than simply the amount of sugar, fat, or specific nutrients in individual foods.

But we're going to make this a very urgent effort, and Aimee will have the ability to track each and every one of the schools, the ability to call in the school leaders on a rotating basis as is done at CompStat, question them, find out what they need, push them harder, make sure they're doing their job, and if she doesn't see what she likes, just as at the NYPD, there's a whole host of actions that can be taken to improve the situation and to address the leadership dynamics,» Mr. de Blasio said.

An intervention to address bullying could be a focused, one - on - one effort with the victim or a perpetrator, or it could be a preventative measure imposed on a whole school.

The Washington - based research organization, which supports deregulation and market - driven school improvement efforts, gives the United States as a whole a D - plus in its report, «The Quest for Better Teachers: Grading the States.»

In his final chapter, Putnam recommends a variety of well - known school - based reforms, such as moving poor children into better schools, compensatory financing for schools in poor neighborhoods to enable them to attract the best teachers and counselors, more school - based extracurricular activities and social services, and more effort to engage the whole community in the education process.

My goal was to create a model that integrates research - based strategies into a unified whole that provides direction and coherence to school improvement efforts.

That said, this natural, almost invisible, higher order educational use of evermore sophisticated technology and, vitally, the associated learning ecology, has taken the pathfinders many years of concerted whole of school community effort to achieve.

However, there's a trick to it: See, when things get heated up in the building and the school year really gets into its flow, it is all too easy for the overwhelmed and overstressed educator to forget to appreciate all of the whole - hearted efforts that make a school run.

By developing personal goals in partnership with individual staff members, and showing them how their development contributes to universal improvement, they will be able to see their own value to the school, and be inspired to work towards their targets as part of the whole - staff effort.

The team members feel pretty important as the whole school cheers on their efforts.»

Those efforts, Your Environment president William Donofrio told Education World, instill in students the belief that they are loved and valued by the community as a whole and help them realize that the community has a stake in their success in school and in life.

I whole - heartedly support efforts to improve the ways that schools handle these issues; tips and training on creating a positive school culture and reducing suspensions and expulsions are welcome.

Evaluations of Facing History's whole - school efforts have captured positive impacts on school climate.

EW: How does the current emphasis on standards and accountability affect efforts of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented to encourage whole school reform?

Several promising «whole school reform» models, such as «Modern Red Schoolhouse» and «Atlas Schools,» both the products of intense R&D efforts, have been placed on the market, but thus far their record in boosting student achievement has been pretty mixed.

The impact of state policies and actions on local implementation efforts: A study of whole school reform in New Jersey.

Trauma sensitivity requires a whole - school effort.

The Continuous Improvement System differs from other improvement efforts in that it views the school as an integrated whole and not a group of parts that are to be independently addressed.

Participating in National Bullying Prevention Month provides a great way for schools to reenergize ongoing bullying prevention efforts and to engage the whole school community.

Collective teacher efficacy (CTE), the perceptions of teachers in a school that the efforts of the faculty as a whole will have a positive effect on students (Bandura, 1977, 1986, & 1997), has a 1.57 effect size (Eells, 2011, Hattie, 2014).

This Whole - School Implementation Guide is designed to offer a step by step evidence - based approach that ensures an inclusive, comprehensive, successful and sustainable change effort through the implementation of Restorative Practices.

Alternatively, incrementalism, or the adoption of one or two PL principles without setting an upfront vision of whole - school scaling of all the principles, can lead to stalled efforts and lackluster, disappointing outcomes.

Without substantive opportunities to contribute to whole school improvement efforts, teachers may feel stymied in their attempts to promote Meaningful Student Involvement.

The whole process is a time - consuming and costly effort: hours of online research, time off to attend school tours, spreadsheets to keep track of options and deadlines.

Read about the new groups formed by «teacherpreneurs» who are using social media to lead one another; the programs like PAR that empower educators to evaluate and support colleagues and improve practice; and the efforts in some areas where teachers manage whole schools.

Each of the seven Title I: 1003 (g) School Improvement Grants — valued at $ 4.5 M apiece — will support whole - school redesign efforts in the SCSD's seven Innovation Zone (iZone) Schools: Bellevue Elementary, Danforth Middle, Frazer K - 8, Porter Elementary, Seymour Dual Language Academy, Van Duyn Elementary and Westside Academy at BloSchool Improvement Grants — valued at $ 4.5 M apiece — will support whole - school redesign efforts in the SCSD's seven Innovation Zone (iZone) Schools: Bellevue Elementary, Danforth Middle, Frazer K - 8, Porter Elementary, Seymour Dual Language Academy, Van Duyn Elementary and Westside Academy at Bloschool redesign efforts in the SCSD's seven Innovation Zone (iZone) Schools: Bellevue Elementary, Danforth Middle, Frazer K - 8, Porter Elementary, Seymour Dual Language Academy, Van Duyn Elementary and Westside Academy at Blodgett.

By aligning each of the school efforts — professional development, classroom instruction, assessments, and community engagement — with the mission statement and prioritizing whole child support in that mission, Magnolia Elementary has set up a successful and sustainable environment for student growth.

Evaluative assessments assess school improvement efforts like professional development needs, areas of instructional focus for the whole building, etc..

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Great schools are grown from the ground up and the top down: when teachers and leaders come together in a joint effort for whole - school improvement, everybody wins.

«The whole culture of the school is different,» said Evelyn Sandoval, a school psychologist who joined Oak Ridge as part of its reform efforts.

Her written work includes Literature to Think About (a whole language curriculum published with Weston Woods Studios), Changing Schools into Communities for Thinking, Assessment in the Learning Organization, Assessment Strategies for Self - Directed Learning, Habits of Mind series, Thinking - Based Learning, Using Curriculum Mapping and Assessment to Improve Student Learning, many as collaborative efforts.

Pepler and Craig (2000) say that a whole - school policy is the foundation of antibullying interventions, and they recommend that a policy include the following: a schoolwide commitment to address bullying; a statement of rights and responsibilities for all members of the school community; a definition of bullying, including types and dynamics; the process for identifying and reporting bullying; expected ways for students and staff to respond to bullying; strategies that will be implemented; and a way to assess the effectiveness of antibullying efforts.

As a result, the work of managing the external environment always has to extend beyond the individual school and take into account the larger purposes of schooling and the role that successful schools may play in helping or hindering efforts to improve surrounding schools and society as a whole (Fullan, 1993, 1999).

I was the lead teacher of a small school - within - a-school project inside my large comprehensive high school and a facilitator for the whole - school reform efforts that had grown out of a school funding case known as Abbott v. Burke.

It is important for local churches to become a part of the planning process with schools and offer support to their efforts in educating the whole child.

Rather, a comprehensive approach to school improvement requires intentional investment in a whole - child, whole - school effort, where students, educators, families, and community partners work together to ensure excellent and equitable outcomes for all students.

Darien Franco, 2011 graduate of Capital Preparatory Magnet School told me, «I think that the desegregation goal is a bit superficial because what I assume is the whole point is part of an effort to make sure everyone's getting a similar, quality education.

This design feature may have catalyzed broader whole - school reforms and attenuated the incentives to target reform efforts narrowly.

«The Montezuma - Cortez RE-1 school board is leading a district engaged in whole system improvement efforts as well as targeted turnaround with several elementary schools.

He would smile, welcome them to school for the day, and make every effort to make the whole family feel as though they were a part of the school community.