Sentences with phrase «focus efforts toward»

«They will now have the time to better focus their efforts toward providing other valuable member services while we do what we do best — help MLSs and associations tell the story of their local markets.»

Thus, to meet this demand, we have more than doubled the size of our support team and will continue to focus our efforts toward improving user experience.

Together, Ms. Parsley and Mr. Gold are proud to focus their efforts toward protecting the rights of injured consumers.

Likewise, if employees engage in something called self - regulatory processing, that is monitoring their progress on a task and focusing their efforts toward performing that task, it can help boost their performance.

Lisa has exhibited her work throughout New England, and New York and is currently, a Trustee at Berkshire School, where she has focused her efforts toward Student life, Admissions and Development.

Customers living in the USA probably won't be able to buy the 930, as Nokia has focused its efforts toward promoting the Icon.

Not exact matches

Gates» foundation has also focused a considerable amount of money and effort toward K - 12 education in the United States.

Since our inception, we have focused our financial contribution efforts toward two organizations we passionately support, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and On Course Foundation.

While most organizations spend the bulk of their sales and marketing efforts focused on customer acquisition, few, if any, put any energy toward keeping the customers they worked so hard to attain.

Some kids are naturally inclined toward team sports, while others may feel more comfortable in activities where the focus is on individual efforts.

However, right now, the Senator is focused primarily on ensuring that the Senate continues his efforts to preserve and create jobs, while working toward a responsible budget that holds the line on taxes, makes tough cuts, and re-prioritizes what funding is available to protect our parks and historic sites, our correctional facilities and provides property tax relief.»

While de Blasio noted the increased funding heading toward the renewal schools that are the focus of much Department of Education effort and outside scrutiny, there are other key school - related additions to the budget, including $ 6.6 million for the DOE to «hire 50 additional physical education teachers and conduct a comprehensive needs assessment to address barriers and move schools toward full physical education compliance.»

«In the coming months, along with entrepreneur Adam Pritzker and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University,» he wrote, «I will launch a national effort focused on addressing (the) crisis (facing the national Democratic Party)-- joining others already doing important work toward 2018 and beyond.»

In the coming months, along with entrepreneur Adam Pritzker and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, I will launch a national effort focused on addressing this crisis — joining others already doing important work toward 2018 and beyond.

Numerous federal agencies that historically have focused their minority recruitment and retention efforts on universities, including NSF, NIH, and the Department of Education, are now implementing or expanding programs to fortify science education at community colleges, to facilitate 2 - year students» transfer to universities, and to encourage those students to continue toward advanced degrees.

Well - known US celebrity efforts include the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which has funded more than $ 115 million in research directly or through partnerships focusing on Parkinson's disease, and the Dana and Christopher Reeve Foundation, which has granted more than $ 40 million toward spinal cord repair since its initiation.

As large - scale genome sequencing projects, such as the Human Genome Project, near completion, the research community's focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.

Conservation dollars are limited, however, and it is important that invasive mammal management efforts be focused on the islands where they will go the furthest toward conserving native island biodiversity.

These centers focus the efforts of collaborative groups of researchers on defined areas of inquiry, to accelerate progress toward the development of new treatments and vaccines to prevent and cure type 1 diabetes, cancer and infectious disease.

With the effort to sequence the entire human genome speeding toward completion, some researchers are now focusing their energy on developing the next generation of tools that can be used to extract...

At past symposia, FoR worked to highlight some of the problems facing postdocs and graduate students, and started to define solutions but this year, together with Academics for the Future of Science and the MIT Graduate Student Council, we shift our focus toward advocacy and action with sessions specifically chosen to better define productive routes for advocacy efforts and help participants develop the efficacy of their advocacy skills.

The funds, generated through the longevity research focused crowdfunding platform Lifespan.io, will accelerate the project's research efforts toward restoring lost mitochondrial function and preventing age - related damage.

Future research examining age in relation to people's attitudes toward, involvement in, and experiences with Internet romance would benefit from efforts to obtain more diverse samples and from more focused examinations of the broader socioeconomic contexts in which their samples are located.

Continuing the welcome trend toward more female - focused efforts, this new NBC series features three excellent actors long overdue for lead roles: Christina Hendricks (Mad Men), Mae Whitman (Parenthood), and Retta (Parks And Rec).

Although FilmTwo fellows are selected with a project in development, the program is designed to support an artist at a specific stage of career development, with primary focus placed on creative and strategic efforts toward professional advancement.

About the Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) at Harvard University The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide effort initiated by the Harvard Graduate School of Education to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievement gaps.

By emphasizing the importance of «working strenuously toward challenges, and maintaining effort and interest over years, despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress,» educators can help to encourage the habits of sustained effort and focus that increase the likelihood of achieving goals (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007).

The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide, multidisciplinary effort to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating...

The Achievement Gap Initiative (AGI) is a university - wide, multidisciplinary effort to focus academic research, public education, and innovative outreach activities toward eliminating achievement gaps in education.

DeVos's opponents could refocus their efforts toward fighting to protect funding for these programs, but doing so will require focusing on Congress, which controls the purse strings, rather than the secretary.

One of the problems in this effort to improve people is that it positions educators toward adopting a focus on children's deficits.

A focused effort to evaluate curricula and shift demand toward more effective options would yield a higher return on investment than more resource - intensive measures.

First, KIPP's focus on building fifth - through eighth - grade middle schools seems to be shifting toward an emphasis on starting elementary schools, as its first efforts in that direction bear fruit.

We believe that focusing our joint efforts on attainable outcomes will lead us toward high quality schooling for our kids in the lowest performing schools.

Through coaching provided by TSCCI partners Eskolta and reDesign, Bronx Haven's principal at the time, Lucinda Mendez, and a team of teachers launched a multiyear effort to shift the school's focus from traditional outcome measures — like standardized test scores — toward the learning process itself.

We have focused much of this effort toward bullying prevention.

framework helps schools focus their efforts and see quick gains in student success while working toward long - term goals and sustainable change.

Focusing on the development of a campus» climate as a learning environment is fundamental to improved teacher morale and student achievement (Nomura, 1999) and formally assessing and addressing school climate is essential to any schools» effort toward successful reform, achievement and making a difference for underprivileged student groups (California P - 16 council, 2008).

Oregon's efforts to support innovation and school improvement have focused on proficiency - based learning models and early steps toward creating multiple measures data dashboards.

Programs vary in focus — ranging from efforts to identify potential leaders very early in their teaching careers and develop leadership skills with an eye toward longer - term potential to intensive residency - based programs that place aspiring principals in embedded - training programs in schools with the goal of moving to a full - time principal position immediately upon completion.

Garcia, who celebrated a birthday Sunday and will team with Jan Magnussen and Ricky Taylor, led a Corvette Racing effort that focused on race setup and strategy as the team works toward what it hopes will be a ninth victory at the French endurance classic.

May 10, 2016 In this video, I talk about how to focus your energy and efforts toward the tasks that produce the greatest results in self - publishing.

Their combined efforts are focused toward the accomplishment of our mission statement: «Deseret First Credit Union exists to provide progressive and mutually beneficial products and services that foster the financial independence and well - being of its members within the LDS community.»

Instead of buying another rental, I've focused my efforts more toward tax advantaged investments and even more dividend growth stocks.

Indigenous Peoples Task Force (IPTF) has mainly focused their efforts on HIV care and education, and now they are moving toward including more programming for indigenous arts and healing with The Mikwanedun Audisookon Center for Art and Wellness.

Realizing that going forward would put a strain on the organization and our partners in the community, we have decided to focus our efforts in 2010 toward developing a strong financial footing that will allow us to fully realize our ambitions for Prospect.2 in 2011.»

«It's well past time to shift our focus and efforts toward renewable energy and sustainable practices.»

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

It's a multi-prong approach to reach this goal, which would include Passive House construction along with Decent House / site generation and other efforts contributing to demand destruction, coupled with a shift in transport to non petroleum based fuels (electric vehicles and etc.) Since our focus here is on housing, I really would like to see Decent House scale up for the huge existing housing stock inventory yet to be touched by this approach, along with Passive House lessons applied to new construction, where the basic concept is to shift the burden of maintaining a comfortable, healthy living space toward the envelope, while reducing the intensity of HVAC required.

Nearly 60 percent of all new programs or training opportunities focused on training students for renewable energy and green careers, with $ 543 million recorded toward the effort.