![]() ![]() “The Gap App Challenge is an important step forward in Mayor Bloomberg’s digital roadmap for New York City,” said Rachel Haot, Chief Digital Officer. “The Gap App Challenge will enable us to provide our schools with innovative and powerful new tools that will enhance learning in the classroom.” “Providing our students with the support they need is essential for their success, especially during their middle school years,” said Chancellor Walcott. “Our public schools are more successful today than ever before, and the pioneering new technology we gain through the Gap App Challenge will better prepare more students for their future.” “New York City is home to more and more of the world’s most successful startups, and by channeling that tremendous creative energy into our public schools, we can help our students thrive,” said Mayor Bloomberg. The Mayor and Chancellor made the announcement at the East Bronx Academy for the Future, an iZone school, where they were joined by Principal Sarah Scrogin, Chief Digital Officer Rachel Haot and IDEO partner Duane Bray. It is the first such competition to be led by a school district in the country, and also the first in a series of challenges the City will host to develop new teaching tools. The competition is a part of the Department of Education’s Innovation Zone (iZone) program, which includes 250 schools that use new approaches to help students learn at their own pace. The winning programs will be announced this June and all submissions will be considered for school-based pilots to begin next fall. The Gap App Challenge invites developers to submit applications, games or other programs that focus on middle school math and can be used by students, teachers or parents. Walcott today launched a new software development competition for programs to help middle school students excel in math. Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Dennis M. With characteristic self-deprecating humor, Walcott said that in retrospect, the highlight of his appointment as dean of the faculty was "the fact that everybody survived intact.JanuGap App Challenge is First Such Competition to be Led by a School District in the Nation, and First in a Series the City Will Host to Develop New Teaching Tools ![]() He stepped down as the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director of the Laboratory in 1995 and resumed teaching and research. ![]() in zoology at Cornell in 1959 and taught at Harvard and Tufts universities and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he returned to Cornell as director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology in 1981. " learned that neither one of us particularly had cloven hooves, that we could discuss issues that both sides were facing," he said, and that if a difficulty were to arise again, these communication bridges were now established.Īfter Walcott earned a Ph.D. Now, thanks in part to Walcott, there are semiannual meetings between the University Faculty Committee (an executive committee of the faculty senate) and members of the board of trustees to keep communication lines open. "I don't think either side was pleased by the results, but the trustees were bound by confidentiality agreements, and the faculty were, therefore, unsatisfied with what they learned." "There was a huge faculty outcry about that, and I tried very hard to promote conversation between the faculty and the trustees," Walcott said. His job as dean, Walcott said, was mainly to keep "the ship moving in the right direction and facilitating communication." When President Jeff Lehman resigned in 2005 after two years in office, Walcott said communication between faculty and trustees was a challenge. Walcott said he finds Cornell "remarkably collegial," and just as past deans had offered their support to him when he became dean, he will gladly do the same for his successor. ![]() The normal term for dean of the faculty is three years Walcott was appointed for an additional two years. Three candidates are campaigning for the deanship prior to the March 7 deadline for faculty votes: William (Bill) Fry, professor, plant pathology Jennifer Gerner, professor, policy analysis and management and Daniel (Pete) Loucks, professor, civil and environmental engineering. I don't plan to go anywhere, so as long as they'll let me sit in my office somewhere." "I am looking forward to having more time to do research and explore some of the other things I'd like to play with. "I look forward to returning to civilian life," said Walcott, professor of neurobiology and behavior who is an expert in the in the areas of territorial vocalizations of birds and the navigational orientation of animals. When Dean of the University Faculty Charles Walcott's five-year term ends June 30, he plans to retire from the university. ![]()
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