Sentences with phrase «structured academic community»

Remember, you're a guest in their highly structured academic community of learners.

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He is heading a working group on academic career structures for the Initiative for Science in Europe, an organization that lobbies for the European scientific community.

An active, renowned member of the academic science community until the very end, Perham was distinguished for his work on the chemistry of proteins and the assembly of giant protein complexes and was a leader in bringing the power of protein - engineering approaches to problems of protein structure and function.

Second, despite a decade of calls by everyone from leading educators to leaders in the business community to shift our schooling from fact - based learning structured by academic disciplines to one that develops creative, flexible thinkers using a more interdisciplinary approach, this change is still not happening in any widespread way.

A study of six Texas community colleges where higher - than - expected numbers of poor and first - generation students progress to four - year schools finds that a structured academic pathway, student - centered culture, and culturally sensitive leadership are common threads among them.

Rensburg described a disjuncture between the transnational character of globalization and the national structure of our academic communities where often international solutions emerge from only one side.

This «academic care» is influenced by: personal qualities of teachers and their relationships with students; the curriculum and its ability to promote meaningful participation and positive learning experiences; the school's organisational structure and its ability to offer safety, support, trust, guidance and challenge; and links with the broader community.

Visible leaders are essential to academy structure, which is why our Headmasters embody the Great Hearts philosophy in their academic, administrative and community leadership.

In fact, I (and many others in the academic and policy communities) believe it's time for a major rethinking of how we structure teacher evaluation to ensure that teachers, as professionals, can benefit from numerous opportunities to continually refine their craft.»

Fort Wayne Community Schools has addressed school funding challenges with a three - tiered approach 1) adopting district structures and processes that focus spending on activities that support student achievement, 2) participating in lobbying and other activities at the state level to improve funding and strengthen academic programs and 3) obtaining federal grants to help fill resource gaps.

New Jersey's 21st Century Community Learning Centers program embeds many of the recommendations highlighted by the Institute of Education Sciences in a seminal publication, Structuring Out - of - School Time to Improve Academic Achievement: A Practice Guide (Beckett et al., 2009).

Academic content is charged with rigor through the curricular structures of learning expeditions, case studies, projects, fieldwork, consultation with community experts, service learning, and exhibitions of student work.

A writer and publishing professional reflects on her decision to leave an MFA program, and how academic and workshop language can be used to reify the invisible structures that suppress marginalized communities.

Our point here is simply that a shift to Flex Time legal education likely will involve not only operational planning and academic community support, but also may be a catalyst for revisiting other premises and frameworks for how Law Schools structure, staff and budget for their academic programs.

Some of the areas where I deem myself a «force» include strategic planning for all school disciplines, reviewing and evaluating academic and extracurricular programs, implementation of school leadership programs, and creating and submitting annual budgets in cooperation with the various support structures within the school community.