Sentences with phrase «find model programs»

Tough articulates as his aim in this book «not to find model programs to replicate» but rather «to extract and explain the core principles of each program to look for a set of common ideas that run through successful interventions.»

Not exact matches

«Successful urban growers usually find a high value niche crops to keep business afloat, or use a cooperative model,» said McGrane, pointing out the City Commons program both farms participate in.

I'm going to be writing another article on investors that take a very hands - on approach to their investments, via incubator / accelerator programs, institutional co-founding, etc and find Zelkova's «team - based model» quite interesting.

Yeshivat Har Etzion founded an affiliated teacher's college and women's program, each of which served as a model for similar initiatives in other Hesder yeshivot.

One of the most useful models for evaluating the personal effects of religious television programs is found in Television and Human Behavior by George Comstock and his associates.

Back in 2008 they hadn't found a way to put our government's secure mobiel e-mail programs on the IPhone or Android platforms yet, they had only developed it for Blackberry, PALM treos, and a few more obscure models.

As these models expand, traditional retailers could find their produce sales shrinking — unless they develop their own programs to compete.

Whileparticipation inseveral home visiting programs is effective at improving children's cognitive and behavioural outcomes (e.g., Early Head Start, The Nurse Family Partnership and The Infant Health and Developmental program), few home visiting programs have been able to significantly improve pregnancy outcomes and reductions in child maltreatment have been found for some models, but not for others.

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiProgram for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiprogram effectiveness.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

The majority of the funding is used by states to implement program models that have demonstrated their effectiveness based on rigorous evaluation findings.

You'll find everything you need to get started with your school breakfast program, including information on delivery models, implementation, and marketing and promotion materials.

Based on the nationally recognized model used in Wisconsin that involved bringing stakeholders together to find efficiencies and cost savings within the Medicaid program, the team includes leaders from the healthcare industry, the Governor's office, the legislative bodies, and other business, labor, and consumer advocates.

To find out more about how meteorologists use forecasting models to get ahead of Mother Nature as well as the limitations of this technology, Scientific American spoke with Thomas Else, chief meteorologist and director of meteorological services and computer programming for Hackettstown, N.J. - based weather forecasting consulting firm Weather Works LLC.

There are many different types of rockets, and a comprehensive list can be found in spacecraft propulsion - they range in size from tiny models such as water rockets or small solid rockets that can be purchased at a hobby store, to the enormous Saturn V used for the Apollo program.

The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), a comprehensive behavioral early intervention program that is appropriate for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as young as 12 months, has been found to reduce the need for ASD therapies and special education services through the school years following their early intervention.

Bigelow and colleagues ran a computer model of the island's topography through a wind simulation program and found that near Broo, wind speeds drop off dramatically.

The new model incorporates recent findings gathered from related research efforts and simplifies the physics involved so computers can process the program more quickly.

Similar targets for geothermal pump development have been set by the Energy Department's Geothermal Technologies Program, which has found current pump models unable to sustain flow rates under advanced geothermal conditions.

November 10, 2016 UChicago's CommunityRx intervention helps patients find community resources New research from the University of Chicago Medicine shows a program that uses electronic medical records to connect Chicagoans with health resources in their community could be a model for other efforts nationally.

The porous structures called schwarzites are designed with computer algorithms, but Rice researchers found they could send data from the programs to printers and make macroscale, polymer models for testing.

They hire some drug - using professional bodybuilder to say he got great gains from their product (training program or supplements) and they photograph him with some half - naked aspiring bikini model or fitness competitor who probably finds him repulsive.

There are so many amazing athletes and other male role models out there doing yoga, so I find it surprising that no one has put a DVD together or set up a yoga program specifically for boys.

If you want a site full of girls of model type, blonde, tall, waiting just for you - no, you won't find them here in big numbers, we fight with scammers and we do not open such girls when we see they are scammers (we have a program that helps to find it out).

A recent rigorous RAND study of Carnegie Learning's Cognitive Tutor Algebra I program found that the blended - learning model boosted the average student's performance by approximately eight percentile points.

Adults need to encourage girls to be curious and to tinker, find female role models in STEM careers, and offer chances to participate in programs or clubs that focus on STEM.

Despite this consensus, we could find very few models of successful programs.

According to Glenn, research comparing these divergent treatment models finds the faith - based approach more successful: Addicts are more apt to be drug - free and gainfully employed if they have participated in a faith - based treatment program.

These latest findings of the longitudinal «Ypsilanti study» — one of the first efforts to analyze the effects of preschool education on children and a model for the Head Start programs established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 — were made known at last month's annual policy conference of the High Scope Educational...

There are a lot of programs now that are being funded by small grants and what have you that are all about finding some of those mentors, some of those role models, and making them available and accessible, getting them into schools, having them as a resource for teachers to draw from — it's quite exciting actually when you see a lot of the things happening.

The main findings were not affected when the study estimated different kinds of models and made the sample larger by including students that became eligible for a voucher in any year after the program initially started in 2007.

In addition, the promising findings from model, much - more - expensive preschool programs such as the Perry Preschool Project in Ypsilanti, Michigan, have renewed hopes for what Head Start could be.

There are several other scaled - up preschool programs that have been evaluated with well - implemented RCTs and found to have no immediate effects, including Even Start, the Comprehensive Child Development Program, and over a dozen curriculum improvement efforts pitting model curricula against run - of - the - mill programs (see PCER and CLIO).

The most promising models they found are incentive pay programs employing a group incentive design which «produce an effect over two times the average study in our sample... which lends support to the shared nature of teaching and learning hypothesis.»

Studies by Brown et al. (2001), Frechtling and Katzenmeyer (2001), Glazer et al. (2006), and Wallace et al. (1999) provided findings about the impact of teacher leader training programs on teacher leaders» practices with teachers (including demonstration lessons or modeling).

Wallace et al. (1999) found that teacher leaders reproduced in their own practice the model of teacher leadership presented to them in their teacher leader preparation program.

These studies found that teacher leaders tended to reproduce in their practice the model of preparation they had received: the proportion of time in the preparation programs devoted to subject area content, pedagogy and leadership corresponded with the time that teacher leaders spent in these areas in their work with teachers.

Researchers found that the Wolf Trap program demonstrated features of effective PD and did so with fidelity to its planned model.

As illustrated by Figure 1, regardless of whether the statistical model accounts for the selectivity of college (dashed line) or not (solid line), this research finds that the effects of training programs do decay.

Researchers also found that the program exhibited a high degree of fidelity to its planned educational model thanks to a strong collaborative relationship with the district, a culture of continuous improvement, and ample training and support for the teaching artists.

A November 2016 study of Citizen Schools» Extended Learning Time model by Abt Associates found that «Citizen Schools participants are significantly more likely to report that the program helps their self - esteem and pro-social behaviors and that they are also more likely to participate in activities that help them learn about college and careers.»

In our review, we found that states have chosen a wide variety of schedules and program models.

The U.S. Department of Education should support ongoing research to establish the validity and reliability of comprehensive teacher evaluation programs, further examine the efficacy of value added models of teacher evaluation, and support adequate training and professional development of evaluators to insure fidelity of implementation of evaluation models found to be effective in improving teaching and learning.

This last article presents IDRA's major findings in the classroom level indicators, focusing on the program model, classroom climate, curriculum and instruction, teacher expectations, and program articulation.

Find out how the wiki can apply powerful research models used in school library programs to foster higher - order critical thinking skills.

CharterStart is a two - day, comprehensive training program that provides founding teams with the resources, best practices, and support necessary for the development of a strong educational and operational school model that promotes the academic achievement of all students.

Power points from the regional stakeholder meetings on the educational program and funding model - providing both an overview of each and the key stakeholder questions included in those sessions and as a part of the online survey - can be found on the sidebar under «Download Report.»

The findings showed that students who had learnt about the principles of maths, physics and programming through building LEGO Education models exhibited an improved understanding of these subjects.