Sentences with phrase «foundation leaders from»

2009: The Foundation for the National Capital Region and the City Bridge Foundation selected AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School as an example of a high quality preschool for 25 foundation leaders from around the country to tour.

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What separates remarkable leaders, however, is a unique intelligence, a «street smarts,» which grounds the entrepreneurs on a moral and common sense foundation and keeps them from getting into dumb trouble.

The insights that follow feature some powerful pairings: business partners, government leaders, heads of foundations, mentors, mentees, friends, and something greater — all share a willingness to learn from one another and grow wise together.

The event will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

Since its foundation in 2005, the NYSCF has become a leader in using stem cell research and technology to find cures for a range of diseases, from heart disease and diabetes to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

I also make the case that research conducted from a true anthropological inspired and ethnographic foundation will help senior leaders to make important assessment regarding future business models and organizational structure towards becoming a social business.

Consensus 2018 will feature 250 + speakers and 4,000 + attendees from the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders, and academic and policy groups who are building the foundations of the blockchain and digital currency economy.

The mission of the Julie Foudy Leadership Foundation is: Building on a foundation of sports and fitness, we empower young women from all socioeconomic backgrounds to become leaders who positively impact their communities.

... Delight in smooth - sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of intellectual vigour in both leaders of the British Coalition Government, marked ignorance of Europe and aversion from its problems in Mr. Baldwin, the strong and violent pacifism which at this time dominated the Labour - Socialist Party, the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality, the failure and worse than failure of Mr. Lloyd George, the erstwhile great war - time leader, to address himself to the continuity of his work, the whole supported by overwhelming majorities in both Houses of Parliament: all these constituted a picture of British fatuity and fecklessness which, though devoid of guile, was not devoid of guilt, and, though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries which, even so far as they have unfolded, are already beyond comparison in human experience.

«His two democratic mandates from 1996 to 2006 underscored the ardent love his people had for him as a great leader and that period witnessed great democratic freedom that continues to exist today, as the foundation for lasting peace and stability in Benin Republic,» President Buhari said.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican from Long Island, said the additional school aid would flow through both the foundation aid formula — which favors urban districts — and to alleviate the gap elimination adjustment, which would benefit wealthier, suburban districts.

The fledgling foundation has also won endorsements from leaders at the American Academy of Pediatrics in Elk Grove Village, Ill.; the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md.; and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga..

Project leader Dr Richard Buggs from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences said: «This ash tree genome sequence lays the foundations for accelerated breeding of ash trees with resistance to ash dieback.

Perimeter Institute offers a rich environment for PhD students with exceptional opportunities to interact with research leaders from around the world, while laying the foundation for a future career in physics.

Dear leaders and families, we would like to invite you to join a national 40 - day condition from november 22 to december 31 to close 2017 well and set a strong foundation for a victorious 2018.

At some point along the district's path from monopoly provider to financially unsustainable marginal player, the city's investors and stakeholders — taxpayers, foundations, business leaders, elected officials, and editorial boards — are likely to demand fundamental change.

Driscoll and Ruiz meet bimonthly with the head of Salem's health and social services department and leaders from the schools, the teachers union, community organizations, and foundations to set goals and review their progress.

Additional honors include being selected as the Florida Virtual School Superintendent of the Year, Consortium of Florida Education Foundations Superintendent of the Year, Champion District Superintendent of the Year for Florida Consortium of Public Charter Schools, Florida Department of Education's District Data Leader of the Year Finalist, 2014 Leader to Learn From by Education Week, and 2015 Hispanic - Serving School District Superintendent of the Year.

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

From this foundation, the Center developed a suite of supporting programs for school leaders and teachers, currently in use by a growing number of district and charter schools in Arizona.

Benjamin Fenton, the founder of New Leaders, a New York City - based group that trains aspiring principals and consults on school and district leadership, said the district's focus on school - level leadership, and philanthropic investment from local and national foundations, had brought his organization to the city in 2004 and opened the doors for others since.

Collaborate with leaders from successful education foundations around the country by participating in annual conferences, webinars and certification programs.

Responding to research from Stanford University's John W. Gardner Center linking student opinions and perceptions to their own academic outcomes, the Center for Effective Philanthropy — funded by a host of donors, including the Gates, Hewlett and Wallace foundations — created YouthTruth «to better understand from students what was and was not working in their high schools in order to give school and district leaders, as well as education funders, better information to inform improvement efforts.»

This issue includes pieces from organizers like Kesi Foster (Urban Youth Collaborative) and Maisie Chin (CADRE), philanthropic leaders like Allison Brown (Open Society Foundations) and Kavitha Mediratta (The Atlantic Philanthropies), along with teachers, administrators and community leaders from across the country.

Through a grant from The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, The Education Alliance at Brown University developed the Collaboratory for Adolescent Literacy Leaders (CALL) program to assist educators with delivering more effective instruction in the content areas and closing persistent achievement gaps among their students.

A grant from the Kentucky Instructional Discipline and Support Project enabled school leaders to train in a behavioral management program (Foundations, based on the ideas of Randy Sprick) and a classroom management program that helps teachers identify desired classroom behaviors and teach them explicitly.

Working with diverse populations from coast to coast, and from our southern to northern borders, it is this passion for commitment that makes Treviño an effective leader and one of the country's leading trainers and teachers in the areas of effective school board governance, urban education, the politics of education, and the foundations of educational leadership.

A + was originally comprised of more than 100 citizen leaders, including community and business leaders, parents and representatives from local foundations and higher education.

District and school leaders should implement turnaround strategies based on evidence from rigorous studies of turnaround efforts in North Carolina and other states, or well - conceived, innovative strategies with sound theoretical foundations.

This year's finalists were selected from among 75 of the largest districts in the country by a review board of 13 prominent education researchers, policy leaders, practitioners and executives from leading universities, education associations, civil rights advocacy organizations, think - tanks and foundations.

BMAHack was rebranded as the «My Brother's Keeper Hackathon» following Mr. Obama's call - to - action for corporations, foundations, and community leaders to work together to provide opportunities for innovation that directly impact young men of color and launched in Philadelphia Pennsylvania and received opening remarks from Philadelphia Mayor Nutter.

But active engagement from a few high - profile foundation leaders does not fully explain the trend.

While stability is often associated with resistance and maintenance of the status quo, it is in fact difficult for leaders and other educators to leap forward from a wobbly foundation.

A nonpartisan research team, drawing on recommendations from scientists, business leaders, environmental foundations and others, has put together a proposed action plan for the next president's first 100 days in office, aimed at fostering climate and energy security.

Forest Trends is a Washington D.C. - based international non-profit organization that was created in 1999 by leaders from conservation organizations, forest products firms, research groups, multilateral development banks, private investment funds and philanthropic foundations.

He created the Task Force to Expand Access to Civil Legal Services, which includes leaders from the bench, bar, law schools, and legal aid, as well as legislators and representatives of unions, corporations, foundations and the medical community.

The foundation's board of directors is comprised of community leaders from many industries.

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