Sentences with phrase «community learning agendas»

CLPS helps community members, leaders, and institutional representatives conduct needs and asset assessments, plan programs, develop youth / adult partnerships, and provide technical assistance and learning support designed to articulate community learning agendas.

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First, I've been a part of the LGBT community for close to 12 years and I have yet to learn what this so called agenda is.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

* 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

Also on the agenda was state aid for the UFT's 28 Community Learning Schools.

Across the country, communities are putting together ambitious agendas for dramatic expansion of formal learning opportunities in the years before kindergarten.

It is a watershed moment for the field: across the country, communities are putting together aspirational and ambitious agendas for dramatic expansion of high - quality learning opportunities, starting from birth.

Many of you said Teacher helps you on a really practical level, «[I take the articles] to professional discussions with a focus on reflective practice, to feed into professional learning communities, influence strategic planning agendas and to focus on the bigger picture through strategic steps towards improvement.»

«With this partnership, we are putting the right conditions in place to realize progress across the 2030 Agenda, to harness ICTs for quality learning, and to empower adolescent girls and young women with the confidence and skills they need to lead productive lives and shape a better future for themselves, their communities and nations.»

Federal, state and community agencies across the nation are working on an aspirational and ambitious agenda for dramatic expansion of high - quality early learning opportunities in the years before kindergarten, including pre-K.

Once you have your professional learning communities, make sure that they have a strong agenda.

Most notably, they have been articulating a federal policy agenda with a combined voice and they currently co-lead a professional learning community in the Wallace Foundation Principal Pipeline program.

To flourish, principal learning communities need sufficient meeting time, strong facilitators, and carefully constructed agendas grounded in the real problems that school administrators face.

Building on extensive evidence that school - based teacher learning communities improve student outcomes, this book lays out an agenda to develop and sustain collaborative professional cultures.

NCFL is internationally recognized as the leader in the field of family literacy and family engagement and is well known for placing family literacy - parents and children learning together - on the agenda for social change in states and communities nationwide.

Commmunity Needs Assessments Community Needs Assessment: Overview Community Needs Assessment: All 4th - 8th Grade Student Needs Assessment High School Student Needs Assessment Student Wish List Survey Teacher Assessment Parent Interest Survey Community Focus Group Design School & Community Demographic Data School & Community Conditions Analysis Community Asset Mapping Community Asset Mapping: Overview Community Resource Assessment Overview and Community Resource Assessment Advisory Board Development Planning Community School Advisory Boards: How Resource Coordinators Can Engage Community Members in Shared Ownership of the Community School Step 1: Identifying Potential Members Step 2: Prioritizing Potential Members Step 3: Identifying Strengths of Potential Members Step 4: Inviting Advisory Board Members Creating an Engaging Environment Sample Advisory Board Meeting Agenda Out - of - School Time Planning Afterschool Lesson Plan Database Afterschool Training Toolkit: Building Quality Enrichment Activities Consumer Guide to Afterschool Science Resources Newsletter Templates General Community Schools Newsletter Template General Community Schools Newsletter Template - Spanish Addressing Complex Challenges Common Core Transition Community schools and resource coordinators, in particular, have an important role to play in supporting student learning that is engaging, collaborative, fosters critical thinking AND is aligned to the Common Core Learning Stlearning that is engaging, collaborative, fosters critical thinking AND is aligned to the Common Core Learning StLearning Standards.

Circle Time Circle Time is a daily class meeting in which the teacher leads the class through a purposeful and predictable agenda that includes essential early learning skills (e.g. calendar, weather, counting, preview of the daily schedule) and opportunities for community building (e.g. shout outs, sharing).

Learn how animal advocates in Austin, Texas, put no - kill on the City's public - policy agenda, and how you can do the same for your community.

Upon entering the gallery space, the viewer is confronted by an installation consisting of three video projections that present the most pressing questions concerning the supposed objectivity of academic knowledge by pointing out the corporatization of institutions of higher learning in the United States and the sometimes controversial positions that universities fall into when trying to physically expand amidst disenfranchised communities, as well as falling into possible contradictions with the agendas of university donors.

Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to.