Sentences with phrase «academic learning at»

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Vivek Wadhwa is vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University; a fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University; director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and exec in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar at the Halle Institute of Global Learning at Emory University.

We have an academic mission at the university: We want our students to learn and to conduct research that adds value to society.

Prior to joining Garage in 1998, Bill was a co-founder and senior executive at several early - stage, venture - backed technology companies, including Trademark Software, The Learning Company, Infa Technologies, and Academic Systems.

There is not much in terms of academic learning happening at this particular community college.

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

Third, a sermon is neither an academic term paper nor a paper to be read at the annual meeting of some learned society.

I have also learned not to take for granted students» knowledge in some general academic areas that may have been expectations at the high school, or dare I say, even junior high level, in my generation.

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

As an academic scandal at the ACC college continues to unfold, a former learning specialists named Mary Willingham, who worked at the UNC Academic Support Program for Student Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letteacademic scandal at the ACC college continues to unfold, a former learning specialists named Mary Willingham, who worked at the UNC Academic Support Program for Student Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letteAcademic Support Program for Student Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letter grade.

27 - Temecula Valley Agricultural Tours From agribusiness professionals, academics, and researchers, to budding and full - fledged enthusiasts, agriculture tours in Temecula Valley provide noteworthy opportunities to visit, learn, and experience family - owned commercial enterprises growing in the good earth and harvesting at perfection.

And the same progression of learning before taking center stage is at the root of her academic and career goals.

One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

At the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (www.casel.org), a non-profit organization based in Chicago that works to advance social and emotional learning (SEL), research found behavior has a profound impact on academic perfAcademic, Social and Emotional Learning (www.casel.org), a non-profit organization based in Chicago that works to advance social and emotional learning (SEL), research found behavior has a profound impact on academic perfLearning (www.casel.org), a non-profit organization based in Chicago that works to advance social and emotional learning (SEL), research found behavior has a profound impact on academic perflearning (SEL), research found behavior has a profound impact on academic perfacademic performance.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

While at a preschool like this the kids will learn more academics earlier, I feel the focus on developing positive discipline and good, self - respecting social skills is far more important for kids this age.

8:45 Arrivals 9:00 Morning Discussion 9:30 Recreational Period (sports skills practice) 10:30 Academic Learning Center 11:45 Art Studio 12:30 Lunch 12:45 AM Recess 1:15 Swimming at The Lil» 3:00 Recreational Period (sports game) 4:00 End of Day Discussion 4:15 PM Recess 4:30 Departures

In addition to the academic skills that kids are learning in those deeper learning environments, they're also experiencing a psychological message: I can learn from my mistakes; I can get better at things.

Read Achieve NYC to learn how to stay informed about your child's academic performance and behavior at school.

First, I'm not even sure I should dignify the ridiculous, straw - man argument that I'm advocating food education at the expense of academic learning.

Children learn basic academics, manners, socializing and many other important activities at preschool.

Even in more touchy - feely districts, O'Brien said, many administrators balked at trying to spend money on programs for empathy and emotional learning when the district needed to compete in academic arenas.

The Professional Education Committee has created an AT Teaching Tips video series to recognize and share innovative teaching and learning ideas by academic professionals in the field of athletic training.

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) at the College of Agriculture, More Plantation, Ibadan, may soon embark on another round of industrial action over the refusal of the college provost to allow its members carry out their activities, The Nigeria Standard has learnt.

«Joel misses the essence of teacher - student interactions, and the extent to which teachers focus on students» physical and emotional well - being, in addition to their academic learning,» said Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

Children at PS 192 in Manhattan will have access next fall to a variety of new academic, health and social service programs as the school becomes the 29th to join the UFT's Community Learning Schools Initiative.

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for his part said the assembly will continue to support brilliant but needy students at various levels of the academic ladder, provision of physical infrastructure, motivation packages for teachers as well as provision of teaching and learning materials.

It Isn't Just the Ambiance by Heather Sevener, 16 April 2004 Although Ph.D. candidate Heather Sevener enjoyed learning about the evolution of plant development and was happy in an academic environment, she couldn't stand being at the bench.

How could that rocker in the cap be the same bookish academic now gazing solemnly at me across his paper - strewn desk at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory?

When it comes to learning, the MedImmune postdoc experience «exceeded my highest expectations,» especially concerning «topics I would not have had at an academic institution,» Cabrera says.

In one of many courses offered through the Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Program at the University of Texas, our learning was driven by our interests and had an impact from our academic training.

While Balch had long practiced machine learning for his academic job, the financial application of the technology was merely a «hobby» for him at the time, he says.

«Whether you run your own academic lab or take a position at a company, learning how to manage people, projects, and budgets are necessary skills, but traditional graduate and postdoctoral training do not offer formalized courses in these topics,» says Garth Fowler, outreach program manager for ScienceCareers.org.

«One of the biggest difficulties that an academic faces when transitioning to industry is learning to deemphasize the individual achievements and maximize the team achievements,» says Paul Matthews, vice president of imaging at the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Clinical Imaging Center housed at Imperial College in London.

During graduate school and the postdoc, you learn plenty about what scientists expect at an academic job interview.

Limitations For all of the enthusiasm around games and learning, very few studies have examined whether video games improve classroom performance and academic achievement, says Emma Blakey, PhD researcher in developmental psychology at the University of Sheffield in England.

«Because we know memory is a crucial cognitive skill for school learning, practice at playing games that challenge memory should, in theory, lead to improvements in classroom behavior and academic skills,» she says.

Young children with disruptive behaviors have fewer opportunities to learn in school than their focused peers, and are at risk for lower levels of academic achievement.

Memory problems in particular, can adversely affect how children perform in a variety of settings, including academic learning,» said John DeLuca, PhD, senior VP of Research & Training at Kessler Foundation.

Through music school, I met parents with high school and college education, and in this way I learned about the only city - wide public high school of high academic standing available at that time to girls.

«Not only do these mice have trouble learning and remembering, they can't perform some other normal daily behaviors such as building a nest,» adds C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., senior author on the paper, Joslin's chief academic officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

Like its later companions «Margot at the Wedding» and «Greenberg,» «The Squid and the Whale» is a deeply sad comedy about how no amount of book learning and so - called academic knowledge can prepare you for the pain and disappointment that real life can bring.

At the risk of antagonizing readers from academic background, I venture to suggest that film criticism has as much obligation to learn from film academia as experimental filmmaking has to learn from genre cinema.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

The academic program at Minnesota's School for Environmental Studies was designed to promote project - based learning and a love for nature and wildlife.

Benefits to School Life Looking at the lasting impact of LOtC experiences in terms of academic performance, Learning Away's recent research found that school trips resulted in higher academic achievement, with 61 per cent of students achieving higher than their predicted grade following a school trip based on the subject area.

Do unresolved behavior issues keep you awake at night thinking about what strategies might enhance responsible decision making and increase academic learning time?

At the same time, the school does not have a dress code, has few standard academic requirements, and provides many nontraditional learning opportunities.

A look at what it takes for a district to prioritize academic discourse, a component of deeper learning.