Sentences with phrase «school strategies focused»

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A 2012 study of debt - payoff strategies from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management found that consumers paying off small balances first were more likely to have eliminated their entire debt than those focusing on other strategies.

Launched in 2004, the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy is a strategic area of focused research for the Rotman School.

Theological schooling will need to focus on those tensions and conflicts and the various strategies congregations employ in negotiating them when they use the host culture's languages to practice their own discipleship.

This session will focus on innovative marketing and communications strategies that will educate stakeholders about all the fresh, appealing and nutritional school meal options offered today.

Breakout Sessions: There's one for first timers, another for state lobbying strategy, and another focused on hot topics in school nutrition.

These records are arranged into five series, focusing on general files and correspondence, Out of School Programs in Science, the Resource Directory of Handicapped Scientists, the Coping Strategies Study and staff files.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

Executives from a broad range of health care - focused organizations — including hospitals, health centers, medical schools and public health departments — across the U.S. and from other countries participate in a two - day training session in Boston that focuses on defining disparities and their causes, developing strategies to identify and address disparities and fostering the leadership and change - management skills to implement those strategies.

eHarmony's strategy to attract new users has focused primarily on TV advertising, an old school approach, but now they are ready to move forward and capture more users via social media ads.

Even the strategy was a clone of Facebook - Xiaonei focused on the top schools first, realizing that widespread adoption would follow.

Using accountability (as well as school choice and other strategies) to improve matters for disadvantaged children has therefore been, and should remain, a policy focus.

But the bulk of the city's school reforms over the past decade have focused elsewhere, on building a pre-kindergarten system, creating new curriculum materials and instructional strategies and, above all, improving teacher quality — work that's largely unrelated to high school attendance.

To those who blanch at Coleman's vision of making academics a spectator sport, Kelley says the focus of Arete, as with the rowers» fitness test, is on helping students achieve «personal best» milestones, a strategy that most schools rarely use.

New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore are among the districts pursuing strategies, largely focused on high schools, to open new schools, bring in outside providers to run some of them, and offer a broader array of choices to families.

International focus is at the core of the School's strategy with a network of over 60 prestigious international partners in the world and more than 19 nationalities on campus.

Mr Stokes said the 2018 needs - based funding increase was additional to funding announced last month under the Schools Leadership Strategy to enable employment of extra support staff so principals could focus on educational leadership.

By focusing tightly on instructional strategies and PD, educators at Cochrane Collegiate Academy saved their school from closure.

It focuses on children from birth through the first years of formal schooling, and offers practical guidelines, program descriptions, advice on resources, and strategies that can be used in everyday life to improve childrens reading and educational prospects.

A human investment strategy for education would have an explicit strategic focus: to increase access of all students, particularly low - income, minority students, to high - level academic work, and to invest in the human capital infrastructure for schools that will promote this access.

In addition to motivating teachers to focus on the good work they do, the Story Bits Gaines shares with her staff are intended to model a viable strategy teachers can use to make a unique school - to - home connection.

The organizations are focused on supporting schools with 21st century school and classroom design, customized project based learning curriculum, deep learning strategies, and educational technology, to name a few.

We now have an in - school piece of our strategy, which is very focused on getting kids moving and active in school.

According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»

Race to the Bottom Michael McGill Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate reform has actually weakened public schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing of «nonessentials» like art and languages.

Second, some mistakenly assume that a «talented tenth» strategy should focus on the schools and communities that already tend to achieve at the highest levels.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.

Schools that must serve students and families who don't buy into their pedagogical strategies can not run a focused instructional program or make reliable promises about how children will be taught.

Instead of focusing on the severity of the strategies applied to schools in restructuring, a more significant question is whether they are aligned with the areas in which the school needs to improve and implemented well.

By undercutting these reform strategies and presenting evidence on the powerful influence of social class on student achievement, Rothstein hopes to convince us that we can expect little from focusing on reform within the school system.

There have been some investments in Teach for America and other talent - recruitment strategies, but many observers believe they need an even stronger focus on human capital to bolster nascent high - quality local school providers.

She sees a clear link to the overall business plan and strategy of academies and free schools, which is focused on teaching and learning.

The success of school - based AIDS education depends on the refinement of strategies and materials focused on the needs of teachers — who must present the information — and of teen - agers — who must understand it.

The focus of the DisneyHand Teacher Awards is to recognize the teaching profession, showcase creativity in the classroom, and honor those who can assist in developing creative teaching strategies in their school districts.

There are six available modules that can also be combined with the base package to build a more tailored support solution, these are: • Vision and Strategy — quarterly consultancy from Stone Group and Stone's Education Specialists on how to integrate ICT into the school's plan • Security — complete back - up solution and anti-virus software • Engagement — technical or pedagogy focused training for staff to maximise benefits and return on investment • Monitoring — proactive remote monitoring service, in combination with helpdesk support • On - site service — regular visits from a dedicated Stone Group technician to provide hands on help and support • Communication — enabling primary schools to benefit from the latest email, instant message, voice, and video communication and collaboration tools.

(The focus of QUEST, a partnership between Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Kentucky and the Scott County Schools, in Georgetown, Kentucky, is on integrating business and industry problem - solving strategies into education.)

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

This forum focused on myriad issues relating to mental health, gun control, school security, and other violence prevention strategies.

But rather than focus on the problems, we turned to the best performing schools to understand what others could learn from their energy efficiency strategies and celebrate the champions.

In researching for this article to look at the government's standpoint I could not find any definitive policy with much of the funding strategy being focused on the building of new schools and maintenance of existing facilities.

Developmental psychologist Stephanie Jones and her team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education are building a new approach to SEL that focuses specifically on simple strategies that can be adapted to many settings.

Murnane, an economist, focuses his research on the relationships between education and the economy, teacher labor markets, the determinants of children's achievement, and strategies for making schools more effective.

Still, as faculty chair of HISL, Peterkin knew that the weeklong institute — a Program in Professional Education focused on helping school district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators nschool district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators nSchool District educators needed.

In 2017, the school hosted a family maths night that focussed on problem solving — using materials, discussing maths strategies and finding multiple ways to solve problems.

The former strategy focuses on increasing the chances that a high - need school will be able to hire effective teachers, the latter focuses on removing from high - need schools teachers who are not producing gains in student learning.

And we need innovative strategies to encourage teacher - preparation programs to focus more energy on training teachers specifically for work in at - risk schools.

Murnane is an economist whose research focuses on the relationships between education and the economy, teacher labor markets, the determinants of children's achievement, and strategies for making schools more effective.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).

Education Resource Strategies, a nonprofit consulting firm, is now offering targeted budget - development support to school leaders, and the district is focused on developing, rather than exiting, principals.

Florida's results support school - focused reform strategies, such as those we've implemented in New York City.

A «lean» district office will focus on policymaking instead of top - down operational decisions, including a small «strategy group» that will set learning standards and ensure the equitable allocation of resources, but will not mandate teaching methods or control school spending.