Children Achieving: Philadelphia\u27s Education Reform, Year Two Report

Children Achieving Progress Report Series 1996-1997. In February 1995, The Annenberg Foundation designated Philadelphia as one of a small number of American cities to receive a five-year $50 million Annenberg Challenge grant to improve public education. CPRE and its partners, Research for Action and OMG Center for Collaborative Learning, conducted a four-year evaluation of Philadelphia\u27s Children Achieveing initiative, funded by the Annenberg Challenge grant. This summary describes finding from Year 2

Inroads to Technology: Evening the Playing Field for the 21st Century - PRAG Publication

Community access to technology has become a critical issue in the discussion of sustainable community development and the economic viability of communities in the 21st century. The Policy Research Action Group (PRAG), a now-retired portion of CURL, established the Community Access to Technology Working Group to explore community access and training with regards to technology in the context of universal access within the city of Chicago. Additionally, the group sought to find out how technology resources are distributed in Chicago with particular emphasis on access at community centers, schools and libraries. The group\u27s final report outlines the numbers and findings of the availability of technology across the city

Gendering the careers of young professionals: some early findings from a longitudinal study. in Organizing/theorizing: developments in organization theory and practice

Wonders whether companies actually have employees best interests at heart across physical, mental and spiritual spheres. Posits that most organizations ignore their workforce – not even, in many cases, describing workers as assets! Describes many studies to back up this claim in theis work based on the 2002 Employment Research Unit Annual Conference, in Cardiff, Wales

Elements of High-Quality Differentiated Instruction

As part of the Connecting for Success evaluation funded by Hawaii Community Foundation, Learning for Action developed a framework for assessing the quality of student differentiated instruction in middles schools based on a literature search of evidence-based practices

ELaRA Conference - Techniques and Technologies to Support Sustainable Education in the Academic Sphere

This research event seeks to encourage a critical dialogue between students, academics and researchers. We aim to promote the student voice within the context of sustainability with a student-centered approach. We also intend to popularise, inspire and share best practices with the purpose of questioning and exploring how to further enhance the learning, teaching and research experience of academics, researchers and students in a digital environment. The event aims to offer a creative space vibrant with participants’ voices debating over innovation and change, thus building a bridge between past achievements, knowledge and expertise, on the one hand, and further investigation, on the other. It is strongly believed that by drawing attention to key educational and pedagogical issues, this academic event will undoubtedly inspire each one of the participants with a clearer vision of the future developments in their respective professional and scientific fields. We are also convinced that the forum will be successful in comunicating its message to wider audiences, thus generating stronger public interest by presenting an attractive image of modern science and education, empowered by the innovative technologies as an indispensable part of the teaching, learning and research process in the shared European educational space. The conference “Technologies and Techniques to Support Sustainable Education in the Academic Sphere” is an annual pedagogical forum dedicated to discussing a wide range of contemporary methods, methodologies and teaching practices in higher education, the related information and communication technologies, as well as the pedagogical techniques employed by academics in higher education. The event is open to all educators from technical and humanities higher education institutions who are willing to share their scholarly work and experience arising out of the applied and theoretical research in the field of higher education pedagogy. The special focus of this year’s edition will be on encouraging reflection on the teaching experience gained in a digital environment, the implementation of best practices, as well as on proposing solutions to their sustainable integration, leading to the development of pedagogical and methodological models interrelated with technology as an essential part of the pedagogical interaction in the 21st century

Service Opportunity at The Learning Garden

In honor of the Health Now theme of The 2012 Bellarmine Forum, the Center for Service and Action partnered with the Learning Garden located at Venice High School for a service opportunity. The Learning Garden is a model example of how school gardens can transform the lives of students and teachers and the environment of their community. For several years, many groups worked with the high school horticulture program to transform the 60,000 square foot plot of land into a garden, but due to lack of stronger community support it remained mostly an eyesore filled with trash, overgrown with weeds, and a magnet for vandalism. Today, the agricultural plots are filled with organic food grown by the high school students. Health-related classes such as tai chi, qigong, and natural food cooking are offered on its large stone patio. The garden has a large medicinal plant section for educational purposes, a pond with a water garden and waterfall, and a California native plant and cacti garden. A community garden is tended by local volunteers, and numerous groups and organizations use and support the garden. Join a group of LMU companions and volunteer in the learning garden to help honor the health of our community. The school is located at the cross-section of Walgrove and Venice Blvd. The official address is 13000 Venice Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90066. For more information about The Learning Garden, please visit http://www.thelearninggarden.org. Attendees were asked to bring their own pair of gardening gloves, sack lunch and reusable water bottle. We moved compost, mulched and helped with various tasks that needed to be done in order to help this community garden thrive. There was no minimum age requirement and children were welcome. There were a few simple rules: stay in the pathways, don\u27t pick fruit or veggies you did not grow and no running. There is a 40 person maximum attendance for this volunteer event

The NHS Myth, monster or service? Action learning in hospital

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