Sentences with phrase «models of education offered»

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When pressed, Benioff offered a few possibilities: He says that companies will need to explore «new models of education,» for instance, and consider how to allocate a universal basic income.

In any case, we can see that none of the previous models in fact has offered strong footing for resistance to the new model of market - driven education.

Grounded in the wellness and holistic models of pregnancy and birth, birth centers believe that birth is a normal experience and seek to build relationships, offer education, and empower the families they serve.

«It's a different model of care,» said Elizabeth Green, director of Blossom Birth Services in Palo Alto, which offers childbirth education and training, but not midwife services.

Immediately following my presentation on the mathematical models for eliminating hantavirus — a pathogen that can cause hantavirus pulmonary syndrome — I was offered an opportunity to participate in BioQuest, a community of educators addressing undergraduate biology education.

Through funding from the John A. Hartford Foundation, the Lipitz Center will offer health care providers information, education and technical support to promote the adoption of the Hopkins - developed Guided Care model for older adults with multiple chronic conditions.

Managing director Graham Shennan said: «We've taken the time to look at what's really important in education and settled upon a two - tier approach, where we can offer development solutions through Community Plus alongside a new range of model schools.»

It stands in contrast to the models of online education that preceded it, which involved either highly ranked institutions offering online degrees that cost as much as their in - person equivalents, lower - ranked institutions offering inexpensive online degrees with low labor - market returns, or a variety of institutions offering free massive open online courses (MOOCs), with unclear returns and very high attrition rates.

Often, these schools are taking advantage of the innovations offered by blended learning technology platforms and combining them with the regulatory freedom offered under charter school laws, waivers of seat time requirements, and teacher reforms to develop entirely new models of education.

The Report Card offers a comprehensive state - by - state analysis of laws and policies that embrace new education models, utilize technology to make personalized learning a reality for all students, and eliminate the barriers to blended learning in K - 12 education.

Drawing on an evaluation of the Montclair model and other research, the report concludes that school - choice plans based on magnet schools «appear most promising in meeting the educational goals of achieving racial balance, providing quality education, and offering diverse educational programs.»

This week, as we celebrate the new rise of computer science education, we shouldn't forget how some these efforts might also offer a glimpse into new models for expanding students» access to industry experts across subject areas.

Denver has proven, for a decade now, that charter schools offer a more effective model of urban education.

The university business model makes it nearly impossible for any existing education school to direct resources toward a smaller, lower - margin product like an online degree at the expense of the core, on - campus offerings.

The Cristo Rey Schools» education - business model stands in stark contrast to the under - investment in human capital — of the traditional public school business model, or even traditional Catholic schools — and offers ways to address imperfections in the education market.

These companies offer a model for the rest of us — for organizations and schools seeking to grow, for leaders wanting to make a cultural change, and even for individual employees who may feel stuck, say Lisa Laskow Lahey and Robert Kegan, who wrote An Everyone Culture with fellow Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty Matthew L. Miller and Deborah Helsing and with organizational consultant Andy Fleming.

The package comprises: · a video, in which Miss Rose discusses the importance of bar modelling to her colleagues, shows how bar modelling can support children throughout their education · a PowerPoint presentation which forms the basis for 1 hour CPD session for your staff team · a set of presenter's notes which offer prompts and suggestions for the session.

Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis: Modeling Change and Event Occurrence, an award - winning new book coauthored by Willett and Judith Singer, the School's Conant Professor of Education and academic dean, offers the first accessible, in - depth presentation of the field's most recent advances.

While the GGS model for Positive Education encourages a whole - school approach, the field of Positive Education still has a great deal to offer educators whose schools may not yet have adopted this model.

Despite the AUIS model, it has often reworked its curriculum and offerings to meet the laws of the ministry of education.

Meanwhile, the Summit Public Schools charter network is offering its own innovative self - paced, project - based learning model for free to districts looking to give students more ownership of their education.

Rocketship and the other school models we describe here offer a vision for what deeply integrated technology can mean for children's education, for the way schools are structured, and for the promise of greater efficiency amid a lengthy economic downturn.

The U.S. Department of Education will give points to districts that have a plan to increase the number of students who receive instruction from highly effective and effective teachers and to districts that offer flexibility in terms of schedules, staffing models and budgets.

The program, in collaboration with the Charter College of Education, California State University, Los Angeles, offers teachers an apprenticeship model of co-teaching alongside outstanding mentor teachers in classrooms within our partner districts; Los Angeles Unified School District, Montebello Unified School District, Alhambra Unified School District and Green Dot Public Schools.

Whether a school adopts a model that offers a comprehensive package of practices or decides to build its own from individual research - proven components, education consumers need reliable information to help them answer critical questions:

Indeed, as per a statement made by Ron Adler, president of the Ohio Coalition for Quality Education, not only is it «disappointing that ODE spends so much time denying that poverty and mobility of students impedes their ability to generate academic performance... they [continue to] remain absolutely silent about the state's broken report card and continually defend their value - added model that offers no transparency and creates wild swings for schools across Ohio» (i.e., the EVAAS system, although in all fairness all VAMs and the SGP yield the «wild swings» noted).

Many of the ideas Rose offers in The End of Average are at the core of CityBridge's education innovation work with local practitioners, who aim to design instructional models tailored to every student's individual needs, interests, and skills.

ASCD calls on policymakers to offer healthy, nutritious meals to all students; to foster greater alignment, integration, and collaboration between education and the health sector to improve each child's cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development; and to promote the components of a coordinated school health model so that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.

Perhaps our experience offers a suggestive model of using new media effectively in a preservice language arts teacher education program.

This includes offering a new vision of structuring public education, based largely on the portfolio model Hill and his successor at CRPE, Robin Lake, have advanced for the past decade, as well as crafting a new approach for financing education that expands high - quality school options for children and their families.

Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.

New York City, Portland, Houston and Washington D.C. have expanded dual immersion offerings in recent years, and districts across California are now poised to take advantage of the model after voters overturned the state's bilingual education ban late last year.

In their Ministry of Education document The Singapore Model Method for Learning Mathematics they define a set of Heuristics for Problem Solving that I think offer a starting point for categorising the various skills we use to solve problems:

Andrew Blumenfeld, a 20 - year - old member of the La Canada, Calif. school board (and a public face of Students for Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed Education Reform), offering reasons why it is so hard to transform education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed education through the traditional district model — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to smodel — and why it must be abandoned for the Hollywood Model of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to sModel of Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed Education that will allow for the creation of schools fit for the futures of the children they are supposed to serve.

It's a model that Betsy DeVos, the U.S. Secretary of Education, has called for, claiming that virtual schools can offer «valuable options» in rural areas, where educators are eager to expand courses, as long as they don't have to push already tight budgets or direct student funding away from schools.

They also reaffimed that the educational model of CLCs offers the best hope for achieving equitable and high quality education for ALL students.

The Problem of the School Inspector Concept: Give the Education Sector credit for offering a new approach to systemic reform with last week's report on how states and the federal government could embrace the school inspection concept based on the model used in Great Britain.

This model offers substantive promise for improving learning outcomes for students with disabilities and other traditionally marginalized populations who receive the majority of their classroom instruction in general education settings.

As debate continues over an education reform model for Nashville's public schools, two local groups have teamed up to offer an event that will highlight the reform experience of the Recovery School District in New Orleans.

ExcelinEd Policy, Pilots and the Path to Competency - Based Education: A National Landscape This report, published together with EducationCounsel, offers a survey of current state laws and policies on competency - based education in K - 12 systems and explores the potential challenges they may pose for states implementing this innovative learniEducation: A National Landscape This report, published together with EducationCounsel, offers a survey of current state laws and policies on competency - based education in K - 12 systems and explores the potential challenges they may pose for states implementing this innovative learnieducation in K - 12 systems and explores the potential challenges they may pose for states implementing this innovative learning model.

Our performance based education model assesses content standards in two different ways bodies of evidence and secured assessments which provide checks and balances for each other, thus offering an overall validity to the assessment process.

Monetary contributions made by families and Charter friends who support Montessori as an alternative education model ensures that our program will be offered, regardless of State and local budget shortfalls.

Moreover, the point of charters is not just whether they perform better in the aggregate but whether they offer models of education that are better suited to individual children and families than traditional schools.

PUC Milagro Charter School offers a continuum of special education supports and services within the Collaborative Inclusion model.

Essentially, the model we use offers our pupils the kind of education they would never have access to through any other system.

This policy brief from the Education Commission of the States offers model state policy components for early college high schools that provide the necessary supports to ensure program access, quality and transferability of credit.

First published in NJ Spotlight This year marks the 20th anniversary of what has been called the Abbott preschool program — a national and international model of high - quality, effective, preschool education that, despite its success, has yet to be offered to most children in New Jersey.

In addition to pressing the federal government to fully fund its share of the total cost of special education, the state should also revise its own complex model of paying for these services, said the task force, offering several suggestions for updating formulas and equalizing spending across various agencies.

CEC offers Board of Education training and a self - evaluation process that aligns effective Board criteria to CEC's District and School System Assessment and Strategic Planning criteria and CEC's Shared (Distributive) Leadership model.

While Apple has in the past offered some models specifically for the education market, such as the eMac, or low - end versions of the iMac and MacBook, those days seem to be long gone.