Sentences with phrase «center of one's own learning»

It is designed to help create excellent centers of learning where all children are valued and can experience success, and where accountability is shared between school and home.
Successful teachers know how to create positive relationships and transform classrooms into safe, high - achieving centers of learning.
Today, this inspired center of learning evokes passion and imagination in its students, tomorrow's global leaders.
I was just offered a role as a Broad Resident to be an executive director in the Office of Academics and Transformation in Miami - Dade County Schools, and I hope to have the privilege of serving those students in just that capacity — to continue to shape schools into centers of learning with whole child support.
Since no schools are mentioned in the accounts of travelers of that time, it is assumed that there was no regular system of education in Sind other than the mosques which served as centers of learning, as they did in other parts of the Muslim world.
The Benedictine houses which were dotted over much of Western Europe became centers of learning and of the arts of peace and often were aggressively missionary.
«As technology continues to shape the landscape of our economy, we must reimagine our classrooms into modern centers of learning so that our students are prepared for the jobs that meet the demands of tomorrow,» Governor Cuomo said.
Capturing Kids» Hearts 1 shows them how to create high - achieving centers of learning by strengthening students» connectedness to others through enhancing healthy bonds with their teachers and establishing collaborative agreements of acceptable behavior.
This is what gives depth and intensity to this occasion; and we who have been brought in from other centers of learning to participate in this colloquy can not fail to be caught up in the lure and zest of this creative ferment.
The collapse of those unsurpassed centers of learning during World War II, and the escape of many important scientists to England and the United States, brought English unmistakably to the forefront.
MISSION Our mission is to sustain The Cooper Union as a free center of learning and civic discourse that inspires inventive, creative, and influential voices in architecture, art, and engineering to address the critical challenges and opportunities of our time.
«These schools are academically successful, vibrant and innovative centers of learning and teaching,» state schools superintendent Tom Torlakson wrote in a letter last May announcing the Gold Ribbon Schools awards.
Delegates from the Maya Leaders Alliance (Mopan & Kekchi Maya), National Garifuna Council, Northern Maya Association of Belize (Yucatec Maya), Tumul Kin Center of Learning and the student Maya Club at University of Belize - Belmopan attending the human rights training in Carillo Puerto, México.
We atheists (try to spell it correctly) don't give a frack what invisible friend you believe in, just keep it out of our faces and out of centers of learning.
The School of Veterinary Medicine is a comprehensive, world - class center of learning, discovery and patient care.
The Church was the main center of learning in that day, so while his treatment was unfortunate it was much more centered on finances, politics, etc...
He gave extensive grants of land and money to develop a flourishing center of learning at Lucknow.
Cordoba was a proud center of learning and interreligious Convivencia («coexistence») in Islamic and European history.
Moderates were cast out of Baptist centers of learning, missionary boards, publishing houses and the high offices of the 16 - million - member SBC.
So, science held a central place in Christian centers of learning that it did not hold in Islamic madrassas.
Across the way, university halls from the seventeenth century proclaim in stone Lund's role as Scandinavia's historical center of learning.
All this doctor - speak just goes to show that many physicians, even those with impressive titles from well respected centers of learning, have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to nutrition!
Especially in times of economic crisis, I think school can become a place where kids and their families can learn from the teachers, but also from each other... a real community center of learning.
According to the National Center of Learning Disabilities, a learning disability is «a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations».
Indianapolis Superintendent Lewis Ferebee partners with charters and the community and makes sure that his neighborhood schools remain vital centers of learning.
In today's ENR: Deseret News looks at the upcoming expansion of the Carmen B. Pingree Autism Center of Learning.
He describes vividly the resilient and curious spirits of children growing up in adversity; he asks that we examine the priorities of our society which has seized upon their public schools as a profit center, instead of a sheltering, supportive center of learning.
Once essentially no more than a museum of great works, libraries in the 21st century have had to reinvent themselves as a community - based center of learning and production, not just a place to put your name on the list for the latest James Patterson hardcover.
A visit to the Tumul K'in Center of Learning in Blue Creek Village is a great way to explore the history of the Mayan people in Belize.
As centers of learning, college libraries are reinventing their spaces to facilitate just about anything students may dream up.
Monasteries offered some education and a few became centers of learning, especially in Ireland, where, as in other Celtic regions, there had been a tradition of education dating back to pre-Christian times.
Tell us, so we can close all these expensive universities and other centers of learning, and just kneel and pray to god to deliver knowledge to our brains via AngelMail.
Our mission is to sustain The Cooper Union as a free center of learning and civic discourse that inspires inventive, creative, and influential voices in architecture, art, and engineering to address the critical challenges and opportunities of our time.
So if we all agree that libraries are important centers of learning and provide services that individuals can not get elsewhere, even if we ourselves do not make as much effort to visit a library on a regular basis, why is there such a budget problem for libraries?
«These schools are academically successful, vibrant, and innovative centers of learning and teaching,» Torlakson said.
Delegates from the Maya Leaders Alliance (Mopan & Kekchi Maya), National Garifuna Council, Northern Maya Association of Belize (Yucatec Maya), Tumul Kin Center of Learning and the student Maya Club at University of Belize - Belmopan attending the human rights training in Carillo Puerto, M xico.
The monastery of Bec, in Normandy, founded in the first half of the eleventh century, was a center of learning and of the training of monks who did much to raise the discipline of the Church in wide areas.
Engaging students in healthy living and putting them at the center of their learning is a key component of the HSN.
Additionally, Kokabee transformed his prison ward into a center of learning.
«The magnificence of Alexandria as a center of learning was not just a myth,» says Willeke Wendrich, an archaeologist at UCLA.
If that happens, scale may occur in ways we can't predict — and may look more like an awakening to the power of putting students at the center of their learning.
Learn how personalized learning allows the individual learner to become the center of their learning path, and why this is important for your learning strategy.
Remaking the space means putting students at the center of their learning.
In particular, EdSurge with the Charter School Growth Fund is hosting «DIY Learning: The New School,» which promises to allow people to remake school completely and celebrate how «educators, students and entrepreneurs are using technology to put students at the center of learning — and help them construct personalized learning experiences that stimulate engagement, critical thinking skills and creativity.»
And as teachers answer this question, their class will be transformed into a center of learning where students are applying, analyzing, and creating content, rather than simply acquiring information.
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