Sentence examples for professional development initiatives from inspiring English sources

The event, at Pier 60 of the Chelsea Piers Sports Complex, will benefit the organization's programs, including education, mentoring and professional development initiatives.

"In its current form, the IGDA is funded by studios and can't in any way play the role of a union, and couldn't be expected to do so," says Legault. "Their primary focus is to promote the industry and support individual workers through training, networking and professional development initiatives.

Based on our review, evolution courses and professional development initiatives for K-12 teachers should integrate the five goals, with more attention to teaching evolution in the classroom.

We recommended that the five goals become integrated in evolution courses during preservice teacher preparation programs and inservice teacher professional development initiatives.

Offering job suggestions, of course, also puts Coursera into the crosshairs of Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, which has been pushing its own online education and professional development initiatives via its purchase of Lynda.com, and linking this with its hefty recruitment business.

We're making increased investments in professional development initiatives for alums, including adding a career coach to the national team.

This paper examines factors that contributed to critical conversations in teacher communities of inquiry (CI) as part of a statewide professional development initiative in the United States.

In this study we present a professional development initiative aimed at helping urban teachers in low-income underserved schools in the U.S. learn how to utilize iPads (a representative mobile device) and educational apps (software programs that run on mobile devices) to support teaching and learning.

Thanks to their participation in a multiyear, high-quality professional development initiative, Eden Prairie educators learned to boost academic achievement through the use of neuroscience and culturally responsive instructional strategies.

She is also the director of the professional-development initiative for middle-school teachers for the New York City Department of Education.

The present study examines the experience of two high-poverty schools that participated in a district professional development (PD) initiative designed to support teachers in meeting the goals of the Common Core State Standards.