Sentences with phrase «initiative national model»

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We hope this project will serve as a model for future national initiatives that can be scaled with funds from programs such as the Green Climate Fund.»

«Our All Persons Trails initiative introduced at our wildlife sanctuaries has not only been a tremendous success statewide, it has become a national model, encouraging other groups and agencies across the country to engage their own communities as broadly as possible,» Clayton added.

Growing out of a field organizing initiative in the Obama 2008 campaign, National Field applies a social model to the gathering and distribution of information within a campaign.

«The 80 by 50 challenge is a significant goal and will require fundamental changes, which means that the early cost savings and sustainable applications of Schenectady and National Grid initiatives could serve as a model for other communities and utilities,» McCarthy said.

The study was partially funded by Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award; the Office of Naval Research; NOAA's Climate Program Office's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections; Willis Research Network; and the National Science Foundation.

Message from PSM National Office and NPSMA: 2017 PSM Initiatives and Unified Pricing Model (February, 2017)

They comprise not only an inter-institutional research initiative, but also serve to secure better integration and participation of national scientific communities into EMBL's activities, and opportunity for national institutions to benefit from the EMBL model.

On October 7, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted the local launch of the XQ: The Super School Project initiative — a national campaign, backed by Laurene Powell Jobs, president of the Emerson Collective (EC), calling on educators, students, and sector leaders to design a new high school model.

The initiative is run by the national education charity Future First which works in more than 400 state schools and colleges across Britain linking schools with their former students who act as career and education role models, mentors, work experience providers, governors, fundraisers and donors.

Superintendents, sports officials, and parents in Maine are rallying behind a major initiative billed as a national model for creating more positive athletic experiences for young people.

The new national educational technology plan highlights the Maine and Henrico County, Virginia, laptop initiatives as models other K - 12 schools should consider following.

The refusal to choose between one instructional emphasis or the other symbolizes the work being done to build career pathways in nine school districts as part of Linked Learning, an initiative cited as a national model of career and technical education.

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Frank Stasio also speaks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen, associate director of national outreach and community building with Education Reimagined, a non-profit initiative of Convergence that works to accelerate the growth and impact of the learner - centered education movement in the United States, about the range of nontraditional school models, the educational mindset they reflect and how they prepare children for work and life.

What the experimenters are attempting to achieve is concisely captured in this statement: «The ability of first - hand experience to inform and reinforce education is nothing new, but, at the College of Medicine, the idea is being given top priority in a first - of - its - kind initiative that could serve as a national model to transform how medicine is taught.»

One of the largest Native American tribes is the first community in the US to implement a hepatitis C elimination program to treat its citizens; federal officials say the initiative could serve as a national model.

Recognized as a national model and the best example of public - private partnership in Pennsylvania, the EITC program has allowed more than 40,000 students to attend the school of their choice in this school year alone, and hundreds of public school initiatives would have gone unfunded without this program.

The Forum's signature program, Schools to Watch (STW), is a national, state - operated model - school identification and school - improvement initiative focused on recognizing high - achieving schools serving grades five through eight.

A new initiative to reform how Wisconsin schools are held accountable could lead to the development of a national model, similar to welfare reform in the 1990s, according to a leading UW - Madison education researcher.

A clear example that poses a significant threat to the opportunity to learn for children who are suffering most from the achievement gap is the President's call to launch» a national competition to improve our schools» as the lead policy frame for the coming year's education reform - modeled on the Race to the Top and the Innovation Fund initiatives.

• anticipate and respond with agility to key national movements and initiatives in education • climb inside politicians» thinking • network tirelessly • maintain real credibility with teachers and school leaders • create high quality intellectual property • build the academy brand through its «model schools».

RESCUE50 is national educational initiative, which offers model no kill legislation and animal shelter reform instruction to the animal activist / animal welfare community.

On the evaluation I turned in, I was very honest and let them know I could not support their efforts because of their thoughts on potential model - dog legislation and their 3 - point national initiative.

Modeled on the international Healthy Parks Healthy People movement that originated in Australia, Healthy Parks Healthy People US complements President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative, a multi-agency effort that has sparked a national conversation on how to conserve open spaces and reconnect Americans to nature.

The initiative will serve as a national model for fostering inclusion and critical discussions through the arts.

Mr. Tamagna, who also serves as the Hudson River Navigator, American Heritage Rivers initiative, said, «Since we received the Preserve America designation, we have steadily built something that is a national model.

The initiative features three stages: a report discussing emerging trends in how social media and web 2.0 technologies can be used to provide legal education and information; a series of webinars exploring different models to provide access online to public legal education and information; and a national conference on technology and public legal education.

This issue describes innovations in three areas of the profession: a new virtual law school program that is global in scope and impact, a law firm using a new practice model to provide legal services in a flexible way, and an individual lawyer's initiative to form a national business referral network.

Systems of Care National Evaluation Logic Model (PPT - 23 KB) Describes the grantees» strategic planning of infrastructure and service delivery as well as the cross-site process and outcome evaluation for the initiative.

Nevertheless, the process of separate government responses and initiatives can yield best practice models which may, by way of a «bottom up» effect, develop into national legislation.

At Croakey last November, Leonie Young, CEO of the national depression initiative, beyondblue, outlined plans to introduce a new model for mental health care into Australia.

Importantly, states were required to spend at least three - quarters of the federal funds on home visiting models that met federal standards of evidence - based effectiveness.1 As many policy scholars have noted, that a national initiative brought the importance of evidence - based practice to the forefront of public policy is a triumph for social science and demonstrates the importance of rigorous program evaluation.2 With that triumph, however, comes a responsibility to ensure that the public's expectations for success of these programs are consistent with what researchers understand about the empirical evidence — will the same positive outcomes found in programs» randomized controlled trials emerge when those programs are taken to scale?

Healthy Families America (HFA), a national initiative launched in 1992 by Prevent Child Abuse America and modeled after Hawaii's Healthy Start, links expectant and new mothers to trained staff who provide home visits and referrals to community services.

From 2006 - 2010, the ECCP continued to provide statewide training and technical assistance services utilizing the Pyramid Model approach developed by the National CSEFEL including active participation in the development and implementation of the CSEFEL / Team TN State Partnership Initiative, one of 11 such initiatives in the United States.

In 2010, the initiative developed a Home Visiting Inventory, which provides state leaders, agency administrators and program directors with a state - by - state and national snapshot of home visiting programs, models and funding.