Sentences with phrase «urban systems work»

Past simulators for the build - a-city game generated animations based on statistics of how urban systems work, but GlassBox uses software agents acting both independently and together to create more dynamic, highly realistic events.

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Philips, for its part, is working with a number of European cities on an urban lighting system that uses sensors to determine optimum lighting levels for the amount of street activity, saving energy while still providing a safe civic environment.

What we're working on now is developing a national brand of locally grown produce that reinforces regional food systems by creating opportunity for local urban micro-agribusiness to augment year - round supply in any metropolitan area.

Alan Weil of the Urban Institute, which has studied welfare reform extensively, notes that the system has been slow to acknowledge the evolution of responsibility from helping the nonworking to supporting those who have advanced in the work world, as Myrna's case illustrates.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

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Cinner's work also suggests that the proximity of urban centres is a key driver of change in marine systems.

Of course, the Fon system is not likely to work except in urban areas where the population density is sufficient to sustain the network; outside those environments, top - down solutions will have to be employed to build the network out.

The system should work in any urban environment that can be outfitted with sound detectors and premapped into a computer.

Her works include, with Robert Venturi, Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time (2004); Urban Concepts (1990); and, with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas (1972; revised edition 1977).

«Our goal is to realize a variety of artificial functional systems on the nanoscale, taking direct inspirations from nature,» says Laura Na Liu, who works with Urban and leads the research group.

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year who are working in urban school systems.

In October 2001, Henry became the new executive director of the Academy for Urban School Leadership, working with Chicago Academy's principal, Donald Feinstein, then in his 18th year in the Chicago school system.

Ironically, this misguided and shortsighted opposition has ensured that the fight for the future of quality educational access (and the production of future black leaders like Obama) will be between African Americans of one generation who found prosperity working in public education and who possess the lion's share of the political power, and the minority students whose futures are sacrificed on the altar of the nation's ossified urban education systems.

While it's easy for those focused on the urban agenda to dismiss suburban reform as a distraction or a novelty, it may be more useful to think of high - performing communities as terrific laboratories for bold solutions and as the place where high - functioning systems working in advantageous circumstances may have much to teach about how to help schools go from good to great.

Among the approaches planned by that organization are working with teacher education programs, developing professional development programs to help teachers deal with issues in urban school systems, and establishing a clearinghouse for organizations that are «home - growing» teachers, Community Teachers Institute executive director Segun Eubanks told Education World.

Now in its fourth year, the Urban Scholars Program has attracted dozens of candidates with superb academic records and a deep commitment to working in urban school sysUrban Scholars Program has attracted dozens of candidates with superb academic records and a deep commitment to working in urban school sysurban school systems.

Again, if that person is a true sector agnostic and remains above the politics of urban schooling, the system will work, but in the highly likely event that is not so, the entire system would fall apart.

Over the last few months, my work on ESSA implementation and my thinking about new systems of urban schools have come together.

The scholars are chosen from among those who rank in the top 10 percent of the Ed School's applicant pool and have demonstrated a commitment to working in urban school systems.

Even if 1 in every 10 of these graduates entered teaching for two years (average tenure at KIPP - like No Excuses charter schools) before moving onto other careers, they would provide only 6 percent of the some 450,000 teachers currently working in the member districts of the Council of Great City Schools (the nations 66 largest urban public - school systems).

Working with the Center for Urban Pedagogy, they turned their inquiry into a compelling documentary, Bodega Down Bronx, that sparks community discussions about nutrition, poverty, health, and food systems.

Almost a year after Michelle A. Rhee was named the chancellor of the District of Columbia school district, she stressed at a May 20 gathering here on educational entrepreneurship that she sees the infusion of entrepreneurial practices and ideas as vital to her work of trying to transform the long - beleaguered urban system.

In closing, I'd simply say that if we want dynamic, responsive, high - quality, and self - improving systems of urban schools, we need to stop stubbornly preserving the failed schools of yesterday and get about the business of building mechanisms that continuously introduce new offerings, grow successes, and phase out schools that don't work for kids.

The organization of state superintendents and the organization of big urban school districts will work together to audit the number and types of tests administered and develop new systems that are leaner and more integrated.

Curtis works with school systems, foundations, higher education and education policy organizations on a variety of topics including urban district improvement strategy, superintendent and principal leadership development, and how to make teaching a compelling and rewarding career.

As head of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, he led a system of 17 urban public schools, serving over 15,000 students — and worked with parents and educators to raise graduation rates by 60 % and improve student achievement at a faster rate than any other school system in California with more than 10,000 students..

Since the beginning of KDE's work on the accountability framework, the Committee has pushed hard with its coalition partners, KY Chamber of Commerce, the state NAACP, the Louisville Urban League and Teach for America — Appalachia for an understandable system with clear, ambitious goals for student achievement.

«As urban parents, we have to work ten times as hard, be ten times as engaged, and be ten times as savvy about the system to give our children even a slim chance of getting into a quality school,» said Jessica Martinez in a statement, the mother of one of the plaintiffs.

The two programs of The Broad Center have supported nearly 700 leaders and managers who are working to make a difference in urban public school systems.

There are also urban districts that have not done that: that have, like San Francisco, put more money into the schools serving high - need kids with a weighted student formula; that have really worked to have a better, stronger hiring process; that have put in place induction [mentoring], and stronger feedback, and teacher evaluation systems.

In addition to recruiting and training teachers for charter and urban school districts, Teach for America — Connecticut Chapter has been working behind the scenes on Malloy's plan and in support of the state's efforts to take over the Bridgeport and Windham school systems.

This partnership was inspired, in part, by CASEL's earlier collaboration with eight mostly urban school districts.25 A 2014 evaluation of this work concluded that districts successfully implemented SEL standards and programs with high levels of fidelity in their large school systems.

She served as TNTP's Vice President of Strategy, Systems and Policy, where she worked with state departments of education, urban school districts, and charter management organizations to improve educator performance.

Teachers who work in urban and poorer communities, those that work with students of color, those that work with English language learners and those that teach students with special education needs will be especially punished under the new teacher evaluation system.

Some don't, but there is a percentage for which it works, and it seems to me that given the dynamics of an urban school system, if you can find something that works for some people, it's at least worth keeping around.»

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While the finely honed aero does it's work at speed, urban efficiency is aided by the standard stop - start system that turns the engine off in traffic to save fuel.

Frances Lightbound is an interdisciplinary artist from the UK, whose work explores ideologies and power systems embedded in the urban environment.

If the work echoes the spiritual drama of a Still, its cords also conjure the nervous systems of the urban world: cables beneath concrete, or telephone wires stretched tight across grey sky.

The show will span five decades, from her work as a pioneer of feminist performance to a practitioner of public art, in which Ukeles invites us to reconsider indispensable urban systems and the workers who maintain them.

The artworks «The Emergent City», «Sonicity», «Urban Generation», «The Nemesis Machine» reform data, working with the idea of bringing data from outside into the inside, and then presenting it back out again in open ended systems where the public is often engaged in or directly embedded in the artwork.

Princen has also been known to reference scientific measuring systems, mapping, and amateur anthropology in his work, and his artistic practice has involved plotting ecological changes — water currents, wind patterns, and soil erosion, as well as the impacts of urban developments on the Dutch landscape.

Since the 1950s, when she worked closely with Louis I. Kahn and independently pioneered habitable space - frame architecture, Tyng has applied natural and numeric systems to built forms on all scales, from urban plans to domestic spaces.

Many of Tooker's works dealt with themes of isolation and despondency in contemporary urban life, and disillusionment with bureaucratic political systems.

In his latest works, Athier examines the effects of urban development on the desert terrains that lie beneath and around the expanding cities of the Gulf while also emphasising how these natural environments have inbuilt structure and design and systems of regeneration.

Hybrids of invention and documentation, renderings and diagrams, his work depicts processes and events, historical and futuristic narratives pointing to propositions and effects of urban economics, planning, architecture, ecology, transportation systems, politics, and social relations.

In this most recent body of work, McGinness appropriates the common street sign, using off - the - shelf industrial parts to create objects that imitate the style of the urban transportation system.