Sentences with phrase «learning schools initiative»

In addition to vision services, the center will offer medical, dental and mental health services to area public school students as part of the UFT's Community Learning Schools initiative.

State legislators addressed members at the convention center just before the educators fanned out to lobby their local elected officials to call for an increase in school funding, more Teacher Centers, an end to the charter equity gap and further expansion of the Community Learning Schools initiative.

Photo: State Senator Jeff Klein, with UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Community Learning Schools Initiatives Director Karen Alford (from left to right), announces $ 1.5 million for Community Learning Schools at the International School of Liberal Arts in Kingsbridge.

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More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Brooklyn's schools chancellor Carmen Fariña and borough president Eric Adams announced the initiative on Monday, underlining the fact that schools are the perfect place to learn lifelong lessons about nutrition and the environment.

Over the course of 2008 - 09, 42 fathers, grandfathers and other male carers in County Durham joined in with a local initiative to get family men more involved in their children's learning — during the children's transition from St Helen Auckland Children's Centre and local nurseries to starting «big school» at St Helen Auckland Primary Sschool» at St Helen Auckland Primary SchoolSchool.

«Kids shouldn't spend the first few weeks of school this fall relearning the same concepts they learned the previous school year because of brain drain,» said Bryan Wunar, the Museum's director of community initiatives.

Enjoy snacks, learn about CSAs and farming, explore beekeeping, and learn how WSB is leading the way on green school initiatives.

Co-sponsored by JOFF and Food Day, the initiative aims to make schools the place for children to learn about food, where it comes from and how it affects their bodies.

Nicole Zumpano, the instructional technology coach at Coonley Elementary School, has introduced coding to her kindergarten through fifth - grade students through Chicago Public Schools» participation in the national CSforAll initiative to help all students learn computer science.

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In her article, Ragalie stressed the whole - child approach to health that is reinforced by the values of the learning connection: «With American children spending more than 2,000 hours in school each year, it's clear that in - school wellness initiatives (e.g., Fuel Up to Play 60) and alternate school breakfast programs, can be an engine for positive change to help achieve wellness goals, including being a part of the solution to overcome food insecurity.»

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Healthy Schools BC Regional Grants aim to build regional capacity amongst health, education and community partners to collaboratively work through new approaches and designs for learning (such as the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework, Spiral of Inquiry and innovative prototyping) for district / group - level initiatives that are directly related to mental well learning (such as the Healthy Schools BC Learning Framework, Spiral of Inquiry and innovative prototyping) for district / group - level initiatives that are directly related to mental well Learning Framework, Spiral of Inquiry and innovative prototyping) for district / group - level initiatives that are directly related to mental well - being.

Preference will be given to applications that address the whole school environment with actions across interrelated learning areas or that link to community initiatives.

Register now for this webinar to learn about the benefits and impact of farm - to - school, salad bars, and breakfast initiatives on consumption and waste.

Some are critical of social and emotional learning initiatives within a classroom setting, arguing that schools are not an appropriate venue for emotional education.

The Association also discussed with President Mahama some projects and initiatives of the Association to improve infrastructure and the learning environment of the School.

«John's history as a community leader will further engage and educate the community on the brand new Connect Kids initiative, which involves free access to all fourth - grade students and their families, free field trips for eligible schools, free Learn to Swim lessons for children, the youth conservation corps and various outdoor recreational programs.

She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

The Education Enrichment Fund (EEF) Advisory Committee invites applications for mini-grants of up to $ 1,000 to support initiatives that enrich student learning, instructional programs and learning tools, encourage innovative professional development, and promote the standard of excellence in the Niskayuna Central School District.

«New York is learning what happens when the Mayor prioritizes his personal national ambitions over running New York: crime is on the rise, public schools are still failing our children, and Bill de Blasio's signature initiative, Vision Zero, isn't working,» Laska said in a statement.

The event, on the theme: «Let Girls Learn», is an initiative of Mrs Obama which was launched a year ago with President Obama to marshal the resources and political will to address the range of issues preventing adolescent girls from going to school.

As the state focuses on fiscal and budgetary matters in Rockland County's troubled East Ramapo school district, former monitor Monica George - Fields said the teaching and learning initiatives laid out last school year also need to be a priority.

On Monday at 1 p.m. in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams «will launch Code Brooklyn, his initiative to give every public school student in Brooklyn the opportunity to learn how to code.»

He appealed for additional funding for three programs and initiatives he said could accomplish that: Teacher's Choice, the Positive Learning Collaborative and Community Learning Schools.

«When I arrived in Buffalo, I was pleased to learn of Buffalo State's impressive record of collaboration with the Buffalo Public Schools in several areas, including many STEM initiatives,» said Buffalo State President Katherine Conway - Turner.

The City Council declined to allocate funding for the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint initiative of the union and the DOE that supports schools in creating a positive learning enviLearning Collaborative, a joint initiative of the union and the DOE that supports schools in creating a positive learning envilearning environment.

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

The budget also includes money for several education innovations championed by the governor, among them $ 15 million for Community Learning Schools, an initiative led by the UFT that transforms schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other seSchools, an initiative led by the UFT that transforms schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other seschools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other services.

Other initiatives announced were a project to widen New Paltz's South Putt Corners Road in the vicinity of New Paltz High School and a new county hotline and website — www.ulsterhelps.org — to assist those victimized by sexual harassment learn about their rights and the resources available to them.

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.

Four years later, UFT Community Learning Schools (CLS) are helping students succeed, with the schools in the CLS initiative the longest showing the most academic Schools (CLS) are helping students succeed, with the schools in the CLS initiative the longest showing the most academic schools in the CLS initiative the longest showing the most academic growth.

«The Enterprise Tuesday initiative attracts some 250 to 400 people to its weekly evening lectures, depending on the subject and speaker,» says Shailendra Vyakarnam, director of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning in the school.

Few would argue that video games can do it all in terms of education, says Scot Osterweil, a research director in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies program and creative director of the school's Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote learning.

In this U.S. Department of Energy initiative, middle - schoolers try hands - on demonstrations, learn about how the scientists got their start, and find out what they are currently working on.

As an initiative, the school has established a branch in the very capital, Tehran, where yoga enthusiast from all over the country are welcome to learn and train under brilliant teachers of Yoga.

I'm working on a teaching & learning initiative that combines old school neuroscience with some pretty fancy cutting edge tools, including 3D printing.

New York About Blog Opera Teens is a national initiative to empower high - schoolers to pursue their interests in opera, share opera learning with others and leverage the power of opera to serve local communities.

Chapel Hill, NC About Blog The Walking Classroom is an in - school fitness initiative and educational tool that addresses different learning styles.

For two years running, the Dulux Smarter Spaces initiative has been championing a movement to improve education environments, supporting schools to achieve better learning outcomes through the power of effective use of colour and design.

A competition has been launched to celebrate the initiative, which will see one primary school and one secondary school each win a # 10,000 colour and design transformation to revitalise their learning environment.

API members have played an important part in delivering Sport England's Primary Spaces initiative which has seen outdoor facilities improved in hundreds of primary schools to provide new spaces for games, PE, sport, outdoor learning and play.

Between 1991 and 2007, the Washington, D.C. - based Center for American Progress found that more than 300 initiatives across 30 states had expanded learning time, primarily in high - poverty and high - minority schools.

He also continues trying out new strategies through his Lighthouse Schools, a group of schools that pilot new technology devices and initiatives, like a tech - driven personalized learning program, before they are implemented in all schools throughout the diSchools, a group of schools that pilot new technology devices and initiatives, like a tech - driven personalized learning program, before they are implemented in all schools throughout the dischools that pilot new technology devices and initiatives, like a tech - driven personalized learning program, before they are implemented in all schools throughout the dischools throughout the district.

Students are gaining direct experience of sustainability through a wide range of school - based «learning by doing» ESD initiatives that have been introduced in a number of countries.

This is not merely a journalistic pursuit, however, as Salopek and his partners at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education have created Out of Eden Learn, an initiative to introduce educators and young learners to Salopek's walk, facilitate crosscultural inquiry, and — hopefully — help bridge the divides between cultures.

Schools are being asked to sign up for the initiative, which will allow pupils to use Discovery Education Espresso's digital learning service at home over the long summer break.

School choice programs which allow parents to select the schools their children attend deepen educational inequality and fail to yield consistent learning gains, according to nine studies of choice initiatives coordinated by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.