Sentences with phrase «quality initiatives including»

Key Highlights: • Championed quality initiatives including VAP and implementing CLB protocols.

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The most successful ones work on more than a dozen initiatives at any one time — including creating better quality content, improving conversion rates and overall content effectiveness, creating more visual content, reimagining or repurposing content, measuring ROI and becoming better storytellers.

Special items include expenses resulting directly from our business combinations and / or global restructuring, quality and operational excellence initiatives, including employee termination benefits, certain contract terminations, consulting and professional fees, dedicated project personnel, asset impairment or loss on disposal charges, certain litigation matters, costs of complying with our deferred prosecution agreement and other items.

Cailler chocolates are made from some of the finest ingredients available including selected cocoa beans from the Nestlé Cocoa Plan, an initiative to help farmers run profitable farms, improve social conditions in the cocoa growing communities and source good quality, sustainable cocoa for Nestlé products.

This workgroup has developed a quality improvement project initiative to enhance the safety of planned out - of - hospital birth transports, including a multi-disciplinary perinatal transport committee to review and improve transports.

The education and quality improvement initiatives also include a pilot to develop a stepped care model; it includes self - care kits to be disseminated statewide that provide information on when and where to access resources.

The Executive Budget includes no new resources to expand the state's under - funded early childhood quality initiative, QUALITYstarsNY.

In a study that included more than 71,000 stroke patients, implementation of a quality initiative was associated with improvement in the time to treatment and a lower risk of in - hospital death, intracranial hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain), and an increase in the portion of patients discharged to their home, according to the study appearing in the April 23/30 issue of JAMA, a neurology theme issue.

Julie's interpersonal qualities include a complement of intuitive perception as well as the ability to innovate and fully develop overall business strategies and methods that will clearly prove successful in relation to long term strategic operational, sales directives and general business growth initiatives.»

Happily, this sort of common sense is starting to re-enter the conversation (thanks, in part, to the persistence of the folks at Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity initiative, who called in 2011 for a broader approach to education reform, one that includes high - quality career technical education).

Budget includes $ 100 million for teacher - quality initiatives, half of which will be directed toward raising teacher salaries and half designed for financial rewards for teachers at low - performing schools whose students show marked academic gains.

With the number of annual tourists visiting West Flanders almost doubling from 415,000 to 800,000 in 2014, investment in five key areas: Ypres, Diksmuide, Nieuwpoort, Zonnebeke and Lijssenthoek has enhanced the visitor experience in numerous ways, including its emphasis on technology to offer interactive displays, improved accessibility for visitors with disabilities and the emergence of numerous quality educational initiatives.

They can try to do so indirectly, via initiatives to recruit and retain talented teachers, to implement high - quality curricula, or to include measures of student engagement in school accountability systems.

In addition, # 5.7 million will be invested into initiatives that boost literacy and numeracy skills, through the government's Strategic School Improvement Fund along with a # 7.7 million curriculum fund to encourage the development of high - quality teaching resources by organisations, including by leading cultural and scientific institutions.

As a final matter, Smarick notes that there is a glaring lack of collaboration among high - quality schools from the charter and private school sectors (though there are some exceptions, including initiatives undertaken by Schools That Can and the Philadelphia Schools Partnership).

But in the years since A Nation at Risk, the rhetoric of high expectations, accountability, and ensuring that all students - especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds - have an equal opportunity to receive quality education has been accompanied by a series of federal initiatives including Clinton's 1994 re-authorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary School Act, subsequent education «policy summits,» and George H. W. Bush's Goals 2000.

The Gates Foundation has invested $ 5B over the past decade in various school reform initiatives, including small school advocacy and teacher quality reform.

The new initiative grew out of The Wallace Foundation's years of work in youth development, including a dozen - year effort to encourage citywide coordination for afterschool that yielded more than 40 publications and found, according to a study by RAND, «that organizations across cities could work together toward increasing access, quality, data - based decision making and sustainability.»

The other interim charges considered by the committee at the hearing included examining current school board governance policies and practices and making recommendations that could improve the focus, attitudes and outcomes of Texas school boards, districts and students; studying existing board training requirements and making suggestions to educate school board trustees on policies that could achieve better student outcomes, particularly within the framework set for low - performing schools in House Bill 1842; and monitoring initiatives to build a high - quality pre-kindergarten grant program (HB 4).

Direct aid to public education — Funding appropriated for the operation of public schools, including funding for school employee benefits, Standards of Quality, incentive - based programs, allotment of sales tax and lottery revenues, and specific appropriations for programs such as Governor's Schools and adult literacy initiatives.

In remarks entitled «Race, Poverty, Power and Politics in our Education System,» Juneau detailed a trio of initiatives in her state to ensure that every child has an equal opportunity to a quality education, including raising high school graduation and reducing dropout rates and improving low - performing schools.

The report was updated to include context from two significant events that are pushing states to take a closer look at their accountability systems: the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (now known as ESSA) and the launch of the New Skills for Youth initiative, a competitive grant program funded by JPMorgan Chase & Co. that requires participating states to transform their systems to support high - quality career - focused education for all students.

Previously, she served as Chief of Staff for the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, informing the Administration's P - 20 policy and programmatic efforts on behalf of the nation's Latino students and families, including helping to secure over 150 private - and - public sector commitments with a collective investment of over $ 335 million to build on and accelerate federal, state, and local investments in high - quality education for the nation's Hispanic community, and launching the Federal Interagency Working Group to strengthen and align federal policy efforts with local initiatives.

Recent initiatives include: 1) implementing a citywide special education strategy to support teachers and leaders in providing high - quality services to students with disabilities 2) supporting the expansion of personalized instruction and innovative integration of technology in the classroom and 3) building a sustainable pipeline of high - quality teachers by supporting innovative pathways into the profession.

In crafting these policies, California can build on the expertise and examples of its counties, many of which have local quality improvement initiatives, including efforts to strengthen their ECE workforces.

The winter 2010 People Speak Poll, conducted in conjunction with the Center for Urban Initiatives and Research at UWM and The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee, focuses on water issues including quality, quantity, governance, and economic...

Her recent experience includes helping to develop initiatives to improve secondary school literacy, navigating policy issues affecting students in pre-k through college for higher education officials and ensuring that instructional practice in education is driven by high quality research.

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The curricula will draw from the Center for Collaborative Education's Quality Performance Assessment initiative, a framework and set of processes and tools that leverage assessment as an essential tool of equitable learning and teaching.The pilot includes micro-credentials addressing three stacks of teacher competencies:

The White House claims that ESSA «includes initiatives modeled after the Administration's programs to: Establish or expand access to high - quality, state - funded preschool... building from the Administration's Preschool Development Grants program.»

Mr. Ford's current duties include representing DOCR's initiatives in the DOT Chief Information Officer and Chief Financial Officer communities; serving as the key official and architect for the organization's information technology, procurement, human capital, budget, accounting, facilities management, record management, physical and cyber security, and other business programs; advising the Director and Deputy Director on critical mission related matters and program / process improvement possibilities; ensuring continuity of operations along with the delivery of secure, timely, accurate, and quality services and products; and overseeing DOCR's annual $ 10M budget formulation, execution, and justification processes.

Its catalogue includes an award - winning list of over 600 picture books, non-fiction and fiction titles for young readers, including the worldwide bestselling Franklin the Turtle, Scaredy Squirrel and CitizenKid series For over forty years, Kids Can Press has distinguished itself as a publisher of high - quality children's books and continues this tradition with its digital publications, custom publishing partnerships and brand marketing initiatives.

The MITx program is the pilot program of the MicroMasters initiative, which now includes 35 programs that offer a credential with a pathway to Master's credit, provide high - quality education from top universities to help learners launch or... Read More about Congratulations to the learners who completed the 1st ever MicroMasters program!

Program considerations include: TNR (Trap - Neuter - Return) for feral cats, low - cost, high - volume / high - quality spay neuter services, foster care programs, rescue group collaboration initiatives, pet retention programs, comprehensive adoption strategies and enhancing volunteer resources.

These include hygiene, water quality, sand quality, management and environmental education initiatives.

Through this partnership other branches of a unified tourism approach are also prioritized These areas of importance include Tourism & Health initiatives, Sustainability, Research and Quality Assurance.

Mexico City's air quality programmes include bus rapid transit (BRT) and Metrobus systems, the Ecobici bike - sharing programme, and an initiative that removed cars entirely from narrow streets to make room for buses and pedestrians.

It includes 127 initiatives on how we're going to achieve ten main goals, which include affordable housing, access to open space, cleaning up our brown fields, insuring proper transit infrastructure and shorter commutes, making sure we have clean, reliable energy, achieving the cleanest air quality of any big city, insuring our waterways are cleaner and our water network is secure so we have drinking water.

«He has led numerous high - profile campaigns including the introduction of a range of new initiatives to help to increase the quality of legal services provision in England and Wales and raise public awareness of solicitors» expertise,» the Law Society said.

Such initiatives include the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme and the Wills and Inheritance Quality Scheme.

During her tenure at the Commission, she worked on numerous groundbreaking initiatives, including execution quality disclosure rules, implementation of equities decimal pricing, short sale reforms and modernization of the national market system rules.

Duties include but are not limited to: • Execute strategy for the firm's integrated marketing, business development, communications, and recommend improvements to the strategy • Plan, develop, and execute projects and programs that support a practice group's strategic plan and track success • Support client engagement initiatives, including training for enhanced client service strategies, contact origination and relationship development, and education / thought leadership initiatives • Provide direction and manage production of proposals, PowerPoint presentations, and RFP responses for the practice groups • Provide direction and manage execution of practice group sponsorships, client presentations and seminars, and other events related to the promotion of the practice groups • Drive awareness / recognition, enhance quality and brand perception of the firm • Manage submissions for major awards, comprehensive survey response campaigns (e.g. Chambers), and related initiatives to further the awareness and positioning of the firm's practices and lawyers • Develop a deep understanding of the practice groups» strengths and market differentiators, including their client base and key market trends • Ensure consistent implementation of key initiatives and recommend strategies to cross-sell to adjacency practice areas • Recommend and help develop tactical marketing and business development plans • Collaborate with other members of the marketing team to ensure consistent messaging of practice group strengths in written materials, including website content

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has taken several recent actions that are likely to affect patent quality and litigation in the future, including agency initiatives and changes required by AIA.

In just the year 2015, Foresters invested more than $ 21 million in its member benefits, including $ 2 million into competitive scholarships for students, as well as more than $ 10.5 million towards community initiatives such as playground builds, beach clean - ups, care packages, and family fun days where the company's members are able to spend good, quality time with their loved ones at no charge.

My background includes successfully managing teams, processes, and initiatives to drive continuous quality control efforts and improvements.

Plan the development of testing programs including requirements analysis, protocols, process improvements and quality assurance initiatives.

Manage all Front Office operations to include, but not limited to, guest service and registration (check - in / check - out), room inventory and availability, guest service standards and initiatives, product quality, cost controls and overall profitability, marketing initiatives, systems use and management, budgeting and forecasting, department management, policy and procedure implementation and enforcement and meeting participation and facilitation

Assist in the management of all Front Office operations to include, but not limited to, guest service and registration (check - in / check - out), room inventory and availability, guest service standards and initiatives, product quality, cost controls and overal...

Manage all Front Office operations to include, but not limited to, guest service and registration (check - in / check - out), room inventory and availability, guest service standards and initiatives, product quality, cost controls and overall profitability, mark...

Assist in the management of all Front Office operations to include, but not limited to, guest service and registration (check - in / check - out), room inventory and availability, guest service standards and initiatives, product quality, cost controls and overall profitability, marketing initiatives, systems use and management, budgeting and forecasting, department management, policy and procedure implementation and enforcement and meeting participation and facilitation