Sentences with phrase «district designed innovations»

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MaRS Discovery District is pleased to announce the appointment of Joeri van den Steenhoven as director of the MaRS Solutions Lab, a new initiative designed to work on systems - level innovation challenges and opportunities.

«To encourage innovation and collaboration, the Park District of Oak Park has a program called «Launch Pad,» which is designed to help staff get good ideas off the ground,» said Bobbi Nance, the park district's senior manager of strategy and innDistrict of Oak Park has a program called «Launch Pad,» which is designed to help staff get good ideas off the ground,» said Bobbi Nance, the park district's senior manager of strategy and inndistrict's senior manager of strategy and innovation.

Also at 6 p.m., Transportation Alternatives hosts and «L - Train Shutdown Candidate Forum,» for NYC Council candidates in districts 1, 2, 3 and 4 to discuss «street design innovations and action plans they will fight for if elected to represent affected neighborhoods,» with Gothamist City Editor Christopher Robbins moderating, The New School, 66 West 12th St., Manhattan.

In the early years, the district rushed innovation schools into place without much attention to their design.

District leadership has a clear vision for how teaching and learning with technology should look: «Computational thinking,» «human - centered design,» «innovation mindset» — the district's intermediate school is literally built to reflect its embrace of such cDistrict leadership has a clear vision for how teaching and learning with technology should look: «Computational thinking,» «human - centered design,» «innovation mindset» — the district's intermediate school is literally built to reflect its embrace of such cdistrict's intermediate school is literally built to reflect its embrace of such concepts.

It is the district's first innovation zone, a network of four schools each with its own unique school design and student population.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

Beyond implementing personalized learning models, Anthony focuses his research on organizational design and culture of innovation at school districts.

We hope that they won't pooh - pooh small innovations like a one - off charter school with a unique design, a teacher evaluation tool that a school district has worked hard to create and implement, or a set of standards that a community has created to reflect its values.

Meanwhile, the district is growing a robust design lab, which will support the entire district in building a culture of innovation.

The district is promoting a high level of autonomy for each campus to design a model that aligns to the district's innovation pillars and solves for the root causes associated with postsecondary readiness on their specific campus.

The district is promoting a high level of autonomy for each campus to design a model that aligns to the district's innovation pillars

Educators who participate in these courses learn how to work in cross-functional teams that design, support, and deliver student - centered innovation in their districts, schools, and classrooms.

This education innovation incubator harnesses the university's intellectual resources and partners with school districts and educational organizations to design, build and field - test learning system models that transform teaching, improve learning and promote healthy child development.

Over the past year, we talked to dozens of education leaders from district, charter, and independent schools to learn more about their goals for innovation and school design and explore whether a partnership with Transcend might be the right fit to help them achieve their goals.

While many states and districts have adjusted for these incompatibilities, it takes time to design ad hoc funding structures that support innovation.

That would be in line with the original niche charter schools were designed to fill: freed from some of the same constraints that govern district managed schools, charter schools were envisioned as incubators of innovation that would find best practices and share them with other schools.

However, large districts with innovation - focused leadership can offer room and support for innovative designs.

Instead of assuming that the future of learning has to take place in buildings we happen to have now, districts can let innovations in instruction and learning drive how they provide, design, and use school buildings.

Using our unmatched thought leadership and experience with charter schools, turnarounds, and innovations for great teachers and principals, school design, funding, technology, parent support, community engagement and data analysis to help states, localities, districts, charter organizations, funders, and nonprofits choose the right strategies for dramatic improvements.

«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.

A 30 story high - rise office tower in Sydney, Australia's central business district, 1 Bligh Street a treasure trove of sustainable innovation and design.