Sentences with phrase «organizing group work»

And by organizing group work visually, students will develop valuable presentation skills while working creatively as a part of their team.

Stewart Mader, maven of the GrowYourWiki blog and «wiki evangelist» for the San Francisco software company Atlassian, explains that, tangibly, a wiki is a place to organize group work where everyone can see and contribute to it.

The authors found, in case - study research on five community organizing groups working for school reform, that community organizing develops public accountability.

Supervised free play before and after camp, organized group work and badge work, free play, swimming

Not exact matches

It's suspected the two cartels cooperated to some extent in the 1980s, organizing an armed group to fight kidnappers and working to stabilize the drug market and divide up territory in the US — the Medellin cartel took Miami and South Florida, while the Cali cartel controlled New York City and parts of the northeast.

According to a Defense Department memo obtained by Military Times, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness will direct «an effort to form a working group to determine changes to military personnel policies necessary to provide the Military Departments increased flexibility to organize, train, and equip more ready and lethal forces.»

** FRANKFURT ECB Executive Board member Benoit Coeure delivers a welcome address at the first meeting of the Working Group on Euro Risk - Free Rates, organized by the ECB 1000 GMT.

When the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance dutifully looked into youth unemployment last summer, it heard familiar tales of outrage and woe from university student groups and organized labour fretting about student debt, precarious work and temporary foreign workers.

In Bangladesh, workers, mostly women, work long hours for minimum wages that labour advocacy groups say keep those workers trapped in poverty and with few or no rights to organize to improve conditions.

In addition to launching the Asia Pacific Youth Council in 2016, APF Canada has organized a variety of student - focused engagements, including the Asia Connect Student Working Groups (2016 - 17), the Building Bridges: Connecting Asia and Entrepreneurship event (2017), and the ASEAN Dialogues (2017 - 18).

He is also on the Advisory Council of the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) and a regular participant in the bipartisan Securities Regulation Working Group organized by the Heritage Foundation.

I also went to a conference organized by the Financial Literacy Action Group, a nonprofit coalition working to improve Canadians» knowledge, skills and confidence in managing money and advance the national strategy.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

This requires local and national coalitions of public interest groups to organize to demand that the existing regulatory processes work to protect the public rather than the industry they are supposed to regulate.

Teams from the London School of Economics and Erasmus University Medical Center in the Netherlands found that involvement in organized religion was more effective at producing «sustained happiness» than sports, political groups, charity work or continuing educational efforts.

They do not include, for example, Catholic Charities» extensive network of 1,400 charitable agencies serving 18 million people; the Catholic Health Association's 600 hospitals and 300 long term care facilities serving 20 million people; or the Campaign for Human Development's efforts to organize and empower the poor, with 200 local antipoverty groups working to improve policies, practices and laws affecting low - income people.

Well wakes up, because actively working against large groups of people as an organized religion is not moral.

He organized students into groups, something like the later human potential growth groups, in order that they might actually experience the working of God in their lives.

What we want is a group so devoted to this purpose and so tightly organized that it can work as effectively for redemptive ends in our time as the first Christians worked for redemptive ends in the first century of our era and as the Nazis have worked for divisive ends in the first century of their would - be era.

He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

«This strategic alliance between IDB, FAMA, ICADE, and the Rainforest Alliance will work all along the value chain — from creating demand to organizing producer groups so that together, they can improve the quality and volume of their product.

The department's Organized Crime Strike Force maintains that in 1974 - 75 a group of gamblers, working for organized crime elements, won huge exacta and trifecta bets on rigged races and lugged hundreds of thousands of dollars out of New York tracks.

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Kids with Learning or Behavioral Disabilities When your child doesn't fit in with his peer group for some emotional, behavioral or physical reason, I think you have to find an organized way as a parent to work with them step by step, to show them how to manage their daily lives.

You could also organize a community group to work with your local city government to improve a particular playground.

(1) Teach in a dynamic, well - organized style that makes use of proven pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement in the learning process via less lecture time, fewer repetitive worksheets and more time spent working in small groups solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

The AD will work closely with the Camp Co-Directors to mentor camp staff in environmental education best practices, lead camp groups in activity, complete the camp schedules and weekly supply lists, organize camp materials, finalize field trip logistics, and co-author the daily «parent page» email communication.

«We organize the groups by working or stay - at - home moms with the hope that the meeting times will continue to work out for everyone.»

We never had any real problems with the members of our group; it was well organized and worked well (most of the time).

Whether you're planning a birthday party, conducting a homeschool program, looking for a fun morning with your preschooler, or working with other organized groups (such as scouting groups, science clubs, etc.), the teacher naturalists at the Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary can create interesting, hands - on inquiry - based programs.

Many of our wonderful GCDC Hosts have asked us to keep this event alive, and in that spirit, we have passed on the organizing of the GCDC to a group of veteran GCDC Hosts who will work to keep the event running.

Does their work herald a new era of conservative grassroots organizing, or will it remain a shadow of the shoe - leather emphasis of Democratic groups?

Seems that Fox News has aroused the ire of the Video Game Voters Network a game - industry - organized group that works to protect the rights of gamers and claims 500,000 members.

Despite years of work by individual senators, representatives and and advocacy groups, global warming bills have always stalled in the Congress, killed off by well organized interest groups, industry coalitions and congressmembers from districts seen as being harmed.

Okay, I cheated — lots of groups have been working online to organize and recruit the tax - disgruntled over the past few days...

Okay, I cheated — lots of groups have been working online to organize and recruit the tax - disgruntled over the past few days, culminating in a national protest effort to launch as soon as everyone's back from the post office.

Sure, commando strike teams can take a lot of work to organize and train, but groups such as MoveOn.org and the Obama campaign have created mini-online industries to support their offline work, providing volunteers with step - by - step guides to holding house parties, fundraisers, local press events and the like.

Local campaign staff and candidates, staff at union locals labor organizations not based in DC, community organizing groups that aren't part of national networks, grassroots groups that aren't getting funding from the main backers of community organizing and progressive causes, staff working in local government, and the list goes on and on.

People close to Bharara describe him as a «Chuck Schumer Democrat,» which would put him somewhere on the center - left in a Democratic primary — not a good place to be in a state party in which the organizing energy is among unions and activist groups like the Working Families Party.

A successor group to the Pride Agenda, Hoylman said, would have to show itself adept at online organizing and social media in order to galvanize the support to sustain itself and work in what he termed an ever more «politically polarized» environment in New York and elsewhere.

The City should provide planning and community organizing resources to organizations such as the Chinatown Working Group, which has brought together many of Chinatown's diverse stakeholders, in order to allow them to undertake a community - based process for meeting Chinatown's traffic concerns and related planning issues, with cultural and linguistic sensitivity to the area's unique character.

But they are working alongside a group of some of the state's top political donors, organized by Sean Eldridge.

There were also plenty of right - leaning groups that aren't associated with organized labor who worked against the convention, notably the state Conservative Party.

If you are organizing a group outing, happy hour, or interested in hosting a semi private event, we will be happy to work with you directly.

Instead, Kink said, the focus will be on «people power,» organizing a network he estimates will eventually be several million people strong when you count all the unions involved — from 32BJ, CWA, 1199 and the AFL - CIO — to advocacy groups like Citizen Action, Communities for Change and the Center for Working Families.

«One only needs to look to the Working Families Party (WFP)-- whose leadership includes a number of high - ranking labor union officials — to see what organized labor has been able to accomplish politically,» the group wrote in its report.

Asked what Adams knew of the group's specific work, spokesman Stefan Ringel said, «Borough President Adams has been invited to or served as co-host for several events organized by Bishop Whitehead that target at - risk youth.»

New York's Working Families Party was first organized in 1998 by a collation of labor unions, community organizations, and the variety of public interest groups such as Citizens Action of New York.

Prior to working for the speaker, Adams served as deputy director of New York Communities for Change, the organizing group that's a successor to ACORN.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.