Sentences with phrase «true learning communities»

There's a lot to know about editing, and the forums in these professional organizations are true learning communities.

Or, true learning communities that have collective responsibility for ALL student learning.

Our programs give school leaders the tools they need to create true learning communities.

It's time to embrace the social technology of today and create a true learning community.

Perhaps most importantly, Ashton is an incredibly welcoming person who has helped transform the program into a true learning community.»

Open students, parents, and staff come together to build a true learning community where students learn through meaningful experiences.

Do groups in your organization regularly analyze data in a spirit of inquiry and function as a true learning community?

Not exact matches

What might we learn about true relationship and community if we asked questions like these of one another?

Our reliance upon friends and family during that breakup foreshadowed what we have since learned to be true: If we want a healthy marriage, we must stitch ourselves into a healthy community.

They are learning what it means to follow Jesus into the world, to experience true community with other believers, to read Scripture in a new light, and to serve others out of love rather than compulsion.

Many of the things I still believe in I first learned in that modest Baptist community of faith: that Jesus loves me and died on the cross for my sins; that the Bible is the totally true and trustworthy Word of God; that all human beings are made in the image of God and are infinitely precious in his sight.

At any rate, in obedience to the firm resolution of the community to uphold the Hadith as a foundation for faith and practice, the learned men did their best to establish principles of criticism and grades of authenticity to serve as a guide in accepting true traditions.

They were learning the true meaning of community.

WESTCHESTER & UPSTATE EF Academy International Boarding Schools 582 Columbus Ave., Thornwood, NY 10594 www.ef.edu/academy [phone] EF Academy prepares students not only for academic success, but also for true global citizenship through critical learning and unparalleled intercultural immersion in what amounts to a diverse United Nations - style high school community.

Without any direction or true motivation to learn and not wanting to get a job quite yet, I enrolled at a local community college, Cosumnes River College (CRC), simply out of inertia.

She started this community after she lost 100 pounds and learning the true meaning of health.

We show each student their unique and extraordinary purpose hidden within them and that through that power they can learn the secret of how to stand fully in their joy, passion, presence, community, and their true transcendent life purpose, both individually and in the world.

Ultimately, The Miracle Season mistakes an inspiring true story for one that needs or deserves to be told cinematically; it isn't awful, but it's not a film, it's a tribute, and unfortunately, one to the memory of a young woman who would be better honored by people actually «living like Line» than watching a formulaic, fictionalized retelling of her community learning what that means.

THE GIVER Starring: Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep Directed by: Phillip Noyce In a seemingly perfect community, one without war, pain, suffering, differences or choice, a young boy is chosen to learn from an elderly man about the true pain and pleasure of the «real» world.

True digital transformation will take place when organizations embrace the potential of social learning both in relation to «formally» designed and delivered content: Social elements embedded within digital content, and in its own right; informal problem solving, sharing, communities of practice, and user - generated content.

By fostering a community within our schools where authentic Arts Integration is taking place, we can meet and exceed expectations set by Common Core and move into a culture of true inquiry and learning.

Among those lessons learned are operationalizing adult learning / development and adaptive leadership by simultaneously attending to the personal and professional development of the people at all levels of the organization; creating and sustaining conditions and support mechanisms for effective teamwork and collaboration to occur; and redefining community engagement in ways that value families and communities and engage them as true and equal partners who possess funds of knowledge.

In its truest form, service learning connects deeply to the school curriculum, offering students unique opportunities to acquire new skills as they learn responsibility, experience satisfaction, and provide benefit to the wider community.

We feel it is a true privilege to serve the education community and work hard to ensure that we are providing teachers and leaders with relevant and timely professional learning.

A true service learning project, however, includes community service plus measurable learning.

That question reflects the issue of applicability and the answer is quite simple: The true value of developing a learning community comes from its ability to provide a structured opportunity to evolve and grow skill sets.

«The real impact of morning meeting is that classes [become] true communities, where we're learning from each other's strengths and we're helping each other.»

Topics of discussion include: • Creating, executing, and evaluating measureable goals and benchmarks to ensure TRUE college and career readiness • Scaling implementation of programs to assess student growth and close math learning gaps • Building teacher capacity through TRUE professional learning communities and collaborative internal support systems • Leading a district - wide mindset shift toward ensuring lifelong learning for both adults and students All school and district - based leaders, and K - 12 educators are invited to attend.

Alexandria, Va. (March 28, 2017)-- The National School Boards Association (NSBA) today announced the second phase of Stand Up 4 Public Schools, a national public education campaign that reveals the true teaching and learning in public schools and it provides a means for people to demonstrate support for their community - based schools.

At Silver Strong & Associates, we have helped over 400 schools around the country build Learning Clubs, along with other support structures that help transform schools into true professional learning commLearning Clubs, along with other support structures that help transform schools into true professional learning commlearning communities.

Great Hearts offers a true academic community with a faculty that celebrates pursuit of lifelong learning.

This holds true not only for traditional forms of professional learning — seminars, study groups, workshops, conferences, mentoring, coaching, and so on — but also for «new» forms that include face - to - face or online professional learning communities, teacher exchanges, bug - in - the - ear coaching, data teams, individualized improvement plans, and unconferences.

Today, for example, all of the community - building we did was stimulating, yet the debriefing and reflection we did afterward was perhaps even more valuable because it was where we did the highest - level thinking and created true knowledge and true learning.

It was through 20 teachers out of 33 choosing a pathway toward Accomplished Teaching that transformed individual efforts into a collective group's shared vision... a true Professional Learning Community.

At Dublin, parents, students, teachers, staff members and community members all share in the responsibility of creating an environment that is conducive to learning and one which helps everyone to discover their true talents.

They are a true inspiration in the learning community.

The crowd learned the steps Litton has taken to become a strong neighborhood school that's a true asset to the community.

As I wrote about earlier, in true professional learning communities teachers work interdependently - that is key to this working (as witnessed at Cherokee Heights) and despite Jan's efforts, this was not happening yet at her school.

Finally, we know the key to helping more students to achieve at higher levels — building the capacity of educators to work as members of true professional learning communities.

They need to know the research about learning being a social endeavor and know how to create the kind of classroom that incorporates that research, the kind of classroom that is a true community of readers, writers, and thinkers.

A board that is made up of the true stakeholders of the Philadelphia schools — the parents who volunteer to fill budget gaps, the students, educators and school staff who teach, work and learn in our schools every day, and the community leaders who have supported their neighborhood schools for decades.

Building a true professional learning community is the most promising strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement.

True to its name, The Motley Fool is made up of a motley assortment of writers and analysts, each with a unique perspective; sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree, but we all believe in the power of learning from each other through our Foolish community.

In two decades of scholarly and community - based learning, observation, and participation, I have come to realize that it is the Indigenous peoples who are the true stewards of global biocultural heritage.