Sentences with phrase «own literacy initiatives»

Appointed in April 2014, Ms. Rooney works to coordinate financial literacy initiatives by collaborating with stakeholder groups across the country.

The Office of Investor Education carries out the SEC's investor education program, which includes producing and distributing educational materials, participating in educational seminars and investor - oriented events, and partnering with federal agencies, state regulators, and others on investor literacy initiatives.

For social justice advocates who like to drink — a bottle of Fledgling wine supports literacy initiatives for children.

All book donations go to Believe In Books Literacy Foundation, an organization supporting literacy initiatives in Northern New England.

I encourage you to learn more about this literacy initiative and enter the #DGMyStory Sweepstakes for a chance to win a $ 50 Dollar General gift card.

The Martin Luther King Jr. literacy initiative was established in Buffalo in 2004.

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

Before the conference, Jo Ellen Roseman, director of AAAS's Project 2061 science literacy initiative, gave a 2 - hour briefing on the program's extensive science learning resources to about 40 administrators and staff at Rwanda's National Curriculum Development Centre.

And Project 2061, the AAAS science literacy initiative, is working with teachers in Colorado, Maryland, Boston, and Washington, D.C., on a module that prepares middle - school students for high school biology — by teaching them chemistry.

Two years ago, when Arizona launched its statewide literacy initiative Read On Arizona, state leaders looked for guidance in a series of policy and practice memos developed by Professor Nonie Lesaux.The one - page memos, released in 2012 as part of Lesaux's Lead for Literacy initiative, are...

My work focuses on our digital literacies initiatives.

Instead, we've devoted most of our instructional resources and energy toward early literacy initiatives and supplemental interventions that have focused on reading print.

Annotating texts is an evidence - based literacy strategy to help students understand and navigate complex texts, and a large part of my district's schoolwide literacy initiative.

During his time at St. Mark's, he has established several digital literacy initiatives, developed cyber-safety and global citizenship programs, and introduced multimedia software and hardware into P - 6 classrooms.

The one - page memos, released in 2012 as part of Lesaux's Lead for Literacy initiative, are aimed at educators and policymakers who play a leading role in children's literacy development.

Two years ago, when Arizona launched its statewide literacy initiative Read On Arizona, state leaders looked for guidance in a series of policy and practice memos developed by Professor Nonie Lesaux.

Requiring states to draw up learning guidelines for all young children — not just those in prekindergarten or Head Start — is part of President Bush's early education and literacy initiative, federal officials told members of the National Association for the Education of Young Children gathered here Nov. 20 - 23 for their annual conference.

He is a founder of several interventions for at - risk children, including ReadBoston and WriteBoston, citywide literacy initiatives led by Mayor Menino.

But while many in the cash - strapped state cheered the $ 12.5 million for raising reading achievement in the neediest schools, others were scrambling to salvage the state's existing literacy initiative after a federal panel suggested it is not aligned with current research in the...

Two additional high schools were supported to start their own literacy initiatives, reaching a thousand more elementary school students.

Its goal is to establish adolescent literacy initiatives with measurable goals, and it funds curriculum materials, instructional tools, and intensive high - quality professional development for teachers, literacy coaches, and school leaders.

Those programs include support for transportation, literacy initiatives, teacher benefits, substance - abuse - prevention programs, bilingual students, gifted - and - talented students, school facilities, and technology.

The United Way of America received $ 600,000 to award challenge grants to the local literacy initiatives of six United Way chapters.

National activities include, among other programs, teacher and principal programs, literacy initiatives, civics and history programs (a new initiative under the ESSA), and a new program known as the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Master Teacher Corps.

Join literacy curriculum experts Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University, and Shawn Mahoney, Ph.D., chief academic officer at McGraw - Hill Education, to discover proven methods and high - impact solutions to enrich school and district literacy initiatives.

As I was browsing through the Oscars website I chanced upon the media literacy initiative of the Academy.

We didn't have the resources to go with all schools at once in the literacy initiative, but still I wish that we had pushed it.

You can follow the developments of the assessment literacy initiative here on our blog, or stay in touch with us on Twitter.

The Task Force definition of assessment literacy follows the 2015 launch of this website as part of NWEA's Assessment Literacy initiative, which is a multi-year effort aimed at advancing teacher preparation and professional development in the use of assessments to promote teaching and learning.

When Spillane and Jennings (1997) looked more closely at nine second - and fifth - grade teachers in the suburban district, they found that the extent to which teachers» practices reflected the district's literacy initiative depended on how well the reforms were elaborated by the district.

We've launched a newly designed and updated collection of trade books to meet the demands of the ELA standards and your literacy initiatives.

This has been the mantra of the leadership team in the San Jose Unified School District as educators in the district finish year four of a multi-year early literacy initiative in 27 schools.

«It felt correct right away, like the right way to teach,» says Amber Weston, who has taught 8th grade language arts / social studies in the district since the literacy initiative was launched.

Discovery Education Espresso has a range of resources to complement the literacy initiatives used in your school:

Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.

Project Look Sharp is a is a media literacy initiative out of Ithaca College, working to promote and support the integration of media literacy and critical thinking into curricula at all grade levels and across instructional areas.

Grants to New Mexico school districts, charter schools, and regional education cooperatives to support local literacy initiatives.

Creating and sustaining an exemplary regional adolescent literacy initiative.

The Camp Summit primary literacy initiative in Cypress - Fairbanks Independent School District has 2,800 or so «campers» participating in a six - week summer adventure and along with their teachers, having life - changing experiences.

Across the country, states are adopting a number of different strategies to improve outcomes for students: third grade reading requirements, literacy initiatives, new assessment and accountability systems, plus an increased focus on data - driven decision - making are changing how districts approach teaching and learning for all students.

Read the vignette about Christine Quinn and list the things that she did to begin a literacy initiative in her school district.

He will be a Research Assistant with the Rock Ethics Institute, at Penn State, working on the K - 12 Moral Literacy initiatives in the Fall of 2013.

What else might she do to get everyone on board with the literacy initiative?

In Shelby County Schools, which consolidated in 2013 with Memphis City Schools, the school board has expanded community engagement and literacy initiatives and implemented Key Performance Indicators to help the district leadership monitor the district's effectiveness in meeting the academic, social, and safety needs of students.

Direct aid to public education — Funding appropriated for the operation of public schools, including funding for school employee benefits, Standards of Quality, incentive - based programs, allotment of sales tax and lottery revenues, and specific appropriations for programs such as Governor's Schools and adult literacy initiatives.

Read the vignette about Jalma Baker and make a list of the things that Jalma did to help everyone in the school get on board for the literacy initiative.

The site for this national literacy initiative is packed with ideas for reaching every child in your class.

In the two years following, Ms. Fick taught 5th grade ELA and led literacy initiatives and professional learning at KIPP South Fulton Academy as the English Language Arts department chair.

Mr. Levine has also supported literacy initiatives aligned with the school improvement goal.

I'm not knocking the literacy initiative or the 2025 goal, but we must work fast for our older students who continue to matriculate without basic reading skills.