Sentences with phrase «included academic buildings»

In 2004, CEI was selected from a national competition when the university was seeking a master developer to build the proposed ASU Arts & Business Gateway, which would have included academic buildings and the ASU bookstore as well as a small hotel and conference center.

Not exact matches

The $ 350 million project includes eight separate buildings around a trio of quads, a 600 - seat lecture hall, dining facilities, underground parking for 900 vehicles, and dedicated space for academic centers and career services.

We build in extra checks and balances, including blind peer review by a second academic expert, additional scrutiny and editorial oversight.

Knight has given hundreds of millions of dollars to athletic and academic projects around the school, including tens of millions toward Autzen Stadium and at least $ 68 million for the school's ridiculous football building.

With joy and devotion they express wonder for life and enthusiasm for work, building a strong bridge to later academic learning: Songs and nursery rhymes cultivate intimacy with language building literacy skills; Listening to stories, watching puppet shows and dramatic play strengthen the power of memory and imagination; Counting games and rhythmic activities build a solid foundation for arithmetic and number skills; Work activities develop coordination and the ability to concentrate; Outdoor activities, including play and hiking, encourage healthy physical development and an appreciation of nature and seasonal changes.

While you may find it challenging to pull your little ones away from their iPad or Xbox, the truth is that playing Minecraft (and video games in general) can be beneficial for your kids on many levels, including problem solving, building self - confidence, enhancing creativity, understanding teamwork and improving academic performance.

Since then Dr. Popkin has written and produced more than a dozen video and discussion programs, including Active Parenting of Teens; Families in Action; First Five Years; and Parents on Board: Building Academic Success through Parent Involvement.

The latest edition of the Mount Hope Monitor is now online: Stories include: PS 204 Teachers, Parents: Current School Building Not Up to Par Teachers and parents suspect that the academic success of their school, on West 174th Street in Morris Heights, is hurting their chances of moving to a new location a few blocks away.

• $ 1.1 million to reconstruct existing buildings near Syracuse University, including Varsity Pizza and Faegans Pub, into a mixed - use property that includes eight floors of residential apartments, two floors of commercial space and tenant parking that will serve students and medical staff at the neighboring complex of academic and medical facilities.

Other targets of the initiative have focused on instituting ways to build collaboration among academic, nonprofit and private sector efforts, including international groups and to increase federal funding, an effort that spurred Congress to pass in December 2016 the 21st Century Cures Act that authorized $ 1.8 billion for the National Cancer Institute.

Instead of encouraging the brain drain, top world academics, funders, and researchers should collaborate to build scientific infrastructure in the less resilient regions not only to improve their self - ability to conduct, access, and use the best science but also to ensure that they can contribute to global scientific debates while developing local solutions with cost - effective, participatory, and sustainable strategies (including the reconnaissance and use of indigenous knowledge in some cases).

Although reducing funding to three government councils that provide grants to scientists, the budget includes $ 1.62 billion over 2 years to retrofit aging academic buildings as part of a $ 10 billion investment in all manner of infrastructure.

The center, which is a collaborative of sexual health scholars from across the campuses of Indiana University and strategic partner academic institutions, also continually researches community based participatory research and sexual health, reproductive health (including condoms and other forms of contraception), men's sexual health, capacity building among sexual and gender minority youth, and global sexual health.

Also, the scientific program includes a career development session, where selected Summer School faculty members, coming from the academic, corporate, and / or regulatory arena, engage in lively discussions with the participants, sharing their own experience from starting their own careers and answering questions, providing essential, cutting edge information on building a successful career in the academic, corporate and / or regulatory sectors.

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.

Members of the OAIE can share resources and engage in online discussions, and, in doing so, will enhance stakeholder interactions and build well - informed communities working to respond and adapt to ocean acidification.The OAIE invites anyone working on ocean acidification to join, including but not limited to government, tribal, and academic research scientists, citizen scientists, experiential and formal educators, NGO employees, marine resources managers, policy makers, concerned citizens, aquaculturists, people in the fishing industry, technology developers, and data managers.

Brain Balance establishes a unique plan for each child that includes sensory motor work, eye tracking, core exercises, academic skill training, healthy nutrition, confidence building and many other activities that work to bolster a child's developmental deficits.

Our ability to include chemistry in our matching models will be a decisive advance in helping people build successful relationships while also contributing to academic relationship science.»

The partnership's research builds on educator Howard Gardner's seminal theory of multiple intelligences to indicate that arts education — including the visual arts, dance, music, and drama — enhances a student's ability to acquire core academic skills.

At the heart of the platform is a teaching framework and curriculum including 252 lesson plans, updated at the start of every academic year, which work together in a «spiral» to build and develop the full range of physical literacy within an overarching spiral framework.

«In every class in this building, you have kids of all levels of prior academic achievement,» says Principal Dan St. Louis, including kids who are «high flyers,» kids with Individualized Education Programs who are receiving special education support, students with disabilities, and English - language learners.

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.

Not only are there huge opportunities for environmental and financial benefits of energy efficient buildings, but recent studies, including the James Review on the procurement of education buildings, have demonstrated the direct link between the quality of school buildings and academic attainment.

The Transforming Teaching Project's next steps include widely disseminating the 12 Design Challenges to the field, continuing to collaborate with education, academic, and political leaders on the creation of the proposed system, and building capacity to share information and knowledge about excellence teaching.

In Kelly School, which is discussed in the book, these characteristics were built through a set of interrelated organizational routines including close monitoring of each student's academic progress, an explicit link between students» outcomes and teachers» practices, weekly 90 - minute professional development meetings focused on instructional improvement, and the cultivation of a formal and informal discourse emphasizing high expectations, cultural responsiveness, and teachers» responsibility for student learning.

This sort of stuff is not included in academic standards, but is a critical part of our work as educators — building connections, a collaborative spirit, and community in the classroom.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

The aims are to build a strong evidence base that will support four key Learning Away propositions, ie to demonstrate that high - quality residential learning: has a strong, positive impact on academic achievement and a wide range of pupil - level outcomes, including emotional well - being, learner engagement, behaviour and personal, social, employability and life skills; can transform the learning experience of pupils; can help to transform schools; does not need to be expensive.

Meeting or activity shall mean those school - initiated meetings or activities attended by parents or persons in parental relationship who are hearing impaired, which are specific to the academic and / or disciplinary aspects of their child's educational program, including, but not limited to, parent - teacher conferences; child study or building level team meetings; planning meetings with school counselors regarding educational progress and career planning; suspension hearings or any conference with school officials relating to disciplinary actions.

(i) For all grades kindergarten through twelve, district and building level comprehensive developmental school counseling / guidance programs shall prepare students to participate effectively in their current and future educational programs as age appropriate, and be designed to address multiple student competencies including career / college readiness standards, and academic and social / emotional development standards.

The acquiring of academic skills, including, notably, a big vocabulary, consists of building efficient mental systems that enable us, despite this very constrained bottleneck, to perform huge feats of analysis and synthesis.

The acquiring of academic skills, including a big vocabulary, consists of building efficient mental systems that enable us to perform huge feats of analysis and synthesis.

Unfortunately, this past school year districts absorbed funding reductions not only by deferring purchases of equipment and maintenance of buildings, but also by laying off classroom teachers, including teachers of core academic subjects.

For each elementary student enrolled, a District charter school receives $ 11,879 in tax dollars, including $ 8,770 to match per - pupil academic spending in the regular public schools and a $ 3,109 facility allotment to help pay for buildings.

This 3 - D School provides comprehensive dyslexia therapy services by identifying children with the characteristics of dyslexia and providing an educational environment designed to include appropriate, multi-sensory, research - based interventions, academic enrichment, and positive experiences that challenge students and build the necessary skills for success later in life.

This specialty school provides comprehensive dyslexia therapy services by identifying children with the characteristics of dyslexia and providing an educational environment designed to include appropriate, multi-sensory research - based intervention, academic enrichment, and positive experiences that challenge students and build the necessary skills for success later in life.

The 72 titles, including topics in science, math, social studies, and fiction, build knowledge and academic vocabulary and introduce children to literary genres.

Findings include the most desired outcomes of OST grants: improved academic achievement, increased engagement, positive development, and 21st century skill building.

During the school day, a Citizen Schools team of seven that includes a Campus Director and 6 AmeriCorps Teaching Fellows will provide academic support and general operations assistance where more capacity is useful at the school, building relationships and rapport with students along the way.

The solution is creating an environment that motivates all teachers to be the best they can be, that honors and rewards our outstanding teachers, that improves the status of the teaching profession, and that acknowledges that academic success is built from achievement in all subjects, including physical education.»

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

In addition, in October 2016, the Department of Education issued new guidance on the Every Student Succeeds Act describing how funds from Title IV, Part A's Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants can help state and local educational agencies provide all students with access to a well - rounded education.42 According to this guidance, local educational agencies «may use funds for activities in social emotional learning, including interventions that build resilience, self - control, empathy, persistence, and other social and behavioral skills.»

If you use the Second Step program, you know that it includes easy - to - teach classroom lessons for early learning through eighth grade designed to enhance students» academic and social - emotional competence by building skills for learning, and empathy, emotion - management, social problem - solving, and self - regulation skills.

All of the above help build student engagement, and engaged students have a more positive high school experience and greater academic success, including school completion.

Services that support student's academic success may be offered at or near the school building, and can include primary, mental, and dental health care; family engagement, including adult education; preschool learning; academic enrichment; expanded afterschool or summer programming; mentoring; postsecondary education; and career options awareness.

Recent ASCD titles include Building Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement: Research on What Works in Schools (2004); Classroom Management That Works: Research Based Strategies for Every Teacher (Marzano, Marzano, & Pickering, 2003); What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action (2003); A Handbook for Classroom Instruction That Works (Marzano, Paynter, Pickering, & Gaddy, 2001); and Classroom Instruction That Works: Research - Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollack, 2001).

Support includes streamlined, scaffolded content that integrates the built - in - dictionary tool, so students can access content and academic vocabulary at their language level and above.

This includes, for example, attendance and truancy supports, social and emotional skill building, after school programs, school counseling and postsecondary advising, and specialized academic programs such as STEM, International Baccalaureate, Advance Placement, Career & Technical Education, and Dual Credit / Dual Enrollment.

We promote a college - bound culture through intentional character building, including a course on leadership, strong academics, and a growing music program.

This includes, for example, attendance and truancy supports, social and emotional skill building, after school programs, school counseling and postsecondary advising, and specialized academic programs such as STEM, Career & Technical Education, and Dual Credit / Dual Enrollment.