Sentences with phrase «level reading campaign»

We also appreciate the report's spotlight on efforts of communities in the Grade Level Reading Campaign to improve school attendance in the early years in Iowa.

Recently, I have been invited to serve on the Board of the New Britain Grade - Level Reading Campaign, a funded program in collaboration with the Annie E. Casey Grade Level Reading Campaign, the Connecticut Center for School Change, the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, and the Connecticut Department of Education to ensure that all students in New Britain are reading at grade level by the end of grade 3, and the Welcome to My World Autism - a support group for parents with children with autism.

Not exact matches

2 July 2014: Have a read of this... Baby Milk Action and its IBFAN partners work at grassroots level (monitoring companies, organising campaigns, responding to emergencies), national level (working for laws to hold corporations to account) and international level.

It IS, after all, the most comprehensive guide to Barack Obama's 2008 online campaign I know of, and required reading in undergrad and graduate - level communications classes at universities across the country.

Your email list is community at a basic level, since people do tend to identify with sites that send them information frequently (bitter as I am, I have a soft spot for several sites that have been sending me newsletters for years, even though I rarely read them) or for campaigns under whose auspices they've sent email or faxes to Congress or other decision - makers.

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The statement read in part, «Senator Boroffice believes the divisive campaign is fueled by undemocratic forces in the garb of progressives and the main target is to deter and discourage teeming members of our great party, APC from effectively participating in the elective congresses at the ward, local government and state levels.

Deborah is also a member of the National Advisory Committee on Ending Chronic Absence for the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading and an advisory board member for the National Center for Research on Gifted Education.

Partners Read is a nationally recognized program with the National Campaign for Grade - Level Reading.

Featuring: Jitu Brown (National Director, Journey for Justice Alliance), Yolie Flores (Senior Fellow, Campaign for Grade - Level Reading), Sue Swenson (Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education).

Dyslexia and the Quest for Grade Level Reading On Feb. 25, 2013, the Tremaine Foundation and Campaign for Grade - Level Reading hosted a national policy briefing in Washington, D.C., on dyslexia and the quest for grade - level reading proficiLevel Reading On Feb. 25, 2013, the Tremaine Foundation and Campaign for Grade - Level Reading hosted a national policy briefing in Washington, D.C., on dyslexia and the quest for grade - level reading profiReading On Feb. 25, 2013, the Tremaine Foundation and Campaign for Grade - Level Reading hosted a national policy briefing in Washington, D.C., on dyslexia and the quest for grade - level reading proficiLevel Reading hosted a national policy briefing in Washington, D.C., on dyslexia and the quest for grade - level reading profiReading hosted a national policy briefing in Washington, D.C., on dyslexia and the quest for grade - level reading proficilevel reading profireading proficiency.

Ralph Smith from the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading brought the conference to a close with words of wisdom: «Schools have got to do better with the kids they have, not the kids they wish they had.»

126 superintendents from California districts have signed on to the attendance Call to Action issued by Attendance Works and the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading.

The California Department of Education, the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading and Attendance Works hosted a webinar Nov. 4 at 3 p.m. PT spotlighting the work of California principals who have led their schools and communities to do the hard work of reducing chronic absence.

In 2012, Grand Rapids was one of five communities nationwide to be awarded the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading's Pacesetter Award for Attendance.

Join the California Department of Education, the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading and Attendance Works as they highlight the work of principals who have made a difference in reducing chronic absence and raising student achievement.

Join the California Department of Education, the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading and Attendance Works as they spotlight the work of principals who have led their schools and communities to do the hard work of reducing chronic absence.

Presenters: Eric Glaser, Director, U.S. Network Impact, United Way Worldwide; Brittany Moore, Manager, Alliance Engagement, America's Promise Alliance; Mark Bishop, Vice President of Policy, Healthy Schools Campaign; Yolie Flores, Senior Fellow, Campaign for Grade - Level Reading; Gordon Jackson, Director, Coordinated Student Support Division, California Department of Education; Jill Habig, Special Assistant Attorney General for California Attorney General Kamala Harris; Sharon Lee, Director, Office of Multiple Pathways, Rhode Island Department of Education; Rebecca Boxx, Director, Providence Children and Youth Cabinet, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University; Terry Haven, Deputy Director, Voices for Utah Children; Lisa Wisham, Education Specialist, 21st Century Community Learning, Centers, Utah State Department of Education; Susan Loving, Transition Specialist, Utah State Department of Education; and from Attendance Works: Hedy Chang, Director; Cecelia Leong, Associate Director; Phyllis Jordan, Communications Lead.

This video, produced by The Campaign for Grade Level Reading, highlights the challenges students from under resourced communities face, including due to a lack of summer learning opportunities.

In addition to meeting ESSA accountability requirements, the inclusion of chronic absence in state accountability rubrics also provides real opportunities for states, districts and philanthropists to achieve the goals of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, to increase the number of children from low - income families reading proficiently at the end of thirdReading, to increase the number of children from low - income families reading proficiently at the end of thirdreading proficiently at the end of third grade.

They put a stake in the ground around third - grade reading and made some «big bets» to improve the odds for early school success,» said Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Rreading and made some «big bets» to improve the odds for early school success,» said Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level ReadingReading.

It also features the school district's implementation of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading approach to attendance as a strategy to help all of their students get to school every day.

Ralph Smith, managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, a collaborative effort of political, education, business and advocacy leaders to close the nation's literacy gap, said «We shouldn't be at all surprised by the NAEP scores... we can point to nothing substantial in terms of interventions or programs that would have made that number different.»

Therefore, in the 2015 - 2016 school year Val Verde had a district - wide focus on students in grades TK - 5 as part of a campaign to get all students reading at grade - level by 3rd grade.

The Campaign focuses on an important predictor of school success and high school graduation — grade - level reading by the end of third grade.

In the YouTube video «The Statisticks Lottery,» Morgan Freeman narrates claims from The Campaign for Grade Level Reading.

-- Ralph Smith, Managing Director, The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading

The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading is a collaborative effort by foundations, nonprofit partners, business leaders, government agencies, states, and communities across the nation to ensure that more children in low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career, and active citizenship.

Attendance Works and the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, February 2014.

America's Promise Alliance, Attendance Works, the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, Everyone Graduates Center, Get Schooled, Healthy Schools Campaign, the Institute for Educational Leadership, Mentor, Points of Light and United Way Worldwide invite you to join us for the sixth year of the Attendance Awareness Campaign, which designates September as Attendance Awareness Month.

Similarly, in addition to major organizational partners (e.g., the Afterschool Alliance, the School - Based Health Alliance, the National League of Cities, the School Superintendents Association, and United Way Worldwide), the coalition works with broad national initiatives that are related to community schools, including Attendance Works, the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, the Promise Neighborhoods Institute, Partners for Each and Every Child, and the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign.

The panel highlighted efforts by the Arkansas Campaign for Grade Level Reading and Strategies for Children to advance the work to reduce chronic absenteeism.

She led the $ 15.5 million national Smarter Summers middle school literacy initiative, served on the steering committee of the Summer Matters Campaign in California, delivered technical assistance for the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading and co-developed the Summer Learning Program Quality Assessment with the David P. Weikart Center.

In addition to Siart and Flores, who is also a senior fellow at the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, the board members are Gregory McGinity, executive director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation; Maria Casillas, founder of Families in Schools; Virgil Roberts, chairman of the board of Families in Schools; Marc Sternberg, K - 12 education program director for the Walton Family Foundation, and Allison Keller, senior vice president and chief financial officer and executive director of the W.M. Keck Foundation.

While I think that explanation is a little ridiculous, one of the flaws about the freeplay mode is that you have to beat the main campaign first in order to unlock all the 33 different levels, which again brings me to the point about having a good strategy (or read a good guide).

The potential environmental impacts had raised the project to the level of a campaign talking point, largely through ferocious criticism of President Obama from the left for approving it and inventive «#ShellNo» protests as the company deployed its vessels earlier this year: Read more...

«A must read to appreciate the endless disinformation campaign by climate change deniers at the highest levels of government and corporate America... and the chilling, but serious implications of the crusade to discredit distinguished scientists like Michael Mann.»

In her current work with the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, she is the campaign state liaison for Mississippi, Michigan and NewCampaign for Grade Level Reading, she is the campaign state liaison for Mississippi, Michigan and Newcampaign state liaison for Mississippi, Michigan and New Jersey.

«Our bottom line is a sense of urgency and we know that you all feel it,» Elizabeth Burke Bryant, the executive director of Rhode Island KIDS Count, said last week at the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading's (CGLR) New England Regional meeting.

BUILD's key partners in this birth to eight approach include the Campaign for Grade Level Reading and the Alliance for Early Success formerly known as the Birth to Five Policy Alliance.

The Campaign for Grade - Level Reading, launched in May 2010, is a collaborative effort of funders, nonprofit partners, states and more than 140 communities across the nation to ensure that many more children from low - income families succeed in school and graduate prepared for college, a career and active citizenship.

«Reading is critical for all children,» said Ralph Smith, senior vice president of the Casey Foundation and managing director of the Campaign for Grade - Level Reading.