Sentences with phrase «center of the community»

Schools become resource hubs as well as centers of community life.

Schools remain open every day for longer hours for everyone, not just students, so that they truly become centers of the community.

And as school becomes the nerve center of the community, teachers also will be coordinators of services.

EMERYVILLE, Calif. — The Emeryville Center of Community Life was supposed to be a slick, 150,000 - square - foot community schools complex that would assist this city's neediest students and their families by providing dental, mental health, and tutoring services on the same site where they attended school.

As a vital center of community engagement the Museum supports the intellectual and professional development of its students and communities.

The organized groups and decision - making centers of a community have not received enough attention as possible areas for the planned dispersal of the laity.

Sexuality, our experience of the erotic, is actually designed to be the very center of community, not divorced from it.

In addition, educators can help curtail violence by making schools stimulating emotional and intellectual centers of their communities.

Henry Bankhead, a librarian with a passion for self - publishing and a vision of libraries as centers of community publishing and beyond, worked at Los Gatos Public Library.

Balinese society is based around the Pura, or temple, which is the core of religious, civil, family and social life with the Banjar (local meeting hall) being the cohesive center of each community, much as it has been for thousands of years.

Local districts would also be able to use the funds to help schools become centers of the community — from improving outdoor learning and play areas to upgrading shared spaces for adult vocational and job development centers.

To garner community support, they proposed that the renovated schools would serve as centers of the community, remaining open on nights and weekends to provide services.

Natually, the churches were seed grounds for such behaviour because the churches were centers of community life.

This cozy pub has become the center of community life.

But we live in an era of constant content, where brands can take on voices, can develop relationships with consumers and can be thought of as the center of communities and movements.

In a village the church may still be one of the centers of community life, whereas in urban areas when people move, they may find it hard to relate to a new church.

Perhaps the school is at pains not to present itself as religious, and it may even be uncomfortable with such an overtly Christian symbol in the center of a community that espouses pluralism.

The center of the community is defined clearly enough: it is centered in Jesus and those closest to him; but its boundaries are not drawn.

However, due to a wide variety of cultural and theological reasons, the church is no longer the center of our communities.

They refused charity, but accepted funds from a Presbyterian program that helped them construct one durable building in the center of the community.

I realize the fear is that if we don't keep our theological propositions central and firm, if we don't maintain focus on our purpose, vision and mission, if we don't nurture the what the church produces in terms of its persona and style, and we insist that people are the center of the community, then all those things would suffer.

What if people were the center of the community, rather than theology, mission, or what it produces?

Portage Park quickly became the center of the community, providing athletics and team sports, cultural and club activities, festivities and special events.

The proposed improvements to Busch Grove Community Park, including a 65,000 - square - foot community center and a 1,200 - person - capacity outdoor swimming pool, will make the park the center of the community, said Mike Rylko, director of parks and recreation.

Espaillat, who thanked NYPD officers for their dedication, said, «Public safety is at the center of community stability.»

«You have to take into consideration, if you're having 5,000 to 8,000 people in the center of your community, there are going to be additional costs.

Central and City Branch Libraries are now open 40 hours per week or more and all are open on Saturdays; prime evening and weekend hours have been restored to many suburban library schedules; and exciting new program initiatives are in the works putting our libraries at the center of community activities.

This school is the center of the community.

Opponents say that small schools are the centers of their communities and can provide a high - quality education regardless of their enrollments.

«You start with housing — the foundation of stability and permanence — quality housing, first class accommodations... you must have access to educational opportunities and focusing on the youngest the children to be the center of that community growth and of course, art is the vehicle that binds it together.

However, Baxter didn't want to segregate the homeless but create apartments in the center of communities.

For the next several years, Mapp and colleagues consulted with USDOE to develop what came to be called the Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships, now released by the government as a downloadable, shareable model that schools and districts can use to build the kind of effective, mutually rewarding engagement that will make schools the center of their communities.

Where schools truly become the centers of the community, great things happen.»

Perhaps the old Main Street is no longer the center of the community, as it once was.

We're seeing whole communities come together to combat discriminatory discipline policies and chronic student absenteeism, and to make schools the center of the community.

When they speak of «a successful school,» they refer only to its test scores, not to a school that is the center of its community, with a great orchestra, an enthusiastic chorus, a hardworking chess team, a thriving robotics program, or teachers who have dedicated their lives to helping the students with the highest needs (and often the lowest scores).

Providence has excelled at keeping racial equity at the center of their community engagement work, which grew directly from the student voice that they brought into the summit planning and execution.

Once that message sank in, Americans would be ready for the antidote: eliminating the public schools they had long known and cherished as the centers of their communities.

Their roots lie in the teachings of John Dewey, the great education philosopher who believed that schools should be centers of community life, and learning should be relevant, helping young people address the real - world problems that face them, their families, and their neighbors.

While the East Lake project was about much more than schools, the project leaders recognized the importance of having children — and quality schools, programming, and supports for kids — at the center of the community.

Then we want districts to realize cost savings, and lastly, we want our facilities — outdoor and indoor spaces — to be the center of community.

Richard W. Riley Award for Excellence (2005) presented to the district by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the American Architectural Foundation for a high school design and program that best exemplifies a school as a center of community.