Sentences with phrase «central focus of our work»

This has been the central focus of my work for decades.

Would it not embark on a comprehensive program of parent education as a central focus of its work, making the discoveries of the psychologists concerning the emotional hungers of children, from the very dawn of life on, easily available to all its parents?

The central focus of our work on school improvement [at Ark] is around developing teachers.»

Developing effective teachers and school leadership is why we started the Reach Institute and remains the central focus of our work.

The central focus of his work concerns timelessness and the intangible x-factor of his chosen subjects, recapturing this essence in his own way.

To this day, discovering new color relationships as I paint from nature remains a central focus of my work.»

As such, her works often utilize other people's work in the form of readings, quotation or interviews, and a central focus of the work is theories of reception and the relationship between emotion and visual art.

This will be a central focus of our work together.

Not exact matches

The central idea behind Sweden's six - hour work day is to encourage people to put in a focused six hours of work during the day, get their tasks done, and leave at a reasonable hour in order to enjoy their evening.

For example, MethylGene Inc. (TSX: MYG) is focusing on cancer treatment, biOasis Technologies Inc. (TSXV: BTI) is pursuing research on disorders of the central nervous system, and Cipher Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX: DND) is working on a treatment for acne - related conditions.

Feigenbaum's work focuses principally on China and India, geopolitics in Asia, and the role of the United States in East, Central, and South Asia.

Richardson acknowledged the generous contributions of NDP members and supporters from every constituency across the province; in Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Lethbridge, Calgary and Edmonton; from smaller communities in central and rural Alberta and the north; from Albertans with big hearts and enormous pride in the focused work of 54 New Democrat MLAs.

Too many of us following this conversation are keenly sensitive to abuses of religious power, which happens to be a central focus of David's work.

Although predating the work of Dayton and Wacker, Robert Anderson's Vision of the Disinherited (1979) correctly identifies the premillennial return of Christ as the central focus which enabled Pentecostalism to emerge as a movement distinct from the earlier traditions.

I am also decisively informed by Norman O. Brown, yet I end in a place somewhat different from Rubenstein's, primarily because I see Paul's theology of justification by grace to be the central focus of what the apostle has to say, whereas Rubenstein works more with the symbols of Paul's so - called «Christ mysticism.»

Its last four lines focused on the central problem which haunts celebrators of Martin Luther on his 500th birthday: «All Works and all Societies are bad; The Just shall live by Faith,» he cried in dread.

The clarity with which he focuses on the central biblical premise of election, God's love for Israel, is what makes his work both so Orthodox as well as so original.

Even Dr. Amos Bailey and his extraordinary team of caregivers at the Balm of Gilead Hospice in Birmingham, who provide the central focus of the final episode, find it hard to help the working poor and the uninsured die well.

«Work guidelines - Bertinelli continues - that focus on a new central role of the Consortium that must become more proactive, and ascertain its role as a model of authoritativeness and ethics, strengthening especially supply chain controls to protect both producers and consumers».

Overall, the team found that the central focus of services on the young mother «did little to reinforce and support men's emerging identity as fathers» and highlighted «a need to challenge some of the established ways of thinking and working with this marginalised group... in order to promote the development of inclusive services».

Mass Audubon has received a $ 25,900 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) for our work educating children and adults throughout central Massachusetts on improving water quality and habitat, focusing on the use of cost - effective Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development (LID).

Mass Audubon has received a $ 25,900 grant from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust (MET) for our work educating children and adults throughout central Massachusetts on improving water quality and habitat, focusing on the use of cost - effective Green Infrastructure and Low Impact Development.

Whereas Olds» work has focused on the challenges of becoming a parent (i.e. program limited to first - time parents), Webster - Stratton has targeted the late preschool period and the transition to formal schooling, when children's emotion regulation skills are becoming more stable and tested in the context of full - day school settings.6, 22 A central focus of Webster - Stratton's program is parent management training to promote child social competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.

According to her website, Messenger is currently working with CenterState CEO, an organization that focuses on economic development strategies, and the advisory boards of both Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Central New York and St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center.

«Protecting the rights of New York City's working families is a top priority of the de Blasio Administration and is the central focus of the recently - announced Office of Labor Policy and Standards at the Department of Consumer Affairs,» said a spokeswoman for the mayor.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Funding for more than 3,000 units of housing, a new ambulatory care network and a slew of programs to fight poverty are in the works for Central Brooklyn, according to a health - focused initiative outlined by the governor Thursday.

Their work focuses on «autophagy» as a central element of cellular quality control.

Family studies researchers at the University of Illinois who study the science behind maintaining romantic relationships focus their work on the central organizing unit — the relationship — rather than on the individual.

Stephens says the new Biomed Central journal will have a similar approach, allowing researchers to comment on the «robustness» of methods, statistics, or data, and patients to focus on the applications, offering comments on whether the work may be useful in other global initiatives, for example.

Based on previous work and their own results, Drummond and his colleagues speculate that a central purpose of protein aggregation during heat shock is to reshape the cellular factory, focusing protein synthesis on proteins needed during stress.

They used computing resources at Berkeley Lab's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) in their study, with most of the computing work focused at GPU clusters at GSI in Germany and Central China Normal University in China.

Most of his work focuses on the pharmacologic manipulation of mammalian brain circuits which use the most abundant inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system gamma - aminobutyric acid (GABA) as their chief signaling molecule.

The current outbreak of Zika infection in South and Central America is the focus of much research and a paper published in the journal Science has attempted to work out when Zika virus first arrived in Brazil.

The central focus of my future work is to elucidate the mechanisms by which tumorigenesis results in the conversion of TGFβ from a suppressor of tumor formation to a promoter of tumor growth, invasion, and metastasis.

Make yr central focus a»60s or»70s polyester, slightly ugly piece that looks very out of place, and pair it with some majorly outrageous shoes (big platforms, wedges, many Fleuvogs would work) and one surprising accessory: huge belt?

The episodic bent of the film's first half - much of the narrative seems to follow the central characters as they fight one fire after another - does test the viewer's patience to a fairly demonstrable degree, and it's clear that Backdraft, by and large, works best when focused on the rivalry and relationship between the central figures (and how it ultimately affects their respective work).

Super Hero Hype has two absolutely stellar galleries of photographs, one showing the group working on the Central Park set and another focusing on just Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) doing some green screen work and making their way through some NYC wreckage.

Thompson and director Hancock clearly worked closely together to nail the nuance of the central character's focus.

Anderson's idiosyncratic style of oddball, dialogue - driven humor is present, but like those previously mentioned films, it's the way that humor and those strange characteristics tie to the central thematic focus that make Anderson's work more than the sum of its eccentric parts.

The central focus of professional development and training for teachers and principals should be the educator (teacher or principal) who as a person lives and works within an educational, social and political context in differing ways and engages in curriculum decision making and leadership in unique ways that must be respected and celebrated — there is no sense in a «one - size fits all» approach to training and development;

Technology has enabled a dedicated customer - focused service which can act as the central point for university staff to make enquiries, report faults and request maintenance, and is essential for effective scheduling of routine and maintenance works at the most appropriate and economically viable time.

Beyond a focus on efficiency, those working in the central office to support schools must have a clear, shared understanding that principals and teachers are often better positioned to know and act on the needs of their students and communities.

Central to the new approach is the notion that this group of young people are turned off by traditional academic education with a focus on pathways into higher education and that these young people need to be energised by a different approach to education which sees the world of work at its core.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

He was previously Superintendent of Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland where his central work focused on enhanced access and rigor to ensure college - and career - readiness.

The central (heart) of this work is building capacity within a state around a shared focus that will be sustained over time.

That can require a shift in how central office employees conceive of their work, so that they focus less on what they are used to - compliance - and more on «strengthening principals» instructional leadership as a key lever for teaching and learning improvement in schools,» as University of Washington researchers put it.29

As one of the major Wallace - funded studies reports, central offices need to be transformed so that the work of teaching and learning improvement can proceed.44 That is to say central offices need to «re-culture» themselves so they focus less on administration and more on supporting principals to improve instruction.

We looked at our weekly calendars crammed with parent conferences, supervisory duties, central office meetings, and community events and asked ourselves, What if we carved out a time together that was agenda free and competition free but still focused on the real work of the principal?