Sentences with phrase «educational initiative designed»

The Hudson Estuary Watershed Resiliency Project is an educational initiative designed to help municipal officials and stream - side landowners throughout the Hudson Valley prepare for floods and climate change.

Drug maker Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc. is promoting educational initiatives designed for veterinarians and pet owners in the lead - up to World Rabies Day.

Work in all three of these domains demands better measurement methods to support educational initiatives designed to better prepare and support our youth and their healthy development.

Not exact matches

Launched in April 2015, the Manufacturing Management Certificate (MMC) is a joint, online educational initiative between Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters and Athabasca University, designed to provide the necessary skills training to develop and nurture new managers and supervisors from within existing manufacturing operations.

To fulfill its current mission, the close - knit group working at CGE has designed a number of outreach and educational initiatives, one of which is the Women Leaders symposium.

The study trip was designed to help participants gain insight into both the educational policymaking process and the different and innovative policy initiatives implemented in the Colombian education system over the last 20 years.

Through the Outreach strand, the larger focus of the initiative, researchers develop and support informative and interactive educational experiences which vary in length and time commitment involved as well as those that are designed to meet the needs of different audiences with the ISV network — those new to PZ ideas, those familiar with some PZ frameworks who want to extend their learning to other frameworks and tools, and those with a long history of using certain frameworks who want to deepen and push their practice in new ways.

While it isn't uncommon for young people to take things apart and rebuild in order to understand how something works or why it's made, educational initiatives targeted specifically toward «design - thinking» or «maker - thinking» are becoming increasingly popular in K — 12 education.

HP also launched its National Education Technology Assessment Programme, a global initiative that is designed to ensure educational establishments have the IT tools they need to prepare students for the digital economy.

While an educational component will be central to the mixed - use development, the design will also be anchored by mixed - income housing, workforce, and health and wellness initiatives.

To address persistent gaps in postsecondary educational attainment and our country's growing economic and workforce needs, federal and state policymakers, the philanthropic community, national education organizations and practitioners have put forth a number of goals and initiatives designed to increase college completion rates.

Dr. Robledo Montecel led IDRA's role as managing partner in building the ENgaging LAtino Communities for Education (ENLACE) initiative, which was designed to strengthen the educational pipeline and increase opportunities for Latino students to enter and complete college.

Moving into the position as Instructional Resource and Professional Development Director, Morris designed and delivered training for the organization's staff and members focusing on educational initiatives impacting it's 100,000 plus members.

The initiative includes two private sector partners: Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit focused on broadening educational and economic opportunity; and the Stanford Center for Assessment, Language and Equity (SCALE), an affiliate of Stanford University that provides consulting services on the design and implementation of performance - based assessments.

The authors define data use interventions as «initiatives, policies, programs, and tools designed to alter the ways that educational decision - makers access, draw on, interact with, and respond to data in their ongoing work.»

LaShawn has a 13 - year tenure in the organization and previously served as a coach and director of the high school redesign initiative, where her team pioneered new school design processes, principal network development and site coaching that transformed educational experiences and outcomes for teachers and students in Oakland, CA.

Edward P. Clapp is a senior research manager and a member of the core research team working on the Agency by Design (AbD) initiative — an investigation of the promises, practices, and pedagogies of maker - centered learning — at Project Zero, an educational research center at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE).

Peppler leads the Make - to - Learn initiative of the MacArthur Foundation, which leverages DIY culture, digital practices, and educational research to advocate for placing making, creating, and designing at the core of educational practice.

While designing this professional development initiative, we attempted to consider three of the major facets to educational change enumerated by Fullan (1996): networking, reculturing, and restructuring.

Some of them represent imprints, sales initiatives, marketing schemes, book launches, educational programs, design concepts, and whole publishing houses that will, no doubt, meet with hard, resounding, costly failure.

Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas • TX 2011 — Present Education Specialist II Leverage strong knowledge of training design, implementation and evaluation focused on clinical educational initiatives that promote patient - centric service and support excellence and quality staff development.