Sentences with phrase «as educational laboratories»

Charter schools act as educational laboratories to find good practices for public school districts, he said.

Lehigh University Art Galleries • Teaching Museum (LUAG) inspires, develops, and promotes visual literacy and cultural understanding through cross-disciplinary educational opportunities that supplement formal classroom study, as an educational laboratory to benefit students, faculty, and the community - at - large as part of the university learning experience.

LUAG inspires develops and promotes visual literacy and cultural understanding through cross-disciplinary educational opportunities that supplement formal classroom study as an educational laboratory to benefit students, faculty, and the community - at - large as part of the university learning experience.

The four main goals are to: (1) develop a 13 - acre block in the center of the city as a «Green Arts District» beyond the LEED Platinum level for neighborhood development and use that development to catalyze a prosperous city - wide economy; (2) develop a post-carbon energy system for both the city and the College based on efficiency and renewable energy; (3) develop a 20,000 acre greenbelt around the city to revive local agriculture and forestry; and (4) create the most exciting educational experiment in the U.S. by using the entire effort as an educational laboratory for all students in the Oberlin area.

Not exact matches

Sometimes even seemingly simple issues, such as converting from 220 to 110 volts, can be a headache, says Harold Myron, director of educational programs for Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois.

A qualitative synthesis of these studies found that SBML improved outcomes in four areas: the educational laboratory, patient care practices, patient outcomes and collateral effects such as reduced healthcare costs.

While NASA tends to use the ISS as a research ground for human spaceflight, the National Laboratory has launched a wide range of basic and applied research and educational opportunities into low orbit, under the motto «off the Earth, for the Earth,» she said.

Maine laboratories are finding unconventional ways to fund science and technology, touted by politicians and economists alike as a key economic and educational driver in the state, as the federal government again threatens to cut money for their work.

The Green Bank Observatory has a rare combination of assets: 1) A laboratory where frontier research is an ongoing activity; 2) a professional staff of scientists and engineers who are also heavily involved in education and outreach; 3) facilities such as the Green Bank Science Center, radio telescopes, housing and food services, all available for formal and informal educational programs.

As ENDO 2017 winds down and we prepare to return to our laboratories, clinics, and educational institutions, we now need to focus on how to apply the lessons learned to continued growth and development of the Society, the endocrinology field, and improved care for the patients we serve.

ISEEN sees itself as «an international learning laboratory and networking opportunity through which independent school experiential educators and administrators can share their program challenges and successes, learn of and from model programs, and explore the developing role of experiential practices within our educational communities.»

The scholars at Chicago's Comparative Education Center, C. Arnold Anderson, Mary Jean Bowman, and Ben Bloom, believed that the whole world should be seen as an educational «laboratory.»

Complex questions of learning and development require just as complex modes of investigation and practice, which can be formulated by the collaborative work of those studying cognitive and neurobiological phenomena in laboratories, those observing learning in classrooms, and those making educational decisions in Capitol Hill.

Other high - performing charters were seen as laboratories of educational practices as they competed with neighborhood schools.

REL Northwest at Education Northwest carried out the study as part of its work as one of 10 regional educational laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences.

It includes materials from the federal content centers, comprehensive centers, and regional educational laboratories, as well as other organizations with expertise in education policy, research, and technical assistance.

The inquiry comes as charter schools, once celebrated as laboratories of urban educational achievement and innovation, increasingly face a backlash from teachers» unions and political figures ranging from the mayor of New York City to a third - party candidate for governor of Connecticut.

I began my career as a high school social studies teacher and, over the years, have worked in multiple educational organizations, including universities, a state department of education, a regional educational laboratory, and as consultant to the USDOE, national professional organizations, multiple SDEs, regional agencies, and school districts across the country.

David Berliner Regents» Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University «The Mismeasure of Education is a magnificent work, an elegantly written, brilliantly argued and erudite exposition on why the «what,» «how» and «why» of effective teaching can not be adequately demonstrated by sets of algorithms spawned in the ideological laboratories of scientific management at the behest of billionaire investors... This book will serve as a sword of Damocles, hanging over the head of the nation's educational tribunals and their adsentatores, ingratiators and sycophants in the business community... The Mismeasure of Education will have a profound resonance with those who are fed up with the hijacking of our nation's education system.

Since its 1934 founding, UF's renowned laboratory school has served as a center of innovative educational program development and dissemination for K - 12 students.

Sports should embrace sport psychology at the earliest level in an educational way, where the priniciples are discussed and read about and where the team should act as the laboratory for students to test the axioms.

The technicians serve as the veterinarian's nurse, laboratory technician, radiography technician, anesthetist and surgical assistant, and their educational background is as varied as their experience.

The facility, scheduled to open in 2010, will include a forensic laboratory and veterinary hospital, a treatment center for animals that are victims of cruelty, as well as educational training and other programs.

Ms. Kanatani also directs the Sackler Center for Arts Education at the museum in New York, a facility that serves as an educational hub and learning laboratory for program offerings in modern and contemporary art for adults, youth, and families.

With a dedicated space in the New Museum's Bowery building as well as a dedicated website, Museum as Hub is a twenty - first - century cultural laboratory, an educational / curatorial hybrid and a platform for global dialogue through institutional collaboration.

The plan seeks to implement the concept of using the campus as a kind of «living laboratory» to explore innovative and scalable ways of tackling the daunting challenges of climate change, and to use that living laboratory to enhance the educational experience of MIT's students and provide new hands - on teaching opportunities for its faculty.

As with pharmacy technicians and pharmacists, pharmacy assistants work in hospitals and community pharmacies, medical centers, clinics, health care facilities, educational institutions, pharmaceutical laboratories and the federal government.

A CV includes details of your educational background and work experience such as completed courses or programs, honors, awards, scholarships, grants, theses, published works, skills, certifications, licenses, exhibitions, lectures, presentations, research or laboratory experience, international exposure, association memberships, etc..

• Hands - on experience in setting up and calibrating laboratory equipment for educational and experimental purposes • Track record of promoting safety within the lab by ensuring that all safety precautions are taken and that chances of accidents and fires are reduced • Focused on ascertaining that students are aware of laboratory procedures such as specimen handling and dedicated experiments as part of their educational programs

• Gather individual's medical information and communicate individual needs to our Nurses and Health Services Manager • Attend and effectively and appropriately participate in medication reviews, medical chart audits, clinics and appointments • Monitor individuals, review records, and provide medical support at various locations within the Residential and Therapeutic Services department to assure an individual's needs are appropriately addressed • Communicate and consult with appropriate internal / external providers regarding medical needs and concerns; ensure appropriate information (med audits, health reviews, consult forms, etc.) is disseminated in a timely manner • Consult with the Nurses and Health Services Manager regarding coordination of medical, laboratory and dental care; follow up as required • In conjunction with approved staff, review Medication Administration Records and Physician Orders monthly to assure accuracy • Complete, review, and sign off on medical and health related documentation; complete paperwork and provide documentation for individuals» in services meetings • Provide educational in - services to agency staff in requested medical areas • Enter data and generate data base reports; track and distribute requested records and other information

Sports should embrace sport psychology at the earliest level in an educational way, where the priniciples are discussed and read about and where the team should act as the laboratory for students to test the axioms.

(b) the activities, services, and use of an official title clearly delineating the nature and level of training on the part of a person in the employ of a federal, state, county, or municipal agency or of other political subdivisions or an educational institution, business corporation, or research laboratory insofar as these activities and services are a part of the duties of the office or position within the confines of the agency or institution;