Sentences with phrase «education goal as»

Use the state's higher education goal as the starting point for establishing K - 12 goals.

With more than 200,000 Facebook followers, the group's strong outreach to the community has enabled them to advance its animal rescue efforts and education goals as well as find homes for several hundred dogs.

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The goal is to help teachers personalize education: Milyutin described the program as a «virtual teaching assistant.»

«Maintaining a strong credit score will help students later in life as their goals change from paying for education to buying their first car, starting a business or buying their first home,» said Jarman.

Emerson Collective is Powell Jobs» recent enterprise, founded in the early 2000s, which has invested capital in a number of education - related ventures, as well as in social justice projects in keeping with the group's goal of «opening doors to opportunity.»

«Removing these monies from classrooms, and redirecting them to private sector entities such as Encana, directly affects our ability to meet both our educational and environmental goals,» said McEvoy in a letter to the education minister.

If you have other goals, such as saving for your children's college education or some other large expenditure, then you will need to save more.

In addition, the party has pledged other key health - related initiatives, such as limiting the commercialization of genetically modified crops; developing national goals for pre-natal care; reducing cigarette smoking through education and taxes; and promoting healthy eating and physical activity.

As Director of the Business / Higher Education Roundtable (BHER), Isabelle Duchaine leads BHER's external communications and several other initiatives that support its goals of increasing employment opportunities for young Canadians, boosting private sector and post-secondary research collaborations and helping businesses adapt to the economy of the future.

Powell Jobs wants to use her ownership as a vehicle to accomplish some of her social goals, such as improving education.

From mentoring to technical education, our goal is to ensure that diverse suppliers can compete for our business as well as business from other Fortune 500 firms.»

For that they need programs such as the federal «Goals 2000» Act, which sets up national standards in education for «gender - equitable and multicultural» teaching.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

Less than 16 per cent of all programs report Christian education as a primary goal.

Nussbaum recognizes that prosperity is inadequate as a final end for human beings and as a goal for their education, but she seems to think that democratic citizenship is such an end.

The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.

Increasingly the goals of religious education are being formulated as a result of the dialogue between the behavioral sciences and the biblical - theological disciplines.

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

They are often considered to be preparation for professional schools rather than as fulfilling the goal of education in themselves.

If Christianity is seen as a paideia, as it has been in its most ancient traditions, then it is simply a theological education whose goal is knowledge of God and, correlatively, forming persons» souls to be holy.

(1) The goal of paideia, which is the cultivation of the excellence or arete of the soul, consists not in acquiring a clutch of virtues but in knowledge of the Good itself Education as paideia is defined as inquiry into a single, underlying principle of all virtues, their essence.

Note secondly a deep irony in the «Berlin» type of excellence in theological education: Although what makes it properly «theological» is its goal (as «professional» education) of nurturing the health of the church by preparing for it excellent leadership, what entitles it to a home in the wissenschaftlich education it needs is the rather different goal of nurturing the health of society as a whole (for which professional church leadership is a «necessary practice»).

These multiple aims of churches and schools are again multiplied as one proceeds from grand statements about the purpose of the large organizations to the specialized goals of boards and departments, of courses and classes, of rural and urban congregations, of ministries of preaching and education and pastoral work and of preparation for such particular functions.

The goal of education as paideia was something both very public and very political: the cultivating of politically skilled citizens for an idealized «democratic» self - governing polis or city.

The consensus that will emerge embraces both practical education and general education, with the goals of the latter characterized as giving the student «the values, attitudes, and skills that will equip him to live rightly and well in a free society.»

Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell children [that premarital sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»

As a result the socialist education movements that were effective among European workers were much less successful here and labor organizations limited their goals to short - run economic benefits.

Development is also often used in a normative sense as a multi-valued social goal covering such diverse spheres as better material well - being, living standards, education, health care, wider opportunities for work and leisure, and in essence the whole gamut of desirable social and material welfare.

Further, education was conceived as an instrument to realize the goal of a casteless and classless society.

Builders, based in Aledo, Texas, whose expressed goal is «to exert a positive influence in government, education, and the family by 1) educating the nation concerning the Godly foundation of our country; 2) providing information to federal, state and local officials as they develop public policies which reflect Biblical values; and 3) encouraging Christians to get involved in the civic arena.

Nord would accomplish his goal through special courses and by persuading, even forcing, educators to acknowledge religion as an integral part of liberal education.

The character of theological education follows from the nature of professional church leadership as «practical theology» since the unifying goal of theological schooling is to educate such leadership.

The basic assumption that undergirds this book is that the fundamental goal of all counseling and all psychotherapy (as well as of all creative education) is to maximize human wholeness!

The Plant Based Foods Association launched last week with the goal of leveling the playing field so plant - based foods get the same consideration as meats when it comes to dietary guidelines, labeling and education.

In order to achieve the self - defined goals, the areas of founding, research & innovation as well as education are holistically covered.

Defined as «passion and perseverance for long - term goals» (Duckworth, et al., 2007), grit predicts success in education, occupations, and sports.

In addition to calling for state laws mandating the use of helmets in alpine activities, the study also recommends such prevention strategies as securing and padding soccer goal posts, as well as enhanced education for coaches, trainers, parents, and the athletes themselves to promote increased reporting and proper management of sport - related concussion.

Recess Before Lunch: The State Department of Education includes providing recess before lunch as a sample goal in its guidance document for wellness policy implmentation and monitoring, Making Wellness Work: A Guide to Implementing and Montoring Welness Policies in Maryland (2009).

As I've already argued here on The Lunch Tray, it's incumbent upon Congress to step up and fund similar nutrition education around the country if the HHFKA is to succeed in its goals.

Like many ideas, work started on identifying those principles essential to Waldorf education in several places around the same time, as a number of Waldorf educators sought to address shared goals including: What is it that makes an education «Waldorf»?

As part of that review, the Wellness Committee will review nutrition standards with education goals; physical activity and education goals; and evaluate the provision of the environment to support healthy eating and physical activity.

We offer various services such as: - Pregnancy Testing - State Assistance Referrals - Childbirth Classes - Parenting Classes - Breastfeeding Classes - Doula Services - Prenatal & Fetal Development Education - Case Management Services - Child Development Education - Goal Setting - Support Groups - Transportation All of our services are free of charge.

As a parent, it's best to have a clear understanding of the education provided to your child, the levels of activity expected, and the goal setting techniques used to track progress.

The IACSC's goal will be to provide to it's members continued education in areas which influence sleep practices such as child psychology, nutrition, child development, and many others as it pertains to sleep.

My goal as a doula is to make sure you have the education, resources and support during your pregnancy and birth to have that birth experience that you have dreamed of — and can remember with joy.

The Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act recognized the need for USDA to establish education and training standards for all school nutrition personnel — including school nutrition assistants; managers; district supervisors and directors; and state agency directors as a means of helping to ensure that school nutrition programs meet the goal of healthy children ready to learn.

Families best served at SWS are those whose values are compatible with the culture of the school as an educational community, who share SWS's educational goals, and who seek the unique character of Waldorf Education for their children.

LLLC contributes to this common goal by building connections, sharing resources, and providing education programs such as our Health Care Provider seminars across Canada.

If you're convinced that the team's goals will work to the detriment of your child, it's your duty as a parent to see that your special needs child gets the education that he deserves.

«That's part of the goal of the district to increase our environmental education — to get the kids exposed to their natural environment as much as possible,» Quayle said.