Sentences with phrase «model schools across»

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Howard asked MBAs Across America team to help him figure out how to incorporate technology into his business model without disrupting the intimate, old - school feel of his business.

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

Those skeptics (and others) point out that in the 1960s and 1970s, «project - based learning» was used in some low - income schools as a euphemism for the practice of having poor kids build Lego models and doodle in coloring books while the rich kids across town learned how to read and do math.

Public Waldorf schools across the nation are at the forefront of defining themselves as exemplary educational models that value measurement of growth in meaningful, developmental, and authentic ways.

CSH programs have helped to establish policies and practices in states, districts, and schools across the nation, and will see continued success within the expanded Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model.

The success in reaching over 9000 pupils last year is thanks, in large part, to the many partners across the UK who have helped us by showing schools how to use the inspiring model of astronaut fitness and health to change children's activity levels and diet through learning about the science behind it.»

In the last decade, the Early College High School model has become increasingly popular across the country as educators are finding new ways to prepare students to enter the job market.

2) International PB Conference: During this two - day conference organized by The Participatory Budgeting Project, Pratt Institute, and the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, CVH leaders and staff, along with over 200 elected officials, community leaders, and activists from across the world, will discuss key topics and trends for this model of grassroots democracy, including PB in Public Housing, PB in Community Organizations, Online Participation, and the PBNYC Briefing (see below).

Across Tarrant County, we have schools that are models for success while, unfortunately, some fail to meet the academic outcomes we demand for our children.

Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School and Boston University have successfully shown neuroprotection in a Parkinson's mouse model using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood - brain barrier.

«We need to confirm this synergistic activity of vemurafenib and cediranib across a broader range of melanoma models, investigate why the particular combination is effective, and find biomarkers that predict which patients with BRAF - mutant melanoma should receive this combination,» says Friedman, who is a research fellow in Dermatology at Harvard Medical School.

«We studied the outcomes of the ACT model across the entire hospital except the ICUs,» said study co-author Siu Hui, Ph.D., a Regenstrief Institute biostatistician and professor emeritus of biostatistics at the IU School of Medicine.

European Space Agency (ESA) organises a series of summer schools on Monitoring of the Earth System to promote the exploitation of Earth Observation EO data across disciplines, with a specific focus on their assimilation into Earth System models.

In addition, Jason is designing a Campus Wellness Center for his school, with a goal of creating a model that can be replicated at schools across the country.

Her school is a proficiency based model, and a fully integrated STEM school across all core content classes.

Having shifted three key dimensions of any school — the teaching and learning, the system structures, and the culture — RHS is now an emerging exemplar not only of blended learning, but also the steps we must take to grow this strong model across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and even the nation.

It will take years to determine whether the VOISE model could or should become the standard for high schools statewide and across the country.

As schools across the country adopt blended - learning models, a few clear trends are settling in, and, at the same time, some groups — like the Next Generation Learning Challenges — continue to help schools push the design envelope on what's possible for students.

«This is also a very important example of the benefits of the Gonski schools funding system — $ 224 million of additional Gonski funding is going to greatly benefit public schools right across the state and this is yet another example of the importance of all governments around Australia committing to fully funding the Gonski model.»

Karen approached her tenure as head at Worcesters by adopting the Healthy Schools model and using it as an improvement tool across the whole school.

The initiative is run by the national education charity Future First which works in more than 400 state schools and colleges across Britain linking schools with their former students who act as career and education role models, mentors, work experience providers, governors, fundraisers and donors.

The model has been used in schools and across districts to raise the quality of instruction for all students.

«For example, if you are thinking about what devices you are going to be investing in, you can't suddenly decide to have a 1:1 model across your school if your budget doesn't allow that.

The other teachers liked what they saw of Kate, Naomi and Natalie's new, more systematic approach, and the principal rolled the model out across the whole school.

An experiment in place - based education, the Museum School recently won a coveted XQ Super Schools award and is driving widespread adoption of its model across the district — bringing families and students back to a city in an economic and cultural downturn.

Looking closely at case studies of five models of school - based rounds, Teitel examines critical lessons from each and provides a resource for instructors and administrators across the nation.

While we partner with a number of reform - minded districts across the United States, only about 20 percent of EP alumni in education work for school districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School Distschool districts (including exciting new models like Louisiana's Recovery School District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District and Tennessee's Achievement School DistSchool District).

WSF models typically ignore the effect of differences in teacher experience levels and, therefore, teacher salary across schools by adjusting the allocations for real salaries after the weighted formula has been applied.

We studied 16 charter elementary and secondary schools with a wide range of personalized learning models from across the country (we hoped to include district schools, but the data were not available).

As schools manage change across their instructional models, the traditional roles that adults play may shift.

As schools across the country adopt blended - learning models, a few clear trends are settling in, and some groups continue to help schools push the design envelope on what's possible for students.

Educators then need to adopt processes — such as discovery - driven innovation — for testing, iterating, and refining their blended - learning models in low - cost, low - stakes ways before taking them to scale across a school or district.

As Matthew Peskay, the chief of innovation and technology of KIPP LA Schools — which is pursuing a bold blended - learning model across the network — explained, «You need to be able to fund whatever your plan is without E-Rate funding.»

Jin plans to work with a team of public school teachers from Minnesota to build the LessonPick database, collecting resources and tagging them across ELL standards and instructional models.

You can learn about teachers across the globe by checking out our «Education Everywhere» video series, which profiles high - achieving international education systems and model schools.

04, Ed.D.» 07, this model is already working in several school districts across the county, as well as in Australia.

Central to the mission of this low - income, minority school is a commitment to the Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound model of instruction and schoolwide reform that emphasizes project learning that extends across curriculum areas and takes students out of the classroom and into the community.

Logistics and provision are complex — there are many different types of schools with diverse models of food provision, and budgets and financial arrangements vary across different types and sizes of kitchen.

Since introducing the three targeted programs and implementation model in 2016, Buchanan says the school has seen: improvements across a range of classes using the NAPLAN writing scale of up to 40 per cent; improvements in spelling using NAPLAN assessment and internal data of up to two years within a 12 month period; and its first spike in NAPLAN numeracy improvement for Years 3 and 5 (the two year groups staff focused on through the program).

«It soon became the model for many other councils and schools across the UK.

Five student groups shared their presentations with ISTE's Leadership Symposium, which is made up of more than 150 educators from across the country who strive to develop and model the effective use of technology in education in their schools, school districts, and states.

The bar model is great to help children visualise and solve problems and is becoming much more widely used across schools.

Model one would make transparent the performance of students across the nation, providing an X-ray to show parents, educators, and policymakers how different schools and groups are performing in key subjects.

Across the UK there must be dozens of schools and smaller town councils with insufficient resources to build new sports facilities on their own, which could succeed if they followed the far - sighted Winchcombe model.

«Overall, across all grades, we found that implementing any SIG - funded model had no significant impacts on math or reading test scores, high school graduation, or college enrollment.»

However, if teachers are instructing students who require less intensive teacher engagement or are more likely to bounce across very different school models, then I'm less confident in the payoff.

Across the country from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., charter schools are expanding their pioneering K - 12 models even further to offer preschool programs.

It was not until Fauteux had honed and scaled this relatively low - tech model across the LPS network that the school delved into a partnership with Gooru, an edtech company that was building a platform to support personalized learning.

What model / s do you use across the school to build student skills in critically analysing information across all forms of media?

At first they experimented with a Station Rotation model for math at two of their schools, but over time they evolved to deliver a much more personalized, Flex model for all subjects across all the Summit schools.