Sentences with phrase «engaging schools work»

Engaging Schools works with school and program leaders and educators to support students in developing and strengthening social - emotional learning competencies and qualities of character that increase interpersonal effectiveness, reduce aggressive and antisocial behavior and intolerance, and enhance academic achievement.

Case studies of Engaging Schools» work with the Syracuse City School District, William J. Dean Technical High School, High Point Academy, and Bronx Design and Construction Academy demonstrate how Engaging Schools works with schools and districts — and the results we help students and schools achieve.

Engaging Schools works with urban middle and high schools that serve high percentages of low - income students; students who are struggling academically; and students who need extra support to address social, emotional, and other challenges.

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The MDR division of Dun & Bradstreet works to help companies engage with the best educators for their brands through online communities such as WeAreTeachers, WeAreParents, EdNET, and School Leaders Now.

About a third of employers say they are getting the workers they need, in part because they are engaged in the training process, communicating directly with schools and students to develop course work or to the let institutions know what skills new hires need.

Ante Glavas, an associate professor with a specialization in organizational behaviour at Kedge Business School in Marseille, France, says employees of companies that promote social responsibility tend to feel more connected to their work: «They are more engaged, because instead of leaving values at the door when they leave home, they can feel like they are doing something good that aligns with who they are as a person.»

The Haskayne Career Centre is working closely with our faculty partners to plan a number of events to engage with Haskayne School of Business students.

Wade — whose return to Miami at February's trade deadline came just before the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and who worked to pay tribute to the fallen students there and engage with the survivors after that tragedy — asked Shaw what he hoped would come of his experience at the Waffle House and its aftermath.

Students work in small groups as they engage the contexts of the school of theology, Emory University and the city of Atlanta.

We want to work with the Catholic Education Service and Catholic schools just as we will engage with everyone.»

Dr. Woodbridge is engaged in postdoctoral work at the Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California.

Every institution of education — the home, the school, the church or temple, the industrial shop or laboratory, the museum or library, the mass media — can be and ought to be an agency of religious instruction, engaged in the one saving work of emancipating persons from bondage to selfish desires and idolatrous attachments and of directing them toward the life of devotion to that in which their being and well - being are grounded.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

With more than 25 years of experience, Champions is recognized for our leadership in delivering extended learning programs that are tailored specifically to a school's needs and that provide busy working parents with a safe, convenient program where their child's potential is fostered through engaging learning experiences.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about school, helping them see how disengagement works against them, and what engagement actually is.

Through interactive presentations at schools, libraries, work places, community centers, and other venues, we highlight the parents» role in developing and supporting healthy, engaged children.

In the same way that the zero - tolerance approach to discipline sends precisely the opposite psychological message to disadvantaged kids than what we now know they need in order to feel motivated and engaged with school, so do many basic elements of traditional American pedagogy work in direct opposition to what the psychological research tells us will help those children succeed.

«We will however make available information on best practice and «what works» for improving the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and I am clear that a valuable use of the premium would be schools investing in ways to encourage parents, including of course fathers, to engage in the education of their children.»

Our graduates emerge from school ready to engage in the global community through meaningful relationships and purposeful work.

I saw a system that is working, a reading scheme that excites and engages, a school that's like a big family.

And I think the opportunities to empower our teachers, change the learning process, engage kids - I've seen it with the work we're doing at Amplify, and I've been in schools that are using these products and how excited they are.

Other works by this award - winning author include the children's picture books A Walk in the Clouds, Petey's Listening Ears, and the soon - to - be-released Grumpykins series for ages 2 to 6, which are humorous and engaging tools for parents, teachers, and caregivers to use in implementing gentle parenting techniques in their homes and schools.

Dual enrollment courses may provide engaging content and fulfilling work that would not otherwise be available to a high school student.

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For nearly seven years we have worked hard to set the stage for a healthier next generation of kids by engaging stakeholders on all levels - parents, child care providers, schools, chefs, local elected officials, faith - based leaders, museums, and more.

Montessori schools engage children in challenging intellectual tasks and allow them to follow their own interests, thereby letting them work ahead in their areas of proficiency.

Engage the community in supporting the work of the DOE in creating continuity between school and other settings for students and staff to practice lifelong healthy habits.

Hubs provide family support services such as parenting education, health education, and employment readiness activities; connect pregnant women and parents to center - based and home visiting programs; conduct outreach to child care providers to engage them in professional development opportunities; and work with families to ease transitions as children move from early childhood programs to school.

Looking at the work ahead of us in 2018, we are inspired and motivated that schools across the country are so engaged in making change.

Other works by this award - winning author include the Wisdom For Little Hearts and the soon - to - be-released Grumpykins children's picture book series for ages 2 to 6, which are humorous and engaging tools for parents, teachers, and caregivers to use in implementing gentle parenting techniques in their homes and schools.

«The reason we saved Wadleigh's middle school is because the entire community worked together in unity to make sure that everyone knew, from the mayor to the Chancellor to the DOE, that we were going to stand and fight,» said State Senator Brian Benjamin, who had engaged in meetings with the DOE and helped organize a protest to prevent the school from becoming only a high school.

The Partnership is working to engage employers in revamping Career & Technical Education (CTE) programs in public schools and colleges.

«We must work together to ensure that all school communities, particularly parents, are engaged as partners in this ongoing work,» said Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña in a statement.

«I see roads, I see infrastructure, I see the people engaged in work, there have been tremendous opportunities, equal opportunities, and there are more schools and people are studying than in the past,» Luis Ayala, Secretary General of Socialist International said on Friday.

«I want heads to engage with parents, including using parenting contracts at an early stage so that schools and parents are able to work together to prevent bad behaviour from escalating.»

In order to better our school systems, make our streets safer, incentivize environmentally friendly habits, we must have every member of our community buy into, engage with, and work towards that vision,» said Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez.

WBFO's Eileen Buckley spoke with the Assistant Superintendent of Special Education for the Buffalo Public School District to learn how the District is working to engage students in their academics.

He has formed new partnerships with teachers in many school districts to engage with hundreds of high school students, working with teachers to develop nanotechnology - focused lesson plans, and inspired art students and teachers to produce a nanotechnology - inspired public art display.

«Emoticons help gauge school happiness level in young children: A simple new questionnaire based on emoticon - style facial expressions could help teachers and others who work with children as young as four to engage them on their happiness and wellbeing levels in the classroom.»

Co-author Dr Roberta Fida, lecturer in organisational behaviour at Norwich Business School, said: «Our results also showed that the more employees perceive themselves as capable of speaking up for their rights and ideas, what we call assertive self - efficacy, the more they seem to engage in counterproductive work behaviour targeting the organisation as a whole.

«One of the responsibilities that we have as scientists, particularly those of us who receive public funding for our research, is to be engaged with the public about our understanding of the way that the world works and also about the limits of our understanding,» said the Stanford University researcher, who holds dual appointments with the School of Environmental Earth System Science and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

SwRI and LPI NLSI scientists and education specialists work with North High School high - school students to present accurate, interesting, and engaging lunar science and exploration coSchool high - school students to present accurate, interesting, and engaging lunar science and exploration coschool students to present accurate, interesting, and engaging lunar science and exploration content.

As part of the J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine Symposium hosted by Robarts Research Institute at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, experts in the fields of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of MS will present their work and will join in an engaging panel discussion moderated by André Picard, health columnist with The Globe and Mail.

The Wyss Institute creates transformative technological breakthroughs by engaging in high risk research, and crosses disciplinary and institutional barriers, working as an alliance that includes Harvard's Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences and Design, and in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston University, Tufts University, Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University of Zurich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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At KIPP Empower, a blended - learning school in Los Angeles that turned eyes with its 991 API (out of a possible 1000), the school uses blended learning to allow students to work in small groups of no more than 10 students at a time with the teacher so that students have lots of opportunities to engage and interact.

«No matter what we publish nothing works without the teacher being engaged in school.»

Chapters take on a variety of work, including: Regularly scheduled events for the public to discuss public education, school board candidate forums, monitoring school board meetings, translating proposed school board policies into other languages for various language groups, providing tours of schools for prospective students and families, working for adequate funding for public schools, engaging with bond elections, helping parents navigate enrollment policies, and in general, being involved in the issues of public schools in their communities.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.