Sentences with phrase «for education pioneers»

He has completed education leadership fellowships for Education Pioneers, the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) and Hope Street Group.

Elizabeth Gale is the marketing and communications intern for Education Pioneers.

«Between the superintendent and the principal, there are a lot of people that are managing the finance and operations and human resources and professional development,» said Julie Angilly, the vice president of external relations for Education Pioneers.

He sits on the Chicago Alumni Board for Education Pioneers and on the Associate Board for Bottom Line.

Vanessa was also an Education Pioneers fellow at Academy for Urban School Leadership, a Chicago non-profit school management organization, and has since served on the DC alumni board for Education Pioneers.

Celia Garcia Alvarado is the executive director of the Western Region for Education Pioneers (EP), a region that spans California (Los Angeles, Bay Area, San Jose, Sacramento), Seattle, and Denver.

He also served as Program Manager for Education Pioneers» Greater Boston Analyst and Graduate School Fellowship programs for two years.

Eager for new opportunities, Burton headed to work for Education Pioneers, and later went to Stand For Children, gaining more responsibility with each position he took.

That's why we partnered with the Center for Reinventing Public Education this year to design a portfolio district workshop for all Education Pioneers fellows across the country.

We continue to assess and refine our portfolio on an annual basis and are focused on finding high - impact opportunities for Education Pioneers to drive change.

Not exact matches

The nonprofit organization behind the SAT college entrance exam has teamed up with a Silicon Valley pioneer in online education to make test preparation materials available for free starting Tuesday, a move aimed at making the college admissions race less stressful and more fair.

Chief Executive Officer, The Value Alliance [and] Corporate Governance Alliance Recognized internationally as an expert on Corporate Governance and a pioneer in the area of Economic Value Management, Ms. Bloxham is an author, speaker and advisor who provides advisory and education services for organizations, their CEOs and Board members.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

And in pioneering the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education (EAPE)-- a ministry that served the world's poor for nearly 40 years — he hasn't merely talked the talk; he has walked the walk.

First, they should pioneer in general media education, pointing the way for public education.

Established by Barbara Tropp and seven pioneering women chefs and restaurateurs, WCR is an active resource for women seeking to advance culinary education and gain recognition in various areas of the food and beverage industry.

Pioneer in French bilingual education in Brooklyn with ten years of experience, The Language and Laughter Studio offers a fun, progressive programs for your child: • Puppets, Stories and Songs in French (6 months to 2 y), • Preschool in French playgroup (2 - 4 y), • French Songs, Arts, and Musical Games French class (4 - 6 y), • Academic French class (6 - 10 y), • Théâtre en français, and Tutoring for all ages.

Having pioneered the concept of an «education in balance,» Crossroads is a home for passionate ideas and personal expression.

As a pioneer for a homeschooling movement, Mary Pride is best known for her written works that encourage home education, offers instruction on starting home...

As a pioneer for a homeschooling movement, Mary Pride is best known for her written works that encourage home education, offers instruction on starting home based programs, and sets standards for teaching.

We seek a teacher who works well with others, as well as independently, and who possesses a pioneering spirit and enthusiasm for bringing Waldorf education to the heart of America.

I see our school, the only one in Kansas, as the pioneering front for bringing an education of abundance and dedication to the whole child to the heart of our nation — where love for education exists but can be greatly transformed in the now.

As the pioneer in concussion education for sports parents, MomsTeam and I are thrilled to have Impakt on our team as we continue to dedicate our efforts to do everything possible to keep the kids of America playing sports as safe as science, technology and equipment make possible.»

«I believe education is one of the greatest ways to allow the asylum seekers to integrate into the country,» says Katie Bales, a lecturer in Bristol University and a pioneer in the campaign for Sanctuary Scholarship.

He proposed that online courses such as the ones pioneered by Sebastian Thrun at Stanford might be a better model for higher education in Haiti.

The scandal surrounding Paolo Macchiarini, the former star surgeon who became famous for his pioneering trachea transplants, has prompted yet another round of resignations and firings at the highest levels of Swedish higher education.

Funding for the research was provided mainly by the United Soybean Board and partially by the Partnership for Research and Education in Plant Breeding and Genetics program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Ag Alumni Seed, AgReliant Genetics, Beck's Hybrids, ConAgraFoods, Dow AgroSciences, Indiana Crop Improvement Association and Pioneer Hi - Bred International.

The DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has a major impact not only in the New York metropolitan area, but across the globe, in pioneering public science education for the genome age.

When you think about the breadth of her reach to students all across the nation, the innovative educational programs she has developed and her pioneering of the education programs for both the NRAO and GBO, it is no wonder that the ASP took notice.

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

Jarvis «Jay» Edwin Seegmiller, M.D., a pioneer in the field of human genetics, an advocate for research and education to support healthy aging, and an Emeritus Professor and founding faculty member at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, passed away on May 31 at UCSD's Thornton Hospital in La Jolla after a brief respiratory illness.

The Hungarian Academy of Sciences has for quite some time now played a pioneering role in furthering research on fundamental questions of visual culture and visual education.

At the same time, CSNE neuroethics researchers are pioneering a framework for deep integration of ethics into neural engineering research and education, and we are doing this in close partnership with neurotechnology end - users.

Dr. Akil has been doing pioneering work in integrative medicine education and clinical practice for many years.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

«We were interested in having them come as «pioneers» on behalf of the higher education system in Haiti,» said Lecturer Joseph Zolner, senior director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Educatioeducation system in Haiti,» said Lecturer Joseph Zolner, senior director of the Harvard Institutes for Higher EducationEducation at PPE.

Monkey Music founder, Angie Coates, herself a teacher of music, values her own experience of working with children and teachers in a school environment and this is testament to Monkey Music's pioneering curriculum and teaching style which has become the template and standard for pre-school music education across the UK.

Florida was a pioneer in performance - based funding for online education, establishing a funding model in which the provider, FLVS, was paid only for successful course completion.

Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study of the history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the academic failures were not the result of moral or character imperfections but of knowledge deficits.

We place talented Education Pioneers with our partners, connect them to our network, and expose them to leverage areas for driving change in education, but they are ultimately the ones making decisions about where they can make the most impact during the course of theirEducation Pioneers with our partners, connect them to our network, and expose them to leverage areas for driving change in education, but they are ultimately the ones making decisions about where they can make the most impact during the course of theireducation, but they are ultimately the ones making decisions about where they can make the most impact during the course of their careers.

Clark Aldrich is an author and practitioner who has pioneered and expanded the use of educational simulations and serious games for education and professional skills.

When Education Pioneers launched in 2003, our first BHAG was to bring on 300 Fellows a year, working for outstanding partner organizations in 15 cities across the country by our 10th anniversary.

So, I did practice law for a few years (I need to remind myself of that every month as I continue to make my student loan payments 13 years later) before I decided to take the entrepreneurial leap and launch Education Pioneers.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

She is senior consultant for research and curriculum at the Center for Better Schools / National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education and a senior fellow at the Pioneer Institute.

Stotsky is the primary contributor to Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core Is Bad for American Education from the Pioneer Institute.

«She has pioneered innovative teacher education programs that stress the importance of equipping teachers themselves with educational experiences that make them better practitioners and positively impact the classroom experience for students.»

Dismal test scores and recent research that warns against a single approach to instruction have spurred California education officials to revamp the state's pioneering techniques for teaching young children to read.

Student Engagement The UK's first BSc in renewable energy was launched by Exeter University in 2003, while the Centre for Alternative Technology (a 2011 Ashden Award Winner) has long been pioneering advanced education in renewable energy systems and principles.

Should I be accepted into Education Pioneers, I would be thrilled to work for the Office of Family and Community Engagement in the Boston Public Schools during my summer fellowship.