Sentences with phrase «act as interventions»

In this way, the works act as interventions in, or extensions of, the history and public image of Wave Hill.

In turn, both works act as interventions of the traditional gallery space.

The structure acts as an intervention within the gallery space, its presence seeming to offer a solid permanence rich in embedded iconography.

Acting as interventions, the various works on view offer notions of tension, movement, resistance, and corruption.

DOI: 10.1521 / ijct.2017.10.2.115 (note that this is a review of ACT related concepts, not of ACT as an intervention)

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Some classical theists are now saying that natural evils — such as famines, floods, and earthquakes — are due to the constraints of any created world, not to acts of divine intervention.

We do not think of His acting as an occasional intervention coming from the outside, but rather as the transcendent creative activity of God who alone makes it possible for our world to «hold together» and to rise, in accordance with His plan, step by step higher, so that really new things appear in it and finally man appears in it.

To interpret significant events as special acts of God is to turn God into an agent of mechanical intervention.

The English vicar and novelist Charles Kingsley wrote to Darwin, «I have learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of Deity, to believe that He created primal forms capable of self - development into all forms needful... as to believe that He required a fresh act of intervention to supply the lacunas which He himself made» (F. Darwin, 288).

«The flood is described in natural terms as the effects of sins (of violence in particular) with no divine act of intervention; only with the subsiding of the waters is God's activity stated explicitly» (Fretheim, God and World, 80).

GFI is also involved in a research project to investigate interventions to help mitigate concerns over naturalness, which act as a barrier to clean meat acceptance in the U.S.

We compared medical intervention rates for the planned home births with data from birth certificates for all 3 360 868 singleton, vertex births at 37 weeks or more gestation in the United States in 2000, as reported by the National Center for Health Statistics, 10 which acted as a proxy for a comparable low risk group.

What do you know... Normal birth is a vaginal birth without any evil interventions, with pain with good purpose, and a midwife holding your hand, basically acting as epidural.

One of the corollaries of Mettler's book is that the existence of the submerged state acts as a systematic barrier to proper recognition of government intervention.

When grafted to what Acting President Yemi Osinbajo reports as 17.24 per cent inflation rate, (the NBS says it is 16.25), you'll see that the CBN's foreign exchange intervention is mere crocodile tears.

The intervention will be seen as significant as Brady acts as an important conduit between Number 10 and the Conservative party at large.

Most of thew times, we see military intervention is to «protect the civilians» or to serve as «help» in the conflict but the history show us military often choose a side (usually, not always rebels) to «protect and help»; remember for example, NATO acted in Libya to help civilians; we know know they only protected the rebels.

NDDC Seeks EFCC's Collaboration The acting managing director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari has called for the support and collaboration of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in helping the agency fulfill its mandate as an intervention agency.

They equipped the students who were interested in acting as peer mentors with intervention tools, such as active listening, peer support techniques, and a suicide prevention method known as QPR — question, persuade, and refer to professionals for help — that can be applied to acute depression and severe anxiety.

«But we designed the observations so students acted as their own control, and each section outperformed the other on the topic for which it received the intervention.

«The widespread availability of health insurance through the Affordable Care Act may serve as a universal prevention intervention to help reduce prenatal substance use.»

«With the mother's body acting as a heart and lung bypass machine, the EXIT procedure allows life - saving fetal interventions while maintaining in - utero circulation,» said Dr. Galan.

Not only does guano act as an amazing fertilizer, it also helps to distribute seeds, which is especially helpful in places where natural vegetation has suffered due to man's interventions.

Two hormonal regulators which have been studied are leptin and ghrelin, whose effects on energy balance are in a large part mediated by the hypothalamus.87 Leptin, a peptide hormone secreted by adipose tissue, acts to reduce appetite.87 Circulating levels are proportional to adiposity and so decline during weight - loss, thus increasing appetite, however this reduction is believed to be disproportionately greater than the change in fat - mass.82 As expected, IER (60 - 85 % ER on restricted days) weight - loss interventions have all noted a decline in leptin levels 39, 41, 46 - 49, 52, comparable with energy - matched CER protocols after three months 48 and six months.41

This is the best time to act on lifestyle interventions as it's so much easier to prevent damage at this point!

Watching the destruction of Jordan acted as a documentarian's insight that felt like I was watching «Intervention» without the family that cares.

During the Plenary session 1 - Education Post-2015 in May 19, Mr. Vernor Munoz (Global Education Advisor at PLAN International) acted as moderator for the following interventions:

Undoubtedly, CCTV continues to play an important role in keeping a watchful eye on critical perimeter areas, acting both as a deterrent and an active measure for early intervention.

As part of his budget, the Republican governor proposed pulling out of part H of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, which sets rules for early - intervention services for children from birth to age 3 and requires participating states to guarantee certain coverage.

Now, other states are borrowing the approach as they look for ways to ratchet up interventions to help schools improve and thus meet accountability goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

To correct for this, we perform what economists call a «treatment on the treated» analysis to produce estimates of the effects that a trusted organization such as the College Board or ACT would achieve were it to conduct the intervention.

«We want ThinkWell to act as an early intervention - empowering young people to talk about mental health before they reach a point of a crisis.

We believe the latter results are more relevant for policy because a scaled - up version of the ECO-C Intervention would likely attract more attention from students and their families if it came from a widely known organization such as the College Board or ACT.

The information obtained by a mentor through interaction with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program shall not be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher, unless withholding such information poses a danger to the life, health, or safety if an individual, including but not limited to students and staff of the school; or unless such information indicates that the new teacher has been convicted of a crime, or has committed an act which raises a reasonable question as to the new teacher's moral character; or unless the school district or BOCES has entered into an agreement, negotiated pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law whose terms are in effect, that provides that the information obtained by the mentor through intervention with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program may be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher.

The briefing was based on a study LPI recently conducted with the National Education Policy Center and highlighted community schools — that is, schools that partner with local agencies to provide integrated academic, health, and social services to the community — as a school improvement approach that meets the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requirement for «evidence - based» interventions.

The proposed investment in Title I, including the increased amount directed to interventions and support for schools in need of improvement, is welcome, as our states and school districts develop new plans to advance academic achievement under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

Moreover, the Every Student Succeeds Act calls out teacher leadership as an intervention strategy.

Consulting services for MTSS / Response - to - Intervention as it pertains to ESEA / ESSA Act which requires districts and schools to develop multi-tiered systems of services, supports, strategies, and interventions for students who are academically at - risk, underachieving, unresponsive, and / or unsuccessful.

Now Ritz, a former teacher and union activist, will get to back local control for the four IPS takeover schools as the Indianapolis mayor's office acts as an alternative to state intervention.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 allows schools to use a child's response to research - based intervention (RTI) as a part of procedures to identify students with

It establishes that as an intervention strategy for school improvement, community schools meet the critera for an «evidence - based strategy» laid out in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

With a goal of promoting effective school leadership as a strategy for district and school success, the Report provided «a synthesis of the evidence about the effectiveness of school leadership interventions, identifie (d) activities that should be allowable under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and offer (ed) guidance to educators and policymakers on the use of research - based practices in school leadership.»

Wherever possible, this means randomising schools or pupils, so that you have two similar groups of participants, one receiving the new intervention, the other acting as a control group.

Title I, Part D, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended, also called the Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth who are Neglected, Delinquent or At - Risk Act, provides financial assistance to educational programs for youths in state - operated institutions or community day programs.

Essential Functions: • Act as subject matter expert on learning, learning technologies, and learning solutions and apply knowledge of adult learning theory to the design and development of learning interventions.

As I've laid out before, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has several ambiguities that seem to keep the door open for continued federal control over state standards, tests, and accountability mechanisms, even as the law has some provisions that seem to prohibit federal interventioAs I've laid out before, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has several ambiguities that seem to keep the door open for continued federal control over state standards, tests, and accountability mechanisms, even as the law has some provisions that seem to prohibit federal interventioas the law has some provisions that seem to prohibit federal intervention.

Acting on these concerns, the principal and teachers revamped the school's instructional program in the fall of 2006, introducing a framework best known as «response to intervention,» or RTI.

The children who are exploding, acting out, are now flagged as problematic, and then more support services or interventions are provided.

The reauthorization of the U.S. Elementary and Secondary Education Act, referred to as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), emphasizes evidence - based interventions while giving states and districts new flexibility on the use of federal funds, including funds that could be used to support social and emotional learning (SEL).

Faced with persistent failure as a result of their poor literacy skills, these students frequently become frustrated, disengage from school, «act out» behaviorally, and without significant interventions and supports to address their literacy deficits, may drop out of school and face a lifetime of severely diminished economic prospects.