...CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Within the world of business, the main “responsibility” for corporations has historically been to make money and increase shareholder value. In other words, corporate financial responsibility has been first driving force. However, these past few years, there is a movement that gathered momentum and taken hold in defining broader corporate responsibilities– for the environment, for local communities, for working conditions, and for ethical practices. This new driving force is known as corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR is oftentimes also described as the corporate “triple bottom line”–the totality of the corporation’s financial, social, and environmental performance in conducting its business. While there is no universal definition of corporate social responsibility, it generally refers to transparent business practices that are based on ethical values, compliance with legal requirements, and respect for people, communities, and the environment. Thus, aside from profit maximization, companies are responsible for the totality of their impact on people and the planet. “People” constitute the company’s stakeholders: its employees, customers, business partners, investors, suppliers and vendors, the government, and the community. Increasingly, stakeholders expect that companies should be more environmentally and socially responsible in conducting their business. In the business community, CSR is alternatively referred to as “corporate citizenship...
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...a scholar is me, because I am a scholar. With my family I could say it’s a typical Hispanic family. First there are my parents, whom my mom works at Wal-Mart and dad works at the Maverick County Detention Center. Then I have my siblings, I have two brothers and one sister. My sister she is the oldest, she recently just graduated from Our Lady of Lake and is currently working at C.C Winn High School as a Algebra I teacher. Next I have my oldest brother who once he graduated from high school he went straight into the army. Last but last not least I have my other brother who is currently in UTSA. Being the youngest of four, my parents have the expectancy of making sure I make the right choices. They at times may pressure me about which footsteps I’m going to follow. All my older siblings made good decisions but for me at times it’s hard to choose whom to follow. I have a sister who focused mostly on school; I have a brother who went straight into the army and then my last older brother who had fun and still did well in school. Growing up I have taught myself to make sure I appreciate what I have been given. When I was in elementary almost every summer I would volunteer at Paint the Town to help my community. I have also participated with the band with volunteer work. Every since my freshman year I have been helping the band by being a monitor with the Junior All Region try-outs. In life I can picture myself being a teacher here in Eagle Pass. I have always wanted to start...
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...Since I was born, I have grown up in a home where serving is a key virtue to live by. So as I budding freshman I was excited to come to high school and volunteer with my new friends in our communities. However, when I saw the clubs my school offered, the only service club was for selected upperclassmen. As a girl with a passion, I realized I did not want to wait that long to volunteer with my school. So I chartered a Key Club chapter which began the first month of my sophomore year. Key Club is an international high school service club. With incredible marketing, we started with over 90 members, making Key Club one of the largest clubs in the school. Right from the start, members got to volunteer at locations all across Chicago. Whether it...
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...Karen Armstrong EDU/301 – Foundations of Education January 18, 2015 Keith Flowers The opportunity of becoming a teacher has become a long time endeavor of mine ever since I was a child. To teach and inspire children gives me such a self-gratification that it wouldn’t be just a job. It is a position that inspires me to see social and physical development, to see each child as an individual, and to see each child blossom into an educated young man or woman. The thought of getting paid for a job I would do for free is more than self-gratifying to me. I do these things as a mother and get joy from helping my children get through the educational and social obstacles they encounter daily. Teaching the young minds of our country would be a privilege and I would be honored to paving these children’s minds into our future. During the past several years I have seen so many differences in education from when I was in elementary school. The first example I can think of is parent involvement within the school. Over thirty years ago, students did not see parents involved within the school. One would only see a parent(s) when a student was in trouble due to behavior or the student needed to go home because they were ill. The involvement today is much different. Parents are encouraged to volunteer for school parties, field trips, join the PTO/PTA, help out with fundraisers, and help in the classroom. As parents are teaming up with their student’s educators, they can both assist...
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...Clubs Coming To Help Big Bad Bullies: Chayzée Smith’s Story Everyday, millions of innocent kids are bullied around their school. They are pushed around, physically abused, and can’t do anything about it. The bystanders around them decide not to help either. The daily routine is the same: Get to school quickly and get out even faster, to avoid those kids. The thing is, that they don’t tell anyone, or get help. This is what it was like for elementary student, Chayzée Smith, except worse. Usually, Chayzée would leave quickly and run home as fast as he could, sometimes though, he would try to take a chance, and stay for basketball or table tennis at the school, but “the violence of the neighborhood always found its way into the after school program” (Smith). That was the other problem. His neighborhood was a rough one, always getting involved in drugs or violence. Smith would get beat up, or pushed away from anything and everything. Sometimes, he would even see things he shouldn’t or be involved in bad drugs. These issues abused Chayzée in many ways, and he couldn’t find a solution to this mess (BGCA). After a couple of months, teachers started to realize what was going on in Mr. Smith’s life. They realized what Chayzée was going through. So they decided to stand up in...
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...There are many significant experiences that I have had within my school that have impacted who I am and who I plan to be, but the activity that has affected me the most is the Buddy Program. The program has given me a new perspective on my future and where I will invest my skills and attributes. I have a few years before I have to decide what I’m doing with the rest of my life, but this has definitely set me in a certain direction. The Buddy Program is an arrangement where students from the high school are partnered up with a student or students from the elementary school to help strengthen the younger students’ classroom etiquette, boost their learning, and mainly practice and increase their social skills. The program was started last school year and took place during the elementary school’s recess. This year it takes place during one of their classes, which benefits the teacher to by giving them a helping hand. The high school students involved are selected...
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...National Junior Honor Society Essay Scholarship School has always come relatively easy for me. Even when I was young I was always motivated to be the best in getting AR points in my grade, and for a while I was the best. I consistently try my best to get an A, even when I feel like giving up. When I don’t get one I usually feel disappointed in myself and regularly try to correct my mistake before it can happen again. When I grow up I want to be an engineer, so I try extra hard in math and science. I do well in group projects and I have been best in class in a couple of public speeches. I also was tested and had one of the best reading levels in my school family/team. Reaching 270 AR points in first grade may not earn me any scholarships, but it shows that I’m a self motivated hard working kid. Participation & Leadership...
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... The nonprofit provides enough food to feed more than 116,000 people every week with administrative and fundraising costs of less than four percent. Since its inception in 1980, the Regional Food Bank has distributed nearly 590 million pounds of food to families who find themselves in need. The food bank also offers programs such as: Backpack Program: Provides chronically hungry elementary school students with a backpack full of kid-friendly, non-perishable, nutritious food every Friday to sustain them over weekends and school holidays. Kids Café: Provides a safe haven, tutoring and nutritious...
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...1 Elementary Education COM/150 8 November 2009 2 Elementary Education School year 2007-2008, there were approximately 22,434 out of 450,000 students dropped out of high school a 5% dropout rate in the state of North Carolina (North Carolina Board of Education 2009). This rate was entirely too high and we as parents, teachers, educators, and a community need to work to combat this unacceptable rate. We have to start early to stress the importance of education to our children and go the extra mile(s) to assist them and instill in them that they can succeed no matter the odds. Education starts at elementary level; if it is not fostered at that level then graduating from high school is almost an impossible goal to attain. Lake Rim Elementary school is in Fayetteville, NC and was established in March 2000, the school has a student count of 661 students (North Carolina K-12 website 2009). Lake Rim elementary has met the annual adequate yearly progress from 2001-2005, from 2005-2007 they did not meet annual yearly progress but met attendance target (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). In 2007-2008 the school met high growth and attendance target. Teacher to student ratio is 1:14 (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009) and the state of North Carolina is 1:15 (North Carolina K-12 website 2009) and there are 98 students in kindergarten at Lake Rim Elementary School (Lake Rim Elementary School website 2009). The...
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...Letter from a Very Concerned American Parent - Response Required. ANY LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT. P.O. Box 12345. Any Town, U.S.A. 54321. Re: Excessive Multi-Cultural and Diversity Awareness Programs / Celebrations. To: The Superintendent, Your Local School District. My wife and I once again received a handout from my son's elementary school concerning a non-American study project. This one concerns a week devoted to study of the Mexican Era. It asks for volunteers to help out with a culminating classroom "celebration of all things Mexican." Although my wife, Kim, and I often volunteer to assist with school functions for our children, we will NOT be volunteering for this one, or any other school function centered on non-American subject matter. Bottom line…we've had it with the onslaught of multi-cultural and diversity awareness programs being shoved down the throats of children in this school district. Before you label us racist, or right-wing religious fanatics, or homophobic, or whatever is currently en vogue to defend the Any Local School District agenda this week, I will ABSOLUTELY DENY YOU the opportunity. I defended democracy and freedom for fifteen years in the Air Force, flying hundreds of missions over hostile territory in combat conditions. I worked closely with people of every conceivable race or racial mix you can imagine. I trusted my life to them, and them to me. Not once did we put our tails on the line so my children would be deluged with Mexican, African...
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...The school I had the pleasure of doing my Practicum is Stephen Foster Elementary School. The school consists of about 600 students and 75 faculty members. Thirty of these are teachers and the rest are administration, teachers’ aides, or parent volunteers. The demographics of the entire school is fifty percent Hispanic, twenty percent white, and thirty percent black. My Clinical Educator’s name is Christine Leffel and she is the 4th grade team leader and she has worked in the school for eleven years. The school FCAT grade is amazing; they are an A school. All teachers must arrive at school at 7:30 am and leave at 3:00 pm. As far as I am told the teachers must abide by these rules with no exceptions. Stephen Foster seems like a great school with good morals, exceptional teachers and well rounded students. The school is in the processes of expanding and building new buildings to replace the old ones. The classroom I have been placed in is located in one of the newest buildings; the class had the opportunity to move into the new building less than two weeks ago. I am working with a lovely fourth grade classroom whose race and ethnicity vary. The classroom consists of twenty students; twelve Hispanic, four black, and four white. The class consists of seven girls and thirteen boys. Amazingly, the class has most of their specials on a weekly basis. Math, Art, and Physical education are given weekly; while Spanish and Music are given to the students on a bi-weekly basis. The students...
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...The novel that I chose to study is called Shattered. This novel is a fiction novel. The author of the novel is Eric Walters. He is a former Elementary school teacher and a retired Canadian solider. Eric Walters has written over forty best-selling novels, which includes the novel Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. The story line takes place in the city, mainly in the alleys, park and a soup kitchen. The main types of characters in the story are a homeless guy, a rich kid, and the guy who runs the soup kitchen. There are three main characters, Mac, he is the soup kitchen director and he lived on the streets himself. Jacques who is a retired military person who served in Rwanda, and he is homeless and has a drinking problem. Ian is the rich kid who lives in the suburbs. Mac knows Jacques from the soup kitchen, Ian knows Jacques from the park. Mac knows Ian from the soup kitchen. Ian needed to do forty hours of volunteer work to pass his civics class at school. He decided that he would go and volunteer at a soup kitchen. When Ian was walking through the park on his way to the soup kitchen he got jumped by a couple of guys. Jacques ended up coming to rescue him and this is where their friendship began. Jacque was a retired military solider who became an alcoholic and ended up living on the streets. He became an alcoholic because he couldn`t get the ``mindless killing`` out of his head .The drinking made it easier. Ian and Jacques spent a lot of time...
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...This week I conducted an interview at Wilson Elementary School, here on Fort Benning, GA. The interview was unique to me because this school is primarily focused on serving military families. The elementary school caters to students in Pre-kindergarten up to fifth grade. I was able to conduct an interview with Mrs. Shelly Moore, a fourth grade teacher at the school. The teaching profession at Wilson Elementary School, Fort Benning, GA is a host of diverse attributes that make teaching professionally demanding. It is important as a teacher to have skills that allow for problem solving. Mrs. Moore explained the teacher’s most difficult daily decision making task as, 1) having parental involvement, 2) making changes to work, 3) having a disciplined classroom, 4) setting goals, and 5) children being held back. Parental involvement comes with its own set of issues as expressed by the teacher I interviewed. Many parents fail to return correspondence, make sure that they have sent in money within the allotted time frame, take the time to volunteer or donate supplies, as well as something as basic as helping their child with their homework. It becomes an issue of how to resolve the issues without punishing the students and at the same time not coddling the parent. Teachers are faced with the reality of resolving the issues in the best way that will benefit all parties I would personally find it extremely difficult to allow some children to do without the tools that are necessary...
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...postulated that paradigms are discrete and culturally based (Shuttleworth, 2008). Sergiovanni identified the cultural leader is one who can focus the minds of the membership of a school organization on collectively held values, symbols, and beliefs (Razik & Swanson, 2010). Paradigms are beliefs that one has because of many internal and external influences. In an educational setting, or any common setting, people share the similar beliefs that shape paradigms of the institution. In an educational setting, it means that a paradigm is the framework used in the day to day operations of the school and its leaders. Every individual’s paradigm is solely based on the ideals and beliefs of that person. These beliefs are what shape and drive the success or Following are the paradigms used to evaluate the learning environment of Day Spring Elementary School. Belief (Paradigm) | Opposite Belief(Opposite Paradigm) | All students possess some form of intelligence.This paradigm is practiced through differentiated instruction, and exercises to discover students’ strengths | Students possess no form of intelligence.This opposite paradigm is practiced through failure to teach, or any attempt to engage students in learning | Students learn best in a safe environment.This paradigm is practiced through school security, and firm discipline that is fair and equal to all students. | Students learn best when in a dangerous environment.This opposite paradigm is practiced through lack of security...
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...currently have a project in mind that might benefit both the library and your students. We want to update our logo to more accurately reflect the wide variety of services offered in a modern library. A logo contest would be a great idea. Call me at (805) 5551011 to discuss this further. I have attached a list of library activities to give the students an idea of some of the things we do. Sincerely, Douglas Hopkins, Director Book Discussion Groups There are several different book discussion groups, all led by volunteer moderators from the community. Some discussion groups focus on different types of books, such as biographies, history, fiction, classics, science and technology, and Spanish language literature. Computer Training Computer training is offered in the the computer lab of the main branch only. The following classes are offered once a month and others are offered intermittently: * Introduction to Computers * Microsoft Word * Microsoft Excel * Adobe Photoshop * Windows XP and Vista * Using the Internet Speakers and Performers The library brings in noted authors once a month for an ongoing lecture series. Folk singers, small jazz ensembles, and other musical groups perform in the Hawken Community Room as they can be booked. Bookmobile A second bookmobile has been added, and routes are displayed on the library website. Bookmobiles visit each school in the district at least once a week. Story Time Story time is available in the Hawken...
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