Sentences with phrase «focused learning community»

We were particularly excited by Summit Elevate, where students will be able to take advantage of a partnership with the California College of the Arts and Oakland Unified School District; and New Harmony High, one that builds a unique and focused learning community from a barge in Louisiana.

We also offer facilitator training and a leadership academy to help you strengthen your skills around leading an ELL - focused learning community, facilitate training on ELL strategies, and increase your school or district's capacity to address the unique needs of ELL students.

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Sobey has redesigned its MBA program to emphasize responsible leadership through an eight - month integrative course, and it employs active learning through what it calls «immersive» experiences focused on entrepreneurship, community and not - for - profit leadership, and an international class trip.

Ridge describes how a focus on the servant leadership principles of values, learning, teaching, growth, and community can lead to enhanced performance by helping people step into the best version of themselves.

«Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities,» he wrote.

The best of breed mega-incubators like 1871 are all about a community focused on ongoing learning and shared experiences.

SVX helps ventures raise capital across sectors including cleantech, health, work and learning, food, and social inclusion, providing support to enterprises focused on early cancer detection to community power co-operatives producing renewable energy.

This position is a great learning opportunity for a social media marketer to engage in hands - on experience focused on building a community.

The catechetical dimension (life as becoming) focuses on life in a learning community.

If reality is immeasurably complex, and if the historic experience of other communities has focused on features of reality that we have neglected, then our concern is to learn from them.

With members from around the world focused on learning about Food Chemistry and its advances; this is your best opportunity to reach the largest assemblage of participants from the Food Chemistry community.

Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in - person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a child - centered approach to learning that focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each individual.

Steve and I have often remarked that despite there being such a strong and wonderful community of homeschoolers in our area, and with so many great offerings all the time... there is still this surge in the summertime of the kind of intensive learning and playing that happens at camps when the focus is long and thorough.

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.

Dr Moberg's fascinating research on oxytocin is central to what we do in fostering bonding through babywearing, and Dr. Swain's focus on fatherhood speaks directly to our desire to see more and more dads comfortably engaging in our community — we are incredibly excited to learn from them, as well as the other wonderful speakers.

Do you want to engage your larger school community in real world learning experiences focused on nature and science?

Wellspring Community Services focuses on serving individuals, children, and families who are experiencing crisis through five programs: Baby Boutique, Domestic Violence Intervention, Early Learning, Housing, and Parent Child Services.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

We have already held three community meetings, focus groups and web surveys to learn the needs of the community as they relate to the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System.

Project BOOST (Building Options and Opportunities for Students) is an enrichment program that serves both elementary and middle school students, focusing on providing academic, cultural and community service learning opportunities for kids.

Whether it is expanding the community schools model so more schools provide students the support they need to succeed, or front - loading services to children age five and under so they are ready to learn once they get to school, Bill Thompson is focused on getting kids what they need to achieve — in school and in life.

Although the focus of the Rural Utilities Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is on building the telecommunications infrastructure for rural communities, their Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Loans and Grants Program does provide funds for putting classes online, allows program manager Mark Seiler.

Our educational culture provides learner - centered graduate education that nourishes the growth of individuals» intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual lives within learning communities, focusing on disciplines that will be central to the unpredictable nature of civilization in the 21st century.

Since graduating from Indiana University her focus has been specializing in Functional Medicine and finding ways to bring what she learns to the underserved in her community.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The TalentCulture community focuses on a spectrum of workplace related topics, including careers, learning and development, business leadership, talent strategy, HR, recruiting, innovation management, work / life balance and more.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The TalentCulture community focuses on a spectrum of workplace related topics, including careers, learning and development, business leadership, talent strategy, HR, recruiting, innovation management, work / life balance and more.

Last year, Powell told GDI that it will be the first music - focused service «to provide a robust, learning matching system», while also recognising «a void in the music community», by helping to connect musicians together.

A brand - focused online community is a powerful tool for learning more about your customers than you have ever known.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

When we use service learning as a focus for PBL, we can ensure that the experience is highly effective and impacts learners and also the larger community.

Service learning projects should be focused on the priorities of the community; remember, the lessons of empathy and productiveness students take away is often more important than the exact issue being addressed!

Currently VP of Education for Almost Family Inc., he served as National Leader for Curriculum and Technology Solutions with Humana Inc., serving a global learning community focused on improving performance in the business ecosystem.

Her scholarly interests are focused on how the computational creation of interactive media serves to provide a meaningful context for young people's participation and learning, and how broader communities support that learning.

In the next section, we discuss models of professional learning that focus on supporting continual professional learning and community - based feedback cycles that help teachers to critically and collaboratively examine and refine their practices.

This training can be used in a focused faculty meeting, an all - day professional development session, and / or a small group professional learning community.

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.»

When it comes to a focus on students, research suggests effective professional learning communities «make intelligent use of evidence to pinpoint areas needing intervention to enhance learning outcomes for all students».

As well, these slides can be used in a professional development training session, focused faculty meeting, or professional learning community.

Our initial experiments focused on visualizing how variations in student engagement contributed to ongoing changes to the collective «shape» of the learning community.

Schools of the future will be far more focused on ecological learning for community and environmental improvement.

Rebecca is responsible for overseeing the implementation and ongoing refinement of Institute of Play's unique professional development model, with a focus on developing multi-dimensional teachers who make important contributions to the learning community.

QTR sees teachers come together to form small, focused, professional learning communities.

Four characteristics were inherent in learning communities that worked to promote positive changes in teaching cultures: collaboration, a focus on student learning, teacher authority, and continual teacher learning.

This summer Mapp led her first Program in Professional Education (PPE) institute, «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student outcomes.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

«The focus will be to have discussions about our school, the climate, the concept of ethical responsibility, and what it means for us as a learning community,» he says, starting with topics suggested in the survey results.

On September 8th we celebrate International Literacy Day, as a result of an 1965 initiative of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) organization, designed to highlight how crucial literacy was to people and their communities, and to focus attention on expanding the opportunities for all people to learn to read.