Sentences with phrase «into centers of learning»

Additionally, Kokabee transformed his prison ward into a center of learning.

And as teachers answer this question, their class will be transformed into a center of learning where students are applying, analyzing, and creating content, rather than simply acquiring information.

In an era of high stakes accountability, testing, and standardization in education, Dr. Robert Dillon attempts to bring the student back into the center of the learning.

The Tibrarian Handbook: A Teacher - Librarian's Guide to Transforming the Library Into a Center of Learning.

Librarians, bringing their broad expertise with children's literature, their understanding of children's reading preferences, and their knowledge of curriculum demands can partner with teachers to enrich and enliven study of history, science, social studies and more by integrating fiction into the center of learning, not keeping it on the sidelines The program will include a list of recommended novels that tie to curriculum.

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The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

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It is, for example, Tarwater learning of his own history — his whore mother and his birth at the scene of a wreck — in the context of the history of Adam and the Second Coming; it is in the remark by the Negro hand on old Tarwater: «He was deep in this life, he was deep in Jesus» misery»; it is Bishop, the idiot, whose fish eyes are the center of that «extension» into unreasonable, absurd love for both Tarwater and Rayber.

This is part of what we do at the Billy Graham Center, different types of research into culture and evangelism, so take the time to read and learn about a unique context where Jesus is as work.

Chambers is a forth choice Center half, that means he is not going to be playing all the time, he is going to be rusty when we put him into games versus good attacking teams, his job at the moment is to sit and learn from those ahead of him.

Children's Hospital Oakland, Sports Medicine Center for Young Athletes (Oakland Campus) Learn and put into practice the five pillars of SPEED training.

Incorporating inspirations from early childhood education centers in Scandinavia into this premier indoor learning and play space in New York, the Heimbold Family Children's Playing and Learning Center integrates the best of Scandinavian design while emphasizing early childhood sensory perlearning and play space in New York, the Heimbold Family Children's Playing and Learning Center integrates the best of Scandinavian design while emphasizing early childhood sensory perLearning Center integrates the best of Scandinavian design while emphasizing early childhood sensory perception.

Stroller storage has been incorporated into the design of the Playing and Learning Center.

«Since I became pregnant with my last daughter... I took everything I learned into account and during my pregnancy I attended the health center to receive prenatal care where I was provided with iron and folic acid which I consumed with full knowledge of its importance,» Vitalina de Leon Santos, ALIANMISAR in Guatemala, read her full story here.

ALBANY — A former Nassau County official responsible for signing off on the deal at the center of a reported federal investigation into State Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is a former and current top aide to Skelos, Capital has learned.

In my case, funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Precollege Science Education Program Initiative for Biomedical Research Institutions and the Science Education Partnership Award from the National Center for Research Resources at the National Institutes of Health enable the Genetic Science Learning Center to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists transitioning into science education careers.

The field is also expanding into patient - centered outcomes research, so not just comparing drug A with a placebo, but drug A versus drug B.» In spite of the uncertainties, she says, «It's an exciting time because we have a lot to learn.»

My current stint as a postdoctoral fellow at the Genetic Science Learning Center has fanned my initial spark of interest into a flame of newfound professional commitment, dedication, and passion for improving science literacy in our schools.

«What we've learned to date about differences in brain anatomy in hearing and deaf populations hasn't taken into account the diverse language experiences among people who are deaf,» says senior author Guinevere Eden, D.Phil., director for the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).

To learn more about this research, please view the full research report entitled «Regulated selection of germinal center cells into the memory B cell compartment» at this page of the Nature Immunology website.

You are going to learn how to shift out of fear, stress, separation and excessive control into a liberating way of being centered in awareness, gratitude, inner ease and the experience of flow.

We also learned how to fold our napkins into hearts which adds a bit of fun to your place setting... You can also put two napkins together, gather in the center (like a bouquet) and slip one of the floral napkin rings for a easy and yet sophisticate look.

Identified as the remnants of the six singularities that existed in the universe prior to the Big Bang - Space, Time, Reality, Mind, Power and Soul — we have been slowly learning about all of them in Marvel Studios» movies for years now, and it won't be long before they are put center stage in the upcoming The Avengers: Infinity War - which will feature the Mad Titan known as Thanos working to collect all of the stones into the Infinity Gauntlet and possess the powers of a god.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Active learning introduces student - centered lessons, and ensures more effective results without descending into chaos because each student speaks flawless English 80 % of the lesson time by using a mobile device and earphones.

«What made this convening so impressive is that while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded edlearning time unites reformers around a shared vision of bringing excellence and breadth to our nation's most impoverished and struggling schools,» said Lecturer Chris Gabrieli, cofounder and chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded edLearning, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding learning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded edlearning time to improve student achievement and enable a well - rounded education.

Julia: Your book delves into the power of technology to help create a student - centered learning environment.

Dive into summer with this bundle of engaging learning centers!

Just as marketing has shifted from an unquantifiable spend to an analytics - driven spend, for the future of Learning and Development to be bright corporate training needs to rise from a compliance - driven cost center and transform into a strategic imperative.

He is the author of several books, including Journey Into Community: Looking Inside the Community Learning Center, published last year.

THE Journal recognized Dr. Keruskin as one of the top innovative administrators in the country, because of his development of a high school gaming curriculum, FABLabs, converting traditional school libraries into media centers, 1:1 iPad initiative, personalized learning and the founder of the Pittsburgh SMALLab Consortium and the Pittsburgh FAB Network.

Maybe you are proudest of your school's test results, your athletic teams» prowess, your teachers» skills at involving parents in the classroom, your school's many cultures and how they blend into a true family, your service - learning program, your media center, your Your six pride statements should tell about the biggest successes, your proudest accomplishments, your most valued resources.

The centre aims to work with educational leaders and teachers to ensure that any integration of ICTs into the teaching program is considered from a learning and outcomes perspective rather than from a teacher - centered perspective.

«It's a lot harder to cut a program in seventy - five schools than a program in three schools,» says Gina Jacquart Thorsen, vice president of research and program development for Big Thought, the nonprofit organization that coordinates ArtsPartners and Thriving Minds, an expanded initiative to infuse creative learning into the curriculum, after - school and out - of - school programs, libraries, and neighborhood cultural centers.

AbD has now expanded this Oakland Learning Community into a national learning community of maker - centered educators in a variety of formal and informal sLearning Community into a national learning community of maker - centered educators in a variety of formal and informal slearning community of maker - centered educators in a variety of formal and informal settings.

Last year, Histrionix formed a publishing partnershipship with ASU Center for Games & Impact, E - Line Media and Upper One Games to build HISTORIA into a classroom - ready digital learning game, which will be released in Fall of 2014.

In the coming months, AbD will announce the launch of a national learning community and a corresponding website, and it will release its maker - centered thinking routines — resources that can help teachers everywhere incorporate the maker ethos into their classroom plans.

In order to examine the opportunities and challenges of integrating makerspaces into schools, this article focuses on how a new urban public high school created a media production lab to put making practices at the center of teaching and learning.

Last week, Van Roekel joined Stanford professor and fellow commission member Linda Darling - Hammond, Joe Bishop of the National Opportunity to Learn Campaign and teacher Renee Moore for a webinar sponsored by the Center for Teaching Quality and the NEA to discuss how to translate the commission's findings into real and sustainable action.

In 2014 we launched the Center of Excellence to train others how to incorporate making into their own learning environments.

But the intellectual understanding that we so prize at this institution of higher learning would not remove from any of our minds the images of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center or the growing awareness of the enormity of September 11th.

«The intellectual understanding that we so prize at this institution of higher learning would not remove from any of our minds the images of the planes colliding into the World Trade Center or the growing awareness of the enormity of September 11th.»

By placing student engagement and the joy of learning into the center of the conversation, Dr. Dillon is able to showcase how providing students with choice, voice, and authentic audience can allow deeper learning to occur.

Hakipuʻu Learning Center (HLC), rooted in the traditional wisdom of Hawaiʻi, utilizes the best educational tools and technologies to support a community of life - long learners in achieving success now and into the future.

Through our online course and support channels, face to face professional development, consulting services, and curriculum and resource development offerings, we support programs and educators seeking to tap into Multiple Intelligences and pedagogical framework to create and provide learner - centered, goal - driven applications of Multiple Intelligences Theory in any learning context.

For more than 30 years, CEI has been helping large schools restructure into sets of smaller learning communities as a means to provide more student - centered learning environments.

An added advantage of such a strategy has been the excitement that spreads beyond the school walls and spills out into the community, where families again begin to see schools as centers for learning and development.

The quotes below from teachers completing their professional development on VIF's learning center speak about the powerful effects of meaningful integration of technology into curriculum:

We used centers based learning by dividing the students into three groups of ten and rotating the students every 30 minutes.

For additional insight into Wildlands, we invite you to read our book, An Improbable School, which documents the creation of a teacher - powered, student - centered, project - based learning environment.