Sentences with phrase «national learning community»

Systems Building by State» We work intensively with 10 BUILD states, support Early Learning Challenge grantee states and applicants, and lead a 50 - state national learning community.

Offering technical assistance, regional and national learning community meetings, funding and more, we support state leaders» efforts to set policy, offer services and advocate for children from birth to age five.

BUILD hosts events and activities throughout the year to support a national learning community focused on early childhood systems building.

has also created and nurtured a national learning community of scholarship professionals and volunteers, many of whom are working in very challenging political environments.

Invest in the Dream has also created and nurtured a national learning community of scholarship professionals and volunteers, many of whom are working in very challenging political environments.

Discover resources for ongoing operational support, and establish a national learning community of peers with whom you can continue to explore human resources issues for independent school administrators.

Selected by NCAN as part of national learning community on college access and success best practices (complete Jan. 2016)

Discover resources for ongoing operational support, and establish a national learning community of peers with whom you can continue to explore the issues of business administration and leadership within independent schools.

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.

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

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a two - day workshop on the capabilities and applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning for the intelligence community on August 9 - 10, 2017.

Founded in 2015 when Karlie Kloss began learning to code, Kode With Klossy hosts coding summer camps for girls aged 13 - 18 and fosters a national community furthering opportunities for girls in tech.

E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«I think people start children outside too late,» said Shanti Hodges, founder and owner Hike it Baby, a national, non-profit group based in Portland, Oregon, that offers a virtual and in - person community to thousands of parents who are looking to learn how to get outside with their children.

Katherine Woodward Thomas, M.A., MFT, is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After and the national bestseller, Calling in «The One:» 7 Weeks to Attract the Love of Your Life, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and teacher to hundreds of thousands of people from all corners of the globe in her virtual learning communities.

New York was one of ten states that participated in a three - year infant and early childhood mental health (I - ECMH) learning community facilitated by the National Center on Children in Poverty, ZERO T...

Virginia was one of ten states that participated in a three - year infant and early childhood mental health (I - ECMH) learning community facilitated by National Center on Children in Poverty, ZERO TO TH...

Each year, the National Environmental Education Foundation («NEEF») partners with educators, students, government agencies, businesses, communities, nonprofit organizations, and others to inspire environmental learning and encourage stewardship of our essential resources: land, air, and water.

At 8:30 a.m., Board of Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa and Regent Judith Chin will participate in a panel discussion on a new study by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Education Policy Center showing that well - implemented community schools can lift achievement in high - poverty communities, Teachers College, Columbia University, Joyce Berger Cowin Auditorium, Broadway, Manhattan.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

At the end of their fellowship, they will organize an event in their community that shares what they learned, and they will go to Washington, D.C. for a briefing with policy - makers who are working on issues at a national level.

Health care experts, such as the National Academies» Institute of Medicine, have called on nurses nationwide to continue their education through lifelong learning to elevate patient care and community health.

We believe community pharmacy teams play a vital role in the early detection of cancer, and our new National Pharmacy Association - accredited digital learning modules have been specifically developed to help them learn more about the most common symptoms of pancreatic cancer.

Welcome to the NASA Science Mission Directorate STEM Activation Community's public web site, providing content and strategies for formal and informal educators and the public to enable learning, build science literacy, and support national and local goals to improve science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics literacy and practice.

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New York About Blog Opera Teens is a national initiative to empower high - schoolers to pursue their interests in opera, share opera learning with others and leverage the power of opera to serve local communities.

In 2017, the first major changes in the UK's National Student Survey (NSS) questions were introduced, including new sections on the learning community, learning opportunities, and the student voice.

magazine hosted a videoconference this spring in HGSE's Learning Technologies Center with five national leaders in education: Mitchell Chester, Ed.D.» 91, Assistant Superintendent for Accountability, Ohio Department of Education; Karen Mapp, Ed.D.» 99, Deputy Superintendent for Family and Community Engagement, Boston Public Schools; William Moloney, Ed.D.» 79, Colorado Commissioner of Education; Jennifer O'Day, Ed.D.» 73, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research; and Manuel Rivera, Ed.D.» 94, Superintendent, Rochester (NY) City School District.

Fortunately, the national curriculum programmes of study provide us with numerous opportunities for learning in our school grounds, local community and further afield during educational visits and residentials.

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.

Eighty - nine percent of students at Linked Learning sites agreed that their school was preparing them for success in career, while 49 % indicated that «helping others in the community» is «very important» compared to 35 % of a national sample.

Between midday on 4th and 14th December, all donations online can be doubled, which means in the future twice as many teachers could be learning about child rights and gender - based violence, twice as many communities learning about the importance of girls» education, twice as many school - boards understanding and enforcing national policies aimed at supporting girls, and hopefully twice as many girls could be making that crucial transition from primary to secondary school, become shining beacons for hundreds of other women and girls who dream of a better future but wonder if it's possible.

Currently VP of Education for Almost Family Inc., he served as National Leader for Curriculum and Technology Solutions with Humana Inc., serving a global learning community focused on improving performance in the business ecosystem.

«Education is the entire process of social life by means which individual and social groups learn to develop consciously within, and for the benefit of, the national and international communities, the whole of their personal capabilities, attitudes, aptitudes and knowledge.»

The national initiative, started by PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning), encourages community members to spend a day with a school administrator and take it all in.

As an accredited Tim Henman Foundation BECSLink Community, the school works alongside national and local businesses, education charities, and sports and arts organisations to provide resources and learning opportunities for young people.

He has presented at State, National and International conferences on leadership, school culture and implementing learning communities.

The «Learn, Create and Share» pedagogy includes a multi media / tech culture that includes digital links between the schools and homes, community television and film festivals and links to government agencies and local, national and international learning and business partnerships.

Preparing for National Board certification can facilitate teacher learning and the development of professional teacher communities.

«What they've done is transform the entire school into a learning community,» explains Tom Carroll, president of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.

Miriam Mason - Sesay (@EducAidSL) in Sierra Leone notes a learning community has started gaining the skills, behaviors and attitudes to be national and global contributors when they «know they have the right and responsibility to make their voices heard and to strive to make their immediate world better.»

Over the course of this grant, FOI: (1) is producing professional development materials to help staff representing multiple state agencies better understand the basic science of child development generally and the promotion of executive function and self - regulation skills more specifically; (2) is supporting the creation of small learning communities, building on existing relationships at the site and policy level and connecting to other learning communities across North America; (3) is supporting the Washington cross-agency working group to sustain its current gains and momentum during the upcoming executive branch transition in January and to share lessons learned with the broader national FOI community of states and Canadian provinces; and (4) is beginning conversations with stakeholders at the community level to explore mutual interests and is beginning to chart a path toward enhanced collaboration within the state.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

13 - 16 — Community involvement: 37th Annual Conference, sponsored by the National Community Education Association, for after - school practitioners, 21st Century Community Learning Center staff, school district personnel, superintendents, university personnel, and...

According to the Australian Council for Education Research and Queensland Department of Education, Training and Employment's National School Improvement Tool (2012), «Research is revealing the powerful impact that school leadership teams can have in improving the quality of teaching and learning... and establishing strong professional learning communities.»

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Ms Clark was previously National Education Director and South - West Regional Director for Oasis Community Learning.

For example, LRNG is an online, national network of community - based learning opportunities for young people, especially the underserved.

You for Youth was unveiled last week at the national 21st Century Community Learning Centers Summer Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.