Sentences with phrase «promising practices programs»

In 2014, Thrive will manage 51 grants or contracts, representing evidence - based and promising practices programs in communities statewide.

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It accepted the industry's promises to reform, which included a voluntary accreditation program that would set best practices for land trusts.

Girls, young women, subject matter experts from the justice, law enforcement, and information and communication technology (ICT) sectors, along with educators, parents, program workers from across the country participated in consultations to identity gaps, challenges, promising practices, and recommendations for strategies to end cyberviolence.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

IP Group discovered these technologies through the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's Transition to Practice Program, which connects promising cyber technologies with potential industry partners and investors.

Supported by a three - year grant from the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program, the project will adapt and disseminate promising institutional practices for assisting women scientists and engineers in making this transition.

Through its dedicated disability employment portfolio, the Center conducts research and performs evaluation activities that seeks to generate new knowledge about the impact of public policies and programs on the inclusion of people with disabilities into the workforce, and identify, through rigorous research and evaluation, promising «to work» strategies and practices in the field that are showing success in helping people with disabilities to seek and retain competitive employment.

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A decade of evaluation studies provide a basis to assess the educational potential of afterschool programs and to identify promising practices

The project also intends to inform broader questions about the scale - up of promising practices to statewide programs, including questions about why schools do or do not choose to participate.

Because many schools need help navigating in the sea of programs designed to promote these capacities — including youth development, character education, SEL, bullying and conflict resolution programs — the first phase of the work is devoted to developing a clear and cogent catalog of practices that have promise in 1) promoting caring school cultures, 2) developing specific emotional and ethical capacities in students such as self - regulation, and 3) responding to challenges such as sexual harassment and bullying.

A 2005 NCREL report draft (which we received special permission to cite for this article) finds «new evidence supporting the apparent effectiveness of online programs and schools and generally demonstrating the potential of online learning as a promising instructional intervention that can, when implemented judiciously, and with attention to «evidence - based» practices, apparently improve student academic performance.»

A study for a computer program that promises to enhance working memory might claim that they evaluated 50 children and the outcome was a 100 - percent improvement after five 30 - minute practice sessions.

Far more likely, I think, is the too - familiar routine in which promising boutique programs (which benefit from selection effects, enormous enthusiasm, philanthropic support, and a sharply honed sense of mission) become one more disappointing fad when adopted by a slew of district and university officials eager to sign on for the best practice of the moment but who don't ultimately have any stomach for the wrenching changes needed to do it right.

Research on promising practices and barriers to success also plays a critical role in this work: it guides our thinking, shapes our ongoing theory of action, and provides the basis for our programs, policy, and advocacy work.

The validation grants are set aside for practices, strategies or programs that show promise of having a statistically significant effect on improving student performance.

Many authors report promising practices: clinical training that shifts away from teaching about teaching and toward teaching how to teach; mentoring programs that help teachers become more self - directed and resourceful (p. 60, online); professional development that is innovative and self - propelled — and is making rock stars of outstanding new beginners.

The competency - based movement is still young, and it hasn't come close to revolutionizing K - 12 education, but it has spawned many promising programs and practices.

The Council of Chief State School Officers, the Aspen Institute Education & Society Program and America's Promise Alliance released a new report «showing promising practices in states to ensure educational equity for all students.»

The Emerging Leaders program recognizes and prepares young, promising educators to influence education programs, policy, and practice on both local and national levels.

April, 2014 — Program Day Four For the past four months, the 19 public and public charter school teachers in the CityBridge - NewSchools Education Innovation Fellowship have engaged in an in - depth study of the most promising practices in blended and personalized learning, traveling the country and hearing from the leaders in the field., Recently, the Fellows spent part of their...

The second is an implementation guide with resources, promising practices, and challenges encountered by states implementing career development programming in schools.

This is the last of a series of articles outlining major findings of IDRA's research of exemplary and promising practices in bilingual education programs.

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) Afterschool Training Toolkit provides research regarding promising practices that work, ways to implement them in your after - school program, sample lessons, and illustrative videos.

(c) The Department will disseminate information about and promote the use of promising practices and innovative programs to meet the needs of exceptional students and eligible young children.

CityBridge Foundation and NewSchools Venture Fund launched the Education Innovation Fellowship, a yearlong program that introduces teacher leaders to the most promising practices in personalized learning, in 2013.

Through the Campaign for Quality, CAN created a promising practice guide for elementary / middle school programs, as well as a high school promising practice guide.

It allows stakeholders to examine how their program aligns with expectations and reflects identified promising practices.

Agile Mind's mission — and promise — is to provide the programs, tools, and the instructional improvement systems educators need to transform student achievement through exemplary, sustainable teaching practices.

This guide outlines promising practices for STEM implementation in expanded learning programs based on lessons learned through the implementation of the Power of Discovery: STEM2 Initiative.

National School Safety Center The National School Safety Center promotes strategies, promising practices, and programs that support safe schools.

The Emerging Leaders program recognizes and prepares young, promising educators to influence education programs, policies, and practice on both the local and national levels.

Fortunately, a variety of programs, policies, and practices hold promise for bolstering the pipeline of teachers of color recruited to and retained in the profession.

• A big increase for the Investing in Innovation grant program, which helps districts and non-profits scale - up promising practices.

The purposes of the magnet program evaluations were to review the enacted practices associated with each, and to assess the extent to which each program delivers its promised policies and practices.

Explore this curated collection of tools, information, and examples of promising practices, which is meant to inform and support your efforts to increase access and to improve the quality of programs for school - age children.

As Scott D. Pearson of the U.S. Department of Education's charter school program noted in 2010, while «one of the promises of charter schools was they were going to be a source of innovation and be a benefit not only for the children attending charter schools, but [for] all public schools,... [in practice],... the collaboration is not as widespread as we would hope.»

You can look at promising practices to see what has worked successfully and adapt those practices to meet the needs of their program.

We note the promises and obstacles confronting teacher education programs in implementing more demanding and contextualized instructional practices.

The program models and promising practices are based on the results of our ongoing involvement with the New York City School SIFE program since its inception, visiting, observing and meeting with students, teachers, and administrators of schools receiving grant monies to develop and implement SIFE programs.

This article reviews the challenges of identifying the SIFE population, and presents some of the promising program models and practices observed in New York City public schools with SIFE.

Jonathan Cohen, Ph.D., is Director of the Program for Social and Emotional Learning and Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University Praise for Educating Minds and Hearts «The Series on Social Emotional Learning from Teachers College Press promises to be the definitive source for the field, defining sound practice in education for emotional intelligence.»

May, 2014 — Program Day Five Since January, the 19 D.C. public and public charter school teachers of the Education Innovation Fellowship (EIF) have explored the expansive field of blended and personalized learning in search of promising practices to implement in their classrooms.

Validation grants (awards of up to $ 15 million) are intended for programs that have shown promise in using innovative practices to improve student results but need to show additional evidence of their effectiveness.

Although these studies have identified promising program practices and indicate that dual enrollment may help students transition into college, they do not measure program effectiveness.

Arts and cultural organizations often lack access to the most promising practices and models used by successful institutions in building participation in their programs and offerings.

Researching promising practices to help identify potential programs to highlight in publications, forums, and study tours.

Since the inception of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program, the New Jersey Department of Education (NJDE) has promoted program quality and continuous improvement by applying promising practices described in the emerging body of research on expanded learning programs and other research on teaching and learning.

A nationally recognized Promising Practice Award Winner for our K - 8 Character Education program for the last 3 years

Its i3 grant of $ 3 million in the Development category for testing promising programs and practices, will support efforts to harness technology in support of teaching writing aligned with academic standards and targeted to individual student need.