Sentences with phrase «in changing schools»

He founded Future Is Now, which organizes teachers to become leaders in changing schools.

Ms. Rhee said this week that she had called Mr. Parker shortly after his defeat in the union election, beginning a dialogue over several months about the role of unions in changing schools.

He has been influential in changing schools and districts around the country, and was recently a... Read more...

He has been influential in changing schools and districts around the country, and was recently a speaker for TedX.

By contrast, we invest virtually nothing in changing our schools.

Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district — and in their lives.

He has been credited for helping the reduction in teen pregnancies from 70 cases in 2014, to zero in 2017 through his work in changing the school curriculum to have students understand their rights and celebrate diversity.

Two of the biggest obstacles to overcome in changing the school day and year are inertia and funding, said Gabrieli.

The first step in the Secondary Academy for Success (SAS) plan was a program that included a series of skill - building and planning workshops for a self - selected group of students who were interested in changing their school.

A decision to use these scores for evaluations might in itself change the schooling environment in ways that could lead to different results.

Not exact matches

At very least, schools would do well to heed Narvekar's admission, in a letter announcing the changes, that Harvard felt the need to reduce its organizational «complexity.»

Plans for a medical school and a new law program in Western Australia herald a major change for those professions.

Thank God I'm just a grandparent these days, without school - aged kids who are trapped in an increasingly bizarre and irrational world run by adults - mostly parents and otherwise unemployable administrators — where the rules, the procedures and the approved behaviors vary daily and the changes come so rapidly and abruptly that the characters in Alice in Wonderland would be totally jealous.

This announcement makes Kroger the third major retailer to change its gun sale policies in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla. on Feb. 14.

But there's no doubt younger workers are changing the interpersonal dynamics of the modern workplace, much as they've already done in high schools and universities.

Queen's was one of the last schools in Canada without a major donor's name on its business department, but that changed last year with a record - breaking $ 50 - million gift from Stephen J.R. Smith, founder of First National Financial Corp. and a Queen's alumnus.

«I really want to give back now and figure out how I can help other teenagers start changing the world now, while they're still in their high school classrooms.»

Start - Up Chile's creators realized that «to change the culture, you'll need to bring foreigners in,» says Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School and adviser to Start - Up Chile.

A $ 50 million «School of the Future» backed by Microsoft Corp. opens this September in Philadelphia, and it may redesign ideas about education as thoroughly as technology has changed the workplace.

Will the new Harvard dean be able to meet the high expectations he has raised for change at the number one business school in the world?

That all changed when a colleague at the restaurant advised Sepeti to go to pastry school, and less a month later, she had quit her job and started classes at Le Cordon Bleu pastry school in Austin, Texas.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

«I think it's a shock to see the school system getting on board with the changing Ireland we live in and it becoming the «norm,» which helps the cause against bullying so much,» Ryder told INSIDER.

Whereas old - school car dealerships would try to quickly «lock in» the customer before they change their mind, Tesla understands that they do not want customers who regret a purchase.

In Tokyo, one tall building is helping to change the way we think about schools and how they should look.

When I was 15 and my brother was 17, he passed away in a car accident just a couple days before graduating from high school, and obviously it changed me dramatically.

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

To that end, we have teamed up with the University of North Carolina's Kenan - Flagler Business School — a recognized leader in online business education — to create an innovative executive certificate program called: Change the World: Leading with Purpose.

«Malala wants every girl to be in school and every girl to be empowered with the skills she needs to have opportunity in her life, to be employed, to not get married at 14 — and to be a change maker in her community,» says Shahid.

Ed - tech sector is booming By Erica Alini, MacLean's October 29, 2012 Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

Richard Wong, for one, found that changing his behaviour wasn't necessary after a recent promotion in recruitment at Western University's Richard Ivey School of Business.

Canadian education startups grew by 65 % in five years as the technology of learning changes our schools and universities.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

That's why we created a VIP Move Concierge service to help our customers get set up with utilities, change their address with the post office and find out more about the schools and coffee shops in the vicinity.

One example: Old - school fluorescent lighting could be replaced by LED lights that can easily change color throughout the day to reflect subtle changes in the sky outside, like those lights on many airliners now that simulate dawn, midday, and dusk for long - distance travelers.

NATS said that shift had «resulted in major changes in the flows of traffic, and with many schools now breaking up the demand for flying is expected to reach new levels.»

It's not easy to implement in the face of the fierce resistance to change, which may be the only thing that many schools are still really good at.

At the heart of the changes at Wharton is what the school is calling «pathways for fulfillment» — essentially required courses in six different «content areas» that are broader than the traditional disciplines taught at most business schools.

But that all changed when he started attending the Bronx High School of Science, where kids spoke in «hushed tones in the hallways about the real heroes» — students who had won what was then known as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search.

In truth, most so - called curriculum overhauls are cosmetic marketing exercises intended to show that a school is adapting to the changing needs and demands of business.

So far most of the government apps seem modest in scope (think: Mapping crime reports or finding out when the next train will come), but O'Reilly suggested that this is only the beginning and that the approach can work for big problems like rising health care costs, poorly performing schools, and climate change.

Two years ago, when most American Gen Zers (defined as survey respondents who are 22 years old now) were still in school, they were distinctly cool to the idea of spending adulthood in an office, but that's changed quite a bit.

The school plans a partial rollout of the changes in 2011 with full implementation in 2012.

As I mentioned in my closing ceremony speech, I truly believe Booth is a school of leaders, this world needs leaders capable of driving changes and that's why we all have to take a decisive leadership role.

Thiel was born in Frankfurt, West Germany, in 1967, to an engineer father whose international travels required Thiel to change elementary schools seven times.

Old - school wet shavers used to turn up their noses at synthetic brushes, but times have changed: New synthetics like the Fendrihan shaving brush are capable of offering a feel similar to badger in softness while still providing enough backbone to whip up a great lather.

The school, which was founded in 1919 and started offering an MBA in 1954, took Goizueta's name in 1994, and his business philosophy is now a central part of the school's mission: to develop professionals who will add value to their companies by changing the way business is done.

Thousands of high school students and other gun - control advocates gathered in Washington and across the U.S. Saturday to demand tougher firearms restrictions from an older generation that's delivered little change after years of mass shootings.

Enter the DO School, a global institution that, for select programs, borrows students passionate about social change from accredited colleges and offers them experiential learning through doing, challenging them to solve real - world, pressing problems in sustainable ways.

Change is afoot, most notably in the school's growing focus on sustainability and corporate social responsibility.