Sentences with phrase «leading change at the school»

Educators for Excellence's National Board of Directors brings diverse professional expertise and experience to their critical role of providing governance and strategic advice for how we can support positive teacher - led change at the school, district, state, and federal levels.

Alumni are leading change at the school level — managing people, data and processes to foster school improvement as coaches, teachers leaders, and school principals; and at the district level — working to shape a vision of academic success for all students, through various central administrative roles.

Not exact matches

Dr Lawrence Hrebiniak, Professor of Management in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, states in his book, Making strategy work: leading effective execution and change: «What's absolutely critical... is that the organization celebrates success.

At the time of the Comprehensive School change one of the leading schools was Willesden Grammar School, in this writer's borough of Brent.

Second tale: Defying all the best previous research on how readily people change their opinions, a young PhD student in political science at a top research university teams up with a senior scholar in his field at another top school to publish a brief report in America's leading scholarly scientific journal that upends everything we thought we knew about the subject.

Last year, a report by the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, led by Professor Marco Springmann, said a tax on animal products could have a «substantial» effect in terms of mitigating their contributions to climate change.

While I am not prone to writing in the somewhat snarky and definitly sarcastic tone Wise employed in his Tuesday column, and although he seemed to mostly align himself with the group at Aspen - led by Dr. Bob Cantu - that views football as too dangerous to be played before the age of 14 (a position with which I respectfully disagree), I did find myself agreeing with what seemed to be his main point: that whatever measures are instituted to protect player safety will get us nowhere if the culture on NFL fields (and by extension, the high school, middle school, and youth gridiron) doesn't change.

Bettina Siegel blogs about food and food policy related to children over at The Lunch Tray, but you may know her better for her work on «pink slime;» in 2012, she garnered more than 258,000 signatures on a Change.org petition that led the USDA to change its policy on a low - quality ground beef product used in schools.

This might work well if sodium were simultaneously reduced in the foods sold at corner stores and fast - food restaurants, but without such changes everywhere, it could actually lead to a drop in participation as school meals become more healthy.

«When Success Leads to Failure,» The Atlantic «The Gift of Failure,» New York Times «If Your Kid Left His Term Paper At Home, Don't Bring It To Him» New York Magazine «Books That Changed My Mind This Year,» Fortune «New Book Suggests Parents Learn to Let Kids Fail,» USA Today «7 Rules for Raising Self - Reliant Children,» Forbes «Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This,» Huffington Post «How Schools Are Handling an Overparenting Crisis,» NPR «Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard,» Time «The Value of a Mess,» Slate «4 Reasons Why Every Educator Should Read «The Gift of Failure,»» Inside Higher Ed «Why We Should Let Our Children Fail,» The Guardian (UK) «Shelly's Bookworms: The Gift of Failure,» WFAA Dallas «Why I Don't Want My Kids to be Lazy Like Me,» Yahoo Parenting «Jessica Lahey,» Celia Walden for The Telegraph (UK) «How to To Give Your Child The Gift of Failure,» Huffington Post «The Gift of Failure,» Doug Fabrizio, Radio West «In the Author's Voice: The Gift of Failure,» WISU / NPR «The Gift of Failure,» The Good Life Project «Giving Our Children the Gift of Failure,» ScaryMommy «Lyme Resident's Book Challenges Parents and Kids on Failure,» Valley News «The Gift of Failure,» The Jewish Press

«This change starts with doing everything in our power to keep guns out of the hands of people too dangerous to have them,» said Cuomo, who led the passage of the 2013 SAFE Act a month after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Following the tragic events at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, I am hopeful that coming together to take action will lead to serious change

«Climate change does not affect everyone equally in the United States,» said Rachel Morello - Frosch, associate professor at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley and lead author of The Climate Gap.

Study lead author Dr Christopher Doughty, from the Environmental Change Institute in School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, said: «Tropical rainforests have been popularly thought of as the «lungs» of the planet.

Lead author Dr Zhifu Mi, until recently at UEA's School of International Development, now at University College London, said: «The patterns of emissions embodied in China's domestic and foreign trade have changed since the economic recession but the interregional carbon emission flows in China and internationally in the post-financial crisis era have not been analysed thoroughly.

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

«It's good to build on our previous research on miRNA processing and Dicer in aging and find that a decline in Dicer may also play an important role in HIV lipodystrophy by dramatically changing the biology of fat and the tendency towards diabetes and metabolic syndrome,» says lead author C. Ronald Kahn, MD, Chief Academic Officer at Joslin Diabetes Center and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Their results, published in the journal Climatic Change, point to the need for new or modified wildfire management and evacuation programs in the nation's high - risk regions, said Jia Coco Liu, a recent Ph.D. graduate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and lead author of the study.

«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

Making small, consistent changes to the types of protein - and carbohydrate - rich foods we eat may have a big impact on long - term weight gain, according to a new study led by researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy at Tufts University.

«This underscores that large, sustained changes in global temperature like those observed over the last century require drivers such as increased greenhouse gas concentrations,» said lead author Patrick Brown, a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Lead researcher Dr Konstantinos Chalvatzis, of UEA's Norwich Business School and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said: «China's energy sector is under pressure to achieve a secure and affordable supply while at the same time reducing its carbon emissions.

«Our research revealed that retirement was associated with positive lifestyle changes,» said lead researcher Dr Melody Ding, Senior Research Fellow at the University's School of Public Health.

The research, led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and partners, has important implications for the long - term survival of coral reefs worldwide, which have been in worldwide decline from multiple stressors such as climate change and ocean pollution.

Professor Yajun Chen, from the School of Public Health at Sun Yat - Sen University, in Guangzhou said: «The prevalence of obesity in China is alarming as the country undergoes rapid economic transition, leading to changes to traditional diet, increased sedentary lifestyles and reduced physical activity.

«Global change affects so many different environmental aspects, and across such a range of conditions, that it can be difficult to study in the laboratory,» said Erik Sperling, assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences, lead author of the study, which was conducted while he was a postdoctoral researcher at Scripps.

Led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine and the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, this study is a follow - up to a recent JAMA viewpoint suggesting that there's little evidence that wearable devices alone can change behavior and improve health for those that need it most.

«There is very little evidence to suggest that we can change people's beliefs or knowledge in a way that will lead to increased immunizations,» said study co-author Allison Kempe, MD, MPH, professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Federal food policy changes led to increased availability of healthy foods at smaller urban corner stores in Baltimore, new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research suggests.

«We're now able to see how astrocytes and synapses make physical contact, and determine how these connections change in disorders like Alzheimer's and Huntington's disease,» said lead author Baljit Khakh, a professor of physiology and neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Lead researcher, Daniel Zizzo, Professor of Economics at Newcastle University Business School, said: «Our findings suggest a 20 % sugar tax would work and lead to large changes in shopping behaviour.&raLead researcher, Daniel Zizzo, Professor of Economics at Newcastle University Business School, said: «Our findings suggest a 20 % sugar tax would work and lead to large changes in shopping behaviour.&ralead to large changes in shopping behaviour.»

The time frame in which China's emissions were overestimated «is too short to have a cumulative impact on climate scenarios,» says Zhu Liu, the lead author and a climate change specialist at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

«This program capitalizes on local resources that can bring about change in behavior and improve blood pressure rates,» said Monique Anderson, M.D., lead researcher of the study and a medical instructor in cardiology at the Duke Clinical Research Institute and the Duke School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. «As participants became more knowledgeable, they probably started exercising more, taking their medication more, and those who were really engaged showed dramatic responses in blood pressure change.»

«The study participants were deeply divided along partisan lines, with about 50 % saying they do believe in human - caused climate change and 50 % saying they don't,» said Dan Kahan, professor of law and of psychology at Yale Law School and the lead researcher on the study.

«Understanding such processes is especially important today since oxygen in the ocean is decreasing, largely due to the warming of ocean waters driven by climate change,» said the study's lead author Andrew Margolin, a postdoctoral researcher at the College of William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science and an alumnus of the UM Rosenstiel School.

Paul Kaye, Professor of Immunology at Hull York Medical School and lead investigator for the study, said: «This award lays the foundation for a step change in how research and training in pathology is applied to neglected diseases.

«This discovery changes our perspective on HIV latency and contributes to our understanding of what it is going to take to cure HIV,» Robert Gallo, a biomedical researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who was the first to find that HIV leads to AIDS, said in a statement.

«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

As a chef with a Ph.D. in food biochemistry, Ali Bouzari has helped to lead the charge in changing the way we think about cooking by teaching and developing curriculum at top universities, from ivy league schools to the Culinary -LSB-...]

It's not known if new HPV infections will lead to precancerous cervical changes in older women, says Cosette Wheeler, PhD, a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, in Albuquerque.

Filming for Leading Change: A CSML Course on location at Leonides Gonzalez Cigarroa, M.D. Elementary School in Dallas, TX

The Certificate in School Management and Leadership (CSML) is designed to provide preK - 12 school leaders at all stages of their careers with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to drive change and to lead high - performing scSchool Management and Leadership (CSML) is designed to provide preK - 12 school leaders at all stages of their careers with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to drive change and to lead high - performing scschool leaders at all stages of their careers with frameworks, skills, and knowledge to drive change and to lead high - performing schools.

The Future of Independent Schools: Leading in a Changing Context will be offered at HGSE from October 15 — 17, 2014.

Without the incorporation of student voice, I'm sure this effort at making school - wide change would have ended up as yet another committee whose efforts lead to no real change.

We are excited to lead the disruption of the Year 8 Pastoral Care program with a trial of an externship model based on authentic opportunities to inform change at Wirreanda Secondary School.

Pollock's three years of ethnographic research on race labeling at Columbus — a high school whose name has been changed to protect the community's privacy — led her to discover six core dilemmas of American race talk and to explore how educators and policymakers might engage in constructive conversations about race.

This student lead project «ended up with a campaign at our school to change what was being sold at lunch and eventually the World Health Association approved our menus.

Poland, who led three crisis teams following school shootings last year, including the one at Columbine High School, warns school officials that additional changes are necessary to prevent more vioschool shootings last year, including the one at Columbine High School, warns school officials that additional changes are necessary to prevent more vioSchool, warns school officials that additional changes are necessary to prevent more vioschool officials that additional changes are necessary to prevent more violence.

The results of the pilot showed that SMART Squad made a significant difference to primary school pupils» knowledge of energy efficiency, bringing them closer to the level of understanding that secondary school pupils already have and leading to a direct change in their energy efficient behaviours both in school and at home.