Sentences with phrase «build public understanding»

«As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.»

As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

Higher Ed for Higher Standards (HEHS) launched the Proficient Means Prepared campaign in 2015 to build public understanding and support for college - and career - ready standards and assessments.

Practical tools you can use to build public understanding and engagement around major educational issues, to help you create the public and community support your district needs for success.

To elevate student - centered approaches, the Foundation utilizes a four - part strategy that focuses on building educator ownership, leadership, and capacity; advancing quality and rigor or student - centered learning practices; developing effective systems designs; and building public understanding and demand.

Building a public understanding of the importance of legal health and the predictability of legal issues throughout one's life will benefit individuals and will transform the access to justice conversation into an issue relevant to citizens, decision makers, and voters.

This toolkit is a collection of framing research, recommendations, and sample communications designed to help leading voices in the child development and care sector communicate about early childhood development in a way that builds public understanding and increases support for evidence - based programs and policies designed to improve child and social outcomes in Australia.

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Trucking Moves America Forward aims to establish a long - term industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.

Fifth, governments, industry and other interested groups should strengthen their efforts to build a national ethic of energy conservation and a clearer public understanding of the costs and benefits of various energy choices.

VCs understand the business of building a business, which is a different skill set to successfully performing a public fundraising exercise.

Kevin Burch is co-chair of Trucking Moves America Forward which describes itself as an «industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.»

The mission of Trucking Moves America Forward is to establish a long - term industry - wide movement to create a positive image for the industry, to ensure that policymakers and the public understand the importance of the trucking industry to the nation's economy, and to build the political and grassroots support necessary to strengthen and grow the industry in the future.

Republican candidates should then build on this increased public understanding of Democratic abortion radicalism.

Rescue workers took comfort in this remnant of the building structure and they prayed to it as a religious object.But there is a difference between displaying an artifact of historical significance and saying we want you [the public] to bless it — museum goers understand that distinction»...

Graham's visits to Hungary and Poland changed his emphasis in regard to the communist nations, and he states in a public letter in the Other Side (January 1981): «It is out of a deepening sense of Christian responsibility, therefore, that I have sought after my visit to Hungary in 1977 to make whatever contribution I can to building bridges of understanding and peace....

Training will include understanding the roles and differences in leadership styles, public speaking and presentation skills, personal assessment of skills, group dynamics, team building, and governance issues such as parliamentary procedure.

To further build this understanding among early childhood stakeholders in the state, WI - AIMH held a meeting to explore the endorsement process and the impact it has on workforce development in November 2010 with public and private stakeholders from multiple agencies and systems working with young children.

They need to pursue reforms to address the lost satisfaction with, and relevance and infl uence of Parliament, to establish that they have understood public frustration with the way politics is conducted and to help build trust.

He uses it first to prevent any new spending commitment, having put aside the understanding of the damage caused by austerity that he showed in his Bloomberg speech in favour of a preference for building an image of fiscal conservatism — though by doing so he has allowed the government to win the battle for public opinion.

We must mobilize all our resources at all levels to address this behavioral, physical, and public health challenge — with understanding and support, policy and insurance reforms and coalition building.

Founded in 1935, NACo brings county officials together to advocate with a collective voice on national policy, exchange ideas and build new leadership skills, pursue transformational county solutions, enrich the public's understanding of county government and exercise exemplary leadership in public service.

My public service experience allowed me to work cooperatively with diverse stakeholders from the local community, businesses, government and private sector, and left me with an even stronger understanding that public service and consensus building are critical to improving and supporting our communities.

'' [Cumbo] truly understands that we build up our city by building up our people, and one of the ways we do that is through art,» said McCray, who joined Jeffries, Clark, Sen. Chuck Shumer, State Assemblyman Walter Mosley, Public Advocate Letitia James, City Comptroller Scott Stringer and Borough President Eric Adams, among others, in praising the new councilwoman.

Institutional change focuses on building understanding about, capacity for and support of public engagement within the various institutions researchers are affiliated with, including universities, government agencies, professional societies and private industry.

Strengthen and broaden public understanding of the value of parks for science and science for parks and society by building on the positive public perception of national parks;

«It is necessary to protect the rights of scientists to pursue and communicate their inquiries unimpeded, expand the placement of scientists throughout the government, build public policies upon scientific evidence and support broad educational efforts to expand public understanding of the scientific process.»

«I can understand people trying to make money, but a lot of these projects are built on knowledge, insight, materials and goodwill coming from the public sector,» he says.

Building on the successful Recent Advances in Understanding Mental Illness and Psychotic Experiences (2000), this report is intended for service users, their friends and families, journalists, policymakers, mental health workers and the public.

High - school students build their understanding of lunar science - and lunar science careers - and translate the information for the public using traditional and new media.

We provide a list of building blocks that an institution's animal research pages should contain if it is to improve public understanding of the institution's work.

Every editor and writer should know how to leverage social media to not only build their personal brand, but also for story sources; editors and writers should build public or private Twitter lists as listening tools and have a basic understanding of social storytelling.

Of course I fully agree with many of the more accepted goals of the liberal variants of critical pedagogy whose arch-categories include the following — to foment dialogue, to deepen our appreciation of public life, to create spaces of respect and appreciation for diversity, to encourage critical thinking, to build culturally sensitive curricula, to create a vibrant democratic public sphere, to try to change the hardened hearts and minds of our increasingly parasitic financial aristocracy, to build knowledge from the experiences and the histories of students themselves, to make knowledge relevant to the lives of students, and to encourage students to theorize and make sense of their experiences in order to break free from the systems of mediation that limit their understanding of the world and their capacity to transform it, to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, ableism, to fight against white supremacy, etc..

This shift has been stimulated by a combination of influences, including greater demand by families at all economic levels, increased public understanding of the importance of early learning, greater support for investment in programs for low income children as a matter of equity, and growing concern about the threat of economic globalization and the need to enhance the nation's human capital by building a strong foundation early in life

Urban schools cope with complex issues, so the more the staff, the press, and the public understand about a district, the easier it can be to build support.

At a time when pressure on school places and buildings is increasing, and the public sector is being asked to make more cuts on spending, it is critical that school providers understand current issues on planning if they are to make best use of their built assets, according to Karen Cooksley and Lindsay Garratt from law firm Winckworth Sherwood

The behavioral analyst was carefully chosen based on not only her skill set as a BCBA but also her ability to understand public education, special education law, and the importance of building capacity.

The reasons for public relations for advocacy include: to promote a better understanding of the nature and needs of gifted children and youth, to gain positive support for appropriate programs, to keep all constituent groups informed on key issues, and to build a knowledge base for advocacy (Riley & Karnes, 1993a).

The purpose of the Charter School Grants Program is to increase financial support for these public schools, build a better national understanding of the public charter school model, and increase the number of high - quality public charter schools across the nation.

For his part, Poston says he understands the movement to increase parental control in public education, but he called for fairness — and honesty — in how policymakers and advocates build regulations for emerging school choice options.

In spring 2013, 900 administrators, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders from Atlanta Public Schools embarked on a collaborative effort with ASCD to build a job - embedded professional development system that would deepen educator understanding of the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards.

It is going to take that kind of public rally by the community to understand what we mean by a community building.»

We publish easy - to - understand school quality data and research that highlights both problems and solutions, and we build the capacity of parents, community leaders and educators to innovate and act together to create world - class public schools.

Higher Education Finance Reform: Building a shared understanding between public policy makers and higher education leaders of the finance system challenges facing California public universities, as well as practical ways to solve them.

In this section of the paper, we will describe one of the teacher preparation programs at the University of New Mexico that is built on the understanding that a partnership between the university and the public school provides a more meaningful context for teacher preparation and development than do more traditional models of teacher preparation.

The mission of CWC Kansas City is to provide an excellent public education focused on developing and demonstrating understanding while building connections within a diverse community.

These scholarships will directly help children and build understanding and a model for public funding of ESAs and OSAs once they become law.

We at College Futures Foundation believe that addressing the challenge of California's dysfunctional system of higher education finance will be difficult, but doable, and that we must start by building a shared understanding between public policy makers and higher education leaders of the problem as well as practical ways to solve it.

In an interview with the Public School Forum, Hall explained that the Innovative School District is essentially an effort to build a brand new local school district aimed at turning around low - performing schools — and, he said, lawmakers understood that there's a start - up cost to that kind of work when they developed an initial budget for the turnaround model.

We must start by building a shared understanding between public policy makers and higher education leaders of the problem as well as practical ways to solve it.

ASCD is partnering with Atlanta Public Schools to create a customized, blended capacity - building model of professional learning to provide APS district leaders, specialists, coordinators, and coaches with the understanding, knowledge, skills, and resources needed to successfully begin implementing the Common Core Georgia Performance Standards via school - based, job - embedded professional learning within the APS Professional Development System.