Sentences with phrase «new model grants»

The new model grants flexibility within DI to schools in the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Pac - 12 and SEC.

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Speaking at OZY Media's annual arts and innovation festival in New York City's Central Park over the weekend, Wharton professor Adam Grant and author and motivational speaker Simon Sinek, discussed a future shift to an employee - minded business model that emphasizes workplace culture.

The Broads are also longtime supporters of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which is one of three museums that received a $ 450,000 federal grant to explore a new business model that has already allowed the Dallas Museum of Art to go mostly free.

Chicago's new elaborate system of buoys and statistical models will monitor 16 of the city's 24 beaches, and Park District officials are seeking grant money from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to expand the system to cover all beaches by next summer.

Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant for a conference on «Reconceiving Midwifery: The New Social Science of Midwifery in Canada,» with papers presented by the contributors to Reconceiving Midwifery: The New Canadian Model of Care, edited by Ivy Bourgeault, Cecilia Benoit, and Robbie Davis - Floyd, Toronto, Canada, July 17 - 18, 1999.

Through the collaborative IBC research grants and the recent matching gift campaign we're developing a new model for meeting the needs of those facing an IBC diagnosis,» said Ginny Mason, RN, BSN, Executive Director of the IBC Research Foundation.

They congratulated the retired Supreme Court Judge on the honor granted him «by the President of the Republic of Ghana H.E. Akuffo Addo to chair the commission of enquiry on the creation of new regions» but prayed he and the other members of the don't become icons of «destruction but a role model to the present generation and generations yet unborn».

He proposed a new program for distributing education funds modeled on President Barack Obama's state competitions that will grant awards based on school performance and administrative efficiencies.

The question before progressive advocates of public campaign financing in New York State is whether we push for full public campaign finance on the Clean Money model of equal and sufficient funding grants for all qualified candidates, or whether we settle for partial public campaign financing on the Matching Funds model used for presidential primaries since 1976 and for New York City local elections since 1989.

While other communities take such services for granted, their re-introduction here will have a profound positive impact and will serve as a learning model for a new public health system of delivery.

On immigration, Bloomberg said the city will «help lead the charge» for the New York State Dream Act, legislation modeled after a federal bill that would allow children who were brought to the country illegally to apply for state - sponsored college loans, grants and scholarships.

Paterson rejected nearly $ 200 million in member items, including $ 5,000 grants promised to Central New York non-profit groups like the Onondaga Oswego Chapter of the Red Cross and the North Syracuse Babe Ruth League, and bigger amounts for Syracuse University, the Syracuse Chargers Rowing Club, the Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Jubilee Homes and several libraries and schools.

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?

One of the new patents was granted to Philip Leder and William Muller at Harvard University for a transgenic mouse that serves as a model for men who develop enlarged prostate glands.

In a new project that began this month, Drs. Anuradha Ray and Wenzel were recently awarded a five - year, $ 8 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), also part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue studying the immune response and genetic roots of severe asthma in 120 patients and in animal models.

Collins used a new analysis performed by NIH staff to address concerns expressed by many of the model organism researchers gathered at TAGC, particularly a 2015 analysis by Michael Wangler, Keith Yamamoto, and Hugo Bellen that suggested NIH grant support for Drosophila research is declining.

As our role in the HapMap concluded, we took on a new grant: constructing the genetic map of C. briggsae, a small roundworm similar to the well - known model organism, C. elegans.

Through the collaborative IBC research grants and the recent matching gift campaign we're developing a new model for meeting the needs of those facing an IBC diagnosis,» said Ginny Mason, RN, BSN, Executive Director of the IBC Research Foundation.

A new grant, co-led by Dr. Richard W. Besdine, will promote adoption of a care model in which geriatricians and other physicians co-manage care for older patients with hip fractures.

FinTech is transforming the banking industry and granting millions of people access to financial amenities for the first time, as a result of new banking models that are evolving with FinTech startups.

These grants support model initiatives that help pave new directions for increasing inclusion of people with disabilities in the workplace.»

To help continue these positive employment trends, we need stimulating ideas from the field that spark new models that are scalable, and may be models for policy change,» said Elaine E. Katz, MS, CCC - SLP, senior vice president of grants and communications at Kessler Foundation.

The new grant enables researchers to compare the ways in which veterans with SCI treated in the Spinal Cord Injury Model System and the Veterans Health Administration strive to work and overcome employment barriers.

Grants were awarded in 6 categories that cover a range of disciplines: Clinical trials and outcome measures, Biomarkers of progression, Gene studies, Underlying pathology, New disease models and Rehabilitation trials.

Granted, manis modeled after fine art aren't anything new: We've seen Monet lilies, Van Gogh stars, and even Keith Haring figures painted on fingertips in the past.

Grant Wilfley Casting is looking for actors, models, and talent for featured roles in the new upcoming feature film The Greatest Showman on Earth.

Amid the new British invasion of rising stars (see Benedict Cumberbatch, David Oyelowo, and the entire cast of Downton Abbey), the strongest candidate for male heartthrob seems to be Nicholas Hoult, an English actor and model who just turned 23, 10 years after co-starring with Hugh Grant in About a Boy.

On the heels of its last effort to seed 20 new secondary school models, NGLC's Wave IV $ 12 million grant program has two components to it.

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.

Innovation Fund grant to support work on a School Happiness Index, a new metric that schools and districts could use that is conceptually modeled after the Global Happiness Index now being used by the United Nations.

The financing strategy, which includes start - up grants to new schools of up to $ 500,000, «helps schools start smaller, so they can start good,» says Chris Bender, who also believes that the smart leveraging of small amounts of money is what makes the BCF model replicable.

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.

Until recently, CUP, which receives various federal and local arts grants, has focused its efforts on New York City, but the organization is developing free, downloadable curriculum so its model of local investigations can be conducted anywhere.

To build on the success and insights gained from the Breakthrough School Models grant and accelerate New Designs for Schools, NGLC joined with regional incubators to kick off the Regional Funds for Breakthrough Schools in September 2013.

The first grant opportunity for Breakthrough School Models for College Readiness launched in October 2011 and awarded grant funding to 20 districts and charter school operators developing new, whole school mModels for College Readiness launched in October 2011 and awarded grant funding to 20 districts and charter school operators developing new, whole school modelsmodels.

In the planning grant opportunity, teams from across the Commonwealth will be supported for more than a year with coaching, professional development, and a professional learning community to plan their whole - school redesigned or new school models, accompanied by planning grants of up to $ 150,000.

As national leadership development strategist for NYCLA, Gutierrez works to build leadership capacity with current and aspiring principal supervisors in 12 states across the U.S.. Also a national leadership development strategist, Polo - McKenna splits her time between coaching school leaders and leadership teams nationally and working on the federal i3 grant - funded Teaming Model project, which pairs aspiring principals and assistant principals and places them as teams in struggling New York schools.

One of those pioneers is neighboring state New Jersey, who has approved Dr. Marzano's Causal Teacher Evaluation Model to meet requirements for the state's $ 1.16 million pilot grant program.

We put up with all of this because, as charter schools, we're granted the autonomy to provide educational services in a way that makes sense to us, and we are free to experiment with new models and create the innovative, exciting public schools to which folks in our communities want to send their kids.

Following a charter school model, principals in the state - run New Orleans schools will have the independence to recruit and hire their own teachers and academic support staff, and control the use of federal Title I grant money, beginning next school year.

He sees the key to this new structure in the chartering model, in which nongovernmental organizations are granted extensive autonomy, by a government - appointed, independent authorizing board, to operate schools in exchange for positive student achievement outcomes.

Previously, he was an associate director at the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, where he managed a portfolio of grants in the areas of personalized learning, new school models, and state policy.

Da Vinci Schools worked in partnership with the following key collaborators in designing this new instructional model for the NGLC program: Wiseburn School District in Hawthorne, CA, (charter authorizer); Tara Kelly (grant writing consultant), Rebecca Tomasini and Russell Ballati (Alvo Institute), Miles Denniston (Charter Schools Development Center) and Scott Milam (Afton Partners LLC); and our early college partners, Antioch University Los Angeles, Marymount College, Foothill - De Anza Community College District, El Camino College and West L.A. College.

Grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have enabled CEE - Trust to develop members» capacity to attract and support blended models, and to create opportunities for entrepreneurs to incubate, launch, or grow new blended programs.

The latest announcement of grant winners represent the second of three cycles of funding in NGLC's $ 12 million third investment wave focused on identifying and supporting new secondary school and college models that use technology to reach targets for affordability and student success, especially for low - income students.

is a Washington, D.C. - based grant competition that supports educators and school leaders who are ready to design and launch new, whole - school learning models to better personalize learning for students.

With a start - up grant from the Abell Foundation and the New Schools Venture Fund, the Urban Teacher Center (UTC) was founded in September, 2009, creating a new model to train and certify highly effective teachers in Baltimore and Washington, New Schools Venture Fund, the Urban Teacher Center (UTC) was founded in September, 2009, creating a new model to train and certify highly effective teachers in Baltimore and Washington, new model to train and certify highly effective teachers in Baltimore and Washington, DC.

It will require groups of schools (e.g., League of Innovative Schools, Great Schools Partnership, New Tech Network, etc) to agree on competency - based protocols and use their market leverage (and some grant funding) to drive investment to solutions for their instructional model.

Beyond giving two additional public schools over to the quasi public - private model, funding from this grant will enable HPS staff to attend Achievement First «s New Coach Training.

Performance Pay Policies: Oregon allows school districts to participate in the School District Collaboration Grant Program, which provides funding for implementing new approaches to compensation models and evaluation processes for teachers.