Sentences with phrase «student run community»

Description — MiNDS is a neuroscience - focused, graduate - student run community outreach initiative based at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Alliances in Marketing is a student run organization that promotes a better understanding of marketing and its role in the business community.

The residents, workers, and students of the area are very appreciative of the community programs my restaurant's run and thank us with their loyalty.

The Club is a student - run inclusive community of academic ice hockey players from Oxford and nearby institutions.

For a long time now, I've wanted to tell you about Midd Foods, an innovative, low - cost and sustainable community - based food system run by college students at Middlebury in Vermont.

Lindsey teaches students at the community center, but she also rents space there to run her Christian dance endeavor, Order my Steps Dance Academy.

Will a personalized healthy living and fitness program run in collaboration with the Salmo RDCK Community Complex help to engage more students in main...

Kesem provides training, support and leadership development to more than 4,500 passionate college student leaders from coast - to - coast who volunteer year - round to create, manage and run Camp Kesem's life - changing programs in their communities.

Mickens appreciates state and federal efforts to protect the community, but he wants to help students avoid being victimized and recruited by gangs, so he will run for a position on Brentwood's school board.

Oneida County Youth Bureau Director Robert Roth said youth volunteers from The Boys and Girls Club of the Mohawk Valley, Compeer of the Mohawk Valley, Cornell Cooperative Extension, The Center for Family Life and Recovery, The Neighborhood Center, Thea Bowman House, Utica Municipal Housing Authority, Utica Safe Schools / Healthy Students / Underground Café and the YMCA of the Greater Tri-Valley performed community service that included assisting in a bicycle giveaway program for Utica children, collecting and distributing clothing to the children who reside in Utica's Municipal Housing Authority locations, soliciting donations, collecting money and walking in Utica's version of America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Walk and the American Cancer Walk, collecting food, preparing and serving meals at local food pantries, collecting donations and goods to aid animals at the Stevens Swan Humane Society and other community activities.

Passions ran high on Thursday night at a University Heights Secondary School parents meeting where over 650 parents, teachers and students met with Department of Education representatives and Mary Coleman, a senior vice president of Bronx Community College, to discuss the possible relocation of the school from its current site on the college's campus.

The UFT is currently interviewing candidates to run an independent assessment of the impact of the Community Learning Schools Initiative on student achievement and school climate in the participating schools.

In college I was a part of a student run theater group that would meet to discuss how performing arts could help raise money or awareness for a community.

Working with a student run theater group that brainstormed ideas of how performing arts could raise money or awareness in the community, Allie says she «began to enjoy researching the nonprofits we wanted to donate the proceeds of our shows to more than I enjoyed actually performing.»

Students work on, and eventually will run, all these projects through various programs that provide stipends, class credit, community - service hours, internships, or a combination.

By speaking with community leaders, parents and students themselves, schools can locate efficiently - run community - based projects to partner with.

Indeed, the show, which ran for three days and was attended by many visitors including governors, students, family and friends as well as the local community, is now in its ninth year, surely a tribute to and acknowledgement of the significance and value of these subjects.

To move their 765 - plus students onto a more promising track, like their counterparts at other YES Prep campuses, educators at North Central run the school day from 7:30 to 4:30, Monday through Friday, and hold sessions on certain Saturdays for community service and extra instruction.

«Competency - based education is a growing movement driven by educators and communities focused on ensuring that students have the knowledge they need to flourish in a global economy,» said Susan Patrick, chief executive officer of iNACOL, a nonprofit that runs the website CompetencyWorks.

«We run million - dollar schools, with hundreds of staff and thousands of students, parents, and community members.»

Give students ongoing projects — blogs to keep up, businesses to run, art portfolios to maintain, stories to write, community projects to be a part of.

By running their own recycling center at the school, students engage in direct action — digging through slimy trash bags and hauling mountains of cans and bottles — that further engages them in the school and the community.

«I had never seen poverty like that,» Dabrieo says of the community in which he was placed, admitting he often questioned his students for not doing their homework only to learn they had been working or that their families» generators ran out of oil.

While at the Ed School, she helped run a film workshop for teenagers in Boston, and through the student - created Learning Through Libraries program, taught children in one El Salvadoran community how to use cameras.

While students learn the nuts and bolts of conducting research, including ethics, authorship, the art of asking good research questions, software training, the writing of research proposals, and the conducting of blind peer reviews, they work for eight hours a week alongside a faculty member who is running a research project in the community.

As the dissenting opinion pointed out, this ruling likely also applies to state - run programs like tribal schools and Running Start, a popular program that allows high school students to take community college courses.

(This is a topic close to the students» hearts, because their parents have to line up to collect water in large pots, the community's only chance to get running water.)

The research is there, the examples of programs exists, and now we need people who get inspired by an idea and run with it in practice until all schools offer students the community to love reading, writing, and discussing all of their brilliant ideas.

A barbecue supper they organized drew some 125 adults to a meeting — part of an ambitious plan to open a student - run grocery store in their ailing and isolated heartland community.

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.

The 2012 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study, conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, found that after taking all grants and scholarships into account, attending one year of community college runs dependent students from low - income families more than $ 8,000 in tuition, fees, and living costs (see the green «Net price of attendance» bars in Figure 2).

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.

Previous shortlisted projects include a Dragons» Den style competition; a Global Maths Project; a project that raises awareness about food waste and sustainability while working with local businesses to provide free meals for school children; and a student - run newspaper which encourages everyone in the school community to think critically about the world around them.

Play spaces will typically involve combinations of: • Large areas of hard surfaces (for a range of ball games, rebound walls, etc.); • Smaller hard surfaced areas for hop - scotch, elastics and other small group games; • Large grassed area for running, ball games, athletics and other activities; • Play equipment for different aged students, catering for potentially large groups of students at any one time and providing a range of types of activities; • Small spaces with seating for individuals and small groups; • Smaller grassed areas for a variety of activities requiring intimate spaces; • Sand play areas, dirt, water and planting for creative activities; • Areas suitable for marbles, small cars and toys, digging, and play with loose materials and surfaces; • Areas for dramatic / role play which might include decks, cubbies and planting; • Shade and shelter, drinking water and other utilities; • Shrubs and trees for hiding, shelter, imaginative games; • Tables and seats for a range of group activities; • Gathering spaces for assemblies, performances and community activities; and, • Quiet spaces as well as busy spaces.

This is a significant sum, but the Harlem Children's Zone, a much - admired model for Community Schools, runs its two Promise Academy schools and the related network of community services on an annual budget of $ 100 million (see «How Family Background Influences Student Achievement,» features, SpriCommunity Schools, runs its two Promise Academy schools and the related network of community services on an annual budget of $ 100 million (see «How Family Background Influences Student Achievement,» features, Spricommunity services on an annual budget of $ 100 million (see «How Family Background Influences Student Achievement,» features, Spring 2016).

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it, but at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School in Washington D.C., chef Lisa Dobbs runs a food program that has young students relishing broccoli, tilapia encrusted with panko, boureks with beef or vegetables, and other foods not commonly embraced by kids.

Meddling state officials run the other school district, where textbooks are scarce, students learn little, and staff morale is low, frustrating the local community and leaving the school system in a never - ending cycle of failure.

She teaches 7th / 8th grade students and serves her school community in leadership roles, including being part of the school climate committee and running an after - school mentoring program.

As it is, Quall said, the state's Running Start program, which allows high - school students to earn credit at community colleges, effectively transfers $ 20 million a year from public school districts to the colleges.

Ten students work with two artisan - teachers one full day each week running an in - school cafe serving students, teachers and parent community.

In the long run, these housing policies provide long - lasting benefits to the student, family, and greater community.

The components of HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL's physical education program shall include a variety of kinesthetic activities, including team, individual, and cooperative sports and physical activities, as well as aesthetic movement forms, such as state activities the HOPE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL provides, such as Hip Hop dance, cheerleading, indoor track, creative movement, basketball, tennis, T - Ball, flag football and Girls on The Run as well as, goals to increase physical activity for students to satisfy the Healthy Schools Act requirement.

UChicago Medicine's 2017 Community Benefit Report highlighted two programs run in partnership with the Charter Schools to improve students» health and well being.

State funds for driver's education are slated to dry up beginning this fall — and while the House proposed to keep funding this program that is run by local school districts, Senate leaders want to move the responsibility of providing students with driver's education to community colleges by 2016, and they have no plan in place yet to fund the measure.

Running from March 6 to 8, 2010, in San Antonio, Tex., the conference provides educators with valuable professional development essential to improving student achievement in their own schools, districts, and communities.

Clyde McBride, the director of career and technical education in Kayenta, Ariz., runs a powerhouse pre-veterinary-sciences program that gives Navajo students hands - on experience that propels them to college, prepares them for the workforce, and puts them at the center of supporting their communities.

Among them are the relatively new tribal compact schools, and Running Start or direct - funded vocational programs, which allow high - school students to take community - college classes.

Registration is now open and a calendar of events is available for the EDGE, a comprehensive summer youth program for students entering grades 6 - 9, run by Burnsville - Eagan - Savage School District 191 Community Education in partnership with Farmington, Lakeville and New Prague schools.

Pointing to LA Unified's soaring numbers of students living in poverty and learning English, Caputo - Pearl suggested, «If Broad and other billionaires want to ensure a great education for every child, they should invest half a billion dollars, and more, in an LAUSD foundation, run by the democratically elected school board, to fund sustainable neighborhood community schools that address the myriad educational and socio - economic needs of our students.»

I met with Principal Ellen Johnson in late October and she explained that one of her goals was to share news and information about the Fox Hill School community via a student run news team.