Sentences with phrase «student community visit»

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Thanks to a collaboration between Haskayne School of Business students and the Information Technologies team, the campus community can now use a new live chat feature to speak with IT Support Centre (ITSC) agents Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on weekends and stat holidays by visiting ucalgary.ca / it.

I had done something similar when, in 1963, as a student in Chicago I had visited Reba Place Fellowship, an intentional community in suburban Evanston, and discovered among its members a great interest in Bonhoeffer's Discipleship, but an equally passionate aversion to his involvement in the conspiracy against Hitler.

This takes place through school visits of one to several weeks annually in North America Waldorf schools, working with teachers, classes, staff, and individual students, as well as offering lectures / workshops for parents and the wider community.

At Schenectady County Community College, any student, regardless of income, can visit up to three times a month and select three days» worth of food such as canned beans, tuna, spaghetti sauce and pasta.

Partnership for Student Advocacy (PFSA): An advocacy organization that closely collaborates with schools and school communities, PFSA takes an inventory of local elected officials and reaches out through letters, phone calls, and personal visits to enlist the active support of key leaders on behalf of the schools it serves.

When he visited Syracuse University in February, he held a brief press conference about the Reducing Educational Debt Act, a bill that would make the first two years of community college free, allow student loan borrowers to refinance at lower rates and increase the number of Pell Grants, which, unlike loans, do not have to be paid back.

The 100 Island Challenge team, composed of postdoctoral researchers, staff, and graduate students from the labs of Sandin and Scripps ecologist Jennifer Smith, is partnering with scientists and communities around the world to visit 100 different islands and use these novel 3 - D imaging techniques to create photo mosaics capturing every detail of the coral reef structure and ecology.

When Cody Messick first visited the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) as an undergraduate student in 2012, much of the scientific community was skeptical that gravitational waves could be detected.

While STEGHs can provide students with important global and cross-cultural education, the authors say they believe a paradigm shift is needed to ensure that the programs benefit both the trainees and the communities they visit.

These include intensive graduate training, postdoctoral research, and research assistantships for undergraduate students, as well as community outreach, including student group visits to our lab, collaborations with museums, schools, and local organizations, media contacts, and public lectures.

Watson School students are integrated into CSHL's own scientific community of over 350 researchers, and interact with the more than 8,000 scientists who visit CSHL each year to participate in meetings and courses on the latest scientific research and developments their fields.

If you ever have a down moment at work or wonder what it's all about, I encourage you to visit augusta.edu/stories and be reminded that what you do at Augusta University matters — to our patients, our students, our community, ourselves.

He led dozens of groups, including students, politicians, and members of the Hawaiian community, to visit the observatories on Maunakea and Haleakala.

As I was leaving the Boston high school that I recently visited, the community volunteer who coordinated the event commented on how lucky the students were to have a Harvard professor come and talk with them.

The home visits show families that the school and community are willing to make an extra effort to help the students, volunteers said.

In visiting the Volunteer State, President Obama pledged to provide two years of community college free for «responsible» students, seeking to build off a similar effort the state had already launched for Tennessee residents.

Although there are people visiting and writing literature about rural communities in America, many of its residents — especially students — voices are not heard nationally.

A group of students boarded the Mobile Learning Lab at my school to visit the Barefoot Beach County Preserve in Bonita Springs, Florida — an expedition to a community partner that was part of the students» Extreme Migrations project.

Students shared what they learned with their families and their community by visiting other classes and community organizations.

She reminded the students that as educators they are members of a «noble profession» and «when you get too frustrated, or when you miss this special community, visit us here on Appian Way.»

From July 16 — July 23, 10 high school students from urban communities visited Harvard through Quang's program to get an initial taste of the college experience.

From July 16 — July 23, 10 high school students from urban communities visited Harvard through Quang's program to...

Among the 11 seminars were Creating an Inquiry - Based Community in a Public School Classroom, in which students visited a Brookline, Mass. classroom to observe inquiry - based learning; Developing Your Media Presence, in which students created two - minute videos promoting their work and themselves; and Mindfulness Practices for Leading and Learning, a course which even garnered Dean Kathleen McCartney's participation.

Price, a nonresident Senior Fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institute and John L. Weinberg / Goldman Sachs visiting professor of public and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, wrote Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible «for educators who wish to mobilize their own communities to support student success,» he wrote.

You'll come to know the world and human nature in a unique way by visiting schools and communities in your recruiting; talking with educators, parents, and policymakers; hearing thousands of life stories each year as you read applications and take part in admission committee deliberations, and then following the students you admitted throughout their college years and beyond.

Among those innovations are a night program that started this fall, the International Business Venture (in which students study local companies and then visit their counterparts overseas), a student - run foundation, computer - assisted learning, cyberdays for those snowed - in periods when getting to school is perilous, and Interim, which consists of two - week community - service projects.

There are collaborations — at Aberfoyle Hub R - 7 School in South Australia, local kindy students will be visiting for an afternoon of science activities run by the senior primary students; and events focusing on real - word applications — Tasmania's Forest Primary School is running a project called Old MacDonald Had a Drone, encouraging students, staff, parents and the community to find out more about how technology is improving local farming practices.

Biome Bazaar Submitted by Kimberly Emanuel This lesson simulates a field trip in which students visit various biomes and perform several sensory activities to learn about the world's ecological communities.

In order to maintain this commitment to unrivalled training, and in addition to the project delivery, Clugston is also adding value by supporting the college's students and organising visits to other construction sites and technical presentations on subjects such as building services and health and safety planning — proving that construction frameworks really do build communities.

We visited Frederick County, VA, where superintendent David Sovine has adopted the Bright Futures USA framework to meet all children's basic needs, engage the entire community to support students and schools, and make service learning a core part of education, and is also working to enhance ECE.

Effective approaches for pre-K and kindergarten students might require engaging more with parents through home visits by staff from the school or a community organization partner to assess and meet needs for health care or other issues.

More important is acknowledging the student's concerns and telling the student that you'll figure it out together — and then talk to colleagues, visit local community centers, or find answers online.

This summer, she had plans to take a student on a community college visit.

Ahead of Mother's Day, students from The Bridge Academy in Bridgeport volunteered to visit the Watermark Retirement Home to celebrate mothers and grandmothers in their community.

State ID (9 sub-codes) District site ID (18 sub-codes) District size (large, medium, low) District poverty (high, medium, low) District diversity (high, medium, low) District location (urban, suburban, rural) School site ID School level (elementary, middle school, high school) School poverty (high, medium, low) School diversity (high, medium, low) School size (student population) Interviewee role district (superintendent, board member, staff, parent representative, community stakeholder) Interviewee role school (principal or assistant principal, teacher, teacher leader, other staff, parent representative) Interviewee gender Interviewee role experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Interviewee site experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Site visit date (site visit 1, 2, or 3) Document type (district, school, research memo).

Additionally, many of the economically challenged students had limited experiences participating in community programs, visiting libraries, attending cultural events, and traveling to different localities beyond their neighborhoods.

Students visit colleges, explore careers through partnerships with businesses, and volunteer for community outreach through Rotary.

Attendance Works and Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) collaborated on this toolkit to identify cutting edge concepts and tools to help educators work with families, students and community partners to make school attendance a priority.

The event serves as a remarkable professional development and capacity - building opportunity for student - centered family - community engagement, such as home visits, parent leadership development, parent - teacher teams, and organizing for school - community improvement.

Participants visited two Bay Area community schools to see how their partnerships focused on physical and mental health have positive impacts on students.

Historically, schools have used home visits as interventions to problems, but the PTHV model was created by parents and community organizers with the aim of building cooperation across the board, without targeting «problem students.»

When they weren't in the van, they were visiting schools in five remote communities across three Northwest states as part of NW RISE — a project that aims to increase rural students» engagement in their schools and community.

The NEA Foundation has been supporting teacher home visit projects as a strategy for increasing student achievement in low - performing schools, through a dynamic collaboration between the union, the district, and their communities.

It isn't a program that needs to be required or mandated for every community,» she told reporters in a press conference following her visit with Stoneman Douglas students.

After interviewing various students, teachers, parents, administrators, and other education and community leaders who had been part of each school at different times in its history, I visited classrooms and collected written case studies, newspaper accounts, memos, and other communications about significant events.

His books, articles, school visits, workshops, and conference presentations on strategic formative assessment and teacher learning communities have profoundly impacted teacher professional practice and student learning worldwide.

The project included research focused on the development and delivery of rigorous curriculum supported by intensive and sustained teacher professional development that included in - school coaching, peer classroom visits and content intensive STEM Academies In addition to the school day component, the project offered a STEM - focused, out - of school day program where students completed engineering - focused projects relevant to local communities.

Benefits of Community Service Learning Types of Community Service Learning Projects Steps in Doing a Community Service Learning Project Questions and Concerns Five Projects In - Depth The Dog Poop Project The Bus Bully Project Wetlands as Classroom and Service Opportunity Biographies of Nursing Home Residents Trick - or - Treating for UNICEF Thirteen Projects At - A-Glance Quilt Project Heifer Project Visits to an Alzheimer's Unit Vegetable Garden Water Testing Coral Transplant Project Books on Tape Bias in Literature Salmon Restoration Student - Run Business Multi-Site Community Service Learning Voter Registration and Awareness Drive Hunger Awareness Conclusion Community Service Learning Resources Northeast Foundation for Children, 2002, 129 pages, paper ISBN: 1 -892989-07-7

While working on the project, student participants spent time visiting local museums, spoke with faculty advisors, and discussed the significance of the themes of identity and community in their own lives.

Your first - year teacher program might include home visits, neighborhood visits and interviews with community members who can help you better understand the world of your students and the possibilities they bring with them to your classroom.