Sentences with phrase «new model for student»

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The model, called Lean LaunchPad, is based on a method of starting new companies that has been largely championed by Steve Blank, a serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur who partnered with UCSF in 2013 to offer the program for students with ideas for health - related businesses.

TINLEY PARK — A scale model of a proposed new recreation center, made by students at Prairie View Junior High School in Tinley Park, is helping voters decide whether to support a bond referendum proposal for the real thing.

A Westchester school is imploring six high schools on Long Island to abandon their plans to skip a Model Congress event for students in New Rochelle out of fear stemming from a recent classroom stabbing.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.

Formed as a public / private partnership, Teachers Who Code will use the Girls Who Code model to equip New York City public school teachers with the computer science skills to educate students for high tech jobs of today and tomorrow.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

«It requires student initiative to connect with the right role model / adviser,» says Todd Evans, a professor of developmental and molecular biology and Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and Director of the Graduate Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in Bronx, New York.

The new THSB unit includes a student edition with activities for 19 lessons but also a teacher edition, with instructions for carrying out all of the activities, molecular model kits, print and digital resources, and assessments for measuring student understanding.

Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.

When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division into traditional academic departments, focusing on interdisciplinary research, conducting business in English, and drawing roughly half of its faculty members from overseas.

For example, this technology could be used in a new type of medical textbook that allows students to see a 3 - D animated model of a heart instead of a dreary anatomical drawing.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

It includes recommendations to provide direct funding incentives in the PBF model for the success of one or more at - risk student groups, to introduce measures that wouldn't punish institutions for experimenting with new programs to increase student success, and to better understand the impact of PBF on community colleges before a larger proportion of state funds are tied to the model.

«For conventional mathematical models of this process pattern formation of MinE and MinD on the membrane can only work if the concentration of MinE is less than that of MinD,» says Jonas Denk, a PhD student in Frey's team and joint first author of the new paper.

He and his colleagues are investigating various models for how to create a «new education ecosystem» tailored to Haitian students.

The philosophy and practices of this mathematics department provide a model for recruiting and developing U.S. minority doctoral students as part of a model (as I see it) for a New American University.

«If Bridge to Employment succeeds in transitioning the ACSSSD students who are hardest to serve, this program could serve as a model for effective transition programs in other counties in New Jersey as well.»

By using experimental evolution — or natural selection — to grow the world's fattest fruit flies, life sciences professor Allen Gibbs and Ph.D. student Christopher Hardy pioneered a new model for investigating obesity - related heart dysfunction.

Over the summer of 2014, SENS Research Foundation partnered with the Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation (CASMI), an organization focused on developing new models for medical innovation, to sponsor research by four students: Rebecca Jones, James Smith, Rahul Rekhi, and Sheri Zada.

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We welcomed our new staff mid-July for summer professional development, and spent three weeks aligning around the vision of RISE and learning the instructional and student support models.

These partnerships among schools, and with foundations, provide a model for community colleges to launch programs that improve outcomes for their students, even in the absence of any new state or federal policies.

Their new enthusiasm encouraged me to begin experimenting with a «flipped» education model — a form of blended learning that calls for students to learn material outside of the classroom via video presentations and then apply their understanding in class.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Then districts will have to develop local assessments for all students which are modeled after the new state assessments and are embedded into all courses and grade levels.

«By providing the environment for teachers to be financially secure and motivated, TSAT's new pay model will directly benefit students through the excellent standard of teaching they will continue to receive.

@Leslie: We see exciting new roles for teachers including facilitating learning, modeling for students what it takes to be a learner, coaching students, guiding, connecting students to resources, and identifying potential.

F&M's approach to retaining and graduating minority students is modeled directly on the work of the Posse Foundation, a New York City — based nonprofit that sends group of students, a posse, to college together to act as a support system for one another.

Do model for students what they are expected to do or produce, especially for new skills or activities, by explaining and demonstrating the learning actions, sharing your thinking processes aloud, and showing good teacher and student work samples.

This transparency is a wonderful way to model for our students, colleagues, and educational community that we are open to new ideas and always striving to not only share, but to receive feedback as well.

She is now the strategy director for student financial support at the Lumina Foundation, a private foundation at which she leads the work to develop new models of student financial support for higher education through strategic grantmaking.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new investment of $ 1.7 billion for K - 12 education over the next five years, with the bulk of the funding aimed at existing traditional public schools that show progress in improving educational outcomes, the development of new curricula, charter schools focused on students with special needs, and «research and development» for scalable models that could inform best practices.

Michael Horn, co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, spoke of blended learning as the «new model that is student - centric, highly personalized for each learner, and more productive, as it delivers dramatically better results at the same or lower cost.»

- Explains Direct and Inverse proportion linking to table of values and graphs essential for the new GCSE - Examples allow for step by step modelling - Loads of assessment slides to assess understanding - Fully differentiated activities with challenge worksheets to ensure all students make maximum progress - Exam questions plenary to assess learning Rated «outstanding» in lesson observation from «outstanding» school

When building routines for simple tasks like gathering materials, self - starting new tasks, taking risks, and rebounding from mistakes, I use Responsive Classroom's interactive modeling, a widely accepted practice for not only showing students how to perform routines, but also helping them understand why such routines are important.

The former Dean of Pixar University explains what schools must do to prepare students (and themselves) for new models in the workplace.

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.

We shared five Reach Extension Principles for the new school models they would craft or tailor to their needs; they call for reaching more students with excellent teachers in charge of their learning, for more pay, within budget, while boosting development opportunities for all teachers and clarifying authority / credit for great teachers.

I will work to push the envelope with new and innovative school models that reshape how we educate students for college and career readiness.

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.

This new approach, UDL, encourages educators to see their students not as occupying one of two categoriesâ $» disabled or normalâ $» but as representing a range of different educational needs, each of which should be accounted for in a model classroom.

Although these investments might be good for students in the short term, we would miss an opportunity to use computer science as a starting point to rethink a new model for managing human capital in education.

But by working closely with educators to redesign the classroom itself, we may well find new learning models that work far better for both teachers and their students.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

The site is new, and there are not yet many things posted, but you may enjoy collaborating with me and several others who have already joined, in creating PBL model projects for WL students using this approach!

(With almost 60 percent of public school students now enrolled in charter schools, New Orleans has become a national model for their widespread use.)

In education, it can allow us to replace that classroom model with a new one that is far more conducive to personalizing learning for each student.

Because the New School Model is being gradually phased into the entire school curriculum, it was decided to introduce ArcGIS Online in a pilot project for sixth - grade students.

Michael Horn, co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, spoke of blended learning as the «new model that is student - centric, highly personalized for each learner, and more productive, as it...

It grew out of a successful 2012 grant project led by HGSE's Nonie Lesaux and Matthew Miller that aimed to create a new model for engaging and supporting doctoral students in their professional development as educators.