Sentences with phrase «as models of»

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has touted charter schools in neighboring Arkansas and Louisiana as models of success, and said charter schools are «desperately needed,» especially in failing districts.

Other industries, including transportation and communications, can serve as models of how to actively recruit diverse, high - achieving candidates.

SACRAMENTO — State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced today that 11 programs have been designated as models of attendance improvement and dropout prevention by the State School Attendance Review Board (State SARB).

And the unions are showing some promising signs, with the National Education Association's Commission on Effective Teachers and Teaching and the American Federation of Teachers rightly pointing to promising district - union partnerships in places like Hartford, Connecticut, and Baltimore, Maryland, as models of healthy teacher leadership.

«With Eleanor's book, a teacher can create units of instruction with meaningful assignments that incorporate the new CCSS, provide a means for evaluating student growth as the assignments can definitely serve as models of formative assessment, and highlight teacher effectiveness when aligned to state evaluation rubrics.»

Plan a Family Math Night at your school to help students learn essential math concepts and to get parents involved as models of motivation, persistence, and competence!

They serve as mentors and as models of good teaching in many classrooms.

What do you do as a leadership team to promote your highly successful teacher leaders as models of the value and necessity of coaching?

These grants will (1) allow eligible entities to expand and develop innovative practices that can serve as models of best practices, (2) allow eligible entities to work in partnership with the private sector and the philanthropic community, and (3) identify and document best practices that can be shared and taken to scale based on demonstrated success.

By using electronic portfolios, teacher educators serve as models of technology use, while they provide opportunities for students to apply their technology knowledge (Kariuki, Franklin, & Duran, 2001).

We are also recognized as a leader in the Catholic school renaissance — a nationwide effort to strengthen and rebuild urban Catholic schools as models of academic rigor and transformational change for the communities, students, and families they serve.

The DuFours say that although it's hard to quantify the impact of the PLC at Work model because their books, articles and presentations offer many avenues into the program, more than 200 U.S. schools have been recognized as models of the process as a result of significantly improved student achievement.

She has demonstrated that schools comprised almost entirely of English learners, in some of the city's poorest and densest neighborhoods, can achieve extraordinary results and serve as models of excellence.

That lack of clarity is amplified by the schools that tout themselves as models of personalized learning.

Both schools in Wisconsin's Kettle Moraine School District have been recognized nationally as models of excellence in personalized learning.

As such, the roles of teachers and students have evolved as our models of education have moved from one iteration to another.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

As I point out, supporters of Obey - Porter consistently highlighted NAS designs as models of what they hoped the amendment would fund.

Children will look to their parents and teachers as models of such virtues.»

Our study outlines the major sources of genetic and phenotypic variation in iPS cells and establishes their suitability as models of complex human traits and cancer.

These changes may influence the cells» abilities to serve as models of human disease and development.

There has been a growing body of literature using rodents as models of human obesity, even though there are many confounding factors including species, strain, age of the animals, type of diet, level of fat, and type of control diet.

The study used whole - exome sequencing to characterize genetic alterations that occur at the single nucleotide level for all genes in 25 cell lines commonly used as models of bladder cancer.

«Importantly, we use mice as models of human beings in research, and so when looking for anti-obesity drugs, we need to fully understand the function of the NPY system in this animal model to understand how similar circuits in humans connect with the body clock.»

The new technique — called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells (DPAC) and reported in the journal Nature Methods on August 31, 2015 — allows researchers to create arrays of thousands of custom - designed organoids, such as models of human mammary glands containing several hundred cells each, which can be built in a matter of hours.

A new technique — called DNA Programmed Assembly of Cells — allows researchers to create arrays of thousands of custom - designed organoids, such as models of human mammary glands containing several hundred cells each, which can be built in a matter of hours.

And they're looking at sperm as models of how to power the nanobots.

Outgoing Chief Exec of NHS England David Nicholson said we should look «closely at US organisations Geisinger and Kaiser Permanente» as models of «integration».

All their toys are constructed as models of the real life accessories.

And as his boxing career petered out, Ramos, improbably found a calling, using his connections as a once famous athlete to create the Retired Boxers Foundation, an organization bent on helping needy former boxers with medical and financial support when their days as models of fitness and power were gone.

The people who talk a good game about freedom and service and fairness» usually reserving their most ardent rhetoric for the $ 30,000 per - table fundraisers» never seem willing to promote the monastic ideal though, and they don't refer to the soup kitchens and outreaches, the church - administered hospitals or training and recovery programs as models of anything except, sometimes, intolerance.

The Next Church and its many smaller, typically suburban relatives are held up as models of the options available to Christians who want to «catch the next wave.»

And yet theological schools in North America are inescapably driven to try to meet standards set both by paideia and by the research university as models of excellence in schooling.

For Aristotle living beings serve as models of «entity» and are each conceived as one «entity.»

The principles Schuller urges must not be confused with the way they are applied in Orange County by a minister who left seminary equipped with expository preaching and heavy prayer meetings as models of church style and strategy.

If the fundamental requirement of noncontradiction also defines mathematical systems, then one would expect to find mathematical constructions serving as models of the empirical world, as they do in every quantified science.

Here they appear as models of rectitude and respectability.

The early Greeks are continually held up to us in literary works as models of the healthy - minded joyousness which the religion of nature may engender.

When human beings are looking to each other as models of being, the pathway of life is a treadmill or squirrel cage rather than an actual road.

Like so many other Christian writers, Chrysostom painstakingly outlines the specific obligations of parents to their children — reading the Bible to them, praying with them and acting as models of the Christian life for them.

But no matter how beneficial these churches are as models of mission, they are both a blessing and a curse for pastors of small congregations.

And far many more benefited as the Church aided the poor, treated the sick and helped assimilate wave uponwave of immigrants... Neighborhoods were anchored by parish churches, and by parochial schools that still serve as models of education.»

While Colorado and California are looked at as models of the modern marijuana economy, the U.S. lags behind other countries like Canada, which already has a fully - functional nationwide medical program and will launch its nationwide recreational program in the next year.

As a model of what might work, Annibale points to Citi's $ 275,000 investment in Food Business Pathways, a new 10 - week training course designed to help New Yorkers start and grow food businesses.

The Florida Republican is described in the piece as an «Uber devotee» who touts the service as a model of a successful company challenging the status quo.

McChrystal still marvels at JSOC's old organizational hierarchy as a model of order, with groups operating in silos and a chain of command to communicate.

The Argentine entrepreneurs I met see America as a model of efficiency and stability.

«This settlement represents a giant leap forward toward leveling the playing field and can serve as a model of best practices for other technology companies.»

Though the company struggled through the 2000s, it was supposed to emerge as a model of corporate synergy and profitability thanks to a new vision ushered in by CEO Howard Stringer.

Some are ready to cash out of a company increasingly vulnerable to a crumbling PC market and already a shadow of an earlier self that led the global market and stood as a model of industry innovation.