Sentences with phrase «focusing school development»

«This really brought home the importance of impact evaluation as a tool for focusing school development.»

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The Shannon School of Business offers the only MBA program in North America with a specific focus on community economic development.

Robert offers this insight to explain why more marketers say they focus on creating the right content for the right person at the right time, yet fewer report crafting content specifically for the buyer's journey: «It could be a semantical difference to some degree, but rather than the «old - school» development of content for the buyer's journey, we're seeing a focus on dynamically serving up content in the audience's time — no matter what stage they happen to be in.

Mr. Shaw was previously an Associate with the firm before earning an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and subsequently participating in the Management Leadership Development Program at SunEdison, where he focused on investment and financing activities at the TerraForm YieldCo affiliate.

She also led the development of HBS's innovative FIELD curriculum, which focuses on learning experiences that are experiential and immersive, with the goal of advancing the School's mission to develop leaders who make a difference in the world.

14 In philosophy the empirical and naturalistic school (John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer) as well as the idealistic (Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet) focused their attention on the problems of the nature and development of society.

He was previously the Associate Director of the North American Integration and Development Center in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA from 1995 to 2006, where his research focused on NAFTA, contract agriculture in Mexico, fair trade coffee in Oaxaca, regional competitiveness of the produce industry, living wages in Los Angeles, and immigration and farm labor in California.

These teams focus on development and learning skills to put the players in the best position to compete for a spot on the 14U team or prepare for next season's high school baseball team.

The Junior Phenom and Phenom 150 camps are specifically designed to concentrate on competition and exposure, but with the Phenom Boot Camp, we will throw the society of basketball camps back into an «old school» mode with strict focus on development, training and education.

Middle School camp for rising 6th, 7th, 8th Graders is geared towards providing each girl with individual instruction focused on fundamental skill improvement and confidence development.

Our San Diego, CA football camp at Army and Navy Academy beginning on July 8, 2018 has been designed to assist in the development of players at every skill level from youth to high school through dynamic drills and focus on fundementals.

They fall behind on measures of cognition and language development, and they have executive - function problems, too: They struggle with attention regulation; they are perceived by their teachers and parents as inattentive and hyperactive; they have trouble focusing in school.

This year's Mini-Grants focus is Inclusion in Alliance member schools at any stage of development.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

My schooling is in Child Development and Psychology and I knew I wanted to focus more on the human interactions rather than the physical places in each country because that is where my own personal interests lie.

With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a daily look at child development focusing on your class's age group, you will get to know the first grader as he or she crosses the bridge into elementary school.

Daycare centers primarily focus on infants through preschoolers; pre-schools are typically toddlers and children often must be potty - trained (ages 2 - 5); and out of school care is tailored to providing childcare of school - aged kids on a before - school or after - school basis or during school breaks, such as staff development or holidays.

Whereas Olds» work has focused on the challenges of becoming a parent (i.e. program limited to first - time parents), Webster - Stratton has targeted the late preschool period and the transition to formal schooling, when children's emotion regulation skills are becoming more stable and tested in the context of full - day school settings.6, 22 A central focus of Webster - Stratton's program is parent management training to promote child social competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.

Professional development for Waldorf teachers and homeschool parents This course offers you an invaluable opportunity to focus entirely on your upcoming first grade school year in five days filled with discussions, presentations, practical activities, and the arts.

This push has embraced forms of school development and quality assurance that are ubiquitous in the mainstream, while making efforts to adapt them to the special situation of Waldorf education with its focus on individual learning.

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is the lead funder for this merger, supporting the development of FoodCorps» supply - side initiative, which will stand on the shoulders of School Food Focus» long - time success in this work.

A national survey commissioned by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation — an independent private foundation focused on the optimal development of children — reveals that 9 out of 10 Americans support current federal efforts to keep school meals healthy.

SNA's School Food Service Foundation (known today as the School Nutrition Foundation) is established as a non-profit entity focusing on research and professional development.

Griffo suggested that a way to regain the focus on academics could be to split the leadership role, or house the economic development arm in a separate school or institution under the purview of the SUNY Poly president.

His initiatives focus on the development of a strong emergency management communication network, the opportunity to collaborate with the county to increase safety personnel in our schools and county support to improve our emergency management and safety plans.

Before a packed auditorium at George Washington High School this past Sun., Mar. 22nd, Councilmember Ydanis Rodríguez outlined his vision for Northern Manhattan, focusing specifically on economic development, housing and education.

A former Plainview - Old Bethpage school board member, Cepeda, 56, says he would focus his legislative attention on revamping the assessment system, ensuring mixed - use development at the Nassau Hub and developing a stable and consistent budget line for public transit.

He's expected to focus on reforming the state's public schools and criminal justice system, and economic development in troubled upstate regions.

A campaign would be focused around restoring trust between City Hall and the police, more support for charter schools, and leveraging Massey's connections in the real - estate world and experience with development to spur the creation of more affordable housing, said one person who has spoken with Massey about plotting a possible bid.

Encouraging the social - emotional development of students while teaching traditional academic subjects builds a positive school climate focused on fairness and caring about others — and helps to foster healthy, confident adults.

The program pairs selected schools with community based organizations that focus on social and emotional support and development.

In a State of the State address that focused largely on job creation, economic development and tax relief, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also issued a sweeping agenda for education, including support for statewide, full - day prekindergarten programs and a plan to funnel $ 2 billion to upgrading technology in schools.

Patrick Brandt, director of career development and training at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and another working group participant, says he uses the jobs his program's alumni are in to determine which careers his office's skill development programming should focus on.

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

Since the beginning of the Eleventh Five - Year Plan, the school has adhered to major strategic demands of national defense, constantly condensing the direction of the frontier research, focusing on improving the capability of independent innovation, undertaking major national science and technology research and a large number of research projects such as the National Defense Program 973 (which is called the National Basic Research Program of March 1997), Program 863 (which is known as the High - tech Research Development Program carried out by Deng Xiaoping in March 1986), and national defense pre-research and models, winning more than 260 provincial and ministerial awards.

- Partnerships between industry and two - year and four - year colleges to strengthen education for technicians in the clean energy sector, focusing on curriculum development, teacher training, and career pathways from high schools to community colleges

«Studies on early childhood education programs have historically focused on child outcomes,» said study lead author Terri Sabol, an assistant professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

We summarize the literature on the early — unschooled — development of scientific thinking, and then focus on recent research on how best to teach science to children from preschool to middle school.

Professor James Tam, dean, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, and Professor Lee Eng Hin, dean of the faculty of medicine, National University of Singapore, announced some very good news in human capability development — that is, education and training — which remains an important area of focus for the nation's new initiatives.

The READY Program strives to intervene before students complete high school − easing the transition, providing the skill development needed to access further education or employment and connecting them to other disability - focused organizations for sequential and continuous supports.

Maria Anna Ciemerych began her research with studies focusing at the cell cycle regulation of mouse oocytes and preimplantation embryos (Ph.D. at the University of Warsaw), then investigated the role of the cell cycle regulators - D - type cyclins, in mouse development (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School).

Most studies of self - control development have focused either on very young children or adolescents, but there is a lack of research on children in kindergarten and primary school, a transition period that requires children to regulate their behaviour.

Yoga 4 Classrooms is a ChildLight Yoga affiliate focused on providing professional development training for K - 12 schools and individual school professionals interested in sustainably implementing yoga & mindfulness in their classrooms and schools to improve self - regulation, learning and climate.

The Wharton School - Phila, PA About Blog The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) is a top academic research center focusing on the development and application of customer analytic methods.

The Wharton School - Phila, PA About Blog The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI) is a top academic research center focusing on the development and application of customer analytic methods.

Over the past decade, my research has focused on the academic, social, and civic development of immigrant youth, specifically the ways in which schools Chief Architect and Vice President of Innovation, Phill Lawson - Shanks, to Present at The 6th Annual Provider Forum on Financing & Investing in Data Centers

Over the past decade, my research has focused on the academic, social, and civic development of immigrant youth, specifically the ways in which schools Below is an IELTS advantage / disadvantage model essay about having one language in the world.

In February 2006, CPA trainers conducted sessions at each participating school to assess staff needs and provide more - focused professional development based on school and student - specific data.

With a clear focus on education, innovation, staff development and reporting, the beginning of the new school year is the best time to re-evaluate your school's online safety policies to ensure that both you and your pupils are protected effectively.

In Sacramento, administrator Lyn McCarty will be focusing her efforts on staff development and monitoring / coaching activities bent on the notion that more consistent literacy instruction can be achieved across classrooms and school sites within the district.