Sentences with phrase «school design teams in»

Launch New Schools: NSNO and 4.0 Schools launched a national competition to source talented aspiring school design teams in an effort to bring rapid innovation and a more diverse set of school options to the New Orleans system.

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The New York - based coding school, which has 22 campuses in six countries, offers courses on data analytics, UX design, and coding languages to both individuals and company teams.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

He has been using the Internet since 1977, was a co-founder of FTP Software in 1986, and worked on the design team of Harvard Business School's «Foundations» program.

The Hebron Hawks High School football team in High School designed a perfect onside kick play that should be used at every level now.

QUICK 6 FOOTBALL is designed to challenge high school & youth football teams to put their best skill players to the ultimate challenge: Play together as a team to capture the early season bragging rights as the top passing and receiving core in your region and America.

Modesto Christian (28 - 3) begins this year's CIF Northern Regionals Open tournament as the the No. 3 seed, and will host Bellarmine - San Jose (24 - 3) to start their fifth run at a NorCal and State Open Division Championship in six years of the format designed to pit the best of the best teams regardless of school size.

Schools involved in our program send full teams to attend intensive conferences where they work with a coach to design action plans to implement best practices in areas such as curriculum, assessment, homework, school schedule, and a healthy school climate.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

«THE SMARTEST TEAM: Making High School Football Safer», an hour - long documentary designed to help football programs and athletes play safer and smarter, which had its world broadcast television premiere on the stations of the Oklahoma Educational Television Association (PBS) in August, will air in the New England area on WGBH - TV on Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 3 p.m.

First featured in the Institute's long - running PBS documentary, The Smartest Team: Making High School Football Safer, the Six Pillars ® program, is designed to reduce the risk of concussions and long - term injury from repetitive head impacts while minimizing the effects of concussion in young female and male athletes.

As a part of SAFE Salad Bars in Schools, Seattle Food Empowerment Education and Sustainability Team (FEEST) students designed and developed an educational video, «Salad Warz», that promotes salad bars and provides a tutorial on salad bar etiquette for their peers.

The guidelines for dealing with a concussion in youth sports were approved by the Common Council this week and are designed to close the loophole in the current concussion law that protects only middle school and high school athletes on school - sponsored teams.

Each team has beaten off stiff competition from 160 schools to make it to the final, which will see them design and manufacture a «re-hydration station» for athletes competing in long distance events.

In a recent study, a team of researchers from the University of Sydney's School of Geosciences has designed a new model that simulates sediment transport from mountains to coasts, reworking of marine sediments by wave - induced currents, and development of coral reefs.

Their prototype emerged from the Johns Hopkins undergraduate design team program in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, which is shared by the university's School of Medicine and its Whiting School of Engineering.

Parker is one of 36 students from Clinton High School in Clinton, Massachusetts, who designed and built Gael Force as their entry in the First (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, an annual challenge that brings together hundreds of teams of junior high and high school technophiles from around the School in Clinton, Massachusetts, who designed and built Gael Force as their entry in the First (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition, an annual challenge that brings together hundreds of teams of junior high and high school technophiles from around the school technophiles from around the world.

Lead author Nathan Call, PhD, director of Severe Behavior Programs at Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine, says his team's work is aimed at designing treatment programs that families can stick to, and helping them do so. Call's co-authors were biostatisticians Scott Gillespie and Courtney McCracken, PhD in the Department of Pediatrics, Mindy Scheithauer at Marcus Autism Center, and Andrea Reavis, now at Trumpet Behavioral Health.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

Her team is collaborating with researchers in the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Global Health to design and test ways to improve the health of sugarcane workers and other agricultural workers in the region.

Field experiments were designed by team members in collaboration with Howard Bluestein, OU School of Meteorology.

Reported in Science Robotics, a new design, the milliDelta robot, developed by Robert Wood's team at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) overcomes this miniaturization challenge.

He has designed and integrated new models of professional development at BPS, including our BPS Professional Development conference happening next week, and led the iPad launch by organizing and creating an iPad driver's ed course in conjunction with the high school instructional technology team.

In the 2014 - 15 school year, we had the opportunity to design and implement an action research project with the support of educational researchers and members of the Apple Education team.

Eden's focus on the importance of outdoor learning and play can be seen throughout the work of the project as well as through the schools education team, with the ever - popular den building activities that take place in the project's arena during the summer and the landscaping and design of the play areas and gardens around the site.

Curriculum implementation: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow and Uccelli will be heavily involved in conceptualizing professional development, fidelity and quality of implementation instruments, and monitoring of implementation for the 4th - 8th grade curricular enhancements.Evaluation of curricular enhancements: HGSE investigators Jones and Kim, together with a data manager and a small team of doctoral students, will conduct the design and analysis associated with the school - level random - assignment evaluation of the 4th - 8th grade curriculum innovations.

Halfway through September 2016 — roughly a year after the contest was launched — «XQ: The Super School Project» announced its 10 high - school design - team winners at a «Facebook Live» event in Washington, D.C. Even as a tumultuous presidential campaign was grabbing a big share of the headlines, the two - hour event attracted coverage by major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston School Project» announced its 10 high - school design - team winners at a «Facebook Live» event in Washington, D.C. Even as a tumultuous presidential campaign was grabbing a big share of the headlines, the two - hour event attracted coverage by major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston school design - team winners at a «Facebook Live» event in Washington, D.C. Even as a tumultuous presidential campaign was grabbing a big share of the headlines, the two - hour event attracted coverage by major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe.

Larry Kearns joins EdNext Editor - in - chief Marty West on the EdNext Podcast to discuss how he and his team designed two charter schools to support their blended learning models.

In 2011, my colleagues and I at The Lovett School partnered with a design team and invited the larger community, including new and old friends from around the country, to try to answer the question «What might be the future of the K - 12 library?»

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

The PELP faculty team invited, through a competitive process, urban school districts to partner in the design and delivery of an innovative executive education program tailored specifically to meet the actual challenges that educational leaders are facing.

The design team used its From Vision to Action method to plan the school, and that model will also play a part in the school's structure.

A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

The director and her school leadership team were among their staff, designing their own lessons and units to use in their classrooms.

The manual, designed to head off violence in schools, encourages schools to adopt a team approach to violence prevention and start with this question: Does the student pose a threat?

Their team is now in the process of designing rigorous toolkits that make putting equity at the forefront of school redesign both feasible and actionable — not an afterthought, but forethought.

The group then assembled teams of teachers to investigate new ideas and practices in school design and to formulate an ambitious agenda for school reform.

The nine design teams in Reeder's freshman - sophomore geometry class presented their school designs, plans, and budgets to Seattle architects Kirk Wise and Mark Miller, who were charged with selecting the project with the best concept, best use of site features, and best building and classroom design; cost was also a factor.

Cost - Estimate Sample: This document models the types of calculations teams are required to do in preparing cost estimates for construction of their school designs.

«Working as a member of an architectural team in 2050, you are competing against five other companies to win the contract to design a state - of - the - art high school on a given site.

These models are shaped by schools in which the head and senior management team are enthusiastic about design and understand the subject as integral to their curriculum, with intrinsic as well as cross-curricular benefits.

Since 2010 over 47,000 young people have taken part in this free project and the Design Museum team has worked with a diverse range of schools to ensure it continues to meet the needs of teachers and learners alike.

Instead, we defined clear outcomes for schools and supported teams with substantive resources — Knowledge Modules — to give all teams, regardless of prior engagement in education, the fundamental building blocks of design to inform and guide their work.

Every parent and faculty member is asked to join at least one design team, and though participation varies from person to person, we average about sixty adults actively involved in the school's governance.

Reality Check: In Eeva Reeder's tenth - grade geometry class at Mountlake Terrace High School, near Seattle, student teams design «schools of the future» while mentoring with local architects.

Even people in middle schools designed in teams don't always use them effectively.»

Once each team had a working prototype, they tested their app design with other teams in the class and then with other students in the school.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Large - format graphic and signage specialist MX Display's learning space team created and installed the mural at Whitegate School, in Clifton, which won a competition that aimed to raise awareness of the importance of good design and layout in schools.

Throughout the project, the design team has been in constant dialogue with the client and the school governors, who have been very involved in developing the design and making regular changes to the external package.