Sentences with phrase «community educators support»

Our community educators support teachers in addressing specific Health Education Standards and Oregon State Benchmark Categories.

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Amber has a message to all the activists, corporate donors, program designers and educators who are helping to provide the additional support that the community desperately needed in the aftermath of Michael Brown's death.

«As educators who believe that every human is made in the image of God and thus is endowed with dignity from their Creator, we want to support ambitious, driven, intelligent students who have dreams of contributing to their communities and want to pursue an education,» stated Shirley V. Hoogstra, president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.

Trained Planned Parenthood Educators and volunteers from the community (with all appropriate clearances) offer a non-judgmental place for sexuality education, socialization, recreation, and peer support.

Certified Lactation Educators ™ (CLE ® s) provide evidence based information to the community, families and professionals to encourage an increase in breastfeeding initiation, duration and support.

Lactation Educators ™ are found teaching community and hospital based breastfeeding classes, as peer breastfeeding counselors in hospital and public health settings, facilitating support groups, running pump rental stations and providing phone support.

As a mother, lactation expert, childbirth educator, and mother's support facilitator, I also have research - based reasons why this is important to us as a community of mothers and professionals:

The Research Institute for Waldorf Education (RIWE), founded in 1996 in order to deepen and enhance the quality of Waldorf education, engages in sustained dialogue with the wider educational - cultural community and supports research to serve a wide range of educators in their work with children and adolescents.

Northern Health's Population Health Dietitians are registered dietitians (RDs) who work with community groups, early childhood programs, school districts, organizations, health professionals, educators and local government to support and promote healthy eating.

WSL's Parent Community Association (PCA) invites speakers to share their expertise in support of child development, parenting, and family life for parents and educators.

Each of the voices in this conversation brings a breadth of experience, research, and knowledge — and BOND is a tremendous opportunity to bring it all together: research on infant / early child development, attachment, sociology, public health, education, the experience of medical professionals, pediatric support professionals, educators, volunteer, and manufacturers, and of course, our collective minds and skills as a service community working to strengthen human bonding and family health.

Through evidence - based articles, the JPE advances the knowledge of aspiring and seasoned educators in any setting - independent or private practice, community, hospital, nursing or midwifery school - and informs educators and other health care professionals on research that will improve their practice and their efforts to support natural, safe, and healthy birth.

I view the breastfeeding community as not just being the professionals that work, so the lactation consultants and educators, but I view it as being breastfeeding moms, people that support breastfeeding all of us working together to help moms accomplish their personal goals.

Jackie Kelleher has been supporting growing families since 1996 as a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, lactation counselor, doula trainer / mentor, and community volunteer.

Originally aimed at health workers, educators and community workers in different local regions in developing countries, these resources provide practical information on a wide range of care, support and prevention issues concerning HIV, AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Second, we are enlisting the support of the entire community to help make safe sleep a priority by becoming educators and advocates themselves.»

Later that night, Buffalo parents, students, educators and community members gathered to draft official affidavits in support of the Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization appeal to New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia to remove Paladino.

If elected, Mr. Giardina pledged to evaluate current law enforcement programs and policies for interdiction and intervention; support 12 - step programs for addiction recovery; double the number of children and teenagers involved in after - school and sports programs sponsored by schools and faith and community - based groups; establish mentorship, apprenticeship, and internship programs that link East Hampton's youth with year - round homeowners and those who visit seasonally; create a volunteer program for those in recovery to be reintegrated into the job market; triple the number of police, firefighters, educators, and medical personnel trained to administer Narcan, and investigate the establishment of an easy - access residential treatment facility available as an alternative or supplement to incarceration.

We appreciate your strong leadership and advocacy on behalf of our public school communities and your support of educators.

As the Oct. 7 deadline fast approached, educators at almost 350 public schools across New York City prepared themselves and their school communities for the crushing loss of more than 700 school support staff — including school aides, parent coordinators, lunchroom workers, crossing guards and others — who were set to be let go by the city in the largest layoff at a single city agency since Mayor Michael Bloomberg took office in 2002.

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

«The program is supported by a broad partnership — a global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline, the world's largest multidisciplinary science society, community - based organizations like libraries and Boys & Girls Clubs, and the K - 12 educators who deliver the curriculum,» said Betty Calinger, AAAS Education and Human Resources project director.

Welcome to the NASA Science Mission Directorate STEM Activation Community's public web site, providing content and strategies for formal and informal educators and the public to enable learning, build science literacy, and support national and local goals to improve science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics literacy and practice.

DOE, PNNL, and Battelle work together to support efforts that bring educators, families and communities together to energize all students in STEM.

The Heliophysics Community of Practice for Formal Educators is a multi-mission effort led by THEMIS - ARTEMIS E / PO and supported by the Van Allen Probes E / PO, IBEX E / PO and the Heliophysics Forum.

National Lab Day is more than just a day; it is a nationwide initiative to build local communities of support that will foster ongoing collaborationsamong volunteers, students, and educators.

The National Association for Music Education offers support to music educators and concerned community members on its Web page, including the organization's Advocacy Information page.

Educators can create the spaces for this youth - driven work in schools, communities, and even policy settings — helping to support young people as both knowledge creators and knowledge consumers.

Parents can partner effectively in their children's educational success by supporting home learning, establishing constructive dialogue with educators and policy makers, and shining as individuals within their community.

The Kitchen Garden Foundation's new Kitchen Garden Classroom membership has enabled secondary schools to access the Foundation's wealth of knowledge, professional development, resources, support and online community of kitchen garden educators.

Over the past twenty years, Mapp's research and practice focus has been on the cultivation of partnerships among families, community members and educators that support student achievement and school improvement.

Early Warning Indicator and Intervention Systems (EWS) represent a collaborative approach by educators, administrators, parents, and communities to identify and support students at risk of not graduating.

Now, after completing her master's in learning and teaching, the recent Ed School alum is preparing to open Dimensions Family School, a nonprofit organization that provides homeschoolers — both students and educators — with support in numerous areas, including electives, extracurricular activities, professional development, facilities, and community - building.

Adopt - A-Classroom offers a free, safe online e-wallet account to educators who want to solicit financial support from the community.

It supports educators, young people and community members who are willing to improve the quality of their lives and the quality of their local realities.

But for the educators committed to the well being of each and every student, engaging in such discourse can set the stage for supporting a diverse school community, including students, staff, teachers, and administrators.

Some current projects include: Cultures of Computing, an examination of how K - 12 teachers design learning environments to support novice programmers, focusing on teachers» design intentions and how those intentions are enacted; ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators who support computational literacy with the Scratch programming language, involving the development of a 25,000 - member online community, a network of in - person events, and curricular materials; and Cultivating Computational Thinking, an investigation of the concepts, practices, and perspectives that young people develop through computational design activities.

As educators of young children, it is important to understand those internal processes because they (a) affect your ability to connect with children and families; (b) affect your ability to work in a learning community that supports the emotional and physical development of the children in your class; and (c) affect your ability to identify challenging behaviors and work through them without losing site of the childs needs.

Positive response to her work on classroom interventions prompted Dr. Wilson to seek out opportunities to share the implications of research in brain science and psychology to improve teaching and support student learning with educators and with community agencies that support students.

Saku Tuominen, founder of HundrED, said: «HundrED exists to support a community of educators all over the world, and collaboration underpins everything we do.

Focusing on content and products sure to change the game, now and in the future, helps to support the community of educators and innovators that attend each year and it's the commitment, innovation and dedication from educators that makes the biggest difference to pupils.

«Our job, as educators and parents, is to support our children in their efforts to create community standards where they work and play.

Price, a nonresident Senior Fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institute and John L. Weinberg / Goldman Sachs visiting professor of public and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, wrote Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible «for educators who wish to mobilize their own communities to support student success,» he wrote.

In a similar vein, Jennifer Vranek and her colleagues at Education First write, «Past accountability systems were the darlings of policy makers, think tanks, foundations, editorial boards, and advocates; they rarely had the support of educators, school communities, and the public writ large.

Educators, policymakers, and members of the arts - education community urged the state lawmakers to express their support for the Goals 2000: Educate America Act to their U.S. representatives, and to advocate inclusion of the arts in local school curricula.

Though there is never enough support for beginning teachers (or any educator), I'm hoping I can enlist the community of Edutopia.org visitors to engage in a discussion with new members of our profession and dish out some practical tips and a few morsels of advice, consolation, and encouragement.

Despite an innovative curriculum, the support of the local business community, and the best efforts of educators and administrators, the Minnesota Business Academy ceased operating in 2006.

It was DeVos articulating the kinds of practical frustrations that bedevil so many educators, parents, and community members — especially that trio of dynamic teachers who might want to launch a charter, but don't have the time or bandwidth to navigate an application process that requires two years, foundation support, and a professional proposal writer.

The educator adds that improved attendance rates at schools in remote Indigenous settings can be partly attributed to community and family support, as well as consistency in teaching and routines.

The Foundation supports the collaborative efforts of public school educators, their unions, school districts, and communities to focus on learning conditions that improve student performance.