Sentences with phrase «education leadership focus»

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Under Mr. Fairbank's leadership, Capital One has demonstrated a strong commitment to philanthropy and volunteerism, supporting a number of area programs focused on community redevelopment and youth education, including DC Cares, the DC College Access Program and Junior Achievement.

HashChain's leadership focuses on capitalizing companies within emerging markets with experience in resources, healthcare, education and now blockchain / cryptocurrency technology.

My background in education and leadership has given me a focus as much on a person's thought processes and reasoning as on the evidence itself.

Under his leadership, United Way focuses its attention on education, income, and health; inviting people and organizations everywhere to give, advocate and volunteer.

According to the «Berlin» model, excellent theological schooling requires two foci: education for professional ministerial leadership and critical theological inquiry.

Its unique model integrates arts and sciences and industry - focused education with work experience and leadership opportunities, inspiring students to achieve professional success and lifelong personal growth.

Specific activities like focus on enhancing leadership skills of women, promoting thrift and credit groups as well as health, education and economic activities also have contributed largely to women empowerment.

We started with parents and going forward, we will be focusing on educators — teachers / leadership teams at schools / staff / counselors and anybody associated with education.

Under Dare's leadership, the Urban League widened its focus from job training and education to real estate development.

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

«These impressive results are thanks to better teaching, better school leadership, Labour's relentless focus on literacy and numeracy and record investment in schools,» said shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg.

WBFO's focus on education reporter Eileen Buckley checked - in with western New York Regent Representative Catherine Collins about future leadership of the Regents Board.

The funding will also support YouthBuild, which trains at - risk youth in the construction industry with a focus on education, occupational skills, and leadership development.

WBFO's focus on education reporter Eileen Buckley checked - in with western New York Regent Representative Catherine Collins on three new board members recently appointed and future leadership.

Labour leadership frontrunner Andy Burnham has used a speech to focus his campaign on apprenticeships and technical education.

His campaign focused on improving education and creating jobs in energy efficiency, in addition to reversing the direction the Republican leadership had taken the state on women's health issues.

FOCUS on Health & Leadership for Women (FOCUS) has been an active program at the Perelman School since the 1990s, working to support the advancement and leadership of women in academic medicine and to promote education and research in women's health and women's careers.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Governors are focusing much of their attention on two critical areas of education policy — high school and preschool — a 50 - state look at the nation's governors and their leadership on education over the past year shows.

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.

School leaders summit Exclusively focused for those with a leadership role in a school, the School Leaders Summit will address innovative new ways to enhance education in schools and provide an atmosphere where like - minded educators can learn, network and share ideas.

In Public Impact's latest Opportunity Culture case study, Touchstone Education: New Charter With Experienced Leader Learns From Extending Teachers» Reach, we look at how this teacher, Tiffany McAfee, led the school's teachers in their focus on literacy, and how the school combined her leadership with online instruction.

«The UAE has money but focuses on tourism so it doesn't have the leadership or education on issues like autism or developmental disabilities.

Some students and alumni came to HGSE because of its focus on urban education and leadership, while others had heard about it through the grapevine at TFA.

Both MLE and IEM are focused on building strong leaders and developing management skills of higher education administrators; MLE curriculum addresses leadership challenges confronting deans, while IEM focuses on issues of relevance to presidents, provosts, and vice presidents.

Andy and I are delighted to have the Endeavor Foundation help launch these soon - to - be doctors of education leadership, and we are committed to the school's mission to let them focus on their degree program without the burden of tuition.

For at least a generation, as American public education has stagnated, the conventional wisdom about leadership has focused on an old idea: certify educators to fix the problem.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present recommendations for a school district to a panel of faculty judges.

This new strand came at the perfect time, as Boles, along with Professor Susan Moore Johnson and Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth, recognized a lack of focus in education on instructional leadership.

For more than 40 years, the Institute for Educational Management (IEM)-- one of the flagship leadership development programs offered by the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE) at HGSE — has brought together participants with a variety of perspectives, from a broad range of institutions, to focus on the challenges of organizational change and leadership.

This is a profession in which close to 100 percent of administrators have been trained in educational leadership programs at schools of education and have learned that it's wrongheaded to focus on managing operations or removing mediocre employees.

In order to be as relevant as they were under Shanker's leadership, unions must focus on «being a voice for public education and for the children in public schools, as well as for the members,» Toner said.

That includes giving through the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation, which the couple chair and which has a five - point focus: the local community, education, the arts, justice, and leadership.

Since joining the HGSE faculty in 2007, Higgins, whose research focuses on leadership development and change in organizations, has been helping education administrators find new ways to address challenges outside the classroom, in situations where being «in charge» may not always be the best approach.

The scheme focuses on extra support to develop leadership in maths and help schools work together in support of higher standards; and supporting teachers, teaching assistant, further education lecturers and others to develop improved classroom practice.

Her research focuses on leadership development and organizational change, particularly in higher education and urban public schools.

For years, she studied various aspects of higher education with a focus on leadership.

These teachers would benefit greatly from a school leadership which allowed them time and encouraged their development as musicians — perhaps by funding attendance at music courses which are not solely focused on music education.

Still, as faculty chair of HISL, Peterkin knew that the weeklong institute — a Program in Professional Education focused on helping school district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators needed.

Two years ago, PELP, a collaborative project between faculty at Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Education that focuses on developing effective leadership and management practices to support large - scale organizational change in urban school districts, began the Case Competition where teams of Harvard University students present...

Typically, studies of leadership in education focus on «formal» leaders — the individuals who have official management roles, such as principals or superintendents.

The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high - quality teaching profession, making leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities and student well - being, and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

One of the WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) Award winners for 2015 was a Ugandan project focusing on developing leadership and entrepreneurship skills.

After joining the Harvard faculty in 1998, Reimers sought to create a program that focused on the development of leadership and policy analysis skills to improve the quality of education in developing nations.

Kathleen Budge is an associate professor at Boise State University, where her research and scholarly activity focuses on educational leadership, leadership development, rural education, school improvement, and poverty.

We will focus on applications to the practice of education, from classroom teaching to school leadership, so that we are equipped to reflect upon and improve our work as educational practitioners, scholars, and activists.

Before I came to HGSE I was interested in the big picture of education and while I continue to be interested in the entire sector, I feel more focused on the importance of school leadership and excellent teaching in local communities.

Now that the technological foundation for the use of robust systems of longitudinal education data has been laid in most states and school districts, experts say the focus needs to turn to making such data more useful for teachers, administrators, parents, and students, That will require a mix of strong leadership at the state and districts levels, greater collaboration across state agencies, and much better professional development and ongoing support for teachers and administrators.