Sentences with phrase «changing practices across»

Does the school leadership team create a clear vision and understanding of expectations when changing practices across the school?

Each of the above resources is designed to be used as a stand - alone resource, and to complement the others, in order to provide an overall package which has been evidenced to change practice across a whole service.

Not exact matches

But before that transformation takes hold, some other changes will have to happen — including new reimbursement rules from insurance companies and policy shifts that make it easier for physicians to practice across state lines without gaining extra licenses or accreditation.

Regulatory changes allowing veterinarians to practice across state lines, as well as the increasing popularity of pet insurance, have combined to make emergency veterinary services an attractive field.

Some of the best practices leaders must own include: establishing accountability across the organization; defining the results needed from the culture change (what are we trying to accomplish?)

«If McDonald's changes its practices, that could have a ripple effect across low - wage industries,» Tsedeye Gebreselassie, an attorney with the National Employment Law Project, recently told Fortune.

«If McDonald's changes its practices, that could have a ripple effect across low - wage industries.»

With all these innovative leaders, you can hear about the best practices to optimization innovation across different forms of industry, how material science is changing the world of innovation, and how innovation takes flight into the new space economy.

This integration represents a unique, marked improvement that is changing the nature of tax and investment best practices across the nation.

This Network has collaboratively developed as a key strategic priority the development and implementation of an Urban and Regional Food Charter for Victoria, as a systemic and integrated text to drive forward legislative and policy change and shape practice across the state.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

Six months after training social workers identify significant changes to their practice across the whole service:

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.

HBS programs have a systems - based focus designed to change and improve clinical practices across systems of care.

As an online resource, it will evolve in response to changes in professional practice, emerging research, changing policy and government - led initiatives and legislation across the UK.

«Teachers and other professionals who have benefited by working together across institutional boundaries may now find that, as a result of these changes, opportunities to develop practice and share expertise will be lost.

Bratton is pushing back on a number of NYC Council measures aimed to change police practices across the city.

«Too many hard - working New Yorkers have had their lives changed forever because of the NYPD's discriminatory practice that treats simple folding knifes sold at well - known stores across this city as weapons once in the hands of black and brown people.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is pushing back on a number of City Council measures aimed to change police practices across the city.

«We will be the change required by this moment — in policy, in practice, in the workplace and all across society,» said Melissa DeRosa, Cuomo's Secretary and chair of the state Council on Women and Girls.

In recent years, rapid societal transitions that are producing increases in wealth, urbanisation, changing lifestyle and eating habits, more sedentary work practices and aging populations across sub-Saharan African countries have led to increased risk of type 2 diabetes.

«This study is the first to offer evidence that intensive and continued meditation practice is associated with enduring improvements in sustained attention and response inhibition, with the potential to alter longitudinal trajectories of cognitive change across a person's life,» said first author Anthony Zanesco, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Miami, who began work on the project before starting his Ph.D. program in psychology at UC Davis.

It wasn't until I started reaching deeper into the science of food that I came across some little - known eating practices that really changed the way I did things, and started rapidly increasing my results.

Green hotels are catching on: hotels across the world are incorporating LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) and other green building practices into their spaces, changing the way hotels are designed, built and operated.

He was singing a song with his students and the text scrolling across the screen was stating about the changes he has seen in his students by implementing a few practices, mainly kindness.

«The momentum for change in assessment policy and practice is growing across Australia and in other parts of the world,» Elizabeth Hartnell - Young, Director of the ACER Institute, tells Teacher.

By the time you are reading this the closing date for consultation on the draft SEN Code of Practice — 9 December 2013 — will have passed, so what will the New Year bring us as we contemplate changes to the special educational needs (SEN) arrangements across the sector?

In a forum released today by Education Next, Nonie Lesaux of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Juan Rangel of a Chicago charter school organization, UNO, discuss whether these changing demographics call for substantial reforms in the current instructional practices designed to address Hispanic students» needs, or whether improving education practices across the board is the best way to meet the needs of Hispanics.

Is there evidence from schools of education across the country that practices of teacher preparation are changing in response?

With changes taking place across the UK school system at an almost unprecedented pace, from academisation to assessment changes, it is essential that school leaders have a space to come together, debate ideas and share their experiences and best practice.

Whilst ASPA and other professional associations have been leveraging off the best practice of exemplary principals across the country and driving profession - led change, this is not enough.

It enables Ada, as the National College for Digital Skills, to honour their commitment to advancing best practice for the teaching and learning of digital skills; it allows BJSS, our industry collaborator, to invest in technology and young people with credible partners driving real change; and it accelerates Turinglab's ability to empower children across the country with fundamental digital skills through creative coding.»

Task 2: Create a structure for an applied developmental taxonomy that integrates concepts from multiple frameworks, describes in terms of everyday observable behaviors, and emphasizes how it changes across development); plus an illustration of how stakeholders can use the taxonomy to enhance their work in research, policy, or practice with children and youth.

When so many thousands of complex institutions are spread across thousands of jurisdictions, the challenges of politics, resources, talent, and implementation are profound, and all the more so when what's being changed contains as many ingrained practices, hidebound regulatory regimes, and vested interests as public schooling.

It would be a logical error to infer that leadership as it is distributed and practiced for one leadership scenario, such as leading a new reading initiative, would necessarily be similar to leadership distribution across other scenarios, such as changes made in the science curriculum.

The move away from harsh, punitive, exclusionary (and, let's face it, ineffective) discipline practices in schools and districts across the country is a welcome wave of change.

Then, in July of 2006, a new superintendent, assistant superintendent, and director of special education were hired and began the hard work of changing the ways in which adults worked together to raise the level of instructional practice and student performance across the district.

Speaking to Schools Week ahead of the report's launch today, Leadbeater (pictured above) said that although a lot of schools were already trying to change their practices using tools like the international baccalaureate, improvement across the board would require government action on assessment and «more room» in the curriculum for project - based learning.

Our testing practices themselves have changed very little since our inception as a school, but we've begun to use the data in a more meaningful way, restructuring our grade teams to become inquiry teams focused on the growth of students across all subject areas.

Jon Star, a Harvard education professor, said he thinks most high school math educators across the country have not changed their teaching practices according to the Common Core in the same way that elementary teachers have done, such as by leading discussions about math and facilitating group projects.

Creating a unified improvement agenda from these two initiatives to improve classroom practice demands intensive collaboration across teams and offices in the state education agency (SEA), sophisticated change management, and a focus on continuous improvement.

«The findings of the report show schools could do more to change some of their day to day practices, to ensure they are not «unwittingly excluding members of their BME staff from their leadership teams and decision - making processes» and that they are actively challenging the racism and discrimination still endemic across primary and secondary schools.

As we strive to implement strategies that promote systemic change, we must do so with the goal that no matter where students are assigned, they have the benefit of the thinking, expertise, and dedication of all teachers in that grade level or subject area; that they are part of a school system that requires all teachers to participate in learning teams that are provided regular time to plan, study, and problem solve together; and that this collaboration ensures that great practices and high expectations spread across classrooms, grade levels, and schools.

By developing information systems and feedback structures that identify strengths and weaknesses within schools and districts across these areas, states can set the stage not only for identifying what is working but also for changing educator practice where it matters most — at the classroom level.

Across the nine schools, the teachers tested 15 different change ideas, and several of these practices produced standout results in shifting students» mindsets and learning outcomes, including a routine to improve peer - to - peer feedback, the revising work and tests routine, the challenge problems activity, and a one - on - one conferencing protocol.

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

The Blueprint for Educational Change provides us a strategic plan to coordinate resources and practices across school district boundaries, allowing us to think and act regionally.

In addition to these components, schools agreed to several other practices and commitments in this multi-year project: cross-grade collaboration; the development of a plan to involve parents as partners in the delivery of their school reading program; and the commitment to continue with the project for at least 2 years, addressing, across that time span, all six major categories of the school change framework.

Youth and community organizing efforts have been winning changes to harsh and discriminatory school discipline practices across the country.

New York University; New York, NY $ 355,000 over three years on behalf of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change to analyze how teachers with different levels of teaching qualifications are distributed across NYC UPK classrooms with different compositions and levels of quality, and to examine how administrators and teachers use data about classroom quality to improve professional development and classroom practice.