Sentences with phrase «seeking higher learning»

Not so for federal loans, which is good news for anyone seeking higher learning.

The new program's marketing material adds, «The T.D. Jakes School of Leadership was instituted by T.D. Jakes and Regent University's Professional & Continuing Education division (PCE) to provide world - class educational tools and resources for leaders seeking higher learning opportunities to grow and excel in their professional and personal development... The school fulfills Jakes» vision to make quality educational tools accessible to those leaders seeking to advance their professional careers.

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When I learn a new skill or enter a new arena, I seek out the people at the highest level.

Her workshop on «Building a High - Impact Learning Culture» rang true for our small agency, and would be of great benefit to larger businesses seeking to train and retain top talent.

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

One aspect of the problem is administration; particularly in institutions of higher learning, treatment of various departments and their faculties is as discrete, isolated substances, seeking their own competing self interests, that need to be balanced, instead of a community of common inquiry embarked on the quest for a common vision.

We are seeking high school volunteers to coach and help younger kids learn the basic skills of volleyball.

Tree Planted By the Stream in Duluth, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

Precious Angels in Talladega, Alabama seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

Elite Children Learning Center in Austell, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and deveLearning Center in Austell, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and develearning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

First Assembly of God Day Care in Griffin, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

Georgia Montessori Institute in Norcross, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

Kids First in Hampton, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

YWCO After School at Oconee County Elementary in Watkinsville, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

Gordon Head Start in Calhoun, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

World Language Academy YMCA Kid's Time in Flowery Branch, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

Woodchase Academy At Vinings in Smyrna, Georgia seeks to provide a nurturing, high quality, safe and fun learning environment that is fit for the child's overall growth and development.

And the individuals who seek the highest office in the land might learn a few things, too.»

«We show that they are able to learn to associate the color red with toxic prey — and avoid it — or to associate red with high - quality prey and seek it out,» Taylor said.

Of course, those seeking the latter might be surprised to learn that more than half of the UK's single population aged is between 18 - 64 is male.1 With such high numbers, there must be some good guys out there — right?

First kisses, break - ups and polyamory are among the topics covered in Personal and civic responsibility, love of learning, and empathy for others: these are the qualities that Wayland High School seeks to instill in its students.

One by one, we learn that Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy) is an attention - seeking kleptomaniac, Brian Johnson (Hall) is a suicidal flare gun - wielding academe who can't make an elephant lamp to save his life, John Bender is Judd Nelson, and Andrew Clark (Emilio Estevez) can get high and tape everybody's buns together.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

In September 2013, I was recruited by then - principal Eric Sheninger to be the new library media specialist of New Milford (New Jersey) High School, and was tasked with seeking to improve student performance by developing an exciting and engaging learning environment for all.

He called the results a turning point that demonstrated the political power of charter school backers as well as others who are seeking more high - quality learning opportunities for local students.

From first graders inimmersion programs to MBAs seeking high - payingposts in Shanghai, the number ofpeople learning Chinese is growing fast.

The takeaway is this: It is commendable to set the bar high and seek to achieve great accomplishments in Learning and Development, but in order to achieve exceptional outcomes you have to implement a progressive, relevant Learning and Development strategy (if one is not already in place), and also embrace blended learning approaches that combine both formal and informal learning, along the lines of the 70:20:10 frLearning and Development, but in order to achieve exceptional outcomes you have to implement a progressive, relevant Learning and Development strategy (if one is not already in place), and also embrace blended learning approaches that combine both formal and informal learning, along the lines of the 70:20:10 frLearning and Development strategy (if one is not already in place), and also embrace blended learning approaches that combine both formal and informal learning, along the lines of the 70:20:10 frlearning approaches that combine both formal and informal learning, along the lines of the 70:20:10 frlearning, along the lines of the 70:20:10 framework.

When the school district of Philadelphia teamed up with the Microsoft Corporation in 2006 to redesign the American high school, the result was the School of the Future, hailed by National Public Radio as «the next big thing»... While technology was a crucial element at the School of the Future, the redesign sought fundamentally to rethink the models for teaching and learning... What Next?

They seek learning strategies that can deliver high impact programs that can induct new team members quickly and efficiently.

But just finding that some policy is likely to improve student outcomes does not mean that the improvement will reach the high levels sought by Washington Learns, or by others with similar views about what students should know.

This injustice is made even more onerous by the rising importance of standards - based school reform, which seeks to hold all students and schools accountable to higher levels of learning.

We undertook a large - scale consultation with hundreds of individuals and organisations from across the sector and sought out the highest quality research on what types of professional development seem to make the biggest difference to teachers» and students» learning.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

A recent report by the American Institute for Research (AIR) finds that students who attend deeper learning schools were more likely to graduate from high school on time and low - achieving students were more likely to seek postsecondary education.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

Since 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has sought to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do.

The annual NMC Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC Horizon Project, a research - oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education over three time horizons — one year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

The Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age (EDDA) initiative is seeking to leverage web 2.0 tools and civic education best practices to provide all Oakland Unified School District high school students civic learning opportunities that prepare them to make positive change in their communities.

Norman Atkins, who has been involved in founding several education reform organizations shared some provocative questions and modest advice for the next generation of education reformers seeking to remake schools, the teaching profession, learning technology, and higher education at the Askwith Forum on March 11.

In a new brief, Common Core and America's High - Achieving Students, he addresses these challenges and provides guidance for CCSS - implementing districts and schools as they seek to help these youngsters to reach their learning potential.

This plan, announced in September last year, sought to place Australian students amongst the top five highest performing nations in rigorous international performance tests through a combination of additional, targeted funding using a model mirroring the Gonski proposal, new initiatives in teacher training and accountability, personalised student learning plans, greater school autonomy, and a raft of other Commonwealth initiatives.

At Playa Junior High School, for example, the principal sought school improvement through an effort to get teachers to be less didactic in their teaching, to broaden their repertoires of instructional strategies, and to focus on higher - order learning expectations.

In California, Linked Learning is also seeking a state - wide impact through a network of high schools offering high quality integrated academic and career / technical education.

Hensley, the first person in his extended family to graduate from high school and then college, sought to instill in his staff the idea that all children could learn, with appropriate support.

ReVISION Learning is highly sought after for its leadership in providing the highest quality professional learning opportunities for teacher, administrators, and district peLearning is highly sought after for its leadership in providing the highest quality professional learning opportunities for teacher, administrators, and district pelearning opportunities for teacher, administrators, and district personnel.

The heart of the initiative is the largest study of its kind, a randomized controlled trial that seeks to determine what works and what doesn't in implementing high - quality summer learning programs, as well as the impact the programs have on students.

These high - performing professionals have made an immediate impact on education organizations seeking to develop more effective policies and systems to support educators and achieve increased learning in tight economic times,» according to Scott Morgan, founder and CEO of Education Pioneers.

In these schools, the crisis has been overcome, because the educators sought to control what they could, held high expectations for student learning, and supported their students in surmounting the debilitating effects of poverty on learning.

This annual 2 - day gathering is open to higher education administrators, faculty, supervisors, and state education agency personnel who are seeking to deepen their understanding of edTPA and network within a learning community of edTPA users.