Sentences with phrase «educational efforts as»

A journey of walking with veterinary professionals with educational efforts as they, too, grieved for the clients that they served.

«Oneida County has proactively encouraged raising cancer awareness by engaging the community through educational efforts as well as offering 8 hours of paid leave for cancer screening for employees.»

It is imperative that we as a city elevate this educational effort as a priority, in robust partnership with healthcare providers and professionals, combined with the full resources and commitment of the entire City of New York.

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«We see every change in market conditions as an opportunity to redouble our educational efforts,» said Edward Tilly, Cboe's CEO, on a conference call Friday.

Winners also enjoy: National recognition as one of Canada's foremost Dealmakers Heightened market interest thanks to extensive media exposure in The Globe and Mail, Lexpert and Thomson Reuters publications Media coverage stemming from Deloitte's national media relations efforts The opportunity to engage in the high - level industry networking that fuels M&A transactions - Recognition at the gala awards ceremony, which is attended by leading investors, advisors and financiers - Year - round networking and educational opportunities, including access to valuable research, insights and best practices

He's also used his success as head of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Records to help fuel his philanthropic efforts, from donating to African educational charities to pledging $ 3 billion toward reducing global warming.

The foundation's mission is, as stated on its website, «to prevent Virginia Tech - type shootings through education and advocacy; to employ comprehensive educational efforts to expand community and student awareness of campus safety issues; and to offer compassion, support, and hope to those affected by violence.»

«Much of the volunteer work of Jewish young adults is comprised of local efforts to ameliorate disparities in economic resources and educational opportunity and often entails activities such as collecting, sorting, and distributing goods,» the polling analysis said.

But my callings have been as manager of household and business, of running music programs and other educational efforts.

If it is a correct answer, it implies that we must support such organized efforts as that of the APPE4 to deflect current educational momentum into other channels than a mere reshifting of the same materials and approaches, putting forward of dead models as new panaceas, or the temptation to begin with precise discipline where in fact learning should start in a different way.

They doubled their efforts to supply educated pastors and educational facilities as well as a simple gospel of conversion.

The California Sustainable Winegrowing Alliance was established as a joint effort by Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers in 2003 to manage the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program (SWP), a ground - breaking statewide educational initiative to help wineries and vineyards continuously improve in adopting and implementing sustainable practices.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

We offer a comprehensive program, as well as a wide variety of support materials and a web — based professional community to support your efforts and educational needs as an instructor.

The Joppa Flats Education Center and Mass Audubon offer the Birder's Certificate Program as a key component in our on - going efforts to provide the finest educational programs.

Lastly, as a citizen, I want push for change on the national level, re-prioritizing how we help the parents of young children and making sure our public educational institutions are strong enough to resist the efforts to fragment communities into haves and have - nots.

For the most part, however, what the first minister served up as part of a long - trailed effort to «refresh» her administration after more than ten years in office sounded familiar: educational reform («most radical change»), more cash to boost economic growth («raising our ambition») and the creation of a Scottish National Investment Bank.

Putting people first expresses his relentless effort to empower the Ghanaian through the already started progressive educational development considering the achievement in the last four years as indicated in the «Accounting to the People» progress report.

He noted that the expansion of educational facilities would be meaningless unless there was a collective effort and all stakeholders act as agents of change.

In the many responses to Gov. Cuomo's efforts to introduce formal and public teacher evaluation, teachers, union leaders and educational leaders have offered little but delaying tactics, such as more study is needed or how about conducting small trials.

George - Fields decided not to continue into the next school year and instead focus her efforts as president and CEO of the Harlem - based educational consulting firm REACH Educational Solutions.

As I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toAs I admired the gilded allegorical ceiling panels representing science and excellence, I couldn't help thinking, corny as it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, toas it may sound, that the building's namesake — whose innovative experiments included, along with the Declaration of Independence, an improved plow, a portable copying machine, an encryption device, and an outstanding institution of learning (the University of Virginia), and who sent Lewis and Clark on one of history's most daring research expeditions — would have approved of this educational effort, too.

Scientific American is partnering on the project as part of our ongoing educational efforts.

Through a Memorandum of Understanding the IOI Centre in the Islamic Republic of Iran will help to promote effective and wise management of ocean and coastal resources, eradicate poverty in coastal areas, organise efficient protection of the marine environment as a common heritage of mankind and facilitate exchange of knowledge and information, enhance the national scientific capabilities and carry out training and educational efforts, focusing its activities on the Persian Gulf area and cooperates with IOI Caspian Sea.

It should strictly be used to kickstart weight loss efforts and as an educational tool... teaching you what to eat, how to eat, and how different foods affect your body.

The Red Flag Rulebook is an educational tool to give women sound advice on how to bring back patience and effort into the dating game, as well as an entertaining audio that will give women a good laugh to share on any «girls night out» occasion.

As a joint effort of the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Defense, the Learning Registry houses over 400,000 open resources for educational use.

«Steve's experience as a high school teacher, university faculty member, committed advocate for the arts, active participant in our national and international educational efforts, and imaginative researcher make him the ideal person to...

Even as various reform efforts have sought to address the inequities of educational outcomes in the United States — leading to some improvements in specific areas — deep and persistent gaps in opportunity and achievement remain.

As part of a new faculty research effort called Research Schools, Professor Kurt Fischer hopes to bridge the gap between research and practice, and build a new foundation for promoting strong, useful educational research.

Education federalism has served as a consistent roadblock to federal efforts to remove barriers to equal educational opportunities for low - income and minority students.

The stalled growth in educational achievement could be the result of diminishing returns on reform efforts, as Murray suggests.

Given the widespread existence of choice and competition in K - 12 education, it is demonstrably wrong to suppose, as Forum contributor Frederick M. Hess does («The Work Ahead «-RRB-, that «Efforts to cultivate competition may thus foster a culture of schooling that is alien to our educational heritage and may create an incentive structure that distorts educational priorities.»

Gardner's research entitled «Ethical Perspectives on Young Persons» Use of Digital Media» is one of many studies — to be conducted as part of a $ 50 million effort by the MacArthur Foundation over the next five years — on understanding the educational impact of the widespread use of digital media on youth.

A journalist and educator, over 35 years she has authored or coauthored 20 books, many of which resulted from her work as a reporter following national educational change efforts.

Some education reform advocates who lean to the left are questioning the foundations of the educational system as well as the reform efforts that have been made — not always by people of their preferred political persuasion — since the 1990s.

Video of A Discussion with Wendy Kopp Teach For America, the creation of which Kopp proposed in 1989 as part of her undergraduate senior thesis, is building the movement to eliminate educational inequity in the United States by enlisting the nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.

Employers want to know if you have actually taken the time and made an effort to learn as much as possible about new and emerging eLearning Authoring Tools, educational technologies, Learning Management Systems, etc..

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

Rincón - Gallardo points to reform efforts like high - stakes accountability and testing as examples of bad educational change...

Instead, teachers view leadership as a collaborative effort, a «banding together» with other teachers to promote professional development and growth and the improvement of educational services (Troen & Boles, 1992).

As a country, we have come a long way in our efforts to provide better educational opportunities for students with disabilities, but there is more work to be done, said National Alliance President and CEO Nina Rees.

A number of educational institutions are making dedicated efforts to implement technology inside classrooms as well as in corporate scenarios to be able to make a difference in the learning and training processes.

As someone who favors efforts to expand educational choice, I can't think of anything less helpful than making this broad - based, decentralized effort feel more like a creature of Washington.

Assessment has been part of educational reform efforts for the past 40 years (Linn, 1998), initially serving as an indicator of reform or progress and more recently serving as a lever for reform.

The advisers will be placed in communities with low college - going rates and low adult educational attainment rates as part of MCAN's efforts to increase the number of students gaining additional training or degrees after high school.

The «Classroom Efficiency Club» emerged in the 1990s from the efforts of a small group of educational entrepreneurs, most affiliated with charter schools, to develop classroom practices that would instill the discipline necessary for students to master foundational knowledge that could then serve as a base for more advanced learning.

As a union of professional educators, UESF has a responsibility to make an increasing effort to support successful education and seek remedies for unsuccessful educational efforts.

But along with a similar initiative launched last year by the administration to expand educational opportunities for Native American kids (and slowly revamp the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education), the new effort does bring attention to the low educational achievement among young black children — especially young black men — and reinforces Obama's generally laudable record as School Reformer - in - Chief.

To compound the issue, these competing demands make it challenging for principals to lead schoolwide efforts that promote positive, safe, and nurturing school environments that embed health as part of the natural educational experience.