Professional learning community

Society is a very prestigious program that rewards students for their service in their communities, leadership skills, citizenship, and character. Pennsylvania Virtual Charter School highlights these important qualities and I honored to be selected to apply for the society. I believe my morals, love of service, and leadership skills make me a strong candidate to the National Junior Honor Society. Community service is a rewarding activity that, sadly, not many teens and preteens participate in…

small community in Brooklyn, New York, covering 2.898 square miles, with an estimated population 9.3,877 (cenus bureau 2013). The community, Canarsie is the connection point to many neighborhoods and boroughs. Exit 13 off the belt parkway, is one of the main entry point into the community. Major public transportation in the community are, the L train, located on rockaway parkway and six connecting bus lines that transport thousands of people on a daily basis to other standing communities.…

emotional burden on a child, who must cope with the lack of material goods and sometimes even basic amenities. Albeit, Esperanza and I both aspire to escape poverty and move to a safer neighborhood, both of us have vowed to return and assist our communities…

Empowerment in regard to community settings is a shared movement to enhance the quality of life of individuals in a specific community. While organization empowerment, can be defined as systems that encourage member participation as well as reaching goals. The term empowerment is complex and develops over time, although it can deteriorate as well. On an organizational level, empowerment of individuals is developed from specific characteristics within the organization that foster feelings of…

When I was in middle school I was part of a church group called Pathfinders; and being a part meant that every holiday the group would do volunteer work for the community. Around thanksgiving we would collect food, walking door to door, and later give it to a local food kitchen. And around Christmas time there would be a toy collection for families in need. Having this past experience under my belt, it motivated me to volunteer my time with other students from Kean at the local food pantry.…

PROMPT #4: Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced. (349 words) My mother’s constantly failing businesses appeared only to be the start of our financial struggles. My family was evicted from our house and didn’t possess enough money to find a decent place to live. As a freshman, I attempted to escape my family’s financial problems by focusing on socializing with friends. I struggled in…

It promoted children to assist in their communities and create goals in order to accomplish what was necessary. “The major goal is to stimulate the students to take some definite follow-up actions as they begin to realize that one person can make a difference”(kidscanmakeadifference.org). In order…

Humans are defined as '' social animal '' because in every aspect of life they live together, they form groups and improve relations with each other. Interaction with others is a natural result of living in the community. In the process of interaction, community and social impact on the rules of each individual. If people face with a kind of social impact such as pressure groups, most of them demonstrate compliance with changing their behavior, ideas, and decisions in a way that is expected.…

the Night The first step to stop being seen as the Boogeyman who lurks in the night, is to stop lurking in the night. I would know, you see, since I too once was a boogeyman who lurked in the night. If you grew up, as many Boogeyman do, without learning our history you may not know why us who are no longer Boogeymen who lurk in the Night might not want to be seen the Boogeymen who lurk in the night. Let me explain it to you, for some reason we are considered scary, our fangs, our claws, and…

the social science community, theorist Barry Wellman focuses on an idea that there is three views of a community while studying what social systemic divisions affect organization and the primary social networks between people. The idea of this “the community question” and the degrees of social networking led Wellman to examine the three arguments, if a community is either: lost, saved, and/or liberated. According to Wellman, the first urban sociological response to the community question is…