He not only could point me towards great locations when I was scouting for my open world quest designs and
district design effort, but would often offer solid game design ideas in the process, particularly as they relate to driving and how the location fit into the overall district.
Not exact matches
«The Innovation
District in downtown Las Vegas was
designed to be a proving ground for new technologies, and this latest interest by NTT Group and Dell Technologies will continue our
efforts to become a smart and connected community,» said Michael Lee Sherwood, Director of Information Technologies, City of Las Vegas.
If you're a cash strapped
district, are you really going to put all of the
effort and headache into a scratch program when it's so cumbersome to run, and food brokers are banging down your door with solutions that are cheaper and easier, and
designed to check all of the boxes?
Not since the post-World War II boom of the late 1940s through the 1960s have residents of the Arlington Heights Park
District experienced such a profound
effort by the
District to provide parks and recreation options
designed by the people and for the people.
The groundbreaking will end a seven - year
effort to find the right location and
design, said Linda Gryziecki, the Park
District's director.
Aging infrastructure and equipment, much of it
designed to heat or handle pre-packaged rather than fresh foods, pose significant barriers to school
districts»
efforts to adapt to the preferences and dietary needs of today's...
Aging infrastructure and equipment, much of it
designed to heat or handle pre-packaged rather than fresh foods, pose significant barriers to school
districts»
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Spota also said Bellone's
efforts were
designed to thwart
district attorney probes of Bellone aides and Bellone's boyhood friend Robert Stricoff, a former Babylon Democratic leader and town industrial development agency head.
Joined by Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol and Oneida County
District Attorney Scott McNamara, Picente unveiled Oneida County's summer STOP - DWI Billboard and Road Sign Campaign, an advertising and outreach
effort designed to curb drinking and driving incidents.
Researchers looking to tap into the treasure troves of long - term student - achievement data that states and
districts are starting to pile up say their
efforts are increasingly running up against a decades - old federal law
designed to protect student privacy.
Enthusiasts concentrated on
designing instructional materials, consulting with states and
districts, and training leaders and teachers, seemingly presuming that the public knew what they were up to and supported their
effort.
These shenanigans by the
district and the union have been presented to the public in a way that is
designed to pull the wool over people's eyes: «The result has been a perversion of the evaluation system and a knowing
effort to deceive the public using educational jargon.»
The Framework will be
designed primarily for use by schools and school
districts and will be based on the premise that there is no one «right» way to build or evaluate PreK - 3rd
efforts.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of State Support is pleased to announce the new State Support Network website, an online platform
designed to support school improvement
efforts by providing States and
districts with opportunities to engage with their peers and connect with experts and resources.
This master set of rubrics is
designed to support school and
district efforts to integrate 4Cs assessment strategies into teaching and learning systems.»
The sample materials in the Dashboard Communications Toolkit are
designed to support
districts and schools with community engagement
efforts.
Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement
efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies
designed to increase equitable access to the
district's better schools, seeking to gum up
efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all
efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?
In this workshop, a collaborative
effort of the National Literacy Project (NLP), Seminole County (FL) Public Schools, and the National Literacy
Design Collaborative (LDC), teachers,
district and school administrators, and instructional coaches learned to use the LDC Framework to help students meet career - and college - readiness standards.
One of the few studies of on - demand assessment to report specifically by subject area is based on data from the New Standards Project, a multistate
effort designed to involve educators in the creation of state and
district performance - based assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics (Resnick, Resnick, & DeStefano, 1993).
The TPSNVA professional development program was
designed by school personnel in an
effort to promote student learning with Library of Congress resources while advancing current local school
district pedagogy initiatives.
The information in these synthesis reports was collected from practicing administrators and teachers in reentry programs nationwide, and is
designed to assist state departments of education, school
districts, and community - based organizations interested in redesigning or initiating
efforts to help youth with disabilities return to the education system and become successful school completers.
Previously, he served in hybrid teacher leadership roles developing and operationalizing successful school turnaround,
design initiatives, and change - management
efforts within the Los Angeles Unified School
District.
PEAPS - LA is encouraged by the
District's
efforts to provide clearer school quality information to families, and believes the new School Finder should be
designed in a way that works for all families, provides easy comparisons between schools, and provides useful information on all public school options.
Fails to provide parents with protection from substantial school budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's current «maintenance of
effort» provision, which ensures that
districts that receive Title I funding —
designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — maintain approximately the same spending levels from year to year.
McGuire Woods lobbyist Harry Kaplan explained to N.C. Policy Watch that Education Freedom Alliance was one of their clients and that on their behalf, he was behind lobbying
efforts to create an «achievement school
district»
designed to allow charter school operators to take over the state's poorest performing schools.
The flexibility of this
design aligns closely with the school
district's
efforts to move from teacher - directed to student - led instruction, says Principal Matthew Kegley.
«This school is a testament to the joint
effort of the
district and the local association, who put the resources into giving teachers the opportunity to really show what we can do when we have an authentic voice in how a school is
designed and run,» said Nazareno.
But even with those
efforts, and following the debut of the resulting
design, the
district made a decision to again go into the community in a series of meetings entitled, «Come listen, learn, and let us know...» This told the community that their thoughts mattered; they were sharing in shaping the future of the school.
These
efforts are intended to also help the
District of Philadelphia to achieve its second aim of using evidence from these two schools to establish basic practices for research, development, and
design of high - performing secondary schools in the long term.
These rubrics are
designed to support school and
district efforts to integrate 4Cs assessment strategies into teaching and learning systems.
As other states and
districts look to
design units that meet new standards, the CAS project can help inform
efforts to improve teaching and learning across the country.
NC3T works with,
districts, state and regional
efforts to
designing pathways systems.
Some of the most ambitious
efforts to address the underachievement of African - American boys and young men have involved broad, systemic reforms — carefully conceived and clearly articulated transformations of entire school
districts that are
designed to run seamlessly from pre-kindergarten through high school.
It provides a summary of research and emerging practices in other states and
districts designed to provide state lawmakers, legislative staff, State Board of Education members, Department of Education officials, and other key stakeholders information they need to ensure the effectiveness of their reform
efforts in Pennsylvania.
He is Project Director for «Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering as a Driver of Cross-Curricular Change,» a multi-
district $ 3.4 million U.S. DOE i3 grant with Smithsonian and the University of Virginia and leads the
district's
efforts in a NSF grant, «MAKER: Studying the Role of Failure in
Design and Making» with Indiana University.
Opens the door to severe budget cuts: Sen. Alexander's bill eliminates the ESEA's «maintenance of
effort» provision, which requires
districts that receive Title I funding —
designed to help low - income and disadvantaged students — to maintain approximately the same spending levels on education from year to year.
The California Department of Education (CDE) released a communications toolkit on the California School Dashboard Report featuring links to customizable materials
designed to support
districts and schools with their community engagement
efforts.
In this paper, authors Scott Marion and Paul Leather present an overview of New Hampshire's
efforts to implement a pilot accountability system
designed to support deeper learning for students and powerful organization change for schools and
districts.
The
district and union have also been supportive of
efforts to
design and implement a peer assistance and review process where teachers observe, give feedback, and evaluate each other.
This
design also allows states and
districts to concentrate their
efforts on schools with students that have the lowest growth rates.
This ten - month, cohort - based program engaged educators from ten school
districts and charter networks in exploring user - centered
design, learning science, innovative learning environments, and best practices in R&D in an
effort to accelerate change within existing school systems.
In an
effort to bridge the transition from vision into implementation, Frenship ISD partnered with e2L to facilitate a process where
district innovators came together to
design the Frenship ISD learning solution.
Fewer than half the
districts carried out all required components of the grant, potentially indicating implementation challenges with pay - for - performance systems.85 The relative impact of the programs evaluated depended on program
design elements such as the amount of compensation provided, the link between individual
efforts and rewards, and whether the funding is perceived as temporary or permanent (see sidebar on Washington D.C.'s IMPACT system).
The guide also suggests that
district leaders often miss opportunities to
design indicators that integrate with the broader school - and
district - level
efforts to improve student performance.
Demonstration project teachers served as facilitators for 40
district - level teams from around the state, who attended a conference
designed to initiate professional development
efforts similar to those developed by MELAF.
«The evaluation of the consumption data proves that the
efforts made by the City of Heidelberg to
design an entire city
district to a high standard in terms of energy efficiency based on future - oriented specifications and corresponding quality assurance have been tremendously successful,» says Søren Peper of the Passive House Institute, who was in charge of the monitoring project.
«Their
effort continues the spirit of technical innovation embodied by the original
design,» according to the Westport Historic
District Commission, which gave the house a Preservation Award.
First - of - Its - Kind International Not - For - Profit Organization to Confront and Prevent Malicious Cyber Activity Manhattan
District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., City of London Police Commissioner Adrian Leppard, and the Center for Internet Security (CIS) today announced the formation of the Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), an international, cross-sector
effort designed to confront, address, and prevent malicious cyber activity.