Sentences with phrase «leading national example»

Denver's Professional Compensation for Teachers (ProComp) plan, widely heralded as the leading national example of performance pay, awards more money for earning another degree than for demonstrated performance in the classroom.

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I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example,» he told Entrepreneur.com in Washington, D.C., during National Small Business Week.

Board member Merrill «Pete» Miller, for example, the chief executive of National Oilwell Varco and Chesapeake's lead independent director, took $ 160,000 in free personal flights — twice as much as he spent on business travel.

The White house chief of staff, Reince Priebus, for example, earned at least $ 1.18 million — nearly half of which came from the Republican National Committee, which he formerly led.

As President Donald Trump addresses the National Rifle Association this week, a leading gun - safety group is looking to make an example out of suburban Republicans.

Examples found in its policies on civil and human rights, national health care, church - state issues and judicial appointments lead me to conclude that the administration uses any means necessary to gain the desired ends.

The 23 - year - old certainly leads by example on the field, having bagged 24 goals in 28 appearances for his club side this term, and his responsibility for his national side may well be about to increase considerably.

In these different examples, values are omnipresent; whether at the local, national, European or global levels, «good» moral values are supposed to lead politics.

«There are many researchers and organizations that have developed this set of understandings of what is actually happening — for example, leading researchers at the Rand Corporation, Harvard University, National Bureau of Economic Research,... Georgia State University, Stanford University,» and others, Teitelbaum told the congressional committee.

For example, students learn about energy in physics and biology, and whether the examples deal with colliding cars or sugar stored in plants, «it's still energy,» said Susan Rundell Singer, lead editor of a 2012 National Academies of Science report on DBER.

Last year, for example, researchers led by Amy Hauck Newman, a medicinal chemist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, Maryland, reported in Neuropharmacology that two of the group's newer D3R blockers, CAB2 - 015 and BAK4 - 5,4 appeared highly stable and potent.

Yang points to Suresh, who is about to step down as director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), as an example of an engineer who has successfully led a science funding agency.

For example, researchers had thought that the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park in the United States 20 years ago led to an increase in willows and aspens there because the wolves made elk fearful of browsing the saplings.

In 2005, for example, a group led by psychologist Sarah Brosnan of Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta reported that capuchin monkeys refused to exchange tokens with an experimenter for a cucumber if they saw a fellow monkey receiving a more desirable grape for its «money.»

For example, France's Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES) led a multinational team that built an ultra-sensitive seismometer for detecting marsquakes.

«There are examples of lithospheric buckling on Earth involving both oceanic and continental plates, but this may be the first evidence of lithospheric buckling on Mercury,» said Thomas R. Watters, senior scientist at the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., and lead author of the new study.

He led numerous studies related to the international climate change negotiations and national climate policies, for example several evaluations of countries» performances in climate change.

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A clear example that poses a significant threat to the opportunity to learn for children who are suffering most from the achievement gap is the President's call to launch» a national competition to improve our schools» as the lead policy frame for the coming year's education reform - modeled on the Race to the Top and the Innovation Fund initiatives.

In this webinar, leading national experts will make practical sense of common personalized learning approaches, providing examples of what they look like in practice, conditions for implementation, and how they can be used to promote specific aspects of college and career readiness.

K12 will provide comprehensive wraparound services targeted to individual student needs and for the benefit of the school community: development of strong community within the virtual academy; access to the best and most current virtual instruction curriculum, assessment and instruction based on solid research; customizing each student's education to their own individual learning plan; academic success at the school and individual student levels resulting from teachers» instruction and constant monitoring of student growth and achievement with interventions as needed; national and local parent trainings and networking; frequent (i.e., every two to three week) teacher / parent communication through emails and scheduled meetings; establishment of unique settings for students and parents to interact; connecting students on a regular basis with students across the United States in similar virtual academies and across the world through networking and K12 national competitions (e.g., art contest and spelling bees) and International Clubs; access to the entire K12 suite of services and instructional curriculum (currently including K12, Aventa, A +, and powerspeak12) to include world languages, credit recovery courses, remedial courses, and AP courses; participation in a national advanced learners programs; a comprehensive Title I program that will provide additional services for students; school led trips, for example, visits to colleges, grade level specific trips such as student summer trips overseas, etc.; School prom; school graduation ceremonies; national college guidance through a network of K12 counselors; school community service opportunities; student developed student body council; school extracurricular activities: possibilities would include the development of a golf club, chess club, bowling club.

In New York State, NYSUT — a federation of more than 1,200 local unions representing more than 600,000 members — a union that is affiliated with both the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA) has become a leading example of the critically important role that teachers and their unions can play in supporting parents, students and public education.

For example: Last week's release of National Assessment of Educational Progress scores led to much finger - pointing about what's working and what isn't in education reform.

These stages provide an overview, but the report itself holds specific examples and advice from a number of national teacher preparation experts and features seven leading partnerships.

Kevin Waters, a Camden high school graduate now working as a counselor in the district, said the project is an example of what he called the continued dismantling of urban districts, part of a national strategy led by conservative politicians like Christie.

Paul LeBlanc, for example, has taken Southern New Hampshire University from being a sleepy little college of 2,500 to become one of the leading national players in online education, with 80,000 or so students.

Much of the misinformation centers on the perceived role of the federal government in this state - led effort, with some characterizing the Common Core as national standards and an example of federal overreach that usurps state and local decision making about what and how students should learn.

In this webinar co-sponsored by the College & Career Readiness & Success Center at AIR, AYPF, iNACOL, and Center on Innovations in Learning, leading national experts will make practical sense of common personalized learning approaches, providing examples of what they look like in practice, policy conditions for implementation, and how they can be used to promote specific aspects of college and career readiness.

For example, I helped my nine - year - old niece publish her first book, which led to her winning a national prize for speaking publicly about the experience.

For example, high yield returns have been positively correlated with quarterly changes in my preferred leading indicator, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI).

Leading by example, creator Sara Beth Davis share stories of her weekend adventures exploring Shenandoah National Park, hiking along the Potomac River, and various outdoor destinations she visits during long weekends.

The phenomenal buoyancy of this trend, including the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the Royal Academy, predicates London's unique position as the leading global art centre, a touristic and cultural nucleus with no immediate reference, for example, to the indigenous local day - to - day art schools and their agendas.

The «Béton Brut» Paris tour starts with a concrete slab of Cité des 4000, leads through the round towers of Les Choux de Créteil, cité Curial — the largest estate in Paris, leading onto the Orgues de Flandre high - rise towers, and concludes with a classic example of post-war Brutalism, the Centre National de la Danse.

Perhaps no institution better embodies the con - straints of German memory culture than Munich's Haus der Kunst, completed in 1937 as a leading example of National Socialist architecture and a showcase for yearly Great German Art Exhibitions.

An exhibition celebrating the work of Irish artist Patrick Scott which brings together the most comprehensive representation of this remarkable artist's 75 year long career; two major international retrospective exhibitions by acclaimed Indian artist Sheela Gowda and renowned Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica; a fascinating exhibition, Trove, selected by Irish artist Dorothy Cross showcasing the extraordinary depth of the National Collections of Ireland; two exciting new projects by Irish artists Isabel Nolan and Duncan Campbell; exhibitions and projects that bring leading examples of international artists work to Ireland including artists Haroon Mirza, Mike Kelley, Linder Sterling and Jeremy Deller; Light Rhythms an interactive exhibition for families and young people; are just some of the exciting programme highlights taking place throughout 2014 at the Irish Museum of Modern Art and announced today (Tuesday 11 February) by IMMA's Director, Sarah Glennie.

For example, if you look at page 92 of the APS Climate Change Statement Review Workshop, http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/upload/climate-seminar-transcript.pdf, you will see this statement by Dr. William Collins, head of the Climate Sciences Department, and director of the Center at LBNL for Integrative Modeling of the Earth System (CLIMES) at the Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory (LBNL), as well as lead author on the Fourth and Fifth Assessment of the IPCC:

For example, as discussed in Nuccitelli et al. (2012), the ocean heat content data set compiled by a National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) team led by Sydney Levitus shows that over the past decade, approximately 30 percent of ocean heat absorption has occurred in the deeper ocean layers, consistent with the results of Balmaseda et al. (2013).

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

In its key message to national and local policymakers this week, the WHO is urging a «lead by example» approach in addressing the «carbon footprint» of public institutions.

«For example, the gradual shift since the 1970s from (warm - biased) ship - based measurements to (cold - biased) drifting buoys has probably led to a slight underestimate of SST warming, says Richard Reynolds of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina.»

At a time when national climate leadership is sadly lacking, Governor Cuomo is an inspiring example of how states can step up and lead in the greatest fight of our lives.

For example, both Lawrence Solomon and Ross McKitrick repeated the canard that the slapdash Wegman panel on the «hockey stick» controversy had some official connection to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, implying equivalence to the official NAS / NRC comprehensive report and panel led by Gerald North.

Agencies such as Bail for Immigration Detainees, the Free Representation Unit and the National Centre for Domestic Violence lead by example in how to maximise trainee input.

For example, in cricket where, because of the Kolpak ruling by the European court, there has been an influx of players from countries with whom the EU has association agreements (who are currently protected as if EU nationals), lobbying by the domestic game's governing body, the England and Wales Cricket Board, has led to an announcement from the Commission that it will not issue any legal challenge to regulations which in the future would seek to limit the freedom of movement rights of nationals from the affected countries.

For example, in an inverse condemnation case, we successfully represented a national restaurant chain in the trial and appellate proceedings that led to a ruling that the federal government agency had «taken» access rights.

Instead of being led astray by Newman's anachronistic vision of a federal government overriding local interests and minority rights to build projects of national importance, Alberta Premier Jim Prentice and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall should follow Ontario's and Quebec's example and commit to respecting Aboriginal rights and Treaty rights.

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For example, if you've set your sights on a leading national or international firm, you could develop relevant commercial awareness by reading the Financial Times and being aware of developments in the world of business, such as mergers and acquisitions among market - leading companies and the impact of Brexit on different areas of law.