Sentences with phrase «called focus schools»

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The authors of a Harvard Business School paper called Goals Gone Wild warn that the use of goal setting can actually cause a shift in focus, away from important but unspecified goals.

A report issued by Deloitte in 2011 called for revamping the K - 12 curriculum to expose kids to entrepreneurial concepts, and Stuart says government officials and policy experts are even considering the possibility of specialized, innovation - focused schools.Programs like the lecture series currently offered at Toronto French School that brings in entrepreneurs to talk to students can make a difference, he says.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

The Clinton platform also focuses heavily on education, including a call to broaden computer science education in public schools, revamp job training programs, and provide more funds for minority colleges to help tackle tech's diversity problem.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

The call ended, and, like most Americans who were near a TV, I quickly lost focus on pretty much all else aside from the grim details emerging from Newtown's Sandy Hook elementary school.

One of the Parkland school shooting survivors is calling on tourists to boycott the State of Florida for spring break as a way to get legislators» attention focused on gun control.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

[6] If a theological school wants to understand God more truly, surely it would be better — to make yet another counterproposal — to focus study on the Word of God that not only calls congregations into being and nurtures them but also judges and corrects them.

«THE SMARTEST TEAM» begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in football but offering youth and high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six Pillars» of a comprehensive concussion risk management program:

it's time for schools to stop letting kids call the shots on menu items by focusing on kids» preferences.

This whole debacle reminds me of when Chipotle changed their bags to state their philosophy of «Food With Integrity» and focused on the pig, and Chipotle's FB page was inundated by high school and college kids who plastered its walls with endless postings about their so - called ethical treatment of their factory farmed pigs.

In order for kids to have perseverance and tenacity in school later on, they need to start with self - regulatory abilities — the ability to calm themselves down, to focus on something for long periods of time, executive functions, as researchers sometimes call them.

It has a branch that focuses on research, lobbying, and legislation, as well as a branch called the Home School Foundation (HSF) that, among other goals, aims to help homeschooling families that are in need.

Such activity is called «social projection» and is the focus of new marketing research from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.

FOCUS and the other partners that helped CPS to do this — the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, Whole Foods Market, and Healthy Schools Campaign — are getting calls from districts interested in following Chicago's example.

This blog focuses on the philosophy of school, which sometimes is also called «restful learning,» or «joyful learning» as well as unique curriculum philosophies as alternative ways to homeschool children.

For the past two decades, she has hosted an annual broadcast for healthcare and public health professionals called Breastfeeding Grand Rounds, focusing each year on a different breastfeeding issue with both clinical and public health significance Dr. Applegate holds a BA in biochemistry from Smith College, an MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an MPH in epidemiology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The Smartest Team begins where other concussion documentaries leave off, not simply identifying the risks of long - term brain injury in football but offering youth and high school programs across the country specific ways to minimize those risks, through a focus on what de Lench calls the «Six PillarsTM» of a comprehensive concussion risk management program:

Former teacher Linares said he also intends to focus on education, and called for more funding to help community schools and provide wrap - around services for public school students.

Calling it a «pivotal time in the history of our school system,» UFT President Michael Mulgrew focused on the need to rebuild public education in New York City after Mayor Bloomberg in his speech at the union's annual Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton on May 11.

Ernest A. Logan, the president of the union that represents NYC's principals and assistant principals, says he and and his members have lost confidence in NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration, calling the mayor's school turnaround effort «a political mess» that isn't focused on kids.

Education - focused rallies at the Capitol on Tuesday called for greater accountability and funding for schools and teachers in the new year.

That's why Tristram Hunt's emphasis on school standards, and Ed Miliband's call for a renewed focus on the «forgotten fifty per cent», including compulsory English and Maths up to the age of 18, is critical to ensuring our education system equips everyone to get a job.

Cuomo says he's tired of hearing the same «debate» over education that's occurred for the last twenty years, which he says focuses too much on what he calls «high priced» professional education lobbyists and the amount of money to be spent on schools.

Amid a fiscal crisis, taxes rose, and school aid was cut through a program called the Gap Elimination Adjustment that focused most on wealthier, suburban districts generally represented by Republicans.

At an Albany press conference later that month, Nixon called his focus on transparency a «classic stall tactic,» and said, «Cuomo's entire argument on school funding is just one big excuse to ignore the lives of students who are black or brown or working - class.»

Speaking to an audience of approximately 300 people at the Johnson Community Center in East Harlem, Mark - Viverito called for new programs which would expand access to civil legal services, create new technology - focused programs in City high schools, as well as for expanding existing agencies and programs such as the Human Rights Commission.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN)- Calling Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz «incompetent» for threatening to hold back sales tax funds from area school districts as a way to force district consolidations, Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw as asking County Executive should focus on the deplorable road conditions...

WBFO's Focus on Education Reporter Eileen Buckley says one city school teacher calls receivership «union busting».

The organization, StudentsFirstNY, and another group with a similar focus called Families for Excellent Schools have formed a counterweight to teachers» unions, long among the top spenders in the state capital.

At the New York Law School, Bratton also defended broken windows, which calls for a focus on small, so - called «quality of life offenses» to prevent larger crimes — and wouldn't even consider one attendee's calls during the question - answer - session to do away with the practice.

His plan, the New Education Bargain, calls for community schools, lower class sizes, more career programs and a focus on early literacy — all things that have become state and national priorities.

His campaign is focused on Rochester City schools, what he calls «wasteful» and «redundant» business regulations and a public safety plan intended to reduce crime and improve police - community relations among other issues.

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

Such activity is called «social projection» and is the focus of new marketing research from Baylor University's Hankamer School of Business.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

As immigration increases the number of non-English speaking «culturally and linguistically diverse» students, schools will need to band together in networks focused on the challenges of educating what has been called «the new mainstream,» according to a Boston College professor.

To get a clearer picture of the settlement patterns, David Reich of Harvard Medical School in Boston and his colleagues compared DNA from 52 Native American populations across Canada, Greenland and Central and Southern America, focusing on variations called single - nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in protein - coding and non-coding regions across the genome.

The calls start focusing on Sidney, who narrowly escapes the killer not only at home, but also at school.

Focusing solely on graduates of Harvard Business School and on alumni of a program for gifted minority students called A Better Chance (ABC), the author discovered this time that bourgie blacks, like First Lady Michelle Obama, finally feel pretty darn good about being American.

Now they follow a new plan called the Peaceful Schools Climate Initiative, focused on students and staff developing social skills and creating respectful relationships.

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

After years of intense focus by American policy leaders and educators on college readiness, a growing chorus is calling for schools to better prepare students for futures that might not include four - year degrees.

In focusing on individual school models and putting forth an open call for ideas — rather than insisting on a prescribed list of policy - related preferences — the initiative appeared to depart significantly from the kind of education grant making that has been practiced for the past 15 years by philanthropists such as the Gates, Walton, and Broad families.

But a truly integrated school focuses on creating a positive experience for all students of all backgrounds, and supports what we call the «ABCDs» of diverse and equitable schools: strong academics, a strong sense of belonging, a commitment to dismantling racism, and an appreciation of diversity.

My class, which is called Sports for the Mind (SFTM), is a learning space built into Quest schools in which students engage with project - based learning assignments that are focused on design thinking and systems thinking.

ChoiceMedia.TV has developed a new series focused on education reform issues called «Reform School.»

Beyond just limiting priorities to what matters most, schools need to have a very clear sense of where to start and focus their energies on what the management literature calls «putting first things first».