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. 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 school year has included close connections with our Squamish E...
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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. a. The aim and purpose of this Section shall be to encourage creative and innovative teachers to experiment in order to better meet the educational needs of the students of the Delaware Valley Regional High School District. Applications for grants shall be submitted no later than December 1 and awards shall be announced no later than April 1. b. No individual grant under the terms of this Section shall exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00).
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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. 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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Innovation Grants. The Board agrees to afford a supervisor the opportunity of designing and implementing innovative educational ideas and techniques. A. The aim and purpose of this Section shall be to encourage creative and innovative supervisors to experiment in order to better meet the educational needs of the students of the Delaware Valley Regional High School District. Applications for grants shall be submitted no later than December 1 and awards shall be announced no later than April 1. B. No individual grant under the terms of this Section shall exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00).
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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.

  • 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. 9.2 Attendance at employer-required training will be considered time worked. The Employer will make reasonable attempts to schedule employer-required training during an employee’s regular work shift. The Employer will pay the registration, and associated travel costs in accordance with Article 23, Travel, for employer- required training.

  • Rights to Inventions Made Under a Contract or Agreement For any federally assisted contract, awarded to a small business firm or nonprofit organization as defined in 37 CFR

  • Inventions (i) The Employee acknowledges and agrees that all ideas, methods, inventions, discoveries, improvements, work products or developments (“Inventions”), whether patentable or unpatentable, (A) that relate to the Employee’s work with the Company, made or conceived by the Employee, solely or jointly with others, during the Employment Term, or (B) suggested by any work that the Employee performs in connection with the Company, either while performing the Employee’s duties to the Company or on the Employee’s own time, but only insofar as the Inventions are related to the Employee’s work as an employee or other service provider to the Company, shall belong exclusively to the Company (or its designee), whether or not patent applications are filed thereon. The Employee will keep full and complete written records (the “Records”), in the manner prescribed by the Company, of all Inventions, and will promptly disclose all Inventions completely and in writing to the Company. The Records shall be the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and the Employee will surrender them upon the termination of the Employment Term, or upon the Company’s request. The Employee will assign to the Company the Inventions and all patents that may issue thereon in any and all countries, whether during or subsequent to the Employment Term, together with the right to file, in the Employee’s name or in the name of the Company (or its designee), applications for patents and equivalent rights (the “Applications”). The Employee will, at any time during and subsequent to the Employment Term, make such applications, sign such papers, take all rightful oaths, and perform all acts as may be requested from time to time by the Company with respect to the Inventions. The Employee will also execute assignments to the Company (or its designee) of the Applications, and give the Company and its attorneys all reasonable assistance (including the giving of testimony) to obtain the Inventions for its benefit, all without additional compensation to the Employee from the Company, but entirely at the Company’s expense. (ii) In addition, the Inventions will be deemed Work for Hire, as such term is defined under the copyright laws of the United States, on behalf of the Company and the Employee agrees that the Company will be the sole owner of the Inventions, and all underlying rights therein, in all media now known or hereinafter devised, throughout the universe and in perpetuity without any further obligations to the Employee. If the Inventions, or any portion thereof, are deemed not to be Work for Hire, the Employee hereby irrevocably conveys, transfers and assigns to the Company, all rights, in all media now known or hereinafter devised, throughout the universe and in perpetuity, in and to the Inventions, including, without limitation, all of the Employee’s right, title and interest in the copyrights (and all renewals, revivals and extensions thereof) to the Inventions, including, without limitation, all rights of any kind or any nature now or hereafter recognized, including without limitation, the unrestricted right to make modifications, adaptations and revisions to the Inventions, to exploit and allow others to exploit the Inventions and all rights to xxx at law or in equity for any infringement, or other unauthorized use or conduct in derogation of the Inventions, known or unknown, prior to the date hereof, including, without limitation, the right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom. In addition, the Employee hereby waives any so-called “moral rights” with respect to the Inventions. The Employee hereby waives any and all currently existing and future monetary rights in and to the Inventions and all patents that may issue thereon, including, without limitation, any rights that would otherwise accrue to the Employee’s benefit by virtue of the Employee being an employee of or other service provider to the Company.

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