Sentences with phrase «address urban challenges»

Students co-construct their own learning experiences and address urban challenges.

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One of the world's largest urban innovation hubs, MaRS supports a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

About MaRS Discovery District MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs supporting a new generation of makers and innovators who aim to make the world a better place by creating solutions that address key societal challenges.

To address the specific challenges of urban and inner - city families, where fatherlessness and the negative consequences that come with it are often at their worst, NCF continued expanding.

«The urban deer population ignores municipal boundaries, ranging through Syracuse to the Town of Dewitt and surround areas, and no single municipality has the means or the mandate to effectively address this challenge,» the mayor said.

The MSc programme offers each student a creative combination of problem - based learning (PBL) and realistic projects with «hands - on» challenges that equip the student to address challenges pertaining to e.g. climate change, temporary urban development projects, urban mobility, projects and strategies of the culture city, the urban landscape and city growth.

As Sonnenblume explains, this is not your typical, «Rah - rah, look how sustainable we are» story, but it is full of lessons for those interested in using urban farming to address current environmental and social challenges.

The Urban Superintendents Program is the nation's first and only comprehensive program that prepares school leaders to address the challenges of large, urban distrUrban Superintendents Program is the nation's first and only comprehensive program that prepares school leaders to address the challenges of large, urban distrurban districts.

We already have an impressive joint project with the Business School, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which is an executive education program that unites the faculty resources of both schools to address the specific challenges faced by nine urban school districts from across the country.

In today's environment of high - stakes accountability and limited resources, urban educators must be able to address urgent challenges on multiple fronts.

But most of these efforts don't address the fundamental challenge urban schools face: The diversity of their student population.

Thus gap - closers approach the challenge not as educators but as social engineers, determined to see schools fix the problems that job - training initiatives, urban redevelopment, income supports, and a slew of other well - intentioned government welfare programs have failed to address.

The Council of Urban Boards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban cenUrban Boards of Education (CUBE) supports urban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban cenurban school boards, fosters effective school district leadership, and addresses the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban cenurban centers.

This program takes a look at the specific hurdles faced by leaders in urban school districts and presents equally nuanced strategies to addressing these challenges.

Learning from the Experts: Teacher Leaders on Solving America's Education Challenges is the first book written by teachers affiliated with Teach Plus, a non-profit organization devoted to improving urban students» access to effective teachers, and it addresses teacher - led solutions to educational cChallenges is the first book written by teachers affiliated with Teach Plus, a non-profit organization devoted to improving urban students» access to effective teachers, and it addresses teacher - led solutions to educational challengeschallenges.

This book describes, analyzes, and synthesizes the impact of technology in an urban school with the objective of offering solutions for successful strategies and addressing organizational challenges and pitfalls.

Engaging Schools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other challenges.

We support urban school boards, foster effective school district leadership, and address the educational challenges that exist in our nation's urban centers.

«It takes commitment and vision to address challenges while recognizing the power and potential of our urban public schools,» said Gentzel.

DC Bilingual Public Charter School, The Nature Conservancy and Lowe's address urban environmental challenges through school garden.

In his first year as principal, EdD Urban Education Leadership student Romian Crockett is seeking to strengthen ties with community members and parents, as a tool towards addressing the school's challenges towards on track graduation rates.

CUBE provides educational opportunities that engage urban school districts and district leaders, working through their state school boards associations, while addressing challenges in urban centers.

Our educational design was developed to address the most critical needs of schools challenged by socioeconomic conditions: closing the achievement gap, improving the quality of teaching, increasing graduation and college acceptance rates, creating inclusive and vibrant learning environments, and developing outstanding urban school leaders.

This report — the first of its kind — highlights the challenges facing urban Native American youth in public schools and showcases seven alternative public education programs that are having a positive impact in addressing these challenges.

Examining the potential of new organizational frameworks like co-operatives, multi-stakeholder constructions, local - regional partnerships and networks for the success of such transitions, this book presents the key ingredients of a sustainable urban community as a viable concept to address current global financial, environmental and social challenges.

This manual gives leaders a practical snapshot of urban planning that can help to improve their communication with planners and address key challenges, including resilience to climate change.

Cape Farewell Foundation and Pattison Onestop are proud to present Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change, a multi-site urban screens project addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a cultural lens.

Eight recommended actions can improve energy efficiency in buildings to unlock a «triple win» and address economic, environmental and social challenges in world's urban areas

In particular, it seeks to address climate change adaptation with an additional discussion of challenges facing informal settlements, the urban poor, and other vulnerable groups.

20th of June event: «The new urban food agenda: addressing global challenges, developing place - based solutions».

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry may be suitable strategies to address the triple challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the provision of basic services, including food; to a growing number of urban residUrban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry may be suitable strategies to address the triple challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the provision of basic services, including food; to a growing number of urban residurban agriculture and forestry may be suitable strategies to address the triple challenge of climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as the provision of basic services, including food; to a growing number of urban residurban residents.

The greatest fire management challenges lie in addressing simultaneously the threat to human well - being posed by fires, particularly at the wildland - urban interface; the uncertainties associated with various fire - related land - management practices, such as thinning and controlled burns; and the complicating factor of climate change.

Taking place in Brooklyn Grange's indoor workshop space at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Anastasia will cover a range of topics, including: different business entities a budding urban farmer might consider; the various goals, benefits and challenges of urban agriculture; the range of physical models — from aeroponics to aquaponics to soil - based farming — and business structures, and how each one addresses respective goals and challenges; various enterprises for the diversified urban farm, from flowers to bees to mushrooms to events, and more!

United Kingdom About Blog The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) is a research resource promoting the use of innovative methods and complex urban data to address global city challeUrban Big Data Centre (UBDC) is a research resource promoting the use of innovative methods and complex urban data to address global city challeurban data to address global city challenges.

Join ULI Indiana for a presentation by Daniel Parolek, the architect and urban designer who coined the term «Missing Middle Housing,» a spectrum of housing types that works to address this challenge by responding to changing household demographics and the dramatic shift in demand for walkable, attainable housing options.