Sentences with phrase «educational groups including»

Facilitated weekly psycho - educational groups including Anger Management, Cognitive Remediation and Healthy Living.

Not exact matches

Originally the study included only traditional mainline groups, but the participating denominations agreed to add the Southern Baptists to the study because of that denomination's thorough educational programs.

Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights of parents.

His role included business development, management of a national sales and distribution network, staffing the organization and instituting educational training programs for hotels and restaurant groups.

Additional resources include an adult day program, diagnostic and educational evaluations, and consulting services for groups interested in starting up similar programs.

Her contributions to the field of babywearing education include founding an independent babywearing group and working with the educational development of new educators, establishing a Babywearing International Chapter where she worked to become a Master Babywearing Educator, the President of the Chapter as well as the Education Coordinator for her local chapter, and on a National level has held such titles as BWI Board of Directors; Treasurer, Diversity and Inclusivity Committee member and BWI Accreditation Coordinator.

There are a few groups that offer accreditation (assures that a camp is up to certain safety and educational standards) and recommendations, including the American Camping Association, KidsCamps.com, and the National Camp Association.

The Onsite Academy provides a unique in - person educational opportunity conducted by a professional faculty from around the country that includes informative group discussions, engaging exercises and valuable role playing on a variety of issues pertaining to youth sports administration.

The largest randomized trial of a comprehensive early intervention program for low - birth - weight, premature infants (birth to age three), the Infant Health and Development Program, included a home visiting component along with an educational centre - based program.7 At age three, intervention group children had significantly better cognitive and behavioural outcomes and improved parent - child interactions.

In the other group, researchers made visits and calls and sent monthly newsletters encouraging parents to replace violent TV with educational programming - including specific program schedules and recommended shows, such as Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer and Curious George.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

Both of our locations provide several educational and support services at no cost, including moms» groups, drop - in weight checks, our Breastfeeding Information Center, student internships, and community presentations.

The intervention group women (n = 250) were first sensitized through a short educational session (10 minutes) that included information delivered orally during the medical visit on the benefits of breastfeeding for women and their infants, mainly EB by shedding light on its definition, and the good practices of breastfeeding as well as the production of breast milk.

The 2 groups were similar on all measured characteristics, including maternal ethnicity, educational status, age, parity, breastfeeding history, and infant birth weight (intervention group, 1914.4 g; control group, 1840 g); gestational age; sex; and length of hospital stay (intervention group, mean 27.1 days [range, 2 - 81 days]; control group, mean 25.2 days [range, 1 - 104 days]-RRB-(Table 1).

Control (n = 27): attention control (AC); mothers in the AC group were given educational information about infant safety including information on fall prevention, poisoning, fires, and burns during the first visit, about choking / aspiration, suffocation, drowning, and smoking during the second visit, and about car seat safety during the final visit.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Other venues and groups authorized to simply carry auto - injectors include youth organizations, sports leagues, theme parks, day cares and other educational facilities.

Starting this past summer, groups within public universities and research institutions — including contract researchers — began holding educational events to alert their communities about the law's implications.

All of SHARE's services are free of charge and include telephone support, educational programs, support groups, and public - health initiatives.

The Mars Society is an all - volunteer group, so your membership dues are used solely to promote the mission of the Mars Society, including coordinating public and political outreach, establishing educational programming, convening our annual international convention and organizing and managing Mars simulations and research studies at the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the Utah desert and the Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station (FMARS) in the Canadian arctic.

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.

The control group received health educational materials including diabetes prevention information every two weeks.

Questions were raised by IAC's decision to include two educational companies (The Princeton Review and Tutor) along with the dating sites in the newly - formed Match Group.

Proponents include well - funded private groups such as the Cato Institute that frankly promote a free - enterprise model for schooling: Anyone who wants education should pay for it and should have the right to buy whatever educational product he or she desires.

Through IHG Academy, IHG hotels (with brands including Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn Express) collaborate with educational providers and community groups to help local people build their hospitality skills and improve their employability.

Through grants for research, innovation, communication, and evaluation, as well as policy education and leadership development, Lumina Foundation addresses issues that affect access and educational attainment among all students, particularly underserved student groups, including adult learners.

Furthermore the new facilities will support a number of local community groups; including VH Whizz kids and REAP (Refugees in Effective and Active Partnership), who will use football activity on site to engage with local groups and deliver educational support.

The definitions of such groups are inevitably arbitrary; the students in them inevitably have different learning needs; and the educational expectations of included and excluded students are inevitably different.

Animation has also been repeatedly used for educational purposes for all age groups, including adults.

An array of ideological and budgetary considerations that reject tracking, ability grouping, «pull - out» programs, and other forms of educational separation (often including both acceleration and grade repetition) on grounds that such practices are morally wrong, socially and educationally undesirable, politically imprudent, and just plain unaffordable.

But someone's legacy should include improving the educational options available to one of the nation's most underserved groups of kids.

In conferences both in Korea and the United States — including one held this August in Gaithersburg, Md., aimed at Korean American youths, college students, youth leaders, and church leaders — Kim and her colleagues offer a changing slate of educational colloquiums, spiritual worship sessions, and group counseling sessions that zero in on the societal and familial realities that Korean Americans face and the role that counseling can play in fostering healthy social, emotional, and psychological development.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

Back in 2002 a group of educational travel companies came together and pioneered a robust verification scheme which featured an audit of all members every year by independent experts By measuring against a comprehensive code of practice that had been developed with, amongst others, health & safety experts, teachers» unions», head teachers» associations, outdoor advisors and top legal advice, the audit ensures all aspects of a company's business was examined, this includes worldwide health & safety management, financial security, consumer protection, fair terms and conditions and, for when it does go wrong, a commitment to independent arbitration.

Commenting on the Kingswood expansion, John Bentley, CEO, Inspiring Learning, said, «We are always looking for new ways to develop and innovate and are supported by an advisory group including experts from other educational institutions and industry bodies.

Included in this activity are: A page outlining the USDA nutrition guidelines for healthy eating Bingo Directions Call Sheets for each of the 5 food groups 20 different bingo cards COOKING WITH THE KIDS is an educational project led by UK not for profit, The Organic Cookery School.

The school district accountability groups for each grade level will include all students enrolled in a public school in the district or placed out of the district for educational services by the district committee on special education or a district official.

Where a school registered pursuant to this paragraph is in a district in which one or more schools have been designated as a school in improvement, corrective action or restructuring, the commissioner shall determine the accountability status of the newly registered school based upon his review of the proposed educational program, including but not limited to such factors as: school mission, school administration and staff, grade configurations and groupings of students, zoning patterns, curricula and instruction and facilities.

This means we all share responsibility to educate the 59 million children who today are not in school, to close the educational opportunity gaps facing girls, poor children, and children of marginalized groups around the world, including refugees, and we must take responsibility to ensure that all children who do attend school indeed learn what is necessary to be empowered global citizens.

The online education industry includes various groups of educational institutions that deliver online education to students.

«We must ensure that changes being made to our qualifications system do not unfairly disadvantage specific groups of students, including those with special educational needs or those from backgrounds of economic disadvantage.»

Worse, many other administrative arrangements which are effective with the gifted and are centered in the regular classroom, including ability grouping, cluster grouping, and acceleration, are now considered politically off limits by educational policymakers.

CEL worked with Pittsburgh educators to develop a strategic approach to professional development which included showing ITL2s how to work side by side with teachers, providing classroom modeling, site visits, group and one - on - one coaching, and instructional rounds, said Mary Beth Crowder - Meier, a CEL educational consultant who worked closely with the ITL2s.

Niguidula has served on numerous national advisory boards and has presented his work on educational technology to groups including the U.S. Department of Education, the National Governors» Association, ASCD, the National Science Foundation, and the International Society for Technology in Education, and the European Institute for E - Learning.

In May, state tea party groups sent a letter to Walker and the Legislature accusing the Common Core of being all sorts of bad things, including an «educational fraud» and something of a federal takeover of education.

After students complete their online assignments and group work, they can choose to engage in independent activities, including reading and educational online games.

The Montessori model is a unique educational approach which includes multi-age classroom groupings, customized learning plans and self - directed learning.

I notice, Celeste, that the CARE group whose meeting you'll attend included this burning question: «How can we equalize educational outcomes for all our students in order to reduce poverty in the future?»

This discussion group brought together a wide range of stakeholders across education and youth - serving systems, including educational researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, to expand participants» understanding of research application in educational policy and practice.