Sentences with phrase «centered organization of schools»

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The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics» Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

The actual number by that date was probably not much more than a third of that total; furthermore, despite the good that existing centers have done and are doing, the plan's most imaginative features — those that would bring such centers into close contact with schools, churches, the police, and other responsible community organizations — are the ones that have been least realized.

Since entering the field in 1996, Dr. Sellwood has garnered a diverse professional background that includes working as an elementary and middle school counselor, college and regional center disabilities specialist, executive director of a non-profit organization in psychology, consulting psychologist at hospitals and in - patient medical facilities, and an academic Professor of Psychology at several graduate schools.

We offer 20 minute W.A.T.E.R. Safety Presentations free of charge to schools, daycare centers, educational facilities, organizations and groups.

The four organizations, collectively known as Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom, are the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation, the NEA Foundation, and School Nutrition Foundation.

The Partners for BIC is a consortium of four organizations — the Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), the School Nutrition Foundation, The NEA Foundation, and the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Foundation.

The Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom are a consortium of national education and nutrition organizations, including the Food & Research Action Center (FRAC), the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Foundation, the NEA Foundation, and the School Nutrition Foundation (SNF).

Coupled with a family - centered approach, PTN grew at a rapid pace to become an organization that has served thousands of children in the classrooms at hundreds of Los Angeles County schools and at our state - of - the - art clinic in Torrance.

Participants at these conferences pondered upon what an anthroposophically inspired organization looked like and what were considered the core principles and guiding imaginations that might help a school thrive both as an independent school and as a center of cultural renewal.

WHAT GREAT PARENTS DO: The small Book of BIG Parenting Ideas began as a workshop in local schools and soon grew into a class attended by thousands of parents at schools and organizations, including Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, UCSF Benioff / Children's Hospital, and San Francisco Zen Center.

We have compiled a list of some of our favorite school breakfast menus and resources — including our Beyond Breakfast Resource Center — here on the blog, so that you can see what other districts and organizations are offering to help school nutrition professionals create, build, and expand their school breakfast programs.

Dr. Erica also works with schools and other organizations that support parents, such as Habitot Children's Museum, University of California Berkeley, San Francisco Zen Center, and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

The National Center for Fathering (www.fathers.com) is a leading national nonprofit organization, with widely - implemented programming such as WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students), a one - of - a-kind school based father involvement program that works to support education and safety.

«I look forward to our continued partnership to improve our industrial waterfront economy, to create a Harbor Middle School, to continue working alongside organizations like UPROSE to create opportunities for our youth and supporting the Red Hook Community Justice Center to break the cycle of mass incarceration,» she said.

A new video highlights the work of many Bronx organizations and initiatives to grow healthy food in school yards, community gardens, community centers and parts of parks.

A former high school teacher and college professor, Tejada is the founder of the Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center, a non-profit organization in Harlem devoted to social justice issues and assisting low - income and immigrant families.

James Merriman, the chief executive officer of the New York City Charter School Center, called AQE a «front group» for the teachers unions, despite conceding that his organization has one same general goal as AQE: more funding for schools.

Chanting slogans like «Profits, not pupils,» «We want money, not textbooks» and «First the banks, then the schools,» a large and spirited group of gaudily dressed faux hedge - funders expressed their enthusiasm for siphoning profits from charter schools on May 4 at a rally in front of the New York City Charter School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -School Center, the organization of charter school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal -school management that receives significant funding from hedge - fund operators and anti-union corporations such as Wal - Mart.

Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

«When disasters occur, mental health professionals — community organizers, social workers, case managers and counselors — often work in partnership with local, state and federal organizations to respond,» said Jennifer First, doctoral candidate in the MU School of Social Work and disaster mental health program manager with the Disaster and Community Crisis Center.

Holgate and others gathered on 25 September for a conference addressing the role of non-governmental organizations in the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA), which was held at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and co-sponsored by AAAS, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, CORDS: Connecting Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance, the UPMC Center for Health Security, the Elizabeth R. Griffin Research Foundation and the CSIS Global Health Policy Center.

Executives from a broad range of health care - focused organizations — including hospitals, health centers, medical schools and public health departments — across the U.S. and from other countries participate in a two - day training session in Boston that focuses on defining disparities and their causes, developing strategies to identify and address disparities and fostering the leadership and change - management skills to implement those strategies.

Last year, the Sports Legacy Institute, a nonprofit organization that promotes research on sports - related head injuries, announced the formation of a new research center in partnership with the Boston University School of Medicine to study neuropsychiatric symptoms in athletes and to examine donated brains for signs of pathology.

Privacy advocates at organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology and Fight for the Future; tech industry groups, including the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), whose members include Facebook, Google and Yahoo; and more than a dozen cybersecurity experts, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Ronald Rivest (the «R» in the RSA cryptography protocol) and Bruce Schneier, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

CSD plans to expand the reach and availability of the Job Club through recruiting partner organizations and agencies as well as leveraging existing partnerships with the Texas Workforce Commission and the Texas School for the Deaf, Educational Resource Center on Deafness.

The partnership was formally established on January 9, 2018, when the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC), Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Harvard Engineering), signed a Master Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, or CRADA, designed to leverage the respective expertise and resources of both organizations, streamline collaborations, and strengthen their relationship in order to engage with one another in diverse areas of mutual interest.

The Roger C. Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is offering free technical assistance to help primary care practices and health care organizations, including accountable care organizations (ACOs), improve the quality and outcomes of health care for older adults with chronic illnesses.

Experts from other national organizations included Sri Kosuri and Ren Sun (UCLA), Jesse Bloom (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), Dan Bolon (University of Massachusetts), Polly Fordyce (Stanford University), Doug Fowler (University of Washington / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), Catherine Fox (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Cory Johannessen (Broad Institute), Debora Marks (Harvard Medical School), Lianet Noda - Garcia (The Weizmann Institute), Kim Reynolds (University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center), and Lea Starita (University of Washington).

Susan has pioneered teaching holistic nursing programs in organizations including the Omega Institute, New York Open Center, Urban Zen, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, American Holistic Nurses Association, Integrative Healthcare Symposiums, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University and the NIGH Initiative for Global Health.

In addition, one of the organization's core values is identifying new talent and nurturing young filmmakers by awarding promising talent with «Directorial Debut» and «Breakthrough Actor» awards as well as grants to rising film students and by facilitating community outreach through the support of organizations such as The Ghetto Film School, Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, and Educational Video Center.

«AISD officials had to struggle with the competing agendas of numerous outside partners such as Austin's business leaders, the «First Things First» program of the Institute for Research and Reform in Education, the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Learning's work in «Disciplined Literacy,» the Dana Center for Mathematics at the University of Texas, the Gates and Dell Foundations, and other organizations... As one upset veteran high school teacher put it: «We're getting this academy, and then... we're going to do this and that....

But what if your school is not the kind of organization that deliberately puts employee growth at the center of the agenda?

The fact that many virtual schools are operated by for - profit education management organizations (EMOs) has surely contributed to the degree of scrutiny, prompting such publications as a recent report by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC) on the largest operator of these schools, K12 Inc..

A 2006 national survey by the Center on Education Policy, an independent advocacy organization in Washington, DC, found that in the five years after enactment of NCLB, 44 percent of districts had increased instruction time in elementary school English language arts and math while decreasing time spent on other subjects.

Canada is the founder and president of the Harlem Children's Zone, a full - service community organization comprising charter schools, preschools, afterschool programs, parenting education, and employment and technology centers.

In the first three and a half weeks of its launch, Kaiser reported that 250 arts organizations contacted the Kennedy Center for its pro bono help, which will include a new arts in education program, slated to pilot in the Lafayette, La., schools next year, that aims to reshape the current, episodic nature of children's arts education.

«We've created an approach that uses the resources of the Kennedy Center, the local schools, and local arts organizations to create a tailored program for K - 8,» says Kaiser, author of The Art of the Turnaround: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Arts Organizations.

NCPI draws on the full breadth and depth of intellectual and institutional resources at five leading partner organizations: Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal (FMCSV), the Medical School at the University of São Paulo, INSPER, the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (HCDC), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Daunted by the costs of creating schools from the ground up, school districts have begun to explore the idea of sharing facilities with local organizations from museums and zoos to health - care centers and retail outlets.

The president and CEO of the advocacy organization Center for Teaching Quality lays out a roadmap for reforming our education system and improving the school environment for «teacherpreneurs.»

As a collaborative initiative, NCPI draws on the full breadth and depth of intellectual and institutional resources at five leading partner organizations: Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal (FMCSV), the Medical School at the University of São Paulo, INSPER, the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University (HCDC), and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University.

Getting TFA alumni into leadership roles, though, has meant first creating an enormous talent - building infrastructure of graduate - school partnerships, employer internships, an in - house career - counseling center, and an organization to help alumni win elected office.

The exhibit, in which 15 teachers demonstrated their work through posters, attracted an audience of graduate students, administrators, and educators from other communities, as well as representatives from Project Zero and the Center for Collaborative Education, an organization that partners with public schools and districts «to create and sustain effective and equitable schools.»

Dvornich began working with Informal Science Education organizations in 2005 to create a network of NatureMapping centers throughout the United States, educating and supporting schools and communities in conservation planning and field research projects while providing credible data to the NatureMapping database.

The Principals» Center is fully dedicated to the personal and professional development of school principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders, using executive education programs at HGSE and a membership organization to connect education leaders with the school and one another.

As part of Brain Awareness Week — a global campaign launched by the Dana Foundation — HGSE student organization, Brain Basics, and the Conte Center for Brain Science at Harvard hosted 125 sixth graders from Malden Public Schools at Gutman Conference Center to cultivate interest in and learn more about the learning brain.

18 - 21 — Education counseling: «Facing New Frontiers Prospects for Challenge and Change in Group Work,» conference sponsored by the Association for Specialists in Group Work, for school counselors, members of community health centers, human service agencies, and similar organizations, to be held in Athens, Ga..

A handful of reputable organizations have partnered with Digital Promise to issue micro-credentials that teachers can collect on BloomBoard's online platform, such as the Relay Graduate School of Education, Hope Street Group, Learning Forward, the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University, the Center for Teaching Quality, Teaching Matters, KQED, TNTP (The New Teacher Project), the New Teacher Center, and Arizona State University.

The report, conducted by the Center on Education Policy, a Washington - based research organization that tracks implementation of the federal law, found that schools and districts are better aligning instruction and state standards, that test scores are rising, and that the number of schools labeled «in need of improvement» is holding steady.