Sentences with phrase «learning center project»

Two of the fastest - growing trends in online education converge in the Performance Learning Center project, which is why I called Communities in Schools, a nonprofit dropout - prevention program that devised the model in Georgia in 2002.

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To that end, Lockheed Martin has partnered with Project Lead the Way, an education - centered nonprofit that brings real - world STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math)- related learning opportunities to K - 12 students across the country.

Welby was at the center to learn about reconciliation projects between Jews and Arabs.

Friends of religious freedom — and even those not so friendly to it who wish to learn more about it — will enjoy a public conversation on the subject next week at Georgetown University, where the Religious Freedom Project of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs will....

After visiting the Institute, the group traveled to Penn State University's Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center near State College, PA to learn about the Cover Crop Cocktails project and Reduced Tillage Organic Systems Experiment.

Sonoma State University Wine Spectator Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with classrooms and outdoor space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...

Moving the location of the recreation center proposed for Yunker Farm might make the project more palatable to the village of Mokena, a Park District committee learned late last week.

Moving the recreation center proposed for Yunker Farm might make the project more palatable to the village of Mokena, a Park District committee learned last week.

Networking & Dinner 6:30 PM — 7:00 PM Welcome Reception Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM Keynote Address Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences & Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Ridge Family Center for Learning, at 650 Ridge Ave., Elk Grove Village, will open after completion of a $ 6 million renovation project, Barbara Zabroske, Ridge principal, told the district's Board of Education Monday night.

Tuesday, Collins said he learned about what he called a stalled project at the V.A. Medical Center in Canandaigua.

We had been closely reviewing this complicated project — even touring a center in Philadelphia to learn more — and were making progress with stakeholders when The Salvation Army decided against moving forward with the project.

On November 1, come to the River Masquerade, a family art project, to make a mask or costume to wear in a parade of river life celebrating the Hudson, (free with admission to the grounds), in the Kerlin Learning Center at Wave Hill, located at West 249th Street and Independence Avenue, from 1 to 4 p.m.. For more information, call [phone] or visit their website here.

Kayli volunteers in the community, helping with events such as Empty Bowls (benefitting the HACA Food Pantry) and participating in service learning projects such as aiding in the refurbishing of the Community Center.

As one of the first «learning together» projects, Kenney is working with Andy Fellows, the former mayor of College Park, Maryland (now affiliated with the University of Maryland iSchool and the National Center for Smart Growth).

Cari F. Herrmann Abell, Ph.D., joined AAAS Project 2061 in 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Curriculum Materials in Science and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K - 12 science learning goals.

Cari F. Herrmann Abell, Ph.D., joined AAAS Project 2061 in 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow for the Center for Curriculum Materials in Science and is currently a senior research associate contributing to the development of curriculum and assessment resources aligned to K — 12 science learning goals.

«Neutrinos are very interesting — they're the second most abundant particle in the universe after photons yet we still have much to learn about them,» commented Evan Grohs, who earned his Ph.D. through UCSD for the work, while working on the project in the Center for Space and Earth Sciences at Los Alamos.

Federal funders that have made significant investments include the National Science Foundation, through its Science of Learning Centers program, which offers awards for large - scale centers dedicated to the science of learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to edLearning Centers program, which offers awards for large - scale centers dedicated to the science of learning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to edlearning, and the Department of Education's Institute for Education Sciences, which funds neuroscience projects related to education.

In taking a game - based and playful approach to learning, we created an intervention that was not only effective, but also one in which the children were engaged and wanted continue doing,» said Bruce Homer, associate professor of educational psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a Project Hope investigator.

Dean Pesnell, project scientist for SDO at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., explained why Comet ISON wasn't visible in SDO and what could be learned from that: SDO is tuned to see wavelengths of light that would indicate the presence of oxygen, which is very common in comets.

It was Curbelo's willingness to disengage from his party's climate positions that prompted the fifth - grade letter - writing project at Gateway Environmental Learning Center in Homestead, Fla..

Science caught up with Charles Sobeck, deputy project manager for Kepler at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, to learn more about what happened to the spacecraft and what lies in store for it.

A multimodal learning system is also beginning to emerge: instructor - centered learning, which is the traditional approach, but with technology that helps the teacher mediate the delivery of courseware and instruction; pupil - centered learning, in which the student uses Internet resources to expand learning experiences; and collaborative learning, in which the student and others on the Internet work together on cross-disciplinary projects concerning open - ended problems.

When a permanent lectureship in project management became available at Northumbria University, Hope applied, encouraged by his partner and motivated by a desire to teach the people - centered skills he had learned from his private and public sector management experiences.

«As the Baylor - Johns Hopkins Center for Mendelian Genomics enters year three of our four year grant, we have found new learning opportunities with each phenotype,» said Shalini Jhangiani, senior project manager in the Human Genome Sequencing Center and a co-author on the study.

She also felt that future mass - fatality managers, whether identifying victims of natural disasters, war crimes or acts of terrorism, could learn from the data collected and methods refined in the World Trade Center Victim Identification Project.

Abbeel is leading the project with fellow UC Berkeley faculty member Trevor Darrell, the director of the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center.

Plans to expand Michigan Medicine's Clinical Simulation Center, an innovative instructional learning laboratory used to train health care professionals, took a step forward today with U-M Board of Regents approval of the project's proposed budget and design plans.

Learn more about DNA barcoding and how the DNALC has implemented student - centered research in New York City through the Urban Barcode Project and on Long Island through the Barcode Long Island pProject and on Long Island through the Barcode Long Island projectproject.

We spoke with Dr. John Mather, a senior project scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to learn more.

TOKYO, April 19, 2018 — Fujitsu has significantly boosted the performance of RAIDEN (Riken AIp Deep learning ENvironment), a computer system for artificial intelligence research it had originally deployed in 2017 to the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP Center), the AI research arm of RIKEN.

From the Human Genome Project, we have learned that teamwork really pays off when it comes to scientific discovery,» said Dr. Collins, who noted that over the past five years, the MIT, Washington University and Baylor centers were major participants in the highly successful public effort to sequence, assemble and analyze the genomes of the human and several other organisms commonly used in biomedical research.

Her research project at the GRID Lab, which is affiliated with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE), investigated how learning to use a BCI affects connectivity in the brain beyond the BCI implantation site.

At the Duke Center for Neuroengineering, the INNF is supporting a revolutionary project to understand the neural mechanisms underlying the onset of disease by recording the neuronal activity of brain structures controlling movement, sleep, and learning and memory.

Learn more about six innovative research projects underway at the Cancer Center thanks to money raised by the community at this year's Prouty.

This project will present many windows to your work and engage you in a learning community beyond the walls of the Science Center.

Sylvia speaks, writes, and advocates for student - centered, project - based learning, gender equity in technology, computer programming, and life - long learning.

At this award - winning kindergarten learning center, shared with a special education preschool, the students decide what projects they want to tackle, and teachers guide them to resources, on the Internet and in books, that help them create something from what they learn.

Emphasizing creativity, technology - enabled learning, project - based intellectual adventures, and social / emotional intelligences, Education Nation encompasses the well - being of the whole child and the major shift to student - centered learning.

An increasing number of schools and programs are embracing this notion by promoting project - based learning and community - centered initiatives.

The community centers were designed in part to provide meeting spaces for Project IF mentors and tutors and will also feature computer learning centers,...

In a service - learning unit, goals are clearly defined, and according to The Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement, there are many kinds of projects that classrooms calearning unit, goals are clearly defined, and according to The Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement, there are many kinds of projects that classrooms caLearning and Civic Engagement, there are many kinds of projects that classrooms can adopt.

While 21st - century pedagogy puts group projects and collaborative learning at center stage for students, these cooperative habits have not yet assumed such a prominent role for teachers.

For instance, I am co-principal investigator on the IES - funded Center for Standards, Alignment, Instruction, and Learning, and one of our main projects is a longitudinal study of NAEP data to understand the impact of «college - and career - readiness standards» on student achievement.

Drawing on research from Project Zero's Agency by Design project, this course offers classroom teachers, maker educators, administrators, and parents an opportunity to explore firsthand maker - centered learning practices and the opportunities they Project Zero's Agency by Design project, this course offers classroom teachers, maker educators, administrators, and parents an opportunity to explore firsthand maker - centered learning practices and the opportunities they project, this course offers classroom teachers, maker educators, administrators, and parents an opportunity to explore firsthand maker - centered learning practices and the opportunities they afford.

After about a decade in the French diplomatic service, he joined the OECD and founded there in 1999, within the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) the project entitled «Brain Research and Learning Sciences,» which brought together experts from almost 50 different countries and is considered a seminal work in the field of educational neuroscience.

Project Zero's 13 - week online, coach - facilitated course offerings — among them Creating Cultures of Thinking: Learning to Leverage the Eight Forces that Shape the Culture of Groups, Classrooms, and Schools; Multiple Intelligences: Expanding Our Perspectives to Support All Learners; Thinking and Learning in the Maker - Centered Classroom — are grounded in day - to - day teaching and leadership practice.

Inquiry and project - based learning (PBL) are tools that help me decentralize my classroom and allow student work, ideas, and creations to take center stage.