Sentences with phrase «of a learning community focused»

At P.S. 205, students were full members of the learning community focused on school improvement.

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Ridge describes how a focus on the servant leadership principles of values, learning, teaching, growth, and community can lead to enhanced performance by helping people step into the best version of themselves.

«Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities,» he wrote.

The best of breed mega-incubators like 1871 are all about a community focused on ongoing learning and shared experiences.

If reality is immeasurably complex, and if the historic experience of other communities has focused on features of reality that we have neglected, then our concern is to learn from them.

With members from around the world focused on learning about Food Chemistry and its advances; this is your best opportunity to reach the largest assemblage of participants from the Food Chemistry community.

Dr. Siegel is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organization, which offers online learning and in - person lectures that focus on how the development of mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a child - centered approach to learning that focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each individual.

Steve and I have often remarked that despite there being such a strong and wonderful community of homeschoolers in our area, and with so many great offerings all the time... there is still this surge in the summertime of the kind of intensive learning and playing that happens at camps when the focus is long and thorough.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

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.

We have already held three community meetings, focus groups and web surveys to learn the needs of the community as they relate to the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System.

Although the focus of the Rural Utilities Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is on building the telecommunications infrastructure for rural communities, their Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) Loans and Grants Program does provide funds for putting classes online, allows program manager Mark Seiler.

Our educational culture provides learner - centered graduate education that nourishes the growth of individuals» intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual lives within learning communities, focusing on disciplines that will be central to the unpredictable nature of civilization in the 21st century.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The TalentCulture community focuses on a spectrum of workplace related topics, including careers, learning and development, business leadership, talent strategy, HR, recruiting, innovation management, work / life balance and more.

Cambridge, MA About Blog The TalentCulture community focuses on a spectrum of workplace related topics, including careers, learning and development, business leadership, talent strategy, HR, recruiting, innovation management, work / life balance and more.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

Service learning projects should be focused on the priorities of the community; remember, the lessons of empathy and productiveness students take away is often more important than the exact issue being addressed!

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.

Her scholarly interests are focused on how the computational creation of interactive media serves to provide a meaningful context for young people's participation and learning, and how broader communities support that learning.

In the next section, we discuss models of professional learning that focus on supporting continual professional learning and community - based feedback cycles that help teachers to critically and collaboratively examine and refine their practices.

Many of you said Teacher helps you on a really practical level, «[I take the articles] to professional discussions with a focus on reflective practice, to feed into professional learning communities, influence strategic planning agendas and to focus on the bigger picture through strategic steps towards improvement.»

When it comes to a focus on students, research suggests effective professional learning communities «make intelligent use of evidence to pinpoint areas needing intervention to enhance learning outcomes for all students».

Our initial experiments focused on visualizing how variations in student engagement contributed to ongoing changes to the collective «shape» of the learning community.

Schools of the future will be far more focused on ecological learning for community and environmental improvement.

Rebecca is responsible for overseeing the implementation and ongoing refinement of Institute of Play's unique professional development model, with a focus on developing multi-dimensional teachers who make important contributions to the learning community.

This summer Mapp led her first Program in Professional Education (PPE) institute, «Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success,» which focused on designing family engagement practices connected to student learning, and increasing the capacity of educators, families, and community members to develop and sustain partnerships that improve student outcomes.

Schools will leverage online learning for academics, which means they will be able to act as community centers in essence and focus far more on providing well - kept facilities that students want to attend with great face - to - face supports, high - quality meals, and a range of athletic, musical, and artistic programs — things that receive short shrift all too often today.

«The focus will be to have discussions about our school, the climate, the concept of ethical responsibility, and what it means for us as a learning community,» he says, starting with topics suggested in the survey results.

On September 8th we celebrate International Literacy Day, as a result of an 1965 initiative of the United Nations Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) organization, designed to highlight how crucial literacy was to people and their communities, and to focus attention on expanding the opportunities for all people to learn to read.

Mapp joined IRE in 1997 as Project Director for the Boston Community Partners for Students» Success initiative, which focused on the development of activities and programs to familiarize parents with the recently established Boston Citywide Learning Standards.

In this model, according to the trust administrators, «student work focuses on community needs and interests, and community members serve as resources and partners in every aspect of teaching and learning.»

For several years our school has been focused on school improvement and changing the culture of the school in order to truly become a «professional learning community.»

Some current projects include: Cultures of Computing, an examination of how K - 12 teachers design learning environments to support novice programmers, focusing on teachers» design intentions and how those intentions are enacted; ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators who support computational literacy with the Scratch programming language, involving the development of a 25,000 - member online community, a network of in - person events, and curricular materials; and Cultivating Computational Thinking, an investigation of the concepts, practices, and perspectives that young people develop through computational design activities.

South Australia's Innovation Community Action Network (ICAN), which offers flexible learning options outside mainstream schooling but still under the responsibility of a school principal, and CARE Schools in Western Australia, which focuses on practical learning to support the transition to further training and employment, also feature in the report.

With experience as a babysitter, camp counselor, Boys & Girls Club drama teacher, and community youth program site coordinator, McCormack's work has always been focused on kids, but, she says, «I had no explicit background in education — all of my learning was based on my hands - on experience.»

Their 3 - I (Interdisciplinary, Inter-school & International) Project Learning experience focuses on environmental protection of local communities.

This lesson is focused on a theme of community, lessons learned, analysis of text / close reading, and feelings but can easily be modified for other uses.

Once community leaders have laid this systemic foundation, they can focus on maintaining rigorous, useful out - of - school learning programs.

Education systems should incorporate multiple ways of learning, combining formal and non-formal, traditional and modern, local and outside languages, local and external teachers; high priority needs to be given to vocational learning, through community - based institutions; content should be focused on enhancing links with nature, culture, and society, encouraging community and collective thinking and working, respecting diversity, and other principles and values described in this section.

It aims to be the first place of support for all teachers seeking to access South Australia's unique, learning - focused community.

Because we had already focused heavily on project - based learning for many years and frequently recruited public audiences for student exhibitions, we had a track record of engaging with the community.

School practices are organized into eight categories: student focus and support; school organ - ization and culture; challenging standards and curriculum; active teaching and learning; professional community; leadership and educational vitality; school, family, and community partnerships; and indicators of success.

Mapp joined IRE as project director for the Boston Community Partners for Students» Success initiative, which focused on the development of activities and programs to familiarize parents with the recently established Boston Citywide Learning Standards.

Within every effective professional learning community, there exists a group of teachers who regularly collaborate, with a focus on achieving continual professional improvement.

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.

In developing the series we focused on the strengths that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children bring to school, getting schools ready for children as well as children ready for school, and the importance of two - way learning, with teachers and schools, and local communities learning from each other.

The principal, working collaboratively with a leadership team, focuses on building a learning community that involves all teachers and places top priority on the education and healthy development of every student, teacher, and staff member.