Sentences with phrase «own academic priorities»

All we need to do is help him recognize the need to reconsider his academic priorities just a bit.
In this role, he oversaw the state's academic priorities, policy agenda, and research agenda.
In that job, I was often confronted by the glaring disconnect between my school's academic priorities — I was charged with preparing students for the New York Global Studies Regents exam — and my students» nonacademic needs.
· Analyze instructional data, including student achievement outcomes, and leverage insights to inform academic priorities.
In 2015, as members of the district leadership team recognized literacy challenges across schools, they sought the RBL grant to redesign learning in the district while addressing a key academic priority.
The provost is responsible for creating and implementing a school's academic priorities and determining how to best allocate resources to support those priorities.

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My colleague Leslie Doolittle, assistant dean and director of academic support services at Bentley, has found that many millennials consider central to their lives the following priorities: family, friends and making a difference in their community.
«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»
Please make sure your academics are priority over work.
To insist on the priority of the intellect over the will is not to reduce faith to a purely academic or intellectual concern.
Furthermore, if situations arise in which academic interests compete with concerns for students» «piety» for added time or financial resources, the response characteristically shaped by this ethos would be to assign to the «churches» responsibility for «piety» and to assign priority within the school to the academic interests.
For example, academic classes can take priority over electives.
As previous academics in this series have pointed out, wise negotiators will try to discern their opponents» priorities and what pressures create them; and the Celtic fringe presents complicated political questions with deep historical roots.
Again we see the priority is not reality (academic research found the UK gained # 20 billion from immigration between 2000 and 2011) but the perception of reality.
Aug. 22: The state Education Department places Hempstead High School on its «priority» list, the lowest academic rung, meaning it ranks among the lowest 5 percent of schools statewide.
Olubamiwa O. Executive Director of CRIN said notable leaders from southwest Nigerian joined academics, industry representatives, and stakeholders in Africa's cocoa sector to discuss research priorities across both the public and private sector platforms, shared research experiences and identify research needs to unleash the potential of the crop.
Wanting to improve your academic writing should be a top priority for all starting scientists.
«We [the government] have made certain priorities: firstly to reduce indirect costs of research that academic institutions face, and secondly to help the commercialization of research discoveries at the academic, industry, and provincial levels,» he tells Next Wave.
Instead, academic reward structures and government funding priorities tend to perpetuate the «train more scientists» status quo.
From encouraging risky research to bolstering academic collaborations, keeping employees engaged and excited about their research is priority number one.
She found that some groups such as the young rugby girls favoured «cute» underwear while for others such as academics something that supports their professional dress was the main priority.
Managing an academic research group means keeping an eye on the big picture — long - term goals, funding agency priorities, and a publication plan.
However, women reported greater commitment than men to their academic studies, suggesting a sex difference in priorities.
«And then a new minister turns this project into a national priority, without any consultations with the academic community.»
To enable collaborations with academic and industry partners particularly in areas of strategic priority
Nurturing a supportive and challenging academic community for Molecular Therapeutics members is a premier NCCC priority, and program activities reflect that in their mentoring, teaching, grant writing, and recruitment.
Doctoral degrees, before the priority deadline: $ 175 Doctoral degrees, after the priority deadline: $ 225 Master's degrees, before the priority deadline: $ 95 Master's degrees, after the priority deadline: $ 150 Academic certificates: $ 65
A two - way communication between both parties is essential to ensure the budget is completely aligned with the school's priorities for that academic year.
When we look to the 2016 - 2017 academic year, schools are forecasting less of a dramatic shift in priorities from previous years.
CUNY is an enormous system, and was able to reserve entire course sections for ASAP participants, thereby giving them priority for registration as well as a shared academic experience.
The five domains are: academic proficiency; personalization; safe, healthy schools; high quality staffing; investment priorities.
In addition, business leaders committed to change their hiring practices so that a potential employee's academic transcript is considered in the hiring decision, and to give high priority to the quality of a state's standards when locating or expanding their businesses.
Helping English - language learners develop proficiency in academic language has always been a priority for K - 12 educators, and its importance has only been heightened with the advent of the Common Core.
I would commend this memo to just about anyone in our field, but particularly groups like TNTP that do this work day in and day out, officials at USED interested in witnessing the difficulty of bringing an Administration priority to life, the Gates Foundation MET team (who I've been pestering about next steps), academics who study policy implementation, and anyone else with an interest in today's work on educator effectiveness.
Evers is a past member of National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board, a past commissioner on the California State Academic Standards Commission, past trustee on the Santa Clara County Board of Education, and a past president of the board of directors of the East Palo Alto Charter School.
With a lot of rapidly diminishing funds being ring - fenced for more important things such as paying for teaching staff and replacing those leaving at the end of the academic year, priorities such as new desktop PCs move further down the list.
Strengthening the family's ability to support their children's academic achievement and other forms of success in school is a priority in HP / HP schools.
Teaching CTE and academic teachers how to collaborate on lesson plans and curriculum is a priority.
When I was in I think it was Narrabri, I was in a consultation group there where what seemed to be very much alive and well was a very substantial and significant in - school professional development program — I think it was in a cluster of schools — a strong partnership between a regional university, some really good academics had done very appropriate and relevant research, and a school which was committed to that, to teacher development, and had made it a priority in a very targeted way.
The study released last week by Public Agenda also found that teachers share the public's support for higher academic standards, but do not rank such standards among their highest priorities.
As a general trend during the 20th century, academic expertise came to prevail over character as public schooling's clear priority.
The National Association of Elementary School Principals, convinced that early - childhood learning is linked to later academic and employment success, has decided to give high priority to preschool education.
The board's action, taken this month, will help ensure that efforts to address the declining rate of minority participation in higher education receive high priority on campuses in the coming academic year, according to Reginald Wilson, director of the council's office of minority concerns.
Building on earlier work done by the Academic Cabinet, a faculty committee, Lagemann made the development of a case - based core curriculum one of her first priorities as dean.
The priority of the Steiner ethos is to provide an unhurried and creative learning environment where children can find the joy in learning and experience the richness of childhood rather than early specialisation or academic hot - housing.
Educators need indicators that tell them whether the basic design and operation of their high schools direct resources in ways that sustain and enhance the district's academic strategies and priorities.
When I asked teachers about their top priorities for students, nearly all of them mentioned values and relationship skills before academics.
Since 2011, the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and large, urban districts have been taking on SEL as a districtwide priority and integrating SEL across all aspects of their districts.
Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.
Consolidate a myriad of existing K - 12 education programs into a new Local Academic Flexible Grant, which provides funding to states and school districts to support local priorities that improve student achievement.
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