Sentences with phrase «model schools project»

He came to the University of Minnesota in 1988 to direct the rural component of the National Models School Project in Global Education under the leadership of John Goodlad.

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The World Economic Forum is launching an ambitious new project to bring a value - based model to health care — and it has the backing of some of the world's biggest medical names, including the CEOs of Medtronic, Novartis, Kaiser Permanente, and thought leaders like Harvard Business School's Michael Porter.

Those skeptics (and others) point out that in the 1960s and 1970s, «project - based learning» was used in some low - income schools as a euphemism for the practice of having poor kids build Lego models and doodle in coloring books while the rich kids across town learned how to read and do math.

One of the highlights of this project was to develop and test procurement models using U.S. Department of Agriculture's guidance on geographic preference, school food purchasing and bidding requirement that work for both school districts and farms / food producers.

The State's today remains a major projects site employing thousands of our people in simultaneous the construction of major roads, models Schools and other infrastructure mostly to be completed before the end of the year.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

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Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.

The tool itself, which projects a worse - case scenario of 14,176 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by October 26, is currently built on a model developed by a Toronto - based team of medical and public health researchers, although HealthMap may try other methods down the road, says John Brownstein, HealthMap co-founder and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

In Project 2061's middle school unit, students use LEGOs and ball - and - stick models to make sense of the production of new substances in terms of atom rearrangement and conservation.

Lonnie Thompson, Distinguished University Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at The Ohio State University and co-leader of the international research team, said that the new data lend support to computer models of projected climate changes.

The project began in 2009 when Krasnow, frustrated by the lack of a good animal model for lung disease — his area of expertise — commissioned three high school interns to search the animal world for something better.

To investigate if this would affect social recognition in fish, schools were kept under elevated levels of carbon dioxide, similar to those projected for 2100 by models produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Using a mathematical model, researchers at the University of Bristol and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in collaboration with researchers and clinicians in the UK, Australia and Canada projected the potential impact of these new DAAs treatment among PWID in three cities with similar PWID prevalence (~ 1 per cent among adults) but very different levels of chronic HCV prevalence among PWID.

Carla J. Siegfried, MD Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO Funded by The Alcon Foundation Project: Pathological Alterations in the Trabecular Meshwork Following Vitrectomy and Lens Extraction: A Model of Oxidative Stress

Before Hannah Davis was a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model, before she appeared in a red Ferrari alongside the Griswold family car in the movie remake of Vacation, before she was hosting Project Runway: Junior, she was wearing boys» clothes to school.

The charity works on international projects, including the Adopt a Village model, which brings over 650 schools and school rooms to youth and provides clean water, health care and sanitation to one million people around the world, freeing children and their families from the cycle of poverty.

The research project encourages school and industry collaboration, and several school - industry activities were established with the ability to be scaled to make a difference to the way that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) models are implemented in schools.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school school model.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadschools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadSchools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Two of the fastest - growing trends in online education converge in the Performance Learning Center project, which is why I called Communities in Schools, a nonprofit dropout - prevention program that devised the model in Georgia in 2002.

This project does an impressive job identifying models of schools and industry working together that we can learn from and scale up,» Finkel says.

The project's focus on individual school models represented a significant break from recent philanthropic thinking.

This has a number of benefits to these schools: • it keeps the pupils on site • it allows the staff to see what pupils are eating • it provides opportunities for education projects on business models • it provides a good income to the school.

Museum administrators also plan to use the school's model to bring in more visitors and let them touch and learn about their collections, and the city is about to launch one of the largest river - revitalization projects ever undertaken in the namesake Grand River.

Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T.: New Teaching Roles Create Culture of Excellence in High - Need Schools, explains the «truly different» things that L.I.F.T. did to redesign four schools using Opportunity Culture models and prinSchools, explains the «truly different» things that L.I.F.T. did to redesign four schools using Opportunity Culture models and prinschools using Opportunity Culture models and principles.

In order to improve implementation of the NCLB law, President George W. Bush's second secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, allowed states to apply to participate in pilot projects to try out changes to the law, including a growth - model pilot that let states consider student progress in rating schools instead of comparing different cohorts of students to one another.

Whether it is working on collaborative projects or giving each other constructive feedback on model lessons, students in innovative schools of education learn in ways indicative of professional learning communities.

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«The Macintosh product line offers a wide variety of models,» Simeone noted, «but even the entry level eMac allows the average computer user to make very cool projects for school and for home, especially in the area of moviemaking.

Schools need both support and accountability to implement an educational model built around project - based learning and performance assessment.

I started with digital projects, and since we have had a FabLab at school I have expanded the projects to include models both big and small.

The goal of the project is to develop schools that model democratic citizenship and teach students — and adults — to use their First Amendment rights responsibly.

Jacobs describes how Summit Public schools, a charter school network known for «an approach that emphasizes both project - based and self - paced learning as well as the development of cognitive skills» has been sharing its model with schools around the countroy for free with support from Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.

Six of the nine states participating in the U.S. Department of Education's growth - model pilot project provided information to the EPE Research Center detailing the number of schools making adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under...

Certainly blended - learning schools that are integrating project - based learning — as part of the face - to - face component of blended delivery models — may also be providing space for interest - based explorations.

In team - based models, schools add new paraprofessionals to teaching teams to do teachers» administrative paperwork and oversee skill practice, project work, and digital instruction at school.

Menino's support for making Madison Park a model of urban vocational education follows the release of a report, commissioned by Boston Public Schools through its Office of Career and Technical Education in the spring of 2011, compiled by two dozen national and state experts in career and vocational technical education including Harvard Graduate School of Education's Pathways to Prosperity Project Director William Symonds and Strategic Education Research Partnership Program Director Claire White.

RISE was named one of 10 $ 10 - million winning school projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool projects by XQ: The Super School Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mSchool Project — a national campaign co-led by the Emerson Collective's Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali, calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design new high school mschool models.

Former AS - 1 principal Ron Snyder initially connected the school to the center through a pond - boat project, where students applied the technique of lofting to create small models of sailing yachts.

Central to the mission of this low - income, minority school is a commitment to the Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound model of instruction and schoolwide reform that emphasizes project learning that extends across curriculum areas and takes students out of the classroom and into the community.

The goal is for fellows to develop made - in - New - Orleans strategies around their chosen PL project so that these strategies can be a model for other New Orleans teachers and schools.

Teachers in these schools may also design occasional projects that focus on literature or applied math, as long as they are still following the guidelines of their literacy model.

Because the New School Model is being gradually phased into the entire school curriculum, it was decided to introduce ArcGIS Online in a pilot project for sixth - grade stuSchool Model is being gradually phased into the entire school curriculum, it was decided to introduce ArcGIS Online in a pilot project for sixth - grade stuschool curriculum, it was decided to introduce ArcGIS Online in a pilot project for sixth - grade students.

In today's world of standards, testing, scripted literacy models, and the use of strictly - followed commercial programs for teaching math, many teachers and principals in elementary schools do not think project - based learning is possible.

The EcoMOD (Model / Modify, Observe, Design) project will build on and extend our prior EcoMUVE curriculum for middle school, using a design - based research approach to combine an immersive virtual environment with hands - on interactive modeling through a scaffolded computational interface.

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