Sentences with phrase «summer program efforts»

«We are delighted to receive the funds from State Senator Klein's generous grant to support our summer program efforts,» shared Maureen Fonseca, CEO, Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation (SASF).

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It's worth it for companies to put time and effort into developing a summer student program that benefits your business.

The buddy program, available from October through March, is part of Icelandair's efforts to make summer - heavy Icelandic tourism a year - round affair.

Under the combined efforts of the various groups mentioned, plus the activity of the National Council of Churches, these students flocked to summer training sessions to prepare themselves to participate in teaching programs, in health programs, and in demonstration programs wherever they were needed.

Last year, No Kid Hungry's efforts served 177 million free meals at 47,816 sites across the U.S. through the Summer Food Service Program and they hope to reach many more this year.

Last summer the American Heart Association conducted a workshop for the food managers of the 12 Chicago school districts under the AHA's Hearty School Lunch Program, a national effort to educate lunchroom staff in creating more healthful meals.

They combined efforts to create Summer University, a program that offers children from kindergarten through 8th grade both educational and recreational opportunities.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

«The Summer Food Service Program helps build on the Department's ongoing efforts to ensure that all students have healthy meals, not only when they're in school, but all year round.»

«Our efforts to work with every family one - on - one to find the right pre-K program for their child continues this summer,» said DOE Chancellor Carmen Farina.

Summer Reading focuses on fun activities and programs to encourage school - aged children to read during the summer months in an effort to advance their academic perforSummer Reading focuses on fun activities and programs to encourage school - aged children to read during the summer months in an effort to advance their academic perforsummer months in an effort to advance their academic performance.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul visited a summer meal site in Elmira Thursday to talk up state support for such efforts, but programs in rural areas, lilke Chemung County, still struggle with a big challenge.

Antonacci announced over the summer that he would attempt to take advantage of a pilot program for public funding of campaigns, but that effort ran aground after he failed to run the prerequisite $ 200,000 in small donations ($ 10 to $ 175) from 2,000 donors.

As part of that effort, he recently found that children from lower - income families responded much better to a summer reading program than children from a higher socioeconomic background.

For the past nine years at the Woodrow Wilson School, I have participated on the admissions committee, read and evaluated applications for admission to our Junior Summer Institute program and served on the selection committee for the Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship Programs, a collaborative effort between the United States Department of State and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

Targeting additional resources to early childhood education, extended day, summer programs, prudent class - size reduction, or enhanced accountability structures is likely to have a higher return in these communities than racial desegregation efforts.

In the final year of the project, we will use data from the experiments to scale - up the most cost - effective version of the READS program.The project has three phases: Phase 1 Validation, which includes testing READS in several districts including DPS and an effort to increase the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the program; Phase 2 Validation, which involves expansion into more districts and many more schools and testing the cumulative impact of READS across summers; and Phase 3 Scale - Up, which involves expansion into 20 more districts.

The two projects — part of a first - of - its - kind effort by the Appalachian Regional Commission — were among 16 youth - leadership programs to receive funding from the arc last summer.

New Commitments by More than 20 Colleges To Offer Advice to Students Navigating College Application: More than 20 colleges and universities are — along with efforts in other categories — taking actions to expand summer college preparation programs for low - income students; creating new relationships with high schools to provide advising about college and financial aid; and expanding opportunities for current college students to work in high schools and middle schools to help advise students on college options

In Houston this summer, Nina Shokraii Rees, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the Department of Education, renewed the DOE's pledge of support for the College Board's efforts to see that the AP program will «leave no child behind.»

Synopsis: As part of a larger compendium, Expanding Minds and Opportunities: Leveraging the Power of Afterschool and Summer Learning for Student Success, this AYPF publication outlines efforts made by afterschool programs to expose youth to the importance of college by taking

If resources are available to mount summer learning programs, educators need to dedicate extra effort to making students and their families aware of and excited about those programs.

In 2015, LightSail's SummerSail Reading Program provided at - risk middle school students with access to LightSail for seven weeks in an effort to combat «summer slide» — a phenomenon by which economically disadvantaged children rarely read during the summer as compared to their more advantaged peers.

The intensive six - week summer program for rising seventh, eighth, and ninth graders is a key component of Summerbridge's effort to ensure students are receiving academically rigorous instruction through middle school and upon entering their first year of high school.

The program proposed in my Executive Budget was targeted to the district to augment the district's summer school expansion efforts.

NCASE supports school - age care and summer learning programs by working with state - wide school - age networks and other community partners to expand learning opportunities for school - age children; identifying and promoting family engagement approaches; and coordinating with early childhood and school - age stakeholder groups and other federal programs to maximize effective service delivery models and minimize duplication of efforts.

Designed for organizations that want to support LATT's system - building efforts and improve the quality of their afterschool and summer programs through deeper enagement in the network.

Continued state support for LCFF and highimpact summer programs is key to the growth of such efforts and to improve outcomes for our students.

In the Memphis Daily News, New Leaders» Regional Executive Director Carol Johnson weighs in on a new effort to evaluate the educational impact of after - school and summer programming in Memphis.

Your gift supports the only city - wide effort designed to keep children reading over the summer months in the Super Reader Summer Reading Prsummer months in the Super Reader Summer Reading PrSummer Reading Program.

At www.wallacefoundation.org, the foundation maintains an online library about what it has learned, including knowledge from its current efforts aimed at: strengthening education leadership to improve student achievement, helping selected cities make good afterschool programs available to more children, expanding arts learning opportunities for children and teens, providing high - quality summer learning programs to disadvantaged children and enriching and expanding the school day in ways that benefit students, and helping arts organizations build their audiences.

White says her colleagues fear efforts like their summer reading program won't translate to paper when the district begins evaluations in the fall.

One vision is that afterschool and summer learning programs should be aligned with current education reform efforts — high - stakes testing, narrow accountability, and the Common Core State Standards that are directed at just two subjects.

More than half.That should mean that we could improve the problem by at least half by providing equal access to summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged students — and yet the creation of effective summer learning programs for lower - income students has not been a significant focus of literacy efforts in the U.S. Let's look at some of the latest facts on summer learning loss:

One of the most exciting recent developments in efforts to improve nutrition and health in afterschool and summer programs is the promulgation of a set of Standards for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity3 by the Healthy Out - of - School Time (HOST) Coalition, a national coalition of leading organizations in the fields of out - of - school time and health and nutrition.

Sarah has built support for high - quality summer learning programs through policy advocacy, research and writing and numerous media and communications efforts.

Program efforts address school readiness, summer learning loss, school attendance, and health and wellness.

It sounded like a nice idea when HUD announced a new FHA mortgage effort last summer: the short refinance program would help troubled homeowners get better rates and terms, including folks with credit scores of not more than 500.

Recently joining them in their efforts is Lincoln Park's Integrative Pet Care, which became a member of OCSA's Veterinary Outreach Program this summer.

Lollypop Farm puts a lot of effort into educating children through outreach and education programs, including Summer Camp!

Please keep in mind for hotel reward programs like Choice and Best Western who don't have set hotel categories and / or award charts, every effort was made to find the correct number of points for peak summer stays.

Simonetta seems sure that this new flexibility would be what sets this new self - publishing program apart from the company's previous effort, though they'll get a better idea when the creator's program launches in the summer: «We're just in preview at the moment with our Insiders but we are expanding it so we're going to learn when we do what people want to do and like.»

Summer Brenner discusses her community projects in Richmond that reveal how the Bay Area shifted and served the larger war effort of the 1940s, while Smith discusses her research into the SFMOMA Arts & Skills Service program.

5 Gyres lead students in citizen science and educational efforts during two Summer Camp Programs, reaching over 50 students directly and close to 600 people (parents, staff and the local community) indirectly.

A SEMA training workshop for community - based organizations in the summer of 2009 was an early effort to help «increase capacity of local landholders to engage in the PES - Carbon Program,» says Beto Borges, whose Communities and Markets program at Forest Trends was a co-orgProgram,» says Beto Borges, whose Communities and Markets program at Forest Trends was a co-orgprogram at Forest Trends was a co-organizer.

Please join DOT Art and Event Programming in our efforts to activate the Summer Streets event route, along Park Avenue and connecting streets, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park, with unique, family - friendly programming (public art, performances and activities) as part of the eleventh annual Summer StrProgramming in our efforts to activate the Summer Streets event route, along Park Avenue and connecting streets, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Central Park, with unique, family - friendly programming (public art, performances and activities) as part of the eleventh annual Summer Strprogramming (public art, performances and activities) as part of the eleventh annual Summer Streets event.

Another bright idea: if the city could connect the Summer Night Lights program to its five - year effort to retrofit 140,000 of its residential street lamps with energy efficient LED lamps, it might save even more money while cutting crime.

A few simple steps can help firms build on the positive relationships created by summer mentoring programs to improve recruiting and retention efforts:

Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20

It's not alone in its pro bono efforts: other firms including Arnold & Porter, Paul Hastings and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, offer programs that allow summer associates to split their time between firm and public interest.