Sentences with phrase «urban leaders focused»

About Blog CEOs for Cities is the only national nonprofit organization with an ongoing national network of cross-sector, cross-generation urban leaders focused on making cities more connected, innovative, and talented and investing in your city's distinctive assets.

About Blog CEOs for Cities is the only national nonprofit organization with an ongoing national network of cross-sector, cross-generation urban leaders focused on making cities more connected, innovative, and talented and investing in your city's distinctive assets.

About Blog CEOs for Cities is the only national nonprofit organization with an ongoing national network of cross-sector, cross-generation urban leaders focused on making cities more connected, innovative, and talented and investing in your city's distinctive assets.

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Smart Mobility Panel Featuring thought leaders in transportation and urban planning, Onramp's panel discussion will focus on the intersection of public, private and academic collaboration when it comes to the future of driving innovation.

New York needs a health thinker and leader who can do just that: assume many roles and assess problems from different angles, including upstate and downstate, urban and rural, with an ultimate focus on ensuring and improving the health of all New Yorkers.

«Our experiments with fipronil and bifenthrin sprays indicate that the overall kill of these insecticides on Argentine ant colonies is substantially improved — by 57 to 142 percent — by incorporating (Z)-9-hexadecenal in the sprays,» said Dong - Hwan Choe, an assistant professor of entomology and the research project leader, whose lab focuses on urban entomology, insect behavior and chemical ecology.

The foundation has already committed some $ 135 million to overhauling fundamental aspects of urban school districts: identifying new sources of talent for positions of authority; developing alternative training methods for managers, principals, and teachers union leaders; creating new tools for analyzing performance data; and working with school boards to help those sometimes obstructionist bodies become more focused on student learning than on petty power plays.

If minority leaders can be weaned away from traditional alliances, the underlying public support will translate into effective legislative action, especially if choice laws focus on schools in urban areas.

Urban school districts tend to lose their focus, hopping from reform to reform, as new leaders with ideas of their own take the helm.

In the Jan. 30 speech, he said he would form a group including business, labor, and political leaders to craft a 21st Century Education Plan focusing on school finance, teacher quality and compensation, and urban schools.

I was drawn to its focus on innovation and collaboration along with its prestigious reputation as a leader in urban education worldwide.

Building Principal Pipelines: A Job That Urban Districts Can Do www.wallacefoundation.org/knowledge-center/pages/perspective-building-principal-pipelines-update.aspx In the quest to ensure that all schools have leaders who focus on improving instruction, this guide sheds light on how school districts can build a pipeline of effective school principals.

The guidebook of the mass school closings movement is a 2009 «School Closure Guide» written by the controversial Broad Foundation, which boasts of training and placing non-educator superintendents and high - level school leaders in urban districts across the country to enact a brand of education reform that focuses on competition and privatization.

PSP invests in programs focused on preparing and developing teachers and leaders for the rigors of working in urban schools.

A study on data use in several urban U.S. high schools showed that when school leaders used questions to focus the collaborative examination of data, school staff became more engaged in the process.

The focus of this doctoral program is to prepare and develop school and system - level leaders to transform struggling urban schools.

Two California charter school leaders — Yvonne Chan, principal of the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center, one of the most successful urban public schools in the U.S., and Larry Rosenstock, CEO and founding principal of High Tech High — participated in a recent summit focusing on innovative solutions to address school improvement nationwide.

His research has examined: 1) how school reform intersects with equitable community development, with a focus on school and community leaders and 2) how geography influences educational opportunity for children of color in urban school districts.

Through two programs — The Broad Academy and The Broad Residency in Urban Education — The Broad Center is building a growing network of experienced leaders and managers who have a laser focus on improving America's public schools.

The College's Shelby Cosner earned UIC's Award for Excellence in Teaching for her focus on the practice and preparation of school leaders transforming urban schools.

Just the same, the focus from President Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan — former head of Chicago Public Schools — and other urban education leaders is on accountable teachers and schools.

The past five years have brought a sea change in urban climate action: increased awareness of the critical role that local leaders play in carbon reduction; new capacity in local governments to tackle climate change; and a sharper focus on strategies that advance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and clean transportation.