Sentences with phrase «groups organizing the program»

The Park District and the Carpentersville Police Department, the two groups organizing the program, have raised $ 45,000 and are creeping toward the goal of $ 65,000 with sales of poinsettia plants, said Park District Director Tom Mammoser.

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When someone wonders whether Mozilla should offer an organized program to help train volunteer developers, this voice quickly chimes in: «Maybe we can find a way to have smaller groups that self - organize and then get together.»

While many schools organize formal group trips for students, most also partner with leading MBA programs around the world to provide individual international exchange opportunities.

On October 31st to November 4th, 2017, we organized a pilot FinTech training program for a selected group of 30 finance professionals, regulators and students.

Matthew Fernandes, a sales rep with Sutton Group Realty Systems, personally organized a toy drive for the CP24 CHUM Christmas Wish program, which delivers toys to children and funds support services for families.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

Church related groups have organized stockholder action among corporations that advertise on high - violence programs.

But, while the community action programs of the Office of Economic Opportunity set out to «organize» communities, the AFLA contemplates implementation by functioning groups already (if precariously) in place.

To attempt to organize a whole parish into small sharing groups overlooks this important factor and dooms the program to failure before it even gets started.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Such forms are typical for all camp programs; sports clinics and sporting events organized by independent groups, such as the baseball, soccer and football organizations using town fields.

Whether you're planning a birthday party, conducting a homeschool program, looking for a fun morning with your preschooler, or working with other organized groups (such as scouting groups, science clubs, etc.), the teacher naturalists at the Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary can create interesting, hands - on inquiry - based programs.

Fagan and Iglesias16 explored the effects of Head Start fathers» participation in a program that included three components: classroom volunteering, attendance at organized fun activities, and a monthly support group.

Again, it's tempting to think of Obama's impressive field campaign and his online organizing programs as separate — the 2,500 + field organizers and volunteer neighborhood teams on one side, the online activists using MyBarackObama.com to set up discussion groups and events on the other.

«We started the Marching into ’18 Program last spring to organize grassroots groups and make sure they are prepared to help in the general election,» Lukaske said.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

Ruben, a long - time political organizer, aided in the establishment of the group's field organizing program, and headed the 2006 «Call for Change» campaign that facilitated in the election of a Democratic congressional majority, and served as a supervisor for two years in MoveOn's issue campaigns.

Several dozen members of various community groups organized under the coalition of «Real Affordability for All» gathered on the steps of City Hall to voice their concerns about Mr. de Blasio's housing program, which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.

Mauricio Horn, the visiting Secretariat of Scientific Technological Articulation adviser, spent a month at AAAS, learning about all aspects of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, attending its training sessions, meeting with federal officials who work with the fellows AAAS places in their agencies and attending events sponsored by former fellows who have organized special topic - specific groups.

Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with ORGANIZE — a non-for-profit organization based in New York which leverages health data to end the organ donor shortage by applying smarter technologies, utilizing social media, building more creative partnerships, and advocating for data - driven policies — The Bridgespan Group — a global nonprofit organization that collaborates with mission - driven leaders, organizations, and philanthropists to break cycles of poverty and dramatically improve the quality of life for those in need — and Gift of Life Donor Program — an OPO which serves the eastern half of Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware — evaluated the metrics and criteria used to measure OPOs across the country, and found significant discrepancies in how potential donors are evaluated and identified.

A pair of working groups will develop proposals for concrete programs for the organizing committee to consider at its next meeting, to be held in China this autumn.

His whole program is now organized into production groups, in which each expensive flagship mission, such as Rosetta — which cost $ 750 million — has at least one cheaper spin - off.

Despite progress in bringing underrepresented groups into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, much more must be done to strengthen mentoring programs and find new ways to put students on the path to STEM careers, speakers said at a recent event organized by AAAS.

Meskerem Mulatu, gender and nutrition specialist in Ethiopia's Agricultural Growth Program II (AGP II) Capacity Development Support Facility (CDSF), said her group invited Drucza to speak on gender and social norms at a national workshop organized by AGP II CDSF in October 2017.

The Mars Society is an all - volunteer group, so your membership dues are used solely to promote the mission of the Mars Society, including coordinating public and political outreach, establishing educational programming, convening our annual international convention and organizing and managing Mars simulations and research studies at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert and the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) in the Canadian arctic.

Fill out the form at right and we will contact you to discuss bringing our mobile enrichment program to your location or how you can organize a private group class session or series at our beautiful studio in downtown Dover, NH.

The program consists of 29 subjects that have been organized into 6 modules according to logical groupings and prerequisites totaling 2000 hours.

In the»90s, the time of political change in Europe, ELSA has entered a phase of development and forming the largest cooperation by increasing the number of members and observers to 30 International meetings held in the increasing number of group, evolved International Student Internship Program (STEP), increased the number of organized seminars and conferences.

In its third year, the program at Spencer's school includes opportunities for single classes to learn the rules of organized games and for larger group play during lunch period recess.

The Black Scholars organize Black History Month programs, and the Latino student group sponsors dance assemblies.

That's why parents, schools, and a neighborhood organization there banded together to organize a Walking Bus, a program in which groups of students walk to school under the supervision of adult volunteers.

The reading research program proposed by the RRSG in its report (RAND Reading Study Group, Catherine Snow, Chair, Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension, RAND, MR -1465-OERI, 2002) seeks to fill the gaps left by existing research efforts while being organized around a central set of issues facing practitprogram proposed by the RRSG in its report (RAND Reading Study Group, Catherine Snow, Chair, Reading for Understanding: Toward an R&D Program in Reading Comprehension, RAND, MR -1465-OERI, 2002) seeks to fill the gaps left by existing research efforts while being organized around a central set of issues facing practitProgram in Reading Comprehension, RAND, MR -1465-OERI, 2002) seeks to fill the gaps left by existing research efforts while being organized around a central set of issues facing practitioners.

In response, Head Start's defenders and boosters, as well as the burgeoning and organized groups of program operators and staffers, denied ever more vociferously that the program is primarily about school readiness — and insisted that it ought not be appraised as such.

These students are reaching the halfway mark in their teacher education programs and one of my most important goals is to create a sense of energy and motivation as they — for the first time — take on the responsibility of working with small groups and organizing instruction for whole classrooms of students in Milwaukee's high needs urban schools.

The newly invigorated group ran an array of parent involvement activities, hosted four wildly popular «Fun Blast» events for students, organized welcome overnights for 6th graders, sponsored overnight field trips, created an inspiring career day for 8th graders, helped build an outdoor recreation center for the school, created a new grade parent volunteer program, ran monthly teacher appreciation activities, relaunched a program to curb bullying and aggression, and lots more.

The nonprofit New Teacher Project (TNTP), an alternative teacher - certification and advocacy group, surveyed more than 10,500 teachers in three large public school districts and one charter school network to assess whether teacher development programs organized by the districts have helped teachers improve.

Special education teachers typically do the following: • Assess students skills to determine their needs and to develop teaching plans • Adapt lessons to meet the needs of students • Develop Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for each student • Plan, organize, and assign activities that are specific to each students abilities • Teach and mentor students as a class, in small groups, and one - on - one • Implement IEPs, assess students» performance, and track their progress • Update IEPs throughout the school year to reflect students» progress and goals • Discuss students» progress with parents, teachers, counselors, and administrators • Supervise and mentor teacher assistants who work with students with disabilities • Prepare and help students transition from grade to grade and after graduation Special education teachers in public schools are required to have at least a bachelor's degree and a state - issued certification or license Most states require a degree specifically in special education.

The book lays the groundwork for the program and shows you how to fit Guided Reading into a balanced literacy program, organize the class for independent learning, create flexible reading groups, select the best reading materials, assess and monitor student learning, and much more.

SLCs include structures such as freshman academies, multi-grade academies organized around career interests or other themes, «houses» in which small groups of students remain together throughout high school, and autonomous schools - within - a-school, as well as personalization strategies, such as student advisories, family advocate systems, and mentoring programs.

Electronic Network - Participants in the program will be organized into an electronic network (Google or related) which will enable group and individual interaction on a regular basis.

«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.

Along with a detailed explanation of each indicator area, the guide explains how the Framework can help different audiences advance the work of community organizing for school reform: for foundation program officers, through learning how to recognize and understand the accomplishments of community organizing groups; for educators, through appreciating how community organizing can complement their efforts and what it can accomplish that is outside the realm of professional educators; and for organizers and leaders, through gaining a vocabulary for describing their achievements and criteria for assessing their work.

Small programs / Small groups can be organized to meet individualized needs of students at every grade level.

Although this represents a victory of sorts — in that a small group of teachers managed to fund and facilitate a professional development program — the small percentage of district teachers who benefited from those efforts points to the difficulties faced by the organizing teachers as they attempted to implement reforms without active administrative support.

In 2017, network members organized into three action groups to focus on developing tools and resources for states in specific areas to continue this work past the life of NTEP, One action group focused on developing and building outcomes - oriented data systems for their educator preparation programs (EPPs) designed to:

To stimulate growth and awareness in a burgeoning sector, a group of major media industry participants led by The Perseus Books Group, Librify, BookExpo, The AlleyNYC, and William Morris Endeavor will organize the industry's first ever hackathon, an ambitious collaborative digital programming egroup of major media industry participants led by The Perseus Books Group, Librify, BookExpo, The AlleyNYC, and William Morris Endeavor will organize the industry's first ever hackathon, an ambitious collaborative digital programming eGroup, Librify, BookExpo, The AlleyNYC, and William Morris Endeavor will organize the industry's first ever hackathon, an ambitious collaborative digital programming event.

TED has established the annual TED Prize, where exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world get help translating their wishes into action; TEDx, which supports individuals or groups in hosting local, self - organized TED - style events around the world, and the TED Fellows program, helping world - changing innovators from around the globe to amplify the impact of their remarkable projects and activities.

He said he wants the volunteer program to continue, but that it must be better organized so that small groups of workers are scheduled to do specific jobs.

MHHS volunteers are available to present programs to school classes, church groups, civic clubs, scout meetings, and meetings of citizens in nearby counties trying to organize a humane society or operate animal shelters.

If I were organizing a Friends group, the first order item on my business plan would be to mobilize an official volunteer program for the shelter.