Sentences with phrase «model of education promoted»

The factory model of education promoted efficiency and favored uniformity.

Not exact matches

In current discussions of the nature and purpose of theological education Edward Farley has invoked the older of these two models of excellence in schooling when he describes his book Theologia as an essay «which purports to promote a Christian paideia.»

Our work within education and to promote social integration has also been viewed as a model of best practice.

In this model, science education partnerships are visualised as being promoted by a new breed of people called by Sussman «t - RNA people».

Through funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Lipitz Center will offer health care providers information, education and technical support to promote the adoption of the Hopkins - developed Guided Care model for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.

What he has found, he says, is a tension between opposing models of education: one promoting meritocracy, and the other favoring equal rights and developing social skills.

This is why we need to ensure that mechanisms are in place to promote flexible staffing models that meet all the latest safeguarding criteria but also ensure that no days are wasted in terms of the education provided to children in our schools.

LJAF's investments in K - 12 education seek to advance the portfolio model of school governance, an alternative structure that promotes a decentralized administration, more school choice for families, and increased flexibility and accountability for educators.

Rather than using technology as Kim and Sharp and others have done by modeling and demonstrating constructivist lessons first and then having preservice education students attempt to plan lessons by emulating the approach later, the present approach promoted constructivist lesson planning while students were in the process of planning the lesson.

The Inclusive Practice Partnership Project is designed as a professional development model to support inclusive education that recognizes and promotes the sharing of resources and expertise of schools and teams who have demonstrated successful inclusive practices within the school and community.

Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school models, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice within the American public education system.

Brian has been involved with creating policies, models, and criteria for promoting validity, reliability, and credibility in both assessments and accountability systems through work with groups such as the U.S. Department of Education (co-author of Accountability Peer Review guidance; Growth Model Pilot guidance), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)(author of documents on the design of accountability systems and balanced assessment systems), National Center for Educational Outcomes (NCEO)(author of research reports on standardization and reliability for assessment systems for students with disabilities), and several state Technical Advisory Committees.

Others were created by private companies to promote a particular model of education or instruction.

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

With support from Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Evaluation Toolkit was developed for two purposes: (1) To develop a freely accessible, research - based resource that will enable outreach programs to more readily and systematically use data and outcome measures to improve service delivery, and (2) promote research that will identify effective program models across outreach programs and document the collective impact of programs by using the evaluation data generated through a common assessment framework.

Incessant testing with no relation to the real world, the mindless collection of trivia classified as data, forcing a «business model» like Enron or Lehman Brothers or General Motors on the public schools, driving the arts and the social sciences out of the curriculum, and watching every Chancellor, Superintendent, Commissioner, and Secretary of Education promote charter schools over their own public schools at every turn.

• The «blended learning» model of education exemplified by the Rocketship chain of charter schools — often promoted by charter boosters — is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data - driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on test preparation.

Promoting Student Achievement through Improved Health Policy is a quick primer of the CDC's «Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child» model, which highlights 10 important areas for connecting health and learning: health education; physical education and physical activity; nutrition; school health services; counseling, psychological, and social services; employee wellness; safe physical environments, social and emotional school climate; family engagement; and community involvement.

She immediately works with faculty to link the College's innovative outreach initiatives under the rubric of the Scholarship of Engagement, an education model first promoted by noted educator Ernest Boyer.

News Corp's senior Vice President in charge of its education division is none other than former Chancellor of New York City Schools, Joel Klein, who promoted a corporatist model of education reform.

These classrooms showcase the implementation of co-teaching by promoting a collaborative model — general and special education teachers share responsibility for the achievement of all students in the general education classroom through active co-planning, co-teaching, co-assessing with inclusive and research - based practices.

(Calif.) With mental health issues a growing concern for education policy makers, Gov. Jerry Brown signed bills this week aimed at reducing bullying based on religion, restricting confinement of juvenile offenders and promoting model suicide prevention programs.

Known as Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), this education model encompasses other student - targeted support programs, such as Response to Intervention (RtI), which promotes early identification of and assistance for students with learning and behavior needs.

It is a member of ALEC, and many of the education initiatives it promotes appear to have their roots in ALEC «model» legislation, such as tuition tax credits, parent trigger legislation, and attacks on union rights.

This quasi-experimental study examines the implementation of a performing and visual arts integrated arts professional development model (Art as a Way of Learning — AWL) within an integrated arts program (Promoting and Supporting Early Literacy through the Arts — PASELA) designed to improve literacy in three community - based early childhood education (ECE) settings.

In fact, six years after Vallas began to promote his «Vallas Turnaround Model,» a Louisiana Education Research Group called Research on Reforms, determined that 79 % of the charter schools in the Recovery School District were graded D or F by the state.

Others have clearly noticed that the education market is a clear area for promoting tablet growth, like Amazon, which recently added to the existing appeal of its bargain - basement Kindle Fire pricing (a souped up version of last year's model retails for $ 159) with a new free Whispercast mobile device management platform that lets schools easily deploy updates and content to a whole fleet of Kindle hardware, with support for Kindle Fire Android software coming soon.

She is passionate about furthering the ideals of access in education, conceiving new alternative educational models, teaching the intersectionality of struggles, and promoting open source and new media alternatives for activists and frontline communities.

PAGES» main areas of focus include: - Facilitating international research activities on past environmental changes - Promoting the synthesis of scientific knowledge and data - Strengthening the involvement of scientists from developing countries - Integrating the paleoscience and wider global environmental change communities - Disseminating important research findings and organizational information - Supporting scientific training and education - Integrating scientific evidence from observations and modeling - Ensuring public access to paleoscientific data - Enhancing the visibility and use of paleoresearch

Ricardo and the Social Environmental Institute are currently focused on youth education programs that promote sustainable development in Brazil's Ribeira Valley, where Western conservation models are squeezing out traditional agricultural practices that have sustained the land for generations of families.

Instituto Socioambiental ($ 35,000): For youth education programs that promote sustainable development in Brazil's Ribeira Valley, where Western conservation models are squeezing out traditional agricultural practices that have sustained the land for generations of families.

My understanding of preparing the right education models in conjunction with promoting a respectful environment for teachers and students has earned me commendation several times.

Bright Futures, the AAP health promotion initiative, provides resources for pediatricians to detect both ACEs and adverse developmental outcomes.36 Programs like Reach Out and Read, in which pediatricians distribute books and model reading, simultaneously promote emergent literacy and parent — child relationships through shared reading.37, 38 However, ACEs can not be addressed in isolation and require collaborative efforts with partners in the education, home visitation, and other social service sectors in synergistic efforts to strengthen families.29 In this way, programs like Help Me Grow39 that create streamlined access to early childhood services for at - risk children can play a critical role in building an integrated system that connects families to needed resources to enhance the development of vulnerable children.

Within the education community, Parents as Teachers (PAT) has gained prominence as a program for promoting child development and school readiness after achieving promising results in Missouri.12 In New Zealand, Scotland, and other countries, recent development of home - visiting efforts have replicated American models, thus indicating that the promise seen in this country with home visiting is envisioned beyond our shores.13, 14 Lisbeth Schorr, in her 1988 book Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of the Disadvantaged, stated: «[Home - visiting] programs that succeed in helping the children and families who live in the shadows are intensive and comprehensive, flexible, and staffed by professionals with the time and skills to establish solid relationships with their clients.

The drug education aspect of the resources was based on the health promoting schools framework (WHO, 1986), Zinberg's interaction model (1984), the model of risk and protective factors for substance use (Dept. Health and Ageing, 2004) and the principles of best practice in school drug education (DEST, 2004).

We also invest in changing the paradigm of education — from the prevailing performance - based models, which focus on competition — to new approaches that promote not only academics, but the social and emotional well - being of the «whole child.»

Over the years, innovative theoretical work on women's psychological development and model programs for the prevention of psychological problems were developed and training programs that promote social - emotional learning in elementary education have grown.

Strategies: Promote alternative models of education delivery; support the implementation of recommendations of» Learning Lessons» review of Indigenous Education; assist homeland residents in lobbying for support for the establishment of community controlled and staffed schools; upgrade the qualifications and skills of Indigenous education workers to nationally recognised standards; provision of early governance training in curriculum; community authority and control of performance maeducation delivery; support the implementation of recommendations of» Learning Lessons» review of Indigenous Education; assist homeland residents in lobbying for support for the establishment of community controlled and staffed schools; upgrade the qualifications and skills of Indigenous education workers to nationally recognised standards; provision of early governance training in curriculum; community authority and control of performance maEducation; assist homeland residents in lobbying for support for the establishment of community controlled and staffed schools; upgrade the qualifications and skills of Indigenous education workers to nationally recognised standards; provision of early governance training in curriculum; community authority and control of performance maeducation workers to nationally recognised standards; provision of early governance training in curriculum; community authority and control of performance management.

Strategies: Promote positive role models; develop leaders through education; develop learning infrastructure; make available opportunities for people to meet, mix and celebrate; make available opportunities for the expression of talent.

Many local authorities have set up multi-agency safeguarding models where a hub of key agencies (which can include children's services, police, health, education, probation and youth offending) are co-located or have an agreed protocol in place to promote better information - sharing, decision - making and communication in relation to concerns about children.

Team Tennessee strives to promote the social and emotional development of children, birth - early elementary age, through a cross agency collaborative professional development system, including community based training, continuing education and higher education, that fosters and sustains the state - wide, high - fidelity use of the Pyramid Model integrated with other relevant Tennessee efforts.

NRCLD developed this brief to help parents understand responsiveness to intervention, an education model that promotes early identification of students who may be at risk for learning difficulties.

The major goal of TRACE is to identify and promote the use of evidence - based practices and models for improving child find, referral, early identification, and eligibility determination for infants, toddlers, and young children with developmental delays or disabilities who are eligible for early intervention or preschool special education.

The agency's home visitation intervention used the Parent Aides Nurturing and Developing With Adolescents curriculum.25 The curriculum was based on theories of human ecology, attachment, and social support, which emphasize that positive child development is promoted by nurturing, empathetic parenting and is influenced by the characteristics of families and social networks.25 (pp1 - 9), 26 The home visitor was to use the curriculum in weekly home visits with the teenager to teach and model nurturing parenting behaviors, encourage the teenager to continue with her education, make general assessments of health and social problems, and initiate referral for early intervention when necessary.

Family - centered care models promote use of skin - to - skin contact and parental education designed to support development and positive interaction qualities at home (Feldman, Eidelman, Sirota, & Weller, 2002; Gooding et al., 2011).