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Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
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Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
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George Westrom, founder of Future Scientists and Engineers of America; Keith Brush, director of education at the Discovery Science Center; Joe Adams, president of the Discovery Science Center, and Raman Unnikrishnan, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Simon Somerville Laurie (1829–1909) was a Scottish educator. He became Bell Professor of Education at Edinburgh University in 1876. He campaigned energetically and successfully for better teacher training in Scotland...Laurie also wrote extensively on philosophy, giving the Gifford Lectures in 1905–6..Contents.. 1 Biography. 1.1 Early life. 1.2 Career. 1.3 Writings. 1.4 Awards and honours. 2 Family. 3 Works. 4 References. 5 Bibliography. 6 External links..Biography.Early life..Laurie was born on 13 November 1829 in Edinburgh, the oldest son of James Laurie and Jean Somerville. His father was a Presbyterian minister and chaplain to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. His mother was the daughter of a United Presbyterian church minister at Elgin, Simon Somerville...Laurie was educated at Edinburgh High School from 1839 to 1844. To help pay his own school fees, he was already teaching at age 11. He took an arts M.A. at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated at the early age of 19 in 1849. He then travelled for 5 years in England, Ireland and Europe, with private students...In 1855 he became secretary and visitor of schools for the Church of Scotland's education committee, which was then responsible for Scottish parish schools and for teacher training. Laurie held this role for 50 years, in which time he greatly improved the education of teachers in Scotland. He vigorously campaigned to have all teachers educated at university, with the teacher training colleges providing professional training only after that. It took until 1873 for the Scottish board of education to give the training colleges the right to send their best students, at least, to universities to gain full degrees. Laurie went further, campaigning to have day training colleges set up in England, and in 1890 he succeeded in this also, personally inaugurating the teacher training department of University College, Liverpool...In 1856 he became visitor and examiner for the Dick Bequest Trust. The trust distributed money to the best school teachers in northeast Scotland (Aberdeen, Banff, and Moray counties) according to Laurie's published reports. In 1868, the Merchant Company of Edinburgh and the Heriot Trust both invited Laurie to inspect their Edinburgh schools. The Merchant Company's schools were known as "hospitals" and were run in monastic style. His report was critical of these schools, observing that while a larger amount was spent on them than all the parish schools of Scotland, they were not providing adequate moral and intellectual education. Laurie recommended sending the boys to his alma mater, the Edinburgh High School, while a new high school should be opened for day girls. His recommendations were embodied in an 1869 Act of Parliament which abolished the monastic and alms-giving nature of the former "hospitals". In 1872, Laurie was appointed secretary to the royal commission on Scottish endowed schools. His reports for the commission led to the reorganisation of secondary schooling under Lord Moncrieff (1878) and Lord Balfour (1882–1889). In 1876, Laurie became the first Bell Professor of Education at the University of Edinburgh. In his first year there, he had 12 students; the number rose to 120 by the end of his tenure in 1903. He used the position to improve pedagogy in the whole of Britain, not only in Scotland. Also in 1876, he became honorary secretary of the Association for Promoting Secondary Education in Scotland, a voluntary campaigning organisation. It was dissolved in 1880 when it achieved its goal with the passing of the Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act 1878...In 1891, as president of the Teachers' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, Laurie gave evidence before a select parliamentary committee, arguing for the registration and organisation of all state school teachers to improve the quality of teaching. At the same time, he was strongly opposed to centralised bureaucratic control by the board of education, favouring freedom for local education authorities. He wrote widely on education and on philosophical topics. Josipa Petrunic describes his philosophical writings as "often nebulous and obscure", in contrast to his more practical work on education. Laurie resigned his chair in 1903, and retired from his work with the Dick Bequest in 1907. In 1905–6, he gave the Gifford Lectures in natural theology, in Edinburgh. He wrote up the lectures in Synthetica (1905-6), which "gave Laurie high rank among speculative writers". The French philosopher Georges Remacle translated and commented on Synthetica...On his retirement, Laurie's admirers presented him with the portrait oil painting by George Fiddes Watt (see illustration). The painting is now in the University of Edinburgh Fine Art Collection. Laurie was given honorary LL.D. degrees by the University of St Andrews in 1887, the University of Edinburgh in 1903, and the University of Aberdeen in 1906. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh...Laurie married Catherine Ann Hibburd in 1861; they had 4 children together, including the chemist Arthur Pillans Laurie (1861–1949) and the zoologist Malcolm Laurie (1866–1932), both of whom also became fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Catherine died in 1895. Laurie married Lucy Struthers, the daughter of Sir John Struthers, in 1901. He died on 2 March 1909 at his house 22 George Square, Edinburgh.
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
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June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Leave No Trace Trainer Liz Mahan joined Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Conservation Biologist Bill Hogseth and Wildlife Biologist Harvey Halvorsen as guest educators. Photo by Tina Shaw/USFWS.
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
WRIGHT, ADAM HENRY, educator, physician, and office holder; b. 6 April 1846 in Brampton, Upper Canada, son of Henry Wright and Sarah Jane Webb; m. 6 Jan. 1874 Flora Mary Anne Cumming in Trenton, Ont., and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 20 Aug. 1930 in Toronto.
Educated in private schools as a boy, Adam Wright began his long association with the University of Toronto when he attended University College in the 1860s. He was active in athletics, especially football, cricket, tennis, and hockey, and was involved as well in the militia. A lieutenant in the university company of the Queen’s Own Rifles, he participated in the action at Ridgeway against the Fenian raiders [see Alfred Booker*]. Upon graduation (ba 1866), he spent a number of years teaching high school in Trenton, where he also joined the local artillery battery.
Wright subsequently enrolled at the Toronto School of Medicine. The University of Toronto, which did not offer instruction in medicine at this time, acted only as an examining body, and in 1873 Wright received his mb. He was practising in Colborne – his mother’s home town in Northumberland County – when he married in 1874. With an eye to further qualification, he sailed for London, where he took a diploma course and in 1877 was made a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
After his return to Toronto, Wright, partly out of economic necessity, entered various sectors of the medical profession. He joined the staff of the Toronto School of Medicine in 1879, became an editor of the Canadian Journal of Medical Science at about the same time (and later of its successor, the Canadian Practitioner), was a surgeon at the Toronto General Hospital, and lectured on obstetrics from 1883 to 1886 at Woman’s Medical College, of which he was also a director [see Emily Howard Jennings*]. First elected as a senator of the University of Toronto in 1885, he joined its re-established faculty of medicine [see William Thomas Aikins*] as professor of obstetrics in 1887; the following year he earned his md.
During the time in the 1890s that Wright was an attending physician at the Burnside Lying-In Hospital, which was part of the TGH, conditions at this maternity hospital improved; the introduction of aseptic procedures during births, for instance, led to a decline in deaths. Though generally conventional in his obstetrical views and practices, Wright did help to advance obstetrics as a distinct field. His own rising status was evident in his election as president of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1890), the Toronto Clinical Society (1897), the Ontario Medical Association (1900), and the Canadian Medical Association (1909). At the University of Toronto he succeeded Uzziel Ogden* in the chair of obstetrics in 1903 and a year later published his Text-book of obstetrics (Toronto).
Politically, from 1905 Wright supported the Conservative administration in Ontario of James Pliny Whitney* because of its progressive policies on public health, hospitals, and reformatories. In January 1911 he was made chairman of the Provincial Board of Health. During his tenure, numerous reforms, many initiated by board secretary Dr John William Scott McCullough*, were instituted to improve the administrative structures of public health in Ontario. Among them was a series of amendments to the Public Health Act, especially those in 1912 that strengthened the authority and independence of local medical officers of health. In 1913 the board undertook, for the International Joint Commission [see Sir George Christie Gibbons*], an exhaustive examination of water quality along the Ontarian-American boundary. Of considerable importance too, in controlling disease, was the board’s approval in 1914 of McCullough’s plan to distribute diphtheria antitoxin at low cost, which led to a system of free distribution two years later.
In 1924, at the age of 78, Wright stepped down as chair when the board was disbanded on the formation of the provincial Department of Health. In retirement he continued his recreational interests – golf, fishing, lawn bowling, and curling – pursuits that reflected the athleticism of his student days. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and the Granite Club, of which he had been president in 1891. An Anglican, Wright died in 1930 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. He had been followed into medicine by his elder son, Arthur Baldwin.
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Lessons in penmanship.
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1862.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Peer Educators and Community Advocacy Groups (CAGS) give these slips to the communty so that when a woman presents herself at the clinic UNFPA can monitor the success of their work. The CAGS job is to talk to and engage the community about all aspects of Reproductive Health Issues, Family Planning, Child Health Issues, STD's etc.
Please include photo credits: Photo: Abbie Trayler-Smith
H4+ is a joint effort by UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, WHO and the World Bank, governments and civil societies of 36 countries with high burdens of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child mortality and morbidity. In each country, H4+, Ministry of Health officials and partners team up to address the reproductive maternal, newborn and child health issues and help coordinate support for national maternal and newborn health policies and plans. In 20 of 36 countries, Canada, Sida, France and Johnson & Johnson provided key funding to support this collaborative work. The H4+ serves as the lead technical partners for the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health and the subsequent Every Woman Every Child movement.
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1868.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Woodcut from The Popular Educator 1862.
A complete illustrated Encyclopaedia for Elementary, Advanced and Technical Education.
Published by Cassell, Petter & Galpin, London. Six volumes in three books, half leather and gilt binding with marbled covers and marbled endplates. Total 2500 pages 26cm x 19.5cm .
Nieves Flores, third from the right, a YMLG member, was a surveyor who later founded the Guam Institute (1922-1941) which was a private elementary and high school. Photo from the Sanchez collection courtesy of Don Farrell.
The annual Retiree Reception was held at 4:00 pm April 25 at the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts on Patterson Street. VLREA invited all teachers at the public schools in Valdosta, Lowndes and Echols counties and educators at VSU, GMC and Wiregrass. The reception is held to honor each of the local public educators who are retiring at the end of the school year or those who have retired during the present school year. The reception for retirees has been held since the early 1990s.
Nutrition educator Ana Rezendiz teaches parents to identify and prepare healthier food while their children with Type 2 diabetes learn how to calculate the sugar and calorie content of foods in an adjacent room. The innovative Pediatric Weight Maintenance ongoing program was designed for participants who have completed two-months of weekly, two-hour sessions through PowerPlayMD-OC program. This particular class was held in Spanish and the clinic works extensively with the Latino community, which has particularly high rates of obesity and diabetes.
In the past Type 2 diabetes was seen primarily in adults over age 40 and labelled adult-onset diabetes, but in recent years an increasing amount of children have been diagnosed with it. Unlike Type 1 diabetes, which is caused by genetics and requires insulin injections, Type 2 is primarily controlled by diet and physical activity. Learning to manage diabetes on a daily basis is critical to avoiding severe side effects such as organ failure, blindness, limb amputation and early death. One in every 4 children in Orange County is overweight, a near doubling over the last twenty years. Obesity affects at least 150,000 children in the county and is characterized as an epidemic across the U.S. by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Only 1% of children are meeting all of the dietary guidelines and the current youth is the most inactive generation in history. Childhood obesity contributes to asthma, menstrual irregularities, depression and low self-esteem.
June 2014 Scratch Educator Meetup
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