Sentences with phrase «program aimed at»

Principals from the District's traditional public schools and public charter schools will spend the next 11 months learning how to better manage their schools — working together — as part of a program aimed at improving school leadership across the city.

But Mr. Martinez and his colleagues, to their credit, chose to take on the challenge, tapping into lessons learned from the now decade - old KIPP Through College Program aimed at matching low - income minority students with the schools where they are most likely to succeed.

Thanks toWXXI for co-hosting the event with RCAN with grants from «Thinking Money», a program aimed at understanding emotional economics, and «American Graduate Let's Make it Happen.»

In the next seven years, they will open 41 schools serving an estimated 15,000 students in the Achievement School District, or ASD, a state program aimed at improving low - achieving schools, which was created through Tennessee's Race to the Top plan.

Based on 15 years of experience in implementing programs on ethics and character education in the schools, I can identify four of the most important issues that we must address in any program aimed at cultivating good character in our young people.

Partnering with schools and civic and cultural organizations in Washington, DC, Project Zero's Making Learning Visible has created a research and professional development program aimed at helping educators connect children with their city.

At Glenview Elementary School, dialogue circles are part of a program aimed at building collaboration, respect, and positive behavior among students.

Our reflective planning led to the creation of the Urban Prep Alumni Program, a college access and persistence program aimed at increasing the number of our alumni who enroll in and complete college.

In this episode, we focus on a program aimed at increasing engagement among Maori secondary school students in New Zealand and the implications for educators here in Australia.

The civil rights movement and the growing public awareness of our educational system's inequality led to the creation of Head Start, a program aimed at preparing young disadvantaged children for school.

To Build a Better Teacher, Harvard Launches Program Aimed at Quality The Washington Post, 11/27/15» «We really want to get Harvard students to think about teaching as a career,» [Dean James] Ryan said.»

With the Department of Education proposing a new $ 5 billion Race to the Top — style competitive grant program aimed at teacher policy, however, it's worth taking a closer look at Race to the Top's results.

Parents in Memphis, Tenn., are seeking to stop a mandatory vaccination program aimed at quelling an epidemic of hepatitis, claiming that health and school officials have unfairly targeted black students for the shots.

Explore the War on Poverty's landmark program aimed at helping young children through this interactive timeline as the program approaches its 50th anniversary.

He said the Indian government would be announcing in the next two months a new international program aimed at encouraging faculty exchanges to Australia, but he did not specify how much money had been earmarked for the program.

The national group Students Against Driving Drunk last week unveiled a program aimed at teaching student athletes about the problems associated with the use of the muscle - enhancing drugs known as steroids.

We speak to Mere Berryman, from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, about a program aimed at increasing engagement among Maori secondary school students in New Zealand and the implications for educators here in Australia.

The school was selected to house the areas pilot Blue Cross / Blue Shield Blue Sky Program aimed at teaching professional ethics and preparing students for the business world.

SSR can be one more element in a reading program aimed at demonstrating the joy that reading can bring and developing lifelong readers and learners.

The Los Angeles Charter School New Markets Loan Fund was made possible by a federal tax - credit program aimed at spurring investment in low - income communities.

Ms. Day became a teacher in Oakland through a program aimed at making the teaching corps more representative of the student body and the community.

On a recent Saturday in May, 36 students from the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and their families came to the Ed School to be recognized for their participation in BPS» 10 Boys Initiative, a program aimed at «providing boys of color with the encouragement and support they need to achieve personal and academic success.»

So, the incapacitated pilot has no way of knowing that while languishing in a vegetative state he was being recruited for the «Source Code,» a top secret program aimed at enabling him to inhabit another person's brain, telepathically.

An aquinas college program aimed at helping kids with motor disorders.

MasterCard is pairing with fashion designer Adam Selman and others in a program aimed at making an array of consumer products double as mobile payment devices, including clothing but also automotive products and «yet to be imagined categories.»

MasterCard is pairing with fashion designer Adam Selman and others in a program aimed at making an array of consumer products double as mobile payment devices.

Similarly, in their review of the drug, FDA officials emphasized that Truvada, if approved, should be accompanied by a program aimed at educating doctors and their patients about the importance of adherence and maintaining existing safeguards.

In addition, when you are on a diet program aimed at improving body composition (losing fat or gaining muscle), you will usually be combining carbs and protein together with each meal for the purposes of improving your fat to muscle ratio.

A diet that is individually planned to help create a deficit of 500 to 1,000 kcal / day should be an intregal part of any program aimed at achieving a weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds per week.

You must never forget however that the source or cause of the actual irritation needs to be tackled on a deeper level, and you will find plenty of information in The Psoriasis Program aimed at targeting the cleansing of the liver, kidneys and large intestine particularly.

The technique is a four - step program aimed at healing the weakened tissues around your abs.

The training program aimed at developing muscle and strength.

A collaborative program aimed at reducing the burden of cancer among Hispanic / Latinos in San Diego and Imperial counties through research and community outreach has received a $ 13 million grant from t...

The Foundation's Special Initiative Grants support educational programs like «ThinkFirst», an injury prevention program aimed at children and teens.

Dr. Genova will examine the effects of an intervention consisting of a computerized program aimed at improving facial affect recognition in individuals with MS, and interactive training that uses examples of the individual's own emotional experiences.

Program aimed at increasing minority representation in medicine started at Bowman Gray, is supported by a $ 335,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

IFE — Halden has a foresight development program aimed at meeting instrumentation requirements for the long - term future within the nuclear industry.

A number of postdocs have joined NRMN - CAN (Cooperation Academic Network), a grantsmanship program aimed at Big Ten Universities.

The BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ®) Initiative is an NIH program aimed at «revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain» through investment in technologies that should ultimately allow neuroscientists to visualize how individual...

He co-managed the UCS - led Energy and Water in a Warming World Initiative, a multi-year program aimed at raising awareness of the energy - water connection, particularly in the context of climate change, and motivating and informing effective low - carbon and low - water energy solutions.

She is from FoundAnimals.org and she'll be talking about a program aimed at trying to develop a nonsurgical method for neutering the millions of dogs and cats that each year have operations or add to the overpopulation problem.

The panel also recommended that NIH establish a new program aimed at organizing and curating massive biological databases, such as one on the mouse genome; set aside funds for researchers to hire biocomputing help; and support scientists assembling midsize computer networks that are more powerful than desktop machines but easier to manage than supercomputers.

Senate lawmakers would also like to see DHS consider a grant program aimed at increasing the amount of extramural research funding going to universities in states whose scientists typically fare poorly in the competition for federal science dollars.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) program aimed at tracking down the causes of mysterious diseases is bearing fruit.

Last December, NIH announced a $ 500 million, 10 - year program aimed at boosting the number of young minority scientists and improving mentoring for minority researchers.

He drew the line at trading the Clean Power Plan, President Obama's regulatory program aimed at power plants, for a federal carbon tax, saying more than one program is needed to cut emissions.

Bed nets are already a pillar of Roll Back Malaria, a program aimed at halving the number of malaria deaths by 2010, spearheaded by the World Health Organization.

The initiative is part of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Education program aimed at increasing children's consumption of fruits and vegetables, and encouraging children to drink low - fat / fat - free milk.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Should a program aimed at boosting the number of minority scientists target minority students?