Sentences with phrase «community organizing efforts»

They are using sophisticated campaign - building techniques, leading community organizing efforts, and driving education leadership to rethink the absence of student voice throughout school decision - making apparatuses on every level of school and in each layer of the education system.

The rise of community organizing efforts calling for community schools is another significant development.

Youth and community organizing efforts have been winning changes to harsh and discriminatory school discipline practices across the country.

Apart from this work, she was also an active member of community organizing efforts, student mentorship programs and college readiness initiatives bridging HWS with the larger Geneva community.

As part of our community organizing efforts, we have talked to over 300,000 New Yorkers in predominately low - income communities and communities of color who are deeply concerned with the lack of quality schools and quality teachers available to their children.

This new paradigm will force the politicians to get more involved in grass roots, community organizing efforts in order to get millions of people to support them instead of millions of dollars from a few insiders.

Many thousands of citizens, including many Christians, have been working for social justice for years — through nonprofit organizations, community organizing efforts, and justice - oriented churches.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

To support the development of sustainable and just Puerto Rico, the Maria Fund supports critical community organizing efforts.

One of the education activists I interviewed, Katherine Carter, is the principal of Manzanita SEED Elementary School, a small public school that was started through a community organizing effort in Oakland, Calif..

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But the guild has recently upped its efforts to organize the story - shapers behind some of the biggest hits on TV, and these cases have been seen by many in the labor law community as a hardball tactic in that crusade.

Their quirky effort is part of a much broader movement among atheists who are exploring how to build communities that provide mutual assistance, outlets for wonder and delight, rituals to mark holidays, and organized volunteering.

I have absolutely no problem with communities supporting themselves with building, staff, and programs, and organizing themselves financially for charitable efforts.

Nakedpastor, «I have absolutely no problem with communities supporting themselves with building, staff, and programs, and organizing themselves financially for charitable efforts.»

But the other elements of community organizing would come together again and again: the foot - slogging, one - on - one recruitment effort to form an organization of organizations, the struggle to get past ethnic differences, the taking of the public stage, the sequence of conflict - organization - power as the route to negotiation, and the critical relationship to other social movements — which became a guarded relation to the civil rights movement.

In other words, rather than being a definite end - product of a singular, isolated process, a concrete image in a visual perception is the result of an essentially dynamic complex of semiotic processes requiring the coordinated, cooperative efforts of a network of socially organized communities of «interpreters» in the animal body.

Join one of the city's finest, largest and most organized efforts to feed our community's hungry.

The curriculum is quite comprehensive; taught by a hodgepodge of veteran operatives and campaign professionals who donate their experience via lectures, webcasts, and grassroots campaigning exercises — all in an effort to raise future leaders equipped with skills in fundraising, community organizing, communications, and legislative action.

At 8 a.m., more than than 100 community, law enforcement and religious officials participate in a «Cops, Community, Clergy» multi-faith prayer breakfast organized as part of efforts to improve community - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, Mcommunity, law enforcement and religious officials participate in a «Cops, Community, Clergy» multi-faith prayer breakfast organized as part of efforts to improve community - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, MCommunity, Clergy» multi-faith prayer breakfast organized as part of efforts to improve community - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, Mcommunity - police relations; Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway, Manhattan.

College students and community members throughout the country are coming together to organize and support relief efforts following Saturday's Nepal earthquake.

Sheehan's effort harnesses the power of community organizing.

New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

«Considering the fact that the population down here is exploding, it makes obvious sense that there needs to be some organized political effort,» said Patrick Kennell, who is also a member of Community Board 1.

He comes to the political software developer from Truman National Security Project where he served as national political director — helping progressive candidates better understand foreign policy and military issues and assisting with organizing efforts within that community.

The effort, organized by members of Community Voices Heard Power, Interfaith Clergy for Social Action, WESPAC, Working Families Party and the Westchester Workforce Housing Coalition, comes after a year of advocacy to secure this funding in the 2016 Westchester County Budget.

The Mayo Clinic SCAD Registry was created in 2010 in response to an organized effort by an online community of SCAD patients who sought more research on their condition.

Some of these communities have begun to organize charitable efforts.

He doesn't know how much such a project will cost, but the group intends to publish a report on their plan, which they hope will inspire the community to take action to begin to organize the effort.

Corine Wegener, cultural heritage preservation officer for the Smithsonian Institution, said that organizing an international research community to study the primary causes of damage to cultural heritage in times of conflict will be critical to intervention efforts in Syria — a goal to be discussed at the September 19 meeting.

In an effort to learn more about how to combine his interests in community organizing and the arts, he came to HGSE, lured by the promise of the Arts in Education Program and by Associate Professor Mark Warren's research on community organizing.

The shirts had been made during my time with the county when I organized an effort to get the community more involved in ending child abuse.

Unlike more orthodox forms of parent and community engagement, organizing efforts are characterized by a focus on building effective power to influence institutions and policy through leadership development, relationship - building, and critical consciousness.

The SIG will foster research that examines the ways in which organizing efforts affect school improvement and youth development, particularly in low - income communities and communities of color.

«Classroom Coordinators» Capitalizes on Community Talent The Classroom Coordinator (CC) program at one Minnesota elementary school is an organized effort to maintain a small - town, grassroots feel within the school cCommunity Talent The Classroom Coordinator (CC) program at one Minnesota elementary school is an organized effort to maintain a small - town, grassroots feel within the school communitycommunity.

Because of organizing efforts, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio agreed to work with the community to establish 100 community schools.

The effort was organized by a coalition of Dane County school boards, superintendents and community public school advocates in cooperation with the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

OCO's organizing yields important lessons about how communities and educators can come together to generate reform efforts, the challenges and opportunities associated with reforms when they are scaled up, and the importance of community engagement in sustaining reform over time.

During the school year, Future Corps students lead their peers through the college application process, train faculty and students on the latest mobile college app technologies, and organize, design and conduct three peer - to - peer campaigns focused on college applications, FAFSA completion efforts and a «Big Idea» movement addressing a pressing community need.

Tags: Chris Larson, community schools, state school takeovers by Félix Pérez; image: candidate Chris Larson addresses school walk - in participants Milwaukee parents, residents, educators, students and community groups are organized, vocal and persistent when it comes to derailing the effort by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his friends in the state legislature to take over their community schools.

For the well - being of children and youth, educators should participate in organized efforts to solve community problems that lie outside classrooms and schools.

The press conference is being organized to announce efforts by the parents of the community school's students in advance of an expected vote by the Hartford Board of Education on the proposal.

DeVos» appointment has increased awareness of educational issues, and many parents and community members who were not previously active in politics are organizing protests and running for school board in an effort to thwart DeVos» agenda of privatization.

Innovate Public Schools» staff bring more than 40 years of professional experience in grassroots community organizing, with significant demonstrated success in building long - term reform efforts led by low - income parent leaders in California.

These organizations are working with our member leaders to build organizing efforts in feeder systems from South LA to the East Valley to the Crenshaw area to bring parents, youth, clergy, and community into efforts to push for community schools, public school accountability, and educator unionization.

This initial conversation led to a commitment by this group to organize a Third Grade Reading Task Force to which met five times in 2014 to review key research, build on past community efforts and to define the goal, scope and pillars of a potential community - wide collective impact effort around early childhood literacy.

You can help support this effort by organizing one or more activities in your community to raise awareness of the need for these important protections for students of color during the week of Friday, March 16th through Thursday, March 22nd.

Along with a detailed explanation of each indicator area, the guide explains how the Framework can help different audiences advance the work of community organizing for school reform: for foundation program officers, through learning how to recognize and understand the accomplishments of community organizing groups; for educators, through appreciating how community organizing can complement their efforts and what it can accomplish that is outside the realm of professional educators; and for organizers and leaders, through gaining a vocabulary for describing their achievements and criteria for assessing their work.

From refusal and opting out to protests and organizing letter - writing campaigns, section five, «Resisting and Responding to High - Stakes Testing,» takes a look at a wide range of efforts teachers, students, and communities have employed to oppose the testing regime.

«There needs to be a concerted effort to go beyond the choir, if you will, to really get to the voices and communities that may not have been traditionally organized and do not necessarily have a process to get organized and to provide stakeholder input.»

If the CEA is serious about its efforts to organize the teacher rank and file and their community allies they must retract their endorsement.