Sentences with phrase «of school and system»

The impending layoffs and flood of pink slips not only tragically disrupt the lives of teachers, but dampen the ecology of the school and the system that surrounds it well into the future.

Teacher contributor Greg Whitby caught up with three school principals at the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta's annual gathering of school and system leaders for 2015.

«She has a deep knowledge of schools and our system, and is on record criticizing Mayor Bloomberg's focus on high - stakes testing.

As much as it frustrates those enthralled by grand visions and eager to impose «system solutions,» it provides a rich array of schools and systems from which families can choose.

It focuses on what is happening across the many functions of schools and systems that ultimately affect student outcomes, including teaching and learning, resource allocation, school climate and culture, governance, and management.

This collaboration will greatly benefit the shared set of schools and systems that we serve and support.»

Recommendation 1: Embed a focus on individual student achievement through continuous learning progress in the policies and practices of all schools and systems, with the expectation that each student should achieve at least one year's growth throughout each year of schooling.

Not exact matches

It is no coincidence that the school system in Finland, the darling of the international educational community for its superior test scores, is built on an experience - based model, where science and math are taught through doing, and labs take precedence over textbooks.

«A business plan is important because it communicates to everyone involved in the organization what the goals are, and how management plans to get there,» says Drew Starbird, a professor of operations management and information systems at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business.

The growing desire for academic excellence and lack of resources in our school systems are the drivers behind today's boom.

Nor can the nation's school systems account for foreign - educated adult immigrants, the dated skills of older workers and the changing needs of workplaces, which are often driven by technological change.

One theory is that schools» justice systems are not subject to the same standards of evidence and burden of proof as the criminal - justice system.

Four years after Mark Zuckerberg made his $ 100 million donation to help the Newark, New Jersey, school system, most of the money is gone and critics say the city has not turned into the «symbol of educational excellence» he had hoped for.

Classrooms at Disselboom primary school are equipped with SchoolVision, a lighting system developed by Philips that changes the atmosphere and ambience of a classroom depending on the type of lesson being taught.

Around the main table, from left: Ontario Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure Giles Gherson; Joris Myny of Siemens Canada; Michael Sinnaeve of Magna International; James Cowan, editor of Canadian Business; Eric Kiisel of ATS Automation Tooling Systems; Tony Elias of Valiant Corp.; and Paul Boothe of Ivey Business School.

(Laughs) I've done things in IT and engineering but after school I joined the Navy, where I designed cockpit systems for the Department of Defense.

It grew so fast, and I came from the school of, like, Craigslist --[the idea] that the community is the immune system and that bad people get ridded from the site by its review system.

Hackers attacked the school's computer systems in January, gaining access to personal information of current and former students as well as staff and faculty members.

Parents and students should first determine their earliest deadlines for filing for aid and whether their school or state uses a first - come, first - served system for any of its aid, Chany said.

Look at STEM (science, technology, engineering and math)-- if we focused on finding early indicators of high performers in our education system, then treated them differently as they progressed through school as potential Canadian innovators, by the time they got to Grade 12 and were thinking about university, they would be wildly ahead of the innovation curve.»

Consider the interests of your employees, and consider what might compliment your type of business — for example, if you sell reading software to schools, you may want to volunteer somewhere in the school system.

From the driver's point of view, the cockpit is a pleasing combination of new and old, with the multi-screen infotainment system on the center stack but the central instrument cluster analog - style old - school.

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, discusses the need for states to bolster education spending and fund the American school system.

«Using machine learning to find a needle in a haystack is where computers can help us transcend our limitations,» says Professor Adam Pah from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and Northwestern's Institute on Complex Systems (NICO).

Beating out Apple iOS and Microsoft Windows in key aspects of school computer usage, Google's Chrome OS is the preferred operating system on the majority of school desktop computers.

If copies of the book start to appear in the Justice Department and on law school syllabi, Eisinger could spark important debate about why — at a time when so many people struggle to obtain basic procedural rights in the criminal justice system — white - collar defendants manage to consistently evade its grasp.

If you want to know more about how the big guys work out problems, check out Justice on the Job, by David W. Ewing (Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 1989), a lively chronicle of the creative complaint systems in place at corporations such as Federal Express, IBM, and Northrop.

Srilata Zaheer, dean of the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, tells the story of a young and highly promising Chinese scholar who decided not to join the Carlson faculty because her mother implored her to take an offer from a higher ranked school — even though her discipline — management information systems — is a major strength at CaSchool of Management, tells the story of a young and highly promising Chinese scholar who decided not to join the Carlson faculty because her mother implored her to take an offer from a higher ranked school — even though her discipline — management information systems — is a major strength at Caschool — even though her discipline — management information systems — is a major strength at Carlson.

Students begin crafting their network and community within the business world the minute they arrive at Columbia, thanks in part to the school's cluster system, which places first - year students in «clusters» of 65 to 70 people who take all their core classes together.

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

«Sure, we can't pick up the German system and transplant it to Canada — that would be ridiculous,» the employment minister said in a telephone interview, adding it was a «lazy point of view» to be dismissive of the long - established German partnership among government, schools and business.

While the transition will take some getting used to, having solid systems in place in your home can help you ease the stress, and focus on the enjoyment of an exciting new school year.

A child of Czechoslovakian immigrants, Cherny says he watched his mom and dad — who worked as a school counselor and a teamster, respectively — struggle with a banking system that largely catered to the wealthy.

The squeeze system Sharei then designed to temporarily disrupt cell membranes — for which he's been granted most of his 10 patents — is the basis for SQZ Biotech, the company he co-founded in 2013 with the pioneering MIT professors he worked for: Klavs Jensen, the school's head of chemical engineering, and Robert Langer, a renowned bioengineer and serial entrepreneur.

Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

«I've concluded that we need to start these after - school clubs and weekend activities until the education system catches up,» says Alexandra Greenhill, co-founder and CEO of HTML500 sponsor myBestHelper, a digital service that matches caregivers and families.

But over the last decade, it's added a new, $ 70 million hosptial, has rebuilt 11 of its 15 destroyed schools, and it's now protected by a defensive floodwall system.

They donated $ 25 million in the fight against Ebola last year, and they gave $ 100 million worth of Facebook shares toward improving a New Jersey public - school system.

And it robs the rest of the school system of valuable resources.

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Land is still its largest component — and some 80 percent of «capital» gains in the U.S. economy are land - price gains Site values are increased by public investment in streets, water and sewer facilities and transportation hubs, in school systems, by zoning restrictions, by the general level of prosperity, and most of all, by whatever bankers will lend.

Many of the highest return infrastructure investments — such as improving roads, repairing 60,000 structurally deficient bridges, upgrading schools or modernising the air traffic control system — do not generate a commercial return and so are excluded from his plan.

Trying to integrate 333,000 people a year into the country's national health care and school system has pushed the bandwidth of the British economy.

For instance, in Weston, Mass., most homes lost value during the downturn, but a select few lower - priced homes maintained their value because the town has a very good school system and there's always demand at the low end of the market from families looking to move in, Weiss said.

We help youth and high school athletes reach their destination through our wide array of tools and our proven system.

In general, the Canadian education system must be adjusted to nurture economic value - creation competencies (business, marketing, sales and relationships) from early years in school and throughout university studies, and thus build confidence, a spirit of leadership, and competitiveness in the future generation of Canadians.

In Baltimore, the school system faced a deficit of $ 129 million and threatened to lay off 1,000 teachers.

All Hands and Hearts — Smart Response will retrofit the entire school with disaster resistant walls and roof and repair the interiors of the buildings, the electrical system, a computer lab, the playground and all the outdoor fencing.

Industrial Engineering undergraduate and graduate programs in the nation, Georgia Tech's H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), U.S. News and World Report, 2016