Sentences with phrase «first education chair»

Sandra Oxner, then a judge of the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia, was CAPCJ's first education chair («The only reason I was given education to do was that nobody wanted it.»)

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AAFRC now keys its 1960 - 1972 figures for charitable giving in the areas of education and health — the second and third largest areas of charitable giving, religion being the first — to figures developed by the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, commonly referred to as the Filer Commission after its chair, John H. Filer.

Networking & Dinner 6:30 PM — 7:00 PM Welcome Reception Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education 7:00 PM — 8:00 PM Keynote Address Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences & Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

The Governor stated that when he came to government, the first task of his administration was to convene an education summit which was chaired by Prof Wole Soyinka, adding that all intervention of government in education since inception came from the recommendations of the summit and nothing about religion.

Mr. Flanagan (R - East Northport), who chairs the senate's Standing Committee on Education, said the first hearing will take place on Long Island in September.

First elected in 1976, he is the chair of the Higher Education Committee in the State Senate.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino has announced that the Hon. Lois Taplin Bronz, the first woman and first African - American to chair Westchester County's Board of Legislators and a life - long champion for early childhood education, will be the top honoree at the 31st annual Westchester Senior Citizens Hall of Fame on Dec. 6.

Gallivan, who chairs the Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections committee and is vice chair of the Education Committee, at first referred questions to Flanagan.

He was first elected to the Council in 1973, and became the youngest Chair of Education in the history of Liverpool from 1980 — 1983, during which time he was also Deputy Leader of the Council under Sir Trevor Jones.

Durrant was one of the first beneficiaries of the Welsh Government's Sêr Cymru initiative, which was announced in 2012 as part of the government's science strategy to identify areas of research where Wales «has a fighting chance to be the best in the world,» says David Allen, chair of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales.

In response to the agreement, Representative George Miller (D — CA), chair of the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee who held a hearing in April on the then - stalled talks, issued a statement criticizing the «unnecessary delays that blocked a first contract for far too long,» adding that those delays were «outrageous and needed to end,» and that «it was clear that [UC] caused» the delays.

While reading Ungar, I could not help but think about Don McLeroy, a man who vexed scientists and educators for the first decade of this century in his roles as a member and then chair of the Texas State Board of Education.

«I've looked at how to improve the quality of K - 12 teachers,» says Wieman, who also chairs the Board on Science Education for the U.S. National Academies, «and I think that we have to fix the universities first.

He is the first physical therapist to win the Excellence in Inter-Professional Pain Education Award from the Canadian Pain Society, and the founding Chair of the Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division.

That same week, I served as chair for the first - ever meeting of an NPS educational advisory committee, composed of distinguished researchers, teachers, and leaders of national education groups.

With the nomination of Betsy DeVos — the soon - to - be former chair of the American Federation for Children and a lifelong school - choice advocate — as the next secretary of education, many folks are now trying to understand for the very first time the role vouchers and private school choice play in the reform universe.

I was fortunate to have been able to play an important role in shaping the Education Reform Act of 1993, the most recent Achievement Gap Act of 2010, and to have served the Board of Education, first in the early»90s, appointed by Governor Weld, and then much later appointed as chair by Governor Patrick, and then ultimately as his secretary of eEducation Reform Act of 1993, the most recent Achievement Gap Act of 2010, and to have served the Board of Education, first in the early»90s, appointed by Governor Weld, and then much later appointed as chair by Governor Patrick, and then ultimately as his secretary of eEducation, first in the early»90s, appointed by Governor Weld, and then much later appointed as chair by Governor Patrick, and then ultimately as his secretary of educationeducation.

After receiving an appointment as Associate Professor and Faculty Chair of Education at the University of Detroit Mercy, Dr. Wilson continued her pioneering work by leading faculty to develop the first field - based Master of Science degree that had as focus the theory of mediated learning, cognition, and other works of Reuven Feuerstein.

The remaining $ 100,000 of the Hobbs» gift supports the research of Hobbs Professor Howard Gardner, who is the first to hold the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Chair of Education and Cognition.

The first interview, conducted by author C.M. Rubin, was with Andy Hargreaves, author and Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College.

It will be chaired by deputy first minister John Swinney, and bring together young people, education leaders and representatives from local authorities and the teaching profession.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Chaired by Professor John Howson, from the University of Oxford, the first meeting of the panel in September brought together the Association of School and College Leaders, Voice: the union for education professionals, SSAT, the British Council, the Independent Academies Association Assured Services and the Department of Eeducation professionals, SSAT, the British Council, the Independent Academies Association Assured Services and the Department of EducationEducation.

At Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, Dr. Davis was the founder and first director of the Arts in Education Program, a senior lecturer, and the first appointee to the Bauman and Bryant Chair in the Arts in Education.

Not exactly stories you'd expect about some of our more famous presidents and first ladies, which is exactly why James Longo, C.A.S.» 90, Ed.D.» 94, professor of education and chair of the education department at Washington and Jefferson College, decided to write his new book, From Classroom to White House.

Woodson is a former member of the Tennessee General Assembly, first serving in the House, then moving on to the Senate, where she served as Chair of the Education Committee and later as Speaker Pro Tem, the number two job in that body.

The Connecticut Council for Education Reform's Board of Directors includes the retired Chairman and CEO of The Hartford Insurance Company, the President and COO of the Travelers Companies, the President and CEO of Yale New Haven Hospital, a Managing Director at First Niagara Bank, the Lead Director at Webster Bank, the Chair of Nestle Waters North America, former gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont and others.

The Education Committee chair told the BBC (20 January 2016) that the DfE's approach to major educational change was «Acting first; thinking later».

WASHINGTON — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards will present the prestigious James A. Kelly Award for Advancing Accomplished Teaching to the Honorable James B. Hunt, Jr., founding chair of the National Board and former governor of North Carolina; the Honorable Richard Riley, former U.S. Secretary of Education and former governor of South Carolina; and Barbara Kelley, former chair of the National Board, and the first teacher to serve in this position.

Second, the body that became the MCEE, the Governor's Council on Educator Effectiveness chaired by the University of Michigan's dean of the School of Education, Deborah BALL, didn't hold its first meeting until December 2012, six months after the new law (See «Gov's Council On Its Own Timeline,» 12/7/11).

The first one is about something the new - ish Education Chair of DC's City Council, David Catania, is pursuing in DC.

Patrick Wolf, holder of the Twenty - First Century Chair in School Choice at the U of A, co-authored a summary of the latest reports on the publicly funded private school choice program in Louisiana with Jonathan Mills, a senior research associate in the Department of Education Reform at the U of A. Wolf directs the School Choice Demonstration Project.

With the recent passage of Senate Bill 1, drafted by State Education Committee Chair and CL4E Member Mike Wilson, Kentucky became one of the first states to legislatively respond to ESSA with comprehensive standards and a strong accountability plan.

Utah State Board of Education First Vic Chair Thomas makes his case for limiting the state's education fund surplus tEducation First Vic Chair Thomas makes his case for limiting the state's education fund surplus teducation fund surplus to K - 12.

The lack of thought underpinning Gove's White Paper (which was, as we now know, based on the false premise that the UK was plummeting down PISA league tables) is an example of what Neil Carmichael, chair of the Education Select Committee, describes as the «Acting first; thinking later» approach of the DfE towards educatioEducation Select Committee, describes as the «Acting first; thinking later» approach of the DfE towards educationeducation reform.

However, the candidate did note his support of public school choice (via charter schools): «As chair of the House Education Committee, David introduced an omnibus education bill that gave schools more authority and autonomy by emphasizing ChildrEducation Committee, David introduced an omnibus education bill that gave schools more authority and autonomy by emphasizing Childreducation bill that gave schools more authority and autonomy by emphasizing Children First.

In its December 9, 2016 meeting, the Utah State Board of Education: • Elected Mark Huntsman as the next chairman and elected Terryl Warner, Brittney Cummins, and Alisa Ellis as first, second, and third vice chairs respectively.

Utah State Board of Education First Vice Chair Thomas writes in support of Amendment B. Nationally, a report finds one in four teachers are absent 10 or more days per school year.

Professor and Chair Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dr. Anfara is the first recipient of the Lipka Lifetime Achievement Award due to his longtime leadership and service in middle grades education.

But the updated guidance makes this the first time schools have been told specifically to retain a teacher who considers the mental health and special educational needs of looked - after and previously looked - after children, according to Jane Pickthall, the chair of the National Association of Virtual School Heads (NAVSH), whose members are responsible for the education of looked - after children.

Julie Trivitt, a clinical assistant professor of economics, and Corey DeAngelis, a doctoral student in education policy, conduct research with Patrick Wolf, holder of the Twenty - First Century Chair in School Choice.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan confirmed that Sally Collier, who has 20 years» experience in the civil service, is first choice for the role in a letter to education select committee chair Neil Carmichael, publishEducation secretary Nicky Morgan confirmed that Sally Collier, who has 20 years» experience in the civil service, is first choice for the role in a letter to education select committee chair Neil Carmichael, publisheducation select committee chair Neil Carmichael, published today.

Lisa spent a decade serving as an Arizona state official, first as a member of Arizona's House of Representatives where she chaired the education committee, and then as the elected Arizona's Superintendent of Public Instruction.

Patrick O'Donnell, a first - year Democratic legislator from Long Beach who's been a teacher for 20 years, has been appointed to chair the Assembly Education Committee.

Achievement First's Vice Chair may not be in the same financial league yet, but he is a well - recognized force in the corporate education reform industry thanks, in part, to his leadership role at New Profit, Inc..

According to a memo former Hartford Schools Superintendent Christina Kishimoto sent to the Board on October 12, 2012 — which was the first time the wider board knew of the meeting — «Participants included Board of Education Chair Matthew Poland, Mayor Segarra, Hartford Public Schools, Achievement First and Jumoke Academy senior staff members, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Connecticut Council for Education Reform, ConnCAN, and other corporate, community and philanthropic partners.&rfirst time the wider board knew of the meeting — «Participants included Board of Education Chair Matthew Poland, Mayor Segarra, Hartford Public Schools, Achievement First and Jumoke Academy senior staff members, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Connecticut Council for Education Reform, ConnCAN, and other corporate, community and philanthropic partners.&rFirst and Jumoke Academy senior staff members, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Connecticut Council for Education Reform, ConnCAN, and other corporate, community and philanthropic partners.»

Senator Luther Olsen was first elected to the Wisconsin Senate in 2004 He currently serves as the Chair of the Education Committee.

Donna Bahorich was first elected to the Texas State Board of Education in 2012 where she currently serves as chair.

And according to research commissioned by the Education Commission of the States and the National Conference of State Legislatures, 30 percent of the chairs of education committees in state legislatures are serving in that role for the fiEducation Commission of the States and the National Conference of State Legislatures, 30 percent of the chairs of education committees in state legislatures are serving in that role for the fieducation committees in state legislatures are serving in that role for the first time.