Sentences with phrase «best open education»

I blog frequently about the best open education resources for teachers.

Not exact matches

Affirmative action opened the door to higher education for the pan-Asian community in the aftermath of the Chinese Exclusion Act — which was in force from 1882 to 1943 — and Japanese American internment during World War II, at a time when systemic racism barred our grandparents and parents from accessing a better life for themselves.

Emerson Collective is Powell Jobs» recent enterprise, founded in the early 2000s, which has invested capital in a number of education - related ventures, as well as in social justice projects in keeping with the group's goal of «opening doors to opportunity.»

Ventures to Address Global Challenges — Princeton, NJ Techonomy — Tucson, AZ Global Clean Energy Congress — Calgary, AB Mashable Social Good Summit — New York, NY Postcode Lottery Green Challenge — Amsterdam, The Netherlands COMMON Pitch — Boulder, CO Colloquium on Education, Science and Technology in African Development — Princeton, NJ National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance: Open Minds Exhibition — Washington, DC

What constitutes legitimate protection of a child and what are the obligations of a family to protest against an injustice in school segregation, for example, and to open the way for better public education?

In 1878 Emerson stated the cultural assumption well when he said, «Opportunity of civil rights, of education, of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open invitation to every nation, to every race and skin, hospitality of fair field and equal laws to all.

Be a good little christard and keep off of the Atheist invented machine or maybe register for a grade 5 science class - an education outside of the out dated 2000 year old debunked crap you believe in, would do you good... maybe watch some COSMOS - short and easy to comprehend if you have an open - mind.

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

In contrast, sectors of the population linked to international trade, occupying a dominant position in world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretion.

Open discussion of the parents» feelings about sex should also be encouraged in good parent education.

The good thing is parents are starting to open their eyes to this, they are starting to become more informed and take back control of their birth and postpartum experiences with more education and more support.

I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy who could change my daughter by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the other childs mother or father... the other child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my child to focus on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before jumping in the bed with some body who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S

Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

Lactation Education Counselor (CLEC) Open to anyone interested in teaching breastfeeding classes or educating women on best breastfeeding practices.

An opportunity to explore Waldorf teaching and Waldorf teacher education, Open Day is designed for prospective students of Sunbridge Institute's Waldorf teacher education programs (Early Childhood, Elementary, World Language, and Music) as well as individuals interested in finding out more about Waldorf Eeducation, Open Day is designed for prospective students of Sunbridge Institute's Waldorf teacher education programs (Early Childhood, Elementary, World Language, and Music) as well as individuals interested in finding out more about Waldorf Eeducation programs (Early Childhood, Elementary, World Language, and Music) as well as individuals interested in finding out more about Waldorf EducationEducation.

There are a number of articles below that I think have a better focus when it comes to child education, so you might need to be a little open minded here!

«Autonomy - supportive parents have very good open and clear lines of communication with their children,» noted Nick Holt, a professor in the Department of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta and the study's lead author.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The practice of education «otherwise» is steadily spreading and membership is open to anyone - as well as those practising education «otherwise,» we have many members who simply want to support us.

You might live in a health - conscious, progressive city and / or your children might attend a school (public or private) in which the parent community is well educated about nutrition — or at least open to nutrition education.

The tests include open - ended questions to better assess students» content mastery; and, with some exceptions for special education students with specific testing accommodations, the tests will be administered entirely online to students statewide within five years.

Just as crucially as opening up a debate on the role of the private sector in education, the government must do a better job at getting a clear message across to the people who really matter.

If Scotland were to choose to go down the independence route, not only would there be more than enough oil income to make every single Scot better off by considerably more than # 500 a year, but also for its new government to close down the submarine bases in the Clyde without having to submit to any form of blackmail on currency issues, to increase the gap in health and education funding relative to the rest of the UK, to keep the ship yards open, and a great deal more besides.

«The grant focused on Career and Technical Education will help us better understand and ultimately remove obstacles faced by some districts in opening high - quality and economically relevant Career and Technical Education programs.

He called for better regulation and enforcement of violations in bike lanes, as well as improved signage and a public education campaign, including signs in taxis warning of the dangers of swinging doors open without looking first.

David Cameron will identify discipline, «freedom for schools» and «high expectations» as the key factors that make for a good education system as he opens one of the first «free» schools today.

The Governor's message was astutely deferential to Upstate's need for economic growth, meanwhile Cuomo also avoided triggering the tripwires of controversy on education and the environment (which provided Zephyr Teachout with opening to garner a third of the 2014 Democratic primary vote); Cuomo advanced strong measures around election law reform and on the criminal justice front vis a vis Bail reform, as well as the Dream Act and MWBE all of which registered positively with minority voters.

Stringer suggests a series of remedies to these problems, including better signage, more active policing, and education on issues like «How to open your cab door and not take out a cyclist.»

His appointee to a powerless position on the mayor - controlled Board of Education has attracted an outsize amount of attention by doing his best to open up, and slow down, what is ultimately a rubber - stamp process of the administration's charter - school - friendly policies.

It is open to academics and / or practitioners who have improved upon — or extended beyond — current expectations of best practice in education and training.

Others complain education policies fail to adequately equip young people to promote their own sexual good health and some campaigners argue Britain needs to foster a more open attitude towards sex to encourage safe sexual behaviour.

Pan: Well, there hasn't been a lot of discussion of it really in the Chinese media, but this is another example of the weakness of the one - party political system, you know, they have shown that the one - party system can deliver economic growth, but it's an open question whether they can deliver other public goods for clean environment, as they discuss, has been a real challenge for them and because local officials are so addicted to economic growth, they are not willing to, addicted because they profit from it personally, they haven't been willing to really enforce environmental laws about, you know, good health care system, and education system.

Some state education departments maintain useful Web sites (again, see the Resources page), but the best information sources are local: Open teaching positions are often advertised only in local newspapers and — increasingly — on the Web sites of local school districts.

Perhaps the ivory towers of education and research could open up more to allow more interactions across disciplines, as well as with the private sector and society at large, to constantly transfer, extend, and broaden new knowledge and technologies.

Dr. David Budtz Pedersen, Strategic Adviser, Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education «Aidan Gilligan is well known to the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education as the driving force behind Ireland's successful campaign to host Euroscience Open Forum 2012 (ESOF), the forerunner of ESOF 2014 in Copenhagen.

Philanthropy is known for enriching our lives through education, the arts, medicine, and public health; it also plays a less well known, but vital role in opening our eyes to the wonders of the Universe.

The Institute will spur significant advances in software infrastructure, education, standards, and best - practices that are needed to enable the molecular science community to open new windows on the next generation of scientific Grand Challenges, ranging from the simulation of intrinsically disordered proteins associated with a range of diseases to the design of new catalysts vital to the global chemical industry and climate change.

Greg works with the academic team to ensure that the high standards of the Distance Education Accreditation Council and the Louisiana Board of Regents are upheld in addition to best practices for online learning.On the personal side his passion is open water swimming where he has competed for over 40 years.

Since 2016 I have been a member of Weston A Price Foundation (a non profit organization dedicated to food research and education); and I'm currently taking (and loving) this eye - opening course called «Transformation Your Relationship with Food» (a program that dives into the psychology of eating and explains why you should not only focus on what you eat, but how you eat and who you are as a person to optimize your digestion and overall well - being).

Continuing Education (CE) Classes for Healthcare Professionals are Our Case Study based CEs and open to the Public as well.

India plans to open her own business «Inside Out, Health & Nutrition» which focuses on nutrition education and support for clients interested in achieving a greater level of health as well as those who have been diagnosed by a doctor with problems ranging from autoimmune disease to panic disorders.

The Internet might well open people to more diversity in their choice of a partner, such as by introducing individuals with greater differences in age or education, but with more similar interests and values.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

It's good that Weingarten is opening up the social welfare debate, says Andrew Rotherham, codirector of the think tank Education Sector.

Implications from the UN synthesis report adopted last December, as well as from the proposal by the Open Working Group for Sustainable development (goal 4 on education), will be discussed in terms of education targets and the framework of action to be adopted at the World Education Forum in Korea in education), will be discussed in terms of education targets and the framework of action to be adopted at the World Education Forum in Korea in education targets and the framework of action to be adopted at the World Education Forum in Korea in Education Forum in Korea in May 2015.

Norwich schools taking part in the programme are City Academy Norwich, City of Norwich School, Notre Dame High School and The Open Academy as well as Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education where Stephen Fry studied A levels in 1976/77.

When I published a piece earlier this year about the tense estrangement between conservative education reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education Reformereducation reformers and the movement's increasingly dominant social justice wing, it did not sit well with members of the latter group, including Rhames, who penned a response on Education Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReformerEducation Post titled, «An Open Letter to White Conservative Education ReformerEducation Reformers.»

As K — 12 education and technology continue to evolve, teachers who keep an open mind and embrace new modes of instruction will find they can better meet the needs of all their students.

(Note that this software was a close runner - up in Edutopia's 2007 Readers» Survey category «Best open source software for education,» and it's mentioned in several other articles on this Web site, as is GarageBand.)

If I were to teach etiquette to a group of students, I might compare the benefits of good manners to the benefits of a good education: Both open doors for you!