Sentences with phrase «schools the center of»

For the next several years, Mapp and colleagues consulted with USDOE to develop what came to be called the Dual Capacity - Building Framework for Family - School Partnerships, now released by the government as a downloadable, shareable model that schools and districts can use to build the kind of effective, mutually rewarding engagement that will make schools the center of their communities.

A Minneapolis - based consortium, the Catholic Schools Center of Excellence, got its start when a local foundation gathered principals from the region's Catholic schools and found that the educators had never met most others in the room.

Eric Garcetti's spokesman Jeff Millman emailed LA School Report this response to Greuel's speech: «Eric has been talking about these items for many months on the campaign trail and has also frequently discussed ideas for improving STEM education, improving career training for LA students, using city funds to build school / city joint - use facilities to make our schools the center of our communities, and being the strongest advocate for LA's students in Sacramento to fight for more funding for LAUSD schools.»

Make your school the center of an invaluable professional network.

Last month Santa Barbara Adventure Company worked with the Montessori School Center of Santa Barbara to host a family friendly kayaking benefit.

Not exact matches

«The location provides resources for you as an entrepreneur,» says Zeke Hernandez, an assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school, where his research centers on entering global markets.

Ulukaya gave a presentation earlier this week to a packed audience at New York University's Stern School of Business, sponsored by the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Vivek Wadhwa is vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University; a fellow at the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University; director of research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization and exec in residence at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and distinguished visiting scholar at the Halle Institute of Global Learning at Emory University.

By 2040, say data scientists at three leading health research centers — Seattle's Institute for Heath Metrics and Evaluation, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the World Bank Group — that bill will more than double, to $ 18 trillion.

I attended a spectacular conference Friday at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, whose Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State hosts an annual discussion of antitrust and competition issues.

The organization, along with three economists from Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics» Center for Economic Performance, created the report using data from the Gallup World Poll to reveal which countries are happy and why.

Caroline Apovian, director of the Nutrition and Weight Management Center at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine told INSIDER, «Feeling «hangry» or cranky is one of the first signs that you aren't eating enough calories.»

«Right now, there is absolutely no question that there is an association between having a history of repetitive hits to the head and later - life neurodegenerative disease, and in particular chronic traumatic encephalopathy,» says Dr. Robert Stern, professor of neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and director of clinical research at BU's Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.

Truth About Tech (the name of the campaign that the Center is embarking on) is targeting 55,000 public schools (in the US) and already has $ 57 million in capital and donated media outreach.

«You begin to see that Apple is approaching that ceiling in growth,» says Z. John Zhang, professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and executive faculty director of the Penn - Wharton China Center.

The new Knight Management Center, one of the most ambitious B - school construction plans ever, is the result of an unprecedented gift from Nike (NKE) founder and Stanford MBA alum Philip H. Knight.

According to a 2011 report from Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce, people with just a high school diploma earn an average of $ 32,600 a year, which adds up to $ 1,304,000 over the course of their time in the workforce.

When professor Juan Gilbert, chair of the human - centered computing school at Clemson University, visits grade schools, kids are often surprised by his line of work.

In addition to the plan to move Zappos downtown, he has made a series of investments from his sizable personal fortune: seed capital for several tech start - ups that have promised to relocate; $ 2 million for a new performing - arts center that will bring Broadway shows downtown; $ 1.2 million to Teach for America to improve downtown's schools; $ 7 million for 20 percent of the charter airline JetSuite, which he plans to use to fly prominent entrepreneurs and rock bands into town.

Last year, it became one of just five schools in Canada deemed a Center of Actuarial Excellence by the Society of Actuaries.

Some 14 states have enacted more restrictive voting laws than they had in the 2012 presidential election, according to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

From the driver's point of view, the cockpit is a pleasing combination of new and old, with the multi-screen infotainment system on the center stack but the central instrument cluster analog - style old - school.

«This is a topic that's been researched to death by the field of industrial and organizational psychology,» says Peter Cappelli, management professor and director of the center for human resources at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Barbara van Schewick is an expert on net neutrality, a professor at Stanford Law School, and the director of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society.

Seasonal growers in many regions can't meet the demand for the food needed there in terms of the hospitals, schools, senior centers, daycare centers, even the retail establishments and the restaurants.

«Of all the factors that lead to corporate crime, none comes close in importance to the role top management plays in tolerating, even shaping, a culture that allows for it,» says William Laufer, the director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton SchooOf all the factors that lead to corporate crime, none comes close in importance to the role top management plays in tolerating, even shaping, a culture that allows for it,» says William Laufer, the director of the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton Schooof the Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School.

They are the center of where education is being delivered because the materials they provide reach students in over 60,000 K - 12 schools and on nearly 1,000 college campuses.

Santa Clara U's MOBI is an initiative of its Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Leavey School of Business.

'' [Silicon Valley] runs the risk of being perceived as arrogant and entitled and super-wealthy and narrowly satisfying its own interests,» says Dan Siciliano, a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center, and executive director at the Program in Law, Economics, and Business at Stanford Law School.

Even before Heinz bought Kraft, the small - town ways of Oscar Mayer were changing, says Mike Judge, former head of consumer insights and strategy there and now Director of the Center for Brand and Product Management Center at the University of Wisconsin Business School.

It's unclear who that would be, but most likely «someone at the center — or close to the center — of this criminal enterprise,» Jens David Ohlin, a professor at Cornell Law School, told Business Insider, adding that the fact Flynn was «charged with and is pleading guilty to such a minor crime suggests a bombshell of a deal with prosecutors.»

«My guess is pharma is waiting to see how it plays out and which side the public opinion goes,» said Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School.

Hosted in partnership between Hult's business school in Boston and the IXL Center, the program further asked each team to pitch the latest version of their idea every Friday to a panel of outside experts.

«It's now just permeated everything we do around entrepreneurship at HBS,» says Harvard Business School entrepreneurial management professor Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the school's Rock Center for EntrepreneuSchool entrepreneurial management professor Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the school's Rock Center for Entrepreneuschool's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

With the help of the Transgender Law Center and the civil rights law firm Relman, Dane & Colfax, Whitaker sued his school district, arguing that it was violating his rights under Title IX and the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Blame it on their helicopter parents, Instagram, or the way the educational system has been schooling kids via group activities for decades — the vast majority of Millennials have no qualms about being the center of attention.

«Like other schools,» said Blount, «we have a lot of centers but they don't have a lot of impact.

FEB. 24: Drops by the Today show and makes up with weatherman Al Roker, who had slammed him for not closing the schools in advance of one of the winter's biggest storms, then joins the rest of the cast for a ribbon - cutting that opens the show's new plaza at Rockefeller Center.

Speaking at schools and community centers across America, I was inspired to write this book when I saw an underserved need for a guide that would show aspiring and current entrepreneurs how to leverage their personal habits and goals to make themselves into the type of person a successful entrepreneur is.»

Since oil magnate John D. Rockefeller founded the University of Chicago in 1890, the private school has established a global presence with international centers in Beijing, New Delhi, Paris, and Hong Kong.

«We have a dedicated center for supply chain management,» Hartmann points out, adding that about six courses are taught in that specialty each year, that the school also offers a master's degree in supply chain management, and that the school's departments of operations and IT management has nine faculty members with industry expertise.

«They've carved out a niche working with startups,» says Haytham Elhawary, director of the Zahn Center for Entrepreneurship at City College of New York's Grove School of Engineering in New York City.

During their time at UPenn, students can take advantage of the school's vast resources, including 6.38 million books, 1.16 million e-books, and 136 research centers and institutes, which are accompanied by an annual research budget of $ 878 million to boot.

He sits on the board of trustees for the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and volunteers for the Preble Street Resource Center in Portland.

Trump was the topic of 41 % of all news stories, according to the report released Thursday from Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.

Hal Gregersen is executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and a senior lecturer in leadership and innovation at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Geographically speaking, Nielsen, who's the director of the school's Business Startup Center, has a point: Ten minutes to the north of campus is the much - buzzed about Downtown Project, an effort into which Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has poured $ 350 million of his own money to turn Vegas into a start - up oasis.

President of Matuson Consulting firm Roberta Chinsky Matuson weighs in on statements made in a recently released white paper titled Uncovering Talent by New York University School of Law Professor Kenji Yoshino and Deloitte University Leadership Center for Inclusion Managing Principal Christie Smith.

According to Dr. Heidi Grant Halvorson, associate director for the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University Business School and author of Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, there are three reasons that people miss deadlines — and a single simple solution for all three.

The Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan policy institute at the NYU School of Law, reports that overall crime rates in the nation's 30 largest cities remain at or near historic lows.