Sentences with phrase «authors of meaningful works»

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Harvard Business School professor Teresa Amabile and psychologist Steven Kramer, authors of the incisive The Progress Principle, pored over 12,000 daily work diary entries and were surprised to find out that making progress — even small wins — on meaningful work is the most powerful motivator,» reports the book.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

Suitable for employment in any disciplinary context and at any level, this exercise encourages meaningful reflection as authors of our own work in the world and as an interacting community of coauthors.

A contributing author to two assessment anthologies, The Teacher as Assessment Leader and The Principal as Assessment Leader, he is also coauthor of Teaching the iGeneration, Communicating and Connecting with Social Media, Building a Professional Learning Community at Work ™, and Making Teamwork Meaningful.

The authors of Essential Assessment identify four characteristics of classrooms where assessment and self - regulation work well together to create student investment: a vision for learning, meaningful and valuable work, asset - based focus, and action and impact (p. 121).

Summary: This is an interview with the author, Paul Tough, whose new book «Helping Children Succeed» explores the importance of connection and meaningful hard work that will help children persevere when the going gets tough.

The authors recommend an approach of four successive steps that teachers can take with students to instill in them the ability to work independently and gauge the quality of their work: (1) establish clear learning goals and teach students to analyze the demands of tasks and learning goals; (2) provide students models of high - quality work and discuss what makes something exemplary; (3) teach students to monitor and assess the quality of their work; and (4) provide specific, meaningful feedback.

ESG supported the development and execution of a CCSSO Task Force, going on to author the report, Opportunities and Options: Making Career Preparation Work for Students, outlining a set of far - reaching recommendations for states to take to deepen employer engagement, build high - quality pathways, and implement meaningful accountability measures.

For some authors, having fans write new plots with their established characters is a flattering look at the ways their readers engage with the characters, and symbolizes that the authors» works were so meaningful to the fans that they weren't ready to let go of the fun.

Today's authors don't exactly have a burgeoning market of periodicals willing to pay a meaningful wage for such work.

If you've been working hard to create an effective marketing and promotion campaign, then you've no doubt spent a meaningful amount of time on the essential elements an author must have to build a strong reputation: quality writing, great branding, networking, social media presence, author website, promotional items (like mailers, writing conference goodies, and other materials), and more!

«Acceptance of a paper reflects our opinion that the work represents a meaningful contribution to applied statistics, broadly construed, and that the authors have made a good faith eff ort to respond to the concerns of the reviewers.»

The authors present a range of questions intended to help individual lawyers think about their strengths and matching those strengths to finding meaningful work.

Inspiring Interns Communications Director Andrew Scherer, who began his working life as an intern for Inspiring and is the author of Brilliant Intern, believes that internships are the perfect model to get graduates into meaningful work.

Inspiring Interns Communications Director Andrew Scherer, who began his working life as an intern for Inspiring Interns and is the author of Brilliant Intern, believes that internships are the ideal model for graduates to develop skills and earn meaningful graduate - level work.