Sentences with phrase «groups focus on school»

This year's (2015) study groups focus on school leadership and career readiness respectively.

CEE - Trust's current working groups focus on school governance reform, charter incubation, funding for education reform, and blended learning.

«We summarily reject this narrative that if you just identify the kids that don't deserve to be in school then everyone else is going to thrive,» says Kesi Foster, a coordinator with the Urban Youth Collaborative, a youth - led group focused on the school - to - prison pipeline in New York City.

Not exact matches

Or, the group focuses on doing deep dives into each other's businesses similar to the case study approach anyone who attended business school would be familiar with.

Initially the business focused on providing awards and recognition items to local sports leagues, youth groups, clubs, schools and organizations.

John Kirton, co-director of the G - 20 Research Group at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, called the summit a «very solid success,» pointing to broad agreement on the agenda, much of it focusing on less controversial issues such as women's empowerment and promoting digitalization.

When young adults do ask parents for their two cents on saving, they often do so with a heavy dose of skepticism, says Lisa Szykman, associate professor at William & Mary School of Business, who has run focus - group research exploring young adults» personal finance behavior.

JPMorgan is also «making a special effort» to bring on more African - Americans by setting up a separate group to focus on school recruiting, retention and hiring «more senior African - American talent,» Dimon said.

Diverse data: In a briefing with reporters, NIH officials said they are focusing on gathering health and genetic data from diverse and historically underrepresented groups — including ethnic and sexual minorities, as well as people with disabilities, with less than a high school education, and with income below the poverty level.

One practice per week for each team will be held at a local high school or city park, with a second practice each week being held at an indoor baseball facility to focus on small group instruction for hitting, pitching, and catching.

That doesn't just penalize the player, it penalizes the whole team (and the athletic department and the school and the community), so it makes sense to deliver a punishment that focuses on the individual rather than a punishment that impacts the group.

With Stowell, learning quirky and mundane tidbits about her felt like a refreshing distraction from the elephant in the room: she wrote homework questions, despite wanting to avoid homework in high school; she was part of a lab group that focused on eating competitions; she had a nail polish collection; she loved watching terrible movies; she used to play rugby, realized she wasn't good at it, and then switched to ultimate frisbee.

Teachers at Waldorf schools are trained to focus on the individual child as well as the group.

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.

Officials will be working with parents, teachers and principals through focus groups to gain feedback on how the school day should be structured.

But that may be changing — if you didn't read about School Food FOCUS the first time around on TLT, be sure to check out this post which discusses how that group is helping to set up «regional food hubs» to improve efficiencies and lower the costs of local procurement.

If oatmeal isn't on your school breakfast menu, it might be time to test some recipes with your student focus group.

PeapodMats are focused on the toddler and schooler age group as they progress through potty training and bedwetting.

One group that spends a lot of time listening to teenagers is the Freedom Institute, a New York - based group that focuses, in its Independent School Program, on adolescents at risk for alcohol and drug use.

Most recently, he was a vice president at Educators for Excellence, a progressive non-profit group focused on public school teachers and school policy.

This week will include a focus on what the city can do to stop gas - related explosions after another such explosion occurred this weekend, this time in Borough Park; education politics and policy, as the pro-charter, anti-de Blasio group Families for Excellent Schools will hold a large rally; a continuation of negotiation and criticism between city and state entities over MTA funding; and more.

When the Rochester School Board decided its superintendent search process would not be open to the public, board President Van White pointed out that there would still be ample community input in the form of small focus groups as well as a survey posted on the district website.

During the upcoming session, charter groups will focus on boosting facilities funding and the state's per - pupil funding formula after notching a modest victory with a 50 - school increase in the statewide charter cap last year.

Degruy has visited and worked in a number of Rochester City schools, saying at first her methods were met with resistance, some thinking that focusing on one group of students meant neglecting another.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

Coalition for Opportunity in Education, a group whose advocacy is focused exclusively on the Education Investment Tax Credit, which would incentivize donations to private school scholarships or public schools, spent $ 659,404.

There were several education - focused groups not associated with charter schools or unions who spent significant money on lobbying last year.

An October 2014 rally in Manhattan focused on failing district schools as an indirect means to advocate for more charters, but the «Don't Steal Possible» slogan revealed little about the group's specific policy goals to improve struggling schools.

In the remaining nine months of 2014, pro-charter groups focused more on strengthening accountability measures for teachers and pushing the state and city to take immediate action to fix failing schools.

Make the Road New York, an immigrant rights group that has focused on the Dream Act, released a statement from Claritza Suarez, a Long Island high school sophomore who hopes to receive funds from the state to attend college.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center whose group is considered more moderate than advocacy groups that focus exclusively on large charter networks, praised the collaboration.

Charles Khan is an organizer at the Strong Economy For All Coalition, a coalition of labor unions and community groups focusing on legislative - driven campaigns to fight economic inequality, unequal funding of public schools, and corporate irresponsibility in New York State.

BRANT LAKE The YMCA is trying to provide developmental programs for people of from infants to seniors - but the core group falls into the Y - Achievers program, focusing on middle and high school students.

The app has been tested with a group of school principals and in a communications class focused on ethical issues.

Most groups have focused on detecting proteins released from dying brain cells, but those proteins are not always abundant after injury and often require exotic or proprietary antibodies to measure, said study corresponding author Adam Chodobski, associate professor (research) of emergency medicine in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

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.

Since 2010 Pres. Barack Obama and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have used the bully pulpit to encourage the proliferation of public high schools that focus on STEM education and target students from underrepresented groups.

A team of nurse - researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) published a study in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing in which they gathered perspectives on coping mechanisms from focus groups with 14 mothers of critically ill infants, and explored the feasibility of mindfulness as a stress - reduction technique.

Researchers at the school's Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) assessed cultural worldviews along two dimensions: hierarchy - egalitarianism (attitudes toward authority and power) and individualism - communitarianism (focus on self - reliance or responsibility to a larger group) of more than 5,000 people who reported an awareness of electronic nicotine devices (ENDS), which include e-cigarettes.

October 10, 2006 International conference focuses on mesothelioma The University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine will host the eighth conference of the International Mesothelioma Interest Group (IMIG) from Thursday, October 19, through Sunday, October 22, 2006, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, 301 E. North Water Street in Chicago.

Year in Review: Calico and the Buck Institute Are Collaborating on Research into Aging and Potential Therapeutics for Age - related Diseases Top Grant from the NIH Faculty Awards Published Research Buck Faculty Share Their Expertise Worldwide Buck Labs Focus on mTOR Pathway Live Longer, Live Well — New Donor Groups Get Behind the Buck's Mission Full STEAM Ahead: Unique Partnership Helps Marin and Sonoma Schools Meet New Science Standards Energy and Climate Change Visionary Jostein Eikeland Pledges $ 5 Million to the Buck Scientific Advisory Board Board of Trustees Financial Summary Buck Advisory Council Cumulative Donors and Sponsors Honor Roll of Donors

It's just that for the past two years, working with a group of 12 - and 13 - year - olds, we began to explore how our experience of school could be transformed by focusing on things like collaborative and cooperative interactions, critical thinking, creativity, and alternative forms of communication.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

This Fox musical - comedy with a satirical edge nails the high drama of high school with a focus on McKinley High School's beleaguered Glee Club, a wallflower student group overshadowed by the school's cheerleading squad and its diabolical dirschool with a focus on McKinley High School's beleaguered Glee Club, a wallflower student group overshadowed by the school's cheerleading squad and its diabolical dirSchool's beleaguered Glee Club, a wallflower student group overshadowed by the school's cheerleading squad and its diabolical dirschool's cheerleading squad and its diabolical director.

In 1949, he took charge of the newly created National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, which, by the end of the 1950s, helped spur the creation of more than 15,000 citizen groups focused on working with local district officials to improve local school problems.

Since that first animated comic book, he has successfully requested more funds from the local school board and a nearby educational foundation and also has received significant awards from the Eastern Illinois Employment Service Agency, a group focused on vocational education, for hardware and training.

And it put a special focus on ensuring that states and schools boost the performance of certain groups of students, such as English - language learners, students in special education, and poor and minority children, whose achievement, on average, trails their peers.

I focus here on scholarship usage because that specific measure of program impact is easily understood, is relevant to policymakers, and preserves the control group as the natural representation of what would have happened to the treatment group absent the program, including the fact that some of them would have attended private school on their own.

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Education, supported by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), has launched an inquiry to examine how well our schools are preparing young people for their future, with a particular focus on their readiness for the workforce.

«The marking group will look at marking and feedback in schools which are successfully raising standards without generating unnecessary workload, with a focus on the implications of certain practices such as «deep marking».