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universal school-based prevention program for adolescents which integrates principles of social and emotional learning with mindfulness components of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) developed by Kabat-Zinn (1990)” (Meiklejohn et al., 2012) CASEL “Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education (CARE)…. intervention program…. is based on the Prosocial Classroom model (Jennings and Greenberg 2009) including its four-broad…

significant value that it holds today, which is the advancement of social capital. However, prior to the late-1960’s, education had no correlation to the corporate world. Americans lived by the “cardinal principles,” which became the concept that high school only prepared students for the real world (Rury 219). This meant that the students could enter just about any field that they desired through proper job training. Eventually, as globalization grew, the United States realized that the nation…

from the start of their secondary school carrier until their graduation, and then return to the youngest students in the school to start the cycle again. Another divergence between the US and German school systems lies in how each country handles homeschooling. While American parents regularly decide to homeschool their children for religious, personal, or other reasons, Germany requires that all children attend either a private or public school. In these schools, religion can be taught with…

system today? Many people would say without a doubt “Yes”, but with so many sections of the system, how can anyone pinpoint where to start. The “No child left behind” program failed to meet its target, schools are cheating due to high pressure to get good grades, bad neighborhoods creating bad schools and vice versa, and the common core system is too vague and broad for the teachers. One of the more troubling issues today is the teachers union and tenure causing teachers to become complacent…

Demographic Data, Culture/Climate, and Leadership at East Bay High School Chemica Edwards Saint Leo University Abstract School culture is mainly established by the impact of the student’s success in academic programs. The Demographics of a school provides key details using statistical characteristics to explain level of success within these establish programs. This paper entails the processes research of East Bay High School’s data of subgroups which will include ethnic enrollment,…

According to the National Education Association,” boys are five times more likely than girls to be classified as hyperactive and are thirty percent more likely to flunk or drop out of school( ).”America’s sons are in trouble, today people tend to blame the parents for not disciplining their children when they need too, when in fact it is the educational system giving them the short end of the stick. Classrooms today are biased against boys and gives the young girls the better learning…

The meaning of “Well educated” over the years has become very hard to put into a proper definition. Point 1. The Point of Schooling. (Nel Noddings the professor emerita at Stanford University, urges us to reject “the deadly notion that the schools’…

*New Topic: Reflection of My Professional State and National Code of Ethics After reviewing the Minnesota and National Code of Ethics, I understand the expectations for myself as an educator. I must take these standards very seriously; otherwise it could end up costing me my job. There are steps I can take as an educator to ensure that I reach these ethical standards put forth before me. After reading both codes of ethics, there are two very basic foundations of ethics that are laid out nicely…

case, teaching intelligent design in public schools was ruled to be unconstitutional. This case brought about the question of whether or not intelligent design is a science, and should it be taught in science classes in public schools. In Pennsylvania, teachers refused to read a statement about intelligent design being related to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Because of this refusal, this brought parents and teachers to claim a lawsuit and sue the district which then led to a court case to…

Annotated Bibliography: Lessons for School Leaders Supovitz, J., & Christman, J. (2005). Small learning communities that actually learn: Lessons for school leaders. Phi Delta Kappan, 86, 649-651 Summary Creating a community structure is not enough to change a school’s current culture, although professional learning communities, or PLCs have great potential for bringing about advances in teaching and learning. In order for PLCs to be effective, district and school leaders must provide…