Sentences with phrase «more engaged citizens»

, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local community and environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

PBE is also a natural complement to Personalized and Project - Based Learning, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

PBE deepens personalized and project - based learning, providing a way to connect these efforts to students» local community and environment for engaging learning that leads to more engaged citizens.

When students in public schools do well, the community benefits from a more prepared workforce, future economic growth, lower incarceration rates and more engaged citizens for our future communities.

They become more engaged citizens who understand «how everyone and everything in a community is interconnected,» according to educator and author Sarah Anderson.

The class is in the midst of conducting an urban investigation, a unique, local service - learning project that asks students to confront challenging issues within their community to gain fuller understanding and become more engaged citizens.

A focus on soft - skills will develop better students, more productive employees and more engaged citizens.»

With it comes a timely — if not urgent — opportunity to help students become more engaged citizens.

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But emphasis on the personal responsibility of blacks takes the political pressure off those outside the black community, who also have a responsibility, as citizens of this republic, to be actively engaged in trying to change the structures that constrain the black poor in such a way that they can more effectively assume responsibility for themselves and exercise their inherent and morally required capacity to choose.

Not to mention the persistence of yet a different group of «troglodytes,» in this case more sophisticated ones, who with their invention of the Cold War were constantly endangering the country and its young citizens with their longing to engage in jingoistic military exercises.

After graduating one child already, and two more here now, I feel the Waldorf School of Garden City has prepared and continues to prepare the children in their charge to become engaged and contributing citizens of the world.»

Educating and engaging the public to learn more about wildlife through citizen science is also a hallmark of conservation at Mass Audubon.

I'm looking for educational resources that I can share with others in an effort to engage more citizens in how our election system actually works.

For example, the Commission could help facilitate local deliberative bodies or citizen assemblies, support local authorities conduct effective participatory budgeting exercises, and experiment with new means for the public to engage in political decision - making processes in more direct and sustained ways.

Modern technology provides a big chance to engage more and more citizens in the political process, yet many political elites remain distant to the new technology — and therefore their own people.

Merely exhorting citizens to be more engaged, more community - oriented, more cooperative, more virtuous is not enough.

«I think what we're doing more is arming our citizens with information for people that have been known to engage in terrorist - type activity, that may be out of jail and no longer incarcerated,» Gallivan said.

Dick Dadey, head of the watchdog group Citizens Union, said that while it wasn't against the law for de Blasio to assist his bundlers and other supporters — unless he engaged in an illegal quid pro quo — «they shouldn't have any more access to him than the average New Yorker.»

But there can be no doubt that Labour's efforts to make partisan politics more accessible and democratic have inspired many hitherto passive citizens to engage in politics, and so contributed in important ways to reinvigorating the previously weak connection between the party and the public.

Zephyr will be a strong and persuasive voice for moving the country toward greater equality in earnings for women and the 99 %, increasing the minimum wage, and helping more citizens engage in electoral politics by supporting public funding of elections.

«It also allows us more freedom to engage local citizen scientists in the effort to save the species around them.»

We develop international professional experiences that create more informed, skilled, and engaged citizens.

It's their hope that if they arm students with hands - on learning opportunities, those students will become more active, informed citizens — prepared to vote, volunteer, and engage in civic life.

For more suggestions about teaching students to become citizens of the world, download a free copy of Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World (PDF) by Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony Jackson.

CIVICUS has a vision of a global community of active, engaged citizens committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world.

Examining five of the eight Lisbon Key competencies, it found that students in schools engaged with Drama in the curriculum are more likely to be successful citizens than those that are not.

It was with those students in mind, with their future at stake, and in the interest of the Commonwealth's economic vitality, that the governor engaged more than 200 citizens to develop an action plan, a series of recommendations spanning 10 years with an immediate focus on turning around low - performing schools and ensuring that students are receiving the support they need outside of school to take full advantage of improved teaching and learning inside of school.

The effectiveness of public schools in developing engaged citizens has rarely been examined empirically,» notes a new Mathematica report on the impact on civic participation of Democracy Prep, a network of charter schools that educates more than 5,000 students, mostly in New York City.

Their language suggested that school officials were much more focused on the private and personal outcomes of schooling — preparation for college and career, for example — than on minting public - minded adults who were prepared and motivated to vote, volunteer, donate, or any of the other activities common to active and engaged citizens.

In this documentary - style video, learn about the history of activism and civil disobedience in the U.S., take a look at the purpose of political protests, and learn more about what engaged citizens can accomplish.

Online, they are also invited to reflect on how they fit into the wider world and our unfolding human story — one important facet of becoming more informed, thoughtful, and engaged «global citizens.»

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«Berman pushes us to consider how more than service opportunities or isolated courses in contemporary issues will be needed if students are to become engaged citizens.

She talks about her mission as the head of the city's Community Engagement Team and her goals to get citizens better informed and more engaged.

«Facing History and The Allstate Foundation are dedicated to empowering students with the tools and resources they need to be discerning consumers and producers of news, and as a result, more actively engaged citizens.»

While some highlighted examples have successfully reformed civics, more states, districts, and schools should invest in comprehensive and action - oriented civics curricula to build students» capacity to become engaged and knowledgeable citizens.

By engaging citizens, the signs will also help city leaders make more informed decisions.

Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families — one black, one white — swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.

Engaging citizens, the signs will also help city leaders make more informed decisions.

In less than a year, they built their Animal Services subscription list to more than 15,000; not to mention more than 3,800 followers on the Hurst Animal Shelter Facebook page — illustrating the power of multi-channel digital communications to engage citizens — a trend we expect will continue to grow over the next several years.

«They helped engage their colleagues and citizens in concrete ways to combat animal cruelty and were instrumental in building more actively engaged, safe and humane communities.»

We develop international professional experiences that create more informed, skilled, and engaged citizens.

Marfa Mayor Dan Dunlap proclaimed May 9, 2009 as Green Mountain Solar Energy at Ballroom Marfa Day, urged Marfa citizens and businesses to learn more about green power and to engage in other activities that encourage the use of clean, abundant, reliable, renewable energy.

In an age of information overload, it is more important than ever that citizens be educated and trained to think critically and be actively engaged with issues affecting public life.

But at the same time we have to engage in much more active citizen politics, much more active attempts to reclaim our lives at the community level.

Default rates plummet, and citizens engage more often with court personnel once the platform is in place.

Research shows that citizens are more likely to engage with non-statutory bodies around issues like lifestyle changes, alcohol and teenage pregnancy.

We develop international professional experiences that create more informed, skilled, and engaged citizens.

We develop international professional experiences that create more informed, skilled, and engaged citizens.

«Over the past two years, we have heard from thousands of students who will ultimately grow up to be more engaged, compassionate citizens.