Sentences with phrase «change in communities across»

I am confident Rossana will be a force for positive and lasting change in communities across the state, and I am proud to welcome her to this administration.»

From our School Beverage Guidelines commitment to our most recent commitment, the Balance Calories Initiative, we are doing the hard work to encourage real and sustainable change in communities across the country.

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The world's most valuable privately held company is buying an historic office building across the bay from its San Francisco headquarters and some in the community are worried how that will change the character of Oakland and its burgeoning tech community.

The Ontario government and MaRS Discovery District are helping promising young leaders gain the knowledge, skills and experience they need to make positive social changes in their communities and across the province with an innovative new program.

Ontario has successfully issued the largest green bond in Canadian history, raising $ 1 billion for infrastructure projects in communities across the province that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

«Across North America and around the world, companies in every sector are assessing the impact of U.S. tax changes and making decisions that will have lasting consequences for employees and the communities in which they live and work,» writes The Honourable John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

While modifying an external behavior is useful, it isn't necessarily transformational, whereas changing one's inner being for the good, can result in multiple external changes across the range of one's life, and thus, in every sphere of influence a person has (including in ones» community), and the effect is usually more permanent.

This theory of change is being used to help people across various state agencies, community organizations, and families see how they can promote stronger outcomes for young children and families in the state.

On November 7th in Cork City, Young Knocknaheeny will bring together leading experts, policy makers, practitioners, and participants to share and connect the science, policy, and interdisciplinary practice across the domains of child development, health, equality, urban development, and change practices for whole community prevention and early intervention.

Your gift to Positive Discipline of Connecticut has the power to change lives — in our own community, across the nation, and throughout our world.

Join our Facebook community to connect with youth sports safety advocates from across the world and stay up to day with the newest trends in youth safety and making real changes in your community.

In Buffalo, we stand in solidarity with leaders from across the country in condemning President Trump's retreat from the Paris Agreement and reaffirm our commitment to the global community fighting climate change,» he saiIn Buffalo, we stand in solidarity with leaders from across the country in condemning President Trump's retreat from the Paris Agreement and reaffirm our commitment to the global community fighting climate change,» he saiin solidarity with leaders from across the country in condemning President Trump's retreat from the Paris Agreement and reaffirm our commitment to the global community fighting climate change,» he saiin condemning President Trump's retreat from the Paris Agreement and reaffirm our commitment to the global community fighting climate change,» he said.

Increasingly, reform will have to involve working in partnership with citizens and communities rather than imposing change from the top - down, cutting across the traditional paternalistic ethos of the bureaucratic Left.

«The property tax remains the most burdensome tax in New York and by challenging local governments to collaborate and create a plan to streamline operations for voter approval, this game - changing initiative will empower communities, cut costs, and reduce property taxes on Long Island and across New York,» Cuomo said.

«Students across our city deserve a safe learning environment, no matter what community they come from or where they attend school,» said Mark - Viverito, but like all her colleagues she refused to clarify what has suddenly changed that mandates the government now stepping in where it never has before.

Alhaji Rashid Adam who is also the General Manager of Apsonic Motors said, he is going to empower Nasara Coordinators across the country to enable them effect positive change in their communities.

Mark's Initiatives for a Smart Economy, released in June 2013, and his Initiatives 2.0 version released in June 2017 provide evolving blueprints for comprehensive, innovative economic development across Erie County, with county departments acting either as the lead agency or working with community partners to effect change.

Over the past 20 years, evidence that humans are affecting the climate has accumulated inexorably, and with it has come ever greater certainty across the scientific community in the reality of recent climate change and the potential for much greater change in the future.

In contrast to reefs across the globe, which have suffered severe and continuing damage due to the combined effects of climate change and local disturbances, the researchers found that the coral communities on most of the reefs they looked at had recovered rapidly from this major «bleaching» event.

The National Science Foundation - funded study, published in the April 27 issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, looked at how marine communities change across natural gradients to better understand the influence of the three climate stressors.

Hunt said he would work with Australia's chief scientist, Alan Finkel, CSIRO, and the scientific community to develop a new climate science strategy that will cover remaining staff and charge a new climate change center in Hobart, Australia, with coordinating related research efforts across government agencies and academia.

«Over the next few decades, the majority of birds currently found across the National Park System are expected to experience changes in climate conditions, which on average may lead to turnover of nearly a quarter of the bird community per park,» says Gregor Schuurman, co-author on the study.

All were writing in a response to a proposal that would change the geographic lines that determine access to donor livers in communities across the United States.

Joao Batista, PhD student and first author of this study, explains: «We observed that this feature is due to changes in the composition of the community of bacteria in the intestine, which is more similar across individuals with a healthy immune system, and is quite diverse in animals with an immune compromised system.»

A particular challenge for science is the growing evidence that social - ecological interactions across scales can generate regime shifts where profound and abrupt changes can occur in systems ranging from local ecosystems (such as lakes) to large biomes (such as the Arctic); from local communities (such as farming systems) to regional economic sectors (e.g., global fisheries).

That is why the European Respiratory Society is one of four founding societies, along with the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the European Society of Cardiology and the European Cancer Organisation, of the Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe, which aims to change the current fragmented and uncoordinated approach for biomedical research funding, by giving a single, powerful voice to the biomedical research community across Europe.

The ongoing changes in both legal and cultural attitudes towards same - sex marriage across the US are an important topic in the LGBTQ community, with 63 % of gay and lesbian singles saying they have always wanted to get married.

this life - changing event gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to come together to Celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, Remember loved ones lost, and Fight Back against the disease.

Course aims and links to learning Randall Williams, in his summary of outdoor learning research «Time for Change», shows that there is now clear and demonstrable evidence that challenging outdoor activities and environmental studies contribute towards a range of societal targets across education, health, anti-social behaviour and community cohesion.

This movement has engaged a diverse group of leaders across sectors, communities, and professions who are eager to work together in the pursuit of transformative change.

If awareness and action at home is set to increase, there is a real opportunity for schools to introduce programmes that are really fit for the future of recycling, reflecting the changes in attitudes and behaviour and influencing the critical formation of new recycling habits right across the school community.

Preparing for adulthood • Planning for young people's futures • A broad range of education and learning opportunities: Wolf Review • Employment opportunities and support: the role of disability employment advisers • A coordinated transition to adult health services: joint working across all services • Support for independent living Services working together for families • Local authorities and local health services will play a pivotal role in delivering change for children, young people and families • Reducing bureaucratic burdens on professionals • Empowering local professionals to develop collaborative, innovative and high quality services • Supporting the development of high quality speech and language therapy workforce and educational psychology profession • Encouraging greater collaboration between local areas • Extending local freedom and flexibility over the use of funding • Enabling the voluntary and community sector to take on a greater role in delivering services • Exploring a national banded funding framework • Bringing about greater alignment of pre 16 and post 16 funding arrangements

The students from Baltimore and Boston and in many other cities and districts across the country are putting their education to work and giving back to their communities in a way that allows them to create change change that benefits them and our systems of government.

Michael McAfee, president of PolicyLink, has led the effort to make President Obama's Promise Neighborhoods initiative a reality in communities across the U.S. Please join the Education Redesign Lab (ERL) and cities participating in ERL's By All Means initiative for McAfee's keynote speech on May 18, 2017 at 11:15 a.m.. His talk, entitled «Equity and Collective Impact in Systems Change,» will focus on the work of the Promise Neighborhood Institute to build stronger systems of educational support and opportunity for children.

«Full - day pre-K is the cornerstone of the de Blasio administration's plan to transform public education in New York City... high - quality pre-K represents change at a scale that will raise achievement and reduce inequality across all communities.»

Join education leaders and others from across the country to explore ways to improve rural education to reshape the economy and prepare rural communities to be successful in a highly competitive, complex, and ever - changing world.

At yesterday's Harvard Graduate School of Education convocation ceremony in Radcliffe Yard, speakers from the HGSE community challenged the graduating class of 2008 to change education and to find people to make a difference in teaching and learning across cities around the world.

As people move more freely across borders and continents, local communities are changing, e.g. migration contributes to greater diversity in our schools and our workplaces.

Strong Schools (Sumner County) Williamson Strong (Williamson County) SPEAK (Students, Parents, Educators Across Knox County) SOCM (Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment) Momma Bears Blog Gideon's Army, Grassroots Army for Children (Nashville) Advocates for Change in Education (Hamilton County) Concerned Parents of Franklin County (Franklin County) The Dyslexia Spot Parents of Wilson County, TN, Schools Friends of Oak Ridge Schools (City of Oak Ridge Schools) TNBATs (State branch of National BATs) East Nashville United Tennessee Against Common Core (Statewide) Coalition Advocating of Public Education (CAPE)

Parent engagement in addressing challenging behavior across a variety of settings (e.g., school settings, community settings, in the home) is a critical component of meaningful, lasting, positive behavior change for learners.

In the wake of federal data that shows continued disparities in discipline in schools across the country, the webinar will focus on how advocates and organizers can use the data to spark change in their communitieIn the wake of federal data that shows continued disparities in discipline in schools across the country, the webinar will focus on how advocates and organizers can use the data to spark change in their communitiein discipline in schools across the country, the webinar will focus on how advocates and organizers can use the data to spark change in their communitiein schools across the country, the webinar will focus on how advocates and organizers can use the data to spark change in their communitiein their communities.

Fueled by his experiences in the classroom and in many schools across the reservation, Lane believes deeply that schools are the most effective unit of change, able to both provide an excellent educational experience and strengthen the community around it.

Teach For America — Sacramento is partnering with community members and leaders across the city to change the dynamic for Sacramento students by working to ensure all children in this region have access to excellent educational opportunities.

Across the country, there are thousands of charter schools that are changing the lives of children, particularly in communities that have for decades suffered from a lack of high - quality educational opportunities.

In June 2015, E4E - New York members and current classroom teachers from across the city released, Climate Change, a policy proposal with recommendations for ensuring safe and welcoming school communities.

This would dramatically accelerate the successes in communities across the country — and spur fresh thinking about how to improve education in places without infrastructure for change.

Once the community saw the benefits of change in one school, the district was able to expand its building program across the district via a successful levy.

In response to these concerns, community colleges across the country are working to improve developmental education by changing how they assess and place students, adopting reforms that accelerate students» progress through developmental education and enhancing student services.

I am delighted that an enormous coalition of community organizations in cities across the United States is questioning the direction of the school reforms being pushed today by the Obama administration and suggesting sensible steps that would help us begin to change course.