Sentences with phrase «school education and learning»

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Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

The minimum education is typically a high school diploma, and much of the learning is done on the job.

Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

Kallos and Dallinger had already rented a space and racked up other expenses when they learned the government bureau that oversees postsecondary education would not be licensing new schools for six months.

«In China, we see parents very passionate about their kids» education and we have already seen a lot of after - school learning centers import our robots,» Vikas Gupta said.

The role of the Haskayne Founders» Circle Cabinet is to raise money for the Haskayne School of Business resulting in enriched student experience, improved teaching and learning environment and acceleration of the school's ability to be an international leader in business educSchool of Business resulting in enriched student experience, improved teaching and learning environment and acceleration of the school's ability to be an international leader in business educschool's ability to be an international leader in business education.

«The Basics of Saving and Investing: Investor Edcation 2020» is an investor education and protection teaching guide that can be used in a variety of learning environments including college courses, workplace education, after school programs, seminars for adults and seniors, etc. «The Basics» is also a great DIY course for individuals.

Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources leadership roles at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to female leaders in Edmonton's business community

The FDS team also includes education thought - leader Sandra Nagy, formerly of Pearson Canada, who has a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University and will serve as the school's director of education thought - leader Sandra Nagy, formerly of Pearson Canada, who has a Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University and will serve as the school's director of Education from Harvard University and will serve as the school's director of learning.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

A school in which girls are encouraged to gain top - level religious and secular educations so that they can go on to be learned and confident mothers, diplomats, or Torah scholars, threatens Haredi attempts to limit women's social roles and educational possibilities.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

Millions of women are mutilated when they reach puberty, many little girls have lost their faces and eyes on their way to school just because they are trying to learn how to read and write, the minimal education, yet they are still punished.

The focus of the Jubilee Centre reminds us that we need to reach further back into history than we have been accustomed to if we are to revive Catholic education: in particular, we need to learn from the great Catholic schools and universities of the pre-Reformation era.

The survey aligned such ignorance with anti-Semitism, but it is entirely possible that people far from Europe and with little education simply hadn't learned about the Holocaust in school or in the media — innocently so.

The church is invariably tied to what happens in public and private education, learning many of its educational habits and sensibilities from the schooling establishment.

The story follows Harry, a young boy who learns he is a wizard and is sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to begin his education; gaining the help of friends Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) along the way.

I had gotten a law school education by osmosis, and one of the first things law students learn is «Never ask a question to which you don't already know the answer.»

My perceptions of the fit between piety and learning in the current world of theological education are conditioned by a recent move from one province of that world — Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta — to another, Union Theological Seminary in New York.

World responsibility in education further entails serious attention to the teaching of foreign languages, beginning in the early years of school, when children can quickly and naturally learn another tongue in the same fashion as they learned their native language.

Education was being placed under the control of the state and was becoming secularized, but on the frontiers of white settlement, especially in the United States, those moved by their Christian faith were founding most of the institutions of higher learning and were even responsible for much of the public school system.

He's been an advocate for science education in public schools and an expert in making learning entertaining and valuable for children for decades.

But Marta loved school and wanted to continue her education, so with the help of a teacher, she moved to the city where she learned a trade by day and attended school at night.

Students should provide perspective in their essays on who should receive sex education, what sex education should include, what would make it more inclusive and effective, why sex education is important, what they did and did not learn in their previous sex education class, what they wish they had learned, and how sex education can be taught more effectively in schools.

Children learn from the gardens in schools and take the education home to their parents, Petrini added.

«Students look back at this design project and it's really a highlight, a memorable learning experience in their packaging education,» says Paul Koning, Instructor, MSU, School of Packaging.

And he learned that if you played this game very well, the school would pay for your education as well.

The pedagogical techniques that prevail at EL schools and that Turnaround's instructional coaches emphasize in their work are connected to a larger trend in education today, known colloquially as deeper learning.

Dad Factor INSET training for schools The Dad Factor is a package of INSET training for schools, family learning and extended school services and the staff who work in these settings including head teachers, teachers, learning assistants, mentors, family learning teams, community education staff, school nurses and counsellors.

Our schools send teams of educators, parents, and students to our annual fall conference at Stanford University where they hear the latest research on best practices in education and learn from each other how to create effective school reform.

School highlights gifted education, inquiry - based learning, creative problem - solving, engaged peer groups, and collaborative culture.

The Expeditionary Learning model was developed 25 years ago out of a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound USA, and the Outward Bound principle of building confidence and knowledge through shared challenges is still at the heart of the EL model.

These could include early years practitioners, teachers, teaching / learning assistants, mentors, family learning teams, community education staff, school nurses, counsellors and / or volunteer dads (or mums).

Being grounded in progressive education principles means the school community has a child - centered approach to learning that focuses on the social, emotional, and academic needs of each individual.

Bennett Day is the first school in Chicago based on the Reggio Emilia approach — which emphasizes learning by doing, and place - based education.

Sabrina served as PTA chair at Synapse School in Menlo Park for two years and continues to be active in the area of education and learning differences, via both professional affiliations and philanthropic efforts.

Denise Pope, Ph.D., is a Co-Founder of Challenge Success and a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning.

Because studies show that one - off concussion education isn't enough to change concussion symptom reporting behavior, Step Three in the SmartTeams Play SafeTM #TeamUp4 ConcussionSafetyTM game plan calls for coaches, athletes, athletic trainers, team doctors (and, at the youth and high school level, parents) to attend a mandatoryconcussion safety meeting before every sports season to learn in detail about the importance of immediate concussion symptom reporting, not just in minimizing the risks concussions pose to an athlete's short - and long - term health, but in increasing the chances for individual and team success.

Denise Pope, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, where she specializes in student engagement, curriculum studies, qualitative research methods, and service learning.

She served as PTA chair at Synapse School in Menlo Park for two years and continues to be active in the area of education and learning differences, via both professional affiliations and philanthropic efforts.

We are calling on schools, nurseries and other family learning settings to sign up for Fathers» Story Week 2012 and do more to help dads support their children's education.

Listen to CWS alumni to learn how they believe their Waldorf education helped them in high school and college.

From its gentle beginning in the Kindergarten and Lower School to a rigorous, yet cooperative, learning environment in the Upper Grades, a Sierra Waldorf School education is a gift that prepares children and young adults to embrace learning.

Our community includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

This course is open to all who want to enter into an open exchange on how Indigenous education can benefit from using Waldorf education and how Waldorf schools can learn from Indigenous culture and spirituality and present it to their children in an authentic way.

At the Cincinnati Waldorf School, we offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education which ignites and inspires life - long learning.

At Linden Waldorf School, we believe children come into this world perfectly suited to learn and Waldorf Education allows what's already inside them to flourish and grow.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eatingEducation, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eatingeducation which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

If your teen has special learning or behavioral needs, meetings can be scheduled with teachers and other school staff to consider setting up or revising individualized education plans (IEPs), 504 education plans, or gifted education plans.