Sentences with phrase «capacity building goals»

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Early business ventures build children's capacity to balance risks, overcome challenges as they work toward goals and cope with the disappointment of failure.

• Schumacher says his goal is to create a building that «pushes the communicative capacity of the built environment.»

In 2012 IFOAM started to implement activities in DPR Korea to assist Organic Agriculture development and capacity building with the goal to improve food security for the people in country.

Our goal is to enable each child's potential to unfold by developing creative and imaginative capacities while building a strong academic foundation.

The primary goal of parent support programs is to provide support and information in ways that help parents become more capable and competent.2, 3 Research now indicates that to reach this goal, it is necessary that staff use practices that are family - centered as opposed to professionally - centered, and capacity - building as opposed to dependency forming.4, 5,6,7 The key characteristics of family - centered practices include: treating families with dignity and respect; providing individual, flexible and responsive support; sharing information so families can make informed decisions; ensuring family choice regarding intervention options; and providing the necessary resources and supports for parents to care for their children in ways that produce optimal parent and child outcomes.8, 9,10,11

Enhancing parenting competence and confidence is one major goal of capacity - building help - giving practices.

The Commission could further this goal by three means: conducting and publishing research into what initiatives are successful at increasing political participation; advising public bodies and institutions regarding how to better democratise their functioning; and critically, by providing resources and capacity - building to facilitate local, civil society - led initiatives that aim to increase broad - based levels of participation or deliberation in political decision - making.

It would be fantastic if, over the course of the new Sustainable Development Goals agenda, the UN could become the world's biggest training outfit, building the capacity of other actors so that they can absorb its duties.

USAID partners with the Government of Ghana to achieve these goals, build leadership, improve governance, and build capacity in the health sector.

«Our goal is to give your community organizations the tools to build capacity and accelerate their impact in their communities.»

Building national scientific capacity through everything from streamlined grant - making to infrastructure and workforce development, is a significant goal for many countries in the Middle East and North Africa, according to an independent report released this month by CSTSP.

The signs look good that they will meet that goal; in February, the Solid State Heat Capacity Laser, built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, hit the 67 - kilowatt mark.

The aim of WMU is to further enhance the objectives and goals of IMO and IMO member states around the world through education, research, and capacity building to ensure safe, secure, and efficient shipping on clean oceans.

Build capacity with each progression steadily until you reach the goal sets and reps / times and you will succeed.

So, if your goal is to build any amount of muscle, increase strength or improve performance in virtually any capacity, a sufficient protein intake is more than just an important part of the process.

In this direction lie proposals for building schools around learners, gearing instruction to individual goals and learning styles, pointing education toward developing an ever - broader range of human capacities, and phasing in assessment tools that get at ever - subtler nuances of achievement.

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..

17.9 enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all sustainable development goals, including through North - South, South - South, and triangular cooperation

The goal is to improve district finances so as to avert costly bailouts down the line, while building the capacity of district leaders to manage once the external managers leave.

The ultimate goal is to create a replicable and scalable model for building the capacity of a growing number of change agents (both at Harvard and in the field) to drive science - based innovation that achieves breakthrough outcomes for young children facing adversity.

As part of the initial three - year program strategy for NCPI, FWI has worked with FMCSV and HCDC to develop a research plan with two overarching goals: (1) to build the best possible approach to communicating the science of child development in a Brazilian context, and (2) to create local capacity to lead this research effort over the long term in Brazil.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

As charter schools come to the fore in the national education debate, 69 charter school educators attended the Ed School's Programs in Professional Education institute, Charter Schools: Practices for High Performance, in July with the goal of developing skills and strategies to build capacity and improve student outcomes.

It's one thing to have a goal, it's another thing to really spend some time and energy and invest in the resources to build the capacity of teachers and school systems to deliver on the idea that all students ought to achieve at high levels.

So we set goals and targets, we developed a cohesive whole school plan and then we systematically went about building the capacity of staff to embed more writing activities in their classes.

The center provides professional development and technical assistance to the Texas Education Agency and the state's 20 regional education service centers to build their capacity to support districts and schools in meeting student achievement goals.

Topics of discussion include: • Creating, executing, and evaluating measureable goals and benchmarks to ensure TRUE college and career readiness • Scaling implementation of programs to assess student growth and close math learning gaps • Building teacher capacity through TRUE professional learning communities and collaborative internal support systems • Leading a district - wide mindset shift toward ensuring lifelong learning for both adults and students All school and district - based leaders, and K - 12 educators are invited to attend.

Topics of discussion will include: • Setting goals and identifying criteria to evaluate programs for efficacy, standards - alignment, and student growth • How to build teacher capacity using data - informed instruction and intentional organizational support structures • Scaling beyond intervention; increasing district - wide adoption and usage of personalized learning programs All K - 12 administrators and educators are encouraged to attend.

With over 600 graduate students at various stages of research, our goal is to get students to and through the degree programs in a way that builds on existing capacities and talents — as students build a career that has a lasting impact on the field.

We work with education leaders at all levels to build their capacity to plan and support improvement, communicate goals and expectations, build staff capacity, motivate others to action, allocate resources, and track results.

This center provides professional development and technical assistance to the state education agencies of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina to build their capacity to support districts and schools in meeting student achievement goals.

The primary aim of these practices is capacity building, understood to include not only of the knowledge and skills staff members need to accomplish organizational goals but also the disposition staff members need to persist in applying those knowledge and skills.

With the new board of education about to unveil a primary district - wide strategic goal to prepare nearly all students ready for work or college without remediation, the district must invest in building more capacity to create high schools that can deliver these graduates.

We will also continue to use Michael Fullan's Coherence Framework as a guide to assist our teams in their efforts to establish shared goals and accountability as well as building capacity to deepen student learning through pedagogical practices.

DuFour and Marzano School improvement means people improvement A commitment to building a collective capacity requires environments in which professional learning of educators is: • Ongoing and sustained • Job - embedded • Aligned with school / district goals • Improved results • Collective / Collaborative endeavor

Integrated into this educational program will be an ongoing emphasis on the development of life long professional skills and Habits of Heart and Mind that will develop and empower students» and families» capacity to support sustained success through higher education, career, and beyond, helping families to recognize and build upon their assets so that they can obtain their future goals.

State leaders in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness of College and Careers share one fundamental goal: building their collective capacity to dramatically increase the rates at which students graduate from high school prepared for success in college and the workplace

The webinar focuses on the Center's goals for the next two years; how CEELO will be supporting state early childhood goals in upcoming month; highlights signature projects building leadership and organizational capacity, birth to third grade data and policy, and financing and sustaining high - quality early learning programs; and, hallmarks state leaders from AZ, IL, KY, and NE discussing with their work with CEELO.

Local capacity - building coaching from ASCD Faculty members with district administrators, building administrators, and teacher leaders to evaluate local needs and collaboratively build a customized, local implementation plan based on unique local goals.

His work has been instrumental in stewarding LAUSD towards meeting its district performance goals and building capacity within central office departments to make the shift from a compliance culture to a performance culture.

The Capacity Building solution's exclusive goal is to support teachers, teacher leaders, and administrators as they become local experts in instruction and leadership.

The goal of the Texas Educational Leadership Institute (TELI) is to provide resources, training, and support to build the capacity of campus leaders to be effective in supporting their school's efforts to increase student achievement.

She is also an internationally certified Immunity to Change Coach who works with leaders to build internal capacity, improve performance, and help them achieve their goals.

To meet the goal of supporting school - based administrators and teacher leaders in their instructional leadership roles, Christina School District's professional development team turned to ASCD and their customizable and sustainable Capacity - Building solution.

While student achievement is always a goal, this group is about professional learning and building our capacity to enrich and empower student learning.»

School districts should assist individual principals in developing individual professional growth plans that include goals and objectives focused on building the principal's capacity to lead the school to higher levels of success; thus helping to insure the principal's eligibility for performance awards

Why is important for you to keep in mind a teacher's capacity - building goal when engaging with that teacher?

Rather than using data to create a laundry list of «what's going wrong with our schools» or to assign blame to a group or individual, it is more effective to look at equity - related data with the goal of building capacity for improvement.

If they are truly serious about retaining quality teachers in the district, building the capacity and institutional knowledge needed to reach Superintendent Wilson's stated goal, OUSD and OEA must work together to support teachers as they search for opportunities to continue their professional development.

The goal of all student engagement activities anywhere in schools should be to build the capacity of students to cause change within the education systems and communities to which they belong.