Sentences with phrase «bringing teams of student»

While at CFACT, Rucker has held the «primary responsibility for helping build CFACT's Collegians program on more than 40 campuses across the country,» and has both attended and brought teams of student delegates to UN conferences in Kyoto, Copenhagen, Cancun, Montreal, and more.

Not exact matches

Eleven entrepreneurs, all from founding teams including women or people of color, made their cases for innovations that would help bring more real - world experience into classrooms, help teachers track the progress of special - needs students, or help underserved people find jobs, among others.

Unlike in Canada, where the country's biggest universities play in front of sparse crowds and go years without winning a season, U.S. colleges outside of the Ivy League depend upon their sports teams to bring in new students, attract attention, and draw donations and revenue.

Earlier this month a group of elementary school students traveled to the hub of groundbreaking ideas — «The Garage» at Google Headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. — and teamed up to bring the kids» ideas to life.

Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of JumpStartFund, leads a team of more than 100 engineers and students to bring to fruition Musk's idea of the Hyperloop.

At the event, we worked with a fantastic team of Cornell students / interns and a member of the Ethereum foundation to bring zkSNARKs to Ethereum for the first time.

A new course that brings together computer science and business students in a sort of mini Silicon Valley sees interdisciplinary teams develop ideas for software startups — from a platform connecting students for tutoring, to 3D computer puzzles that mimic building IKEA bookshelves.

The students also hope to bring together strategic partners in Wake County's health care community to pitch in with funding, said Parrish Ravelli, an adult who leads the team of YES!

As a student team member, I saw these changes as a way to bring back a love of learning and of school.

By working as a medical assistant at The Harmony Center for Women and also through years of supporting families in local hospitals during childbirth, she brings a vast amount of insider knowledge to help her clients, students, and team.

There's the parent bringing birthday treats to school; the well meaning teacher who bought tons of Girl Scout cookies from her students who were scouts (nice) and then passed them all out to the class (not cool); my fellow soccer team parent who thinks a juice and Lay's is a fine post-game snack; etc. etc., to mention the over-the-top incidents I've just recounted here.

FoodCorps is best known for our deployment of 225 full - time AmeriCorps service members to 350 schools in 17 states and Washington, D.C. FoodCorps AmeriCorps service members deliver hands - on cooking and gardening lessons to students, steer students toward healthier options in the cafeteria, and bring teachers, parents, administrators and food service teams together to promote healthy food throughout schools (we call this a «schoolwide culture of health»).

Out of 1,200 students who competed from across the state of New York, Success scholars made up 13 % of the entire two - day tournament and brought home big wins with four teams finishing in the top five of both the ES and MS Championship sections.

«As a 37 - year volunteer firefighter with the North Amherst Fire Company I could not be prouder of the team that brought this scholarship program to fruition for the County of Erie and it's student - volunteers.

Students of ancient Rome can now immerse themselves in the world of Roman emperor Hadrian, who ruled from 117 to 138 A.D. Hadrian's Villa is now a ruin, but a team led by Indiana University's Professor Bernie Frischer has brought it back to life.

Parker is one of 36 students from Clinton High School in Clinton, Massachusetts, who designed and built Gael Force as their entry in the First (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, an annual challenge that brings together hundreds of teams of junior high and high school technophiles from around the world.

«With a team of three young researchers and an advanced student we've brought together various areas of expertise.

Blumenstock's UW co-author, Gabriel Cadamuro, a graduate student in computer science and engineering, said the team tried not to bring expectations of which aspects of the metadata might be found useful for predicting wealth.

Since 2001 its team of just eight people has already brought numerous scientists together with investors, students and their teachers, and consumers.

She brings a dedication to the value of basic research, teaching, student training, curation of public programs and exhibits and management of scientists and scientific teams.

Bringing together a group of talented, energetic, dedicated research scientists and university students willing to accept the challenge of working in a remote area, the formation of TEAM BUFO has generated an enormous increase in our understanding of cane toads and their impacts on biodiversity.

The team involved with this project brings students into the Parkes observing facilities in Sydney, or brings a remote set - up to the classroom and gives students the ability to control the operation of the Parkes Telescope and collect their own pulsar data.

A collaborative environment and interdisciplinary approach bring students together with clinical and basic scientists to give them the experience of being a contributing member of a research team working on significant scientific problems that aid in our understanding of medical issues.

Each spring, the class brings together teams of UW students in a friendly 10 - week competition aimed at creating new, commercially viable neural engineering technologies that address real - world challenges like Rouz» mother's visual impairments.

White, who is hired as a coach at the school, stands resolute though as he tries to bring a group of students together to form a cross-country team.

Kemi Jona, an associate professor at Northwestern University and a member of the VOISE Academy High School design team, explains that online curriculum provides «a ticket to entry for students, getting them ready for the really exciting stuff: the projects, the collaborations, and the local connections that a teacher can bring.»

«We could have done this in individual class groups, but having people work together in teams... brings lots of the benefits of a professional learning community in terms of co-planning, co-teaching and the co-moderation or marking of student work.

A sentence congratulating the students of the week, teacher of the month, swimmer who broke a district record, class that brought the most cans for a food drive or baseball team for a big win is quick to write.

The first day of the program, students were given a job interview where they explained what strengths they could bring to their team.

A personal SEN budget could: add to existing learning support, providing a more consistent offer of support to the child or young person; fund time to bring all key parties together to bridge the gap between home and school / other learning provision and to build a team of dedicated support people (including family); fund some specialist input; fund work experience or a work - based learning opportunity; and add to the technology available to promote a student's individual style of learning.

SOLV's Green Team program brings experts into classrooms and puts tools into student hands, helping students and teachers restore local streams by collecting garbage, eradicating nonnative plant species, and planting thousands of trees, among other projects.

On the panel, Koedinger, a co-founder of Carnegie Learning, confirmed the point when he talked about how once he and his team had brought their research - informed product to market, the majority of the market incentives encouraged them not to improve the product along its ability to help students learn.

Many areas of expertise and interests are engaged; thus, students can identify their own strengths and bring them to a team.

Students with unusual combinations of skills, such as computer programming and writing, will become employees with valuable assets to bring to the table, to no matter what type of team they're working on.

Senior leaders or even business managers can and have taken driving roles in creating a new school by bringing together a team of teachers and other professionals and using their knowledge and experience to help bring an outstanding education to more students across their local area.

If a student is not fulfilling his or her portion of the project, it is the responsibility of team members to bring this to the teacher's attention, being specific about the responsibilities that are not being completed.

Jared currently serves as a research fellow at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, an honorary research fellow at St. Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne, and director of the Science of Learning Group — a team dedicated to bringing the latest in brain and behaviour research to teachers, students, and parents alike.

One of the central features of By All Means is a set of convenings which serve two purposes: 1) to bring together teams from the six or seven cities in which we'll be establishing learning labs for our design work; 2) to bring together a national audience of thought leaders to consider some controversial subjects relating to the future of public education and that system's work with economically disadvantaged students.

They'll bring a team of medical professionals to our school with specialized medical equipment, supplies, and two videos custom - produced for us — all designed to help our students empathize with pediatric patients and generate ideas for making the hospital experience less scary for kids.

I was especially impressed by the presentations of the seven teams of high school students you had brought from China to Cambridge to present the projects they had created to address serious social challenges.

Every Student, Every Day: Strategies to Address Attendance and Truancy Institute — The institute offered an opportunity for school divisions to bring a multidisciplinary team of school professionals and community partners together to improve school attendance.

Madati, who eventually served as chair of the school's board after Wasow's departure, said that he and his team redoubled their efforts to assess student performance and brought in teaching coaches.

We brought that idea forward to our inaugural Leadership Team and then the first Faculty and Staff group of Riverview, challenging them to brainstorm the possibilities of «WOWing» students, parents and each other.

Vertical Articulation of Student Work Samples — At key times during the year, teams bring artifacts of the work that students have produced in the focus area.

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Vertical Articulation of Expectations for Student Learning / Rigor — Horizontal teams bring exemplars or expectations for quality of their essential standards in a particular strand in literacy, math, or other content areas.

She helped bring Google Apps for Education to her district; founded the middle school student tech team, which is now part of a districtwide initiative; and has run Middletown's only elementary technology club for the past three years.

The team should be equipped to address a myriad of student needs by bringing together experts that develop intentional knowledge in specific areas of chronic absence prevention and intervention.

Facilitated sessions and individual coaching calls throughout the year bring together teams to deepen their learning around Academic and Personal Behaviors, share strategies and approaches to help students persist in the face of rigorous learning challenges, and build capacity both within and across schools to implement changes and share learning.

HB 719: amendment of current law is intended to strengthen school improvement teams and plans so that they are more accountable for bringing the school and its students up to agreed upon end goals