Sentences with phrase «in civic purpose»

Project - based learning (PBL) has the potential to ignite students» passion in civic purpose and social responsibility, but how do we ensure that projects also demonstrate rigorous learning?

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For instance, citizens often act together through diverse associations, contexts, activities, and civic relationships in order to achieve their social ends and purposes independently of the state.

Meetup.com helps interest groups formed on the Web to get together in person — and a remarkable number of groups do so for civic purposes.

«The purpose of the bill is to empower people to hold themselves accountable as voters,» Torres said in a statement, «and to get them to think of voting not as a right but as a civic obligation.»

In «Tug of War» (Research, Fall 2003), James B. Murphy argues that «the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.&raquIn «Tug of War» (Research, Fall 2003), James B. Murphy argues that «the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.&raquin our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.»

The purpose of this grant is to build a community of scholars, based at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) but reaching out across the broader Harvard community, that will support the development of a highly select group of Early Career Scholars, stimulate significant work in the field of civic learning and action, and establish a major site for developing and disseminating empirical and theoretical work in these areas to the worldwide research community.

Once they're comfortable with the way that one thinking routine has worked in their classroom, they can branch out and focus on different kinds of inquiry, like Here Now / There Then, which could be used in a civics class to help students understand how past perspectives change over time; or Parts, Purpose, Complexities, which encourages observation and understanding of art objects or mechanical systems.

candidates Brian Barnes and Dorian Burton were named finalists by Echoing Green for the Black Male Achievement Fellowship for their work in public service and civic engagement through TandemED, a nonprofit that helps equip communities to self - design educational content that will instill young black men with purpose and increase their academic achievement.

Once we see that the conscientious pursuit of knowledge is the inherent moral purpose of schooling, we will not be surprised by the absence of any agreement about which civic virtues ought to be taught in schools.

My view, briefly stated, is that the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.

Learning Exchanges catalyze individuals and teams to re-imagine how schools and communities can fully engage collective power for the benefit of children, youth, and families by reclaiming the purposes of education as academic, social - emotional, and civic; uniting the power of place and wisdom of local people; redefining professional learning as a hopeful process that engages the heart, mind, & spirit; and taking actions to eliminate inequity and injustice in schools and communities.

The vision of Lowcountry Leadership Charter School is to develop an intrinsic desire and purpose within our students, that will nurture confidence for authentic leadership opportunities to investigate, collaborate, and resolve issues of inquiry, involving all academic disciplines and extracurricular and athletic activities, within an atmosphere of encouragement steeped in high expectations and natural rewards, thereby yielding healthy, well - rounded, moral, accountable, and compassionate advocates of human rights, national resources, independent means, and civic responsibility.

Utilizing a social design approach in which participating teachers and the researcher co-construct student learning cycles focused on the analysis, design, and sharing of digital political narratives, the study will highlight the literacy aspects of participatory politics and its implications for re-imagining the nature and purpose of civic expression.

As a service to the community and in accordance with law, the Board of Education may allow community groups to use district facilities for educational, recreational, social, civic, philanthropic and other similar purposes when the facilities are not being used by the district or district - sponsored groups.

Civics for All, featured in the April 2012 edition of Educational Leadership magazine, proposes that citizenship education is a fundamental student right that is central to our schools» purpose.

Most district and school goal statements include such familiar purposes as preparing students for economic self - sufficiency, fostering civic engagement in the community, and promoting equal opportunity and individual well - being.

The purposes of the Commission on Civics Education include the education of students on the importance of citizen involvement in a representative democracy, the promotion of the study of state and local government among the commonwealth's citizenry, and the enhancement of communication and collaboration among organizations in the commonwealth that conduct civics education proCivics Education include the education of students on the importance of citizen involvement in a representative democracy, the promotion of the study of state and local government among the commonwealth's citizenry, and the enhancement of communication and collaboration among organizations in the commonwealth that conduct civics education procivics education programs.

These side - missions are often plain, but they serve a grander purpose: as you, for example, clean up the industrial pollution spoiling a local river, or solve some local petty crime mystery, you enrich the city (your civic relationship to which is quantified by a five - star rating), unlocking new items in the local shops as you do so.

«The term «pro bono» refers to activities of the firm undertaken normally without expectation of fee and not in the course of ordinary commercial practice and consisting of (i) the delivery of legal services to persons of limited means or to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, and educational organizations in matters which are designed primarily to address the needs of persons of limited means; (ii) the provision of legal assistance to individuals, groups, or organizations seeking to secure or protect civil rights, civil liberties, or public rights; and (iii) the provision of legal assistance to charitable, religious, civic, community, governmental, or educational organizations in matters in furtherance of their organizational purposes, where the payment of standard legal fees would significantly deplete the organization's economic resources or would be otherwise inappropriate.»

The purpose of this two - wave longitudinal study was to analyze reciprocal associations between identity styles (i.e., socio - cognitive strategies that individuals adopt in processing, structuring, utilizing, and revising self - relevant information) and civic engagement in adolescence.

Italian stone serves a variety of purposes ranging from private to civic, but delivers a message of grandeur and elegance to retail settings in particular.