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The ballot of nominees for the Edison Awards ™ was judged by a panel of more than 3,000 leading business executives including past award winners, academics and leaders in the fields of product development, design, engineering, science and medical.

Since January 2003, Ms. Bloxham has published The Corporate Governance Alliance Digest, a publication on current value and corporate governance topics, which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and the Americas.

About MaRS Innovation MaRS Innovation is the commercialization agent for Ontario's exceptional discovery pipeline from 15 leading academic institutions, including Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), MaRS Discovery District, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, St. Michael's Hospital, Ryerson University, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Women's College Hospital and York University.

The day - long event brought together 150 invited guests, including Knight News Challenge grantees along with leading journalists, technologists, campaign organizers, academics and thought leaders for a series of curated panel discussions.

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The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

Other factors that have led to a decrease in free play time include an emphasis on academic preparation, electronic media replacing playtime, less time spent playing outdoors, perceived risk of play environments, and limited access to outdoor play spaces.

From a letter to the Telegraph on the Alcohol Taxation Debate, signed by a group of leading doctors and academics, including Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman, UK Alcohol Health Alliance and Special Advisor on Alcohol, Royal College of Physicians; and Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman, British Medical Association Council — December 2011

The panel is expected to include environmental advocates and academics, including Environmental Advocates of New York Executive Director Peter Iwanowicz, Urban Program Legislative Director Richard Schraeder and SUNY Albany Professor David Carpenter, who leads the Institute for Health and the Environment.

Both reports were instrumental in setting up the Faculty of Law at Legon, leading to the current bifurcated legal education system, which includes the academic component at a University followed by a professional component at Makola or an equivalent professional school.

Structured music lessons significantly enhance children's cognitive abilities — including language - based reasoning, short - term memory, planning and inhibition — which lead to improved academic performance.

Funded by MacArthur, Oak and Open Society Foundations, SITU has undertaken collaborations with a diverse range of partners, including the International Criminal Court, the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), as well as projects with international legal teams, award - winning journalists and leading academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Universities.

A pioneer of Israeli water - saving techniques for irrigated farming, he is now a leading academic in the US, with a string of UN consultancies, including advising on water for many of the Middle East's Arab governments.

Led by Professor Jari Kinaret, from Sweden's Chalmers University, the Flagship involves over 126 academic and industrial research groups in 17 European countries, with 136 principal investigators, including four Nobel laureates.

Within Lancaster University, PhD candidates will be supervised by ImaginationLancaster in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts, led by Professor Rachel Cooper OBE, and by academics from other faculties including the School of Computing and Communications.

The Precision Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment, or PROSPECT, is led by Yale University and includes partners from 14 academic and governmental institutions.

The Quantlab team includes a stellar group of scientists and technologists, many of them from non-financial backgrounds — academics from major institutions, software developers from top tech companies, and engineers from leading hardware providers.

Founded in 2013 following an independent management buyout from Barclays Bank, our firm has been built in cooperation with leading academics from universities including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Cambridge, Maastricht, and the German Fraunhofer Society.

The clinical immunology speciality training can lead you to a variety different roles including consultant, SAS (Specialist and Associate Specialist) doctor as well as opportunities in academic medicine.

Participants include leading researchers from academic, industrial, and federal laboratories in such disciplines as astronomy, astrophysics, atmospheric science, biology, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, earth sciences, genetics, material sciences, mathematical sciences, neurosciences, pharmacology, and physics.

Academic speed dating is a format employed by many leading research organizations, including universities.

This report was prepared by Informa with contributions from leading organisations including Consilium Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Fielding Nair International, The Arabian Education and Training Group, AURA Academic Institutions, Kids First Group, Brighton College International Schools, Blossom Nursery / Blossom Early Learning Centre, American University in Sharjah and Nora systems GmbH.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Led by Academic Dean Robert Schwartz and Ferguson, the Pathways to Prosperity project launched in late 2008 to explore promising solutions to these immense challenges, including developing a range of «multiple pathways» to help more adolescents successfully complete the journey to entering the adult workforce.

Successful Learners: School trips have the potential to lay strong foundations for encouraging successful learning and building positive attitudes which subsequently lead to improvements in achievement and motivation in all areas — including academic.

The new English Baccalaureate qualification (EBacc)-- which emphasises a range of «core» academic subjects — has caused widespread concern amongst the musical community, including fears this will lead to a decline in the creative arts and technology.

That dovetails with Wagner's academic work, which defines the «skills of the future» as including adaptability, leading by influence, and initiative.

An LEA shall use these grant funds to support direct student services including: (1) a student's enrollment and participation in academic courses not otherwise available at the student's school; (2) credit recovery and academic acceleration courses that lead to a regular high school diploma; (3) activities that assist students in successfully completing postsecondary level instruction and examinations that are accepted for credit at institutions of higher education; and (4) if applicable, transportation to allow a student enrolled in a low - performing school to transfer to another public school.

A portfolio for a student - led conference typically includes an agenda for the conference, a compilation of the student's work in the class, and usually goal sheets outlining academic and behavioral standards for them moving forward.

The CAS Network of Excellence (NoE), free to teachers, provides access to good practice and support from other schools, to free help from world leading universities, and a wealth of support from the existing 26,500 CAS members who include university academics, IT professionals from global corporations and outstanding teachers in over 3,000 schools across the UK.

Recent pressure to increase academic achievement has led new educational reform strategies to include ideas on extending the school day.

We provide extensive opportunities for personal and academic growth, offering a wide array of classes including but not limited to: Project Lead the Way (PTLW) Engineering courses, band and art.

In addition to Kiernan Mathews, this institute will include the very best scholars bridging research and practice in academic leadership: Jerlando Jackson on leading diverse teams and harnessing existing diversity in the academic workforce; Adrianna Kezar on implementing change strategies in support of faculty and reconfiguring today's faculty roles into new faculty models; and KerryAnn O'Meara on strategies and solutions that make faculty workloads more visible, accountable, equitable, and credited.

Topics discussed include a study that found that SEL led to a reduction in conduct problems, increased pro-social behaviors and resulted in an 11 - percentile improvement in academic performance.

Education scholars like Kahlenberg, one of the nation's leading advocates for economic integration, note droves of research papers that cite the positive impacts of diversity in K - 12 schooling, including enhanced critical thinking, higher academic achievement, greater civic responsibility, higher college - going rates and more lucrative jobs.

When you include early learning professionals and preschool children in your program, you reshape the culture of your school and emphasize your support for a strong beginning that can lead to long - term academic gains.

The hope was that by identifying historically disadvantaged students — which includes economically disadvantaged students, racial / ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and students with limited English proficiency — greater attention and resources leading to academic achievement would be given to these marginalized students.

Moving forward, Romney's agenda should include the conservative alternative to NCLB: the Academic Partnerships Lead Us to Success (APLUS) Act.

On 1 September 2016, staff from Henry Hinde Junior School and Keresley Newland Primary Academy shared a wonderfully positive day to herald the new academic year, at which presentations from staff in newly created roles within the Cluster, including the English & Modern Foreign Languages Lead, and the SENDCo Lead delivered interactive workshops.

The network has already gained some high profile supporters including, among many others, Dame Alison Peacock, Chief Executive of the newly formed National College of Teaching, and leading academics from Cambridge University.

Rather than fixing behavioral problems, suspension and expulsion are more likely to exacerbate underlying academic challenges, including social - emotional and other problems, leading to a vicious cycle that too often ends in failure and dropout.

The new data suggest that the public really wants both strong academics and job preparation, including classes focused on career skills, technology and engineering, and programs leading to a professional certificate or license.

The priorities, which will be core to a new accountability system, include school climate, student engagement, access to courses leading to college and careers and the implementation of new academic standards, such as the Common Core State Standards, as well as measures of student achievement.

These kinds of programs empower faculty to conduct cutting - edge research on language learning, bilugualism, international curricular issues, and immigrant education, which includes a recently awarded $ 1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for Project LEAD (Leadership in English Acquisition, Academic Achievement and Development).

The one - year Idaho School Leadership Fellowship will ultimately prepare an individual for all aspects of school leadership; including responsibility for planning, implementing, managing and leading the academic and instructional needs of the students and staff in one of Bluum's ’20 in 10 ′ partner schools.

In the Lower School self - contained classroom the lead Teacher is responsible for: * All aspects of the academic curriculum including social - emotional learning, language arts, mathematics, science...

As president of New Jersey PTA, Acerra led efforts to include cameras on school bus extension arms to deter cars from speeding past; create a fairer state education funding formula; and require higher academic standards for all students across the state.

Initiatives will include conflict resolution workshops and seminars, motivational rallies, exposure to the criminal justice system, summer open gym opportunities, academic awards and acknowledgments, community service initiatives, and student - led panels and discussions.

It seems like it was yesterday that I was sitting in hours of professional development in the year leading up to the adoption of the new Kentucky Academic Standards for Mathematics in 2010, learning all about the 8 Mathematical Practices that were to be included as part of my instruction on a daily basis.

Colleges and universities that have lower academic rankings in publications like The Princeton Review and The Wall Street Journal, including Catholic schools, could lead to an increase in the number of closures.