Sentences with phrase «senior at achievement»
For Anabell, a senior at Achievement First Amistad High School, graduating means making her family proud.
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Co-presented by Scotiabank and KPMG, the WXN awards celebrate and highlight the professional achievements of women across the country in the private, public and not - for - profit sectors at a time when corporate Canada is under growing pressure to promote more female leaders into senior management and corporate director roles.
Promod Haque, Senior Managing Partner at Norwest Venture Partners, will be a keynote speaker and will receive a Lifetime Achievement award.
Despite England's success at youth level, with World Cup success at various levels, as well as notable achievements in European Championships and Toulon Tournaments, the route to the senior squad seemed blocked.
«For elementary - school kids, there is really no correlation between homework and achievement,» says Denise Pope, Ph.D., a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a coauthor of Overloaded and Underprepared.
On Wednesday 5 November, senior aviation leaders assembled at the Royal Aeronautical Society to honour aerospace professionals for achievements within their specialist field of expertise.
My senior colleagues and officers at the Public Relations Unit, Reverend Jonathan Bettey and Mr. Issah Baffoe, who have worked closely with Mr. Kor for years, also have fat tally sheets of fine achievements and deeds of our new education boss.
WHITE PLAINS, NY — County Executive Robert P. Astorino will join in honoring the achievements of 58 senior citizens from throughout Westchester at the 34th Annual Senior Citizens Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon on Friday, December 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrsenior citizens from throughout Westchester at the 34th Annual Senior Citizens Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon on Friday, December 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Westchester Marriott in TarrSenior Citizens Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon on Friday, December 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown.
Dr Tariq Aslam, Senior Lecturer in Ophthalmology at The University of Manchester, Consultant Ophthalmologist, at Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CMFT), and lead author of the study, said: «There have been amazing scientific achievements in diagnosing and treating serious eye diseases, such as wAMD, which have revolutionised our ability to reverse life - changing vision loss.
This award recognizes the achievements of young senior researchers invited to speak at a FEBS Congress — congratulations this year to Kathrin Lang!
The dean of science at MIT acknowledged that gender discrimination against senior women science faculty marginalized the women, undervalued their achievements, and excluded them from positions of power (MIT, 1999).
He was presented with The Future of Health Technology Award at MIT (USA), was made an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, St.Petersburg, was awarded the IEE Senior Achievement Medal in 2004, the Mountbatten Medal in 2008, the Ellison - Cliffe Medal in 2011 from the Royal Society of Medicine and in 2014 was elected as a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
RESULTS Dr Suzanne Rice, Senior Lecturer in Education Policy and Leadership at the University of Melbourne found in her analysis of the national 2016 report that overall Australian achievement had stagnated.
Researcher: Nation's Future Depends on Raising White, Nonwhite Test Scores Observer & Eccentric, August 21, 2011» «If we can't make it happen, we may have already peaked as a nation,» said [Senior Lecturer] Ronald Ferguson, faculty co-chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard.»
Some of the international comparisons in the report will truly shock people who assume that we lead the world in education and youth development,» adds Pathways co-chair Ronald Ferguson, a senior lecturer in education and public policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Harvard Kennedy School, and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University.
Senior Lecturer Ronald Ferguson, faculty director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University, is faculty chair of Closing the Achievement Gap.
«In the decades before Common Core, an enormous amount of the instruction in American elementary and middle schools has been with leveled text,» says David Liben, a veteran teacher and Senior Content Specialist at Student Achievement Partners.
Price, a nonresident Senior Fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institute and John L. Weinberg / Goldman Sachs visiting professor of public and international affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, wrote Achievement Matters: Getting Your Child the Best Education Possible «for educators who wish to mobilize their own communities to support student success,» he wrote.
Such systems of schools, overseen by organizations such as the for - profit Edison Schools Inc. and guided by nonprofit models like the KIPP Academies, show promise in raising student achievement, said Steven F. Wilson, a senior fellow at the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University who wrote the paper.
Notes Richard Verdugo, a senior research scientist at the National Education Association, «If you control for everything else, the most important predictor of achievement is socioeconomic status.»
Achievement First recently held the last of its three NYC Senior Signing Days, one at each of their full - sized high schools.
«We have elevated achievement as the primary goal of child raising and demoted or sidelined concern for others and the common good,» Richard Weissbourd, a senior lecturer at Harvard's School of Education and the co-creator and director of «Making Caring Common,» told ABC News.
David Liben is a Senior Content Specialist on the Literacy and English Language Arts team at Student Achievement Partners.
The appointment of Mr. Winick, a senior research fellow in the college of education at the University of Texas at Austin, underscores the importance the Bush administration places on the national assessment, an independent barometer of academic achievement across the 50 states.
The Senior Signing Day at Achievement First Amistad High School picked up some awesome coverage from Fox, and the New Haven Register shared a photo album as well.
At AULCHS, seniors who are accepted into college or post-secondary school receive a gold tie to symbolize their achievement!
She is a Senior Mathematics Associate at the Education Development Center (EDC) where she is the implementation director for the Pathways to Mathematics Achievement Study and is a mathematics specialist for the NSF - funded Formative Assessment in the Mathematics Classroom: Engaging Teachers and Students (FACETS) and Differentiated Professional Development: Building Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching Struggling Students (DPD) projects.
Take for instance Achievement First Hartford High School's first graduating class, who celebrated their Senior Signing Day a few weeks ago at The Bushnell in Hartford.
These are just some of the words from Achievement First Hartford High School's first graduating class, who celebrated Senior Signing Day recently at The Bushnell.
Previously, Erica was a Senior Director at Achievement First Charter School Network, where she started the Human Capital team and was responsible for supporting Achievement First's activities around Human Resources systems, talent strategy, employment policies, benefits, performance improvement, compensation, and Diversity & Inclusiveness strategy.
Prior to joining the foundation, Orville was a Senior Research Analyst at the Education Trust - West, where he conducted research and advocated for policies to boost educational achievement and close opportunity gaps impacting students of color and students in poverty in California schools.
«Politically, [the drop] is going to be a problem for the common core, but as an educational researcher, it's unfair to say the common core had anything to do with these scores going down,» said Tom Loveless, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who researches trends in achievement tests.
«We think the state has to develop a sense of urgency in closing the achievement gap between Latino students, Latino English learners, and the rest of the students,» said Leni Wolf, senior research and policy analyst at Education Trust — West.
She is an English teacher and Senior Assistant Headteacher at St. Ursula's Convent School, where she leads on Key Stage 3 assessment and maximising the achievement of upper ability pupils.
A senior fellow at The Century Foundation, he is also a leading authority... Continue reading Coffee Talk:» Integrated Schools Raise Achievement That Fuels Social Mobility»
Summary: According to Esther Quintero, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Albert Shanker Institute, teachers collaborating and fostering a supportive professional environment is just as important for student achievement as having good individual teachers in place.
1 We consulted the following educators by e-mail and telephone: Jacqueline Ancess, Codirector, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University, and founding Principal of Manhattan East Middle School, New York, NY; Sanda Balaban, Autonomy Zone Liaison for New York City Department of Education and Coordinator of Homework Audit for New Mission High School, Roxbury, MA; Avram Barlowe, history teacher, Urban Academy, New York, NY; Ann Cook, Codirector, Urban Academy, and Cochair, New York Performance Standards Consortium, New York, NY; Cecelia Cunningham, Director of Middle College National Consortium and former Principal of Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College, New York, NY; Herb Mack, Codirector, Urban Academy, New York, NY; Deborah Meier, Senior Scholar, New York University, Steinhardt School of Education, and founding Principal of Central Park East Elementary and Secondary Schools, New York, NY, and Mission Hill School, Boston, MA; Marian Mogulescu, education consultant and former Codirector of Vanguard High School, New York, NY; and Sylvia Rabiner, Project Manager, the Institute for Student Achievement, and founding Principal of Landmark High School, New York, NY.
Prior to joining Teaching Matters, Lance was the Senior Literacy Specialist at the Institute for Student Achievement in the research division of the Educational Testing Service.
Related: Common Core tests will widen the achievement gap at first Thirty - five states have no exit exam at all and seven have exit exams of some other kind — end - of - course tests, New York's Regents tests, California's CAHSEE, a civics exam, etc. — but will not be using a sole test score to allow seniors to graduate or not.
«Summer learning loss translates into achievement gaps and educational inequities,» said Jennifer Sloan McCombs, a Rand senior policy researcher and co-author of the Making Summer Count study, at a recent national conference of school administrators.
One of the individuals Mr. Grossman contacted in gathering authentic materials for teachers was David Liben, a senior content specialist with the literacy and language arts team at Student Achievement Partners, and his wife, Meredith Liben, the director of that team.
Achievement First Inc.'s Board of Directors also includes James Peyser, a senior official at the NewSchools Venture Fund; Jonathan Sackler whose family owns PurduePharma (the maker of Oxycontin); Elisa Villanueva Co-CEO for Teach For America; and Ariela Rozman the CEO of TNTP (The New Teacher Project.)
Liben, the Senior Content Specialist of the Literacy and English Language Arts team at Student Achievement Partners, also gave a short speech which will be posted soon.
8 Advanced Placement courses (AP); Sports programs include: Basketball, Volleyball and Softball; Four - year Art Academy program includes classes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Museum (internships for those qualified); Mercy College High School Achievement Program and St. John's University College Advantage Program for eligible Juniors and Seniors; Peer Tutoring Program; Over 30 Extra-curricular clubs including: Liberty LEADS, National Honor Society, Guitar Club, Anime Club, Umoja Dare Step Team, Musical Theater, MSG Varsity Media Club, Retreat Team, Serviam Leaders, Student Council.
Looking at college acceptance, another measure of student achievement, 90 % of STRIVE seniors were accepted to a four - year college in 2015 (Gibbons, 2015, pg.
Fern Mallis, creator of New York Fashion Week, former executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), and former senior vice president of IMG Fashion, will be honored with the Pratt Institute Fashion Industry Lifetime Achievement Award at the start of the 6 PM show.
Fern Mallis, creator of New York Fashion Week, former executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), and former senior vice president of IMG Fashion, will be honored with the Pratt Institute Fashion Industry Lifetime Achievement Award at the 6 PM show.
Catherine Morris, Sackler Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and co-curator of the Brooklyn presentation, added, «The exhibition is a remarkable scholarly achievement, expanding the canon and complicating known narratives of conceptual art and radical art - making, while building on the legacy of important and ambitious exhibitions at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, including We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 — 85, Materializing «Six Years»: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, and Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958 — 1968.»
Catered by New York's favorites Sonnier & Castle, the evening will begin with an INTIMATE HONOREE HOUR for guests to celebrate the Honorees» achievements, followed by the LIVE and SILENT AUCTION led by Alexander Rotter, Senior Vice President, Head of Department of Contemporary Art at Sotheby's New York.
Lindsay Roberts, Senior Policy Manager at Scottish Renewables talked about the Scottish achievements in onshore and offshore wind power saying: «Scotland has huge amounts to gain from offshore wind and it's an incredibly exciting time for the industry».