Sentences with phrase «on youth education programs»

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.

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Under Mr. Fairbank's leadership, Capital One has demonstrated a strong commitment to philanthropy and volunteerism, supporting a number of area programs focused on community redevelopment and youth education, including DC Cares, the DC College Access Program and Junior Achievement.

This year, Starbucks has expanded the focus of the grants program to include youth as well as veterans and military spouses, and refugees, with a focus on supporting organizations that are working to help connect those facing barriers to jobs and education to a pathway to long - term economic opportunity.

Common Roads, as the youth programming arm of the Center, serves LGBT youth in Central Pennsylvania through weekly group meetings in Harrisburg and Lancaster, support for area high school and college gay - straight alliances (GSAs) and community education and training on creating a safe space for LGBT youth.

Working with NAYS, the Army is utilizing training and education programs for youth sports coaches, officials, administrators and parents; as well as the Start Smart Sports Development program for children on Army garrisons in Child Development Centers.

«Our staff uses hands - on training and education to promote and encourage sportsmanship in all our youth sports programs.

«This program teaches and enhances the skills and education of athletes through a positive, fun and safe environment so our youth not only develop into successful athletes on the playing field but in life as well,» says Verdell.

Nature offers many benefits to minority youth, which is why the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum places the highest priority on taking nature and science education programs to underserved communities, and on creating greater awareness and opportunities to experience urban nature.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr., joined by Assemblyman Anthony J. Brindisi as well as Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol, stressed the theme of moving on to higher education and avoidance of substance abuse at the Oneida County Summer Youth Employment Program's annual Work Readiness Day held at the Utica campus of Mohawk Valley... Read more

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr., joined by Assemblyman Anthony J. Brindisi as well as Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol, stressed the theme of moving on to higher education and avoidance of substance abuse at the Oneida County Summer Youth Employment Program's annual Work Readiness Day held at the Utica campus of Mohawk Valley Community College.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Those tax cuts would be paid for by New Yorkers that rely on public safety and health services, youth and elderly programs, and K - 12 education.

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Focusing on programming and best practices for education in emergencies, Teresa has worked in New York City with the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and in Amman, Jordan, with both UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States on issues related to youth and UNICEF's No Lost Generation initiative supporting education responses to the crises in Syria education in emergencies, Teresa has worked in New York City with the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and in Amman, Jordan, with both UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States on issues related to youth and UNICEF's No Lost Generation initiative supporting education responses to the crises in Syria Education in Emergencies (INEE) and in Amman, Jordan, with both UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States on issues related to youth and UNICEF's No Lost Generation initiative supporting education responses to the crises in Syria education responses to the crises in Syria and Iraq.

He has studied the impact of entrepreneurship education with youth in the Middle East as well as the impact of citizenship education programs on youth in Latin America.

I'm on the National Faculty of the Buck Institute for Education, and have also helped nonprofit organizations design programs that teach both youth and adults how to improve their communities with innovative, sustainable solutions.

«This program will focus on the unique aspects of educating immigrant children by examining current research on language education, socio - emotional well - being of immigrant youth, and family engagement that truly supports learning.»

With more than 26 years teaching at Harvard, Ferguson's research focuses on the racial achievement gap, education policy, youth development programming, community development, economic consequences of skill disparities, and state and local economic development.

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.»

I initially came to Liberia in May 2011, and then left in 2013 for Sierra Leone, to work as a program adviser for all education projects for the Forum for African Women Educationalists and as a consultant on the USAID Advancing Youth Project.At the beginning of October, I went...

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the educatioeducation, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the educatioeducation fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the educatioEducation, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the educationeducation sector.

While some of these programs can be said to be effective in raising awareness on global education, however records shows that most of these programs focus more on literate youths in urban rich communities, leaving many illiterate youths especially in rural and urban slums with little or no access to such programs.

Youth programs such as Model United Nations programs, debates, fellowships, cultural exchange programs, trainings and the use of technology — social media are very effective ways of creating awareness on global education.

The skills that we focus on in our education programs through illuminate Education are the following nine which we believe are critical to all opportunities for oeducation programs through illuminate Education are the following nine which we believe are critical to all opportunities for oEducation are the following nine which we believe are critical to all opportunities for our youth;

Project 2: Kernels of Practice for SEL: Evidence - Based Strategies for Social, Emotional, and Ethical Development In recent decades many school based programs have focused not only on academics but on an inter-related set of skills that fall under the headings of social and emotional learning (SEL), character education, bullying prevention, life skills, and / or youth development.

Could a poem on the circumstances of deprived children or a documentary movie on the condition of homeless youths in New Orleans qualify as research in support of one or another education program?

In launching an unprecedented effort to improve school achievement and other youth outcomes by «scaling up» evidence - based programs, the Obama administration has given education a golden opportunity on the research front.

Speakers will include: Esteniolla Maitre, ListeningWorks Project Manager, Youth on Board; Carlos Rojas Alvarez, ListeningWorks Project Manager, Youth on Board and Marianna Islam, Director of Programs & Advocacy, Schott Foundation for Public Education (moderator).

Prior to Asia Society, she was the director of education programs at Carnegie Corporation of New York, where Stewart developed grant making and reform agendas on child and youth development issues and managed a series of influential education task forces.

Your donation will support the Youth Voices on China program, a national video content and the 1990 Institute's newest education initiative to infuse modern China content into American curriculum.

The publication expands on the NCWD / Youth's earlier ILP guide by addressing more age groups and settings, including elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education; workforce development programs; and other non-school settings.

Participating school districts and county offices of education would provide programs and services focused on the special needs of youth who are or have been confined to juvenile halls, juvenile homes, day centers, juvenile ranches, juvenile camps, regional youth educational facilities, and certain group homes.

Visitors included staff from the US Departments of Education and Labor, the District of Columbia public school system, youth programs that focus on issues such as juvenile justice, employment, and education, and representatives from intermediaries that work with cities and other local Education and Labor, the District of Columbia public school system, youth programs that focus on issues such as juvenile justice, employment, and education, and representatives from intermediaries that work with cities and other local education, and representatives from intermediaries that work with cities and other local entities.

He is very involved in the community, dedicating time and energy to the Mayor's Forum on Youth and Education, YMCA Adult Literacy Program and Metropolitan Area Committee, among other things.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

(Calif.) Lawmakers appear resolute in their efforts to strengthen school district accountability under the state's new education finance system, proposing two bills that would more closely monitor spending on programs for disadvantaged youth and require proof that those students are, in fact, making academic gains or risk having funds withheld.

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Under state education agency (SEA) programs, VDOE awards subgrants to state agencies based on their proportional share of the commonwealth's adjusted enrollment count of neglected or delinquent children and youths in state - operated institutions.

«Within education and school - based programming, there were a bunch of different prevention and other movements all focused on positive youth development,» said Roger Weissberg, board vice chair and chief knowledge officer for the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), describing the early 1990s when CASEL was established.

Prior to PowerMyLearning, Jill served in a variety of development, program, and leadership roles at education nonprofits focused on domestic and international education, including Aim High, Room to Read, Reading Partners, The Future Project, and the International Youth Foundation.

The Office of Special Education Programs» Results Driven Accountability Initiative represents a significant shift in state accountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disaEducation Programs» Results Driven Accountability Initiative represents a significant shift in state accountability from a focus on compliance and ensuring access to education and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disaeducation and early intervention services to a focus on measurable and meaningful outcomes in learning and development for children and youth with disabilities.

Based on a belief that high - quality programming can build youth social - emotional resiliency and contribute to school and life success, Dr. Gil G. Noam founded the institute in 1999 as a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Medical School before relocating to McLean Hospital.

At Match Education, she supported in - district high school math tutoring programs, including a gold - standard study by the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab on the efficacy of 2:1 tutoring in improving outcomes and reducing violence in at - risk youth.

In a letter to the district, Torlakson agreed to delay enforcement until 2017 - 18 of a California Department of Education ruling that found the district wrongly determined that as much as $ 450 million it spent on special education services also satisfied the Local Control Funding Formula's requirement for additional programs and services for low - income students, foster youth and English Education ruling that found the district wrongly determined that as much as $ 450 million it spent on special education services also satisfied the Local Control Funding Formula's requirement for additional programs and services for low - income students, foster youth and English education services also satisfied the Local Control Funding Formula's requirement for additional programs and services for low - income students, foster youth and English learners.

with Dr. Angel Harris, Professor of Sociology at Duke University and Director of the Program for Research on Education and Development of Youth (REDY).

Like early learning and K - 12 education settings, the benefits youth receive from out - of - school time (OST) programs hinge on the quality of the program.

This step should be complemented with new strategies to reengage at - risk youth early on, including outreach to parents, targeted mentoring and tutoring programs, high expectations, and expansion of promising alternative education programs such as career academies.

This article, published in the first issue of the International Journal for Research on Extended Education, focuses on how we can measure the impact out - of - school time (OST) programs have on youth development outcomes and how we can use those outcomes to better inform OST programming in a way that will benefit the youth the program is currently serving.

Paul Simpson - Jones, a Fiscal Analyst with the After School Division at the California Department of Education, and Shannon Roth, Director of Youth Development at Sacramento Chinese Community Service Center will present on the elements of Program Administration and Finance.

He also previously served as director of the What Works Clearinghouse at the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education, and as director and principal investigator of numerous education programs with a focus on at - risk children aEducation Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education, and as director and principal investigator of numerous education programs with a focus on at - risk children aEducation, and as director and principal investigator of numerous education programs with a focus on at - risk children aeducation programs with a focus on at - risk children and youth.