Sentences with phrase «by leading some schools»

The pilot has a budget of # 298,000, which will be adjusted depending on the number of returning teachers supported by the lead schools.

As a participant in this program, you will be part of a worldwide community dedicated to improving the lives of children by leading schools that strive to be models in innovative education and academic best practices.

While there, Kathleen supported all teachers to be literacy instructors by leading the school - wide implementation of The Hochman Method and developing a school - wide literacy program, for which she received the 2014 Outstanding Teacher of Literacy Award from the Staten Island Reading Association.

Maths hubs are each run by a lead school or college, and offer other schools in their area access to free or subsidised CPD, information about local maths activities and allows them to participate in a network of «local leaders of maths education».

As a participant in this program, you will be part of a worldwide community dedicated to improving the lives of children by leading schools that strive to be models in innovative education and academic best practices.

Not exact matches

Precision leads to results: instead of saying «Maybe I'll put on a movie later,» declare «Today, while updating an Excel spreadsheet, I'll re-watch David Fincher's catalogue with play - by - play explainer videos from No Film School on my second screen.

The most recent research, led by Joseph Allen, who teaches at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, analyzed the performance of knowledge workers, including engineers, programmers, creative marketing professionals and managers.

The increase from a decade ago was led by debtors whose highest education was high school, suggesting they could struggle to find decent jobs in a weaker economy.

But the school Wednesday got a hint of validation to the tune of $ 5.5 million in investment in a round led by Cambridge - based venture - capital firm Charles River Ventures and New York City - based Matrix Partners.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

This movement was led by the Chicago school of economics, the free market ideology developed at the University of Chicago in the mid-20th century.

The series of studies led by Haas School of Business professor Laura Kay asked pairs of negotiators to rank the effectiveness of their partners, then quizzed female participants about the extent to which they employed social charm.

(Reuters)- A U.S. judge blocked Obama administration guidance that transgender public school students must be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by a group of 13 states led by Texas.

WebMD cites a study led by Laura Berman, Ph.D., assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and ob - gyn at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, which studied 2,000 couples.

A panel of Canadian CEOs recently expressed their views on financial literacy in a poll conducted by COMPAS Inc., and 51 % said schools should play the lead role in building the country's foundation of knowledge.

We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

From their mission statement: «March For Our Lives is created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country who will no longer risk their lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.»

The documentary traces Buffett's life story, from growing up the son of a U.S. Representative from Nebraska who had some trouble in school, to amassing upwards of $ 73 billion by leading Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a).

Led by Steve Coll, the dean of the Columbia Journalism School, the review examined the editorial process behind the explosive story, which failed to hold up under a barrage of questions raised by other media after its publication in November.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

For instance, a new study led by a professor of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement of the untested but promising candidate.

Wharton is among a number of leading undergraduate business schools that reported strong job numbers for the 2014 class in recent career placement reports, driven by a robust hiring market for finance, steady internship to job conversion rates, and an increased appetite for jobs in the tech sector.

That study, led by William Bozeman, M.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine, found that Tasers «appear to be very safe, especially when compared to other options police have for subduing violent or combative suspects... [though] that is not to say that injuries and deaths are impossible.»

Other universities are watching carefully and will likely follow Stanford's lead, says Chris Lesmes, former director of the Big Red Venture Fund, a student - run $ 2 million investment fund targeting startups at Cornell University and financed by alumni, not the school.

Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

The study appears in the current edition of the journal Frontiers in Psychology, led by Dr. Thomas Bak, a lecturer at Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

The Futenma base, near where Tuesday's accident took place, is surrounded by schools, hospitals, and shops, leading local residents to fear air crashes and accidents.

Last week's televised town hall on guns and school safety has led to finger - pointing by the father of a Florida school shooting survivor and CNN.

According to a study led by Alison Wood Brooks of Harvard Business School, men and women are more likely to be influenced by a business pitch if it is delivered by a man — even if the exact same words are spoken by a woman.

That may be the thinking of many managers (even if they try to delegate) but it's not the best way to lead according to a new book by Kellogg School professor Keith Murnighan entitled Do Nothing!

«He was just an amazing person to be led on and taught by, and I'm thankful enough to even be in his presence, just going through high school.»

«People often make decisions that are influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the decisions they are making,» says Stéphane Côté, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, who co-wrote the study with lead researcher Jeremy Yip of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

But by helping to revive UA as an artist - led studio, Cruise will be the latest entrant in an old - school Hollywood tradition.

Known as Canada's Global Business School ™, the Schulich is ranked among the world's leading business schools by a number of global surveys (# 1 in the world by the Aspen Institute; # 1 in Canada by Forbes, The Economist and Expansión).

Its research activities seek to develop actionable, prescriptive theory that can guide general managers in the decisions they must make, re-invigorating general management research by following a proven research process, refining it through collaboration with practitioners, and then distributing it to a broad audience In pursuit of these goals, the Forum both hosts conferences to bring together academic experts, leading practitioners, and Harvard Business School alumni to develop current ideas and engages in extensive publishing activities.

Locally, our chief wrangler served as Vice President of Pensacola Beach Elementary School's board of directors, where he led the school's reconstruction project after serious damage by HurricaneSchool's board of directors, where he led the school's reconstruction project after serious damage by Hurricaneschool's reconstruction project after serious damage by Hurricane Ivan.

«The largest competition of its kind in Canada, the RBC Fast Pitch Competition sets the Haskayne School of Business apart by providing startup cash, advisory support and mentorship, and it has led to the creation of new opportunities for students from all disciplines across our great campus,» says Kim Neutens, director of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Recently, an article in Harvard Business Review by Professor Mike Toffel (Harvard Business School) and Associate Professor Aaron K. Chatterji (Duke University) called Divided We Lead came to my attention.

For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.

The establishment of this centre has been pivotal to the Rotman School's goal to become one of the world's top business schools by leading an evolution of the traditional business school School's goal to become one of the world's top business schools by leading an evolution of the traditional business school school model.

And by gaining control of the leading business schools through endowments, rentiers mould the educational process so as to make all this appear quite natural.

Today a free market means that predators are free to extort any price from the public, they are free to deregulate, free to lie to consumers, free to exploit, free to load any company they want down with debt, and basically lead (us) to a world of debt peonage... So the whole concept of freedom has been turned upside down by the Chicago school and by the Bush administration.

A recent study by University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found that high levels of emotional exhaustion that come from workplace anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.

NBC's «Saturday Night Live» poked fun at the recent advertiser boycott of Fox News host Laura Ingraham led by Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg.

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