Sentences with phrase «into literacy initiatives»

Governor Haslam has wisely invested Tennessee dollars into literacy initiatives in 2016 because he knows poor reading skills are connected with unfavorable life outcomes.

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But while that tidbit will inevitably make its way into the history books, her initiative to promote literacy is the core tenet of her legacy.

During his time at St. Mark's, he has established several digital literacy initiatives, developed cyber-safety and global citizenship programs, and introduced multimedia software and hardware into P - 6 classrooms.

In addition, # 5.7 million will be invested into initiatives that boost literacy and numeracy skills, through the government's Strategic School Improvement Fund along with a # 7.7 million curriculum fund to encourage the development of high - quality teaching resources by organisations, including by leading cultural and scientific institutions.

Achieve3000 and Virginia Beach City Public Schools have partnered to create Smarty Summer: Diving into Early Literacy, a new kindergarten reading readiness initiative exclusively for Virginia Beach.

Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.

Project Look Sharp is a is a media literacy initiative out of Ithaca College, working to promote and support the integration of media literacy and critical thinking into curricula at all grade levels and across instructional areas.

These are high - level initiatives that need attention at the local, state and federal - level for optimum success, but certainly fall nicely into our goals of promoting assessment and data literacy.

Over more than 20 years, she has overseen the implementation of national initiatives in literacy and numeracy as well as the introduction of brand new qualifications and pioneering alternative routes into teaching.

Karina has added a new literacy curriculum in partnership with San Diego State University, and helped to spearhead career fairs, events to celebrate parents, and a recruitment initiative for elementary - age students into our college prep program.

LAKEWOOD, N.J. — May 31, 2016 — Achieve3000 ® and Virginia Beach City Public Schools have partnered to create Smarty Summer: Diving into Early Literacy, a new kindergarten reading readiness initiative exclusively for Virginia Beach students.

The districtwide literacy initiative was the result of a committee of educators and parents digging into student data from the previous five years.

And finally, the district committed to a digital literacy initiative, encouraging teachers to fully integrate technology into their classrooms and providing them with the most up - to - date technology.

The authors suggest that the literacy coach begin by connecting a new initiative to current practice to validate teachers» prior efforts, choose generative practices that raise important questions about teaching, establish teaching credentials by spending significant amounts of time teaching in the classroom, focus teacher training on student learning, use a repertoire of coaching strategies, and get into the habit of regularly videotaping and reviewing lessons and demonstrations.

The issue was explored earlier this month at the UKSG conference in Glasgow, when Seeta Peña Gangadharan from the London School of Economics and Political Science shared insight into the Data Privacy Project, a privacy literacy initiative led by the Brooklyn Public Library.

One of the major focuses for the recent event was the emphasis on government spending on education, which translates into higher literacy rates, a better level of English - language instruction which will allow more readers to enjoy English pleasure reading, and a growing interaction with tablet computers thanks to spending initiatives to put more tablets in schools at even the primary levels.

Originally called «Habitats For The Humanities» and «House of Stories,» the Little Free Library initiative quickly grew into a much bigger movement with a stated mission to: «promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide.»