Innovation Grants Sample Clauses

Innovation Grants. This year, West Vancouver educators have benefitted from the implementation of an Innovation Grant initiative to support student learning. The Innovation Project is a structure of inquiry and an opportunity to support innovation and improve student learning. Teachers, support staff, and administrators may apply for a grant of up to $3500 to provide release time, resources and professional development opportunities in the areas of inquiry, digital literacy and self -regulation. The Learning Team is a group of educators engaged in collaborative forms of inquiry with an explicit commitment to routinely investigate, explore and plan ways to improve student achievement. This inquiry team structure has provided a staff development model to deepen understanding of teaching practice and student achievement. The Innovation Grants Projects include the following characteristics, criteria and commitments:  Teamwork – a willingness to work in learning teams on behalf of learners in your community  Interdependence – a willingness to work with, and on behalf of, all interested schools in the district  Inquiry – an interest in developing and collectively pursuing significant learning improvement questions in depth and over time  Assessment – a belief in the central importance of the individual and classroom assessment as evidence for powerful change  Communication – an acted upon belief in telling change stories honestly with both qualitative and quantitative evidence sources  Depth of Thinking – a commitment to going deeper by asking increasingly challenging questions about practice  Sustained Thinking – an understanding that realizing genuine learning requires time, focused work, reflection, and an ongoing commitment  Metacognition – using knowledge about learning to strengthen thinking  Use of Evidence – a commitment to using clear evidence patterns to illustrate and describe improvement There are currently 14 innovation projects underway in the district and we anticipate that this will increase next year. Connecting to Our Aboriginal Student Population and Community There are currently 54 self-declared Aboriginal students across the West Vancouver School District with an additional two students declaring in February 2012. Student profiles have been prepared for all Aboriginal students and our First Nations coordinator works closely with the school administrators to assist with coordinating plans and tracking students. The current curriculum for the 2011/2012 ...
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Innovation Grants. (Applies only to teaching staff) The Board agrees to afford a teacher the opportunity of designing and implementing innovative educational ideas and techniques.
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Innovation Grants. The Board agrees to afford a supervisor the opportunity of designing and implementing innovative educational ideas and techniques.
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Innovation Grants. For procurement under Innovation Grants, the procurement procedures established under the Project Implementation Manual shall apply. For purposes of paragraph 2.7 of the Consultant Guidelines, the short list of consultants for services estimated to cost less than $100,000 equivalent per contract may comprise entirely national consultants.
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Related to Innovation Grants

  • Employee Development The Employer may provide employees the opportunity to participate in appropriate seminars, workshops or short courses. When possible and appropriate the Employer will provide to all staff information on seminars, workshops or short courses by posting a notice on the Employer’s internal web site.

  • Future developments The Seller continuously monitors technological developments and applies them to Technical Data, document and information systems’ functionalities, production and methods of transmission. The Seller will implement and the Buyer will accept such new developments, it being understood that the Buyer will be informed in due time by the Seller of such new developments and their application and of the date by which the same will be implemented by the Seller.

  • EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING 1. The State agrees to provide advice and counseling to employees with respect to career advancement opportunities and agency developments which have an impact on their careers.

  • Innovation In order to make it easier for the municipality to implement innovations that can accelerate the pace of climate transition, Viable Cities will provide a competence network and process support, including by engaging other strategic innovation programmes in the ongoing development of Climate City Contract 2030, particu- larly in the areas of mobility, energy, built environment, the circular economy, health and digitalization. Based on the collaboration agreement on climate-smart mobility signed with the strategic innovation programme Drive Sweden, this area of collabo- ration will be further developed with both cities and government agencies, not least the Swedish Transport Administration.

  • TRAINING AND EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT 9.1 The Employer and the Union recognize the value and benefit of education and training designed to enhance an employee’s ability to perform their job duties. Training and employee development opportunities will be provided to employees in accordance with college/district policies and available resources.

  • Software Development Software designs, prototypes, and all documentation for the final designs developed under this agreement must be made fully transferable upon direction of NSF. NSF may make the software design, prototype, and documentation for the final design available to competitors for review during any anticipated re-competition of the project.

  • Inventions All inventions, designs, formulae, processes, discoveries, drawings, improvements and developments made by Employee, either solely or in collaboration with others, during his employment with Employer, whether or not during working hours, and relating to any methods, apparatus, products, compounds, services or deliverables which are made, furnished, sold, leased, used or developed by Employer or its affiliates or which pertain to the Business (the “Developments”) shall become and remain the sole property of Employer. Employee shall disclose promptly in writing to Employer all such Developments. Employee acknowledges and agrees that all Developments shall be deemed “works made for hire” within the meaning of the United States Copyright Act, as amended. If, for any reason, such Developments are not deemed works made for hire, Employee hereby assigns to Employer all of his right, title and interest (including, but not limited to, copyright and all rights of inventorship) in and to such Developments. At the request and expense of Employer, whether during or after employment with Employer, Employee shall make, execute and deliver all application papers, assignments or instruments, and perform or cause to be performed such other lawful acts as Employer may deem necessary or desirable in making or prosecuting applications, domestic or foreign, for patents (including reissues, continuations and extensions thereof) and copyrights related to such Developments or in vesting in Employer full legal title to such Developments. Employee shall assist and cooperate with Employer or its representatives in any controversy or legal proceeding relating to such Developments, or to any patents, copyrights or trade secrets with respect thereto. If for any reason Employee refuses or is unable to assist Employer in obtaining or enforcing its rights with respect to such Developments, he hereby irrevocably designates and appoints Employer and its duly authorized agents as his agents and attorneys-in-fact to execute and file any documents and to do all other lawful acts necessary to protect Employer’s rights in the Developments. Employee expressly acknowledges that the special foregoing power of attorney is coupled with an interest and is therefore irrevocable and shall survive (i) his death or incompetency, (ii) the termination of his employment with Employer and (iii) the termination of this Agreement.

  • Faculty Development Faculty who develop and/or teach Distance Education courses shall be provided with reasonable technical support and opportunities for Faculty development, consistent with the needs of the Faculty and availability of Board resources and services for that purpose. In the event that a Faculty member develops and/or teaches a Distance Education course for the first time, the Faculty member shall receive reasonable and appropriate professional development and technical support assistance, consistent with the needs of the Faculty and availability of Board resources and services for that purpose. In instances of succeeding assignments to teach Distance Education courses, the Faculty member is expected to demonstrate a level of technical competence sufficient to teach the course. Ongoing technical support assistance may be available to Faculty who teach succeeding offerings of the same course.

  • Termination of Development Grant Agreement The obligations of the Recipient under the Development Grant Agreement shall terminate on the date 20 years after the date of the Development Grant Agreement.”

  • Educator Plans: Improvement Plan A) An Improvement Plan is for those Educators with PTS whose overall rating is unsatisfactory.

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