Sentences with phrase «new pilot working»

We also provide dogs for children with autism, people living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and are excited to launch a new pilot working with people living at home with dementia.

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«The role of philanthropy here is not to be the primary funder, but rather to fund pilots, to fund new ideas, to let people — it's always the educators coming up with the ideas — to let them try them out and see what really works super well and get those to scale,» Gates said while delivering a keynote address at a Cleveland schools conference, according to the Post.

Y Combinator is certainly not the first to study basic income, and since it's just starting a pilot, we don't yet know how its work will lead to new or different findings than those uncovered by experiments in other places and times, such as those in Canada, the U.S., and India.

2017.04.19 10,000 new student opportunities by end of 2020: Toronto Financial Services Alliance launches ambitious pilot to help young Canadians jump - start their careers Toronto region's financial services employers are increasing their investment in young Canadians through a ground - breaking, sector - wide initiative to create 10,000 new work - integrated learning opportunities for post-secondary students by the end of 2020...

Pilot programs, which Bhojwani seems reluctant to talk about for now, are in the works and new digital distribution initiatives should also factor into getting the mix just right.

IBM's general manager of blockchain, Marie Wieck, told CNBC that the new starter plan is «perfect for pilot projects and early - stage development work for those who want to build solutions on the IBM blockchain platform, which currently has over 250 active blockchain networks.»

Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue.

Work with «identified PCTs» to pilot new methods of engaging mothers and fathers in the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme, in particular to ensure that fathers are involved in the reviews which are at the heart of the programme.

Village of Glencoe public works empolyee Jose Mendez installs holiday lights in downtown Glencoe as part of a new shared services pilot program that allows village and park district workers to share job responsibilities.

With the Chicago pilot program as its model, Kraft has committed to spend $ 4.5 million on 25 trucks that will work in six other cities in the next three years, including New York, San Antonio and Madison, Wis..

The nation's top highway regulator said his agency is working with New York to create a pilot program for the I Love NY highway signs dotting the state's roadways, which the federal government has long said are illegal.

ALBANY — A new type of assessment system could be in the works for New York as the state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program under the new Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in minew type of assessment system could be in the works for New York as the state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program under the new Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in miNew York as the state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program under the new Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in minew Every Student Succeeds Act — a program lawmakers said was written with New York in miNew York in mind.

I know that one idea John Hayes, the Minister for Skills, is looking at is piloting a new «traineeship»; a package of training and work experience to get the basic, necessary skills, with a recognised qualification at the end of it, an extra rung on the ladder to get you on your way to an apprenticeship or job.

«I'd like to thank the state Senate, specifically Sen. Jeff Klein for his work on achieving the new loan forgiveness program and for supporting community learning schools and Sen. Marisol Alcantara for working to achieve an ELL pilot program,» he said.

The ECIDA also agreed to extend an existing Payment in Lieu of Taxes (PILOT) arrangement for Building 1 at the River Road site, as an incentive, if the automaker commits to bringing the new V - 6 and V - 8 engine work to the Tonawanda plant.

The paragraph at issue said that the school board «calls upon the New York State Legislature, the New York State Education Department and the New York State Comptroller to work together to modify the existing formula for the calculation of the tax levy limit to eliminate and / or mitigate the negative consequences of PILOTs on school districts» tax levy limits.»

Whatever the link, the new work from Penn suggests it will be critical to make sure that the brown fat pilot light and furnace functions are kept in good working order.

In remarks published on the website of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (www.mep.gov.cn) on Friday, minister Zhou Shengxian said China was working on new regulations for pollution permits and would also publish proposals for new pilot trading projects as soon as possible.

That's why it is working with Concordia University researchers to create flight - control algorithms to help better train new pilots.

New to Arizona and moved out here for pilot training / work.

With the hot duo of Angarano and Larson in the lead roles, the project looked good on paper: Stoller described it to Vulture as being about «four twentysomethings who work in advertising in New York all sleeping with each other,» and said that «the pilot actually turned out really well and I'm excited about how it came out.»

Actor Mark Rylance took home the award for supporting male for his work in «Bridge of Spies,» the newest release from the prolific Steven Spielberg, which centers on a Cold War — era lawyer (Tom Hanks) who's saddled with the task of trading a Soviet spy for a captured American pilot.

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Freed from restrictions imposed on him by the necessities of a mainstream audience, creator Dan Milano is finally allowed to reveal how embittered he was by his network experiences — the latest (read: second) volume of the new show presents the IFC pilot, «Fur on the Asphalt,» which hilariously recasts the Fox sitcom as a hopelessly compromised, formulaic piece of crap co-starring Clint Howard — and responds by lowering the budget drastically and throwing his felt creations into a new line of work parodying movies.

Working with an enthusiastic HGSE alumna provided a perfect opportunity to pilot a new type of program.

The New York City Department of Education ventured into pay - for - performance for students beginning this year with two pilot projects developed by Harvard University economist Roland G. Fryer, who is working pro bono as the department's chief equality officer.

And it's done a brutal disservice by suggesting that preliminary results from three pilot sites can tell us anything definitive about the potential of a wholly new way to think about how schools go about their work.

They tend to work at pilot sites in new locales for the same reasons.

By March 2009, at the initial pilot program's halfway point, the Crenshaw students had completed their assigned game, so, working in teams, they chose new games to build.

New Orleans is piloting the work of a promising outfit called EdNavigator.

Today she works as department math chair at John Dibert Community School — a turnaround charter belonging to the FirstLine Schools network — in New Orleans, where she says her education, particularly her participation in a pilot program called Instructional Leadership (IL) at HGSE has significantly influenced and shaped her daily duties.

This pilot was successful (as described by David Bornstein in The New York Times), so we then expanded the work to other regions.

\ As with any new system there are bound to be teething problems and there are areas that are still «work in progress» so it is reassuring to know that in advance of the mandatory RTI requirements next year, in April HMRC began a pilot with volunteer payroll software providers and employers.

Dr Jackie Cornish, national clinical director for children and young people at NHS England, said the pilot was an opportunity for CCGs and schools to work together more closely and trial «a new way of thinking».

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced new pilot programmes which aims to boost support for flexible working in the teaching profession.

Following this report, the government has now pledged to introduce new pilot programmes which aim to boost support for flexible working in the teaching profession.

In an initiative now being piloted in six cities across the country, communities are working to redesign their municipal systems and form new citywide partnerships so that everyone — elected officials, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals, social workers, parents, business owners, and educators — takes on the responsibility of supporting children and closing the opportunity gap.

Thirty districts, encompassing over 15,000 teachers and principals, piloted aspects of the new evaluation system so that the Department could discover first - hand what works, what doesn't, and what districts should focus on in the first couple of years of implementation.

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In 2012, Steve continued his collaborative work with a partnership with teacher leaders within United Teachers of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Unified School District to create teacher - designed hybrid learning pilot schools in Silverlake and West Los Angeles, and the scaling and oversight of Green Dot New York, a school founded by Randi Weingarten and Steve Barr.

This spring, about 600 schools across the state will pilot parts of a new end - of - year exam developed by the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a group of states working together to develop new computer - based assessments aligned to the new standards that they hope will test deeper understanding of concepts.

Prior to running the Summit Learning Program, Lizzie worked closely with the Summit leadership team to project manage the San Jose math pilot, as well as the change management process in adopting the new academic model.

Convening and working with networks of schools and educators has been integral to CCE's work from the start, with projects ranging from the 20 + year old Boston Pilot School Network (now the Boston Autonomous Schools Network) to newer networks such as the Rhode Island Scaling Up Proficiency Based Graduation Network.

Beginning in 2013, Leading Educators worked with Denver Public Schools (DPS) to deliver a series of trainings for DPS - identified teacher leaders in new, differentiated roles and developed cohort - building activities during year one of the district's Teacher Leader Teams pilot.

Scott Syverson, talent manager for The New Teacher Project, which worked with three RISE pilot districts in Indiana last year, said the system's biggest challenge was deciding where teachers fall on the four - step rating scale.

Because principals are working with one teacher as a part of the pilot, it's unclear what the burden will be when they have to observe all of their teachers when the new system rolls out.

They're the ones in the classrooms, piloting new strategies and figuring out what works.

Another superintendent from a district that was part of the pilot tryout of the new evaluation process said it has already improved how teachers and administrators communicate and work together.

Mirroring Massachusetts's effort, preparation providers in Utah have designed and piloted the Utah Preservice Teacher Evaluation Rubric, which delineates the skills and capabilities new teachers should have before leading a classroom independently — for example, being able to work with parents to support student success.

«The purpose of the pilot is to empower our educators to drive this new evaluation framework, and we have already made great strides over the last several months in working with pilot districts.»