Sentences with phrase «programs at individual schools»

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But Schulich's $ 20 million gift to alma mater McGill University resulted in the Schulich School of Music, the first instance of a program at the institution being named after an individual.

The PhD program at the Rotman School is designed to prepare individuals for academic and research careers by providing in - depth education in current and emerging theory.

The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.

The story behind Russia's vast success at Squaw Valley was the same as it had been at Cortina: a massive sports program enveloping schools and clubs and labor unions and the military service, state encouragement, frequent outright aid to the specially talented, a fierce desire on the part of the individual to triumph, less for himself or his organization than for Mother Russia.

Modeled on the community - centric approach to improving youth sports safety highlighted in MomsTEAM's PBS documentary, «The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer», the program will award SmartTeam status to youth sports organizations which have demonstrated a commitment to minimizing the risk of physical, psychological and sexual injury to young athletes by implementing a comprehensive set of health and safety best practices, providing safety - conscious sports parents a level of assurance that they have made health and safety an important priority, not to be sacrificed at the altar of team or individual success.

She has also taught in the Early Childhood Program at Oak Grove School and currently sees individuals and couples as a Marriage and Family Therapy intern at Community Counseling and Education Center in Santa Barbara where she recently completed Parent - Infant Coach Certification.

Simmons - Wright says any school or individual can sign on to the Healthy Schools Program online at http://www.HealthierGeneration.org and receive access to its resources free of charge.

At the end of her article, Janet says: «The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act authorizes pilot programs in individual schools and districts to experiment with universal free - meal approaches.»

If you have a particular practice in your school that you think is successful at supporting the individuals in their development — whether it is a successful orientation program, a volunteer rewards program, professional development plans for trustees or anything else, click here to go to the post and add a comment telling us about your success.

The community partners honored at the event — three individuals and one program — have had a major impact on the lives of students and teachers in the city school district.

«Delirium complicates hospital stays for millions of elderly individuals in the United States each year,» said co-senior author Edward Marcantonio, MD, Director of the Aging Research Program in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

Robert Tillman, postdoctoral program coordinator at New York University School of Medicine, advises budding scientists to create an individual development plan (IDP), through a process like the one developed by the FASEB Training and Careers Committee.

She was also the Educational Coordinator for a post-baccalaureate program at Georgetown University in which minority individuals with disadvantaged backgrounds complete coursework necessary for medical school.

«This is another great example of how using a synthetic «bottom - up» engineering approach and leveraging the power of biological design — this time at the scale of individual molecules interacting on cell membranes — can lead to breakthrough technologies for medicine that overcome limitations that hold back more conventional approaches,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

«Problems with memory, executive function, and processing speed are common symptoms of bipolar disorder, and have a direct and negative impact on an individual's daily functioning and overall quality of life,» said lead investigator Eve Lewandowski, PhD, director of clinical programming for one of McLean's schizophrenia and bipolar disorder programs and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

«We designed our own curriculum because current programs address problems as defined by adults, and they aren't necessarily fitted to each individual school environment,» said lead author Elizabeth Levy Paluck, associate professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Afschool environment,» said lead author Elizabeth Levy Paluck, associate professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International AfSchool of Public and International Affairs.

In research published in the Schizophrenia Bulletin, scientists at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Stanley Research Program at Sheppard Pratt Health System, also found a viral form of Lactobacillus, the phiadh phage, which infects bacteria and alters their replication, was significantly higher in individuals with schizophrenia.

«Problems with memory, executive function, and processing speed are common symptoms of bipolar disorder, and have a direct and negative impact on an individual's daily functioning and overall quality of life,» said lead investigator Kathryn Eve Lewandowski, PhD, director of clinical programming for one of McLean's schizophrenia and bipolar disorder programs and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

Her mission is to educate, inspire & empower people to create health by authentically sharing her knowledge, expertise & experience as she travels across Canada & the U.S. offering specialty PhysioYoga Therapy workshops, presenting at international yoga therapy conferences, lecturing at medical college programs, instructing at numerous yoga therapy schools (including teaching medical therapeutic yoga to health care professionals at the Professional Yoga Therapy Institute), collaborating on Life is Now Pain Care Yoga projects, instructing at Blissology Yoga Teacher Trainings, offering individual assessments & treatments, and actively promoting the integration of yoga therapy into our current healthcare system.

At RESTORE, Kristen co-creates empowering online education courses for wellness professionals to bridge the gap between nutrition school and real world client success, as well as programs for health - conscious individuals to use nutrition and lifestyle to rebalance the body.

AmeriCorps awards scholarships to individuals who perform at least 1,700 hours of secular public service in programs sponsored by a wide range of organizations, including more than 1,600 schools, both public and religious.

Jewish Family Service of Colorado's International KidSuccess program provides culturally sensitive individual and group counseling services to refugee youth at school.

At Helix High School, a charter school in La Mesa, CAPI ties in with the school's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colSchool, a charter school in La Mesa, CAPI ties in with the school's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colschool in La Mesa, CAPI ties in with the school's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colschool's Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program, designed to prepare students to apply to colleges.

Students in the program attend school for four hours per day, and spend most of their school time at the individual computer stations working through online course materials.

The longest - running of the cases, filed in federal court in 2000, alleged that Arizona's individual tax - credit program violates the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution by permitting organizations to provide scholarships to students that can be used only at religious schools.

As we become more group - oriented in the workplace and in school, our knowledge of ourselves as individual learners and members of a community becomes more important,» said Mara Krechevsky, program chair and a senior researcher at Project Zero.

Trying to isolate the true effect of a program that is no longer the same is difficult even at the individual level; it is even more difficult at the school level.

This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and student achievements at The English High School in Jamaica Plain; Christopher Tsang, a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities teacher at The Harbor School; and Tanya Milner, an eleventh grade United States history and freshman Advancement Via Individual Determination teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

While running an individual OSHC program at a school provides excellent job satisfaction and opportunity to develop skills as educators, it can also be an isolated role for some and is often looked at as a stepping stone.

• Tuition or fees at a qualified school or an eligible postsecondary institution • Textbooks • Educational therapies or services from a licensed or accredited practitioner or provider • Tutoring or teaching services • Curricula and related materials • Tuition or fees for an online learning program • Fees for a nationally standardized norm - referenced achievement test, an advanced placement examination, or any exams related to college or university admission • Contributions to a college savings account • Services provided by a public school, including individual classes and extracurricular programs • Any fees for the management of the ESA

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

This year, it is attacking the adolescent literacy issue on several fronts: developing a diagnostic assessment to determine the kind of reading intervention individual students need; an academiclanguage building program called WordGeneration; analyzing data to see which programs work well in the schools; and a remedial reading course for eighth - and ninth - grade students reading at the third - grade level or below.

US Childcare System Makes «Having It All» All the More Difficult Huffington Post, July 18, 2012 «While the question of whether anyone can «have it all» remains open for discussion, it is clear that our haphazard childcare system, with its inconsistent monitoring and paucity of reliable information on the quality of individual programs, makes striking this balance all the more difficult for parents with young children,» writes Todd Grindal, a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Unlike most federal elementary and secondary education programs, most Title I funds are allocated to individual schools, although LEAs retain substantial discretion to control the use of a share of Title I grants at a central district level.

The majority ruled that since the vouchers advance a legitimate secular purpose (educating disadvantaged students), may be used at any private school (secular or religious), and support religious institutions only through individual choice, the program does not offend the establishment clause.

For purposes of the grant program, the bill expands the definition «at - risk» to include school - aged individuals who: (1) have come into contact with the child welfare system in the past, or (2) are at risk of dependency adjudication or delinquency adjudication.

Good Morning A newly released study by researchers at the University of Arkansas concludes that eliminating the Louisiana Scholarship Program as a way to improve the financial situation of the Louisiana Department of Education budget would likely lead to an overall cost increase for individual school districts.

In the early 1990s, after decades of concentrating on programs designed to target individual students at risk of academic failure, a new idea based on a comprehensive approach to school reform was conceived.

Eligibility for enrollment at partnership school is based on statutory definitions, individual program criteria, permission of parent / guardian and / or seat availability.

The Virginia Association for the Gifted will present an annual «Leader of the Year» award to an individual at any level (parent, teacher, coordinator, administrator, legislator, other) whose exemplary leadership and outstanding contribution to gifted education has affected Virginia's children, teachers, schools, programs, services, and / or policies.

Additionally, teachers in the Achieve3000 user group administered the program's proprietary LevelSet ™ assessment, which evaluates students» individual reading levels using the Lexile ® Framework for Reading, as a pre-test at the beginning and as a post-test the end of the school year to provide a summative measurement of student growth.

This program is for individuals hired into Resident Teacher positions at Distinctive Schools.

In addition to screening for individual students, schools use the SRSS to look at school - wide data for program evaluation.

Districts may design school choice programs in a way that achieves diversity or avoids racial isolation using race - neutral factors (such as socioeconomic status) or generalized race - based factors that look at things like the overall racial composition of neighborhoods but do not involve decision - making on the basis of any individual student's race.

In 2016, LMU's School of Education received AACTE's Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity.131 According to AACTE, all of the teacher preparation programs at LMU are «grounded in principles such as the promotion of social justice, cultural responsiveness, inclusion, value and respect for all individuals, and leadership that is moral, intellectual, responsible, and caring.»

At that time, Auer and other high - performing, high - poverty schools were fully staffed with librarians, guidance counselors, full - time reading specialists, art, music and physical education specialists, program implementers, technology teachers, paraprofessionals, special education teachers, nurses, social workers, psychologists, speech pathologists, and classroom teachers with small classes that allowed them to provide plenty of individual attention to children.

But I would point to the fact that many teacher preparation programs don't offer future teachers as much clinical training as they ought to receive — especially training in high - needs schools; that districts are by and large not as effective as they might be at teacher induction and professional development; that teachers are generally under - compensated and specific individual excellence isn't rewarded; and that the policy contexts in which teachers work are being constantly revised in ways that are sometimes contrary to research evidence.

Another provision of the reform plan allows students in low - performing schools to use a portion of the voucher for individual courses at colleges, or for technical or vocational programs, or for online courses, or for a high - performing public school.

The study also only looked at school - wide scores without following individual students in the voucher program.

Every October, during the Lights On Afterschool celebrations at the State Capitol Building, the California Department of Education, Expanded Learning Division, presents the Expanded Learning Visionary Leadership Award to one or more individuals who have worked several years in the field of Expanded Learning and have demonstrated leadership, innovation, compassion, creativity, resourcefulness, and dedication in operating stellar after school programs.