Sentences with phrase «based initiative involving»

For instance, if the project is a language arts research - based initiative involving readings about Civil Rights leaders.

Durlak et al. (2011) conducted one meta - analysis of 213 school - based initiatives involving more than 270,000 students who participated in evidence - based SEL programs and it showed an 11 percentile - point gain in academic achievement compared to students who did not participate in SEL programs.

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The initiative is the most ambitious foreign policy that any contemporary Chinese leader has ever introduced, framed on the basis of mutual benefits and facilitates connectivity of policy, trade, financial, infrastructure, and people - to - people between the countries involved.

This involved the text - based alert system initiative introduced to notify Tesla owners that their car is reaching its preset charging requirements.

Art serves API in business roles and is increasingly involved in initiatives to develop, compile and disseminate API's research base.

Based upon research conducted by the National Center for Fathering (NCF) and our experiences with local court initiatives, this curriculum provides «culturally» relevant material that addresses many issues for fathers involving fragile families in urban areas.

Give them choices for what to wear on a daily basis to involve them in the dressing process — having some control over their wardrobe will empower them to take more initiative.

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

And Esmond Harmsworth, a Boston - based literary agent who has supported gay rights initiatives and gay - friendly politicians for years, also involved in the Rhode Island gay marriage fight, gave $ 4,775.

He also reported receiving between $ 20,000 and $ 50,000 from CHA, an Albany - based engineering firm that also has business with the state, including some involved in Cuomo's «Buffalo Billion» upstate economic development initiative.

Three decades later, the Birmingham non-profit organization is deeply involved in a broad - based initiative to find a cure for HIV infection, which the World Health Organization has blamed for 35 million deaths globally.

The second initiative involved setting up school - based enterprises, which Uibo hopes will contribute to a long - term solution that provides students with practical employment skills, develops their numeracy and language skills, and contributes to job creation within the community.

As Director of National Programs at National Writing Project, Tanya oversees a wide range of cooperative research and program development initiatives involving NWP's university - based local sites.

The most successful school initiatives use research - based strategies, involve collaboration, rely on data decision - making, and continuously evolve to meet the needs of a diverse school population and community.

He has been deeply involved in MSF's teen health policy work, which includes Creating Health and Responsible Teens (CHART), an evidence - based sex education initiative, and also serves as a trainer for sex educators from their partner districts.

This past Saturday, those involved with Arizona State University's edXchange initiative invited me to speak on VAMs and my new book, Rethinking Value - Added Models: Critical Perspectives on Tests and Assessment - Based Accountability.

IDRA used a research - based classroom - based professional development initiative involving Head Start and public school teachers to form a seamlessly - integrated instructional program to prevent children from encountering reading difficulties when they enter school.

Findings presented in this report are primarily based on extensive field surveys with teachers, principals, and district administrators involved in the LDC (and MDC) initiatives.

The interview and artifactual data used for this study were gathered from teachers and administrators in four «demonstration» districts that were involved in a standards - based professional development initiative within the MELAF project.

The announcements that excited me most this weekend, however, were those to do with various publishers» digital initiatives, including some pretty impressive - sounding details about Jmanga, a massive web - based project involving most of Japan's major manga publishers, expected to launch in August.

However, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that our current exhibition by the Albuquerque - based collective, Basement Films, entitled «Happiness is a Warm Projector» (on view through May 31), is mounted in conjunction with the «On the Map» initiative in Albuquerque, and I believe we're the only Santa Fe arts organization involved in that effort.

Raqs Media Collective is based in New Delhi, India and the members remain closely involved with the Sarai program at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, an initiative they co-founded in 2000.

Given its close collaboration with artists, researchers, and the relevant initiatives and institutions at home and abroad, HeK serves as a vibrant hub for people involved in electronic art and digital culture: a media art competence centre that is based in Switzerland but hardwired to global discourse.

We also discussed several of the recent community - based initiatives that the gallery has launched such as artist talks, recent exhibitions, the Legacy Project, and projects that the gallery is involved in today.

Prior to joining CGD, Gleave conducted field research in Nigeria and Uganda, working on various projects involving the Nollywood film industry, SMS - based crowdsourcing initiatives, perceptions of foreign aid, and NGO effectiveness.

The project activities are based around close cooperation with locals within the project area, who play and active part in all initiatives with involve the strengthening of a sustainable economy.

Though a separate initiative, she says, PBSC's ID Clinic Project has partnered with Sketch (a Toronto - based resource centre for street - involved transgender youth) to assist transgender youth in securing their name and gender marker change on ID.

Eversheds Sutherland took home the legal services innovation award for its startup support initiative Eversheds Disrupt, the concept of London - based trainee Jocey Nelson — part of Evershed's firm - wide innovation contest aimed at engaging staff who are not usually involved in the innovation process.

He's also involved with an initiative called Houston.AI which began with the realization that emerging technologies, based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, had tremendous potential to improve access to legal services.

She is also actively involved in environmental initiatives, and led a community - based conservancy project and referendum campaign to preserve an important wildlife corridor and wetlands area in Chelsea, Quebec.

To increase efficiency even further, KPMG will also be involved in this initiative by developing a repository program to solve common problems in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector through blockchain - and technology - based solutions.

New York - based bitcoin payments processor Coin.co is also lending support to the initiative handling BitSeeds transactions, as part of the project will involve seeking out merchants who will adopt the currency.

You will be responsible for: • Dealing with incoming telephone calls • Assisting customers with their enquiries • Ensuring that every customer receives a positive customer experience on every contact • Promote the brand positively maintaining brand integrity The ideal candidate will have: • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Customer Service background • Ability to multi-task • Ability to deal with complaints or difficult calls whilst maintaining professionalism and empathy at all times • Resilience to take high volume of calls on a daily basis • Ability to explain products • Driven to hit targets • Work well in a team and on own initiative • Ability to listen and build rapport and understanding with customers What you will get in return: • Free onsite car park • Succession planning / development opportunities • Investment time to develop • Incentives • Quality coaching — monitor and assess with TM • Get involved in training other new starters Working Hours: Rotating shift pattern between: 08:45 — 19:30 and 1 in 5 Saturdays In return our client is offering a competitive annual salary, annual bonus, lucrative pension scheme and free parking.

Also involved in identifying and implementing initiatives to reduce the overall supply chain cost base.

Projects are community based, multi-agency youth crime prevention initiatives which primarily seek to divert young people who have been involved in anti-social and / or criminal behaviour.

Dr. Greeno is currently involved in several research efforts that involve state and federally - funded evaluation research including Thrive@25, assessing the efficacy of evidence - based parenting programs, evaluating a state initiative for homeless, unaccompanied youth, UMB SSW's Title IV - E Program evaluation, and Delaware's Center for Family First, Inc. in evaluating perinatal addiction services.

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.

The Ngaanyatjara Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council has supported families and communities since it was formed in 1980 and continues to be involved in programs that improve child nutrition, combat domestic violence, alcohol and drug abuse and support community - based initiatives.

Over the past 4 years Singleton Primary School have implemented a whole school approach to consumer and financial literacy education involving, teachers, students, parents and the broader community.They used ASIC's MoneySmart Teaching program as the basis for embedding this learning within the curriculum and have incorporated many other consumer and financial literacy based initiatives within the school.

The second strategy of school - based SEL programs involves fostering students» social — emotional development by creating safe and caring learning environments that incorporate peer and family initiatives, improved classroom management and teaching practices, and whole - school community - building activities.