Sentences with phrase «leadership of organizations supporting»

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.
CMIT Solutions has cultivated its culture of passion with the support of Lisa McLeod, a sales leadership expert, best selling author and motivational speaker known for creating passionate purpose driven sales organizations.
Under Shirlee's leadership, the not - for - profit charitable organization has enjoyed exponential growth and expansion, and facilitated transformative solutions in areas such as Indigenous health, end of life care, and caregiver wellness and support.
Regardless of which role I hold in the future, I'll be dedicated to supporting Uber's leadership, partnering with Uber's new CEO to understand the complexities of this business and this organization, and to continuing to deliver on the critically important mission and future we have ahead of us.
There is no one single «right way» to be a small business CEO: Different personality types and leadership styles have different strengths and weaknesses, and lots of different leadership styles can be successful so long as you are being authentic to yourself and supporting the growth of your organization.
The ultimate reality that I live with is that if my abuser had been Nathaniel Morales instead of Larry Nassar, if my enabler had been [an SGM pastor] instead of [MSU gymnastics coach] Kathie Klages, if the organization I was speaking out against was Sovereign Grace under the leadership of [Mahaney] instead of MSU under the leadership of Lou Anna Simon, I would not only not have evangelical support, I would be actively vilified and lied about by every single evangelical leader out there.
DALLAS (January 5, 2016)-- Today the Women's Foodservice Forum (WFF), the industry's premiere leadership development organization, announced its 2016 board chair, treasurer and incoming Executive Committee and board members who all represent global brands committed to supporting the advancement of women and providing a platform that paves the way for the next generation.
With the purpose to build and support a farmer - led national organic farmer movement and national policy platform by: developing and advocating policies that benefit organic farmers ¹; strengthening and supporting the capacity of organic farmers and farm organizations; and supporting collaboration and leadership among state, regional and national organic farmer organizations.
We were delighted last year when the Philippine Farmers» Advisory Board, a group composed of national and regional farmers» organizations that provides input on agriculture matters to government agencies, issued a statement of support for our Golden Rice research as well, after our dialogue with their leadership.
Becoming a Women of the Vine & Spirits Corporate Member signals to employees, potential employees and the industry at large that your organization supports gender diverse leadership teams and talent development.
A private, non-profit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity, and assure continued citizen support for public education.
«Take Marc Cenedella, an out - of - touch millionaire who writes sexist blog posts, thinks our high unemployment rate isn't a problem, and sits on the leadership council of Club for Growth, an ultra-conservative organization that supports the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, and trashes Medicare and Social Security.
On Tuesday morning Simon said that she was «dismayed that Brad would support a paid lobbyist with such limited involvement within our district and the organizations that are its lifeblood over my proven record of community activism, leadership and reform.»
Dr. Bullock is also the Founding Director and Principal Consultant of the International Science & Education Alliance, an organization devoted to exceptional research, program evaluation, assessment design, strategic planning and capacity building to support equity, programmatic diversity and scientific integrity, and promote effective leadership, decision - making and social change.
British Columbia, Canada About Blog Karate BC is a non profit organization and the recognized governing body for karate - do (Karate) in British Columbia, Canada.Through its programs and leadership, Karate BC, in cooperation with its affiliates, supports the development of karate and the aspirations of its members by offering opportunities and setting procedures, standards and policies.
Idea into action is of prime concern to Independent Schools Victoria (ISV), a membership - based organization comprising 220 independent schools in Victoria, Australia, dedicated to developing and supporting good leadership and teaching practices.
Among those lessons learned are operationalizing adult learning / development and adaptive leadership by simultaneously attending to the personal and professional development of the people at all levels of the organization; creating and sustaining conditions and support mechanisms for effective teamwork and collaboration to occur; and redefining community engagement in ways that value families and communities and engage them as true and equal partners who possess funds of knowledge.
The organization's reluctance to support a franchise model hinges on the issue of leadership.
It is critical that states and districts, and the national organizations they count on for support, have access to a pipeline of leadership talent equipped with the knowledge and skills to ensure that these investments produce dramatic improvements in the performance of our schools.»
A nonprofit organization founded in 1958, NASBE works to strengthen state leadership in educational policymaking, promote excellence in the education of all students, advocate equality of access to educational opportunity and ensure continued citizen support for public education.
Thanking the organizations for their support, Ronald Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board said, «Teacher leadership is not simply a product that can be created by policy and programs — it is a quality that must be forged and nurtured from within the profession.
Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30
Leadership for Educational Equity (LEE) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, leadership development organization working to end the injustice of educational inequity by inspiring and supporting a diverse set of leaders with classroom experience to engage civically and politically in their communities.
Improving school organization, management, and leadership can support improved retention of minority teachers, according to this report, which examines and compares the recruitment, employment, and retention of minority and nonminority teachers over the past quarter century.
In 1995 secondary school principals founded the Virginia Foundation for Educational Leadership — a Pre-K through 16 nonprofit leadership learning organization designed to support and broaden the outreach opportunities of VASSP in providing through its own activities, financial, and volunteer support the educational, scientific, and charitable purposes of linking all education levels — preschool, elementary, middle, high school, and higher education — to create a comprehensive seamless system of leadership learning.
In the Teacher Practice Networks initiative, facilitated by the Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning, districts and outside organizations partner to leverage their combined expertise to develop teacher leadership skills; deepen content pedagogical knowledge; and support meaningful, teacher - to - teacher professional learning.
Many of these bright young teachers will stay in New Orleans, and TFA alums are providing key leadership to individual schools and to organizations supporting public school reform in our city.
Rex members now help provide leadership on the boards of charter schools and many of the organizations supporting educational reform in New Orleans.
It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.
Using examples from classroom teachers with whom she has worked, Collay describes four dimensions of powerful classroom - based leadership: (1) teaching well by drawing on professional knowledge to respond to the complex relationship challenges that affect learning; (2) finding creative ways to collaborate with both colleagues and parents; (3) conducting classroom - based inquiry, both through informal observation and through formal, structured research; and (4) using partnerships with outside organizations to support student learning.
Create parent and family networks of mutual support for student achievement, training other parents to be advocates, resources and decision - makers, and surveying families and using data to create further organizations, support and leadership.
And just because a billionaire and / or someone who went to an Ivy league schools says it, it must be true!A variety of organizations, with too many letters and acronyms for me to list, are unwilling to listen to the concerns of the public school teachers or to look carefully at ALL the data before uniting to support a bill that will NOT close the achievement gap.So, you are correct, we have an educational leadership crisis.
Fordham leadership and board recognize that the organization can have a positive and significant impact via the authorizing work, and they have supported that growth, due mainly to the replication and expansion of existing, high - quality charter school models.
Bill was previously the director of leadership for the nonprofit school support organization Schools That Can Milwaukee.
Commitment from district leadership supports a successful implementation by ensuring that there is top - to - bottom alignment in the organization around the philosophy of teaching and learning that the Program advances.
In a letter to Congress, a coalition of 56 organizations and 200 + teachers, teacher leaders, principals, other schools leaders, leadership preparation faculty, and advocates call for funding for the School Leader Recruitment and Support Program (SLRSP).
CAGT is a nonprofit advocacy organization with a 40 year history of providing information, leadership and support to gifted young people, their families and educators of gifted young people in Colorado.
Today, more than ever before, we are needed at the corporate leadership table and we need to step into the room prepared to help lead our respective organizations into organizational learning agility under the banner and capabilities of performance support.
The California Community College Linked Learning Initiative of the Career Ladders Project, an Oakland - based non-profit, will facilitate leadership meetings, support data exchange and analysis, and provide technical support to the partnering organizations.
It is our goal to provide financial leadership to the Chicago Board of Education according to government regulations, Board policies and sound financial practices; to maintain the fiscal integrity of the organization; to develop internal and external partnerships; to educate students in a safe and well - rounded environment; and to work with leaders at the federal, state, and local levels to ensure adequate funding and support for educational initiatives.
HEfHS developed a targeted communications toolkit with suggested activities, sample messages, and case studies of higher education leadership in action to support outreach efforts, and the coalition is working with other higher education organizations and businesses to help implement the campaign.
School site visits, a panel discussion with the MNPS leadership team, and presentations from community - based organizations delved into the connections between FCE work and their community schools strategy, exploring how the district leverages funds and other resources to provide programs that support student learning and the needs of families.
HEHS developed this targeted communications toolkit with suggested activities, sample messages, and case studies of higher education leadership in action to support outreach efforts, and the coalition is working with other higher education organizations and businesses to help implement the campaign.
Leadership for Educational Equity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan leadership development organization working to end the injustice of educational inequity by inspiring and supporting a diverse set of leaders with classroom experience to engage civically and politically.
Under his leadership, the organization solidified its position in a rapidly changing media environment as Knell leveragedNPR's network of member stations, drove cross-platform journalism and cultural programming, and grew philanthropic and corporate underwriting support.
As schools and districts across the country struggled to find high - quality, well - prepared leadership capable of improving learning, a need emerged to identify and support home - grown, innovative ideas generated by local nonprofit and community organizations, and to create new learning networks through which knowledge about improving leadership could spread to others in the field.
The Teach to Lead initiative — which aims to leverage teachers in leadership roles while allowing them to remain in classrooms — has grown through the support of 75 organizations, including ASCD.
Education Pioneers places early - career professionals in paid noninstructional leadership and management internships — such as administrative, analytic, and operational positions — in a variety of education - related organizations, such as charter schools, educational technology companies, school districts, and support organizations.
The NAACP and most of the traditional black leadership, much of the Democratic Party establishment, and other organizations with a reputation for advocacy on low - income, urban, and minority issues are staunch foes of private school choice - despite the overwhelming support for school choice among the populations for whom they claim to speak.
Youth Service America YSA is a coalition of local, state, national and global organizations supporting a culture of engaged youth committed to a lifetime of service, learning and leadership by advocating for the power of youth as problem - solvers and by engaging youth as volunteers, academic achievers and leaders.
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