Sentences with phrase «providing expanded learning»

Blurring the Boundaries of School: How Providence, Rhode Island, is Taking a Community Approach to Providing Expanded Learning Opportunities Powerpoint Presentation

We now see the need to provide expanded learning opportunities for children and youth during afterschool hours and summers.

PCY is a member of CAN's advisory board, an advocacy network whose mission is to provide expanded learning practitioners, advocates, and community members with the resources and tools necessary to build high - quality expanded learning programs in California.

They provide expanded learning time and opportunities, engage families actively, and foster collaborative practices.

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Once BloomThat expanded from San Francisco to the greater Bay Area, then Los Angeles and finally New York, the company learned that providing on - demand delivery to customers in three of the country's largest markets was going to put them out of business.

The global residencies, which include trips to Dubai and Seattle, also provided opportunities to learn about different cultures and expand his worldview, Liu says.

In 2017, Kode With Klossy expanded to 12 cities across the country and provided learning opportunities in computer science to over 430 young women.

Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company is acquiring Magic Pony Technology, a company based out of London that has developed techniques of using neural networks (systems that essentially are designed to think like human brains) and machine learning to provide expanded data for images — used, for example, to enhance a picture or video taken on a mobile phone; or to help develop graphics for virtual reality or augmented reality applications.

Even if you already have a curriculum there are a lot of ways to expand learning opportunities and provide extra support in areas where your child needs improvement.

The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation is helping AMM to expand its community garden, through which it provides patients and community members access to fresh fruits and veggies, control over healthy food choices, and the opportunity to learn how to garden themselves.

Taking what we learned from baby proofing 1,000 s of homes, we have expanded from baby safety to providing safe, secure environments for all family members.

The report finds makes a list of recommendations for business, industry, professional bodies and government, namely: Construction businesses · Focus on better human resource management · Introduce and / or expand mentoring schemes · Boost investment in training · Develop talent from the trades as potential managers and professionals · Engage with the community and local education establishments Industry · Rally around social mobility as a collective theme · Promote better human resource management and support the effort of businesses · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Support diversity and schemes that widen access to management and the professions · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility Professional bodies and institutions · Drive the aspirations of Professions for Good for promoting social mobility and diversity · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Promote and develop the UK as an international hub of construction excellence · Emphasise and spread understanding of the built environment's impact on social mobility · Provide greater routes for degree - level learning among those working within construction Government · Produce with urgency a plan to boost the UK as an international hub of construction excellence, as a core part of the Industrial Strategy · Provide greater funding to support the travel costs of apprentices · Support wider access to the professions and support those from less - privileged backgrounds · Place greater weight in project appraisal on the impact the built environment has on social mobility The report is being formally launched at an event in the House of Commons later today.

The Summer Primetime program helps reinforce and expand skills students learn during the school year while cultivating new skills through the unique experiences that youth programs provide.

«Libraries provide our residents with the tools and resources necessary to expand our horizons, access information and help us learn and grow,» said Skoufis.

The plans to renovate and expand the library are designed to provide a top - notch facility of learning and meet the growing needs of Queens residents, especially our children and seniors.

Whether it is expanding the community schools model so more schools provide students the support they need to succeed, or front - loading services to children age five and under so they are ready to learn once they get to school, Bill Thompson is focused on getting kids what they need to achieve — in school and in life.

«The father — daughter to teacher — pupil to fellow scientist progression has caused our relationship to mature and expand through common learning experiences and activities, providing a special bond,» he says.

Advocates of online schools argue that new technologies used in online learning have the potential to expand the courses available to students and provide flexibility in location and scheduling.

But, if adults were to engage in broad learning via the six factors that we provide (similar to those from early childhood experiences), aging adults could expand cognitive functioning beyond currently known limits,» Wu said.

This opportunity to discuss my research, as well as to learn about other research in animal behavior outside of neuroscience, expanded my network and provided me with resources that will certainly help me throughout my career.

The material has been completely reorganized and expanded to include important new topics and provide a coherent platform for teaching and learning the fundamental aspects of contemporary polymer science.

05, principal of KIPP Ascend, a charter school in Chicago, are just as important as academics, which is why all 66 KIPP schools across the country operate on longer days — her school from 7:25 a.m. until 5 p.m. «Expanded learning time provides more time for students to work on academic skills, but also other skills that are as equally important to develop their sense of self — the arts or a language, for instance,» she says.

As our school was planning to expand, I challenged myself to participate in a massive open online course (MOOC)-- a free online course provided by universities — to expose myself to a new pathway for learning, and also to learn new content.

As advocated by the 22 - member panel chaired by former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, both bills would expand the Congressionallymandated National Assessment of Educational Progress to provide state - by - state data, measure learning in more core subjects, include out - of - school 17 - year - olds, and provide a larger sampling of private - school students.

Kathryn went on to say that «AV tools provide a multimodal space for learning, with expanded potential for communication and representation, in comparison with less expansive spaces.

I think one of the things that excites kids so much about space is that the universe, as far as we know right now, is constantly expanding — and that provides us open - ended opportunities for very exciting learning.

This brief introduces and analyzes one approach to expanded learning that provides students — often in distressed areas — with access to quality learning environments across the year, through what we call year - round learning...

eLearning has rapidly expanded to provide more flexible learning options in the medical sphere, but could it also be used...

The expanded partnership will provide increased options for educators, including professional development series in Literacy, Assessment, and Student and Principal Voice, as well as an ACEL / Corwin bookstore and a selection of online learning modules.

Second, the report argues that we need to ask our nation's employers to play a greatly expanded role in supporting the pathways system, and in providing more opportunities for young adults to participate in work - based learning and actual jobs related to their programs of study.

To provide learners with a continuous learning experience we created an online / on - demand library of modules that extends and expands learning beyond the walls of a classroom.

Other posts in this series focus on other ways to expand learning opportunities ~ including providing new opportunities over the summer (as in Ogden ~ Utah) and on the weekend (as in Hartford ~ Connecticut) ~ and by extending the school year (as in Des Moines ~ Iowa).

The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

The framework outlined in the 2013 Digital Learning Report Card intends to provide the flexibility that allows these innovative models to be tested, refined and expanded.

To this end, Course Access policies establish state - level programs that provide students with expanded course offerings across learning environments from diverse, accountable providers.

Craig Haas, Special Ed and Student Services Coordinator at Edwards Middle School, shares how his team uses expanded learning time to provide relevant academic support to each individual student while breaking down stigmas between children of different abilities.

Educators from Edwards Middle School in Charlestown, Massachusetts have provided a sample school schedule, lesson plans, professional - development resources, and more for expanded learning time.

Youve just provided a voice - to - voice learning experience that will expand the walls of your classroom and open up possibilities for your students to become global partners with students across the country or across the world.

With a focus on increasing access to STEM careers for «girls, underrepresented minorities, and low - income children,» US2020 and Citizen Schools have partnered to provide expanded STEM learning opportunities for students across the country.

eLearning has rapidly expanded to provide more flexible learning options in the medical sphere, but could it also be used to promote learning amidst the patients?

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

In providing a green environment appropriate to the learning needs of the students, landscape architects are expanding schools» learning resource whilst creating healthy places where children's health and wellbeing is also addressed.

Technology can be used to advance learning by bringing exciting curricula based on real - world problems into the classroom, providing scaffolds and tools to enhance learning, such as modeling programs and visualization tools, giving students and teachers more opportunities for feedback, reflection, and revision, and building local and global communities that include teachers, administrators, students, parents, practicing scientists, and other interested people expanding opportunities for teacher learning.

Types of Technical Assistance TASC and Every Hour Counts can provide you with accessible tools to help with specific aspects of building a system of expanded learning opportunities.

Outdoor classrooms are ideal for any school that wishes to provide an outdoor learning facility or to expand their existing classroom space.

Participating cities are launching ambitious plans for change that include components of the Education Redesign Lab's strategy for systemic change: creating student - centered, customized learning experiences for students; integrating social, emotional, and health services with education; providing easily accessible, high quality expanded learning and enrichment experiences for all children; and creating governance structures that will support this integrated model of services.

This Education Trends report provides an overview of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and outlines how ESSA strengthens opportunities for states to expand and support civic learning and engagement.

Initiate collaborative relationships to expand professional learning opportunities, engage in research, and provide quality opportunities and placements for pre-service teachers.

BBA advocates providing universal access to health care for children, quality early - childhood education, and expanded access to extended learning opportunities, after school and during the summer.

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