Sentences with phrase «academic directors work»

Academic Directors work in educational organizations and are responsible for academic leadership and administrative tasks.

SchoolTutoring Academy's Academic Directors work with each student to develop a personalized learning plan for their individual academic needs.

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Since entering the field in 1996, Dr. Sellwood has garnered a diverse professional background that includes working as an elementary and middle school counselor, college and regional center disabilities specialist, executive director of a non-profit organization in psychology, consulting psychologist at hospitals and in - patient medical facilities, and an academic Professor of Psychology at several graduate schools.

So, how can we broaden access and participation, while ensuring artists, musicians, directors, academics and other cultural producers are adequately compensated for their work?

Supporters The Labour MP Jon Cruddas; Jonathan Rutherford, academic and chair of the Compass Good Society working group; Neal Lawson, chair of Compass; and Madeleine Bunting, Guardian columnist and former Demos director.

But unlike other professions where work is often restricted to business hours, «lab sciences can be 24/7,» says Cathy Trower, research director of Harvard University's Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education.

Charles Greer, director of the neuroscience graduate program at Yale University, urged neuroscientists interested in academic work to widen their sights to include smaller universities and liberal arts colleges.

«There's really been an explosion of assistive technology that has changed young scientists» academic experiences and makes possible work experiences that might not have been possible 20 years ago,» says Virginia Stern, director of AAAS's Project on Science, Technology and Disability in Washington, D.C. (AAAS is the parent organization of Science Careers.)

Daniel Otzen is CureND's director, and says the program works because «companies don't want to just bankroll academic research but want genuine partnerships.»

According to Dawna Levenson, associate director for academic programs, MIT's program was originally intended to help women re-enter the work force after child - rearing, but the focus of the program has become broader.

This idea, which goes by the name of functional - trait ecology, had been part of his lab work for years but had always felt academic and abstract, says Duffy, now director of the Smithsonian Institution's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network in Washington DC.

As inaugural director of the Transplantation Institute, Fung will work with faculty from multiple academic departments to grow UChicago Medicine's programs in solid organ transplantation.

Simultaneously to this academic activity, Professor Velarde continued his work as researcher of the JEN where he was appointed Director of Advanced Technology in 1974.

Currently she has a private practice as a psycho - physiological practitioner (depth psychology) and continues to work as the Dean and Academic Director of the Justisse College.

Each year, this select group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics and students of varying ages and backgrounds watches over 250 films and participates in illuminating discussions with directors, actors, producers and screenwriters before announcing their selections for the best work of the year in early December prior to an annual ceremony in January.

Perhaps due to the choices to cover older works, they're more able than ever to produce intelligent, thoughtful, and informative criticism — while this article maligns their production value as no better than «the average Youtube video,» editing a video review to provide context via clips of the film is a step beyond what the vast majority of populist or even academic film criticism has done in the past, let alone other related films in the genre and in the director's oeuvre for context.

His career includes roles as Chief Learning Officer at Reuters and Thomson Reuters, Consultant with global companies working at the forefront of the «new learning and performance» world, Director of Strategic Technology for the transactions division of Dow Jones Markets, and several academic positions, including that of Professor at Southampton Business School and the Director of CECOMM.

«Alyssa Chan exemplifies well the qualities that distinguish students and graduates of the International Education Policy Program: a strong commitment to expanding educational opportunity for the most disadvantaged children around the world, an extraordinary ethic of hard work and rigorous pursuit of academic excellence, and an understanding of leadership as service to others,» says Professor Fernando Reimers, director of IEP.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Prior to joining the team, Dan worked in district and charter schools for 17 years, first as a high school English teacher and later as a Director of Academics in middle and elementary schools.

«Today, the White House Summit validates the hard work of school board members, students, parents and educators in Rochester City and Hillsborough County, and other districts that have played a leading role in using technology to strengthen the high school academic experience,» stated Thomas J. Gentzel, Executive Director, National School Boards Association (NSBA).

Prior to working at California Tomorrow, Brian spent seven years as the Director of Black Student Programs providing academic advising, advocacy, and support for Black, Latino, Asian Pacific American, first - generation, and low - income students at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga.

As the Executive Director of High Schools for Edison Schools and the Chief Academic Officer for Great Schools Workshop in Sacramento, CA, Patrick worked with building and district administrations in nine states to implement systemic high school reform.

Ken Futernick, Director of the WestEd School Turnaround Center, a research organization, and a former professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, told the court that such factors as ill - prepared teachers, poor working conditions in the school and high turnover among teachers and administrators make it difficult to attract and retain effective teachers, thus adversely affecting academic achievement.

Pro-voucher groups aren't trying to fight accountability, but are working to make sure that an equitable process is developed to measure the success of school choice programs in improving academic achievement, says Jim Bender, executive director of School Choice Wisconsin.

David Cofer, Human Resources Director of Jubilee Academic Center, has worked closely with Texas Teachers to recruit -LSB-...]

Working with Memphis Scholars, Josh Czupryk served as Managing Director of Academics during The Broad Residency.

«KIPP Philadelphia has a proven record of working with some of Philadelphia's most vulnerable populations and achieving academic success through strong leadership,» said Mark Gleason, Executive Director of the Philadelphia School Partnership.

Instead, instruction should prepare students to apply their knowledge in real - world situations, said Kent Pekel, executive director of the University of Minnesota's Consortium for Postsecondary Academic Success, which has worked on Minnesota's standards.

Build smooth and efficient working relations that positively impact academics; work closely and efficiently with the school director, the school leadership team, and Ascend Learning staff to ensure student success

Before she joined Flamboyan Foundation, Neeltje worked as Executive Director of the University of Puerto Rico Press, where she supervised the publishing, sales and marketing initiatives of this prestigious academic publisher.

«Since we began our work in 2010, we've witnessed educators and parents build trusting relationships and effectively work together to accelerate academic achievement for kids through Family Engagement Partnerships,» said Susan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Flamboyan Foundation in Washington, DC.

On February 13, 2014, long before the Clark School Turnaround Committee had even begun the extensive process of assessing what would be the best solution to improve academic performance at their school, Andrew Ferguson and Oliver Barton, a Portfolio Director for the Hartford Board of Education, were already working on how best to insert Friendship Charter Schools successfully into the final plan.

Over the years in my capacity as The Graduate Institute's Academic Director for the Master of Arts in Learning and Thinking degree program, I have had the fortunate experience of working with hundreds of Connecticut educators from around the state, many of whom are from urban districts.

After 20 years in the classroom, I worked as the Director of the 8/9 Teacher Network where I collaborated with Chicago Public School teachers to help them learn about academic mindsets and implement mindset practices in their classrooms.

The specific role of the TA in the class should be worked out and agreed upon by the Lead Teacher and Teaching Assistant within the first few weeks of the academic year and communicated to the Assistant Director.

I am currently working as the Director of Student Life at Latin College Preparatory Charter School where I design, implement and manage both academic and non-academic programs.

«We hope that this is the beginning of a long - lasting relationship between our great charter leaders and our revered community leaders, working to get the best possible academic outcomes for students in our community,» said Corri Ravare, FTC's Executive Director.

Co-moderated by the ALA's Digital Content Working Group (DCWG) co-chairs, Carolyn Anthony, director of the Skokie (Ill.) Public Library, and Erika Linke, associate dean of libraries and director of Research and Academic Services, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, this session featured Yoav Lorch, CEO of TotalBoox, and Odilo's Rodrigo Rodriguez, CEO, and Katie Klossner, senior marketing manager for North America and Australia.

As the Program Coordinator, Thea and Andrea Green, the Director, work together to select, host and facilitate opportunities to engage with the dozens of speakers VAP brings in each academic year.

The March 17 announcement notes that while maintaining his post as director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., English will draw on his expertise in works by black artists to help strengthen and diversify MoMA's collection.

She decided to work on arts education from the other side, and became Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum, working with students, artists, and forming city - wide partnerships triangulating communities, the arts, and schools.

This year, the fair will present a series of engaging works by artist and director of adult and academic programs at MoMA Pablo Helguera.

Andrews has worked at Ox - Bow since 2010 as the Academic Director.

Director of Education at the Museum of Modern Art from 1983 - 93, he worked in 1992 - 94 as consulting curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art and during the academic year 1993 - 94 as Visiting Professor of art education at Mass College of Art, both in Boston.

As an educator, Helguera has worked in museums for over two decades and currently works as Director of Adult and Academic Programs at The Museum of Modern Art.

Curated by Li Xu, the Director of Academic Research Department at the museum, it presents 59 works, including painting, sculpture, installation, photography and video.

She currently works as an online education producer for the Oprah Winfrey Network and was formerly the Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Hammer Museum.

Curated by Wally Mason, Sheldon's director and chief curator, associate director Todd Tubutis and Carrie Morgan, curator of academic programs, the 18 - piece exhibition doesn't definitely answer those questions — or any of the others raised by viewing the work.