Sentences with phrase «of classroom initiatives»

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From classrooms to corporate initiatives, the awards recognize a variety of projects and celebrate those who demonstrate commitment to the environment and take the initiative to make quantifiable sustainable changes.

The pilot program for the 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017 academic years seeks to support enhanced confidence with technology integration, facilitate the adoption of campus - wide technologies, such as Adobe Connect and Desire2Learn, while also encouraging exploration of learning technology solutions to classroom and department initiatives.

At the federal level, the Department of Education can implement STEM as a requirement in America's classrooms, and fund more initiatives like Race to the Top, a $ 4 billion dollar program that to incentivizes states to develop next - generation educational standards.

As part of the Small Schools Taskforce, a national initiative which aims to ensure that all small schools have the right menus and kitchen equipment to be able to offer a viable service, I've witnessed the huge benefits that a hot, healthy meal can have on classroom performance.

A team player who loves working with children, has a sense of inner calm, and is able to take initiative to facilitate the smooth running of the EC classroom.

An emerging initiative has been implementing a classroom breakfast program in all of the city's schools, and 50 have signed on so far; the system also has grab - and - go breakfast kiosks in six schools.

The key to breakfast - in - the - classroom success is right there in the name of our initiative: partners.

Some are critical of social and emotional learning initiatives within a classroom setting, arguing that schools are not an appropriate venue for emotional education.

What was for much of the 20th century a bureaucratic and careerist behemoth dedicated to refighting the Last War, the Army has now morphed into a relatively nimble force that's opened itself to criticism and rethought its tactical doctrine, and that values the ideas and initiatives of younger officers fresh from the harsh classroom of combat.

He also lauded the governor for training and retraining of teachers, information communication technology classrooms, distributions of tablets of knowledge and educational materials including o'meal initiative among many others.

Commenting on the success of the initiative, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said, «Alom's book is a perfect tool for helping young people to think critically about the world around them, whether used in the classroom to stimulate discussion or simply read at home for pleasure, with the warmth and colour that only autobiography can provide.»

«Some issues that we were hoping to see addressed were not, among them the baselining of funding in the budget for initiatives such as legal aid for anti-eviction services and Teacher's Choice, a program that reimburses educators for the purchase of classroom supplies of their choice,» she said.

Let's go to the people of this state, let's be bold, let's go to them in November with a bond referendum with a smart schools initiative lets invest $ 2 billion in providing the technology of tomorrow today to bring our classrooms up to speed.

The initiative, which has so far cost $ 386 million, centers on equipping schools with resources to better deal with students» needs outside of the classroom, such as medical and mental health services.

With one of the classrooms for Mohawk Valley Community College's newly instituted small Unoccupied Aerial Systems degree program as the backdrop this morning, Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. updated the progress being made in his Vision 2020 initiative which intends to ready the region for growth in the areas of high - tech education and training; transportation and housing and access to opportunity.

A 2003 U.K. government initiative is responsible for more than half of school classrooms now having interactive whiteboards in place of traditional chalkboards — more than 36,500 of them in total.

As part of an extensive education outreach campaign to heighten awareness of Thurgood Marshall in classrooms and homeschools across the country, BazanED, a leader in motion picture education, is working with officials ranging from city council members to congressional representatives and mayors to organize the initiative.

There are many other factors to consider, such as administrators making time to visit classrooms, capable instructional leadership, clear expectations and common language around school or district initiatives, creating a culture of risk taking, etc..

When the Board questions the CEO about the knowledge initiatives of the organization, the CEO questions the business heads, and so on and so forth.Key managers can dig deep into learning tools to find out how much learning has been consumed, how many people have attended classroom training, and whether everyone attempted the assessments.

Moreover, as director of the Making Creativity Visible initiative, I have the pleasure of working with classroom and museum educators over the next 18 months to develop and disseminate tools that will help teachers to model, foster, and assess creativity and make that learning visible.»

For Dan Habib, University of New Hampshire filmmaker and appointee to the President's Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, educational policies and initiatives that more fully integrate all students within the same classroom environment are sometimes more beneficial than special education alone.

But, the goals of your initiative can't be accomplished if your teachers aren't supported in making them happen in the classroom for each and every student.

There's a growing smorgasbord of initiatives and resources beyond the classroom supporting the push to improve STEM learning outcomes, so finding one to fit your students» needs at any given moment in time can feel a little overwhelming.

We also know that classroom education is more complex, full of competing initiatives which create myths that lure us away from our core purpose: students» learning needs.

During the past year, Bonnie Mackintosh has been conducting classroom - level observations and child assessments in community - based preschool programs throughout Boston's Circle of Promise and East Boston neighborhoods as part of an initiative to improve access to high - quality early childhood care and educational programs.

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Another big goal of the Common Core initiative was to help states make the shift to «next generation» assessments — the kind that would encourage better teaching and learning in the classroom, tap the advantages of online testing, and remain faithful to the higher standards.

Regardless of your aims - mobile learning, informal learning, e-learning, traditional classrooms - single source creates a framework that gives organizations transparency and agility to develop learning initiatives.

PrimaryAccess is supported by the University of Virginia's Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI), and we are committed to providing a robust cloud - based environment for teachers to freely use in their classrooms.

The school districts have also failed to require detailed documentation of the need for a bilingual education classroom, as the initiative requires, and they have changed the requirement of a year in a sheltered English - immersion classroom from a maximum to a minimum.

«As part of the Small Schools Taskforce, a national initiative which aims to ensure that all small schools have the right menus and kitchen equipment to be able to offer a viable service, I've witnessed the huge benefits that a hot, healthy meal can have on classroom performance.

Although few states require the teaching of media literacy, educators throughout the country are introducing classroom and even schoolwide initiatives designed to increase students» awareness and analysis of the media that surround them.

Toolkit for Promoting Empathy in Schools: Start Empathy, an initiative of Ashoka, published this free comprehensive guide (available for PDF download) featuring strategies for bringing empathy into the classroom.

As with the reading initiative, the curriculum - alignment initiative has the power to improve instruction simply by making what happens in the classroom the subject of discussion and critique.

The partnership is the latest initiative from Skype to reach its goal of connecting one million classrooms across the globe through Skype in the Classroom, a free online community that helps teachers use Skype to enrich educational experiences for students.

In a bold, new initiative the future of contemporary learning and teaching is visible in the newly connected classrooms of Years 7 and 8 at Delany College, Granville, thanks to a first of its kind partnership between Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta and Telstra.

The resource contains over 300 posters, images, and displays and includes: - P4C / Philosophy Posters - Religious Studies / Education Images and Posters - A massive collection of «thunks» and thought provoking memes - Buddhist Images and display set - up - Documents that amalgam images for specific poster design tasks - A3 Printable Posters - Mini Posters - Schoolwide spirituality initiative posters - A video showing how I used these displays in my classroom - Educational Infographics - Inspirational Quotes - «Finished your task?»

However, little is known about the benefits of such initiatives in the classroom, and even less is known about how these efforts shape students» cognitive development.

The initiative has encompassed a series of conferences and produced a book, Scaling Up Success, that explores different models for taking successful programs from the classroom level to the district level and, eventually, nationwide.

Part of the promise of the Common Core initiative was that the new standards would be joined by «next - generation» assessments — tests that match the intellectual demands of the Common Core, are harder to game, and actually deserve to guide classroom instruction rather than encourage mindless test preparation.

An especially intense spotlight had been trained on the scores of students whose native language is not English — largely because of Proposition 227, the ballot initiative passed last year that curtailed bilingual education in the state's classrooms.

What is notable about the version of teacher evaluation systems currently evolving in districts throughout the nation, however, is the continued emphasis on classroom observations, with many systems employing the same observation tool used in CPS under the EITP initiative.

The award included a $ 500,000 grant, which he has dedicated to the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation to support and promote a culture of innovation; entrepreneurship through course design and redesign; development of unique classroom learning environments that support active learning, team - based learning, and entrepreneurial skill development; lab - and project - based capstone courses; faculty fellowships; and peer - learning initiatives.

An ERIC summary of of that study's findings states... «Implemented in 1990, the Burke County initiative appears to have resulted in expanded classroom space, improved classroom management, strengthened instruction and assessment, enhanced student concept and relationships with peers, and improved teacher - parent communication.

The aim of the ambassadors is to provide peer - to - peer support and lead online safety initiatives in the classroom.

The missing link is the assimilation by teachers and others close to the classroom's work of the conceptual shifts that undergird the reform initiatives: the dynamic sets of whys and hows that determine the process of change.

Some of the more prominent initiatives - like the Reading First component of No Child Left Behind and the «Success for All - Reading First» program begun at Johns Hopkins in the late 1970s - involve the implementation of a highly structured classroom framework that spells out what should be taught, how it should be taught, and for how long.

If we make it possible for local leaders to pilot their initiatives on a limited scale first — say, by launching an intervention in 100 treatment classrooms and tracking results relative to a set of 100 comparison classrooms — we would provide both more upside potential and less downside risk.

Aware that building the future of all our students takes place in and out of the classroom, in addition to the Interview Day initiative, we have implemented incentive and reward schemes, carry out a lot of work in assemblies and talk regularly about role models that the students can relate to.

While on the surface, schools suggest initiatives that promote an individual's freedom to critically think, reflect, challenge, and be challenged, though the reality is that there is very little room for true criticism or reflection in the classroom; the focus of education is not on challenging students, but rather on explicating absolute skills that can be translated in something that can be effectively numerated and explicitly bought.