Sentences with phrase «high impact initiatives»

Analytical strategist and results - oriented professional with a strong track record of delivering high impact initiatives in Service Delivery, Customer Relationship Management, Call Center, Customer Service as well as Staff Leadership, Training and Development.

SURN is currently a partnership of 28 public school systems, the Virginia Department of Education, and the College of William and Mary in Virginia, but is quickly spreading as individual principals in individual school systems replicate the high impact initiatives.

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Some also were the recipients of high - impact training from Goldman Sachs, whose 10,000 Small Businesses initiative brought needed skills, mentorships, and funding to 400 New Orleans businesses.

Thereafter, the positive impact of the higher level of nominal GDP and the saving measures more than offset the fiscal cost of the policy initiatives, resulting in lower deficits than those forecast in the October 2010 Update to 2014 - 15, and a somewhat higher surplus in 2015 - 16.

About MaRS EXCITE The MaRS Excellence in Clinical Innovation and Technology Evaluation initiative (EXCITE) is a groundbreaking partnership between the health system, academe, government and industry to establish effective pre-market evidence development and evaluation of high - impact medical technologies.

Higher revenues and lower expenses resulting from the improvement in nominal GDP, coupled with the saving measures implemented in the Budget are just sufficient to offset the impact of the new policy initiatives.

«IBM is proud to be the lead corporate sponsor of such a high - impact global initiative.»

Excluding the impact of currency, Adjusted EBITDA increased primarily due to gains from cost savings initiatives (2), lower overhead costs and favorable pricing, which was partially offset by higher input costs and lower volume / mix.

Excluding the impact of currency, the increase in Adjusted EBITDA reflected incremental gains from cost savings initiatives (2) that were partly offset by a combination of factors that included higher input costs, lower net sales as well as business investments in Rest of World markets.

Several high - profile economists and pundits are both frustrated and perplexed that initiatives like cash - for - clunkers, the $ 800 + billion U.S. stimulus program, and Japan's 20 installments of government spending juice (over recent years) have failed to trigger anywhere close to the expected multiplier1 impact on economic activity.

In addition, we highlight global best practices such as policies, programs and breakthrough initiatives that jumpstart the growth of high - impact female entrepreneurs.

«Initiatives such as the Courtauld Commitment, aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the grocery sector, along with high profile food recalls, mean that suppliers and retailers are giving increasing priority to driving out waste, reducing risk and optimising performance,» points out Alan Mutch.

Those offers were also described as «opportunistic» and not reflective of «medium and long - term prospects», while the company insisted that «recent initiatives to diversify into higher margin products» were beginning to have a «material positive impact».

Jones said the group needs to find «holistic approaches to uncover our greatest assets and to identify the high - impact initiatives and start to build upon those initiatives.»

Schneiderman said his office is looking into «high - impact, state - level initiatives» to fight climate change

At the heart of the initiative is the «What We Know» report, an assessment of current climate science and impacts that emphasizes the need to understand and recognize possible high - risk scenarios.

The Purdue Institute for Inflammation, Immunology and Infectious Diseases (PI4D) along with the Center for Integrative Neuroscience were two «pillars» selected to amplify Purdue's existing strengths and initiatives in order to enable research at the highest level and with the greatest impact on human lives.

This new initiative is supported by the NIH Common Fund, which funds high - impact, trans - NIH projects that have the potential to dramatically affect biomedical research over the next decade.

The highly successful gastroesophageal initiative has two active PO1 grants as well as multiple RO1 and other high impact grants.

This includes world class leaders with multi-physics and multi-scale expertise from the EMNs as well as leaders of other high - impact materials initiatives in clean energy applications.

This work builds on Public Impact's «Opportunity Culture» initiative, which aims both to reach every child with high - growth, enriched learning and to provide paid career advancement opportunities to excellent teachers, within budget.

This initiative sets into a motion a coordinated set of high - impact actions, investments, and partnerships that will significantly increase the Ed School's capacity for research, innovation, outreach, and leadership development in early childhood education.

Last week, I argued that Hitt, McShane, and Wolf erred in including programs in their review of «school choice» studies that were only incidentally related to school choice or that have idiosyncratic designs that would lead one to expect a mismatch between test score gains and long - term impacts (early college high schools, selective enrollment high schools, and career and technical education initiatives).

Philanthropy constitutes only a fraction of 1 percent of total spending on K - 12 schools, but initiatives like the Gates high school effort illustrate how such money can have a vastly disproportionate impact on the direction of America's schools.

«The initiative will provide early childhood educators, from teachers to leaders, with high - quality, high - impact professional learning opportunities drawing on evidence from groundbreaking new research.

Join literacy curriculum experts Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University, and Shawn Mahoney, Ph.D., chief academic officer at McGraw - Hill Education, to discover proven methods and high - impact solutions to enrich school and district literacy initiatives.

-- April 8, 2015 Planning a High - Poverty School Overhaul — January 29, 2015 Four Keys to Recruiting Excellent Teachers — January 15, 2015 Nashville's Student Teachers Earn, Learn, and Support Teacher - Leaders — December 16, 2014 Opportunity Culture Voices on Video: Nashville Educators — December 4, 2014 How the STEM Teacher Shortage Fails U.S. Kids — and How To Fix It — November 6, 2014 5 - Step Guide to Sustainable, High - Paid Teacher Career Paths — October 29, 2014 Public Impact Update: Policies States Need to Reach Every Student with Excellent Teaching — October 15, 2014 New Website on Teacher - Led Professional Learning — July 23, 2014 Getting the Best Principal: Solutions to Great - Principal Pipeline Woes Doing the Math on Opportunity Culture's Early Impact — June 24, 2014 N&O Editor Sees Solution to N.C. Education «Angst and Alarm»: Opportunity Culture Models — June 9, 2014 Large Pay, Learning, and Economic Gains Projected with Statewide Opportunity Culture Implementation — May 13, 2014 Cabarrus County Schools Join National Push to Extend Reach of Excellent Teachers — May 12, 2014 Public Impact Co-Directors» Op - Ed: Be Bold on Teacher Pay — May 5, 2014 New videos: Charlotte schools pay more to attract, leverage, keep best teachers — April 29, 2014 Case studies: Opening blended - learning charter schools — March 20, 2014 Syracuse, N.Y., schools join Opportunity Culture initiative — March 6, 2014 What do teachers say about an Opportunity Culture?

We help organizations implement and build capacity for effective social emotional learning initiatives that are high quality and high impact.

The Teach Like a Champion Team is part of Uncommon Impact, Uncommon Schools» initiative to share what we know about all students, particularly those not born to privilege, to achieve at dramatically higher levels.

The report, issued Wednesday by the New School's Center for New York City Affairs, examines the impact of one of the signature initiatives of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, since 2002: closing 21 big high schools and opening nearly 200 smaller secondary schools...

Various studies in the 1970s and 80s described the limits of higher levels of authority in the governance structure for education, and the relatively weak impact of state policy on student outcomes.294 But loose coupling does not mean that no influence flows from superordinate entities.295 Even as schools are busy developing their own policies and initiatives, they pay attention to demands from «outside the system» when those demands are consistent with the directions in which their organizations are already moving.296

If you DO work in education, the term is a metaphor for a city - based nonprofit that plays a central role in funding and coordinating high - impact education initiatives.

In her scholarship, she has studied the role of financial aid in increasing access to higher education, the effects of postsecondary remediation, and the impact of institutional initiatives aimed at reducing inequality in college outcomes.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Northwest Comprehensive Center (NWCC) provides high - impact training and technical assistance to SEA staff in planning, implementing, monitoring, and sustaining initiatives in priority areas such as college and career readiness, educator effectiveness, school improvement, and rigorous, college - and career - ready standards implementation.

This lets you use high - impact imagery to draw attention to new training initiatives, or communicate with every learner using the Knowledge Arcade.

Each of the 11 high schools selected to receive a Reach Higher System Impact Grant was a second year participant of MCAN's Reach Higher grant program, an initiative aimed at supporting college - going culture inside high schools to increase the number of high school students ready for and enrolling in college.

Reflecting the findings of research conducted by Bric et al in the USA, we have found that schools who work with us on a whole - school basis, rather than individual projects or initiatives, see the greatest impact and report the highest assessments of value for money.

Refreshingly, Duncan and Murnane do not stop with heartwarming tales of successful schools, but also present data from randomized experiments showing the impacts on children, especially for the small high school initiative in New York City and the University of Chicago Charter Network.

The heart of the initiative is the largest study of its kind, a randomized controlled trial that seeks to determine what works and what doesn't in implementing high - quality summer learning programs, as well as the impact the programs have on students.

Therefore, the DfE should set out «how it will take account» of the housing requirements of teachers, particularly in high - cost areas, and take a «more strategic role» among other government departments when considering initiatives to support teachers, to ensure «real impact».

In this paper, Dee and Wyckoff (2013) presented what they termed to be «novel evidence» to suggest that the «uniquely high - powered incentives» linked to «teacher performance» via DC's IMPACT initiative worked to improve the performance of high - performing teachers, and that dismissal threats worked to increase the voluntary attrition of low - performing teachers, as well as improve the performance of the students of the teachers who replaced them.

This research study from the Urban Institute examines the impact of Accelerating Opportunity (AO), an initiative that enables learners to complete high school equivalency programs while simultaneously working toward an industry credential.

Winners of the Innovation Award will join the high - impact Innovation Unit, supported by Bloomberg and an on - going initiative run by Teach First to support entrepreneurs driving solutions for educational inequality.

The Mind Trust is building a network of the nation's highest - impact education initiatives, helping to launch life - changing schools, and advancing bold plans for transforming the city's education system.

The defeat of two high - profile charter initiatives at the ballot box on Tuesday signals a growing public concern about the impacts, and rapid proliferation of charter schools across the country.

CCSA and its membership will continue to work to ensure success for all students, and will advance concrete policy initiatives designed raise the performance bar and to support those charter schools that are having a high impact on their students» futures,» said Wallace, the Association's president and CEO.

CIERA Inquiry 3: Policy and Profession What is the impact of implementing federal, state, or local program initiatives in high - poverty schools?

Launched in 2011, Project Leadership and Investment for Transformation, or L.I.F.T., is a five - year initiative in nine low - performing schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.35 The project focuses on innovative strategies to provide students with extended learning time and increased access to technology while supporting community engagement and excellent teaching.36 Project L.I.F.T. worked with Public Impact — a nonprofit organization that works with school districts to create innovative school models — to design hybrid teacher - leader roles that «extend the reach» of high - performing teachers to more students.37 These «multi-classroom leaders» continue to teach while leading teams of teachers and assuming responsibility for the learning of all students taught by their team.38 For this advanced role, teachers earn supplements of up to $ 23,000 annually, funded sustainably by reallocating funds within current budgets.39

Their Opportunity Culture initiative helps districts and schools create highly paid, high impact teacher leader roles that extend the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

All of these initiatives have one obvious impact: many fewer graduates of New Jersey's high schools can even consider teaching as a profession.