Sentences with phrase «by education pioneers»

The original in 1938 was a groundbreaking work by education pioneers Samuel and Winifred Kirk and Thorleif Hegge, later revised by the Kirks and Esther Minskoff.

This report by Education Pioneers, funded by the MetLife Foundation, provides a fresh look at the need for leadership and management in public education and reveals what efforts will be needed to strengthen the leadership pipeline from within education, and to bring in people and practices from beyond education.

You can watch Joshua, Bill, Kelly Amis and TNTP's Aleka Calsoyas in this panel discussion at a screening organized by Education Pioneers alumni.

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By 1919, the self - taught pioneer with an eighth - grade education was producing more than half the cars in the U.S.. By lowering the cost of the automobile — eventually to $ 350 — he made cars part of the fabric of middle class America.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The conference featured a robust education program including keynote presentations by award - winning actress, social advocate and mom of three, Jennifer Garner and organic industry pioneer John Foraker, co-founders of Once Upon a Farm; and national bestselling author and internationally recognized expert on food systems, Anna Lappé.

Established by Barbara Tropp and seven pioneering women chefs and restaurateurs, WCR is an active resource for women seeking to advance culinary education and gain recognition in various areas of the food and beverage industry.

Produced and directed by Boston - based visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «THE SMARTEST TEAM» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

When I started writing about concussions - particularly the danger of second impact syndrome - twelve years ago, we were considered by no less an authority than our original concussion expert, Dr. Robert Cantu, to be the pioneers in concussion education (see video of presentation Bob Cantu made at Concord - Carlisle High School back in 2007).

The school has been made possible by hardworking pioneering parents and teachers who have worked with joy, vision, and dedication in the mission to bring an independent school inspired by Waldorf education to the Berkeley - Oakland - Emeryville area.

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in Newcastle, Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in rural Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

She said Scotland should not be «too proud» to adopt alternative education systems including the free school system pioneered by Michael Gove.

The US Department of Education, helmed by its new secretary, Betsy DeVos, yesterday misspelled the name of African American historian and civil - rights pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois in a tweet.

He proposed that online courses such as the ones pioneered by Sebastian Thrun at Stanford might be a better model for higher education in Haiti.

Funding for the research was provided mainly by the United Soybean Board and partially by the Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ag Alumni Seed, AgReliant Genetics, Beck's Hybrids, ConAgraFoods, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana Crop Improvement Association and Pioneer Hi - Bred International.

About Blog Blog by Abroad Education Consultants, pioneer in the field of Global Education from last 8 years and has successfully sent more than 2000 students to universities and colleges around the globe.

This film was produced by some of the pioneers of sex education whose ideas are still being challenged by school boards today.

The winning schools will be chosen by a panel of judges including Matthew Burton and global education pioneer Professor Stephen Heppell, plus colour and design experts from Dulux.

We are proud to pioneer the crucial areas of child health and education by equipping our staff with the right skills and knowledge to improve children's lives even further.

The sophisticated new microcomputer unveiled last week by Steven P. Jobs, the electronics pioneer who helped found Apple Computer Inc., is not expected to make an immediate impact on precollegiate education, but could be a harbinger of developments to come, industry experts said.

An interesting and pioneering effort is the Strategic Dialogue of Education Ministers5, set up in March 2013 by SEAMEO or the Southeast Asia Ministers of Education Organization.

The program is called the Talent Development Institute (T.D.I.) and involves about 240 students participating in 10 enrichment groups - or clusters, a term coined by gifted education researcher, Joseph Renzulli, who pioneered the enrichment cluster model.

Match Beyond, launched in late 2013, offers accelerated degree programs through a pioneering approach that combines online education — provided by a partner, Southern New Hampshire University — with intensive coaching and support, including job - placement counseling.

When Education Pioneers launched in 2003, our first BHAG was to bring on 300 Fellows a year, working for outstanding partner organizations in 15 cities across the country by our 10th anniversary.

The study on which this blog entry is based «Getting Classroom Observations Right: Lessons on how from four pioneering districts,» by Grover J. «Russ» Whitehurst, Matthew M. Chingos and Katharine M. Lindquist, was published by Education Next on September 16, 2014.

Student Engagement The UK's first BSc in renewable energy was launched by Exeter University in 2003, while the Centre for Alternative Technology (a 2011 Ashden Award Winner) has long been pioneering advanced education in renewable energy systems and principles.

After receiving an appointment as Associate Professor and Faculty Chair of Education at the University of Detroit Mercy, Dr. Wilson continued her pioneering work by leading faculty to develop the first field - based Master of Science degree that had as focus the theory of mediated learning, cognition, and other works of Reuven Feuerstein.

XP School A secondary school for 11 - 18 year - olds in Doncaster, set up by a group of local teachers who wanted to pioneer a more innovative style of education, based on the success of High Teach High in the USA.

A cognitive scientist and educational psychologist by training, Emiliano has pioneered and influenced the convergence of technology and education.

This is just the latest education - specific example of a crowdsourcing approach to answering questions originally pioneered by products such as Yahoo Answers.

Each year nominations are accepted and evaluated by a selection panel that chooses new honorees based on: their pioneering efforts in the development / growth of charter schools; their long term commitment and contributions to charter schools and education; their innovative ideas and successful implementation of those ideas; and their inspiration to others in the charter school movement.

Like all classroom solutions from LEGO Education, this set is based on «Constructionism,» a school of thought pioneered by progressive theorists Jean Piaget and Seymour Papert.

«Community - Based Teacher Preparation as Praxis: Preparing Effective Educators Through Research - Practice Partnerships» was organized by the editors of the Journal of Teacher Education (JTE) to bring attention to pioneering work under way on this emerging practice.

Founded by pioneering education reformer Elizabeth Harrison, NCE has always been a leader in progressive education.

I don't have the exact quote, since I'm working here as well as listening, but Headlee gave an impassioned speech about how this sort of program (pioneered by Harmony Education Services) is not part of the goal of having charter schools.

Some educators say they are fueled partly by their war with Ducey over his latest expansion of a voucher - like program — a pioneering «education savings account» that allows virtually any family to get public dollars to pay for private school expenses.

Jemma Read, Bloomberg's Head of Philanthropy in Europe, said: «By supporting today's pioneers and leaders in education to help realise their bold, innovative ideas, Teach First is enhancing the educational landscape and promoting solutions to many of the greatest challenges in the sector.

Charter school founders are pioneers of public education reform, staking their claim in the K - 12 education landscape by founding new schools in many historically underserved communities.

They were established under a policy pioneered by Education Secretary Michael Gove and since September 2011 more than 170 have been opened across England.

The idea of society providing a quality, comprehensive education for all children is inspiring and attainable, but the old model for delivering that education — a monolithic government entity led by politicians with a captive audience of students forced into grossly unequal schools — has got to go, one of the nation's pioneers in public school reform told a Tulane audience on Thursday.

The states are pioneering programs closely aligned with proposals laid out among a set of education reforms in a 2006 report by the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

To support its pioneering efforts to simplify the master scheduling process, education technology startup Abl today announced $ 7.5 million in Series A funding, led by Rethink Eeducation technology startup Abl today announced $ 7.5 million in Series A funding, led by Rethink EducationEducation.

This report, published jointly by the Learning Policy Institute and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, documents the progress of these pioneering states to transform their systems of accountability in order to provide more meaningful learning opportunities for all students.

These schools are in principle based on methodologies developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, the first woman to become a medical doctor in Italy and one of the most respected pioneers in education as well.

Created by internationally recognized education leader Russ Quaglia and his daughter Cali — along with award - winning illustrator Daniel Minter — Cay and Adlee Find Their Voice supports Quaglia's pioneering work around the importance of student voice.

About Channel - ACRES (Animal Concerns Research & Education Society) is a pioneering charity and Institution of Public Character, founded by Singaporeans in 2001 with the aim of advocating an end to animal cruelty in Asia.

About Blog Blog by Abroad Education Consultants, pioneer in the field of Global Education from last 8 years and has successfully sent more than 2000 students to universities and colleges around the globe.

So while you may find cheaper, easier and quicker scuba courses, you will not find more thorough, more responsible and more effective diver training than the scuba diver education programs pioneered by Action Divers, Puerto Galera's premier scuba diving center.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 I AM THIS, Art by Oregon Jewish Artists, The Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education A Lot A Lot, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, Sweden 2016 Portland Museum of Modern Art / Houseguest, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Portland, OR Salon: Portland2016 Biennial, curated by Michelle Grabner, Disjecta, Portland, OR and from this distance one might never imagine that it is alive, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR 2015 Testable Predictions, Carl & Sloan Contemporary, Portland, OR 2012 Collider, Littman Gallery at Portland State University, Portland, OR Highlighter, Nationale, Portland, OR Perceptual Control, Worksound Gallery, Portland, OR 2011 Art & Leisure, Colonel Summer Tennis Courts, Portland, OR 2010 Re: Port, Gallery 114, Portland, OR Bubble Letters, Car Hole Gallery, Portland, OR Dump Art, Berlin, Germany 2009 Neverending Neo in a West Coast Lite, Stumptown Belmont, Portland, OR