Sentences with phrase «city community learning»

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As a result, the city is now serving as a role model for other cities and communities around the country to learn from and replicate as they seek to ensure equity.

«Many expats think that learning a few vocabulary words and learning to navigate the new city or eating local cuisine means we've adapted, but living cross-culturally requires much deeper exploration of the values and beliefs of the local community.»

Read the City of Zion weekly reports to learn about development progress and other community initiatives.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

Once this congregation was group of German immigrants living in what was then farmland across the river from New York City» that was over a hundred years ago» and the primary goal seemed simply to keep the struggling congregation from folding, at another time the chief task seemed racial integration, at another outreach into the community, at another service to the community and social action, at another learning to worship God in Spanish.

On top of testing their faith, the plant has also been a steep learning curve for the couple — settling their young children into a new city, forming a fledgling church community and learning how to lead together.

To do this we must undertake the collective task of learning how a city can be a community.

Neumark is the founder of The Sylvia Center, which holds year - round programs in schools and New York City Housing Authority community centers to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands - on learning experiences on the farm and in the kitchen.

Paul will discuss grit, character, and How Children Succeed with David Levin, co-founder of KIPP, and Dominic Randolph, head of the Riverdale Country School, at the Jewish Community Center in New York City as part of the JCC's Learning Matters conversation series hosted by John Merrow.

Students will increase their skills and learn new ones by participating in single and double matches at Garden City Community Park.

In addition to revamping stores, Best Buy has also made a community commitment by becoming lead sponsor for the Chicago City of Learning program.

They also learn to read and compose music, and all students begin private lessons by the fourth grade with the help from the city's music community.

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Even if you live in the middle of a busy city, it's important for toddlers to learn about farm animals from an early age so they can have a better understanding of the community that surrounds them.

Brad brings the values he learned as a community organizer to the City Council.

Any residents that are interested in participating or learning more about the city committee please email [email protected] Residents from surrounding communities are welcome to participate with us.

«Lead poisoning causes permanent damage including loss of I.Q., developmental delays, learning disabilities, memory loss, hearing loss, attention deficits, hyperactivity, and behavioral disorders,» said the report, prepared for a consortium that includes the city, Erie County and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.

Chess in the Schools has been teaching and empowering more than a half - million students in the most underserved communities throughout New York City, since 1986, helping students learn to use chess as an educational tool to promote learning and critical thinking.

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

Noting the union's role in creating new models for educational success, Mulgrew shared details of his recent trip to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he, City Comptroller John Liu, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and delegates from the UFT's six community learning schools in its pilot program spoke to Cincinnati educators about the unique community schools model they have pioneered.

The Leadership Council as follows: Adrienne Adams (Queens Community Board 12); Rhonda Binda (Jamaica Center BID); Brian Browne (St. John's University); Ricardi Calixte (Queens Economic Development Corporation); Tonya Cantlo - Cockfield (Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning); Clive Dawkins (Property Owner); Kevin J. Forrestal (Queens Community Board 8); Deepmalya Gosh (The Child Center of New York); Glenn Greenidge (Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District); Michael Griffith (New York City Department of Transportation) Tyrel Hankerson (Resident); Ian Harris (Community Board 12); Howard Hecht (Community Member); Cathy Hung (Jamaica Center for Arts ad Learning / Jamaica Performing Arts Center); Derek Irby (165th Street Mall Improvement Association); Bilal Karriem (Queens Community Board 12); Malikka Karteron (Resident); Philippa Karteron (Resident); Michele Keller (Queens Community Board 12); Tameka Pierre - Louis (Civic Leader); Justin Rogers (Greater Jamaica Development Corporation); Pierina Ana Sanchez (Regional Plan Association); Aaron Schwartz (Commercial Property Owner); Earl Simons (York College); Nakita Vanstory (LaGuardia Community College - Justice Community Program); Bernard Warren (Jamaica YMCA); Richard Werber (King Manor Museum); Jonathan White (Community Member); Montgomery Wilkinson (Resident); Nadezhda Williams (Community Based Organization) and Tajuana Hamm (Designee for NYS Senator James Sanders, Jr.).

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

At 1 p.m., Assemblywoman Barbara Clark, Sen. Leroy Comrie, Rep. Greg Meeks, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, City Council members, minority advocates and other community, government, political and religious officials are scheduled to participate in an MLK Day event featuring a keynote presentation by NY1 anchorwoman Cheryl Wills; Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, 161 - 04 Jamaica Ave., Queens.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on March 16 urged City Council members to put additional money in next year's city budget to support the programs that help teachers help students: Community Learning Schools, the Positive Learning Collaborative and Teacher's ChoCity Council members to put additional money in next year's city budget to support the programs that help teachers help students: Community Learning Schools, the Positive Learning Collaborative and Teacher's Chocity budget to support the programs that help teachers help students: Community Learning Schools, the Positive Learning Collaborative and Teacher's Choice.

BEDFORD - STUYVESANT — The city is expanding its network of «community» schools, where high - needs students are given extra supports like mental and physical health services, as well as longer school days for expanded learning time and social services for their families, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.

I also represented this area as a City Councillor between 2008 to 2011 and learned community politics.

New York City Council members attending the UFT's May 3 legislative breakfast heard why it's important to continue supporting five of the UFT's signature programs: Teacher's Choice, the Community Learning Schools Initiative, the Positive Learning Collaborative, the BRAVE anti-bullying program and the Dial - a-Teacher homework helpline.

The Rochester Education Foundation is an independent organization whose mission is to provide programs and resources to improve learning and success for all Rochester city public school students through partnerships with educators, business and the community.

«Students across our city deserve a safe learning environment, no matter what community they come from or where they attend school,» said Mark - Viverito, but like all her colleagues she refused to clarify what has suddenly changed that mandates the government now stepping in where it never has before.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew on March 16 urged Council members to put additional money in next year's city budget to support the programs that help teachers help students: Community Learning Schools, the Positive Learning Collaborative and Teacher's Choice.

Miliband talks about defending local communities; about learning the lessons of an over-managerial state; and about Labour's failures in regulating the City.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

The tech fair, organized by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, Community School District 6 and City College to help local students to learn more about careers in STEM, will also include companies like BMW, Con Edison, Major League Baseball, New York Life and Spectrum.

At the time, Mayor Kathy Sheehan said: «We learn when we listen and sometimes a community has ideas that are far better than anything that we can come up with in a conference room in city hall.»

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

We believe that education is a human right and we want to ensure that New York City public schools are places of learning in which all stakeholders (parents, students, educators, non-pedagogical staff, administrators and the community) are engaged in a democratic process to provide a free and quality education to all its students, from Pre-school to College.

«Since I came to Syracuse two years ago, I have truly learned how much Syracuse University means to this city and community.

He said that this achievement is not only one for the Muslim community but the entire city as it helps other students learn about another culture.

Among the goals cited by Thompson, a former head of the Board of Education, were expanding the city's prekindergarten programs and the number of Community Learning Schools, an initiative that was launched by the UFT.

Finally, we also seek to expand and enhance the UFT's Community Learning Schools Initiative, which we launched five years ago with the help of the City Council, the Partnership for New York City, Trinity Wall Street and Senate Coalition Leader Jeff Klein.

The UFT began its Community Learning Schools Initiative in 2012 as a way to help schools overcome the academic, social and emotional barriers that poverty creates for too many New York City students.

Learn how tapping into community can get you connected and make you the Go - to Private Yoga Teacher in your city.

I am from the largest city in Kansas, Wichita, and I learned so much about the importance of building a community of tight - knit, ride - or - die, friends that have your back regardless of any situation.

New York City About Blog Voices of Youth is UNICEF's global online community for young people who want to learn more about issues affecting their world.

A struggling family that's determined to make a better life for themselves in one of America's most idyllic cities is learning the hard way that the affluent community isn't as glamorous as they initially believed.

Students from across the city can access this unique programme through both Brighton Aldridge Community Academy and Portslade Aldridge Community Academy, and learn from a curriculum which is representative of the diversity of this vibrant industry.

magazine hosted a videoconference this spring in HGSE's Learning Technologies Center with five national leaders in education: Mitchell Chester, Ed.D.» 91, Assistant Superintendent for Accountability, Ohio Department of Education; Karen Mapp, Ed.D.» 99, Deputy Superintendent for Family and Community Engagement, Boston Public Schools; William Moloney, Ed.D.» 79, Colorado Commissioner of Education; Jennifer O'Day, Ed.D.» 73, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research; and Manuel Rivera, Ed.D.» 94, Superintendent, Rochester (NY) City School District.

Summit Prep in Redwood City, California, uses a variety of activities in the weekly, 90 - minute Habits, Community, and Culture (HCC) class, where students learn Habits of Success and develop social and emotional learning (SEL) skills.

Launched in Boston a decade ago, the City Year program continues to be one of the best efforts in the nation aimed at providing young people with hands - on opportunities to engage in community - service work — and to grow and learn in the process.

«It's been the complex cocktail of an organization getting better at teaching and learning, and a community, a city, that has really aligned itself to support that work,» says Henderson.