Sentences with phrase «fostering education for life»

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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.

Their mission is to educate aquarists on the current state of our hobby, to promote better understanding of husbandry for the animals we keep, and to foster a greater appreciation for aquatic life through education and entertainment.

The aim of the NGO is to inform and create awareness on the importance of Science Education and Participatory Research while advancing Sustainable Development solutions, i.e. learning about the Environment and at the same time fostering respect and appreciation for living creatures.

On one hand, some proponents of fostering racially and ethnically diverse student bodies in higher education facilely proclaim that diversity is crucial, as college is considered a training ground for life in our multicultural society.

Education has the power to impact and change lives every day whether through the connections made as alumni, the learning that transpires between faculty and students, or the second life it can create for a foster child facing incarceration.

Growing research shows that Montessori schools create lasting, positive social effects.82 Since the Montessori Method focuses on personal development, Montessori students improve in their social and emotional intelligence at a faster rate than students in traditional education.83 In light of this finding, Montessori schools can be an important vehicle for integrating students of diverse backgrounds and fostering critical life and social skills needed for the 21st century.

Now when we talk about education in Oregon, we talk about focusing on strategies for closing the achievement gaps, the graduation gaps and the opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect underserved students of color, English Language Learners (ELL), LGBTQ2 + students, students living in poverty, students with disabilities, first - generation post-secondary students and students in foster care.

Our mission: To offer refuge, medical care, nourishment and an opportunity for a second chance for life to unwanted animals; protect animals from cruelty, neglect, carelessness and ignorance; help foster a public sentiment of humanity and gentleness toward all animals through education and encouragement; and promote the lifelong commitment of responsible pet ownership.

Humane education helps to foster kindness for all living beings — human and animal.

Through rescue, foster, adoption, education and hospice; we create secure nurturing homes for them to live out their twilight years.

Our efforts support the elimination of animal cruelty and abuse, foster advocacy through humane education, and seek to improve the quality of life for companion animals.

Since 1949 we have been offering Humane Education presentations to preschool and elementary schools throughout Santa Barbara County in order to foster a life - long dedication for the kind and responsible treatment of animals.

As a champion of animal welfare for many years, I have dedicated my life to reducing animal suffering through education, fostering, volunteering and financially supporting animal welfare causes.

Their mission is to educate aquarists on the current state of our hobby, to promote better understanding of husbandry for the animals we keep, and to foster a greater appreciation for aquatic life through education and entertainment.

Co-founded last year by artist Mark Bradford, philanthropist and collector Eileen Harris Norton, and social activist Allan DiCastro, Art + Practice (A+P) «encourages education and culture by providing life - skills training for foster youth in the 90008 ZIP code as well as free, museum - curated art exhibitions and moderated art lectures to the community of Leimert Park.»

Program evaluation has supported this multifaceted approach in multiple countries and settings.83 Analyses by Nobel Prize — winning economist James Heckman reveal that early prevention activities targeted toward disadvantaged children have high rates of economic returns, much higher than remediation efforts later in childhood or adult life.84 For example, the Perry Preschool Program showed an average rate of return of $ 8.74 for every dollar invested in early childhood education.85 Targeted interventions foster protective factors, including responsive, nurturing, cognitively stimulating, consistent, and stable parenting by either birth parents or other consistent adulFor example, the Perry Preschool Program showed an average rate of return of $ 8.74 for every dollar invested in early childhood education.85 Targeted interventions foster protective factors, including responsive, nurturing, cognitively stimulating, consistent, and stable parenting by either birth parents or other consistent adulfor every dollar invested in early childhood education.85 Targeted interventions foster protective factors, including responsive, nurturing, cognitively stimulating, consistent, and stable parenting by either birth parents or other consistent adults.

The Colorado Post-Adoption Resource Center (COPARC) and the Colorado Coalition of Adoptive Families (COCAF) have developed a training for school personnel called Family Diversity in Education, which provides an understanding of the behaviors and needs of many children whose families are formed through adoption, or who are living with kin or foster families.

When teens in foster care become pregnant or become parents, the child welfare system must take responsibility for these youth and ensure that they understand the importance of maintaining their health, continuing their education, and effectively parenting their children, as well as, managing their relationships, including the other parent of the child and the important adults in their life.

It sets out where and with whom the child will live; financial arrangements for the placement; any specific arrangements about the placement including the arrangements for the child to keep in touch with their parents, siblings and other members of the family; and also what the foster carer can decide about how the child is cared for including, for example, school trips, overnight stays, medical and dental treatment, education, leisure and home life, faith and religious observance and use of social media.

The Department for Education (DfE) has issued new guidance on the «Staying Put» arrangements, which allow young people aged 18 and above who were previously looked after, to carry on living with their former foster carers.