Sentences with phrase «making academic changes»

At a meeting in May with district leaders, parents at the school outlined their grievances, which included a lack of progress in making academic changes in the classroom.

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They may want to make a career change or go to graduate school to make an academic career, or they may want to found their own businesses.

Some companies are making changes now rather than wait for academics to shore up the argument.

Because academics so often fear (with good reason) deviating from what senior professors and administrators want, it took a senior administrator lobbying for changes to make family leave part of the normal routine of academic life.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

St. Francis partnered with Challenge Success and made changes designed to reduce stress, encourage wellness, and increase academic integrity.

They had suggestions for how to make changes in the school culture and the presentation of our academics so the level of education was not compromised, but simply modified and taught in a more thoughtful way.

If you would like to be notified directly of any changes in your child's academic performance or behavior, make sure that your child's teacher knows this.

Policymaking also reflects current ideology and background structures power so if we focus too much on impact as government policy change then you make academics into people who service the dominant ideology and the powerful in society.

Despite government assurances that «no grammar school will lose its right to select pupils by academic ability as a result of converting to become an academy,» the National Grammar Schools Association has urged schools to «exercise extreme caution» before making the change.

Flights must be made more expensive and airport expansion plans scrapped if Britain is to have any hope of meeting its climate change targets, academics have warned.

After detailed research, the Committee on Climate Change — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity byChange — the government's independent panel of climate advisors made up of economists, academics, businesses representatives and scientists — found that the cheapest way to meet the UK's climate change targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity bychange targets is to have almost entirely carbon free electricity by 2030.

Building a Culture of Safety 5 June 2009 State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to make academic labs safer.

Positively Change the World (In Ways You Never Thought Possible) Physicist Giuseppe de Filippo intended to pursue an academic career, until he discovered that management consulting would make excellent use of his training — and offer certain career advantages.

«There's really been an explosion of assistive technology that has changed young scientists» academic experiences and makes possible work experiences that might not have been possible 20 years ago,» says Virginia Stern, director of AAAS's Project on Science, Technology and Disability in Washington, D.C. (AAAS is the parent organization of Science Careers.)

State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to make academic labs safer

A study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Institute for Technology assessment finds that, after viewing CT scan results, physicians in the emergency departments of four major academic medical centers made key changes in clinical decision - making for patients with symptoms frequently seen in emergency rooms.

But those changes aren't making much of a dent in the cultural norms that put a premium on productivity, especially at the start of an academic career.

We can fix the problem, but only if we're willing to make fundamental changes to how academic science is structured and funded.

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

For instance, there might need to be clear admissibility criteria for postdocs that might possibly include standards for English language ability, a change in the locus for making the offer of acceptance, and a shift of the overall responsibility for postdocs from an individual professor to an academic unit.

One of many changes that could be made to improve work - life balance for scientists, especially the ones working as academics, is by reforming the way in which the academic reward system is carried out.

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.

But InternationalLoveScout.com is trying to change that with the launch of an independently edited Scholarly Research section to make it easier for journalist, government officials, and the public to find the growing body of academic studies on international dating.

Much of the story centers on the smothering and painfully pretentious art world the trio inhabit and skewers the artistic community's grand delusions of changing the world with impenetrable academic theory, which makes the show sound unbearably dry.

Marling, who starred in and co-wrote Another Earth, lends a credible and appealing down - to - earth quality to her workaholic academic, while Berges - Frisbey, who appeared in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, brings a quicksilver quality to Sofi that makes her both tangible and elusive; she's one of those women whose looks change based on angle and circumstance, who can look stunning one moment and rather ordinary the next, a quality that piques fascination.

This year, the Teacher team was lucky to speak to many classroom teachers, school leaders and academics about the work that they are doing and the changes that they are making.

In the midst of this environment, Kovacic made it her goal to create equitable learning conditions that successfully supported a culture of academic risk taking, intellectual curiosity, and development of both scholars and citizens — all in an effort to change the lives of students like Brittany.

And though the authors of this report acknowledge the «countless intervening factors» that «no doubt affect a school board member's ability to influence district achievement» and which they haven't covered in this report, they nevertheless provide an invaluable guide to policymakers for making a few simple changes in board governance that could effect major improvements for student academic performance.

While higher education has made necessary strides in the past few decades, as Jack recently wrote in The New York Times, «they have thought less about what the inclusion means for academic life, or how colleges themselves might need to change to help the least advantaged on their road to success.»

However, the growing trends of academic writing have made us realize the changing writing environment of this niche as well.

According to the three - year study, which is being conducted by the Santa Monica, Calif. - based RAND Corp., majorities of elementary and middle school science and math teachers in all three states report in surveys that they are making positive changes in the classroom by focusing on their states» academic standards or searching for better teaching methods.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

If you're passionate about making a change and would like to take part in field studies in schools, or have access to education or academic establishments which would be willing to participate in further research, please contact the group to help collate existing research.

Its set to replace the DPA, making radical changes to many existing data protection rules and regulations that schools among other academic and educational establishments currently adhere to under the DPA.

Redesigning programs is often cumbersome, but with a thoughtful, well - developed plan, you can make the changes necessary to provide students with greater academic and emotional success.

Specifically, the proposed regulations provide that the additional K — 12 indicator (s) that a state uses can not «change the identity of schools that would otherwise be identified» unless a school is making «significant progress» on at least one of the academic indicators — test scores, graduation rate, additional K — 8 academic indicator, and EL progress.

(Sec. 4201) The bill makes several administrative changes to the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program, which supports academic enrichment opportunities for children during non-school hours.

(Shared Vision) When a shared vision and mission statement become operational, middle level educators pursue appropriate practices in developing a challenging academic program; they develop criteria to guide decisions and a process to make needed changes.

In response to a Harvard Graduate School of Education report centered around reforming the college admissions process, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan announced Wednesday that Yale would be making changes to next year's application to emphasize ethical conduct and authentic academic and extracurricular engagement over laundry lists of achievements.

Moreover, many academics, policy makers, and even public educators have concluded that some schools can not or will not make the necessary changes on their own.

In addition to Kiernan Mathews, this institute will include the very best scholars bridging research and practice in academic leadership: Jerlando Jackson on leading diverse teams and harnessing existing diversity in the academic workforce; Adrianna Kezar on implementing change strategies in support of faculty and reconfiguring today's faculty roles into new faculty models; and KerryAnn O'Meara on strategies and solutions that make faculty workloads more visible, accountable, equitable, and credited.

In addition to the positive results, the academics discuss what it is about lessons in nature that may make the difference, highlighting previous research findings on: the benefits of physical activity (in this study the class walked 200 metres to get to the grassy area); exposure to nature being good for stress and attention; having a break from the classroom and change of scenery (a similar effect to going for recess); and the fact the teachers would also too feel less stressed and benefit from the same change of scenery and a «bit of a breather».

By working with central office teams that include finance, human resources, academics, professional development, principals, and principal supervisors, the Bush Institute will help districts make system level changes.

And forget about the massive changes in instructional schedules as schools have been forced to reduce «specials» like art, music, PE and academic subjects like social studies to make room for the Common Core mandated subjects.

The teacher uses data and collaboration to drive instruction and makes necessary changes to ensure significant academic gains and a powerful learning experience for every child.

In his keynote, David Seidel instilled further dialog about the proliferation of school violence in our nation's schools and the need to make it known how these tragic events change the culture of schools and impact academic performance.

After making a really poor academic pathway choice for university when he was eighteen resulting in leaving the course and not completing it as he was unable to change to the subject that he wanted to study.

CTAC's Data - Driven Decision Making Training Model builds the capacity at the school level to use multiple sources of data and specific analytical tools to develop plans and implement changes that address the root causes of academic underperformance.

This award acknowledges those schools that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child, making sure each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.