Sentences with phrase «learning school at»

Photo: State Senator Jeff Klein, with UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Community Learning Schools Initiatives Director Karen Alford (from left to right), announces $ 1.5 million for Community Learning Schools at the International School of Liberal Arts in Kingsbridge.

Not exact matches

The Grammy - award winning musician began to learn classical piano when she was 7 and shortly after enrolled at the Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan, where she began to study jazz.

When MBA administrators at Laurentian University learned they had the highest proportion of female students of any business school in Canada, they were shocked.

She applied to The Flatiron School, and attended from September through December of last year learning web development at The Flatiron School.

Vivek Wadhwa is vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University; a fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University; director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and exec in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar at the Halle Institute of Global Learning at Emory University.

Tracey Gordon, who taught Tsarnaev in fifth and sixth grade at a Cambridge school, described him as an exceptionally intelligent child who easily mastered English after arriving in the United States from Russia and «was eager to learn whatever school had to offer.»

Bush learned to laugh easily at her own unglamorous profile, the white hair that she refused to dye becoming the emblem of her old - school tastes.

Among kids currently ages 8 to 14, 65 percent say they learn more about money from their parents than they do at school, according to a T. Rowe Price survey released last month.

Booth, a 1971 Chicago MBA, built his investment firm, Dimensional Fund Advisors on principles he learned from Eugene Fama at the school.

Most schools have, Red Cross Clubs are available in middle and high schools, allowing students to learn leadership skills while participating at local American Red Cross chapter events and on related projects.

I was in school learning about advertising - I really became entrenched in media at school.

Many believe that part of the solution is to treat software development education similar to how foreign languages are taught at a much earlier age, instead of waiting until university or high school to begin learning.

One of the better known online learning platforms, Coursera partners with ivy league schools like Stanford and University of Pennsylvania to offer top quality courses for free, or at least at more affordable rates.

They have learned from and interacted with multiple cultures online through social media and at school.

The boy, he learned, had never been to school — like the 67 million kids around the world without a chance at an education.

In my eight years as a financing consultant and two decades as a business borrower, no lender has ever required one — at least not the kind you learn to write in business school.

But if you can master online, self - directed learning, it's entirely possible to earn yourself the quality of education offered at ivy league schools, right from the comfort of home.

As you can imagine, we learned quite a few fun things about each half of the power couple during the revealing exchange, which took place at Betsy Layne High School in Eastern Kentucky.

Harry is an avid fan of rugby and even coached at schools around the U.K. to encourage young people to learn the sport.

MBA graduates from the class of 2015 share the most important things they learned during their time at business school.

He learned about West Africa's counterfeit drug epidemic while at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College; his Ph.D. research eventually yielded an embryonic version of the MPA service.

After learning about Casino Gaming School in 1994 from a faxed advertisement, Zimmer asked Kallos to send him candidates for six openings at O'Shea's, a small downtown operation he was running at the time.

On Ash Whitaker's second to last day of high school, he learned that he had won a major civil rights case at a federal appeals court.

Andy Dunn, CEO of Bonobos, the clothing brand which he cofounded in 2007, recently spoke with the Stanford Graduatue School of Business web site about the lessons he's learned at the helm.

You get this need to learn something — anything — especially at back - to - school time.

But the machine - learning analysis these University of Colorado medical school researchers used found the opposite result when they looked at red meat consumption among the same Framingham study participants.

I learned to lead as a dean and as school president at the University of Toronto.

The co-founder of Evolution Martial Arts, a Parkland, Florida, karate school, would soon learn that more than 20 of her customers were under lockdown at the local high school, where a shooter had opened fire and slaughtered several students.

You'd think that, even if you graduate with only a shaky knowledge of trigonometry or Chaucer, after all that time you'd at least leave school with a good grasp of how to learn efficiently.

Employees and spouses alike can pursue high school equivalency degrees (G.E.D.'s) and other educational goals at the company's expense; children and grandchildren who need help for supplementary tutoring get it at a Sylvan or Huntington Learning Center.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

That means schools might want to think long and hard about how they schedule gym classes, and professionals should be thoughtful about how they order periods of learning with a bout at SoulCycle or a trip to the local running path.

In case of any doubt, Wired also learned that, while at Harvard graduate school (right before dropping out to join Google) Damore wrote and performed in a skit about «Microtubule Jerking» and the women who helped with it.

In keeping with McArdle family tradition, I was duly dispatched at the tender age of 8 by my stoic father and weeping mother to a British boarding school, there to learn independence and gentlemanly conduct in a setting unchanged since the glory days of the Empire.

I came to see that the culture of schooling in America is radically at odds with a learning culture that produces young innovators in five essential respects.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

The takeaway couldn't be clearer: «A short nap at the office or in school is enough to significantly improve learning success.

Her first job was as an English teacher in Bangkok, Thailand where she taught 140 energetic third and fourth graders at a full inclusion school and learned the art of improvisation.

Learning about finances should begin with students in elementary schools and later at the high school level!

«It has always saddened me that Canada is probably one of the only school systems in the world (or at least the world wealthy enough for full, functioning educational systems) that does not require at least an attempt to learn a second language.»

The Supreme Court has held that students at public schools have a First Amendment right to express their political views but schools also have a right to ensure that learning isn't disrupted.

Well, the onus is on you, the parent, because you can't count on them learning about money matters in school, said Thomas Henske, a certified financial planner and partner at Lenox Advisors.

CDL - Rockies Lead Associate Professor, Haskayne School of Business 403-220-8476 [email protected] Contact Michael if you are a MBA student and want to learn more about the CDL course at the Haskayne School of Business.

The answer is simple: Their slap - on - the - side - of - the - head ideas are so at odds to what you learned in marketing school (or in the marketing school of hard - knocks) that they always surprise, always reward.

«We regularly review our course materials and textbooks to ensure they are up to date, and any changes that need to be made will be done at the appropriate moment to ensure the best learning outcomes for schools and students,» a spokesperson for the company told CNBC.

Another business celebrates learning at back - to - school time by taking its team on a 48 - hour study trip, often to international locations.

Smiths Detection Inc. — a manufacturer of security detection devices — recently announced a partnership with the Pratt School of Engineering to develop a deep learning algorithm aimed at reducing errors in baggage X-ray screening.

I am also the author of the books: Millionaire Teacher: The Nine Rules of Wealth You Should Have Learned at School & The Global Expatriate's Guide to Investing.

Established by the Jarislowsky Foundation in 2006, the Jarislowsky Fellowship in Business Management is intended to increase the depth and breadth of the learning experience at the Haskayne School of Business by providing students with access to professionals with real and relevant senior - level business experience.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.