Sentences with phrase «action groups focused»

In addition to growth - action groups focused explicitly on «women's liberation,» a variety of all - women growth groups organized around other objectives should be available, e.g., «Women's Sharing Group,» «Enrichment Group,» «Women in a Changing World.»

In 2017, network members organized into three action groups to focus on developing tools and resources for states in specific areas to continue this work past the life of NTEP, One action group focused on developing and building outcomes - oriented data systems for their educator preparation programs (EPPs) designed to:

Not exact matches

Earlier this week, my 29 «Foundations of Entrepreneurial Management» students at Babson College participated in a focus group that led one of my students to remark that she had always thought they were a waste of time until she saw one in action.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

Using principles of high performance and self - organization, Robert creates a game that lets the group to focus on what they are most passionate about then follow up with recorded insights and action items.

From this I conclude that world views reflect and give a focus to group experience, providing a map within which words and actions make sense.

World views reflect and give a focus to group experience, providing a map within which words and actions make sense.

Action - growth groups with a dual focus on personal development and training for some significant task.

Factors in the struggle of a people to exist as a corporate body are set forth in the four - function paradigm of Talcott Parsons.10 Although the adequacy of his analysis is challenged by other theories, especially those focused upon social change, 11 Parsons's model provides a useful delineation of the actions implicated in a group's toil to perpetuate itself.

The current draft is the product of a focused working group on genetic engineering convened by the IFOAM - Organics International Action Ggroup on genetic engineering convened by the IFOAM - Organics International Action GroupGroup.

One will focus on a featured group in the morning wave and then move to a second group in the afternoon wave of tee times, while another stream will show you all the action at the par - 3 17th (with some additional shots from Nos. 8 and 18).

Attendees included David Lammy MP and representatives from Action for Children, Barnardo's, Cardiff University, Centre for Social Justice, Child Accident Prevention Trust, Department for Education, DVIP, Family Rights Group, Focus Consultancy, Frontline, Local Authorities, London Probation, Morning Lane Associates, NSPCC, Open University, Respect, Royal College of Midwifery, Safeground, University of Bristol, as well as from the FI itself.

The HALF editorial board, plain language firm, and the researchers used this content to inform the evaluative focus groups, the themes for the HALF action oriented parent messages, and the HALF Physician Implementation Guide.

Strategic Plan Focus for July — Goals 2, 3, and 4 World BF Month is the perfect opportunity to promote a culture supportive and accepting of breastfeeding (goal 2) through parties and health fairs, etc., build, link, and ensure access to state and local resources (goal 3) by providing information to moms about resources online and in your community, and to engage stakeholders in alignment of goals and actions to increase breastfeeding support (goal 4) by pulling in other groups that work with moms and babies to help with World Breastfeeding Day / Week / Month (WBM) activities!

Julia Walsh of Frack Action, says while the groups are focusing their anger at Cuomo, that would quickly turn to praise if he were to act to ban fracking.

This action cuts back to the modern - day Westminster office, and swaps between this and enjoyable classroom antics as Sam attempts to do focus group - style research by teaching some pleasingly irreverent pupils in a school each week.

With a focus on addressing income inequality for 2014, a coalition of political action groups gathered Tuesday at noon at the State Capitol State Street entrance for the 24th annual People's State of the State rally.

Instead, Kink said, the focus will be on «people power,» organizing a network he estimates will eventually be several million people strong when you count all the unions involved — from 32BJ, CWA, 1199 and the AFL - CIO — to advocacy groups like Citizen Action, Communities for Change and the Center for Working Families.

«Unfortunately, «Citizens for District 13» — a group that my office has never heard of in the many years of dealing with community organizations — appears more focused on furthering a counterproductive anti-Independent Democratic Conference agenda than taking any action that has to do with a healthy and constructive debate about the future of this district,» he wrote.

Members of many of the new progressive groups, in fact, say they want a more civil discourse, and are leaning toward a nonpartisan model of action that focuses on issues and values.

But in reality, those pushing for his removal — including three other groups that petitioned Elia to take action — have remained focused not just on the comments published in Artvoice last December, but on Paladino's long history of making racially charged statements.

In the remaining nine months of 2014, pro-charter groups focused more on strengthening accountability measures for teachers and pushing the state and city to take immediate action to fix failing schools.

And it's not clear if gay donors and major national groups like the Gill Action Fund will so focus their attention and money as aggressively in New York after their money yielded a one - sided defeat.

The group includes the Hunger Action Network of New York State, FOCUS Churches of Albany and Capital District Area Labor Federation.

Some of the technology - focused changes the Assembly pledged to implement include making the functionality of the legislature's bill - tracking system available to the public; creating a web portal that includes all information related to bills, including committee actions and evaluations by outside groups; the creation of a C - Span like legislative television channel; making the content of the legislative library searchable online and modernizing the Assembly's phone system to include digital voicemail boxes.

This study also shows that the importance of biological diversity has been underestimated because previous research only focussed on individual trophic groups: «Our extensive research programme demonstrates how important it is to study the broader context and that there is a need for action to protect ecosystems,» summarises Fischer.

Aside from the hefty price tag, the program's focus on a racially defined group would normally be anathema to the Bush Administration and Republicans who oppose affirmative action and controversial even among many Democrats.

This year's Action Award honorees include global leaders in the fight to end cancer as we know it; a world leader in advancing the emerging field of regenerative medicine and game - changing cell therapy medical treatments; the president of a non-profit group focused on developing cures for chronic, debilitating and fatal diseases; a sickle cell and stem cell advocate and founder / science administrator of the Axis Advocacy; and the founding director of the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University.

Laurie Gerber is President of Handel Group ™ Life Coaching, an international coaching company, which specializes in teaching individuals to take focused and powerful action in every area of their lives.

Once you are standing, focus on a familiar group of actions to create stability in your standing leg and mobility in your left hip.

Coverage focuses on conventional and unconventional political behavior of individuals, and of large organizations that participate in the political process such as parties, interest groups, political action committees, governmental agencies.

In episode 206, Penn and Teller devote an entire episode to the cultural war on words and the power we give them, focusing on the latest actions of the FCC and other groups that subvert the First Amendment in their quest to «clean up» the airwaves.

Pudgy, disagreeable, mostly unattractive, and with patience for days, Frank felt like the diametric opposite of the sure - fire, focus - group'd - to - hell dirt bags that populated mid-aughts action games.

Focusing on the leaders of two groups — one in charge of a citizens» anti-cartel organization known as the Autodefensas, another the head of a self - appointed border patrol in Arizona — the pic finds most of its best moments in the action - packed scenes south of the Rio Grande.

These movies go for social relevance in the guise of comic - book action (Mutants are a convenient analogy for just about any downtrodden group) and usually wind up focusing on the latter.

Robocop, which is the American debut of Brazilian filmmaker Jose Padilha (known for gritty cop action - dramas like Elite Squad), updates the greed - is - good, Reaganesque world of the original for a slick, stylish and focus - grouped America beset with questions over whether or not to allow OmniCorp's robot soldiers to be used in America.

Even creator Stan Lee makes his patented hilarious cameo we've come to expect in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but overall, the blended elements of hilarity and possible ultimate destruction is lost in a blur of exhilarating, yet sometimes confusing action which focuses not so much on destroying the bad guys, but evacuating a group of civilian bystanders from an Eastern European metropolis.

We'll focus on policy progress and collective action among the leading college access and success organizations, looking for ways to help diverse groups achieve greater impact.

Considered one of the more underserved groups in education, early childhood education is now the focus of both legislative action and increased public discourse.

There are too many to mention here, but examples include free twilight CPD programmes to all staff within an alliance; placement schemes for senior leaders to gain experience of working in other schools and contexts; a mentoring programme for newly - employed heads; developing innovative programmes for School Direct trainees; SLEs offering one - day diagnostics as well as longer deployments focused on increasing attainment and progress in specific subjects; and the establishment of cross-alliance research groups meeting regularly to develop action research.

Voluntary action, free from direct economic benefits, is characterized by intrinsic motivations which promote, primarily by altruism focused towards the improvement of the social situation of certain human groups that are generally at a disadvantage against the human group which comes from the volunteer.

Students learn through the following tasks: - Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge of «propaganda» through a discussion - based starter task; - Using an interactive, out - of - seat, group activity to build understanding of the features of propaganda; - Reading chapters 7 and 8 with a particular focus on the character of Squealer, and demonstrating their understanding through a related activity sheet; - Developing their understanding of Squealer's actions, and finding textual evidence to back this up, through a scaffolded, retrieval activity; - Using their imaginative and creative skills, in addition to their knowledge of Squealer and propaganda posters, to construct their own propaganda poster for Animal Farm; - Peer assessing their partners» learning attempts.

Joellen Killion, the former NSDC director of special projects, added that a solid repertoire of professional learning is focused on student results — standards - based, school - based, and content - specific — and includes training, study groups, action research, and observation.

If a student in their learning group goes off task, for example, they can't control that student's actions, but they can focus their own attention on learning.

Both of these groups focus on bringing together educators to study education policy and take action as leaders in their community.

But knowing about character and putting character into action are two different things, so in 1987 a group of 120 concerned citizens gathered to decide which values would be important to focus on for the students and families in the Friendswood Independent School District.

Improving the educational outcomes of students receiving special education services, as for any other student group, requires a sustained focus on teaching and learning, aligned actions across the district, and continuous monitoring of the degree of implementation of such actions to assess the impact on student learning.

AppleTree, FOCUS and a small group of entrepreneurial non-profits established a strong foundation for the DC charter schools movement through advocacy and action.

Designed with blended learning and group learning in mind, the PD In Focus ® platform channel FIT Teaching ® in Action outlines the elements of the Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching ® (FIT Teaching), a tool for teachers that provides strategies they can use to elevate instruction.

His inquiry found evidence that concerns had already been raised, including an internal council email about claims that head teachers had been «hounded out... as a result of organised community action focused on a group of Muslim governors».