Sentences with phrase «with school design teams»

A year ago, Public Impact began working with school design teams of pilot schools in the Charlotte and Nashville public school districts to choose and tailor school models for extending the reach of excellent teachers to more students.

The support materials that XQ provided — 13 «knowledge modules» and 250 resources that XQ curated for participants — resulted from conversations with school design teams that were competing to win XQ's approval.

The Creative Leadership Team, in collaboration with the School Design Team, will develop strategies to empower their entire learning community to become creative leaders and creative producers.

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This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

The company works mainly with wineries, but has also designed apparel for school districts, small and large companies, hospitals, fire departments, sports teams and municipalities.

Schools involved in our program send full teams to attend intensive conferences where they work with a coach to design action plans to implement best practices in areas such as curriculum, assessment, homework, school schedule, and a healthy school climate.

Throughout the school year, each team works with a Challenge Success coach to design and implement positive changes in areas such as curriculum and assessment, homework policies, the daily school schedule, and health and wellness programs.

The guidelines for dealing with a concussion in youth sports were approved by the Common Council this week and are designed to close the loophole in the current concussion law that protects only middle school and high school athletes on school - sponsored teams.

Specially designed to improve on the surgical treatment of OME, CLiKX is pioneered by a team led by Associate Professor Tan Kok Kiong from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the NUS Faculty of Engineering, together with Dr Lynne Lim, an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Department of Otolaryngology at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and Senior Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) Consultant at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre.

Her team is collaborating with researchers in the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Global Health to design and test ways to improve the health of sugarcane workers and other agricultural workers in the region.

Field experiments were designed by team members in collaboration with Howard Bluestein, OU School of Meteorology.

He has designed and integrated new models of professional development at BPS, including our BPS Professional Development conference happening next week, and led the iPad launch by organizing and creating an iPad driver's ed course in conjunction with the high school instructional technology team.

In the 2014 - 15 school year, we had the opportunity to design and implement an action research project with the support of educational researchers and members of the Apple Education team.

Eden's focus on the importance of outdoor learning and play can be seen throughout the work of the project as well as through the schools education team, with the ever - popular den building activities that take place in the project's arena during the summer and the landscaping and design of the play areas and gardens around the site.

Curriculum implementation: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow and Uccelli will be heavily involved in conceptualizing professional development, fidelity and quality of implementation instruments, and monitoring of implementation for the 4th - 8th grade curricular enhancements.Evaluation of curricular enhancements: HGSE investigators Jones and Kim, together with a data manager and a small team of doctoral students, will conduct the design and analysis associated with the school - level random - assignment evaluation of the 4th - 8th grade curriculum innovations.

On this week's podcast, Marty West talks with Larry Kearns, a principal at Wheeler Kearns Architects, a Chicago - based design firm, about how he and his team designed two charter schools to support their blended learning models.

We encourage educators to work with their administrative teams, parent and community organizations, and their local school board to think differently about how, when, and where design materials come from.

In 2011, my colleagues and I at The Lovett School partnered with a design team and invited the larger community, including new and old friends from around the country, to try to answer the question «What might be the future of the K - 12 library?»

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Working with district staff, design teams research best practices, visit schools throughout the country, and ultimately create plans for small schools that are both academically sound and relevant to the diverse community of learners they hope to serve.

A new enterprise from a team of Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni will add its own box to the industry with a subscription service designed for parents and children.

As teams of high school and middle school students gathered to test a mechanical device they had spent months designing and improving, spectators cheered with the fervor of athletic fans.

Enter our keynote speakers at this year's conference: Hill and Molitor — both former educators and school leaders themselves — have teamed up with design expert Christine Ortiz to found the Equity Design Collabordesign expert Christine Ortiz to found the Equity Design CollaborDesign Collaborative.

The manual, designed to head off violence in schools, encourages schools to adopt a team approach to violence prevention and start with this question: Does the student pose a threat?

The nine design teams in Reeder's freshman - sophomore geometry class presented their school designs, plans, and budgets to Seattle architects Kirk Wise and Mark Miller, who were charged with selecting the project with the best concept, best use of site features, and best building and classroom design; cost was also a factor.

Building Materials The brief of this project was to design a standard one - form - entry school with a 30 - place nursery and facilities for a local multi-agency support team.

These models are shaped by schools in which the head and senior management team are enthusiastic about design and understand the subject as integral to their curriculum, with intrinsic as well as cross-curricular benefits.

Since 2010 over 47,000 young people have taken part in this free project and the Design Museum team has worked with a diverse range of schools to ensure it continues to meet the needs of teachers and learners alike.

Instead, we defined clear outcomes for schools and supported teams with substantive resources — Knowledge Modules — to give all teams, regardless of prior engagement in education, the fundamental building blocks of design to inform and guide their work.

Reality Check: In Eeva Reeder's tenth - grade geometry class at Mountlake Terrace High School, near Seattle, student teams design «schools of the future» while mentoring with local architects.

For Glendy Cordero, an Oakland parent and a founding member of the school's design team, sitting down with teachers and having them listen to her dreams for her two children enabled her to hope for something better than the unsafe and chaotic environment that characterized daily life at Calvin Simmons.

The National Institute's curriculum is designed to be delivered over two years, first by our staff to leadership teams from the school districts with which we work and then by the leadership team to its principals.

Once each team had a working prototype, they tested their app design with other teams in the class and then with other students in the school.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Excitingly we are also going to be working with the team at Playforce to help design the next generation of equipment for schools.

Throughout the project, the design team has been in constant dialogue with the client and the school governors, who have been very involved in developing the design and making regular changes to the external package.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

They'll bring a team of medical professionals to our school with specialized medical equipment, supplies, and two videos custom - produced for us — all designed to help our students empathize with pediatric patients and generate ideas for making the hospital experience less scary for kids.

Unity also won the Best Engineered Car Award on their way to the UK crown with the judges commending the team on the design, manufacturing and Engineering of their F1 in Schools car.

The district is very large with 232 schools and centers, and McConnell and her team have designed K - 6 nutrition education classes that reach at least 300 classrooms per year.

Lawley Primary School in Telford and Highdown School & Sixth From Centre in Reading will revitalise their education environments with help from the leading paint manufacturer's Smarter Spaces team, which puts pupils at the heart of design in schools.

Dan contributes analysis of great teaching, provides content design, and leads the team's efforts to strengthen schools» access to and support with TLAC resources.

The final report on the 2003 - 2004 Students as Allies project included details about the five sites; the collaborative process through which we designed surveys that included a common core of questions along with school - specific questions developed by student - teacher research teams; and how students became involved in the project, gathered and analyzed their data, presented their findings at public «summits,» and then turned them into topics for discussion and action.

The NCCS team works with colleagues in each site to understand their strengths and challenges, including their political and economic circumstances, in order to provide customized implementation assistance — including consultation, training, strategic planning facilitation and sustainability advice — designed to build their local capacity to implement the community schools strategy at both the school site and systems levels.

This middle and high school prize is open to any STEM Challenge playable game submission — created by an individual working alone or in a team with up to four members — that was designed to help people to learn, improve their communities, and contribute to make the world a better place.

«Beyond academic results,» he asserted, «design teams should be judged on other practices involving their relationship with schools and school districts.

Structure competitive grants to induce districts and states to shift to transformative school designs that reach more students with excellent teachers and the teams they lead.

When advocates teamed up with members of Congress to launch the city's charter schools, they designed a system with plenty of funding.

He has worked specifically with schools in implementing the following topics: prioritizing standards, common formative assessments, building authentic performance tasks, effective use of scoring guides, data teams, rigorous curriculum design, and effective grading practices.

Whether you're a school administrator, classroom teacher, or lead a team, the Mastery Series is designed to help build your strengths and gifts, as well as surface the blindspots, limiting beliefs and fears that may be sabotaging your effectiveness so that you're better able to create schools and classrooms that are rich in humanity, successful academically, and filled with joy, curiosity, and discovery.