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This analytical document focuses on policy engagement at the country - level to support the development of policies and systems for adaptation to climate change as well as for long - term, sustainable development.

Susan Headden is senior associate for public policy engagement at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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I have always believed that people want to be engaged at work, and one way to increase engagement is through policies that help employees nurture personal growth.

At Zillow Group we have worked hard toward a more equitable workplace for all, which is why I am extremely proud to say that we have been selected to the inaugural 2018 Bloomberg Gender - Equality Index (GEI), an index that measures gender equality across internal company statistics, employee policies, and external community support and engagement, among -LSB-...]

Sen. Bob Corker, R - Tenn., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, said the legislation «will help ensure that defending religious freedom remains at the core of our engagement in even the most repressive parts of the world and that we have the most effective policies in place to be successful.»

The Rainforest Alliance Conflict of Interest Policy requires all directors, officers and staff members to disclose any actual or potential conflicts, both at the time of engagement and annually.

As one analyst put it, «armed groups are very effective at «being» armed groups and rather poor when it comes to the process of engagement» (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University, 2007).

Specifically, engaging in policy discussion is put at the top of the hierarchy of legitimate engagement, while cheering at a gig is relegated to the bottom.

The government of Lagos State says it has adopted a policy of a more robust engagement with the media for better understanding of its programmes by the people at the grass roots.

Speaking to Citi Business News in Copenhagen, at a reception by her office to welcome four Ghanaian journalists on a press trip at the invitation of the Danish Government, Her Excellency Mrs. Amerley Ollenu Awua - Asamoa, said Government's policy of diaspora engagement is aimed at attracting Ghana's high quality manpower to help bring home the needed investment to drive the government's industrialization agenda.

«The data that we have collected over the past three years shows that participatory budgeting is a gateway to civic engagement for New Yorkers that are often left out of politics and government such as youth, immigrants, and low - income people,» said Alexa Kasdan, Director of Research and Policy at the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center.

This shift can not only shape what research happens, but how research happens, making our science more relevant to policy outcomes and more meaningful to communities... Community engagement is not only outreach — it has the power to transform and improve our science,» said Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Ecological Stewardship Institute at Northern Kentucky University.

Emily's background is in ecology and environmental policy, and prior to joining AAAS, she led engagement and outreach efforts at the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Activities supported by the Fund include the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition's Student Essay, Poster, and Digital Media Competitions; efforts to promote the integration of human rights into STEM education; technical training of human rights practitioners in innovative applications of science and technology; collaborative partnerships between scientists, engineers and human rights organizations; and policy engagement on issues at the nexus of science and human rights.

Schaal, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, called for more effective communication and public engagement by scientists in explaining their work, both to policy makers and to the general public, across a range of topics — climate change, evolution, stem cells, and use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture.

«In addition to gains in achievement test scores we also saw improvements in engagement with school, such as an increase in attendance of about 2.5 weeks per year» said Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy in the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University and Co-director of the University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

In training, we covered a range of topics in the training including quite basic sessions on public engagement and policy work through to discussions about defining the goal and purpose of your activity and the audience you will work with and considering this at the core of any activity you plan.

The team became interested in curiosity because of its ongoing collaborative research project to improve public engagement with science documentaries involving the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, and Tangled Bank Studios at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Given our rapid responses to administration policies that affected science and scientists, our vocal support for positive legislative initiatives, and our coordination and engagement with an excited and interested scientific community, we believe we'll look back at 2017 as a year of awakening for the science advocacy community.

For example, Youth Climate Action Now is a civic engagement project in which students advocate for local environmental policies, such as reducing carbon emissions at the city level.

And that's without resolving the policy paradox of whether achievement scores and graduation rates can realistically be raised at the same time, along with the level of student engagement, or whether those worthy goals tend to cancel one another.

So, what we did, we interviewed the teachers in this introduced school playground — seeing how they actually felt about the items over that school year; looking at the effects on children's engagement in activities; looking at some of the policies that they introduced and that type of thing.

She is often invited to speak nationally and internationally with recent engagements including: Dyslexia Day on Capitol Hill and testimony at the Aspen Institute's Senior Congressional Education Staff Retreat, «New Directions in Educational Innovation and Implications for Federal Policy.»

Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree, and five to seven years of experience in a related position • Standout samples of video and editing work • Demonstrated experience with a range of digital storytelling and tools, and strong engagement with digital trends • Strong people - management skills, and a knack for developing talent, both in - house and freelance • Experience with a variety of social media platforms for audience development • Experience developing partner relationships for distribution or content creation • Experience in audio / video production / editing a plus • Background in teaching or education policy a plus • Passionate visual journalist with an innovative spirit and a drive to understand and service our audience • Appreciation for EPE's mission in the education community is essential, but a background in education content is not • Experienced leader who can coach a team to excellence and articulate a vision for our visual operations to stakeholders • Strong news judgment, video storytelling, and editing expertise • Experience in social distribution channels and partnerships • Strategic content planning • Flexibility to work on multiple projects at once • Adaptability to change

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

In exploring our qualitative data, we examined district policies and practices that may foster or inhibit parental and community engagement aimed at increasing student learning.

«Subtle» aspects of family involvement — parenting style and parental expectations, for example — may have a greater impact on student achievement than more «concrete» forms such as attendance at school conferences or enforcing rules at home regarding homework.144 Some researchers, policy makers, and practitioners argue that these subtle forms of family involvement are not easily influenced by schools.145 In contrast, we argue that the value of creating participatory structures in schools lies in its potential for increasing family and community members «sense of engagement in children «s education, and, as a consequence, augment and reinforce the subtle behaviors responsible for improved outcomes.146

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

This laser focus on broader districtwide goals means Boston has avoided the pitfalls of similar family - related offices in many other districts, where schools become caught up in what experts call «random acts of family engagement,» says Karen L. Mapp, a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the director of its education policy and management program.

Which district policies and practices foster or inhibit family and community engagement aimed at increasing student learning?

Dave now serves as Senior Policy Analyst with the Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University, and is currently developing a broad engagement strategy that outlines communication and staffing needs to better connect with school board members at the local and state level.

Prompt: Would you use this video to engage faculty and staff or a parent group at your school in an initial conversation about how well current parent engagement policy and practice serves diverse students and families?

These conversations may address policy and procedural issues, student engagement issues, allocation or redistribution of resources, or just a new way of looking at school or districts structure, practice, or policy.

Amber left the classroom to pursue a Ph.D. in Education Leadership and Policy Studies, with a focus on family and community engagement and network analysis at the University of Washington in Seattle.

We aim to increase productive instructional time and school engagement by collaborating with SFUSD to provide prevention and intervention at many levels of the school community: student, caregiver, school staff, school district, and policy.

Prior to joining EDI, Nick was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company's education practice, where he advised education leaders on policy and implementation at the district, state, and national level in the U.S. and abroad.

Prior to joining EDI, he was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company's education practice, where he advised education leaders on policy and implementation at the district, state, and national level in the U.S. and abroad.

An assistant professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, Dr. Jimenez - Castellanos has published extensively in the area of K - 12 education finance, policy and parent engagement and its impact on opportunity, equity and outcomes in low - income ethnically and linguistically diverse communities.

«ESSA will directly impact our students» outcomes and this policy gives us the opportunity to think critically about what it means to truly have a high - quality education, where we look beyond test scores to data on student growth, wellness, attendance, engagement and access to enrichment activities,» said Clare Foley, a fifth - grade teacher at Richard R. Green Central Park School in Minneapolis.

A significant policy lever that will drive this work is the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires multiple measures for accountability, including at least one «nonacademic» indicator generally understood to be an SEL measure, such as student engagement, educator engagement, and school climate and safety.

At the heart of their recommendations, compiled in two separate policy papers, are the following strategies: empowering principals and educators with more autonomy over staffing; leadership and coaching opportunities for excellent teachers; student - focused professional development designed at the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schoolAt the heart of their recommendations, compiled in two separate policy papers, are the following strategies: empowering principals and educators with more autonomy over staffing; leadership and coaching opportunities for excellent teachers; student - focused professional development designed at the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schoolat the school site; direct investment in community engagement; and financial incentives to attract and keep teachers making progress with their students (based on a multi-measured evaluation system) in hard - to - staff schools.

That's a really dramatic finding because we think the discussion forums are important settings where student engagement and learning motivation gets supported and catalyzed,» Thomas Dee, co-author of the report and director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford University, said.

He is recognized nationwide as an expert in the areas of: (a) School improvement (ESEA) and special education (IDEA) policy and practice; (b) School discipline (including disproportionality), classroom management, student engagement, and interventions with behaviorally challenging students; and (c) Multi-tiered academic and behavioral services and supports with at - risk, struggling, non-responsive, and unsuccessful students.

(a) School improvement (ESEA) and special education (IDEA) policy and practice; (b) School discipline (including disproportionality), classroom management, student engagement, and interventions with behaviorally challenging students; and (c) Multi-tiered academic and behavioral services and supports with at - risk, struggling, non-responsive, and unsuccessful students.

Ensure that these policies include community and family engagement at multiple points in the process.

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Now I'm not saying it easy to legislate or create policy to drive engagement, but it certainly has not been at the forefront of the conversation.

Thanks to the anti-local control, authoritarian policies being pushed by Governor Dannel Malloy, Lt. Governor Nancy Wyman and their Commissioner of Education, the Connecticut State Department of Education summoned a group of local school administrators to a «roundtable discussion on family and community engagement strategies» on Monday, February 29, 2016 from 3:00 — 4:30 at the State Office Building in Hartford.

A 2016 survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that only 26 percent of Americans can name all three branches of government, which was a significant decline from previous years.1 Not surprisingly, public trust in government is at only 18 percent2 and voter participation has reached its lowest point since 1996.3 Without an understanding of the structure of government; rights and responsibilities; and methods of public engagement, civic literacy and voter apathy will continue to plague American democracy.

Liz brings extensive experience in state education policy, development, and community engagement to her work at HCM Strategists.