Sentences with phrase «educational efforts by»

Help SPOT continue their great educational efforts by helping distribute posters and brochures.

As the leading authority on Golden Retrievers in the United States, GRCA and its member clubs nationwide continue to promote the health and welfare of the breed and the educational efforts by AKC and other AKC parent breed clubs.

Other educational efforts by Sherrie include moderation of the message boards for the Veterinary Support Personnel Network and teaching an online program specifically for veterinary professionals as part of Family Paws Parent Education.

This story was produced for The Greenlee Project, a joint educational effort by Ames Laboratory Public Affairs and the Green School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University.

Not exact matches

Many times, they'll lend their services in ways that complement government efforts, for instance, by offering educational opportunities, supplies, and even useful technology.

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

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.»

Certainly since World War II there has been an accelerating national effort to provide post — high school educational opportunity to everyone who shows even the least promise of profiting by it.

This explains the curious phenomenon of «soft pedagogy» arising out of an educational philosophy aimed at stimulating serious effort by students.

A solution the pope proposes for combating fake news on an individual basis: Listen to diverse sources instead of engaging with homogenous news environments: «Praiseworthy efforts are being made to create educational programs aimed at helping people to interpret and assess information provided by the media, and teaching them to take an active part in unmasking falsehoods, rather than unwittingly contributing to the spread of disinformation.»

There are nightly news reports these days of the efforts by young persons, black and white, to change the fundamental structure of our educational, governmental and social institutions on the grounds that these institutions support racism and the military - industrial complex at home, imperialism and immoral wars abroad.

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.

These government efforts have been supported and supplemented by a constellation of nonprofit groups, often backed by philanthropists with deep pockets and an abiding commitment to addressing educational inequality.

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.

It has been accompanied by a concerted effort towards institutional stability and assimilation into the greater educational landscape.

The efforts made by individuals, business, organisations, educational institutions and governing bodies to promote the observance of an anti-slavery day each year would represent one of the many examples of an ongoing commitment in the UK to raise awareness of human trafficking and to oppose such trafficking actively.»

Drapkin heads a collaborative effort begun in 1965 by the educational and business communities to explore sustainable growth for the Hudson Valley.

Mulgrew shared news of a bipartisan effort by federal lawmakers to overhaul No Child Left Behind and move away from the harmful emphasis on high - stakes testing in favor of a more balanced approach that targets educational inequality.

The event is sponsored by Education Reform Now, a group that has ties to Taveras: the New York - based 501 (c) 3 nonprofit is helping support the national Mayors for Educational Excellence Tour, which is meant to highlight new educational efforts in four specific U.S. cities.

Board Member Larry Quinn was very vocal that old ways will not work, citing Google's efforts to create a new educational environment, like the Manhattan complex toured by district administrators last year.

«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.»

«Oneida County has continually made it a priority to proactively raise Breast Cancer awareness by engaging with our employees and the public through various educational efforts and events,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Many of us have had our lives impacted by this disease in some way and know that preventative measures and early detection are big keys to winning the fight.»

Frey received the award for her efforts in creating educational opportunities in the Bronx and Westchester by providing much needed scholarships for dozens of children each year.

But Gates also delivered an optimistic message about the resilience of the American educational and scientific enterprise, and discussed some prescriptions offered by PCAST and others for reinvigorating the nation's research efforts.

The researchers suggest, based on their analysis of the data, that screening compliance could be increased by focusing educational and outreach efforts on certain groups who were less likely to get their infants screened for congenital CMV: less educated mothers, babies not born in a hospital and infants who received hearing tests later than 14 days after birth.

Fellows will receive specialized training in state - of - the - art software design principles and tools, and they will engage in outreach and educational efforts organized by the MolSSI.

Courtney, stymied by a question about an educational bill he knows nothing about, is mostly just making noise onstage, until Gunt mentions his efforts to clean up a park in Courtney's neighborhood.

By choosing to straddle this soft center, Trophy becomes little more than an educational effort, which perhaps is exactly the type of approach its CNN Films production arm wanted.

Sound educational theory and abundant empirical evidence indicate that the Common Core will be most successful when its implementation is accompanied by intentional and ongoing school - wide efforts to:

In a strongly worded letter sent this month to chief state school officers, legislators, state board of education members, representatives of the National Education Association, and publishers nationwide, the Florida leaders point to the «pervasive» influence of textbooks and other classroom materials on the educational process and say that their state's school - improvement efforts «have been impeded repeatedly by the declining...

To this day there are no good, comparable, city - by - city data on participation rates in NCLB school choice or supplemental educational services, so it's impossible to know if participation spiked in communities where the PIRCs and other groups targeted their efforts.

Thus the authors review in detail the educational experiences and points of view of the last President Bush and President Obama, and they would argue that neither No Child Left Behind nor Race to the Top were written in the cards: the programs were specifically shaped by presidents whose own educational experiences demonstrated to them the need for effort and judgment.

These shenanigans by the district and the union have been presented to the public in a way that is designed to pull the wool over people's eyes: «The result has been a perversion of the evaluation system and a knowing effort to deceive the public using educational jargon.»

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.

For example, early on, President Lyndon Johnson's administration said the report endorsed its desegregation efforts by showing that blacks benefited from an integrated educational experience while whites did not suffer from it.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

What is required is a concerted effort by all three branches of government to bring their relative functional strengths to bear on ensuring constitutional compliance and solving the nation's educational ills.

January 22, 2016 — The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia in an effort to establish a set of common educational objectives and standards for assessing student proficiency in reading and math, are accomplishing one of their key goals.

Investment in educational hardware and software, while «a major component in educational restructuring and reform initiatives,» has not been matched by coordinated efforts to train teachers to use the equipment effectively, a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board concludes.

To have a deeper understanding of these questions, we need to dissect the current status of the Chinese educational system in such a way that any solutions we come up with our sound and geared towards change and an improved effort by all, for all.

Organizing efforts are distinguished from other more orthodox forms of educational change by their collective nature and by the active engagement of parents, teachers, and pupils in the politics of school and community change.

One is represented by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium's (ISLLC) efforts to define «standards» for educational administration and to stiffen the requirements for licensure.

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.

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.

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.

«By bringing these efforts together under a single initiative, we can act more strategically to advance the School's goal of strengthening the education profession and contributing to educational improvement.»

«By bringing these efforts together under a single initiative, we can act more strategically to advance the School's goal of strengthening the education profession and contributing to educational improvement,» she continues.

In tandem with a new website that offers important educational resources, including thinking routines to stimulate learning, the paper solidifies Agency by Design's efforts to shape a set of research - based, educator - tested practices and to invite the broad community of maker educators into a conversation about the ideas driving and shaping the movement.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trust them!).

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.