Sentences with phrase «improving schools and communities»

Student / Youth Voice When WKCD embraced student voice as part of our guiding principles in 2001, the idea that youth should be welcomed as crucial investors in improving their schools and communities had few advocates.

Educators and low - income and working - class communities of color have made real progress as committed partners, organizing around a shared vision for improving our schools and communities and creating a more equitable society.

For the past ten years, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, a non-profit with a mission of empowering young people to improve their schools and communities with modern technology.

The initiative exemplified two of WKCD's core beliefs: that what happens inside a school's walls should connect to the world outside and that young people have the capacity to reflect, analyze, and create new knowledge that can then improve their schools and communities.

In this workshop, we will take a comprehensive look into the important subject of How to Develop Improved School and Community Relationships with All Stakeholders of your School.

The initiative exemplified two of WKCD's core beliefs: that what happens inside a school's walls should connect to the world outside and that young people have the capacity to reflect, analyze, and create new knowledge that can then improve their schools and communities.

Not exact matches

«This strong vote of confidence from the AACSB demonstrates the tremendous progress we have made at Haskayne to improve the student experience, research important business topics and engage with our community,» says Jim Dewald, dean of the school.

Supporters of free schools say they bring greater educational autonomy to parents and communities and that flexibility over the curriculum and qualifications required to teach can improve learning.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

If you think volunteering at a program that improves neglected schools with paint, construction, etc. in our community, or donating to a program that purchases christmas gifts for children of convicts (a program our church participates in every year) and I could list more... then I have no words for you.

The NESTLÉ Cocoa Plan helps support this by building schools to support education and improving the social conditions of the communities.

The Kitchen Community builds Learning Gardens in schools around the U.S. reaching hundreds of thousands of students every school day, improving their vegetable intake and academic achievements.

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Join the Challenge Success School Program as a returning team, and build upon the work that you have initiated to improve student well - being and academic engagement in your school commSchool Program as a returning team, and build upon the work that you have initiated to improve student well - being and academic engagement in your school commschool community.

Community support, from schools, churches and mothers groups helped this Wake Forest mom garner the $ 100,000 grand prize in IKEA's contest to help people improve the life of others.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

Education Code 32270 (2003) establishes a statewide school safety cadre to facilitate interagency coordination and collaboration among school districts, youth - serving agencies, community - based organizations, and law enforcement agencies to improve school attendance, encourage good citizenship, and reduce school violence, crimes, gang membership and violence, truancy, bullying, and discrimination and harassment.

API promotes parenting practices that create strong, healthy emotional bonds between children and their parents and as a result changes everything from the dynamic of a family to that of communities by improving school readiness to reducing violence.

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

In order to affect change, the first task is to take the initiative to pull together of sphere of people who are interested and concerned in the same things, and to then start conversing with the schools or feeder patterns in your community about how to help them improve in the areas of your concern.

What he loves most about the Corvallis Waldorf School is the feeling of community that comes from a group of parents and teachers who want to improve the lives and futures of our children.

As a result, I decided to ask Dana Woldow, a school food reformer in San Francisco, to guest blog about the realities her community has faced (financial and otherwise) in trying to improve school food there.

If we rely on local communities to raise funds to improve food, we'll soon have a patchwork of wealthier (or more committed) districts with good food, and poorer districts (where, I would note, more children are reliant on school food) with less healthful offerings.

Whether you work as a teacher, a principal, or a health professional, the Knowledge Guide supports members of the school community to understand what has become an internationally recognized approach to health that has been demonstrated to improve students» health and academic success.

These linkages can facilitate improved sharing of best practices and problem - solving strategies, as well as mutual support as we work towards our common vision of creating healthier school communities and overall mental well - being.

This chapter outlines a range of actions that families, communities, businesses, and governments at all levels can take to improve school foods and the school nutrition environment so they support and foster healthier food choices and help reduce childhood obesity.

Through evidence - based articles, the JPE advances the knowledge of aspiring and seasoned educators in any setting - independent or private practice, community, hospital, nursing or midwifery school - and informs educators and other health care professionals on research that will improve their practice and their efforts to support natural, safe, and healthy birth.

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commSchool Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the commschool districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

And join any efforts to improve school food in your local community.

Improved student learning, improved student health, and improved meal program finances are what's in it for your students and your whole school coImproved student learning, improved student health, and improved meal program finances are what's in it for your students and your whole school coimproved student health, and improved meal program finances are what's in it for your students and your whole school coimproved meal program finances are what's in it for your students and your whole school community.

Now, don't get me wrong: School fundraisers are, without a doubt, an integral part of improving our kids» schools — and, by extension, our communities.

Recommendation 3: Nonprofit and for - profit organizations that have an interest in improving children's health, education, school infrastructure, and community wellness should assist schools in acquiring the necessary equipment.

The expanded use of school kitchens can benefit school districts and their communities by improving access to, knowledge of, and the ability to prepare healthy foods; helping to process and store fresh produce from community gardens; and even supporting local entrepreneurship.

LeBarre said the bond measure was approved because the school district worked with members of the community, discussing the need for resources to help boost their children's long - term success with improved nutrition and the plans for how the funds will be used to accomplish these goals.

Sustainable - food advocates have called for schools to serve more local food, a tactic they say would not only improve flavor but also help support small farms and renew rural communities.

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Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetSchool Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetschool year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

The GLA is pleased to announce plans to set up two London flagship boroughs, intended to demonstrate the positive impact of improving food culture in schools and across the community on a large scale, as part of the School Food Plan.

By increasing the number of students eligible to enroll in school meal programs and improving the quality of food served, this legislation simultaneously tackles both hunger and the obesity levels currently affecting too many communities across this nation.»

Improve the diet of poor families (eg, through subsidizing fruit and vegetables, community gardens, purchasing co-ops, school meals)

Gove is pressing on with his own agenda this week, with a raft of education announcements including promises to extend the school day to ten hours and enforcing community - service - style litter - picking to improve discipline.

The DCE also touched on progress made under the areas of health and education and employment and mentioned the absorption of the Azeem - Namoo Community Secondary School, where it is supported with E Block dormitory and classroom accommodation with science laboratory to improve on its standard.

Working together with parents, teachers, community members and elected officials, they want to empower school communities to reinvent themselves as community «hubs» that can provide services that efficiently and effectively reduce barriers to learning and improve student outcomes.

«I look forward to our continued partnership to improve our industrial waterfront economy, to create a Harbor Middle School, to continue working alongside organizations like UPROSE to create opportunities for our youth and supporting the Red Hook Community Justice Center to break the cycle of mass incarceration,» she said.

The multifaceted approach was introduced last month during Picente's State of the County Address, and the action taken today will help to improve safety in local schools and within the community through funding and departmental changes within Oneida County government.

Indeed, far from improving the situation, which will lead to a breakdown in the relationship between schools and their communities and cause even greater problems for families.

The way to improve student performance in New York is to fully fund schools in disadvantaged communities, attack poverty these communities, and desegregate New York's schools, which are the most segregated schools in the nation,» said Brian Jones, the recent Green Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor who taught in New York City schools for nine years.

Yesterday, he met with Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and other community leaders who advocate for veterans for a round table discussion at Fowler High school about how to improve veterans» employment prospects.