Sentences with phrase «media education initiatives»

Media education initiatives vary across Canada.

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Spanning from the launch of plant - based restaurants in Istanbul, London and Munich, to the development of innovative initiatives as culinary media spokesperson for Whole Foods Market's global healthy eating programme, Sarno has brought his unique culinary style to a vast array of projects before joining Rouxbe as VP of Plant - Based Education.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Shedd Aquarium has an extensive library of photos and videos for media use, including images of our animals, conservation projects, education initiatives and facilities.

Few would argue that video games can do it all in terms of education, says Scot Osterweil, a research director in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies program and creative director of the school's Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote education, says Scot Osterweil, a research director in Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Comparative Media Studies program and creative director of the school's Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote Education Arcade initiative to explore how games can be used to promote learning.

CHMP is an interdisciplinary initiative shaping crucial conversations about heath and healthcare, through media, research, education, and public forums.

I am a Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab, where I lead the Learning over Education (L0E) initiative, teach courses, and conduct research.

Organizers of the XQ project seemed to understand instinctively that public engagement, media communications, and grassroots authenticity would be integral to their success and that these elements had been lacking in nearly every other previous education initiative.

Australia's first Media Literacy Week, an initiative of ABC Education, is scheduled to be held in September.

Since arriving at PZ in 2003, James has worked with Howard Gardner and colleagues on the Good Project and co-directed several multi-year initiatives, including The Good Play Project, (a MacArthur Foundation - Funded initiative focused on youth, ethics, and new digital media) and the Good Participation Project (a study of MacArthur's Youth and Participatory Politics Research Network focused on civic participation and civic education in the digital age and).

As part of a three - year United States Department of Education - funded initiative, students and teachers at Satellite Academy are now working with EVC staff to examine media violence and its impact on their lives.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

The intense media interest on this highly political education initiative allied to the promised professional autonomy proved to be a lethal combination for some with the consequence that hubris triumphed over humility, and a number of careers were damaged in the fall out.

During the Summer Institute, educators heard about the latest trends in education from a variety of noted experts, including Trace Dominguez, Host of TestTube's DNews, Discovery Digital Networks; Hall Davidson, Senior Director of Global Learning Initiatives at Discovery Education; Steve Dembo, Director of Social Media Strategy and Online Community at Discovery Education; and Dean Shareski, Community Manager at Discovery Educatioeducation from a variety of noted experts, including Trace Dominguez, Host of TestTube's DNews, Discovery Digital Networks; Hall Davidson, Senior Director of Global Learning Initiatives at Discovery Education; Steve Dembo, Director of Social Media Strategy and Online Community at Discovery Education; and Dean Shareski, Community Manager at Discovery EducatioEducation; Steve Dembo, Director of Social Media Strategy and Online Community at Discovery Education; and Dean Shareski, Community Manager at Discovery EducatioEducation; and Dean Shareski, Community Manager at Discovery EducationEducation Canada.

A highly respected industry leader with more than 20 years of media, marketing, partnership strategy, and business development expertise, Lori McFarling oversees Discovery Education's global marketing initiatives, including public - private partnerships, events, and public affairs activities worldwide.

Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College that develops and provides lesson plans, media materials, training, and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels, including integration with the new common core standards.

National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Leadership Richard W. Burrows, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Co-Chair, Newark (New Jersey) Public Schools, Special Assistant / Arts Dr. Pam Paulson, National Coalition for Core Arts Standards Media Arts Committee Co-chair, Perpich Center for Arts Education Minnesota Dr. Amy Jensen, Department Chair, Theatre and Media Arts Department, Brigham Young University Marcia McCaffrey, President, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, New Hampshire Department of Education Dr. Nancy Rubino, Senior Director, Office of Academic Initiatives, The College Board Ms. Cory Wilkerson, State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education, Project Manager

Previously, White managed a UCLA - based communications institute that — on behalf of the Annie E. Casey Foundation — helped nonprofit coalitions in six cities develop media projects and communications strategies to promote initiatives related to education, health and community development.

EVALUATING PRIVACY IN ED TECH: The nonprofit Common Sense Media's education initiative this week launched a platform to evaluate the privacy and security of education technology software that's being used in schools across the country.

In stunning expose written by Adam Johnson of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), it becomes undeniably clear that Bill Gates has reached the point where his billions not only fund the myriad of corporate education reform initiatives that are sweeping the country and the world, but his investment in the media taints much of the coverage of these developments.

At a news briefing hosted by the Education Media Centre, leading figures from the Wellcome Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation launched a six million pound funding initiative for new rigorous and -LSB-...]

In the course of this work, she has spearheaded a number of media ventures to amplify and elevate student voice on education issues, including initiatives that garnered Peabody and regional Emmy awards.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

The Teach video segments are available to view and to download as windows media files for use as part of non-commercial, investor education and protection initiatives.

Administered by LA County's arts education initiative, Arts for All, these grants are matched by school district funds and offer resources to advance high quality instruction in dance, media arts, music, theatre and visual arts.

The money is readily available to launch such an initiative in an area such as Chicago, both from government agencies which in recent years are investing more than $ 20 million annually in climate change education initiatives and from private foundations which as I detail in the Climate Shift report invested more than $ 360 million in climate change and energy initiatives, but only a little more than a $ 1 million of this funding went to direct support for media organizations or projects.

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.

There are also initiatives that draw together different partners to foster innovation in particular areas, such as Brighton Fuse, which supports connections between higher education and digital technology and media businesses in the area.

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Nashville, TN About Blog Performing Songwriter Enterprises and its various media initiatives focus on celebrating music, shining a spotlight on songwriters, reinforcing the importance of music and arts education and affirming the value of music and its creators in all of our lives.

The initiative involves supporting and strengthening secular and faith - based marriage education programs and using the media and the internet to motivate couples to learn relationship skills.

She serves as a consultant to international, national, state and community leaders and appears regularly in the media as an expert on marriage education and marriage strengthening initiatives.

These are the promises of Galli Galli Sim Sim: that one early childhood education initiative can make a difference on a scale unique to mass media, and that in a nation as complex and diverse as India, we can make every child believe Chamki when she says, «Stay in school, study, work hard; there isn't anything you can't do.»

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