Sentences with phrase «educational roles at»

Candice Madey previously worked as a client advisor at Christie's New York, and in curatorial research and educational roles at the Wexner Center for the Arts and Akron Art Museum.

She has also served in various educational roles at two separate charter schools focusing on family engagement, academic mentoring, and student services.

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The Reformation began at a university with a scholar's insight, and educational institutions long played a major role in Protestant success.

The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.

She has an educational background in environmental policy and enjoys drawing on this experience for her work on with the SCA on sustainability issues and her role at Counter Culture.

In 2011, Farrington and a team of researchers at the consortium began a comprehensive review of the literature on noncognitive capacities and the role they play in educational success.

The Agudath Israel representative told Mr. Paterson that «You are leaving the Governor's office at the end of this year with a great educational legacy» and assured him that «you will always be remembered by our community for your pivotal role in this historic accomplishment.»

Looking at the key from a point of view of the home and the role it plays, one will then appreciate our statement about reading as the key to learning in every educational setting.

Yvonne Minor - Ragan, an educational consultant and former principal at Westminster Community Charter School, will take on that new role at BUILD Academy, where the state has stepped in after years of poor academic performanc...

Star Trek's educational role was explored at an all - day meeting of the AAAS.

By investigating the role of lived poverty at both the individual and neighborhood level in transactional sex behavior among African - American MSM, the researchers pinpointed a significant association between educational attainment and HIV risk behavior.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

«It's an attractive idea in a lot of ways,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Vivian Louie, whose research looks at the role of the immigrant family in the educational experiences of second - generation Chinese Americans who are consistently presented as high academic achievers.

In conferences both in Korea and the United States — including one held this August in Gaithersburg, Md., aimed at Korean American youths, college students, youth leaders, and church leaders — Kim and her colleagues offer a changing slate of educational colloquiums, spiritual worship sessions, and group counseling sessions that zero in on the societal and familial realities that Korean Americans face and the role that counseling can play in fostering healthy social, emotional, and psychological development.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

While networks, incubators, and franchising certainly have roles to play in expanding educational options, the role of government should be at limited as possible.

For each trustee and local governor who has served at any point over the past 12 months, their full names, date of appointment, term of office, date they stepped down (where applicable), who appointed them (in accordance with the trust's articles), and relevant business and pecuniary interests including governance roles in other educational institutions must be recorded.

With this in mind, we look at the role of the educational system in supporting children during divorce proceedings.

It's therefore no wonder that educational institutions are looking at how to implement this technology into the curriculum - not only to familiarise students with the technology in order to prepare them for future roles involving 3D printing - but also to use technology's potential to enhance project - based learning which plays a critical role in STEM concepts.

And while the ESEA must continue to balance federal oversight and decisionmaking at the state level, it must ensure that the federal government retains its long - standing and crucial role in safeguarding equal educational opportunity.

She earned a bachelor's degree from the College of Idaho and brings her personal, professional, and educational experience, her entrepreneurial spirit, and a passion for improving education in Idaho to her leadership role at the Foundation.

Teri's passion for educational change led her to a school leadership role at Simon Middle School at Hays CISD, just as they were beginning to implement the Strategic Instruction Model (SIM) through the RAISEup Texas project.

What is more, «Many educational leaders neglect their own health and family time trying to fulfill their seemingly all - consuming professional roles, often at a time in their lives when they need to pay closer attention,» write researchers Sally Beisser and Randal Peters in their article, «Here's to Your Health» (see page 34.)

The paper ends with a discussion about culture, teacher education, and educational technology that recognizes the challenges of multiple cultures and the role of thick description to get at such cultures.

During her time at ACF, Joyce was responsible for fundraising and grantmaking to local organizations serving an educational role in Arizona.

ESSA is a portent of the pivotal role technology will play in planning at all levels — and an opportunity to inject creativity into new educational models.

When leaders from a variety of content - specific education organizations met at the National Technology Leadership Retreat 2001 to discuss technology's role in education, they were asked why more teacher educators were not integrating educational technology in their instruction (see Bell, 2001, for the full list of participants, as well as other issues discussed).

According to research by Chris Vieler - Porter, who is studying for a doctorate at the University of Birmingham on the underrepresentation of black and ethnic minority people in educational leadership roles, just 37 % of local authorities monitor the number of applications for such roles by gender, ethnicity and disability.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

Beginning his career in research and psychometrics, Dr. Murphy went on to assume leadership roles in K — 12 assessment at major educational publishing companies.

As such, discussions surrounding their role in education must shift from emphasizing their potential to evaluating their effectiveness at improving educational opportunities and outcomes for our nation's students.

Since then, she has devoted herself to creating innovative educational tools, first as a Product Manager for active reading and writing solutions, and now in her current role at PowerMyLearning.

As a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University, Bowen became a research affiliate with the Houston Education Research Consortium before taking his current role as an assistant professor of educational administration at Texas A&M University.

This role expands upon his prior 10 years of experience at STI utilizing his strengths in applying educational pedagogical approaches with our products in classrooms.

Has your involvement in this process and the opportunity to look at the superintendence from a national perspective given you any new or different feelings about the role of the superintendent in today's challenging educational environment?

Dr. Angela Sewall who has been the dean of education at UALR since 1997, is also active in educational policy in other venues including her roles as a member and deans» representative on the board of the Reading Recovery Council of North America, vice chair of the Unit Accreditation Board of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and a member of the NCATE Executive Board.

The father of three students at El Sol Science and Arts Academy, a nationally recognized charter public school in Santa Ana, Dr. Rodriguez believes that charter public schools can play a vital role in strengthening the California educational system.

She presents at local and national professional conferences, holds leadership roles in the many professional organizations she is involved with and teaches graduate - level courses on Change Theory and Community Relations for future educational leaders.

Secondly, by placing educational policy at the center of spatial histories of late - twentieth - century cities, I demonstrate the role that schools played in processes of renewal in the urban core.

Student activities enhance the educational mission of schools and play an important role in mitigating risk factors for at - risk students.

The emergence of standards - based reforms and accountability systems at the state and district levels has led to renewed interest in and inquiry into the district role in educational change.

As an aside, it's worth noting that Gallup asked Americans for their opinion on a federally funded school choice program, and there's plenty of discussion right now in the educational choice community about what role, if any, the federal government should have in an initiative that has been largely driven at the state level for the past quarter - century.

In our research at the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions, we evidence how institutions, such as HSIs, must continue to play a central role in the education of future teachers of color in order to create favorable educational leaders supporting aspirational Latino youth.

Prior to co-founding Transcend, Jeff spent a decade in senior leadership roles at Teach For America, a national nonprofit dedicated to educational opportunity for all children.

The best argument for emphasizing evidence in educational policy and practice is what happens when evidence plays no role: practice and policy swing like a pendulum from one enthusiasm to the opposite, and then back again, but no progress is made.The solution is to have a wide array of research going on at all times to create and evaluate promising solutions to longstanding problems.

While school environment plays a huge role in the educational experience of a student, a student can overcome a lot of this through a solid relationship with at least one adult that can show genuine care for the student and provide the student with advice.

In that role, he was responsible for coordinating the organization's educational priorities, including the seminar program at the annual SEMA Show, webinar schedule and programming created to help students prepare and transition into the specialty equipment market.

«Enhanced capacity of domestic publishers to compete in the educational publishing market is critically important to ensure that Arabic retains its role as a foundation of national identity and to ensure that future generations are capable and proficient at leveraging Arabic as an effective tool.

He explains how his educational path took him to Austin, where he began volunteering at the animal shelter there, taking on various volunteer roles, then getting hired as a staffer, ultimately ascending to Deputy Chief Animal Services.

In his role at Zoetis, Dr. Goldstein will work closely with the U.S. Companion Animal Division to develop educational events for sales and marketing, while leading efforts to bring the company's unique «Predict, Prevent, Detect and Treat» strategy to life.