Sentences with phrase «performance buildings education»

For more sustainability solutions, look no further than the High Performance Buildings education track!

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Build e-learning into regular employee milestones such as orientation, performance reviews, and required refresher, compliance, or continuing - education training.

The Onteora Central School District Board of Education is considering a $ 3.3 million Energy Performance Contract of building improvements that

National Quality Forum (NQF) is a nonprofit organization that operates to improve the quality of American healthcare by building consensus on national priorities and goals for performance improvement and working in partnership to achieve them; endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance; and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs.

In his feature film Art Party, Smith builds on his 2011 protest with a mix of performance, interviews and imagined scenes, en route to the 2013 Art Party Conference, where he and other speakers championed the importance of art and its place in the education system.

Minister Birmingham said the Teacher Performance Assessment project delivers on the recommendations of the Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group and builds on its reforms to date to strengthen accreditation standards.

As charter schools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outcomes.

As in the past, this year's edition is built on twin foundations: the detailed data collection and analysis of the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center, which mines its annual policy survey to provide comprehensive, state - by - state grading in key areas of state policy and performance; and the rigorous investigation of a timely issue in education policy by the Education Week reportiEducation Research Center, which mines its annual policy survey to provide comprehensive, state - by - state grading in key areas of state policy and performance; and the rigorous investigation of a timely issue in education policy by the Education Week reportieducation policy by the Education Week reportiEducation Week reporting staff.

As part of the Programs in Professional Education (PPE) institute, Improving Quality in Education Systems: Building Quality Schools, participants spent two weeks tackling tough issues like how to build sustainable schools, design effective systems for monitoring and evaluating student and school performance, and define quality schools.

• Boost the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth via high - quality career and technical education programs • Help their students develop «performance character» — particularly drive and prudence • Offer a full suite of well - organized extracurricular activities (to help build those all - important non-cognitive skills and to keep kids off the streets) • Most importantly, give their students a sense of hope and purpose

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

Based on the essay «Building a New Structure for School Leadership,» from Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Richard Elmore's book, School Reform from the Inside Out: Policy, Practice, and Performance (Harvard Education Press, 2004).

High - performing and improving education systems demonstrate a commitment to structured support for beginning teachers in their transition to full professional performance and in doing so, build and sustain a culture of professional responsibility.

Consequently, we believe that Global Citizenship Education has the ability to act as seeds of social change (locally and globally), to create a cognitive conflict between the various educational actors and build a significant learning as an entrepreneurial fruits sustained in practice, as for example in the performance and participation of citizens in solving social problems.

During their year on site, the doctoral candidates will lead an education - reform project, prepare a «capstone» product, and have hands - on experiences building and leading a team — and evaluating the performance of others and having their own assessed.

Pay Teachers More and Reach All Students with Excellence — Aug 30, 2012 District RTTT — Meet the Absolute Priority for Great - Teacher Access — Aug 14, 2012 Pay Teachers More — Within Budget, Without Class - Size Increases — Jul 24, 2012 Building Support for Breakthrough Schools — Jul 10, 2012 New Toolkit: Expand the Impact of Excellent Teachers — Selection, Development, and More — May 31, 2012 New Teacher Career Paths: Financially Sustainable Advancement — May 17, 2012 Charlotte, N.C.'s Project L.I.F.T. to be Initial Opportunity Culture Site — May 10, 2012 10 Financially Sustainable Models to Reach More Students with Excellence — May 01, 2012 Excellent Teaching Within Budget: New Infographic and Website — Apr 17, 2012 Incubating Great New Schools — Mar 15, 2012 Public Impact Releases Models to Extend Reach of Top Teachers, Seeks Sites — Dec 14, 2011 New Report: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction — Nov 17, 2011 City - Based Charter Strategies: New White Papers and Webinar from Public Impact — Oct 25, 2011 How to Reach Every Child with Top Teachers (Really)-- Oct 11, 2011 Charter Philanthropy in Four Cities — Aug 04, 2011 School Turnaround Leaders: New Ideas about How to Find More of Them — Jul 21, 2011 Fixing Failing Schools: Building Family and Community Demand for Dramatic Change — May 17, 2011 New Resources to Boost School Turnaround Success — May 10, 2011 New Report on Making Teacher Tenure Meaningful — Mar 15, 2011 Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best — Feb 17, 2011 New Reports and Upcoming Release Event — Feb 10, 2011 Picky Parent Guide — Nov 17, 2010 Measuring Teacher and Leader Performance: Cross-Sector Lessons for Excellent Evaluations — Nov 02, 2010 New Teacher Quality Publication from the Joyce Foundation — Sept 27, 2010 Charter School Research from Public Impact — Jul 13, 2010 Lessons from Singapore & Shooting for Stars — Jun 17, 2010 Opportunity at the Top — Jun 02, 2010 Public Impact's latest on Education Reform Topics — Dec 02, 2009 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education's Best — Oct 23, 2009 New Research on Dramatically Improving Failing Schools — Oct 06, 2009 Try, Try Again to Fix Failing Schools — Sep 09, 2009 Innovation in Education and Charter Philanthropy — Jun 24, 2009 Reconnecting Youth and Designing PD That Works — May 29.

«Relative to other things that social scientists and education policy people have tried to boost performance — class sizes, tracking, new buildings — these schools are producing spectacular gains,» said Joshua Angrist, an M.I.T. professor.

Third, today's focus on results - based education, combined with plenty more data on school performance in an era of educational accountability, means that reform - minded education leaders are getting bolder about closing bad schools — and sometimes (but not always) opening new ones in the same building.

She is deeply passionate about building high performance, strengths - based teams that drive breakthrough performance in K - 12 education.

The Center for Collaborative Education is partnering with schools participating in the New Hampshire Performance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) initiative to support them in building assessment literacy and creating local competency - based assessment systems anchored in performance aPerformance Assessment of Competency Education (PACE) initiative to support them in building assessment literacy and creating local competency - based assessment systems anchored in performance aperformance assessments.

One lesson coming out of VUE 46 and the National Summit is this: It's time to apply what we know from work to date to implement fully and build momentum for positive change towards competency education and its essential corollary, performance assessment.

The question for policy makers in Indiana then, is can Indiana expect its school choice program to enhance student performance or help build a better public education system statewide?

Building on those findings, this month, the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (Richmond's group), and 50Can, an education reform advocacy group, jointly released a report with recommendations for states to hold virtual charters more accountable for student performance.

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

But whether an education institution seeks LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, strives to meet criteria set forth by the Collaborative from High Performance Schools, or simply follows their own green design path, most schools and universities remain vigilant about finding ways to create facilities that provide a suitable learning environment while using less energy.

The details for the performance goals are described in the standard, which can be downloaded free at http://tinyurl.com/ANSI-S12-60.When spaces are built that achieve these goals, the education environment is enhanced.

Before federal education officials exempted Indiana from the national accountability law, schools tracked the performance of students in every socioeconomic and ethnic «subgroup» in their building.

The report leads to three recommendations: allocating K - 12 education funding through a student - based funding model, incentivizing innovation that supports student performance, and building a comprehensive financial data system.

Building Bright Futures (BBF), a local non-profit organization, was established by community leaders and philanthropists to improve academic performance, raise graduation rates, increase civic / community responsibility and ensure all students are prepared for postsecondary education.

Building on our work with CPAC, LPI, and EducationCounsel, we have launched a new national initiative that brings together K - 12 and higher education policy and practice leaders to support the expansion of high - quality performance assessment systems, and their use in college admissions, placement, and advising.

Indeed, the notion that education performance of public schools can be turned around by taking them over and converting them to charter schools or co-locating charters in their buildings is particularly unproven.

Linda Marlena Gross - Taylor is the founder of EduGladiators and a nationally recognized education leader with a proven track record of improving educational and operational performance through vision, strategic planning, leadership, and team building.

The idea, as foreshadowed in the leadership of states, is to build a coherent system of supports to facilitate the implementation of instruction aligned to the content standards: student achievement tests, performance standards, accountability, align curriculum materials, aligned teacher education and professional development.

Federal and state policies such as the US Department of Education's Race to the Top state grant competition and Illinois» Performance Evaluation Act of 2010, which prioritize building effective principal and teacher evaluations systems to improve student achievement outcomes, have ratcheted up the need for data - driven teacher evaluation in Illinois.

In December 2002, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released a comprehensive five - year study that shows that Pennsylvania's Charter schools have demonstrated a solid record of academic performance, a high level of parent satisfaction, and that Pennsylvania has built a solid foundation for the future of charter schools.

Students living with disabilities, whom I teach, often struggle with managing their emotions and actions, and the relationship special education teachers build with them over the course of a school year help them not only make significant gains in overall academic performance, but also social and emotional progress.

Deliwala graduated with a degree in management information services from the University of Central Florida, but his true education has come from more than 15 years of building a global performance parts brand.

Courseware was launched, which is a digital solution built on a foundation of open education resources or OER, and is enhanced with content such as quizzes, videos, and self - assessments for students, along with analytics tools that allow faculty to monitor student performance.

Founded in 1995 in Geneva, on the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, ART for The World arranges international traveling art exhibitions, performances, films and concerts, to build cross-cultural relationships and promote education.

The architectural suturing of a 235,000 square foot addition to a 225,000 square foot parent building expands the «old» museum's indoor and outdoor gallery space by two - and - a-half times, the education space by four times, and the performance and event space by eleven times.

Currently dedicating two floors, about 10,000 square feet of gallery space, of the 4 - story building to rotating exhibitions throughout the year, the CAC is home to artists» bold experiments in painting, theater, photography, performance art, dance, music, video, education, and sculpture.

This mantra has led Ayala down an non-traditional career path, linking fashion, technology, performance art, media, education, community building, and design.

The Summit on Debt and Education, an open and free series of lecture and performances, was held later that evening in Cooper Union's Great Hall, in the basement level of the building being occupied.

Published to document a project by the Dagestani artist Taus Makhacheva that consists of the film Tightrope and the series of performances On the Benefits of Pyramids in Cultural Education, Strengthening of National Consciousness, and the Formation of Moral and Ethical Guideposts, this book is built around a dialogue between Makhacheva and the protagonist of her film, the tightrope walker Rasul Abakarov.

Her home base in Montreal served to inspire and foster her MFA education in fine arts and build on a career in performance, installation and video based work.

This initiative is aiming to build dozens of university - centered networks for innovation and education around the United States, with the goal of fostering what Levin calls «high - performance knowledge exchange and generation.»

Requires the Secretary and the EPA Administrator to: (1) use the labeling program to evaluate energy performance in DOE and EPA facilities and to encourage and support implementation efforts in other federal agencies; and (2) establish a business and consumer education program to increase awareness about the importance of building energy efficiency and to facilitate widespread use of the labeling program.

Alternate Energy's ongoing commitment to HVAC, heating ventilation and air conditioning and geothermal education backed by many accreditations and licenses, and our large real - world experience with geothermal systems as evidenced by our large installed base assure you will have a high performance geothermal system for your home residence, commercial building or office.

Coordinate ongoing staff development, annual performance appraisals, disciplinary action, staff meetings, continuing education, team - building and mentoring

Develops training programs to build on individual skill and education levels aiding in professional development, to build high - performance, cross-functional teams that achieve aggressive operational goals.