Sentences with phrase «school learning community»

Teacher professional development for technology integration in a primary school learning community.

An after - school learning community helps new teachers improve their instruction as they learn the ropes.

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Many of these roles are represented in a United Way Community Schools Learning Community that serves as a peer networking opportunity for United Way's involved in community school initiatives.

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Among them: intensive community gardens that provide a therapeutic space where members are taught how to grow their own vegetables; programs that teach young mothers about proper nutrition; workshops where local residents learn about food security and receive public - speaking training; and after - school classes where tweens whip up healthy meals.

While the curriculum is designed for high school and community college students — and select schools will start offering the curriculum this fall — you don't have to attend school to learn to code in Swift, Apple's programming language.

After observing that students become 26 percent more likely to eat vegetables served in the nearly 350 schools where Musk's Learning Gardens allowed students to grow their own produce, Musk was satisfied, and the project attracted interest from other underserved communities and donors.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

Teaching Assistants have an important role in the Haskayne School of Business, advancing the achievement of program goals and contributing to the Haskayne learning community.

There exists a myriad of learning opportunities available to students outside of the regular school day, whether on campus, through local museums and science centers, or elsewhere in communities across the country.

The Information Technology team will provide the highest quality technology - based services, in the most cost - effective manner, to facilitate the Haskayne School of Business as it applies to management, teaching, learning, and community service.

Children from the local school and community were engaged throughout the entire Build Day playing games, learning about the environment and being active.

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 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 communitycommunity

Supporters of free schools say they bring greater educational autonomy to parents and communities and that flexibility over the curriculum and qualifications required to teach can improve learning.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

If there is more than one, do they shape different aspects of the school's common life (one shaping its teaching and learning, another its life of worship, perhaps another its common life as a community of students, faculty, and staff)?

The point to be made, then, is that as a community of persons that seeks to understand God truly, a theological school is a community seeking to learn concepts, that is, to grow in abilities and capacities relative to God.

Its concreteness in part consists of its transactions with its immediate host community, and its schooling is excellent to the extent that its transactions are deliberately and self - critically shaped in such a way that what they symbolize to the immediate neighborhood and what they teach members of the school community itself are consonant with the concepts taught and learned in its central practices.

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.

E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Mastering the faculty's language, learning how to debate within the school's ideological limits, negotiating the foibles and passions of teachers and other students, figuring out how to be accepted in this community and then how to relate to the folks back home — this struggle can be debilitating as well as exhilarating.

Why does «school» have to tell you everything — can't you learn things from your co-workers, neighbors, community or just day - to - day living?

The theological school provides «solid learning /» It is a community constituted by the pursuit of learning.

Learning and teaching are activities that any good community requires, and while they often take place in schools and universities, they also occur in construction trades and farms.

«We're doing a lot of outreach with local community colleges, technical and trade schools and military programs, where retired military people who have learned great skills are able to bring some of those to us,» he explains.

Neumark is the founder of The Sylvia Center, which holds year - round programs in schools and New York City Housing Authority community centers to inspire young people and their families to eat well through hands - on learning experiences on the farm and in the kitchen.

The Brighton and Hove Food Partnership are crowdfunding throughout February for a Community Kitchen - a cookery school where everyone can eat, learn about and share good food.

The Kitchen Community builds Learning Gardens in schools around the U.S. reaching hundreds of thousands of students every school day, improving their vegetable intake and academic achievements.

BevNET Beverage School is an on - demand, video - based learning tool and online community designed for entrepreneurs and newcomers to the food and beverage industry.

Barry Callebaut recently inaugurated two new rural primary schools and community learning centres in Côte d'Ivoire.

In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference - goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) movement.

Earlier this week the LFC Foundation coaches invited me along to Florence Melly Community Primary School to learn about the Premier League Primary Stars values, they let me help out with a cool game about team work.

We believe that when parents learn together about the importance of a balanced life, communities become stronger, families prioritize well - being, and kids are healthier and more engaged in school.

WESTCHESTER & UPSTATE EF Academy International Boarding Schools 582 Columbus Ave., Thornwood, NY 10594 www.ef.edu/academy [phone] EF Academy prepares students not only for academic success, but also for true global citizenship through critical learning and unparalleled intercultural immersion in what amounts to a diverse United Nations - style high school community.

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.

If the teachers aren't reporting or indicating that they think that there is a learning difference but a parent remains concern, a parent should absolutely follow up and ask for an evaluation whether through the school district or with someone privately in the community.

Paul will discuss grit, character, and How Children Succeed with David Levin, co-founder of KIPP, and Dominic Randolph, head of the Riverdale Country School, at the Jewish Community Center in New York City as part of the JCC's Learning Matters conversation series hosted by John Merrow.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

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.

Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to promote a broad definition of success and to implement research - based strategies so that all kids are healthy and engaged with learning.

«Kids shouldn't spend the first few weeks of school this fall relearning the same concepts they learned the previous school year because of brain drain,» said Bryan Wunar, the Museum's director of community initiatives.

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 Foodcommunity 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 FoodCommunity (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.

Statute 120B.22 (2005) encourages each district to provide ongoing in - service for district school personnel to help students identify violence in the family and community, so students may learn to resolve conflict in effective, nonviolent ways.

Parents, preschool teachers and the community will become more knowledgeable about the importance of early math and science learning as it impacts both school readiness and later math success

TLCC and Laura Secord, Selkirk, Beaconsfield, Queen Victoria Elementary Schools and various community organizations are hosting a fun event for prekindergarten aged kids from 3 - 5 years old to help start them on their journey of life - long learning.

Desert Marigold School is a learning community where everyone grows.