Sentences with phrase «new academic goals»

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A new president — an academic who had impeccable credentials and was also a committed Presbyterian laywoman who shared the board's goals for change - was installed.

«It will have a significant economic impact by providing job opportunities at thriving businesses right in our own communities and help a new generation of New Yorkers achieve their academic and professional goals.&raqnew generation of New Yorkers achieve their academic and professional goals.&raqNew Yorkers achieve their academic and professional goals.»

Among the district's goals is to develop a new hiring process for district coaches and establish eligibility standards for its athletes with more attention paid to academics.

At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.

Michelle Gabriele Sandrian and her husband didn't go to Europe to start a family — their goal was to experience a new culture and remain competitive in their fields — but when a baby came along, they recognized almost immediately the advantages of Austria's support for young academics.

Industry's primary goals — to make new products and generate money — often align well with the interests of academic researchers.

But since then, my goals had shifted insidiously; my academic mentors were training new versions of themselves, and I had gone along.

«Our goal is to begin to influence the new crop of African academics that can then engage with colleagues here to develop long - lived collaborative relationships,» says Adewumi.

A collaboration of premier academic, medical and industry leaders across the globe, the New York Genome Center has as its goal to translate genomic research into the development of new treatments, therapies and therapeutics against human diseaNew York Genome Center has as its goal to translate genomic research into the development of new treatments, therapies and therapeutics against human diseanew treatments, therapies and therapeutics against human disease.

It seeks to accomplish this goal by offering seed funding for new projects that promote meaningful academic and scientific exchange, and that show promise of leading to fruitful and sustainable collaboration.

«This new ranking underscores the worldwide impact of TSRI scientists, who share a common goal of improving public health through scientific discovery, and, importantly, improving the way we make those discoveries,» said Jamie Williamson, TSRI's Executive Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs.

The goal of the program is to discover gene - based biomarkers that can predict outcomes, estimate treatment toxicities, speed discovery of new drugs and create a model that could be reproduced at academic medical centers across the nation.

A collaboration of premier academic, medical and industry leaders in New York and other partners across the globe, the NYGC has as its goal translating genomic research into the development of new treatments, therapies and therapeutics against human diseaNew York and other partners across the globe, the NYGC has as its goal translating genomic research into the development of new treatments, therapies and therapeutics against human diseanew treatments, therapies and therapeutics against human disease.

It's easy to fall into the mindset that you'll have time to be happy and enjoy yourself after you accomplish x, y, and z. However, human nature (and plenty of academic research) suggests that after each major achievement, our brain adapts and then sets its sights on a new goal.

With schools today facing an array of complex challenges — from working with an increasingly diverse population of students, to integrating new technology in the classroom, to meeting rigorous academic standards and goals — observers...

This is the goal of New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA), a dual arts and academic curriculum: to create independent, self - sufficient, and lifelong learners.

In late 2011, Denise Watts, a Charlotte - Mecklenburg zone superintendent, approached Public Impact for help meeting the goals she had as executive director for the new Project L.I.F.T., a $ 55 million public - private partnership to improve academics at historically low - performing, high - need schools in western Charlotte, N.C.

The success of the Massachusetts approach has important implications, especially as states roll out the new Common Core standards academic goals for what students should be able to do in reading and math at each grade level to ensure high school students graduate ready for the demands of higher education and the 21st century workforce.

The New York Times, September 26, 2011 «To reach the ambitious goals policy makers have set for academic achievement, most students will need more learning time.

The goals were to increase teachers» knowledge of the skills covered by the state's academic standards and tested on the algebra end - of - course exam and to provide support for teachers in the use of new teaching methods.

As a new academic year ramps up, so do goals for student achievement, curricular reforms, teacher development, and more.

School missions get diluted by repeated rounds of school reform; academics get crowded out by new policy goals; principals become middle - managers carrying out the programs chosen by district administrators; and teachers become «labor,» fulfilling contractual obligations instead of doing whatever is necessary to succeed.

As the weeks progress, Dodge will introduce various topics and activities that explore issues of race, sexuality, gender; or academic issues, such as how to handle the new levels of responsibility and work at high school; or even how to think about what to major in and how to define their future academic and personal goals.

Students must come to terms with challenges such as leaving home, fitting in with a new group of peers, managing new freedoms, and meeting academic goals.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

On March 15, 2017, the State Board of Education (SBE) and the California Department of Education (CDE) launched a new accountability system to replace the Academic Performance Index (API) to better measure our State's educational goals.

Unlike No Child Left Behind, which had the goal of all students being proficient by 2014 (less than 14 months away), D.C. officials are implementing new, lower standards of academic performance for African American, Latino, and poor children compared to their more affluent White and Asian counterparts.

Jerlando Jackson, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin) will work with participants on effectively leading diverse teams in the academy, especially when faculty are involved, to maximize institutional goals and outcomes; he will also discuss strategies for harnessing existing diversity among the academic workforce and cultivating new avenues to increase diversity.

Effective schools are characterized by explicit, agreed - upon academic goals for all children; a strong focus on academics; order and discipline in the classroom; maximum time on learning tasks; and frequent evaluations of student performance — all principles repudiated by the Disney school and also by many «new» education reforms.

New Jersey, for example, defines an SGO as «a long - term academic goal that teachers set for groups of students and must be: Specific and measureable; Aligned to New Jersey's curriculum standards; Based on available prior student learning data; A measure of what a student has learned between two points in time; Ambitious and achievable» (for more information click here).

LEXINGTON, KY — The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence applauds the commitment of the Kentucky Board of Education in setting ambitious goals for students to reach academic proficiency and beyond as measured by the state's new accountabilitAcademic Excellence applauds the commitment of the Kentucky Board of Education in setting ambitious goals for students to reach academic proficiency and beyond as measured by the state's new accountabilitacademic proficiency and beyond as measured by the state's new accountability model.

The goal here is to support schools (new or those ready to expand) that have the greatest likelihood of academic and programmatic success.

Recent data suggest marginal progress in relation to the goals of increasing both the diversity of the new teacher pool and the academic profiles of those entering it.13 But a new question has emerged: Are the two goals compatible?

Jahira Chambers, an E4E - New York member, once thought that restorative justice would be just another fad that distracted schools from academic goals, but now...

With states and districts implementing new academic standards based on the Common Core State Standards, teachers have more opportunities than ever to collaborate around the shared goals of strengthening curriculum design, classroom practices, and student learning.

«The new law is designed to remove financial incentives for placing children in more separate settings when they could be served in a regular classroom, and it [calls for] including regular classroom teachers in the meetings at which the academic goals of children with disabilities are set.

As states and districts adopt and implement new academic standards based on Common Core State Standards, it is critical to enable and examine ways for teachers to work and learn together with a shared goal of strengthening curriculum design, classroom practices, and student work products.

In the past month, the Aspen Institute announced the formation of a new National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, whose goal is to help schools better teach SEL skills along with traditional academic sAcademic Development, whose goal is to help schools better teach SEL skills along with traditional academic sacademic subjects.

Project LIVE & Achieve is a comprehensive program bringing schools, community groups, and faith organizations together to promote non-violence, academic success, high expectations and community involvement, with the main goal being to decrease violence impacting New Orleans youth and to strive for higher academic outcomes for students.

Since the Reagan administration's «A Nation at Risk» report pronounced that schools across the country were failing, every president has touted a new plan to close the racial academic achievement gap: President Obama installed Race to the Top; George W. Bush had No Child Left Behind; and Clinton pushed Goals 2000.

But there didn't appear to be any firm academic goals apart from the AYP metric, just general description of its test results and how they were better than the New Haven Public Schools overall.

Our goal since then has been to use the arts as a vehicle to create new learning opportunities and enhance existing learning opportunities in order to increase academic achievement for all students.

Plans are underway to release a new National Education Policy (NEP) in the near future, with the goal of making India «a knowledge superpower by equipping its students with the necessary skills and knowledge and to eliminate the shortage of manpower in science, technology, academics and industry.»

A new set of academic standards developed to replace states» individually designed learning goals, the Common Core math standards are like earlier math reforms, only further refined and more ambitious.

Even the decision of any task, without obtaining new scientific knowledge, can not be the goal of academic paper writing.

You can use an internship to define or affirm existing goals, set new ones, earn money or academic credit, meet potential contacts or mentors, gain entry to a coveted employer, or all of the above.

In a new publication entitled «Applying Goal - Based Investing Principles to the Retirement Problem», EDHEC - Risk Institute and Professor John Mulvey of the Operations Research & Financial Engineering Department at Princeton University outline the shortcomings of existing retirement products, and lay the academic foundations for a new generation of risk - controlled target - date funds (TDFs).

Our goal is to provide innovative and stimulating tools to new games, and not turning them into academic lectures.

With the goal of simplifying compliance with this new regulation and of eventually helping to drive worldwide adoption of digital signatures, Adobe today announced the launch of the Cloud Signature Consortium, a group of industry and academic organizations coming together to build an open standard for cloud - based digital signatures across mobile and the web, so that anyone will be able to digitally sign documents from anywhere.

This annual global event, now entering its sixth year, is organized by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to promote the goals of Open Access to the public generally but especially within the academic and research communities, to demonstrate its benefits and to inspire wider participation in making Open Access a new norm in scholarly pubAcademic Resources Coalition (SPARC) of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) to promote the goals of Open Access to the public generally but especially within the academic and research communities, to demonstrate its benefits and to inspire wider participation in making Open Access a new norm in scholarly pubacademic and research communities, to demonstrate its benefits and to inspire wider participation in making Open Access a new norm in scholarly publishing.