Sentences with phrase «urban planning work»

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She co-founded and is the chair of the African American Student Union at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, an organization that supports African - Americans working in architecture, real estate and urban planning.

You'll need a bachelor degree in urban and regional planning, but a degree in geography, architecture or engineering may work, too.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

For example, if you want to work for an international relief agency, you may be better suited acquiring a tangible skill such as nursing, urban planning or business administration than obtaining a master's degree in international development (of course, this varies depending on the organization).

I am hopeful that the lessons I can bring back from the travel can enhance the momentum and enthusiasm we're already creating with the Urban and Regional Food Charter project, which I see in many respects as a continuation of the work begun in 2012 and 2013 with the People's Food Plan.

Projects & campaigns Better Hospital Food Brexit Capital Growth Children's Health Fund Children's Food Campaign Food and Farming Policy Food co-ops Food co-ops toolkit Food Poverty Food Power Food Waste Good Food For London Growing Health Jellied Eel London Food Link Parents» Jury Planning Food Cities Real Bread Campaign Roots to work Save Our Antibiotics Sugar Smart UK Sustainable Fish Cities Sustainable Food Sustainable Food Cities The Big Dig Urban Food Fortnight

Previously, Karen worked at the intersection of urban planning and public health on local food access initiatives.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

City officials contend that the 75 other SURA employees — who work in the departments of law, neighborhood and business development, or planning and sustainability — are dedicated to urban renewal work.

The Bronx Council on the Arts, located at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse (at 149th Street), hosts three exhibitions through May 7: In the City: Memory, Places and Spaces, which includes works on migration and urban planning; Transmit - Transit: Hatuey Ramos - Fermin @ The Project Room, featuring traveling in the city and ethnic diversity; and Impractical Hats: Indie Crafts Reinvent Everyday Gear, featuring construction of hats in unorthodox ways.

The researchers are continuing to work with Urban Peak, and plan to deploy the tool to optimize intervention group strategies for homeless youth in Denver in fall 2018.

Whether students plan to do research at universities or work in the private sector or public institutions, Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University offers a leading and international oriented academic education focused on mobilities - one of few in fact.

As principal - in - charge for urban planning, urban design, and campus planning, Ms. Scott Brown's work has included urban planning for South Street in Philadelphia, Miami Beach, and Memphis, Tennessee; programming for the National Museum of the American Indian; and, a plan for the Bouregreg Valley in Morocco.

Short periods with other companies in Belgium augmented his experience with urban and industrial wastewater treatment processes, fermentation processes, shift production planning and integrated Supply Chain, after which he worked for Henogen, Belgium from 2000 - 2006, where, as Head of Process Development, Business Development Director and Site Director, he further enhanced his skills and knowledge.

Whether you plan on implementing yoga at work temporarily during a high - stress time, or as an on - going perk for your employees, Urban Breath Yoga can easily meet your needs.

Prior to attending NCNM, Dr. Taylor received her bachelor's degree in 2007 from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and worked for several years in environmental and urban planning.

This blog is all about Maps (love) and the City (life): maps, art, photography, architecture, city vibes, expositions, urban planning, cartography, the works.

In New South Wales, GTANSW has worked with the Department of Planning and Environment to develop lesson plans for Year 7 and 8 students exploring urban and regional pPlanning and Environment to develop lesson plans for Year 7 and 8 students exploring urban and regional planningplanning.

Amongst our alumni, there are students who are thriving at graduate schools and receiving degrees in social work, public health, PhDs in academic disciplines, urban planning, etc..

The NEA also plans to work with the Community Teachers Institute, a privately funded organization whose goal is to recruit and retain teachers for urban school districts.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

In 2004, as a part of the SFUSD's Secondary School Redesign Initiative, the program was expanded to an all - afternoon, five - day - a-week schedule; two of those days are devoted to working with mentors from some of San Francisco's leading architecture, interior design, engineering, and contracting firms, along with certain city agencies involved in urban planning.

Because rural school communities vary widely, «generic» improvement plans designed for large urban districts usually do not work as well in rural settings, according to the authors of a new book on rural education programs.

The Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform — a Chicago - based group that works with schools and communities in nine cities — studied how Chicago, Milwaukee, and Seattle implemented instructional improvement plans between 2000 and 2003.

After 16 years of deploying thousands of motivated college liberal - arts graduates to work in the nation's urban and rural schools, Teach For America plans to launch an early - childhood - education initiative this coming fall.

While we aren't the first to tackle this work — NCTQ and the Urban Institute have also produced pension report cards — our report focuses on how well state pensions plans serve the unique needs of their teachers.

Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement Demonstrated volunteer or community service At least one (or more) of the following: o National Board Certificationo TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification) o Core Knowledge Experienceo Experience with Blended Learningo At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS: An Elementary School teacher is required to perform the following duties: Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction in the areas of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Health, and Mathematics based on state standards Participation in all TAP requirements, focusing on data - driven instruction Create inviting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem solving skills Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments Communicate regularly with parents Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent / teacher conferences Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, and after - school duties Preforms other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal Dress professionally and uphold all school policies

According to the Urban Institute's pension report card, 24 state teacher plans received an F on encouraging work at older ages.

In one planning session, you can easily find educators from rural, urban and even online schools working together.

The program principals were also more likely than a national sample to say they planned to stay in the job, despite the fact that they tend to work in more challenging urban schools serving more low - income and minority students.

have more positive attitudes about the principalship and are more likely to plan to stay in the job, despite working in more challenging urban environments;

In addition to recruiting and training teachers for charter and urban school districts, Teach for America — Connecticut Chapter has been working behind the scenes on Malloy's plan and in support of the state's efforts to take over the Bridgeport and Windham school systems.

Consider the Winnetka Plan in the 1920s, which individualized instruction; the Project Activity Method in the 1930s, which had small groups of students work together; the growth of gifted education; the mandate for special education since the 1970s; the spread of English language learning efforts in recent decades; and the contemporary «everyone goes to college» movement in urban schools.

In «Betsy DeVos» Holy War,» Janet Reitman alleges that the nonprofit arts and mentoring programs I lead are a «pretense» for churches to «evangelize» in public schools; and that somehow my association with the DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative proves that Mrs. DeVos» supposedly decades - long master plan to undermine public education was working even before her appointment as Education Secretary.

Gifted E525: Blending Gifted Education and School Reform (1994) E492: Career Planning for Gifted and Talented Youth (1990) E359: Developing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for the Gifted and Talented (1985) E485: Developing Leadership in Gifted Youth (1990) E514: Developing Learner Outcomes for Gifted Students (1992) E510: Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted Students (1991) E484: Fostering Academic Creativity in Gifted Students (1990) E493: Fostering the Post Secondary Aspirations of Gifted Urban Minority Students (1990) E427: Giftedness and Learning Disabilities (1985) E464: Meeting the Needs of Able Learners through Flexible Pacing (1989) E486: Mentor Relationships and Gifted Learners (1990) E483: Personal Computers Help Gifted Students Work Smart (1990) E494: Supporting Gifted Education Through Advocacy (1990) E478: Underachieving Gifted Students (1990)

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Jill L. Grant, a professor in urban planning at Dalhousie University, has interviewed plenty of suburbanites who would be happy to take transit to work if they could get a smooth ride with minimal transfers.

Urban Expositions plans to work with pet industry veterans to ensure the show responds to the changes taking place in the pet marketplace.

«The staff at Urban Animal Veterinary Hospital impressed me with their thoroughness, ability to listen, and work with you to develop a practical treatment plan.

Canberra is known as one of the world's greatest examples of urban planning and landscape architecture, thanks to the visionary work of Chicago - born designer Walter Burley Griffin.

I'm pulling together a group of artists Boulder County Colorado to plan and develop an urban - ish artists cohousing community with live / work spaces, a common house including community outreach / inreach such as gallery and performance space, teaching, etc..

Through Aug. 16, 2014 Mark Bradford at White Cube Hong Kong Known for his abstract, layered collage paintings, Los Angeles - based Mark Bradford is presenting «a series of new works about Hong Kong that explore structures of power and politics through the lens of urban planning, in the world's most densely populated city.»

Working from photographs, maps, and city plans, Weston Teruya makes work that depicts the evolution of urban environments.

But the one - time urban planning student is perhaps best known for a long - running work of social practice on the South Side of Chicago.

2015 Resilience Lab a 6 - month public program, with Cabot Institute, commissioned by Aldo Rinaldi and Tessa Fitzjohn, Bristol public art programme Alterations Studio, 2 - month public program, commissioned by PEER Gallery, London 2014 What Survives The Storm, performative consultation, Sceaux Gardens Estate, commissioned by South London Gallery Local 2013 yörük, temporary settlement and performance program, commissioned by Hackney WicKED Arts festival, London «What we are doing is groundbreaking», The Walworth Archive, re-enacting the Elephant and Castle master - plan as a series of public performances, commissioned by UCL Urban Lab and Elephant and Castle neighbourhood Forum 2012 Elasticity, performance and video works commissioned by The Wick Award, Hackney Wick, London 2008 - 2016 FreeSpace on - going project based on Wenlock Barn Estate London.

Gattegno and Johnson were the 2008 - 09 Muschenheim and Oberdick Fellows at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; the 2009 New York Prize Fellows at the Van Alen Institute, New York; and exhibited work at the 2009 Hong Kong and Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture.

Her focus on describing «place» stems from an interest in urban planning, architecture and anthropology, and has been fueled by time spent working and traveling in different landscapes.

In addition to his work as an artist he is active in many urban planning and rejuvenation programs in Chicago, seeking to integrate art and the daily lives of citizens.