Sentences with phrase «best new approaches to education»

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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 - being.

The forum, which included a keynote address by author and former New York Times magazine editor Paul Tough (pictured left), explored the The Harlem Children's Zone approach to inner city education, as well as addressed the recent plans by the Obama administration to offer new funding to replicate twenty «Promise Neighborhoods» throughout the countNew York Times magazine editor Paul Tough (pictured left), explored the The Harlem Children's Zone approach to inner city education, as well as addressed the recent plans by the Obama administration to offer new funding to replicate twenty «Promise Neighborhoods» throughout the countnew funding to replicate twenty «Promise Neighborhoods» throughout the country.

In a perspective in this week's New England Journal of Medicine, Daniel Alford, MD, MPH, associate professor of medicine and assistant dean of Continuing Medical Education and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk asEducation and director of the Safe and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk asEducation (SCOPE of Pain) program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), recommends that prescriber education is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk aseducation is the best approach to addressing the prescription opioid - misuse epidemic, allowing for individualized care on the basis of a patient's needs after a careful benefit - risk assessment.

With Singapore's two major universities geared up to prepare a new generation of workers to drive the new life sciences - based economy, university students in Singapore can now expect to have more choices in tertiary education — a multidisciplinary approach to learning — and to be in a better position to face the future.

We wanted to make sure that we had a common approach to teaching, something that we could articulate to new staff but something as well that was, in essence, based on research that was leading practice, I guess, in an alternate education setting or a detention centre environment; something that was proven to be working and something that we could continue to measure and look at to make sure that it was effective.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: «Through this Future Talent Fund, we will test new and innovative approaches so that we can find out what works best to ensure the brightest pupils from the most disadvantaged families can excel in their education.»

Since joining the HGSE faculty in 2007, Higgins, whose research focuses on leadership development and change in organizations, has been helping education administrators find new ways to address challenges outside the classroom, in situations where being «in charge» may not always be the best approach.

He will do well for New York because they're trying to get out of that approach to education,» he said.

Working with new and preservice teachers is a motivating factor for me to always stay current in my profession as a science teacher, as well as to challenge myself to try new approaches to education in my own classroom.

The schools» inspectorate states: «In the coming months, we will work with the Department for Education to develop new approaches and expertise to allow us to be better scrutinise education, training and care structures, including at the multi-academy trust leveEducation to develop new approaches and expertise to allow us to be better scrutinise education, training and care structures, including at the multi-academy trust leveeducation, training and care structures, including at the multi-academy trust level.»

Within the new Children and Families Act 2014 are changes to statutory assessment and a replacement of SEN statements with new education, health and care (EHC) plans, introducing a more person - centred approach to assessing need and planning for better outcomes for children and young people aged 0 — 25 years.

This fall, the Bank Street College of Education, a small, private New York City - based institution best known for hands - on approaches to preparing teachers and leaders, will begin to seek its own answers.

We offer a diverse portfolio of online courses, on - campus institutes, and blended programs that prepare educators to cultivate critical thinking and learning skills, practice new teaching approaches, and confront centuries - old structures in order to better design and deliver the kind of education and professional development required for today's educators and tomorrow's citizens.

Said Cato's Neal McCluskey: «Donald Trump is right to emphasize school choice: It is the key to empowering parents to get the education that is best for their unique children, and for educators to teach how they want and try new, innovative approaches.

On the Ed Next blog, Mike Petrilli writes about some of the approaches education reformers should consider embracing if we want to give less affluent kids a better shot at moving up: 1) working harder to identify talented children from low - income (and middle - income) communities and then providing the challenge and support to launch them into the New Elite via top - tier universities, and / or 2) being more realistic about the kind of social mobility we hope to spur as education reformers.

In a recent New York Times op - ed, I argued that the case for Betsy DeVos's Secretary of Education appointment rests on a very weak track record — in particular, the evidence does not support her free market approach to school reform that relies, first and foremost, on school vouchers for private schools, as well as unregulated forms of charter schooling.

Labour's shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, has attacked the government's «free market approach» to creating new school places and said «families deserve a better approach to planning».

CCSA's new report takes a look at 10 outstanding California charter public schools and the effective and innovative approaches behind their special education programs, their best practices for implementation, and what policy arrangements have allowed them to improve outcomes for students with disabilities.

Teachers unions were very supportive of school integration in Wake County, and the very positive role they can play on national policy was underlined in December, when the National Education Association announced an effort to establish 100 new peer assistance and review programs to better train and, if necessary, weed out ineffective teachers; and the American Federation of Teachers proposed an innovative approach to raise academic achievement in a low - income community in West Virginia by going after the effects of poverty directly.

Thanks to an inclusive and well - designed approach, Colorado is among a small group of states that will meet an April 3 deadline to submit plans to implement new federal education legislation.

The field of education is strewn with the corpses of well - intentioned programs that failed to lead to action because developers failed to give teachers motivating feedback; connect new learning to relevant past teaching; establish long - term supports (such as peer coaching or action research); or consider how the program's approach might interact with teachers» emotions.

If implemented well, we should see significant results from the federal government's new Moneyball approach to elementary and secondary education.

There must be a truly new, bold approach to education in this state, and eliminating the firewall is a good first step toward that end.

Emerging are new networks of Catholic schools, new governance models, new instructional approaches, and new financing mechanisms that allow parents to choose the best education for their child.

There are also fears that training of staff in schools and LAs is lagging behind, and that the new multi-agency approach — with education, health and social care working to meet a student's needs — is not working consistently well in all areas.

While many colleges and universities say that graduates of redesigned high schools will not be disadvantaged in the admissions process, 66 family concerns about college admissions might inhibit enrollment in new high schools that use competency - based approaches.67 At least one state, Utah, has passed legislative language with the intent to bar public institutions of higher education from treating graduates of competency - based high schools unfairly during the admissions process.68 As new issues and challenges emerge, states will need to remain vigilant and creative about how to best encourage and enable innovative high school designs.

Professional Experience Valley Trauma Center (Van Nuys, CA) 2011 — Present In - Home Outreach Counselor • Provide prevention education and counseling at the individual, family and group level within both in - home and clinical settings while overseeing all case management services • Utilize various methods including humanistic, cognitive behavioral and family systems approaches • Assist group members in the discovery of internal sources of strength and ability to effectively cope with situational crises a well as modify self - defeating behavior • Set and achieve specific group - level goals while helping participants define concrete, meaningful developmental benchmarks, appraising on - going change processes and related dynamics, and connecting individual efforts to common themes • Manage 10 cases on a weekly basis while ensuring an initial visitation with clients within 48 hours of referral • Perform new program participant assessments and participate in all intake and discharge functions

Based on attachment theory and research, as well as results from evaluations of existing attachment - based interventions, it would be recommended to incorporate attachment - based intervention / prevention programs into existing home visitation and parent education programs for high - risk families of young children, as well as investigate new approaches for changing parents» cognitive representation of their attachment with their parents.

We also invest in changing the paradigm of education — from the prevailing performance - based models, which focus on competition — to new approaches that promote not only academics, but the social and emotional well - being of the «whole child.»

The New York AFCC Chapter promotes a collaborative approach to serving the needs of children among those who work in and with family law systems, encouraging education, research and innovation and identifying best practices.