Sentences with phrase «school collaboration provided»

At the 2003 Heritage Night, a successful community - school collaboration provided an optimistic counterpoint to the mill closure.

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Right now we have a national obesity problem, so why aren't we asking for money to raise healthier students, to support coordinated school health, for more nutrition education, more collaboration with partners, parents and the community to encourage children to try new foods, to develop recipes, to provide technical assistance and set professional standards?

Held on Oct. 4, Taste Washington Day is an opportunity to encourage the collaboration of school districts and their local agricultural community to provide healthy school meals throughout the school year.

This study, conducted in collaboration with PHAI, provides a look at how discussions of school food nutrition policies unfolded in the selected states in the wake the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

Shedd works in collaboration with 10 other Chicago museums to provide this free after - school program for children ages 8 to10 and their families.

Now in its eighth year, the civic engagement initiative was a collaboration between the Youth Bureau and The Center for Family Life and Recovery, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, John Bosco House, Utica Safe Schools / Underground Café, Dodge Pratt Northam Art & Community Center and The Salvation Army Utica Citadel to provide youth programing with the intent of introducing lessons of community service through volunteerism.

One of Gaab's newest projects, which she is developing in collaboration with at least one Boston - area school for children with dyslexia, is a blog that will provide useful information about emerging research to parents, teachers, and community workers.

Close partnerships with Tufts» excellent undergraduate, graduate and professional schools, coupled with a long tradition of collaboration, provide a strong platform for interdisciplinary education and scholarship.

Kemi Jona, an associate professor at Northwestern University and a member of the VOISE Academy High School design team, explains that online curriculum provides «a ticket to entry for students, getting them ready for the really exciting stuff: the projects, the collaborations, and the local connections that a teacher can bring.»

Sam provides a vision for the type of school climate in which collaboration, not cheating, would be most encouraged.

At Wildwood IB World Magnet School, teacher collaboration fosters a supportive professional culture, lessens teacher conflict, and provides students with schoolwide best practices.

Increasing each teacher's capacity to redesign and assess their own practice demands new ways of thinking, opportunities for deep collaboration and the willingness of school leaders to engage with academic and professional partners who will challenge, reflect and provide evidence for each school to create its own evidence - informed practices and protocols.

Collaboration was at the centre of the school's approach to professional learning as teachers were engaged in gathering and evaluating evidence, sharing ideas, providing each other with feedback and planning teaching and learning programs together throughout the project.

However, PISA data can not discern whether this is because schools are more equitable in providing learning opportunities for collaborative skills, or whether collaboration skills are mainly developed outside schools.»

Learn how educators at Glenview Elementary School in Oakland, California use partnerships with local arts organizations to provide much - needed resources, while giving students new creative outlets and developing critical thinking and collaboration skills.

Certificate in School Management Leadership (CSML) A collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School, CSML provides school leaders with the management insight, frameworks, and leadership skills to enable them to drive change and lead high - performing scSchool Management Leadership (CSML) A collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Business School, CSML provides school leaders with the management insight, frameworks, and leadership skills to enable them to drive change and lead high - performing scSchool of Education and Harvard Business School, CSML provides school leaders with the management insight, frameworks, and leadership skills to enable them to drive change and lead high - performing scSchool, CSML provides school leaders with the management insight, frameworks, and leadership skills to enable them to drive change and lead high - performing scschool leaders with the management insight, frameworks, and leadership skills to enable them to drive change and lead high - performing schools.

Written in collaboration with HGSE alumni of the IEP Program, One Student at a Time provides a series of alumni accounts of their work experiences, covering a wide array of careers in schools, governments, international organizations, and nonprofits and demonstrating the impact of HGSE on the global education movement.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

Rosenbrock says the annual conference has been a cornerstone of the regional facility and its PD programs as it brings together a large number of teachers from a wide area, building the foundation for plenty of collaboration and the creation of networks within schools, providing a «canvas» for educators who are keen to share in their areas of passion.

Collaboration provides an opportunity for even the most accomplished leaders and schools to learn how to do elements of what they do even better and gain new ideas, by supporting and learning from other schools.

There are six available modules that can also be combined with the base package to build a more tailored support solution, these are: • Vision and Strategy — quarterly consultancy from Stone Group and Stone's Education Specialists on how to integrate ICT into the school's plan • Security — complete back - up solution and anti-virus software • Engagement — technical or pedagogy focused training for staff to maximise benefits and return on investment • Monitoring — proactive remote monitoring service, in combination with helpdesk support • On - site service — regular visits from a dedicated Stone Group technician to provide hands on help and support • Communication — enabling primary schools to benefit from the latest email, instant message, voice, and video communication and collaboration tools.

Provided tips and resources address ways that school communities can use video to enhance teacher development via self - reflection, peer collaboration, virtual coaching, formal evaluation, and the construction of video libraries.

In addition to providing her students with opportunities for online collaboration and constant feedback from native Hindi speakers, Mishra has designed her class thematically so that each unit (Gandhi's life, school days in India, or Indian tourism, for instance) is paced according to its various projects, such as skits, PowerPoint presentations, or travel brochures.

When PLHIV and their families faced stigma and discrimination, the networks independently or in collaboration with other stakeholders worked towards reducing rights violations, some of them being reintegrating affected children back to schools or reinstating people back to work place or providing legal access for accessing their property rights.

In her school, which is a charter school run by teachers, scheduling and staffing are arranged to provide abundant time for teacher collaboration and teacher leadership.

Rafi.ki Kidogo provides lesson plans and interactive student resources, as well as protected and moderated chat, messaging and collaboration tools, which allow schools to connect to learn about global issues.

Take for example, the call for extending the school day; the development of a more demanding curriculum that better prepares students for a global, information - driven economy; building K - 12 and higher education collaboration such as in a K - 16 model, and providing alternative educational opportunities for high school students who feel they must go to work.

HY: The new Ph.D. will provide more opportunities for collaboration and advisement from scholars who do research relevant to education across FAS and all the schools of the university.

This service, developed in collaboration with the DfE, will add to the generic advice provided by the DfE, with tools and support to help meet the specific needs of schools.

Here, Jessica Clifton from LEGO Education discusses why school libraries are an important part of the curriculum, and how modern resources and books can work in collaboration to provide learners with an engaging education that stimulates a love of literature and inspires the imagination.

Collaboration Dinners Bring Together Staff, Parents After a family dinner at school, daycare is provided for the students, who work on homework while the adults convene in another room where they work in small groups to define the schools mission and create an action plan for ensuring success.

Join the chief operations & technology officer and the director of media and digital learning from Brazosport Independent School District for an instructional webinar to see how they have leveraged Google for Education tools to enhance collaboration and provide new learning opportunities, both in and out of the classroom.

In order to increase innovative teaching practices, the report recommends increased collaboration among teachers, a school culture that offers a common vision of innovation and support for new types of teaching, and professional development that provides teachers opportunities to experiment and apply innovative teaching methods.

With greater autonomy and collaboration across an age range from three to 18, The Three Rivers, which was previously a Multi-Academy Trust made up of The King Edward VI School, along with Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools, is able to provide better links throughout the school experience to improve career opportunities for staff and students School, along with Chantry and Newminster Middle Schools, is able to provide better links throughout the school experience to improve career opportunities for staff and students school experience to improve career opportunities for staff and students alike.

Principals also should provide opportunities to build trust, collaboration, and individual and organizational capacity, as well as employ celebrations to call attention to treasured school values.

The two year pilot will begin in September 2015 and see Nuffield Health invest significantly into the school, providing state - of - the - art fitness facilities and equipment and developing a wellbeing strategy, in collaboration with the school, to meet their individual needs and those of their community.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

It is no easy task, but there are significant benefits to good schools forming chains: pooling financial resources to develop high - quality central services; allowing schools to develop subject specialisms and fostering greater collaboration; providing proven teachers with varied opportunities for progression and career development.

Job embedded professional learning honors adult experience, involves educators in decisions about their learning, is relevant and can be applied to immediate issues directly related to educators practice, occurs over time, engages educators in dialogue and reflection, provides educators the practice and feedback necessary to implement knowledge and skills, and occurs in a healthy school culture characterized by trust, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Right now, Smarter Balanced provides a bandwidth checker to allow schools to determine the number of students that can simultaneously take tests and is hosting, in collaboration with PARCC, a «technology readiness tool» that allows schools and districts to assess and track their progress toward readiness.

These affinity spaces for practitioners provide a range of professional development courses, curated and vetted resources, and innovative social media tools that increase collaboration and connection across schools, districts and organization and deepen peer - to - peer learning.

A special collaboration between HGSE and FAS has yielded the first secondary field to connect with a Harvard graduate school, providing Harvard College students the opportunity to pursue their intellectual interests in education more formally.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

The in - service training programs will provide the opportunity for collaboration among teachers and school library media specialists to advance information literacy in the kindergarten through grade 12 curriculum.

Further, it provides an overview of ways in which classroom teachers, teacher leaders, reading specialists, principals, and former instructional coaches can take on roles to provide professional development, foster teacher collaboration, and initiate data - based decision making within schools.

The programs shared seven common features: they were focused on the subject areas that teachers teach; incorporated active learning; supported collaboration; used models and modeling to demonstrate effective practice; provided expert coaching and support, offered opportunities for feedback and reflection, and were sustained in duration, often unfolding over months or years, rather than occurring in a single, «drive - by» after school workshop, as is often the norm.

REL researchers will present the challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned from their collaborations with school districts, state departments of education, and others as they provide support for a more evidence - reliant education system.

Raymond hand - picked the principals for the schools, gave them full hiring authority, created positions for additional teacher coaches and site administrators, provided extra training and time for collaboration, and gave the schools more latitude to choose their curriculum.

NSBA believes IDEA can be modernized according to the following principals: foster collaboration and trusting relationships between families and schools; reduce complex compliance - driven processes and redirect efforts within IDEA procedures to improving teaching and learning; and provide full funding of the federal share of IDEA investments.

The PATHWAYS Program is a unique campus - community collaboration that provides mental health services to urban students in the Boston Public Schools.