Sentences with phrase «at community roots»

At Community Roots we believe that students need intensive instruction in reading and writing in order to develop the skills they need to be literate members of society.

In 2008 Nicole returned to New York and began working at Community Roots.

She is a founding staff member at Community Roots and taught Kindergarten here for four years before transitioning to her current role in 2010 as the Director of Community Development.

Students at Community Roots Charter School are part of an educational community where rigorous curriculum is made engaging and accessible and where students meet high expectations by receiving the support they need and deserve.

At Community Roots we use a balanced literacy approach, a researched and proven method which recognizes the need for both the explicit teaching of skills and the opportunity for children to participate in activities that are designed to build comprehension and meaning.

Daina has been teaching second grade at Community Roots since 2007.

This is Walt's 17th year teaching and having began at Community Roots in 2015.

The largest part of the day at Community Roots is devoted to developing literacy and communication skills necessary to gain understanding.

«It's about time that we get a new surge of energy in the ed reform movement,» says Todd Sutler, who until recently taught at Community Roots.

«I feel so strongly about this model of education, of integrated studies and project learning, because it's working,» adds Walicka Maimone, who also has a daughter at Community Roots.

Most notably, the curriculum at Community Roots combines integrated studies with project learning.

New York Observer article on BP Adams celebrating the selection of Gwendolyn McNamara as this year's Doodle 4 Google's Young Arts Contest award winner at Community Roots Middle School in Downtown Brooklyn.

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This is at the root of the president's policies to improve access to high quality childcare, preschool for all, and free community college.

As an initial matter, it is worth establishing that what we're talking about, at root, is the availability of good jobs, with benefits, that support the economic vitality of communities.

NCFA Canada is a community - based, membership - driven entity that was formed at the grass roots level to fill a national need in the market place.

At a time when political developments in Washington are generally discouraging to advocates for economic justice, faith - based organizing shows the enormous potentials found in grass - roots America and particularly in the rich web of religious communities.

The roots of this distinction lie in Augustine's thought: the service of private ends by private persons manifests cupiditas — wrongly directed, self - centered love or motivation — while efforts by those at the head of communities to serve the good of those communities show the effect of a concern for justice informed by caritas, rightly directed love.

Much of the problems that plague First Nations communities have their roots in their treatment and abuse at the hands of colonization.

This chapter reviews the three levels on which alcoholic sickness can be prevented by the counselor and religious community: At the grass roots, through the influencing of symptom selection, and through early detection and treatment.

There are many factors that can, on their face, be identified as causes for the blight in our communities, but at their root for the most part is the contemporary crisis of the family.

He adds: «Sustainability is deeply rooted in the community at Casa Silva.

«Heineken has deep roots in the music community, and it's a natural fit to marry our love of music and musicians with our love of great cities around the globe,» said Ralph Rijks, vice president of marketing at Heineken USA.

A small group of Sikhs who were putting down roots in the north and west suburbs of Chicago in the late 1960s and early 1970s — mostly Indian immigrants — formed a community, meeting at first in one another's homes.

However, at the end of the day, in order to work the new structures that will emerge from the Deals (including elected City Region mayors) will have to take root in the local communities, and have the people behind them — at the polls in local and city region elections; but also on a daily basis.

As a result of her civic and political activism, Simon has a unique understanding of community concerns at a grass roots level.

Our annual Italian heritage event at Gracie Mansion drew hundreds more this year than it did last year, a clear testament to this mayor's strong relationship with his roots and our city's Italian community.»

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

And this requires not just the security measures I have outlined but that we work with all communities and all countries through debate, discussion, dialogue and education as we tackle at root the evils that risk driving people, particularly vulnerable young people, into the hands of violent extremists.

Also at 11 a.m., New York elected officials, unions, advocates, community organizations, grass - roots groups and impacted consumers hold a press conference to discuss the impact of the U.S. Senate's health care bill, state Capitol, Albany.

To hammer home his point in what has recently been cited widely in the diplomatic community as the reason corruption seems to gain roots in Ghana, he said the failure to prosecute corrupt public officials, including those involved in the arson at the Central Medical Stores (CMS) in Tema, needed to be addressed.

She pointed out that the engagement was particularly premised on the fact that NURTW officers are rooted within the communities, and at certain times, could serve as first responders to incidences that occur.

We need to have evidence - based strategies and inclusive policies from the top and at the same time a «buy in» from the Muslim community so that intolerance, extremism and hatred can be rooted out from all our communities.

«She was a hard - working, substantive lawyer with deep roots in the community,» said Andrew G. Celli Jr., a founding partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady who served as the chief of the civil rights bureau from 1999 to 2003 under the former attorney general, Eliot Spitzer.

«With several sites in New York and plans to further expand, Auburn Armature is a company with strong New York roots that is helping our upstate communities,» DiNapoli said in a news release at the time.

Cuomo appeared at the South Bronx's Hostos Community College to sign legislation intended to protect nail salon workers and to announce a state government task force «to root out worker exploitation issues in multiple industries in New York State.»

KWANZAA 2017 Saturday, December 30, 2017, Noon — 5 pm at the American Museum of Natural History — a celebration of African - American heritage rooted in seven principles known as Nguzo Saba, which promote unity, culture, and community development.

Speaking at a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars forum yesterday, Brady noted what she called a «missing middle» between the international scope of the U.N. climate change discussions and the very local, grass - roots efforts to help communities adapt to weather - related impact.

«The substantial variation in prescribing patterns of such extremely addictive medications for minor injuries results in many thousands of pills entering the community, and places patients at an increased risk of continued use and potentially addiction,» said lead author M. Kit Delgado, MD, MS, an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology at Penn. «It's vital that we identify and understand the root causes of this growing issue.»

At some point the medical community must change its focus from patching over the problem to addressing its root causes.

The prize, considered among the most prestigious in the scientific community, recognizes Schreiber for his work in chemical biology and for the use of small molecules as probes to uncover novel cellular mechanisms at the root of human health and disease.

Rooted in classical Aṣhtāṅga (eight - limbed) Yoga and steeped in the living community of practice at Mount Madonna Center, we offer 200 - hour, 300 - hour, and Prenatal yoga teacher trainings.

A SmartFLOW practice is at once physically and mentally challenging, rooted in classical yoga, yet safe and playful, tempered by modern anatomy and community connection.

A bit of a paradox in all of this is the increased likelihood that a low carb microbial community will most certainly lead to increased gut permeability — a well - known phenomenon whereby microbial parts (lipopolysaccharides, which leads to metabolic endotoxemia) and whole microbes themselves (bacteremia) leak from the intestinal track into the blood, leading to low - grade inflammation that is at the root of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, obesity and heart disease.

At its essence, Cinco de Mayo is a testament of culture and community, so today is a day to get together with friends and celebrate your roots.

Lelio understands that the community at the center of the film is rooted in old - school tradition, but as it's physically rooted in a cultural capital of the world, no one here is a stranger to gays and lesbians, and so the reactions to Ronit and Esit's rekindled love affair never rise to the level of the hysteric.

At Sundance Institute Jess works to cultivate meaningful insights rooted in data transparency, in order to create resources that impact the sustainability of the independent film community at largAt Sundance Institute Jess works to cultivate meaningful insights rooted in data transparency, in order to create resources that impact the sustainability of the independent film community at largat large.

Naturally, a deep emotional trauma is at the root of Nicole's frequent misbehavior, and through her developing relationship with Carlos (whom she meets cute on the beach as she does community service for a DUI charge) she is forced to face her personal demons.

Fact: Actors Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwick, The Roots» Ahmir «questlove» Thompson and model Selita Ebanks offered their time to organisers at the Food Bank for New York City's Community Kitchen by serving meals to people in need on Sunday (24Nov13).

Pernell is a history teacher at York Comprehensive High School in York, S.C., a rural, socially conservative, tight - knit community with roots in the mining industry.

According to Mindee O'Cummings, principal researcher and the lead for AIR's dropout prevention work (who did not personally participate in the Massachusetts research), two different districts in Ohio that looked deeper at the root causes found surprising information that helped them make significant improvements in their approach to their communities.