Sentences with phrase «diverse city every year»

Indianapolis is becoming a more diverse city every year.

Compass Academy will deploy a team of diverse City Year — AmeriCorps members, combined with advances in the learning sciences, to create a personalized learning environment where all members of the school community passionately pursue deeper learning.

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But, as Bain pointed out, City Year must establish itself as the best at what it does (community service helping young people of diverse backgrounds).

A year ago, The Foundling began offering New York City's first digital divide programming targeted at the foster youth population, with an aim towards launching a new group of talented and diverse millennials into the workforce.

Bowles also cofounded the Mayor's Star Council with Mayor Mike Rawlings of Dallas to find a culturally diverse and civically minded group of emerging leaders who want to embrace and engage the City of Dallas as opposed to inheriting the city in 20 yeCity of Dallas as opposed to inheriting the city in 20 yecity in 20 years.

During my (almost) two years with Canada Learning Code, as an Experience Coordinator for the Toronto chapter, I've helped coordinate Ladies Learning Code workshops, Meetups (formerly Coffee & Code) and Digital Skills programs hosted at some of the most innovative, creative and richly diverse tech companies in the city.

Located just south of the city of San Diego, Chula Vista (roughly translated as «beautiful view») is a diverse city that has been experiencing rapid growth in recent years.

I've watched Houston have incredibly diverse restaurants and more recently, within the last 10 years, it's become a «foodie» city.

In the next two years, Pete's Fresh Market plans to open stores in two other suburbs: Willowbrook and Orland Park, Ill. «Suburban locations are much more diverse than our city stores, which are located in more predominately Hispanic neighborhoods,» Dremonas says.

In 2017, she became Puppet Showplace Theater's first resident teaching artist after years of experience working with diverse student populations in greater Boston, New York City, Vermont, and Texas.

As a former La Leche League Leader and Lamaze - certified Childbirth Educator, she provided education and support to diverse families over 35 years in 9 cities in the USA and Canada.

So, it's gonna be a bit of a construction zone this summer, which will make things interesting, but, I think that it sends a message that we are right here, in the center of a diverse city that is growing and that has seen a lot of exciting things happen over the last three and a half years.»

The Rochester City School District is in the midst of hiring season for the next school year, and is pushing to add more teachers with diverse backgrounds to classrooms.

Encompassing one of the most diverse districts in the city, Ms. Sears has little to no record of supporting or assisting veterans over the course of her 8 years in the council.

«Diversity Plaza has been a mainstay of Jackson Heights — one of the most diverse neighborhoods in one of the most diverse cities on earth — for years,» Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

«Two years ago, when I first became Speaker, I made it a priority to visit regions outside of New York City so I could better understand the needs of the diverse communities in New York,» Heastie said in a statement.

For sixteen years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations throughout the world, including Baltimore City Public School students, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools and other various venues throughout the nation and throughout the world.

And yet a Time Magazine cover story from 2002 — the same year, ironically, in which the movie is set — hailed Sacramento as «America's most diverse city.»

Independent Film Festival Boston for providing our city with a world class film festival experience for ten years running, creating community and showcasing a diverse lineup of independent film that includes rich programming in documentary and shorts.

To work with the students directly, we rely on the energy and dedication of our AmeriCorps members - a diverse group of educated, young adults who serve full - time for 11 months in City Year's partner schools to provide extra support for students, teachers, and the school.

His diverse background in education, applied data analysis, the humanities, and sports includes working as a program evaluation analyst at City Year, a national educational non-profit.

Across the country, the number of charter schools that are diverse by design has been steadily rising in recent years, in cities including New York, Denver, and Washington D.C. Scholars at the Century Foundation in Washington D.C., a nonpartisan research organization, estimate that about two dozen such charters have opened in recent years although they still comprise only a tiny fraction of charter schools.

The plan for a community school in Emeryville first surfaced more than 10 years ago and was seen as a way for this small, economically diverse city to lure more families to the under - enrolled district, increase test scores and create more of a community feel.

Summit Public Schools founded in Redwood City, CA, with the mission to prepare a diverse student population for success in a four - year college or university and to be thoughtful, contributing members of society.

In a three - year pilot study at 20 elementary schools in New York City with a diverse population of children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar schools.

GO Teacher Policy Fellowship — GO's fellowship is a year - long opportunity for a small, diverse cohort of Oakland teachers to lead, learn, and think about the future of education in our city.

Recent enrollment data suggests that twenty years after the start of New Haven's interdistrict magnet program, only one of the city's interdistrict magnet high schools, ESUMS, is currently meeting the city's objectives of creating racially diverse schools with a minimum of 25 % white enrollment.

Chicago is one of the biggest and most culturally diverse cities in the US, making it an incredible destination all year long, but especially fabulous during the holidays.

Set thirty years before the American Revolution, Golden Hill captures an ancient iconography of New York not only in his depictions of the physical city and its diverse citizens, currencies, and costumes, but also in the clever and pungent language of his prose.

Getrichslowly.org ranked the 20 best cities for retirement to help you decide where to spend your golden years, coming up with a diverse list, with choices that span across the country.

Brooklyn has garnered many «cool and hip» individuals to its many eclectic neighborhoods in recent years and it is as culturally diverse as any city.

The rich ethnic history and diverse cultural heritage of the city are celebrated with a number of events and fun filled attactions throughout the year.

«With our diverse range of world - class restaurant & bars venues, we will bring a new vibe to the Dubai Marina, giving the city's discerning diners the opportunity to experience some of the best flavours from around the world, all year round.

2010 Host City Durban offers a diverse and interesting collection of things to do and attractions in and around the third largest city in South Africa, with a climate that arguably places it in top position for all year - round accessibilCity Durban offers a diverse and interesting collection of things to do and attractions in and around the third largest city in South Africa, with a climate that arguably places it in top position for all year - round accessibilcity in South Africa, with a climate that arguably places it in top position for all year - round accessibility.

... It is an incredibly diverse country that is full of wonderful surprises for visitors; from beautiful, sunny beaches to magical natural parks, and from cities that simply ooze culture and character, to incredible events that run right throughout the year.

This is the community where we have lived for around five years, and I can tell you that within a half an hour's drive from us, there is so much diverse natural beauty, great cities, lovely beaches and delicious food.

With the original descendants of the rugged settlers now as entrenched in the Pacific Northwest as the red flannel shirt, Seattle has developed a rich and diverse multi-cultural mix, overcoming boom and bust, fires, earthquakes, and other calamities which have hit the city regularly during its 160 years.

While great beaches, perfect weather and a sizzling nightlife have earned Miami its status as the world's favorite fun - in - the - sun playground, the city is home to a diverse, sophisticated population that has sparked an increase in non-profit cultural groups from 100 to more than 700 over the past 20 years.

With a total of 120 invited artists from 51 countries (103 of these are participating for the first time), as well as 85 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice, this year's exhibition is set to be the Biennale's largest and most diverse event to date.

For its fourth year, the 2013 edition has moved into the Klingental neighborhood of Basel, one of the city's most culturally diverse and creatively active quarters.

The artists, exhibitions, cities, and events gathered below reveal a year of boundaries being broken — of contemporary art becoming increasingly diverse and dispersed, and of artists asserting influence in the wider cultural and political sphere.

The RISD Museum's first large survey of work from the greater - Providence region in more than 20 years, Locally Made expands across several Museum galleries with multiple components celebrating the rich and diverse talent in the city and nearby communities.

Furthermore this year a new project, The City Is a School, has been activated with the objective of facilitating the access to the Biennial of a wider and diverse audience, through the work of a team of cultural mediators.

A DJ with degrees in international studies, Spanish, and fashion design, and nearly twenty years living in New York City working in corporate and non-profit sectors, the influence of her diverse experiences and travels is transparent in her writing as is her Black, feminist and American identities.

Blue Star Contemporary currently welcomes nearly 18,000 visitors on - site each year, and more than 200,000 through off - site exhibitions in multiple regions across our geographically large city — an audience representative of San Antonio's diverse population.

* The Mitchell - Innes & Nash exhibition presents diverse approaches to abstract painting and includes works by the following five artists: Phillip Allen - Allen is represented by The Approach Gallery (London); his solo shows include Kerlin gallery, Dublin in 2005 and P.S. 1 in Long Island City, New York, in 2003 Alison Fox - A 2005 MFA graduate from Hunter College, Fox had her first solo shows last year at ATM gallery in New York and at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Los Angeles Alex Kwartler - Represented by John Connelly Presents, Kwartler was included in last year's The Painted World, at P.S. 1 in Long Island City, New York.

The Union of Art, Architecture and Engineering has empowered a historically diverse student body that for over 150 years has served to shape engaged and creative citizens in and beyond New York City.

She was one of the artists selected by the HK Government's Art Promotion Office for its «Artists in Neighbourhood Scheme» in 2003, the fellow of the Desiree and Hans Michael Jebsen Fellowship of Asian Cultural Council in 2006, the invited artist of the 10th anniversary of Tree Museum in Toronto in 2007, and took part in a group exhibition «Diverse City» at Singapore Art Museum last year.

Halifax Diverse has been active in urban environmental stewardship for four years and we understand the importance of a healthy urban forest to thriving cities.

A portion of their sales have gone to non-profits such as Pretty Shield Foundation for at - risk native American youth and City Year, an AmeriCorps program that unites diverse young people with communities in need.