Sentences with phrase «challenge existing practices»

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

Not exact matches

T.M.Philip's essay in it on «A History of Baptismal Practices and Theologies» points to a wide variety of practice and understanding that existed in the churches from NT times and says that the historical perspective would help us «to maintain a certain flexibility and openness in the light of the new questions and challenges presented by our present historical situation».

Through opportunities to practice new oral motor skills and through gradual challenges that build on existing skills, babies learn to eat.

«Our findings on the effects of homework challenge the traditional assumption that homework is «inherently good» (Gill & Schlossman, 2001, p. 27), and instead suggest that researchers, practitioners, students, and parents unpack why the default practice of assigning heavy homework loads exists, in the face of evidence of its negative effects.»

The 20 Challenges, addressed by a team of education experts, range from «Enable students to build on their own enduring, science - related interests» to «Shift incentives to encourage education research on the real problems of practice as they exist in school settings.»

- Clinicians are taught to adhere to standards and guidelines of practice, whereas scientists are encouraged to challenge existing paradigms;

They found that the defect is highly sensitive to an existing FDA - approved drug used to treat ovarian cancer — a discovery that challenges current practice for treatment of brain tumors and other cancers with the same genetic defect, said the scientists.

Challenges will always exist, but I see them clearly and quickly now, and thanks to my yoga practice, I have the tools to act with great skill.

Whether you are new to the inversion practice or looking for new challenges with your existing inversion practice, Lauren will guide you through two hours of skillful instruction dedicated to these poses.

Free Mode exists for practice, and Survival Mode is for players wanting a challenge.

No, because I was privileged to have myriad protective factors in my life that buffered life's challenges: parents who provided steady and consistent unconditional acceptance, a strong spiritual identity that allowed me to look beyond current circumstances, and teachers who practiced cultural sensitivity before such a thing knew to exist.

The overall goal of this extension of our existing work in partnership with TFF and Achievement First Bridgeport Academy (AFBA) is to continue and expand our work in Bridgeport focusing in several keys areas: (1) building knowledge about (a) children's emerging skills and areas of challenge in the social - emotional domain and why these skills are critical to school success, and (b) the ways in which adult stress and skills in the social - emotional domain can impede or foster children's social - emotional skill development; (2) identifying, deploying, and evaluating strategies to build adult and child skills in social - emotional learning with an emphasis on the Tauck Family Foundation's (TFF) five essential SEL skills; and (3) developing and testing a performance management system for SEL that (a) guides the identification of strategies, (b) provides a mechanism for ongoing progress monitoring, feedback, and changes to practice, and (c) serves as an anchor point for ongoing coaching and support in using SEL strategies.

Participants will reflect on their own instructional practice, examining existing units of study or planning new ones that integrate active learning strategies in their blended classrooms through posing challenge questions, problems, or scenarios in order to develop an authentic project - based learning environment.

In 2011, the court issued a ruling in the case, protecting 45 low - income schools from budget - based layoffs, a direct challenge to the existing practice of basing teacher layoffs solely on seniority.

Having that thirst is our challenge; great practices already exist.

Immediate and fresh, they challenge the assumptions of painting as they exist within Hughes» oeuvre while also extending her painterly practice in surprising ways.

Continuing his practice over many years of challenging any hierarchy based on the material form in which his art exists, Weiner has devised a temporary tattoo and limited run poster as part of the exhibition, which are both available in the gallery bookshop.

The Watermill Center's Artist Residency Program invites collectives and individual artists take up residence at The Center to live and develop works that critically investigate, challenge and extend the existing norms of artistic practice.

Each year collectives and individual artists take up residence at The Center to live and develop works that critically investigate, challenge and extend the existing norms of artistic practice.

Over the past 25 years, artists in the International Summer Program have utilized The Watermill Center as a home and a workshop to create and develop works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the existing norms of performance practice.

The themes of xenophobia, consumerism, military conflicts and gender seem to be dominating through their practices, so it can be said that Rosler and Steyerl tend to disseminate a different kind of visual and theoretical discourse in order to penetrate and dissect our social reality, and furthermore to challenge and disrupt existing political and ideological hegemony.

Over the past years, the awards have endeavoured to showcase best practice in sustainability to inspire and challenge others to exceed existing benchmarks.

In this session, speakers will highlight best practices in building resilience into existing and new energy infrastructure, as well as the barriers that are creating challenges for asset owners, managers, and operators.

This guidance document gives an overview of the initiative Nearly Zero Energy Hotels (neZEH), which aims to support the European accommodation industry in accelerating the rate of refurbishment of existing buildings into Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (NZEB), providing technical advice to hoteliers for NZEB renovations, demonstrating the sustainability of such projects and challenging further large scale renovations through capacity building activities, showcasing best practices and promoting the front runners.

Emphasizes that further urgent action is needed to address the challenges posed by marine plastic debris and microplastics, by addressing such materials at source, by reducing pollution through improved waste management practices and by cleaning up existing debris and litter;

To address these challenges, the document provides an overview of best practices from existing projects in the region.

The largest salary divide between men and women in - house in Canada exists in the most senior roles for equivalent work and diversity remains a challenge, but as more young lawyers make the switch from private practice sooner in their career that gap should close, according to a recent survey.

The extent to which members of the public are unserved, under - served or inefficiently served is a difficult issue for lawyers being both a challenge to existing practice and an opportunity for innovation.

I think that identifying an area where you can develop a practice that complements that of the existing partners in your team and the firm more generally, is the key challenge.

Our panel, entitled «Virtual Law Practice: How To Embrace Technology and Deliver Legal Services Online,» aimed to address the practical challenges of reaching and communicating with prospective and existing clients who have come to expect more efficient, affordable, on - demand services across the board.

How it achieves this is likely to challenge both the firm's current recruitment policies and practices, as well as the management capabilities of its existing lawyers as they look to establish the systems and procedures that will enable the commoditised work to be done more effectively.

I believe that success will most often come to a practicing lawyer who can learn the skills of quickly and regularly skimming a few relevant sources, delegate some scanning to a trusted «professional skimmer», and (the most challenging task) evaluate when to seek information they don't know exists.

In particular, with respect to digital platforms, roundtable participants discussed whether new business models and disruptive innovations create challenges to existing competition law and practices; what recent technology changes portend for market definition, assessment of market power, and other antitrust enforcement concepts; whether new analytic tools are required; and what are good mechanisms to harmonize regulation and competition enforcement.

Many of the features contained within HTS exist out of a need to address common challenges that arise with standard trading practices.

This is something that we've learned at Chatterbox Games over the last year of developing games for Facebook Instant Games and iMessage, that many of the best practices of mobile don't apply to messenger games, and to overcome the initial challenges you really have to think about the opportunities that only exist in the messenger context.

Researchers at Portsmouth Business School in the United Kingdom conducted a review of recent academic studies on project management to answer the question: «what components exist across the board in the worldwide practice of 21 st century Project Management and what are some universal challenges that exist?».

The converse of an established reflective practice is that in existing programs that have previously been using other supervisory styles, the transition to reflective supervision may be challenging.

Describes existing QRIS data systems, the common challenges to data coordination and integrity in these data systems, and provides guidance on best practices related to data governance and the development of integrated data systems that can support QRIS implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.

The goals and activities of the Center were designed to strengthen the capacity of childcare agencies and Head Start to improve outcomes for young children and their families through: a) a focus on promoting the social emotional development of children as a means for preventing challenging behaviors, b) a comprehensive, culturally sensitive approach that is inclusive of and responsive to the needs of programs, families, other professionals, and communities, c) the dissemination of evidence - based practices: d) the ongoing identification of the training needs and preferred delivery formats of local programs and training and technical assistance providers, and e) collaboration with existing training and technical assistance providers for the purpose of ensuring the implementation and sustainability of practices at the local level.