Sentences with phrase «first education innovation»

I have been appointed by Governor Brown to lead this work as the state's first education innovation officer.

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Founder of industry publication Blockchain News, partner at ICO services collective CryptoAsset Design Group (helped raise over $ 200m +), director of education company Blockchain Partners (Oracle Partner) and ICO event organiser at leading industry event CryptoFinancing (first ICO event in Europe)- Richard Kastelein is an award - winning publisher, innovation executive and entrepreneur.

At the same time, in at what first appears to be in an unrelated domain, President Barack Obama and others call for more and better science education in America to compete in innovation with rising giants India and China.

Three years of research and development led Active Parenting founder Michael Popkin to conclude that video - based training was the most cost - efffective innovation available, and we were the first to produce video - based parent education programs.

Instead of a broad reauthorization like COMPETES, FIRST is focused on NSF, NIST, and provisions related to federal innovation and education policy.

With the departure this month of the first head of the Department of Education's office of innovation and improvement, those who follow the 3 1/2 - year - old - office are wondering whether it will continue to play a prominent role in federal policy or whether its influence will fade.

Why: The trip offered an immersive, educational experience for students interested in educational innovation happening in Silicon Valley by providing participants with unique, first - hand experience and insight in understanding the ways in which innovation is changing the education sector.

International research into high performing education systems suggests that systems benefit from a degree of latitude that encourage innovation and creative leadership but that first there needs to be structural maturity.

We can say that one of the first reasons that continuity is so important is that our education systems are fragmented and delayed in moving forward with innovation.

This past spring, Figueroa was part of the Harvard team — including students from the Kennedy School, Law School, and Business School — that took first place in the Public Schools Urban Education Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban eEducation Redesign Challenge, a national case competition for innovation in urban educationeducation.

The first in a yearlong series of articles exploring Project Zero's 50 years of innovation in education.

The first stream will focus on challenges, innovation and the future of education, probing into some of the biggest challenges facing senior school leaders.

The legislation also authorized the state's first charter schools, an innovation designed to challenge the education status quo.

In January 2010, Massachusetts passed a sweeping education law that allowed for virtual innovation schools for the first time.

Mr. Sardin has worked in the state education department for five years, first as the director of the office of innovations and most recently as the associate superintendent in the office of school enhancement.

«The first thing to remember,» he said, «is giving kids an excellent education in a neighborhood where they haven't had one may be the best innovation of all.»

This article discusses the Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools, the first union - sponsored authorizer of charter schools in the U.S. Topics discussed include the involvement of teachers in the leadership of charter schools, the role of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) in the founding of the Guild, and innovation in charter school education.

She has developed, expanded and sustained this innovation from different organizational spheres: as the first Escuela Nueva National Coordinator, Director of Distance Education in Javeriana University, ViceMinister of Education of Colombia, UNICEF's Regional Education Adviser for the LAC region and now, from Fundación Escuela Nueva, a nonprofit she founded in 1987 to ensure the quality and sustainability of the Escuela Nueva model in Colombia and abroad, and to further adapt its proven, cutting - edge pedagogy to new contexts and populations.

He's the lead author of the U.S. Education Innovation Index: Prototype and Report (USEII), the field's first foray into measuring education innovation at the ciEducation Innovation Index: Prototype and Report (USEII), the field's first foray into measuring education innovation at the cieducation innovation at the city level.

The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) released their first ESSA playbook designed to provide stakeholders with recommendations and resources on implementation focusing on the «four core areas of ESSA:» school accountability, interventions, using ESSA to advance state innovations, and ESSA's weighted student funding pilot...

CHIME Institute in Los Angeles won the state's highest honor for special education innovation, the first time that a charter school has received this award.

USEII is the field's first foray into measuring education innovation at the city level.

The plan also includes extending the probationary period of teachers; approving the new school accountability plan from the state board of education; establishing the first state evaluation criteria for principals; adding new ways to become a teacher; and creating a plan to pay teachers more for innovation, improving achievement gaps, or developing science and technology programs.

As Idaho marks 20 years since its first charter schools opened, the recently released Shackled Education Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide tEducation Pioneers looks back at how the public charter school movement started in the Gem State — and how that effort has strayed from its original intent of allowing significant space for education innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide teducation innovation, a progression that led the alliance to downgrade Idaho's charter school law from 20th to 21st nationwide this year.

The first example of this is public education, where the teachers unions exercise veto power over virtually any innovations affecting education policy in California.

They selected the top three public charter systems — Achievement First, IDEA Public Schools and KIPP Schools — and ultimately found that KIPP Schools deserved recognition for its ability to provide a high - quality education to students across the country, particularly noting the network's ability to scale, adapt to new locations and pursue continuous innovation by bringing technology into the classroom.

GCDS FIRST: The Campaign for Tradition and Innovation is an opportunity both to strengthen tradition and to support innovation in the form of curricular initiatives and modern facilities designed to meet the unique imperatives of a 21st - century education.

«Our leaders — President Obama, Governor Schwarzenegger, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan — recognize that potential, as well as the innovation that charter schools bring to public education; the first purpose of American public education is to ensure that all children are provided with the opportunity and support to reach their full academic potentiaEducation Secretary Arne Duncan — recognize that potential, as well as the innovation that charter schools bring to public education; the first purpose of American public education is to ensure that all children are provided with the opportunity and support to reach their full academic potentiaeducation; the first purpose of American public education is to ensure that all children are provided with the opportunity and support to reach their full academic potentiaeducation is to ensure that all children are provided with the opportunity and support to reach their full academic potential.»

This resource from Education First, with support from the Overdeck Family Foundation, provides an analysis of 25 ESSA state plans and summarizes trends, innovations and exemplars focused on STEM eEducation First, with support from the Overdeck Family Foundation, provides an analysis of 25 ESSA state plans and summarizes trends, innovations and exemplars focused on STEM educationeducation.

First established as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (otherwise known as the «stimulus» legislation), and now continued as a regular Department program in the fiscal 2012 year, i3 was intended to shift the innovation ecosystem toward greater quantity, rigor and diffusion of innovation, to thread innovation into the way the Department itself works (including the use of a «field scan» mechanism) and to align funding for the «supply» of innovation with the «demand» the U.S. Department of Education had created through other federal programs.

In this paper, education entrepreneur Kim Smith and innovation writer Julie Petersen assess the initial effect of the program's first round on specific elements of the innovation ecosystem in education, including innovators, philanthropic donors, and the federal education agency itself.

Over both weeks, New Designers 2018 presents an array of work by recent graduates from leading universities and design schools the length and breadth of the UK — ranging from Cambridge to Carmarthen, Glyndwr to Glasgow, and Dundee to De Montfort — making the event the first opportunity to discover the next generation of talent across the design spectrum, as well the latest innovations in design education.

«The curatorial studies program offers our students a unique opportunity to learn first - hand what it takes to create a first - class exhibition,» said Spelman President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. «It's also a prime example of the College's mission to develop programs and spaces much like the Museum and our planned arts, innovation and entrepreneurship center that harness the power of a liberal arts education.»

In addition to the Ocean March, a first - of - its - kind parade of large and small boats on the water as a statement of unity for the ocean, and the Ocean Village on Governors Island, N.Y., the festival features art, education, innovation, and tools for action.

In 2007, Fred spearheaded a powerful innovation in post-graduate legal education known as the «legal incubator» movement by launching the first - ever incubator program, a unique public / private partnership providing a network of support and resources for recent CUNY law graduates committed to increasing access to justice through their solo and small firm practices.

Innovations that receive a lot of attention, such as Harvard's introduction of intensive skills training for first - year law students, or Northwestern's introduction of a two - year J.D. program, had in fact already been introduced in a number of other law schools.33 Social science studies of innovation in legal education would permit legal educators to focus more substantively on innovative changes regardless of the ranking of the school that is introducing them — and would thus permit educators across the country to learn from one another.34

Three years of research and development led Active Parenting founder Michael Popkin to conclude that video - based training was the most cost - efffective innovation available, and we were the first to produce video - based parent education programs.

«There is still much to learn about how to successfully implement SEL in our classrooms, and so innovation at the district, school and classroom levels is critical,» said Kelly James of Education First.