Sentences with phrase «efforts at capacity»

Only a few have made sustained efforts at capacity building (such as Missouri «s 1993 Outstanding Schools Act provided funding for a state - wide teacher professional development system, or New Jersey «s provision of significant additional resources to high poverty «Abbott» school districts).

An appropriate education depends on genuine and sustained efforts at capacity - building at the federal, state, and local levels.

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«This would allow policymakers to focus their efforts on absorbing the still elevated excess capacity in the economy,» she said, adding that she expects the central bank will keep its trendsetting policy interest rate at one per cent until mid-2015.

Survey respondents cited greater new order levels and, in some cases, renewed efforts to boost operating capacity at their plants.

Brown is impressed at Augustine's patience and unusual capacity to take enormous effort to address issues that might trouble the faithful.

Every person at a youth sports event in an official capacity should be subject to certain standards, in the effort of protecting a vulnerable demographic.

I have no complaints at all but in an effort to help out future buyers I will say a standard trashcan of the same capacity would work just as well!

Speaking Monday at a City Hall press conference, Malliotakis outlined a twelve point plan, available on her campaign website, which includes extensive legal efforts at locating and mandating treatment of mentally ill persons, building 30,000 units of supportive housing and expanding the psychiatric bed capacity in City hospitals.

Collectively, these efforts will strengthen the capacity of providers to address the mental health concerns of their pregnant and postpartum patients, so that women at risk or already suffering from maternal depression will have better health and access to care.

Today, we serve more than 2,000 at - risk youth each year from more than 300 zip codes in New York and throughout the tri-state area, and an additional 8,000 young people through outreach efforts — as well as countless lives changed by our advocacy, training and capacity building work around the world.

According to her a significant majority of the core staff are still at post; and as part of efforts to improve on the electoral outcome, the commission has further developed the capacity of the staff of the commission.

«N - Power is targeted at young Nigerians aged between 18 and 35 and is aimed at enlisting a total of 600,000 young Nigerians in phases, and under different sectors, in the largest capacity development and empowerment effort yet in the country.

Disclosing that efforts are being made to enhance the operational capacity of officers of the Nigeria Police force through tailor made training programme that will give them the right civil orientation in their roles as guardians of the constitution, the President said his administration will encourage the development of state - level community policing under a model that will integrate members of the community to policing functions at the grassroots level.

In his goodwill remark, the Senior Capacity Building Manager of IFES, Seray Jah, applauded the efforts of INEC at enhancing the knowledge of its voter education staff and extending it to the grassroots level.

For example, they point out that investments in country capacity building have been inadequate and difficult to track, arrangements for fair and timely sharing of patient samples remain weak, and reform efforts at WHO have focused on operational issues but have neglected to address deeper institutional shortcomings.

Building capacity at the faculty level magnifies the effort as the faculty «pay it forward» to many students in the long - term,» said Holley - Bockelmann, who is also the Vanderbilt director of the Fisk - Vanderbilt Masters - to - Ph.

With the end goal being an improved capacity to use fat as fuel, we will discuss the nutrition and training principles to move the cross over point to the right (more fat and less carb at a given effort and speed).

Just keep in mind that while beta - alanine is effective at improving exercise capacity during short bouts of high intensity effort, it doesn't appear to improve performance during exercise lasting less than 60 - seconds.

Ultimately you have to balance overload and recovery, so as you ramp up in some workouts to stimulate lactate tolerance or max aerobic capacity... you'll need to respect that overload and do other runs at a very easy recovery effort.

Schools need low - burden strategies that are easy to implement but that still promote caring and inclusive schools and classrooms, develop key emotional and ethical capacities in students, and inspire interest in deeper and more comprehensive efforts to promote SEL and ethical capacities — practices that can easily be scaled and may achieve certain goals as effectively as comprehensive programs at far less cost.

I want to keep working at solving the problem that, notwithstanding the great efforts we've made in Massachusetts over a couple of decades in setting high goals, measuring progress, holding people accountable, and investing and building the capacity of the system to deliver, we've still been — however successful we've been comparatively — unsuccessful at: closing persistent achievement gaps.

Additionally, the US2020 City Competition is leveraging the «roles of cities as centers for innovation, supporting outstanding efforts to build STEM mentoring capacity at the local level.»

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

Increase students» capacities to reframe pessimistic explanations with optimistic ones: Once students can identify their own pessimistic explanations, they can learn to reframe them by looking at challenges as temporary, specific, and possible to change with effort.

Through the Meaningful Student and Family Engagement initiative, OKF increased district and school capacity to ensure the voices and priorities of over 500 youth and families of color were included in school improvement processes and reform efforts — including development of school plans, budgets, and policies at the district level and at three partner schools.

By placing instruction and a coherent curriculum based on Common Core standards at the center of a five - to 10 - year improvement effort and by building school, district, state and organizational capacity to continuously support that implementation, we should be well on our way to a successful launch of these potentially transformative standards.

Federal and state efforts are expanding schools» capacity to ensure that at least 99 percent of the nation's students have access to high - speed internet.

The third component was local flexibility in organizing capacity to determine how best to meet the academic expectations.1 This structure of clear goals (standards), measures (assessments), and incentives (accountability) at the state level, combined with implementation autonomy, fit with our historical conceptions of education as a local effort.

IEL's family and community engagement (FCE) work is focused on assisting states, districts and schools to improve engagement efforts primarily by building capacity and supporting improvements in FCE policy at every level.

In light of this, a narrow focus on leadership efforts aimed only at building teacher capacities would be misguided.

At 2279cc, it certainly had the capacity to out - punch Ford's best efforts of the time.

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Even the efforts to create more capacity, create it at the cost of credit risk.

With a capacity of 250 to 300 kittens at a time, managing the demand is a joint effort between the paid staff of 26 caregivers, 60 (and growing) volunteers, and a host of foster homes, who take on litters of kittens to bottle - feed and care for at home for days, a week, or as long as the eight weeks it takes for a newborn kitten to be old enough to spay or neuter.

Knowing the county shelter was at capacity, and in effort to help some, the Animals In Need Fund was able to official take over care for both he and his sister (Papale).

We congratulate the Kunming activists for their success and we will continue our efforts to encourage greater awareness of animal welfare issues, support capacity building, assist in lobbying activities aimed at policy change, respond to distress calls and monitor developments as the Chinese animal protection movement grows.

The same municipal animal shelter in this story in their efforts to become NK have become a limited admission shelter because they are often at full capacity and now housing mostly pitbull type dogs.

Our adoption center, located in Sarasota, FL, operates at maximum capacity and focuses our rescue efforts locally.

A coordinated effort that begins the moment a cat or dog arrives at a shelter is one of the most critical ways to maximize lifesaving capacity.

Those who wish to volunteer their time and effort in these capacities can fill out the form found at http://downtowndogrescue.org/volunteer-application/.

Capacity building and knowledge transfer are at the center of competitive destinations and sustainable development efforts.

Well, Dyack (who's now over at Precursor Games in an exclusively creative capacity) has responded to the allegations calling out Kotaku for running the piece, and addressing the concerns that many community members have expressed over the development of Precursor's crowdfunding effort, Shadow of the Eternals.

Representing no single point of view, and in some cases presenting productively contradictory positions, «Trigger» assembles artists for their singular efforts in considering gender's capacity to represent a more general refusal of stable categorization — a refusal at the heart of today's most compelling artistic practices.

Representing no single point of view, and in some cases presenting productively contradictory positions, «Trigger» will assemble artists for their singular efforts in considering gender's capacity to represent a more general refusal of stable categorization — a refusal at the heart of today's most compelling artistic practices.

Even as far more effort is put into improving analysis of the climate system, monitoring changes, and forecasting what is to come, the country must also work to build the intellectual capacity not only to do the science but to have such information meaningfully incorporated in policies at scales down to the town manager.

If «equity» is defined as the human right to sustainable development, then only two approaches to a global fair - shares reference framework — cumulative per - capita budget sharing and «responsibility and capacity index» based effort sharing — are at all promising, and the BASIC paper clearly moves these two approaches forward.

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It notices that in the space of three years, capacity building and training efforts have transformed REDD + from a little - known concept to one which is recognized, discussed and on the agenda of the Government of Viet Nam and that alongside awareness raising at a national level, substantial progress has been made in capacity building for policy development and environmental safeguards.

It notices that in the space of three years, capacity building and training efforts have transformed REDD + from a little - known concept to one which is recognized, discussed and on the agenda of the Royal Government of Cambodia and that alongside awareness raising at a national level, substantial progress has been made in capacity building for policy development and environmental safeguards.

The joint assistance project Capacity building for CO2 mitigation from international aviation aims at providing assistance to a selected group of 14 States in Africa and the Caribbean to support their efforts in developing and implementing their States» Action Plans on CO2 emissions reduction from international aviation, to establish aviation environmental systems for emissions monitoring at the State level and to identify, evaluate and implement mitigation measures in selected States.