Sentences with phrase «higher learning around»

It works to strengthen and link institutions of higher learning around the world and strives to build leadership skills so that individuals and organizations are able to address both local and global challenges.

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«Technology now gives us the means to extend the reach of high quality education around the world and to provide millions of people with access to learning and opportunities for advancement,» Levin, who also serves on President Obama's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, said in a statement.

The COO Alliance is the start of an exclusive COO braintrust - and - if you qualify - your exclusive opportunity to learn from and connect with other top high - growth COOs from around North America.

There are certain price action «events» that happen over and over in the markets, and if you can learn to identify and trade these events you can build a high - probability trading strategy around them.

If you are at all interested in learning more about how and why people who love Jesus — why long time faithful disciples who have a high view of Scripture with a deeply Christian ethic around sexuality — are arriving at this conclusion, I would commend to you a season of bible study and theological reading and prayer in company with the Holy Spirit and the body of Christ.

Instead, he started working with local youths and traveling around to speak to various high school baseball organizations, extolling the virtues of throwing more often while regulating effort, controlling the strike zone — down and away, down and away — and learning how to pitch.

2) If Ronda gets her hands on anyone in the division she can finish the fight 3) She has incredible power, TKO's an Olympic medalist in the clinch with a knee and knocking out Betch with one punch 4) With her judo skill set she doesn't need to become a master boxer but learn how to stay behind a jab to move her opponents around the ring until she can get a hold of them 5) With her skill set being in high body control her boxing doesn't need to be as good as someone who needs to set up a double leg.

He then proceeded to build talent throughout the roster seeing how far that QB could go with a talented cast around him before deciding to spend a high pick on a QB as he knows he wants a rookie QB to have time to learn and a rookie QB needs a good situation to come into the NFL to lower the difficulty and increase the chances of that QB not being a bust.

After taking a liking to hurdles while goofing around after a high - jump camp, Woodward started training with 1976 Olympic Trials semifinalist Janet Benford to learn technique, but joining the hurdling sorority at Vacaville High provided a new perspective as whigh - jump camp, Woodward started training with 1976 Olympic Trials semifinalist Janet Benford to learn technique, but joining the hurdling sorority at Vacaville High provided a new perspective as wHigh provided a new perspective as well.

While those who are already in high school may not come around to enjoying lower sodium food, the kids who are just starting out in elementary school need to start eating a lower sodium diet right away, so that by the time they are in high school, they have learned to prefer it.

As Steiner puts it, the experience that the world is good and worthy of imitation in the early years, followed by the cultivation of a deep sense of wonder for the beauty to be found in all things, becomes the foundation upon which the High School student learns to discover truth in the world around him / her.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

In the modern world — where cheap, high - calorie food is available all around — taste, smell, emotion, learning, memory, and food addiction tend to override our biological cues and entice us to eat even when there is no need.

Around that time, Gazzaley learned about the Bronx High School of Science, a college preparatory school that specialized in teaching the sciences.

Overall, the researchers report, students who learned metacognition skills scored around 4 percent higher on the final exam than their peers in the control section.

This is one of the reasons Erie, Pa. — based GE Transportation inked a deal on last week with China's Ministry of Railways to better learn how to develop high - speed rail projects in the U.S. View a slide show of international high - speed rail lines for a closer look at how these projects have developed around the world

VERITAS is one of several observatories around the world aimed at learning more about the most violent, high energy phenomena in our universe.

If you've been walking around boasting about your high pain tolerance, I encourage you to sit back, get still, and begin to learn how to feel what's underneath that armor of yours.

When you learn to cultivate awareness around what you do and how you do it, you are connecting with your inner guide, your higher power, your spirit.

When we learn to cultivate awareness around what we do and how we do it, we are connecting with our inner guide, higher power, and spirit.

If you're moderately active, meaning you exercise around 30 - 60 minutes per day at a moderate to high intensity, the number of calories you burn through exercise will be around 15 - 30 % above your resting metabolic rate.3 You'll learn how to estimate the calorie needs of people with higher energy expenditures in a moment.

Right around then, I discovered a vegan community on Instagram and learned about treating candida with a high - carb, raw foods diet.

But I had been learning to drive our little car first around our small town and then out into the countryside and eventually on the high speed freeways that crisscross the country.

Without their parents around, Darry is forced to turn down a college scholarship to take care of his brothers; Sodapop drops out of high school to work in a gas station; and Ponyboy... well, he learns what it means to stay gold.

I am hoping that Rare will make sure to have an epic scope, I would love to see an open - world / sandbox Zelda this time around, as long as Rare can do that I have learned to expect high quality from them anyways!

Lots of buzz around blended learning — the idea that we shouldn't limit ourselves to a forced choice between teachers and technology, but can strive to find the right combination of high tech and high touch teaching.

Hello, I have been teaching for 20 years (High School Math) and I have been a Project Learning Consultant to schools around the country (and occasionally internationally) for 8 years.

There's a lot of work left to do, Hammond says, primarily around ensuring that all schools foster a culture of equity and all kids have access to high - quality teaching and learning.

«And a key component is students are going to campus with no purpose and direction around their learning, with no sense of what it means to be an adult, and so students are getting lost in destructive behavior because they don't have the support to step into a higher ed community.»

Discussing the funding, John Wood, head teacher at Queensferry Community High, said: «The school's staff, pupils, parents and partners are excited by the new build and the contribution we can make to its design.It will give us opportunities to make sure that the facilities are appropriate for the most up - to - date thinking around learning and the courses that we can offer our young people.

I had always thought that I lived on an island of one, but I came to learn that teachers from around the globe were not only encouraged by my accounts, but were experiencing many of the same highs and lows.

As we reimagine curriculum at Sammamish High School around a comprehensive problem - based learning approach, we find ourselves reimagining the bounds of the classroom and the singular nature of The Teacher.

And CCE's High - Functioning Classroom is used to train teachers around the world to engage their pupils in learning through creativity (like in these schools in Pakistan).

It would benefit greatly from incorporating decades of learning from the PBL community around what engages students and leads them to producing the highest quality work.

They foster ownership by organizing the learning around the production of something that is authentic and high quality.

ppsx formats)- Links to carefully selected videos that contribute towards the new AQA Sociology GCSE - A double - sided A3 video - learning worksheet (see cover image for preview)- Includes a starter, AfL tasks and a homework task All lessons are designed around the new AQA specification, we take considerable time making the highest quality lessons.

It describes the relative availability of such opportunities in the United States as well as in high - achieving nations around the world, which have been making substantial and sustained investments in professional learning for teachers over the last two decades.

The high energy and representation from around the world made me realize that the «future of learning» is on the mind of most nations of the world.

In this watershed moment, the Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative is gathering researchers, policymakers, advocates, and practitioners from across the country to the Harvard Graduate School of Education for the express purpose of reframing discussions around early education, the delivery of high - quality early learning at scale, and its benefit to children and society.

The theme, Open Learning and the Future of Higher Education, brought together educators from around the country, including the panelists Amy Gutmann, Martha Kanter, Thomas Friedman, Daphne Koller and William Kirwan.

The school reported on its work in the first and third editions of the LLEAP (Leading Learning in Education and Philanthropy) dialogue series, and Cawsey says they were was still «scrabbling around» for little grants when the regional education director asked if Rooty Hill High wanted to host a Confucius Classroom.

Created around specific school needs, and recognising Brentfield's high percentage of pupils with English as an additional language, the partnership also provides the school with cutting - edge digital resources, helping teachers to meet the learning needs of each individual child.

However, improved technologies are enabling Cool Australia to provide professional development which incorporates high - quality content and practical learning experiences to teachers around Australia.

That's rare in the world of selective - admission public high schools, as Jessica Hockett and I learned in our recent examination of some 165 such schools around the country.

Most classrooms we observed were alive, engaged places in which teachers appeared to have high expectations for their pupils and planned their instruction around the assumption that students can and want to learn.

They are high - touch, combining small learning communities and wrap - around supports for guidance and social services.

You will reflect on your own leadership strengths and weaknesses in a supportive learning environment with Harvard faculty and accomplished higher education leaders from across the country and around the world.

In this excerpt, they explain how blended learning makes it possible to organize schools around the things students care most about: accomplishing something and having fun with their friends, and how Summit Public Schools, a California charter network, has reimagined middle and high school along these lines.

Good examples of schools include High Tech High in California, Montessori schools around the world, the New Pedagogies for Deep Learning global partnership, Escuela Nueva in Colombia, Redes de Tutoría in Mexico and Chile.

As more large high schools nationwide break down into smaller learning communities or schools, many have created «career academies» that organize curricula around themes such as health professions, the law, or the performing arts.