All of the candidates have said they support the key components of Superintendent Kriner Cash's agenda,
such as community schools, lower class sizes and a focus on early literacy.
Large - scale initiatives,
such as the community schools movement, are also designed to increase disadvantaged families» involvement in school by making the school a hub of social services for the neighborhood.
Her research reflects urban school reform initiatives
such as the community school model, democratic community engagement, culturally relevant family engagement, and the intersection of housing and educational policy, particularly as it impacts vulnerable families.
If the district data shows that a particular neighborhood is struggling with high levels of chronic absence, perhaps the work can be aligned with existing community resources targeting the same geographic area,
such as a community schools or neighborhood revitalization effort.
The grant program will fund successful strategies,
such as community schools, which align support services including health and mental health providers to remove barriers to learning and address the underlying causes of chronic absence and trauma.
The press conference highlighted the crisis LA public schools face, the causes, and community solutions
such as community schools, increasing revenues and per pupil spending, and utilizing the contract bargaining process to win victories for the entire school community.
Not exact matches
The MDR division of Dun & Bradstreet works to help companies engage with the best educators for their brands through online
communities such as WeAreTeachers, WeAreParents, EdNET, and
School Leaders Now.
The team had a small prototype, but they said they wanted to see IMU installed in
community spaces
such as school lobbies.
It's a responsibility McCain takes seriously, investing in programs
such as school breakfasts, Christmas toy drives and other supports for families who live in McCain
communities.
«FedEx views assault rifles and large capacity magazines
as an inherent potential danger to
schools, workplaces, and
communities when
such weapons are misused.
Our expert guest authors include individuals like Molly Greenberg — the
community content manager for MBA@UNC, UNC Kenan - Flagler Business
School's online MBA program — who offers tips on topics
such as company culture.
Building better
communities Better
communities come when governments work together to fund infrastructures
such as roads, water,
schools and transit that are the framework for a
community's Quality of Life.
Take more budget - friendly education options into consideration,
such as community colleges and state
schools, opt for night classes at a local university, or enroll in online programs to further your education without spending a lot of money.
Do you actively make contact with your local universities (
such as at back to
school fairs or
community events)?
Schools such as these,
as well
as the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, were founded on the basis of a
community of Masters and students who lived, worked, ate and prayed together.
Private
schools, charter
schools, voucher programs and other
school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives
such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor
communities with even poorer - performing public
schools.
He develops five characteristics of
such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness,
as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the
school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being «with the poor and against poverty»; and
community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.
If you look up Marcus Borg — the principal source of information for this article — you will find that he is a leading member of the so - called Jesus Seminar that is not only been criticized within the Christian
community, but also by scholars close to the Jesus Seminar
such as Harvey Cox of the Harvard Divinity
School.
Many persons who are not likely to join groups in churches and
schools may do so if they're made available in family counseling agencies» mental health services, youth organizations, business and industry, fraternal groups, self - help groups (
such as A.A., P.W.P., Alanon, etc.), and in the many organizations devoted to special needs of the handicapped, ex-prisoners, ex-patients, unwed parents, minority groups of all kinds, senior citizens,
community action groups, ethnic organizations.
Plain persons are those characterized by everyday practices
such as sustaining families,
schools, and local forms of political
community.
It deals with
such specific issues
as school dropouts, the
community school issues, unemployment, and
community organizations.
Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, may have surprised many by repeatedly calling for the teaching in
schools of authors
such as Chaucer, Dryden and Pope but his suggestion deserves a response from the Catholic
community, for each of these great writers was a Catholic and each of them is horribly neglected even in Catholic
schools today.
Theological
schools with this sort of ethos have tended to be especially comfortable associating with or being an organic part of other types of academic
communities such as undergraduate colleges, graduate centers, and universities.
In the interest of following the recommendation that any
such effort ought to be kept
as concrete
as possible, it would be important and fruitful to ask whether there is some one dominant assumption within the
school as a
community about (a) how the Christian thing is best construed and (b) how one best goes about «understanding» God.
Such schools see themselves
as modern embodiments of medieval Cathedral
schools or monastic
schools which were, unambiguously, ecclesiastically ordered
communities.
These services in Indianapolis may include the
Community Mental Health Center, the family courts, the juvenile courts, the Suicide Prevention Center, child guidance centers, senior citizens programs, rehabilitative workshops
such as the Goodwill Industries,
schools for the blind or deaf, recreation and tutoring, housing and employment projects.
The company supports
community organizations
such as high
school sporting teams and the 4 - H Club, and maintains a presence at
community events including county fairs.
To be a strong
community member, Tully's is active in many causes,
such as sponsoring local
schools or participating in cancer awareness events.
Each location hosts what the company refers to
as Community Impact fundraising nights once to twice a week, during which roughly 5 to 10 percent of gross sales are donated to a community organization such as a church, school or person
Community Impact fundraising nights once to twice a week, during which roughly 5 to 10 percent of gross sales are donated to a
community organization such as a church, school or person
community organization
such as a church,
school or person in need.
I know and appreciate that Fair Trade has done many worthwhile and wonderful things for coffee growing cooperative
communities, including invaluable projects
such as schools and clinics.
Through it, we donate all of our funds to our partner
communities for our charitable works
such as building
schools, living spaces, clean food preparation areas and sanitary bathrooms.
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.
This entails several visits each week to the family and any other significant members of the
community,
such as grandparents or neighbours who may take a child to
school.
School violence is an opportunity to engage your teen in discussions about larger topics, such as the role of a community in episodes of school violence and factors that lead someone to act viol
School violence is an opportunity to engage your teen in discussions about larger topics,
such as the role of a
community in episodes of
school violence and factors that lead someone to act viol
school violence and factors that lead someone to act violently.
While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high
school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their
communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering
such topics
as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.
«Kids are likely to see the divorce
as a huge upheaval in their lives if the divorce brings additional unwanted changes,
such as changing
schools, moving away from a parent to another state and leaving friends and familiar
community,» says Dr. Richard A. Warshak, a psychologist and the author of Divorce Poison.
Virginia Hunger Solutions works to increase participation in
school breakfast programs throughout the Commonwealth by promoting alternative breakfast delivery models,
such as Breakfast in the Classroom, and innovative public policies,
such as the
Community Eligibility Provision (CEP).
Unfortunately, they are doing so without any input from the
community, an attitude that activists
such as myself, along with Andrea Northup of the D.C. Farm to
School Network, and Tara Flakker of Parents for Better D.C.
School Food, would like to see changed.
Bottled water is especially common in public and
community settings
such as offices and
schools.
Organizations
such as the American Red Cross offer courses in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in local places like
schools, hospitals, and
community centers.
Mindfulness has the capability to change the trajectory of individual lives, and — when being taught on a
community level,
such as through
school — has the potential for changing whole generations in a
community.
School dietitians in
communities such as Elgin, Lincolnshire, Park Ridge and Westchester are having some success selling modern foods, finding they can turn a profit by not turning students» stomachs.
The simplest approach to funding - direct funding by your municipality, a government agency, or by the state (e.g., state department of public health,
school department budget), or through a government grant - may be all that is needed, particularly if you are seeking to start a
Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire community, or a significant segment, such as the public
Community Access Defibrillation Program (CAD) serving your entire
community, or a significant segment, such as the public
community, or a significant segment,
such as the public
schools.
This might include reading a chapter from a book to prepare for the class discussion the next day, or interviewing a
community member for a
school project, or collecting real data,
such as water samples from a local source for a science lab.
Through working with partners and collaborators
such as Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Northwest
Community Healthcare, Arlington Heights Park District Parks Foundation, Wheeling
Community Consolidated
School District # 21, Prospect Heights
School District # 23, Arlington Heights
School District # 25, Village of Arlington Heights and the Arlington Heights Chamber of Commerce Wellness Committee, the process creates analysis, and then moves to creating strategic concepts for improvement, future modeling and surveillance of outcomes over time.
Healthy
Schools BC Regional Grants aim to build regional capacity amongst health, education and
community partners to collaboratively work through new approaches and designs for learning (
such as the Healthy
Schools BC Learning Framework, Spiral of Inquiry and innovative prototyping) for district / group - level initiatives that are directly related to mental well - being.
But I realised that by home educating them and going to different groups within the home education
community they will gain more than even a private
school can provide,
such as more knowledge of the world.
Her treatment approach focuses intervention in the natural setting
such as home,
community and
school to promote speech generalization.
The Chef Instructors held a «Train the Trainer» session for the current cohort of
school Garden Educators, teaching them how to implement the Chefs in the Garden curriculum
as well
as teach others,
such as teachers or
community volunteers, to conduct the lessons.
For example, the
School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the comm
School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public
schools, and soon learned that
such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within
school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the comm
school districts
as well
as increasing food literacy throughout the
community.