Sentences with phrase «from youth engagement»

Criticisms from adults about the quality of student - generated content are unfair, because up until now, all theories and assumptions are mostly drawn from youth engagement in entertainment and gaming contexts, and not from educational contexts.

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This, it said, redirected the energies of the hitherto despondent youths to more socially and economically viable and productive ventures and consequently lured them away from socially harmful engagements.

At the conference which brought together cocoa industry stakeholders from around the globe, Lucy and MacCarthy were exposed to presentations which focused on encouraging youth engagement in the cocoa sector.

The manifesto, entitled «We Believe», calls on politicians from all parties to consider the needs of young people and makes recommendations across five areas of change: accommodation, family work, health and wellbeing, training and education, democracy and youth engagement.

«Today we are breathing new life into the Beacon program in 67 high - need communities to boost student's learning outside the classroom, build healthier neighborhoods, and connect youth and adults to learning opportunities ranging from career preparation and civic engagement to tutoring and tenant advocacy.»

The new officers come from law, government and policy backgrounds, and in their platforms stressed the importance of outreach, communication, membership development, and community engagement as key to reaching unengaged youth in the borough.

In both the fall and spring, the researchers collected three types of academic outcome measures from youth and staff, including reading skills, youth perceptions of their academic abilities, and academic engagement.

Key findings from the REA study include the following: increased science capacity; positive youth development; and engagement in a community of practice that nurtured relationships and helped students learn from one another, envision careers in science, and feel good about their futures.

Teachers and young people are set to be inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Values with the launch of the Values Awards from Get Set, the official youth engagement programme of the British Olympic Association and British Paralympic Association.

The sessions focused on youth engagement in the transition from MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) to SDGs -LSB-...]

This initiative is a novel approach to family engagement, and connects families and professionals with evidence - based information and skills for developing youth children from birth through age 8.

Create opportunities across the Commonwealth for public engagement on the role of SEL in youth development, inviting input from educators, parents, students, providers, and other community partners.

Particularly where summer learning is concerned, regular attendance and engagement are critical, according to the 2016 Rand Corporation study «Learning From Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low - Income Urban Youth.»

This framework outlines the distinctions between various strategies for involving youth from the practitioner's perspective, moving from participation to engagement, from externally driven youth activity to internally owned youth action.

This brief discusses families» perceptions of whether and how they were engaged in schools» implementation of ILPs, and provides suggestions from families of youth with and without disabilities of actions schools can take to improve family engagement in the ILP process.

In this presentation, Georgia Hall, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the National Institute for Out - of - School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, will share research findings from two studies (NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; Program Practices: An Investigation of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and program level.

From the community schools strategy to the Ready to Achieve Mentoring Program (RAMP) to our family and community engagement work and other initiatives, our work equips leaders to better prepare children and youth for college, careers, & citizenship.

As the theoretical basis for their intervention, students from 19 of the S3 high schools used the youth - adult partnership framework (Zeldin, Christens, & Powers, 2012), which focuses on supporting positive youth development through authentic civic engagement.

PYC is also implementing a Youth Advisory Council to provide young people in the parks with opportunities to participate in PYC work and a platform from which they can guide PYC activities ensuring relevancy and meaningful engagement with local communities.

Slanguage Studio is an artist - driven studio practice and education collective that has evolved organically from an active studio to a public - engagement - oriented sculptural space, interfacing regularly with community members, national and international artists, and youth.

Characteristic of the artist's approach is a close engagement with place and communities, which over the years have included disco - dancing Palestinians, fans of The Smiths across three continents, Kosovan - Albanian refugees, the youth of Baghdad, anti-fascist skinheads in Malaysia, and teachers of Marxism - Leninism from the former German Democratic Republic.

«Decades of scientific study show that engagement in the arts provides cognitive, emotional, and physical health benefits for people from youth to old age, but there are great disparities in access to services in New York City,» Laurie M. Tisch said.

Their uplifted energy and strong commitment for taking action and connecting with the youth from around the world, occupied the atmosphere of the conference and also became a contagious attitude of engagement.

The organizations and networks supporting the initiative believe in the generation of «from youth to youth» content to support the engagement of youth groups in water and see everyone as a potential stakeholder with relevant contributions to address the water challenges of today.

Through curriculum dissemination, professional development and community engagement, more than 15 million youth have benefited from the program.

In this presentation, Georgia Hall, Ph.D., senior research scientist at the National Institute for Out - of - School Time at the Wellesley Centers for Women, will share research findings from two studies (NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development; Program Practices: An Investigation of Physical Activity and Healthy Eating Standards and Practices in Out - of - School Time Programs) that help us to understand children's engagement in physical activity and how to promote involvement on an individual and program level.

Besides the normative developmental task of increasing engagement in sexual behaviors (Tolman & McClelland, 2011), from early adolescence to young adulthood, the frequency of interactions with peers typically increases (Larson & Richards, 1991; Richards, Crowe, Larson, & Swarr, 1998), as does the importance of peer feedback for youth's self - evaluation and identity formation (Hergovich, Sirsch, & Felinger, 2002; Parker, Rubin, Erath, Wojslawowicz, & Buskirk, 2006).