Sentences with phrase «schools campaign story»

Flipping the Classroom: Homework in Class, Lessons at Home (April, 2012) A NEA Priority Schools Campaign story «Flipping the Classroom: Homework in Class, Lessons at Home» was picked up by Ed Digest and published in its April 2012 edition.

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Speaking of stories missed, that's what today's blog post is all about — we're featuring National School Breakfast Week campaigns, blogs, and articles that inspired us, and that we wouldn't want you to miss.

She shared some creative ideas on how anti-hunger groups can help school nutrition programs through initiatives like school meal application campaigns and grant writing, and she punctuated her points with success stories from DC Hunger Solutions and DC public schools, Ohio's Children's Hunger Alliance, and Project Bread, among others.

The story features my successful Change.org petition in 2012 regarding the use of lean, finely textured beef (aka «pink slime») in school food, and goes on to discuss subsequent petition campaigns on food - related issues.

When I first broke the story here about 540 Meals, the new McDonald's documentary intended for use in schools, I could never have imagined I'd still be writing about it three weeks later - or that I'd be spearheading a 70,000 person petition campaign... [Continue reading]

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

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The budget allotment of $ 12.3 million is up from $ 9.65 million last year, thanks to the more than 1,000 UFT members who tweeted at Council members or told their stories of out - of - pocket spending on school supplies to their Council members in an email campaign.

Nyunt, a malariologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMD) in Baltimore, is visiting Sa - ka - pin to assess the extent of one of the biggest problems facing an ambitious campaign to wipe out malaria from the Mekong region (see feature story on How drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region): the number of people infected with malaria who have no symptoms.

The unique premise of a grandfather narrating the story to his grandchildren combines with the super-rewarding dungeons and boss fights to craft a solid campaign that's both cute and full of old - school fun.

What's interesting is that both these films tell stories that needed to be told, in my opinion, because you never learn anything in school or during Black History month about the Buffalo Soldiers or the African - American military campaign during World War II.

The first crime of The Campaign is that it doesn't have any courage and so focuses more on a sappy redemption story where, in the Apatow school, what's been pleasantly ugly suddenly becomes unpleasantly saccharine.

The work is broad ranging from a school beginning this work through a campaign aimed at sharing stories of self to another school designing curriculum that fosters language around race to elementary - aged students to another school struggling with how to engage parents of color.

Everyone with a stake in education is encouraged to support this campaign by sharing why they #LovePublicEducation on social media (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, et al.); by submitting a story that details the importance of public education, here; by adopting a resolution in support of public education in your own school district (read ours, here.)

This campaign gives parents, leaders, and others the chance to share the story of why more than 700,000 Black families have chosen charter schools across the country.

The letter was released with the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) and the National Alliance for Public Charter School's (NAPCS) as part of a new campaign, ChartersWork, which «tells a clear and compelling story of why more than 700,000 Black families have chosen charter schools.»

The letter was also released in conjunction with BAEO and NAPCS» new campaign ChartersWork which «tells a clear and compelling story of why more than 700,000 Black families have chosen charter schools.»

During the 2014 budget session, we joined forces with other education advocacy groups and organized a campaign to share student stories about school funding shortfalls and ensure the legislature restored school investment to more adequate, pre-Recessionary levels.

Regionally, stories of teacher shortages have been prevalent this summer, perhaps best exemplified by the Clark County, Nev., school district's launch of a nationwide campaign to entice both new and retired teachers with hiring bonuses of up to $ 5,000.

CCSA has launched the «Oakland Campaign: Telling the Charter School Story» on our website that is chock full of resources for your school ranging from how to grow community engagement to improving advocacy efforts with the school disSchool Story» on our website that is chock full of resources for your school ranging from how to grow community engagement to improving advocacy efforts with the school disschool ranging from how to grow community engagement to improving advocacy efforts with the school disschool district.

-LSB-...] Home Visits Yield Hope and Cooperation is from the NEA Priority Schools Campaign, and is a very good story on teachers making home visits with help from the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project.

A May 2011 NEA profile bestowed the title «volunteer extraordinaire» on Jacobs and remains one of the most popular stories on the Priority Schools Campaign web site.

Because school segregation is as much a story of failed public policy as it is one of white / privileged families thwarting it, our hearts - and - minds campaign offers a new model for integration in which this undertaking falls not on the backs of marginalized communities, but on white and / or privileged families who care about equity.

It will follow up the event later in the spring with a publicity campaign aimed at telling stories about the good things happening in public schools.

As a result we are running a campaign in conjunction with our members to share the charter school story in LA.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

Christine Major, Director of Professional Development at Discovery Education said — «When we found out that the students wanted to share the story of being digital mentors for our new Secondary service through their entry to a national school news report campaign, we saw a chance for the students to come and have a unique learning experience with us.»

These positive stories about traditional district schools are part of an unprecedented media campaign launched this week by United Teachers Los Angeles, the second - largest teachers union...

, while the CT Mirror's story is titled, «Aggressive charter school campaign descends on the Capitol.»

NSBA's Stand Up 4 Public Schools campaign tells the stories of the extraordinary things taking place in public schools across the country and of the people who are «difference makers»» in our schools and commuSchools campaign tells the stories of the extraordinary things taking place in public schools across the country and of the people who are «difference makers»» in our schools and commuschools across the country and of the people who are «difference makers»» in our schools and commuschools and communities.

FES's effort to raise alarm about school safety appeared rather suddenly; the campaign kicked off just six days after the release of a widely read New York Times story showing a teacher ripping up a young child's worksheet for not understanding a math problem.

The backdrop of the story is that in order to persuade Connecticut's public schools teachers to overlook Governor Dannel «Dan» Malloy's three year record of demeaning, denigrating and bashing teachers and the teaching profession, Malloy's supporters have recently sent out a series of campaign pieces claiming that;

The executive director of the state charter schools political action committee sent an email to the LA Unified school board and other district officials yesterday, offering a sharp response to a story in the Los Angeles Times that was highly critical of the group's campaign finance reporting practices.

While we were clear that schools have not contributed to this violence, and are a success story for multicultural Britain, some participants spoke of «British Values» displays that could serve as UKIP recruitment campaigns — centred on the flag, the Queen, white, middle class and English stereotypes.

The main campaign follows the story of season one of the AoT anime and as such serves as a perfect jumping on point for both old school fans and people new to the franchise.

Despite minor annoyances such as the vehicular sequences, the overall story campaign, and throwback to old school (both in story and gameplay) feels like a fresh take on the decade long running series.

The beautifully written story campaign presents a diverse set of adventures that has gamers searching for a pet lizard, acting as an undercover private school detective, and just helping every troubled soul they can find.

You'll find highlights from our campaigns at the European level, the activities of our youth network, our inspiring School of Sustainability project, and success stories from our member groups across Europe.

Visit the Ontario Bar Association's successful public campaign, Why I went to law school, and the stories told by practicing lawyers does not include a single story about going to law school to become a legal outsourcer or working in a commodity legal practice.

Elaine's Story My heart leapt when I heard about Adoption UK's campaign to raise awareness in schools about the importance of attachment Read More