Sentences with phrase «skill for civic engagement»

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«The developmental skill, executive function, and engagement in classroom - based play are not only important for being «school - ready,» but also may be unique pathways to becoming «civic ready» for children growing up in the context of poverty in America.»

Three core executive functions — inhibition, working memory, and cognitive flexibility — are viewed as fundamental developmental skills for later civic engagement.

16 - year - old Alexa gets hands - on experience and leadership skills by collaborating on a play space for kids through Philadelphia's Public Workshop, which promotes community engagement and civic innovation.

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Increasingly, courts are defining the constitutional standard for education in terms of the skills and knowledge students need for effective civic engagement.

In these service projects these students were gaining and demonstrating important competencies for life, for work and for civic engagement: compassion, empathy, imagination, complex thinking, the capacity to understand social challenges, the skills to identify a point of entry to address them, and the courage, commitment and skills to implicate themselves and to collaborate across several dimensions of difference in constructing a solution.

Studying the Holocaust and human behavior allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history while fostering their skills in ethical and moral reasoning, critical analysis, empathy, and civic engagement — all of which are critical habits of mind for sustaining democracy.

This amounted to a return of more than $ 2 for every taxpayer dollar spent and a social return of nearly $ 4 for every dollar spent.13 The social return included benefits such as improved skills and human capital, greater lifetime civic engagement, lower delinquency and criminal activity, and even improved health status for volunteers.14 Cost - benefit analyses of more than 50 individual AmeriCorps programs have yielded similar results.15

Through civic initiatives, community engagement, speech and debate, and authentic student and family advocacy for more school choice, our scholars acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitude to change the world.

It is an excellent opportunity for educators to integrate civic engagement and digital citizenship skills into the curriculum.

Every summer, YPP brings together 100 youth across our offices for a six week intensive summer action program that teaches civic engagement skills and involves young people in organizing campaigns.

Through this vision, Kansas defines a successful high school graduate as having the academic preparation, cognitive preparation, technical skills, employability skills and civic engagement to be successful in postsecondary education, in the attainment of an industry recognized certification or in the workforce, without the need for remediation.