Sentences with phrase «create systemic change»

For all my talk of green lifestyle choices never saving us (which one commenter, not unfairly, recently described as public self - justification), I do believe that personal and local action can have a profound impact on our culture, and that impact can in turn create systemic change for our economy as a whole.

Backed by the commitment and determination of our board of directors, volunteers and a growing community network, E3 Rochester was formed in 2012 to create systemic change in K - 12 education for the children of the City of Rochester to drastically change the dire student academic outcomes in the worst performing urban district in the nation: in 2015, just 46 % of students graduated from high school on time, with only 5 % proficient to enter college or begin a career.

A lot of work has to be done within when you're trying to change a culture and create systemic change.

However, will these new schools significantly increase achievement, create systemic change, and stimulate innovative practices?

The mission of Green Dot from day one was to create systemic change, not to create a bunch of charter schools.

And being one of the many women joining forces - and I get to look across the room to see all these incredible women that mean business and have always meant it - but now culturally there is a time and space for them to take that ownership and that power and really create systemic change in this business and across industries.»

If we dig in deep to create systemic change, we can heal those wounds, and we won't find ourselves with the same problems to solve in 10 or 15 years.

There is no doubt that it will create systemic change.

Along with NoVo's Executive Director Pamela Shifman, Jennifer Buffett is keenly focused on creating systemic change and supporting grantees to forge ahead in unconventional ways.

If Governor Cuomo is truly committed to creating systemic change, the creation of a nonpartisan Blue Ribbon Commission is critical to uncovering the disparities in our prisons and our broader criminal justice system and identifying and implementing solutions.

She is driven by issues of social justice and is committed to creating systemic changes that prepare students for college and career readiness.

Misses an opportunity to leverage change: Sen. Alexander should seize this opportunity to revamp Title II — the part of the ESEA that provides for professional development and support — and create systemic changes to grow and maintain a high - achieving, diverse teacher workforce, such as improving teacher preparation, providing intensive induction for new teachers, and supporting job - embedded professional development, coaching, and innovative compensation systems that stretch dollars further.

Schott's core belief is that a grassroots movement is central to creating systemic change to address the disparities poor children and children of color face in schools.

«The groundswell has not created the systemic change we have been striving for,» said Elaine Wolff, a local social worker who has been raising awareness about the link between domestic violence and animal abuse.

Not exact matches

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council (CFPAC) is a 501c3 non-profit that advocates for responsible food and agriculture policy recommendations and promotes systemic changes creating self - reliance for all communities in obtaining their food.

These leaders in disability funding will share how they are using their financial and intellectual capital for systemic change in transition services to create a more contemporary workforce development strategy for unemployed and underemployed youth with disabilities.

«The first step to anything is having an awareness of it before you can change the fundamental systemic problems that created and support it,» she said while flanked by her «A Futile and Stupid Gesture» castmates.

because I realized that, in order for the kind of systemic change in teacher leadership that I was proposing to happen, we were going to need to create real change in how we develop our staff.

Combine that with my organizational experience, and maybe I can help create massive, systemic change in how we educate kids back home.»

The Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership (Ed.D. in OCL) degree is for current and emerging leaders looking to create and foster learning environments that drive systemic improvement across a range of organizations.

Participating cities are launching ambitious plans for change that include components of the Education Redesign Lab's strategy for systemic change: creating student - centered, customized learning experiences for students; integrating social, emotional, and health services with education; providing easily accessible, high quality expanded learning and enrichment experiences for all children; and creating governance structures that will support this integrated model of services.

Systemic reformers have tended to focus on creating new policy instruments such as content standards or curricular frameworks, assessments that are aligned with new content standards, and changes in both preservice and inservice teacher education (Cohen, 1995).

But whether he or, for that matter, any superintendent in conflict with a strong teachers union, can create irreversible, systemic change in several years will be left for his successor and future school board members to determine.

Whether you are starting out in the field, an experienced teacher or an organizational leader looking to drive systemic change, USC Rossier's programs can prepare you to create positive learning outcomes.

Even more, we know that students of color are most likely to be taught by white women, so larger systemic shifts are necessary to ensure that hiring managers recognize and counteract institutional biases that prioritize creating formal and functional opportunities for women of color to drive change.

A critical mass is created that is more likely to result in systemic change than having it limited to one discipline.

Uncomfortable with these excuses, school leaders at more than 80 Los Angeles County public schools have gradually decided to strike out on their own to push for systemic change by creating their own public charter schools.

Assessing What Really Matters in Schools: Creating Hope for the Future, by Ronald J. Newell and Mark J. Van Ryzin, asserts that» «since the 1960s, efforts to reform education — including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches — have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning.»»

By looking ahead to the future of learning and work, transforming policy and growing educator impact, the KnowledgeWorks team helps policymakers and communities create a foundation for systemic change.

At the same time, they create fundamental systemic change and build the teaching profession, especially in the most challenging districts.

We have continued to advance digital learning in Alaska by creating examples of collaboration between districts, working with vendors to develop unique solutions to our challenges, and conducting demonstration projects and programs resulting in higher learning and systemic changes.

All of our work — through education, science, and advocacy — strives to create fundamental and systemic changes in the ways wild carnivores are viewed and treated in North America.

Now for climate change work, we don't care so much about the actual temperature, but do want to know about the trend, so it is possible to create an alternative algorithm that is free from the systemic biases caused by attempts to merge thousands of low grade temperature records together.

Supporting the California based Climate Protection Campaign, an organization working to reduce emissions in Sonoma County, the ecobabes calendar «portrays passionate, driven women pursing a vision of sustainability by modifying their daily actions and initiating systemic social change... [and] inspires and educates people of all ages to make changes in their personal and professional lives that help create a more sustainable world.»

With any automated homogenization approach, it is critically important that the algorithm be tested with synthetic data with various types of biases introduced (step changes, trend inhomogenities, sawtooth patterns, etc.), to ensure that the algorithm will identically deal with biases in both directions and not create any new systemic biases when correcting inhomogenities in the record.

I argued a few weeks back that green lifestyle choices will never save us, and that there is a danger of getting distracted by I - am - greener - than - you - are pissing contests when our real challenge is creating lasting, significant change on a systemic level.

It will take citizens working in their own communities, region by region, to create the kind of systemic change that will lead to sustainable economic practices — practices that foster ecologically responsible production of goods and a more equitable distribution of wealth. Local currencies are a tool to bring about such change. BerkShares are about building community while building the local economy.

One year on, refugee lawyers across Canada say that these changes have created a manifestly unfair system for deciding refugee claims, and point to serious and systemic flaws with the new regime which is being challenged by refugee lawyers across Canada.

Lisa has created major institutional changes to address systemic barriers to the well being of those she represents.

• Directed financial management consultation for the Office of Personnel Management • Analyzed OPM's retirement and insurance software identifying crucial systemic flaws • Created system process maps and descriptions in conjunction with subject matter experts • Developed data management solutions to remedy costly payment system errors • Provided cost benefit and return on investment analysis for process changes • Delivered comprehensive best practices guide along with supporting industry research • Managed consulting team ensuring cost effective, efficient, and timely project completion

Relationships that are developed between professional school counselors and others in the interest of students creates a school culture that promotes student success, systemic change, advocacy, and reinforces the mission of the school counseling program.

There are many similarities between cultural safety and cultural responsiveness, such as: providing guidelines to health practitioners to improve their capabilities; putting the onus on change onto non-Indigenous systems and employees; debunking the myth that culture is the «problem», as opposed to racism and systemic inequity; and progressing the conversations beyond cultural awareness or sensitivity, to create real change.