Sentences with phrase «learning communities effort»

They designed districtwide in - service programs for principals, focused specifically on new curriculum initiatives (e.g., revision of the elementary mathematics program) or school - improvement initiatives (e.g., developing a professional learning communities effort, extending to all schools).

Karla Krodel, Director of Metro Credit Education Outreach at Youngstown State University, challenged the audience to adopt systems approaches to ensuring under - resourced students participate and succeed in dual enrollment, and shared examples from YSU's learning community efforts.

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Third, the business community must approach these efforts with the same long - term investor mindset and management rigor they apply in their own companies, making data - driven investments and evaluating, learning, and adjusting as they go.

Developing an effective content creation machine requires a team effort, from getting team members involved in research and creation, to reaching out to guest contributors and getting community feedback on themes they want to learn more about.

Any efforts at changing the culture of the inner city will have to intersect with the African - American churches here; learning from those who have weathered the last few decades and built institutions to serve the community.

It includes the direct domination of the earth, from farming to factories, but also the efforts required to create and maintain communities, to advance and spread learning and to keep mortal men close to their eternal destiny.

What is learned in these communities will guide calorie reduction efforts nationwide.

Hackley's mission «challenges students go grow in character, scholarship, and accomplishment, to offer unreserved effort, and to learn from the varying perspectives and backgrounds in our community and the world.»

In an effort to provide a forum for parents to ask questions and learn more about the transition taking place within the Arlington Heights Park District Soccer program, the community is invited to attend an informational meeting.

Join RDA efforts to help families in your community learn about and acquire reusable cloth diapers.

Their efforts will support Shedd's general operations in the areas of animals care, learning, community access and sustainability.

Learn more about our Community Partners Program, a unique way for businesses and nonprofit organizations to offer great benefits for their employees, while supporting this wildlife sanctuary and Mass Audubon's statewide efforts to protect wildlife and wild lands.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

I shall apply my efforts and what I learned in the United Kingdom to the cause of renewal and community development.

Also at 2 p.m., NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray will visit South Brooklyn Community High School's Learning to Work program to see and hear more about their efforts to support youth in transitioning to secondary education or employment, 173 Conover St., Brooklyn.

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

Collaborative research efforts on aging, and engagement of older adults in these scholarly communities promotes reciprocal learning opportunities across generations.

«Teamwork is one of the great lessons that needs to be learned, and we want youth to learn it as they give back to the community and take pride in their own efforts,» Picente said.

«Community service should be an integral part of the development of our youth, because if we do not teach them the importance of forming a strong community connection as young people, they will never learn how much the efforts of one person can impact a community problem, and how much a group of young people working together can help resolve an issue in a neighborhood or a community,» PiceCommunity service should be an integral part of the development of our youth, because if we do not teach them the importance of forming a strong community connection as young people, they will never learn how much the efforts of one person can impact a community problem, and how much a group of young people working together can help resolve an issue in a neighborhood or a community,» Picecommunity connection as young people, they will never learn how much the efforts of one person can impact a community problem, and how much a group of young people working together can help resolve an issue in a neighborhood or a community,» Picecommunity problem, and how much a group of young people working together can help resolve an issue in a neighborhood or a community,» Picecommunity,» Picente said.

«Fighting obesity starts with learning about healthy food choices and engaging in physical activity, and this week we are highlighting this message in communities across the state as part of our efforts to build a healthier New York.»

But an important part of those efforts is helping these communities learn to help themselves.

We support Ron Finley's work to provide access to urban gardens and real food for underserved communities in Los Angeles, as well as his efforts to empower kids to learn about and grow their own fresh food.

The blogging community is an amazing one, full of badass and inspirational women from whom I learn so much everyday (quick shoutout to Style Collective — if you are a blogger and not a member I can not recommend it highly enough), and every time a reader sends me an email or comments on a post, I feel that all of my effort is worth it all over again.

National Lab Day, the day itself, is a capstone day to celebrate the yearlong efforts and collaborations between students, teachers, STEMprofessionals and community volunteers - all supporting and pursuing fun hands - on learning.

In an effort to learn more about how to combine his interests in community organizing and the arts, he came to HGSE, lured by the promise of the Arts in Education Program and by Associate Professor Mark Warren's research on community organizing.

Nancy, a teacher at Coleytown Elementary School in Westport, Connecticut, is helping the children revisit their early efforts to build a safe, caring, and joyful learning community.

That said, this natural, almost invisible, higher order educational use of evermore sophisticated technology and, vitally, the associated learning ecology, has taken the pathfinders many years of concerted whole of school community effort to achieve.

Launched in Boston a decade ago, the City Year program continues to be one of the best efforts in the nation aimed at providing young people with hands - on opportunities to engage in community - service work — and to grow and learn in the process.

Charlotte, N.C. — As the federal government released sobering statistics last week on the dramatic rise in out - of - wedlock births, school officials meeting here learned of one community's efforts to combat the problem of children having children.

Efforts led by the Ed - Fi Alliance, the Access for Learning Community, and the federal government's Common Education Data Standards program, all aim to promote common sets of data standards.

As Taylor explains, SEED - SCALE research has shown that communities become more invested when they learn together, through each other, and then make an effort to sustain an intervention on their own.

The time and effort it took to start blending PBL philosophy with building grading systems, schedules, and a professional learning community (PLC) structure, along with developing parent communication for the pilot project (gathering resources, mapping projects to standards, and creating Moodle pages), has been astounding.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

It will provide a comprehensive overview of education systems» efforts to create learning environments that encourage young people to understand one another and the world beyond their immediate environment, and to take action towards building cohesive and sustainable communities.

She was struck, too, by the amount of effort the young people — even those with a tendency to slack off — put into their projects because they were able to choose a subject about which they were passionate, were allowed to take learning wherever they pleased, and knew they were going to present their work publicly to local experts and community members.

Students learn about an obstacle to their efforts to improve health in their community: Americans eat out 4 - 5 times a week!

Even in schools that make forthright efforts to teach students good social skills, there is a premium on what can be thought of as «vocational citizenship» — with its emphasis on learning socially desirable behaviors not as part of an attachment to community or nation but for the practical benefits they will provide to the individual student.

Instead, Burde writes, efforts should be refocused on quality community - based schools, which receive government and NGO support, but where learning can take place anywhere — someone's home or a mosque, for example.

Along with attendance, testing, GPA checks, and tracking their students post-high school, Build SF uses rubrics for student projects, develops peer assessments, and asks mentors to fill out formal exit surveys on students, based on skills developed by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, an acclaimed advocacy group dedicated to infusing twenty - first - century skills into education through collaborative community efforts.

Building those community connections is another good strategy for sustaining quality service - learning efforts.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

In the development of the community - campus AfterZone model, the Providence After School Alliance led the community in a rigorous effort to define the standards it would use to build a successful after - school learning network.

It's called expeditionary learning, and it builds on the collaborative, interdisciplinary approach of project learning, then extends the effort out of the classroom into the community.

support efforts to make maker - centered learning experiences more inclusive and accessible to a wider and more diverse array of young people and communities (since a key tenet of the maker movement is that making is better when fueled by the experiences of a wide range of backgrounds)

The Foundation supports the collaborative efforts of public school educators, their unions, school districts, and communities to focus on learning conditions that improve student performance.

GoodSearch: Fundraising Through Internet Searching You may be surprised to learn of a program that requires little effort and capitalizes on something everyone in your school community is already doing — searching the Internet.

The Institute's CEO Jim Davies recommended that school communities create space for principals to get to the core business — leading quality teaching and learning in their schools — and find ways the principal can put effort into the things that account for students in classrooms.

As part of this effort, we are challenging school leaders, educators, and community advocates to sign the Promise, and commit to being a champion for making by developing opportunities for students to learn through making; creating and supporting spaces for making; and showcasing what students make.

For instance, online AP classes serve rural communities without access to qualified teachers, and there are promising efforts to create programs that adapt to the needs of students with special learning requirements.

As the Associate Director of National Outreach and Community Building, Dr. Joshi Hansen will be helping build the ecosystem of partners needed to ensure educators pioneering learner - centered learning are supported in their efforts.