Sentences with phrase «technology at the district»

Their preparation curriculum, based on state and national standards, includes very little about technology at the district or classroom levels.

Some of the groups and agencies include LEARN NC, the North Carolina Virtual Public School, MCNC, and the William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.Neill has been active in educational technology at the district, regional, state, and national levels, and currently serves on various state and agency leadership committees, including the Board of Directors of the State Education Technology Directors Association.

The state and national standards for preparation of principals and superintendents have very little to do with technology at the district level and certainly down to the classroom level.

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About CIBC Live Labs CIBC Live Labs is a technology and innovation incubator housed in the C Suite at MaRS Discovery District.

He was previously the Senior Strategist in the Education Technology Cluster at MaRS Discovery District, a cluster of over 200 education entrepreneurs in Toronto.

«Health technology breakthroughs could play an important role in modernizing our aging healthcare system and creating innovative approaches to procurement can accelerate the adoption of those technologies,» said Zayna Khayat, lead of health systems innovation at MaRS Discovery District and executive sponsor of the program.

Toronto, June 26, 2015 — The Advanced Energy Centre (AEC) at MaRS Discovery District and BSD - TEDA — a joint venture between the Beijing Science Park Development (BSD) and the Tianjin Economic - Technological Development Area (TEDA)-- are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship and to jointly explore potential deployment opportunities for Canada's advanced energy technologies.

The Advanced Energy Centre (AEC) at MaRS Discovery District, the Water Technology Acceleration Project (WaterTAP) and the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP) are pleased to announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their working relationship and to jointly explore potential deployment opportunities for Ontario's advanced energy and water technologies in China.

Financial trading firm Broadway Technology is swapping out its offices in the Financial District for a larger space at Fosun International's 28 Liberty Street...

Toronto, May 21, 2009 — Toronto's MaRS Discovery District has combined the creative genius of science and technology with the drive of entrepreneurs and capital to create a marriage that will see more Canadian ideas commercialized in this country and for those efforts it has won the Canadian Urban Institute's 2009 Creative City Award to be granted to MaRS on June 5 at the Urban Leadership Awards in Toronto.

«Segasist has made great strides in moving their technology forward and we're happy that we've been a part of that,» says John Buckingham, Advisor, Life Sciences and Health Care Practice, at MaRS Discovery District.

MaRS Cleantech, a division of MaRS Discovery District, and the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) are pleased to announce an international collaboration aimed at increasing the adoption of clean technologies.

The company AVO - Werke August Beisse GmbH invested more than 18 million Euros in order to expand its technology lead at its headquarters in Belm district of Osnabrück.

Thursday was the technology professional development day at the District, and although I thought the day was excellently planned and carried out, and I was impressed with all the presenters, when I left, I felt battered and pessimistic.

The new manager of Information Technology at the Des Plaines Park District hopes patrons will soon find it easier using the Internet to do things like register their child for programs or get information about parks.

In recent years, the Park District has enhanced customer service delivery using a variety of technology - based systems, which include our IP - based telephone system, free wireless service at 12 Park District facilities, fixed video surveillance cameras, and mobile technology used by employees to improve response time.

What's impressive is how fast the this technology has has spread: my first detailed exposure to voter - file targeting was at last November's CampaignTech conference, where the company CampaignGrid was touting its ability to deliver ads specifically to potential voters in a district.

The elements of the fight have included public education, suspension of small scale mining operations to allow recovery of polluted water bodies, training of 400 small scale miners in sustainable mining practices at the University of Mines and Technology, Tarkwa and establishment of Operation Vanguard, a 400 man strong security force to maintain security in mining districts and to enforce the ban.

At 4:45 p.m., Hochul meets Seimens Competition in Math, Science & Technology winners, Half Hollow Hills District Office, 525 Half Hollow Rd., Dix Hills.

Voters at Nottingham High School, Jamesville - DeWitt High School and Lafayette Fire Station # 1 election districts will use the new technology this year, presenting an array of urban, suburban and rural polling places.

In a separate analysis, Daniel McGlone, a geographic - information - system data analyst at the technology firm Azavea in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ranked each state's voting districts for compactness as a measure of gerrymandering, and found that Maryland had the most - gerrymandered districts.

A STUDENT who allegedly hijacked control of two computers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to distribute pirated copies of commercial software did not commit a crime, a US district court judge ruled in Boston on 28 December.

Although hardly a ringing endorsement for e-voting technology, the GAO's findings contradicted those of researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Los Angeles, who, after conducting a separate study (released in September) found that the «exceptionally high... undervote rate» in the Florida's 13th District race «was almost certainly caused by» a poorly designed and confusing electronic ballot displayed on the voting machine's touch screen.

Strategies for Addressing Accumulated Damage at Mining Sites: Legal Mechanisms in the US and Remedial Technology Options for A Selection of Pollution Problems at the Dzhidinski Mining District, Republic of Buryatia, Russia for presentation at Republic of Buryatia Seminar on Legal and Technical Strategies for Addressing Accumulated Damage at Mining Sites in the Republic of Buryatia, by Paul Robinson, Research Director.

«We are delighted that the TMT project has now been granted a Conservation District Use Permit,» said Edward Stone, the Morrisroe Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and vice chair of the TMT board.

He has experience in the review of environmental conditions and remediation technology at major uranium districts in the USA, Canada and eastern Germany as well as other metal mines, particularly in North America.

Through his doctoral research at Columbia University and experience as a tech specialist at the Fieldston School in New York City, Kenny Graves has found that the partnerships among school leaders are also helping them think more strategically about how to use technology as a tool to address specific needs and goals in their districts.

«There's still plenty of work ahead and some pretty radical changes taking place,» explained Mike Martin, director of curriculum and technology at Montpelier Public Schools in Vermont, whose district starting transitioning to a competency - based model in 2013.

In order to support school leaders and teachers to become their most effective at using digital technologies with new pedagogies, it is vital that a district support the digital transformation through varied building - level and district - level professional learning opportunities.

They saw their principal and a former teacher who now works with technology at the school district level, as well as three others they didn't know — one of those three being me.

When pushed, they may find a way: As one official at a recent State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA) event noted, in his state districts and schools felt like they were being pushed off the cliff when online testing was implemented, but in reality, the cliff was only a couple of feet high.

I loved the fact that kids got to know the world outside school and learned that with technology they could talk to people anywhere, said Luisa Ojeda - Vera, a kindergarten teacher at Florida's Sand Pine Elementary School, whose students used Skype to connect with a class at another school in the district.

Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at working closely with districts and harnessing big data to identify effective policies and practices in teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and learning technologies.

Prior to that, he served as the Director of Technology for Groton - Dunstable Regional School District and Instructional Technology Specialist at Burlington High School.

«Our district «encourages» technology use by teachers, but not in any substantive way,» said John Tiffany, science teacher at Wauseon High School.

Our district makes technology a major funding priority and has technology as a line item in the budget, which represents at least 5 percent of the general fund.

In my roles as both an instructional technology specialist and a director of technology, I used a variety of resources to make every attempt at staying ahead of the curve so that I could help the district, teachers, and parents understand what applications were out there and which of them posed an issue.

In contrast, some small and geographically isolated districts have found that with digital learning technology, they are able to provide students with better course options and at a per - pupil cost that provides for parity with other districts.

Currently I am my school district's Web Master and enjoy teaching professional development courses in my district and am looking forward to presenting at the technology hall of fame at the New Jersey Teacher's Convention this year.

Michael Petrilli called the Department's recent warning that it would take a closer look at these within - district allocations «meddling,» but it's shameful that our public policies disproportionately place students of color in schools with poor lighting, unsafe or temporary structures, and unequal access to technology and curriculum.

At the same time, lousy records and a desire to avoid embarrassment meant that many districts had overstated their capacity in the tech census; they were suddenly faced with millions or even hundreds of millions in unanticipated new expenses, even as they dealt with the practical headaches of inadequate technology.

There were also several barriers — and subsequent workarounds — identified around technology and infrastructure: grappling with a slow and unwieldy public contract code for technology and even furniture procurement; allowing for Bring Your Own Device programs given the state's free public education clause; and struggling to provide sufficient technology access at school and home for all students if the district wanted to adopt digital materials.

Fortunately my technology coordinator stepped in and provided professional development funds, but here was an instance where I was to be recognized at a major technology conference and my district was actually going to dock me pay to go!

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?

Technology converges with lessons in self - direction and the district's other targeted skills in Kevin Kincaid and Melody Coryell's team - taught humanities class at sprawling Lawrence North High School.

The Center for Children and Technology at the Education Development Center, Inc., monitored a two - year technology trial that was first implemented in the district in SeptembeTechnology at the Education Development Center, Inc., monitored a two - year technology trial that was first implemented in the district in Septembetechnology trial that was first implemented in the district in September of 1993.

«We have no Y2K - related problems, all the schools are open, and everything's as it is supposed to be,» Joseph J. Kirkman, the director of educational technology services at the Broward County, Fla., schools, summed up in an assessment that was echoed in districts across the nation.

Soon after, and as part of a broader school - board decision to expand school - choice options, the district launched a science and technology middle school, a dual - language immersion elementary, an all - digital high school, an arts - centered grade school, a virtual school starting at grade 3, and more.

Robin Smith, an educational technology specialist at Hollidaysburg Area School District in Hollisdaysburg, Pennsylvania, is not as enthusiastic about handhelds, arguing that she still prefers laptops.

Although Elk Grove wasn't selected for funding, the district's Manufacturing Production Technology Academy at Laguna Creek High School is one of ConnectEd's original model demonstration sites because it embodies the principles and components of Linked Learning.