Sentences with phrase «leading change agent»

He is a leading change agent, being involved in the makeover of several schools ICT hardware and programs, with a particular focus on pedagogy to support curriculum integration of technology.

OXFORD, U.K. — At my first Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurs a year ago, the world's leading change agents were rattled.

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Whether it's leading a national conversation about gun control or fighting for girls» education and gender equality around the world, an increasing number of young women are stepping forward as change agents.

Most businesses are over-managed and under - led, says business coach and «change agent» Jennifer Elliot of Soft Skills Australia.

After all the way you distribute earnings is a major part of an institution's incentive structure, and changes in the structure of incentives lead almost automatically to changes in the ways economic agents behave.

Internet consumers are 100x more likely to be reached within 5 minutes of inquiry than within the first 30 minutes; whichever agent engages with the internet customer first has a 238 % greater change to convert that lead.

The question of whether we experience ourselves as passive leads therefore into its opposite: Do we experience ourselves as agents, i.e., as actively affecting and changing other things which relative to our action are passive?

Naturalistic models have in practice presented a closed scheme of cause and effect wholly autonomous to the investigating agent; whereas the actual process of discovery may lead to a change in the agent in the very act of becoming conscious of meaning.

From the beginning of what we may call the «gender revolution» in the 1970s to now, when the goals of a minority of western agents of change are about to take on a more visible, global and powerfully financed institutional form, the normative and operational activities of the gender equality process has been led by «experts», NGOs, UN Secretariat bureaucrats, panels - not by the man - on - the - street or his legitimate representative.

Robert Osburn is an adjunct lecturer in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, and leads the Wilberforce Academy where he trains college students to be redemptive change agents in their home societies and workplaces.

From June 5 — 7, 2018, more than 200 leading personalities from the cocoa and chocolate industry, governments and civil society will gather in Davos / Switzerland to discuss how technology is spurring innovation in our sector, explore how we can ensure a sustainable chocolate future and highlight the role of business as a change agent.

However, Tottenham are seemingly keen to keep him happy while the report notes that this also comes amid talk that the former MK Dons starlet is changing agent and that could have led to new concerns being raised over his long - term future in north London.

Sodium Polyacrylate (silica gel, those little crystals that sometimes appear at a diaper change): known as an absorbing agent inside a diaper, also acts as a drying agent which could lead to causing diaper rash.

Our progressive therapy program enables boys to become the agents of their own change and develop the right skills to lead an emotionally successful life.

New records released related to then - FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and the Clinton email investigation show the process that led up to the decision to change then - FBI Director James Comey's description of Hillary Clinton's actions from «grossly negligent» to «extremely careless.»

The change in lead counsel came just weeks after several sources reported that former Deputy Mayor Steven Casey met at least twice with FBI agents investigating public corruption.

But a simulation system that gives computer - controlled agents a sense of social propriety could change that, leading to more realistic interactions between humans and characters in games.

Together, the findings provide critical information that could lead to the development of new products that change skin tone without exposure to UV radiation or toxic bleaching agents.

The increased use of synthetic chemicals, including pesticides and pharmaceuticals to attack unwanted organisms, has outpaced the rates of change in rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and other agents of global environmental change over the past 45 years, a new Duke - led analysis reveals.

With the passing of Adolphus P. Toliver, the scientific community has lost a friend, a great mentor, a change agent and a leading proponent of the minority programs at the National Institutes of Health.

With his death, the scientific community has lost a great mentor, a change agent and a leading proponent of the minority programs at the National Institutes of Health.

It is likely that a combination of several factors (e.g. age - related changes at the level of gene expression, infectious agents, toxic compounds, and head trauma) affects the neuronal milieu and initiates neuropathological processes leading to the formation of toxic tau and amyloid β species, reduction of synaptic plasticity, and neuronal loss resulting in development of sporadic AD.»

Additionally, Andrea is a dedicated health leader on the Board of Directors for the acclaimed Center for Integral Wisdom, an activist think - tank dedicated to partnering with leading thinkers and change agents to formulate and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization.

Joel Edgerton (who played an Egyptian in 2014's Exodus: Gods and Kings) and Ruth Negga (who played a porcupine - faced Inhuman in Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.) portray Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple whose marriage and subsequent legal battles ultimately led to a nationwide change in marriage laws.

We failed to realize that as agents of change, we should have moved our efforts forward in small steps with the hope that each minor success would lead to further expansion and acceptance of new ideas.

School Turnaround Leaders June 11 - 15, 2018» K - 12 educators and change agents directly responsible for leading or overseeing school turnaround efforts.

Enechi says, «Teacher training is critical in Nigeria because education reform only happens when teachers are change agents leading the change movement in their classrooms.»

A study by Harvard professor Monica Higgins and co-authors Wendy Robison, Jennie Weiner, and Frederick Hess («Creating a Corps of Change Agents,» features, Summer 2011) found that of the 49 leading entrepreneurial organizations in education, 14 had at least one top manager who was a TFA alumnus.

She leads these efforts by being an innovator and a change agent.

Transformational leaders are agents of change directly responsible for leading, encouraging, empowering and overseeing the school - turnaround efforts regardless of their students» circumstances.

The Learning and Development managers should take the role of Change Agents and Consultants, to lead the cause of innovation too.

Sydney shares how her experiences in the classroom and a desire to see teachers as agents of change lead her to work with other teachers to start E4E (Tulane...

A meta - analysis conducted by Marzano, Waters, and McNulty (2005) found that several promotion - focused behaviors among school leadership are linked to higher levels of student achievement, including (1) serving as a change agent (challenging the status quo and leading efforts that have uncertain outcomes); (2) demonstrating flexibility (being comfortable with major changes and dissent); and (3) being an optimizer (encouraging innovation by portraying a positive attitude about teachers» ability to achieve what may seem to be beyond their grasp).

These «change agents» may serve on committees, lead trainings and courses for their peers and adults, and initiate and share decision - making throughout education.

We aspire for all central office leaders to embrace their role as powerful change agents, leading the climb towards healthier school cultures and brighter futures for students.

He identifies these contemporary issues not just as problems, but as symptoms of change that represent tasks to be resolved by the school's leading agent of change — the principal.

Families are bold change agents ready to use their strength and voice to overcome the opportunity gap and lead the movement for educational equity.

Arthur Levine, President of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, said of Change Agents: «In the face of dramatic demographic, economic, technological, and global change, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profoChange Agents: «In the face of dramatic demographic, economic, technological, and global change, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profochange, the demands being made upon schools, and the principals and superintendents who lead them have changed profoundly.

Kerri Briggs, Director of Education Reform at the George W. Bush Institute and Cynthia G. Brown, Vice President of Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, said of Change Agents: «Our two organizations applaud the release of this timely report that will help states to ensure that a high - caliber principal leads every school in the nation... This report and the accompanying companion guide build on New Leaders» experience in the field and give states tools and strategies to reframe policies to bolster the principal talent pipeline.»

The Change Agents concept paper calls on states to rethink the way principals are recruited, prepared and licensed — and the companion guide provides first steps on the path to action that will ultimately lead to academic success for students throughout our nation.

«I saw my role to act as a change agent to challenge the status quo, in the reasoning that more of the same would not lead to a different outcome.

As you'll recall, our lead last week — London Author Fair's Debut: Change Agents — was triggered by the newly inaugurated London Author Fair produced by Gareth Howard and Hayley Radford of Authoright at Covent Garden's Hospital Club.

As I have said before, I knew some top agents were reading these chapters and I hoped that a few of them would take the lead in some changes that need to happen.

When this chapter in animal welfare is finally closed, it will be noted that the failure of commercial breeders and the unwillingness of the agricultural lobbies to address the flagrant abuse inherent in the puppy mill trade led to recourse to the ultimate agents of change, public opinion and the market place.

I thought the Admirals Club agents were doing a pretty good job at the soft sell when I visited in the months leading up to the rule change.

It falls to you and your allies to restore order as you lead the Inquisition and hunt down the agents of chaos.Explore, lead, and battle: Tough choices define your experience, and even one decision can change the course of what's to come.Wield the power of the Inquisition over the course of an epic character - driven story, and lead a perilous journey of discovery through the Dragon Age.

ZIMMERLING & JUNGFLEISCH has curated a lineup of leading graffiti artists, who are all members of the global arts collective Agents of Change (AOC) or part of the popular Graffuturism Movement.

ZIMMERLING & JUNGFLEISCH has curated a lineup of leading graffiti artists, three of which are members of the global arts collective — «Agents of Change» (AOC) and all are part of the popular «Graffuturism Movement».

The close coupling between CO2 and climate led the author to conclude that «geological observations that we now have for the last 20 million years lend strong support to the idea that carbon dioxide is an important agent for driving climate change throughout Earth's history.»

Market - leading third - party solar finance - installation companies, such as SolarCity, Sunrun and Vivint, have been pivotal agents of change that can be credited with raising residential solar PV to unprecedented heights in the U.S..