Sentences with phrase «foster public learning»

Rather, we envision processes that foster public learning, shared deliberation among public and expert stakeholders, and collaborative development of improved governance processes and outcomes around this incredibly important set of issues.

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J&J spokesman Ernie Knewitz told CNBC, «As we have learned through the 2016 election campaign, personal attacks do not serve the interests of the American public or foster a balanced discussion on the substantive issues facing the nation.»

WHY: To ensure that all children are provided with competitive skills for the 21st century global world and to build a public groundswell about the value of play for fostering lifelong learning.

«The ideals I learned while a 4 - H member helped give birth to my interest in public service and continue to foster my passion each and every day,» added Senator Seward.

The tensions between parental expectations and students» goals and between teaching test - taking and fostering learning provide focal points of an embedded journalist's chronicle of a year in an academically rigorous public high school.

The program supports advances in research on STEM learning and education by fostering efforts to explore all aspects of education research from foundational knowledge to improvements in STEM learning and learning contexts, both formal and informal, from childhood through adulthood, for all groups, and from the earliest developmental stages of life through participation in the workforce, resulting in increased public understanding of science and engineering.

The winning concepts included a school on a barge in the wetlands of New Orleans, where students will learn about coastal restoration and urban planning; a school located in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Museum; another focusing on homeless and foster children that will include physical sites, online learning, and mobile resource units that travel to the students; and a lab school in Brooklyn that will aim to give students career experience through partnerships with nonprofits, cultural institutions, businesses, and universities.

They also foster a «need to know» mind - set to motivate the online learning and provide a public, portfolio - based means for students to demonstrate achievement.

In CECIP's perspective, Brazil needs to foster Global Citizenship Education — with whatever denomination it takes -, since its methodologies and strategies for active learning, racism / sexism deconstruction, democracy reinforcement and glocal citizens formation make us more and more able to value and to use our great assets of joy, art, movement, ancestral sustainable values, attitudes and skills to increase our capacity to develop creative alternatives to unsustainable public policies.

They argue that far greater attention and skill are needed to craft and build the institutional capabilities that render goals achievable, ensure fairness, and foster innovation and systemic learning in the public interest.

At Albemarle County Public Schools, making fosters student autonomy, ignites student interest, and empowers students to embrace their own learning.

In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state - based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»

At Albemarle County Public Schools, maker education fosters student autonomy, ignites student interest, and empowers students to embrace their own learning.

Charter schools are tuition - free public schools that foster a relationship between parents, teachers and students to create an environment where parents can be more involved, teachers are given the freedom to innovate, and students are provided the structure best suited for their learning.

For more than five decades, Congress has consistently recognized and acted on the need to promote fair and equal access to public schools for: children of color; children living in poverty; children with disabilities; homeless, foster and migrant children; children in detention; children still learning English; Native children; and girls as well as boys.

Eagle Academy Public Charter School's mission is to build the foundation for a promising future for all students in a rich, robust learning environment that fosters creativity and problem - solving abilities, emphasizing cognitive, social and emotional growth by engaging children as active learners in an inclusive learning environment.

Our vision is to create a peaceful, multi-age learning environment for public preschool - and elementary - aged children that fosters the physical, social, emotional, and academic growth of students that will be committed to lifelong learners.

During the talk, titled «The Elusive Quest for Ambitious Schooling: Limits and Possibilities of the American High School,» Mehta reported on his book - length research on fostering «deeper learning» in American public schools.

Jamie Lomax currently serves as the director of organizational learning and equity for Tulsa Public Schools, where she is fostering a culturally responsive, inclusive system while disrupting inequity through adult learning, equity - centered design, and strategic planning.

As a result, it should go without saying in the world of compulsory public education that schools must foster learning in a safe, culturally responsive, and healthy environment for all our children, educators, and support staff.

Through the application of the professional development school (PDS) model in particular, the initiative fostered partnerships among the Wichita Public Schools (including 26 urban schools), The Opportunity Project (an early learning center), Head Start programs, local community colleges, and the College of Education at WSU.

I would love to see a public education system that fosters a learning environment in which all students (regardless of their socioeconomic status, race, color, religion, sexual orientation) can reach their full potential.

PowerMyLearning's partnerships with under - served public schools foster growth in teachers as instructional leaders, helping them better understand and implement technology in their classrooms, while also providing a clear role for parents to meaningfully engage in their children's learning through their multilingual (English / Spanish) family engagement programming.

This corporate driven view of education is the opposite of a child centered view of education wherein the goal of public schools is to foster a child's natural desire to learn and help every child succeed in school and in life.

Countless hours of planning, preparation, reflection and collaboration occur in classrooms and professional learning communities across each state to support student learning and provide professional development opportunities or shared leadership experiences to foster the professional growth of staff; yet so often, the general public fails to understand what our work truly entails.

CCSR developed a leading framework of «non-cognitive skills» and works with middle and high school teachers in the Chicago Public Schools to develop new classroom tools and practices that foster learning mindsets.

They work with educators across the state to foster and facilitate high - quality professional learning opportunities to support the needs of North Carolina's public school education professionals.

Volunteers play a vital role at the Milwaukee Public Library by inspiring learning and literacy, fostering discovery and creativity, and strengthening community bonds.

C2D2 is a collaboration between Summit Public Schools, Lindsay Unified School District, the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL), and Transcend to capture, codify, and convey key insights around the adult roles that foster successful personalized learning environments.

Eagle Academy Public Charter School's mission is to build the foundation for a promising future for all students in a rich, robust learning environment that fosters creativity and problem - solving abilities.

Schools like Summit Public Schools, Lindsay Unified, AF Greenfield, d.Tech High, Roots Elementary, and High Tech High, along with organizations like Transcend Education and the XQ: Super School Project are showing what's possible when we set broad interdisciplinary academic goals, empower students to own their own learning, and foster a diverse student, teacher and parent community.

The public learner plays a central role in creating the conditions for authentic teacher learning, engaging teachers» curiosity and fostering collective teacher efficacy.

It recognizes that public schools (often neighborhood hubs), have a unique opportunity to provide access to effective and integrated service delivery that support conditions for high quality teaching and learning by partnering with organizations representing youth development, academic enrichment, mental and physical health, human services, foster care, early education, adult education, and family engagement.

The bills passed today allow public schools to remain sanctuaries that foster learning and enable students to thrive by:

This innovation of engagement is demonstrated by Limitless Libraries, a partnership between the Nashville (Tenn.) Public Library and Metro Nashville Public Schools that fosters resource sharing and ultimately improves student access to learning materials.

To foster public understanding of the value of library media programs in the educational process and lifelong learning.

Puppies are welcomed into loving foster homes at 8 weeks old, where they learn basic obedience, house manners and how to be calm and confident in a wide variety of public settings.

Charleston Animal Society & Petco Foundation Team Up to Recruit Lifesaving Foster Families at Petco This Saturday (July 22) Charleston Animal Society and the Petco Foundation are inviting the public to learn more about the lifesaving impact of fostering animals.

In that time, she learned some of the keys to successful no kill status include increasing adoptions by keeping animals in the public eye, re-connecting lost pets to their owners and maintaining a strong volunteer force to handle everything from office support and marketing to foster homes.

Article I: The Farmers Public school children and Americans with disabilities will work The White House Organic Farm, to set an example for the world of hands - on learning and will foster an independent, do - it - yourself work ethic.

The report concluded with the plan to continue the work programme these specific areas: (a) The analysis of options for the mobilization of financial resources from a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources, and their linkages; (b) The analysis of the relevant analytical work on the climate - related financing needs of developing country Parties; (c) The integration of lessons learned from fast - start finance (FSF) and best practices from developing and developed country experiences in the analysis of sources and needs; (d) The exploration of the interface between public and private finance, including approaches to leveraging private climate finance; (e) The identification of enabling environments that can unlock and foster increased climate finance flows for mitigation and adaption; (f) The exploration of delivery mechanisms that could play a role in channeling climate finance.

Through working with the early learning community, Every Child Belongs City Wide Training fosters a deeper understanding of professionals» responsibilities to all stakeholders including children, families, colleagues, Early Childhood Education profession, community, and the public.

• Check in with mothers and fathers to see how they are doing • Promote a culture where it is okay for employees to reach out and ask for help • Participate in an employee assistance program (EAP) or maintain a list of available resources to support families • Learn where your public officials stand on kids» issues and use your vote to support families • Allow for flexibility in scheduling where possible • Work with employees to manage workload in times of added stress • Create a community brag board so employees can show off kids, pets, homes and hobbies • Support maternity / paternity leave for new parents (including adoptive and foster parents) • Offer «lunch and learns» for employees wanting to learn more about child development • Involve your business in community events • Sponsor a day of service for all employees to volunteer with programs working to strengthen famLearn where your public officials stand on kids» issues and use your vote to support families • Allow for flexibility in scheduling where possible • Work with employees to manage workload in times of added stress • Create a community brag board so employees can show off kids, pets, homes and hobbies • Support maternity / paternity leave for new parents (including adoptive and foster parents) • Offer «lunch and learns» for employees wanting to learn more about child development • Involve your business in community events • Sponsor a day of service for all employees to volunteer with programs working to strengthen famlearn more about child development • Involve your business in community events • Sponsor a day of service for all employees to volunteer with programs working to strengthen families

Learn the basics of development, promotion and maintenance of public speaking team (s) of adopted / foster / kin youth.

Tom Roderick is executive director of Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility, which has been helping New York City public schools foster students» social and emotional learning since 1983.

Tattling was always a pet peeve of mine and, whenver one of mine would come to me witha complaint that someone had hit, or grabbed, etc., I learned to say, «What happened just before he / she hit, grabbed, etc.» I believe anything parents can do to foster a positive self - image (that means private, not public, discipline, even if it means a quick walk to a restroom or back to the car), and to encourage mutual respect (allowing a child to express how he / she feels about the discipline being meted out by the parent, and giving an age - appropriate child a say - so in the discipline) will not only benefit the child, but will benefit all those who encounter that child during his / her lifetime.