Sentences with phrase «projects engaging children»

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When the Kula Project first engaged with them in May of this year, they asked what their number one need is and the unanimous response was to have the funds to send their children to school.

As a result, I began creating my own projects and activities to keep my children engaged and cognitively stimulated.

If you can, here's a very practical project you might want to engage in: take the time you have remaining to record videos for your children to view when they are older.

Being involved in one local area for so long enabled us to really get across the message that engaging fathers needs a whole - team approach, and that it's vital to help mothers understand how much fathers impact of the development of children Kathy Jones, Fatherhood Institute project lead

FI project aims to improve safeguarding in four EU countries through better engagement with fathers Serious Case Review summaries across the world (plus a substantial body of research) reveal that family professionals working with children at risk of harm commonly fail to engage well with men in families where there are safeguarding concerns.

«With this particular [New Dad] project we found that [fathers and mothers] seem to be coming from the same place — young parents tended to feel quite hesitant and alienated at children's centres and I think some of the fears and concerns that young dads have about how they are treated and engaged, were shared by young mums, so there was a bit of common ground there.

The Fatherhood Institute and the Family Rights Group are running a two year project, initially with six local authorities, to engage more effectively with fathers and other men around the child.

According to Olympic Gold Medal Decathlete Dan O'Brien, «Project ACES engages millions of children, parents and teachers each year to participate in physical activity at their schools and at home.

Mighty Men of Valour in conjuction with CALAT are running a free course for young fathers called «Super Dads — Capturing my Heritage Project for Young Fathers», aimed at young men or fathers under 25 who would like to engage more with their child (ren).

WeDo 2.0 allows children to research, explore, create, collaborate, share and present their scientific discoveries as they work their way through the 40 hours of exciting, varied and engaging projects relevant to real life

Six good practice «taster sessions» from our conference At the Fatherhood Institute's Engaging fathers as partners conference in central London on Thursday 11 November 2010: Martin Clement, team manager from the Children in Need service at Islington Children's Services talked about the «Breaking down barriers» project, which is attempting to bring fathers to the fore in social work practice.

The twenty - five projects and activities in this book are meant to speak to the way children engage with the world.

An excellent, free education where learning is meaningful — with arts, play, engaging projects, and the chance to learn citizenship skills so that children can one day participate — actively and consciously — in this increasingly fragile democracy.

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Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

It encourages employees to engage in activities within their local communities, with particular emphasis on actively supporting charities and community projects that support babies, children and young people.

The project also gathered insights on the survey data from a panel of school nutrition leaders whose districts are recognized for their success in serving healthy meals and snacks.3 The research makes clear that multiple strategies, particularly those that engage children's creativity and invite their input, have helped instill healthy eating behaviors at schools across the country.

All of these projects are easy and will keep your children engaged.

In taking a game - based and playful approach to learning, we created an intervention that was not only effective, but also one in which the children were engaged and wanted continue doing,» said Bruce Homer, associate professor of educational psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a Project Hope investigator.

Project Description: The Kepler EPO program's main goal is to engage people from children to grandparents in the search for Earth's twin.

The film starts off rather promisingly with an engaging performance from Fabian, but eventually degenerates in style and content to a pastiche of other horror films such as The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist, Children of the Corn, and so on.

Everything — from what the project is to the activities in which children engaged within sessions to the terms teachers used and defined — was determined with an eye toward how we can help children meet specific standards.

Exhaustive research undertaken by the Edith Cowan University's project team determined the most effective ways to engage parents to increase their own knowledge of cyber-safety and assist their child to prevent and respond to cyber-bullying.

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

Dr Tom Dobson, Principal Lecturer in the Carnegie School of Education and project leader, explained: «National curriculum changes in England, and the accompanying testing of technical aspects of writing, have created a situation where the teaching of writing is at risk of becoming very one - way and instructive, and less engaging, for children.

By using real - world problems as projects for children to solve, Crellin Elementary empowers, engages, and excites students about what they can learn and how they can use that knowledge.

The poster project, which is sponsored by Co-op insurance, aims to inspire and engage primary school children about the need for drivers to slow down so children can walk and cycle to school safely.

The project is audience and purpose driven with children engaging in research, independent learning, planning, persuasive writing, speaking and listening, art, design and creative problem solving activities.

«Every day, Victorian children and students are working on innovative and interesting projects that engage them on environmentally sustainable practices,» he said in a statement.

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Firstly, the one key lesson that I've seen time and time again throughout all of our projects is that the most effective way to engage and excite children about environmental issues like energy saving is to allow them to take the lead.

They believe that children should be engaged in learning about local environmental change, littering, air pollution and the impacts of the various construction and infrastructure projects that reshape the places they live.

«One of the major advantages of project work is that it makes school more like real life,» says Sylvia Chard, Professor Emeritus of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta and coauthor of Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, a popular book for teachers of young children on learning through prproject work is that it makes school more like real life,» says Sylvia Chard, Professor Emeritus of Elementary Education at the University of Alberta and coauthor of Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, a popular book for teachers of young children on learning through pChildren's Minds: The Project Approach, a popular book for teachers of young children on learning through prProject Approach, a popular book for teachers of young children on learning through pchildren on learning through projects.

«Ideally homework should be about taking something home, spending a few curious and interesting moments in which children might engage with parents, and then getting that project back to school — an organizational triumph,» she says.

«Younger children will play and explore as well as engage in projects,» according to a statement at the Project Approach website.

Julie Hyslop, Groundwork's senior project officer, who oversaw the development, said: «It's important to engage children from the get - go and the workshops were the perfect way for this to happen.

The company has developed project - based learning software to teach programming to children in a practical and engaging way.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Working in collaboration with a diverse group of educators, advocacy groups, community organizations, and policymakers, the project ultimately aims to grow the number of quality schools where all children can have equitable learning outcomes, feel like their culture is valued, learn to live together with appreciation of differences, and be engaged in understanding how to dismantle racism and systemic oppression.

Working closely with clients throughout the project — they can help schools with funding applications, carry out consultation exercises to engage with children and find out how they want to use their space, as well as providing a complete design and installation service.

Would be a great project to really engage children in their learning and has many cross curricular links!

Specifically, this project has two key elements: (1) a one - day convening (12/12/14) that forges relationships among stakeholders in Hampden County's early education field with influential leaders and experts from across the nation, where they engage in mutual learning and dialogue around the goal of strengthening individual and organization capacities to advance early learning for all; and (2) a multi-pronged communication strategy, rooted in the convening and designed to provide guidance around the field's most pressing needs, with a particular focus on strengthening the quality of Pre-K for at - risk children, like many of those growing up Hampden County.

The project expands on previous Making Learning Visible work, notably in Providence and Boston, that also aimed to help educators and children expand their civic roles, express their views, and engage in the life of their cities.

On almost any issue, children have views, thoughts, and ideas that are both valid on their face and potentially refreshing as additions to an adult narrative, says Ben Mardell, a leader of the initiative, which has engaged young children in projects that explore — and seek to improve — cultural institutions, parks, and playgrounds.

Science combines research skills and a project - based curriculum to engage the whole child.

HLC's program is grounded in the traditions and wisdom of the Hawaiian culture and through a project - based learning approach, strives to develop in each child the ability to engage in critical thinking, to apply creative problem solving approaches, and to demonstrate a mastery of the academic tools and positive values necessary to fully engage in life - long learning and to make life choices for a successful future.

Through a focus on the whole child, we engage students in their own learning, community and world, using a project - based approach.

Lilian Katz and Sylvia Chard, Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, (for students age 5 - 8) Ablex Publishing, 1993.

Requirements: Applicants must be 501 (c)(3) nonprofit elementary schools that are developing or currently maintaining a school garden project that will help children engage with academics, in particular science, math, and language arts.

The Engage project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was created to encourage interest and learning of young children in STEM areas.