Sentences with phrase «support civic learning»

This Education Trends report provides an overview of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and outlines how ESSA strengthens opportunities for states to expand and support civic learning and engagement.

Supporting civic learning through federal competitive grant opportunities to fund innovation; research; and dissemination of model programs and best practices, especially for low - income schools and disadvantaged students.

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«We're proud of our history of supporting civic engagement and election volunteerism and look forward to sharing best practices and learning from others to foster a more active electorate.»

Over the last year, I've written on a variety of educational topics, exploring ideas to increase civic learning, support teen mothers, rethink teacher licensure, foster professional collaboration, and ensure undocumented students» access to college.

The purpose of this grant is to build a community of scholars, based at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) but reaching out across the broader Harvard community, that will support the development of a highly select group of Early Career Scholars, stimulate significant work in the field of civic learning and action, and establish a major site for developing and disseminating empirical and theoretical work in these areas to the worldwide research community.

When popular media are used as a springboard for learning, she adds, formal education becomes a bridge for youth «from the often insular and entertainment - focused digital culture of the home to a wider, broader range of cultural and civic experiences that support their intellectual, cultural, social and emotional development.»

Welcome to a new teaching and learning media hub for students and educators alike, where amplifying youth voice and making media support civic engagement and real - world media literacy.

The Colorado Education Initiative and its coalition partners imagine a future where education is designed to: help students develop the academic, professional, entrepreneurial, personal, and civic competencies that a modern society and economy demand; support educators in creating learning environments designed to maximize these outcomes for students; and promote systems that support and incentivize educators in this effort.

A broad array of groups — including advocates for parents, students, teachers, administrators, and school boards, as well as business and civic organizations — agree: Michigan needs a more systematic way to support improvement of teaching and learning.

Whole Child Education Whole Child Education is a partnership of 22 national education, health, arts, and civic organizations committed to a whole child approach to education wherein educators, schools, parents, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure students are healthy, safe, engaged in learning, supported by caring adults, and challenged by a well - balanced curriculum.

Teaching and learning (intentional social, emotional, and civic learning; support for learning; professional development offerings for teachers and administrators).

Students from the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning got a lesson in civics today as they testified at NYC City Hall in support of a resolution calling for school uniforms saying, «We do support wearing school uniforms.

Although the FY11 budget request includes a $ 38.9 million increase in funding to support teaching and learning in the arts, history, civics, foreign languages, geography, and economics, the administration proposes to combine eight subject - specific grant programs into a single competitive grant program.

The study, made possible by a gift from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation, found that teachers who participated in a Facing History seminar and received coaching and support showed significantly greater self - efficacy for creating engaging classrooms and promoting academic skills and civic learning than control group teachers.

Interactive Resources for Students www.FloridaStudents.org includes hundreds of interactive resources to support student learning in language arts, mathematics, science and civics.

«Maker - centered learning supports a deeper conceptual understanding, so we really appreciate the power of maker - centered learning and hands - on learning when it comes to understanding mathematical ideas, or a scientific idea, or understanding civics and how the world around us works.»

The California Performance Assessment Collaborative (CPAC) is launching an official state pilot where participants have opportunities to learn from one another and deepen practice; find common ground despite discrete approaches to performance assessment; engage in research and documentation of various practices; and ultimately, inform state policymakers about the supports and conditions needed to broadly implement high - quality graduation performance assessments that can serve as a viable alternative to traditional measures of college, career, and civic readiness.

This website is being developed by the CPALMS team at Florida State University in partnership and funding from the FL Department of Education to provide students access to learning resources from all over the web and original tutorials to support learning in language arts, mathematics, science, and civics.

They called, too, for a critical approach to technology, one that is focused on promoting effective student learning and supported by a variety of civic practices using technology.

To meet the challenges of both program provision and individual participation, we must make universal parenting education — and the social - emotional learning at its core — standard policy, supported throughout all sectors of society: public, private and civic.

The programs teach essential life skills to support character development, social - emotional learning and civic values.

e3 Civic High (CA) This district - and community - supported early college high school, located in San Diego's new downtown public library, has an intentional civics, service, and internship focus aimed at developing deeper learning, ownership, and inquiry - based thinking skills.

... to cultivate the potential in every student to thrive as a global citizen by inspiring a love of learning and civic engagement, by challenging and supporting every student to achieve academic excellence, and by embracing the full richness and diversity of our community.

Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link this learning and interest to academic achievement, career success or civic engagement.

To prepare young people for online civic participation, A publicly supported virtual laboratory of democracy should be created that enables young people to become socialized to an online civic society and to learn how to act — in a civic manner — upon issues of importance to them and the larger society.

More than half of the students said they still rely on word of mouth from their friends to learn about new products or positive reviews of brands, and more than 70 % of the students said they were more likely to buy a product from a company that supports charity, demonstrating the civic - mindedness and greater purpose of these potential leaders.

These CBOs — rooted in communities in California, Florida, New Mexico, New York, and Virginia — demonstrated a commitment to youth development in their localities and a readiness to strengthen academic skills, enhance social emotional learning, develop leadership training and civic education in coordination with local and national COIN support teams.

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Identify and analyze policies and practices that support effective service - learning and civic education; 2).

More than 550,000 educators have been trained to implement the programs, which supports character development, social and emotional learning, civic values, violence and substance abuse prevention and service - learning.