Sentences with phrase «aimed at engagement»

In our mixed - methods longitudinal study entitled, «Reflectiveness, Adaptivity, and Support: How Teacher Agency Promotes Student Engagement,» we examined teachers» perceptions of student engagement over three years as they receive student survey data and PD aimed at engagement.

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The new features are aimed at improving user engagement with direct response ads, encouraging actions such as clicking on a link or downloading an app.

Rebel Ventures invests in and / or advises startups at any stage aiming to transform the worlds of sports and entertainment through innovative products or services that focus on fan engagement, media + technology and enhancing consumer brand experiences.

Marketing, on the other hand, usually creates content that is aimed at improving search rankings, website engagement and traffic.

A total of $ 809 million was invested in technology aimed at improving engagement — with nearly half of that going to Chinese company Guahoa, which develops mobile apps to locate providers and schedule appointments.

January 11: Facebook unveils significant changes to its News Feed aimed at bumping up social interactions between friends and family over news articles, videos, or what they consider passive engagement.

Linking schemes aimed at increasing a website's volume of inbound links often means acquiring links from websites with limited audience engagement and little value to real users.

Focus on the Family and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) are hosting a new conference just before the rally «aimed at increasing the level of engagement in the pro-life cause among evangelical Christians.»

FI project aims to improve safeguarding in four EU countries through better engagement with fathers Serious Case Review summaries across the world (plus a substantial body of research) reveal that family professionals working with children at risk of harm commonly fail to engage well with men in families where there are safeguarding concerns.

Most projects aimed at improving engagement with fathers focus on men whose children have already been born.

Speaking to Citi Business News in Copenhagen, at a reception by her office to welcome four Ghanaian journalists on a press trip at the invitation of the Danish Government, Her Excellency Mrs. Amerley Ollenu Awua - Asamoa, said Government's policy of diaspora engagement is aimed at attracting Ghana's high quality manpower to help bring home the needed investment to drive the government's industrialization agenda.

«The Programme aims to enhance engagements between state and non-state actors to build consensus around identified urban development priorities and amplify Africa's voice at the global level towards HABITAT III.

Also getting a good spot at the front is Baroness Sal Brinton, the wheelchair - bound Liberal Democrat president who previously chaired the party's diversity engagement group aimed at increasing the number of black and female Lib Dems.

This weekend saw the Methodist Church hold a meeting aimed at «re-invigorat [ing] its engagement with the education sector».

Buratai said the workshop aimed at improving the managerial abilities of middle cadre officers, is timely due to the enormous contributions of this cadre towards operational the army's engagements.

As senior advisor for public engagement at City Hall, Fromberg worked on the launch of universal pre-K, and in 2015 oversaw the roll - out of a $ 4.7 million unit aimed at proactively reaching out to New Yorkers and connecting them to services like eviction prevention programs or permanent housing options.

Business News of Tuesday, 8 May 2018 Source: ghananewsagency.org Chief Executive Officer, Global Media Foundation, Ralphael Godlove Ahenu A network aimed at facilitating active engagements between citizens and governments to deepen decentralisation and enhance social accountability at national and local levels has been set - up.

Quinn's engagement in the negotiations that led to the compromise came as a dozen or so Council members had pledged to support a motion to discharge on Brewer's legislation, a parliamentary move aimed at sidestepping Quinn's opposition to allowing a vote.

He notes that the Royal Society in London has held meetings aimed at improving engagement, but U.S. groups «don't really have the infrastructure in place.

It is aimed at faculty members interested in innovative methods for presenting their research to the public, conducting research in collaboration with community organizations, or seeking to incorporate public engagement in their courses.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

But before the cozy couple barely has a chance toast their engagement, the grateful groom - to - be finds himself deputized by his new partner and drawn away to participate in a sting operation ostensibly aimed at the cocaine dealer responsible for the drug overdose of the Secretary of Defense's daughter.

We speak to Mere Berryman, from the University of Waikato in Hamilton, about a program aimed at increasing engagement among Maori secondary school students in New Zealand and the implications for educators here in Australia.

To extend the product line in 2018, the company plans to release a new product in the Customer Learning and Software training category aimed at helping organizations improve product trials, onboard customers, and increase engagement.

Aimed at children aged 10 to 17, bMoneywize offers a fun, interactive and innovative way to address low financial literacy, poor numeracy, low educational attainment and engagement with mathematics.

The focus is aimed at the AQA image stimulus and preparing pupils for this visual description and how to build imagery and engagement.

Budding Brunels is a schools engagement programme aimed at students from diverse backgrounds, with the aim to inform and inspire them about professional opportunities available within the construction industry.

In this episode, we focus on a program aimed at increasing engagement among Maori secondary school students in New Zealand and the implications for educators here in Australia.

Her collaborative spirit includes engagement with other RIO initiatives, which connect the knowledge generated at the School to education professionals, with an aim to improve educational practice and raise student achievement.

Overall, we encourage educators to consider a range of strategies aimed at promoting positive student motivation and engagement (Martin, Collie, Papworth, Ginns, Calvo & Malmberg).

The rationale for learning technology has shifted too, from simply a system of record (the primary purpose of the traditional LMS), towards engagement (the purpose of the modern LMS), towards systems of productivity, and a new breed of technologies aimed at affecting the work itself by being user - centric, not just in design but also in application.

target learners» cognitive engagement by pitching developmentally appropriate content that is explicitly aimed at enhancing scientific literacy;

By aiming your digital learning products at real user needs, you are more likely to get high engagement levels, obtain great user feedback and, importantly, drive your customers» all important KPIs — be it more sales, higher productivity, less incidents, no compliance breaches, or higher profits.

The TextNow Transition Programme aimed to improve the reading comprehension skills of pupils at the transition from primary to secondary school by encouraging engagement in, and enjoyment of, reading.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

During her seven - year tenure, she gained a national reputation as one of the most effective urban district superintendents in the country for her successful implementation of «Excellence For All,» a comprehensive strategic plan aimed at improving teaching and learning and promoting community engagement.

In exploring our qualitative data, we examined district policies and practices that may foster or inhibit parental and community engagement aimed at increasing student learning.

The program's primary objective is to increase access for urban youth to school - based, culturally - sensitive, and trauma - informed mental health services that are aimed at raising students» awareness of the impact of trauma on well - being, enhancing students» positive coping skills, promoting students» attitudes toward school engagement, increasing graduation rates, and improving the overall psychosocial well - being of urban youth.

Which district policies and practices foster or inhibit family and community engagement aimed at increasing student learning?

We aim to increase productive instructional time and school engagement by collaborating with SFUSD to provide prevention and intervention at many levels of the school community: student, caregiver, school staff, school district, and policy.

Analytics may be used to take proactive action aimed at mitigating learning risks and improving students» engagement and performance.

A review of interventions aimed at supporting and improving parental engagement in the education of children aged 5 - 19.

FIS supports strong family - school partnerships through its many programs aimed at parent engagement for families.

Teachers work together to create scaffolds aimed at increasing engagement and revise and share writing and assessment tools.

In addition, he joined Joshua DuBois, special assistant to the president and executive director of the White House Office of Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, at a town hall meeting at Memorial Middle School to announce Together for Tomorrow, a new administration initiative to both spotlight existing community efforts to turn around persistently low - performing schools, and encourage new community engagement that aims to do this for other schools.

This was aimed at developing effective parental engagement practice in the UK.

Dave Cobb, from the National College of Education, which was set up last October to run courses aimed at helping schools use their levy money, said his organisation had spoken to more than 40 trusts and signed up around 400 apprentices, but was worried about schools» engagement.

In the context of education, the trend of using game elements in non-game contexts, termed otherwise gamification, aims at increasing the engagement and motivation of students, capturing their interest to continue learning and influencing their classroom behavior.

Both books are memorable for their profound engagement with the devastating complexities, paradoxes, and staggering personal tolls of war — and equally, for the fact that these brilliant insights arise out of works of literature aimed not at adults, but at young people.

Authors at the moment can make a living and can also fulfill their creative intentions and whatever their aims and goals are around their creativity in terms of everything from self - expression to full on engagement with readers whereby they kind of set up a working system, an ecosystem of readers that supports them.