Sentences with phrase «change at the campus»

Raise Your Hand Texas — trains public school leaders to lead transformational change at the campus level and advocates for public policies that make public schools better for all Texas students.

Through these groups, principals are empowered to work together to create change at the campus and district levels.

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In a recent speech at IEEE's Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference, Klawe detailed just how Harvey Mudd reached this milestone, how the campus has changed in response, and, perhaps most soberingly, why so few institutions have followed in her footsteps.

Someone who should never have had access to any weapon — let alone an assault weapon capable of mowing people down — was able to walk onto a campus, kill at least 17 people and irrevocably change the lives of many, many more.

Okeechobee, FL, routinely closes and hands over entire public side streets to allow expansion of church campuses / At urging of local monied «fundamentalist believers» including major insurance agency heads and realtors, city just approved a full scale commercial restaurant open to public on COG campus without changing tax status or collecting fees.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

But at my alma mater, nothing has changed more than campus conservatism.

While some change will happen at the household level, restaurants, college campuses and supermarkets can take innovative and creative measures to reduce food waste.

He then takes an hour to drive to his Pleasant Hill home for a quick shower and change, returning to campus at 5 p.m. in khaki shorts and a solid black Dri - fit shirt (outfit no. 3).

They want frontage space along 95th Street, at least six acres to make changing space plans worthwhile, a speedy land negotiation and construction process, shared funding and a development of a campus environment.

The priorities will soon change, says Washington «s new park board president, Walter Netsch, an architect noted for designing college campuses, including the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the La Cañada High School auditorium, school officials will introduce parents to the basic tenets of the program and begin a dialogue about how subtle changes on campus could make a positive difference in the lives of students and families.

We're very lucky that the gym is on the same campus we work on so it's easy to get there, but even so I have to hustle from work at 4:30, pick Garrity up from daycare and get both of us changed and on the pool deck by 5.

The changes to school start times at the D'Youville Porter Campus, Drew Science Magnet School and Lydia Wright School were discussed this past spring.

The projects include the construction of a leadership centre at the Legon campus of the University of Ghana, scholarship scheme for brilliant but needy students, and a climate change project.

But that is soon to change at Gates Circle as it has already at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, the waterfront and Larkinville.

When Binghamton - area community college SUNY Broome opened its dorm a year and a half ago, everything changed at work for campus peace officer Marie Finelli.

WAMC Northeast Public Radio and The New York State Writers Institute present a special Climate Change Roundtable Panel at Page Hall at UAlbany's Downtown Campus featuring the following experts:

Astorino criticized Cuomo's economic development approach — he said he would scrap START - UP NY, a system of tax - free zones rooted in state university campuses — and said he would focus more on major regulatory changes than direct incentives, which he questioned because «the government gets to pick and choose winners... that's how we stay at the bottom.»

The ruling says Buffalo Schools Schools Superintendent Dr. Kriner Cash's receivership powers, under the state's receivership law, continue at D'Youville Porter Campus, Drew Science Magnet School and the Lydia Wright School and allows for changing the start and stop time.

But at a community college campus Wednesday, he said times and jobs have changed, and pushed for educational programs that train students for today's higher tech jobs.

Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters on often vulnerable communities, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like Zika, malaria and dengue fever, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

And there's a pretty good case to be made that whatever the students on the MIT campus are interested in at this moment will utterly change our lives again in about a decade.

Although there is unlikely to be any immediate change in the scientific activities at the facility, the status of observatory employees on Cornell's campus is uncertain, as is the fate of some Arecibo - related technology development projects at Cornell.

McFarlin and her engineering colleague, William O'Brien Jr., a research professor at the Urbana - Champaign campus, are taking ultrasonic detection of cervical changes to a microscopic level.

Yet at this forum, an on - campus debate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology over whether the university should divest the fossil fuel holdings within its $ 11 billion endowment, might not have happened if market forces properly priced the economic and environmental costs of climate change, a theme that Anthony Cortese, the event moderator, alluded to at the outset.

Dec. 28, 2017 - To address future climate change effects on water resources, scientists at five UC campuses, and Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories will study California's water systems, from the headwaters in the Sierra Nevada, through rivers, reservoirs and groundwater in the Central...

Last week, students in Wisconsin and Michigan stepped up to such an opportunity when CFACT Campus, the student arm of a well - known cabal of fossil fuel apologists, hosted climate change denier Willie Soon at several campus events around the coCampus, the student arm of a well - known cabal of fossil fuel apologists, hosted climate change denier Willie Soon at several campus events around the cocampus events around the country.

A three - week intensive program at the beautiful campus in Poughkeepsie, New York sounded like a great way to spend a few weeks of summer vacation, but that program changed the course of my life.

Bolstered by an impressive social impact campaign by distributor Radius - TWC — not to mention a terrific song by Lady Gaga — The Hunting Ground has been screened on campuses across the U.S., while providing resources for students to effect change at their schools.

Program at Harvard provided a singular opportunity to study cross-discipline strategies for transformative and systemic change beyond a single campus.»

When changing such troubling habits raises objections, it's clear why it took several years to end open campus at lunch, require uniforms, have teachers greet each student with a handshake, make home visits routine, and place administrators beyond the school's gates so students could safely walk to catch city buses.

Among the topics discussed at this first gathering were free speech on college campuses, online learning and MOOCs, changing demographics among students, challenges to humanities, and student learning.

The school, on the Berwick campus of Melbourne's Monash University, made the change at the start of 2015 following consultations with parents, students and teachers.

The location will change each week, at least for the start, but Seidel is simply happy that he now has a permanent day and time to announce programs to the entire campus.

Using variation in course - taking that arises both from changes in course offerings at particular campuses in a particular term and from variation across students in the distance that they have to travel to take in - person courses, we find that taking a course online reduces student grades by 0.44 points on the traditional four - point grading scale, approximately a 0.33 standard deviation decline relative to taking a course in - person (See Figure 1).

Three teachers also outlined their efforts to fight off campaigns to overhaul their elementary schools — Miramonte, 93rd Street and 68th Street — under the parent trigger law, which allows parents to petition for changes at low - performing campuses.

He continues to provide consultation and coaching at the state, district, and campus levels that results in systematic change around the execution of professional learning communities and math instruction.

The way changes were implemented at each campus differed according to local needs, but ultimately, all preparation programs had to find ways to teach their candidates how to align their instruction and assessment with specific content standards and to differentiate their teaching based on individual student needs.

It is also recommending changes at four additional low - performing campuses.

This year, LAUSD's pilot program was expanded to more than 1,100 school - site administrators who are working to fine - tune changes with about 900 teachers, one at each campus in the district.

Los Angeles Unified began testing changes to the teacher evaluation system last school year with 425 teachers at 100 campuses who elected to participate and provide feedback.

Nancy Amling, the founding principal of Hudson High School of Learning Technologies, talks about what will and won't change at her school now that the New York City Department of Education has lifted its ban on smartphones on campus.

The change has resulted in new leadership at two Ivy Prep campuses and new academic programs designed to boost student achievement.

The changes, which would give Einstein a second campus at 5316 Michoud Boulevard, Intercultural's current campus, and an authorized maximum enrollment of 500 students at that campus, were approved by the Orleans Parish School Board on Monday.

Created to drive educational change at scale, OnRamps has served over 20,000 students on more than 170 secondary campuses.

SFER (Students for Education Reform) is a student - led movement that champions educational equity... SFER organizes students to be a powerful force for K - 12 education policy and political change, through campus chapters that work at the national, state, and local levels to organize and advocate for great teachers and quality school choices for all kids.»

Under the trigger law, 50 % of parents at a low - performing school can force changes in staff and curriculum, shut down the campus or convert to an independent charter enterprise, which is publicly financed and usually non-union.

New - age reformers — as well as many parents and an ex-administrator at Desert Trails — are convinced that teachers» cushy union contracts are lowering the standard of excellence on campus, and preventing necessary changes to the curriculum.

With the McDonogh 7 campus at 1111 Milan Street nearing completion, Audubon's governing board changed the school calendar Saturday morning to make students» last day of school Dec. 17.