Sentences with phrase «pilot cohort of»

Perhaps the greatest achievements of the PDA programme have been in terms of its output and its knock - on effect on use of technology within the Organisation.The pilot cohort of 12 learners in the current programme consists of lecturers, managers, and external engineers undertaking the programme as part of their Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

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Following its successful pilot in the fall of 2013, Impact8 — Ontario's first accelerator for social ventures — is pleased to announce its second cohort.

A randomised controlled trial would be the best way to tackle selection bias of mothers who plan a home birth, but a randomised controlled trial in North America is unfeasible given that even in Britain, where home birth has been an incorporated part of the healthcare system for some time, and where cooperation is more feasible, a pilot study failed.31 Prospective cohort studies remain the most comprehensive instruments available.

There is a cohort of these animals available at any one time, ready to be used in small trials or pilots.

Yet a pilot study of 200, 500, or 1,000 samples may be feasible, and may uncover results that can be replicated in the larger cohort.

The goal of the pilot study is to successfully demonstrate the use of high - throughput metagenomic sequencing technologies to characterize the gut microbiome and virome in this cohort.

In order to improve implementation of the NCLB law, President George W. Bush's second secretary of education, Margaret Spellings, allowed states to apply to participate in pilot projects to try out changes to the law, including a growth - model pilot that let states consider student progress in rating schools instead of comparing different cohorts of students to one another.

When the EITP expanded to include the Cohort 2 schools in 2009, doubling the number of schools implementing the pilot, the budget for district support of the program did not increase.

The pilot cohort is made up of math teachers in grades six through 12.

To date, SDP has engaged four cohorts of partner agencies and fellows (in addition to a pilot cohort launched in 2008), and has over 100 SDP Fellows and Fellow Alumni in the field.

25 Nevertheless, as a check on the main findings, we discarded the most imbalanced cohorts to construct a sample of charter middle school and pilot high school applicants with close - to - balanced attrition.

Charter and pilot risk sets also vary by grade of entry and year of application (the entry cohort).

A charter or pilot school contributes application cohorts to our lottery analysis when the school is over-subscribed and therefore runs a lottery, has complete lottery records, and, in the case of pilots, uses a lottery to select students instead of tests or an audition.

• Reflect that we will ask our pilot cohort to engage in continual feedback and development of the programme.

Cohort One — 2014 - 2015: LEAP launched pilots with six edtech literacy products in 15 traditional, charter and parochial schools, K - 8 Cohort Two — 2015 - 2016: More than 50 products applied to pilot in the 2015 - 2016 school year and LEAP launched pilots with eight edtech literacy and math products in 14 traditional, charter and parochial schools, K - 8 Cohort Three - 2016 - 2017: 7 math and literacy edtech products were piloted in 20 Chicago traditional, charter, and Archdiocese schools, K - 8 Cohort Four — 2017 - 2018: 32 Chicago traditional, charter, Archdiocese and suburban schools k - 12 are beginning their year long pilots of 12 math, literacy, and «Learner Demonstrated» edtech products Cohort Five - 2018 - 2019: 44 Chicago traditional, charter, Archdiocese and suburban schools K - 12 are designing their personalized learning models this Spring and undergoing a matching process with math and literacy edtech products

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.

Become part of the first cohort of schools and districts using the evaluation process to drive student outcomes by signing up to learn more about the pilot program below.

Through the implementation of our Leading #YourSalisbury cohort, we are building capacity within our building teams to implement teacher - led professional learning and pilot a new idea through an independent professional learning project.

With the support of a $ 1 million grant from the Microsoft Corporation, the Fellowship has served 54 Fellows in the first three cohorts, offering them opportunities to pilot personalized learning models in their schools and fostering classroom innovation in dozens of Washington, D.C. schools.

In School Year (SY) 2015 — 16, three middle schools and two elementary schools in California's Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) became part of a pilot program focused on providing personalized learning for a cohort of 120 — 150 students within each school.

EPAC was formed in September, 2011 at the beginning of the EE4NJ Cohort 1 Teacher Evaluation pilot, and is being expanded to cover both teacher and principal evaluation pilot work taking place in 2012 - 13.

When the Master Principal credential is ready to be piloted, the first cohort of Distinguished Principals will be the first group of school leaders eligible to apply for this credential.

Because both cohorts participated in Virginia's pilot program for evaluation, and piloted both systems no later than the 2012 - 13 year, they met the terms of the waiver.

Unlike the majority of existing research in the human - animal interaction field, this rigorously designed pilot study took place at multiple sites, and incorporated a randomized control cohort and validated instruments.

As the Native Arts and Cultures pilot Mentor Artist Fellowship approaches its six - month mark, we'd like to update our followers on the progress of our 2017 cohort, twelve traditional or contemporary visual artists who are sharing their knowledge as mentors,...

«Having identified and scouted more than 260 European early - stage Blockchain startups and being able to select our pilot cohort out of some 50 qualified applicants is testament to the importance and broad future impact of Blockchain technology.

Each organization extended these supports and provided paid internship placements with NWF funds to a cluster of low - income high school juniors, collectively involving 32 Scholars in the program's pilot cohort.

Cohort 3 will include those programs in Illinois that went through the first year pilot of the Quality Endorsement Process.

In 2011, a credential using the second level (intermediate) of the competencies as a foundation was piloted by Vermont Northern Lights Career Development Center and is currently being offered through regional cohorts, in which groups of professionals work together over a 12 - to -20-month period to meet credentialing requirements.

«Access and Participation in Science: Supporting Inclusion through Teacher Education (SITE)- a pilot initiative» This reports on a project which identified concrete inclusive strategies, examined changes in the classroom practice of individual teachers and provided support for a wider cohort of teachers who wished to enhance the participation of pupils with special educational needs in the science classroom.

Eighty - nine financial service advisors, nine vice presidents and six administrative assistants volunteered to be in one of seven cohorts in pilot projects designed to measure the effect of emotional competence / forgiveness training on sales and quality of life.