Sentences with phrase «school design effort»

The regional next - gen school design effort in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. is predominantly charter - focused.

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Benefits — In addition to giving people options to go zero waste when caring for their food, for every purchase of a Katherine Homes designed Khala Cloth, 5 % will go towards the Chef Ann Foundation's efforts to increase the consumption of fresh food by school children in a quest for lifelong healthy eating habits.

The School Breakfast Outreach section is designed to help you organize your efforts to implement or expand school breaSchool Breakfast Outreach section is designed to help you organize your efforts to implement or expand school breaschool breakfast.

Created by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, Rudd «Roots was designed not only to help parents navigate the complex world of school food but also to link grassroots efforts around the country.

Aging infrastructure and equipment, much of it designed to heat or handle pre-packaged rather than fresh foods, pose significant barriers to school districts» efforts to adapt to the preferences and dietary needs of today's...

Aging infrastructure and equipment, much of it designed to heat or handle pre-packaged rather than fresh foods, pose significant barriers to school districts» efforts to adapt to the preferences and dietary needs of today's... Read More

Every Smart Mom product is designed to save you time, effort and help you stay connected with your children, school, caretakers, family and friends.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

HEROES is designed to enhance schoolwide wellness through changes in physical education, nutrition, health promotion efforts for school staff and family, and community involvement.

Dylan Drotman, a Ph.D. student at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, led the effort to design the legs and the robot's control systems.

Many people worked toward a degree, and every effort in school was designed to get you out...

Collaborative for High Performance Schools, San Francisco, CA Facilitates the design and construction of energy - and resource - efficient schools in an effort to increase student performance while protecting the envirSchools, San Francisco, CA Facilitates the design and construction of energy - and resource - efficient schools in an effort to increase student performance while protecting the envirschools in an effort to increase student performance while protecting the environment.

West Des Moines, Iowa About Blog IALF is a coordinated, statewide approach by business, education and the agriculture industry that is designed by augment and aggregate existing agriculture education efforts that promote agriculture literacy in Iowa schools.

Provided through the Education Funding Agency, CIF is designed to address health and safety issues in school buildings, as well as supporting expansion projects and efforts to improve energy efficiency.

The Rockefeller Foundation last week launched a three - part, multi-million-dollar initiative designed to encourage widespread adoption of innovative school - reform efforts targeting the needs of at - risk children.

Program: Ed.M., Human Development Research Areas: Life courses from pregnancy through childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-life; the influence of reproductive transitions on life course trajectories; class, race, and ethnic disparities in education and health and designing interventions to reduce these disparities; prevention efforts targeting parenting, schooling, community, housing, and work - family balance.

Kamentz and Laura Keane of Mastery Charter Schools have been at the center of an effort, along with Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania, to design and test interventions aimed at enhancing student perseverance and improving college enrollment and graduation outcomes.

And it is participating in a local effort to design 14 new high schools to be built in San Diego over the next decade.

students who wish to build and operate new schools will have a richer tool set for designing highly effective educational environments and will able to take advantage of the best techniques that are being developed in the field.rough all of these efforts, I'm confident that the Ed.L.D.

To bring this same innovation to school report cards, the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), in partnership with Getting Smart, has launched the My School Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of educschool report cards, the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), in partnership with Getting Smart, has launched the My School Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of educSchool Information Design Challenge (#schoolinfo)-- a national competition to rethink and redesign the way in which key data is presented on school report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of educschool report cards so that they can drive decisions, spark discussions and support the efforts of state departments of education.

This does not counsel against finding ways to steer teachers to disadvantaged schools; it does suggest that such efforts should be carefully designed and executed with an appreciation for local context, which means they probably should not be guided by broad legislative directives emanating from Washington.

We need to see many more investments in efforts to create new high - school designs aligned to design principles, as well as in learning resources that specifically target the needs of underprepared high - school students.

A well - designed smoke control system for schools can not only protect the occupants within the building but improve external efforts from local firefighters and on - site operations.

At a recent Common's Education Committee hearing, the Royal Institute of British Architects issued a warning that efforts to slash the cost of school building projects is still resulting in formulaic design and «functional» boxes.

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

The product of a collaboration involving the local school system, a federal agency, a professional association, and private foundations and universities, the pilot effort is designed to both encourage young people to stay in school and gently nudge them toward careers in public service.

Designed to provide the support necessary for Urban Prep graduates to successfully enroll in college and bolster their efforts to make steady progress toward attaining a degree, the program offers aggressive interventions by three full - time, dedicated staff members to help our alumni persist in school.

The changes have prompted Grofar, the popular careers guidance management solution, to develop a specially designed platform to help schools reach out to their local communities and bolster their fundraising efforts and access valuable services.

«Kemple's work examining high school reform efforts and assessing performance trends in New York City led to the design of rigorous impact evaluations, the results of which help city leaders better serve students and families by more meaningfully assessing school and student performance, effectively allocating resources, and identifying both positive trends and areas for improvement in schools.»

In January 2014, the DOE released a resource package with a variety of informational materials designed to support state and local efforts to improve school climate and discipline.

The Framework will be designed primarily for use by schools and school districts and will be based on the premise that there is no one «right» way to build or evaluate PreK - 3rd efforts.

A number of national organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools and the National Parent Teacher Association, have taken up that effort, publishing written materials and creating video and audio segments — in multiple languages — designed to explain the standards to parents, in clear, jargon - free terms.

Designed to support both school improvement efforts and professional development, each chapter includes discussion questions that make this resource perfect for staff meetings or book study groups.

Dan contributes analysis of great teaching, provides content design, and leads the team's efforts to strengthen schools» access to and support with TLAC resources.

These choice programs are designed specifically to free schools from stifling regulations, in an effort to yield better education for children.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office of State Support is pleased to announce the new State Support Network website, an online platform designed to support school improvement efforts by providing States and districts with opportunities to engage with their peers and connect with experts and resources.

The Science of Summit is our effort to share what we believe about young people, about the promise of public education, and about principles for school design rooted in the science of learning.

The campaign is designed to facilitate deliberate conversations and strong, meaningful actions on the efforts to bolster our schools to best support the students they serve.

In many ways professional development is the link between the design and implementation of education reforms and the ultimate success of reform efforts in schools.

SEDL provides a continuum of services to develop the capacity of educators to evaluate school improvement efforts, including using evaluation designs, methods, and analyses to help plan and implement programs, policies, and practices.

Best Behavior is a professional development program designed for administrators and teachers to support their efforts in creating and maintaining a positive and supportive school culture that facilitates academic achievement and the healthy social development of students in a safe environment that is conducive to learning.

This master set of rubrics is designed to support school and district efforts to integrate 4Cs assessment strategies into teaching and learning systems.»

With an eye toward sustainability, the state has proposed that all Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) schools create a Community Advisory Board (CAB) to help design and implement school improvement efforts.

The sample materials in the Dashboard Communications Toolkit are designed to support districts and schools with community engagement efforts.

In particular, Jed offers a wide variety of programming, including The Jed Campus Program, a nationwide initiative designed to empower schools with a framework and customized support to enhance student mental health and help with substance abuse and suicide prevention efforts, and Set to Go, a program to emotionally prepare high schools students for impending transition.

For a final assignment, Merseth asked students to design a project of their own choosing to demonstrate an understanding of the various stakeholders in school reform, the variety of efforts currently being used to improve schools, and specific leadership acts taken to implement these reforms.

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 fact, NAS marketing efforts and Obey - Porter funds have brought a five-fold increase since 1997 in the number of schools using NAS designs, to some 3,000 schools in 2001.

In an effort to save money and time, all new Wyoming elementary schools must now be built using one of five to seven prototypical designs, the Wyoming School Facilities Commission has decided.

In this workshop, a collaborative effort of the National Literacy Project (NLP), Seminole County (FL) Public Schools, and the National Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), teachers, district and school administrators, and instructional coaches learned to use the LDC Framework to help students meet career - and college - readiness standards.