Sentences with phrase «focus of programs like»

These factors, often lumped together under the term «behavior modification,» are the focus of programs like Weight Watchers, for example, and they work for thousands of people.

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Instead, focus on small pleasures, like scheduling dinner with a friend at the end of a taxing workday, arranging for a massage at the end of the week or at the conclusion of a long business trip, or even relaxing with a mindless television program if your brain has simply been firing for too long.

UBC's Sauder School of Business, meanwhile, reorganized its program offerings last year into functional streams like entrepreneurship, and product and service management — specialties that have focus but can be applied across a variety of industries.

The Darden School of Business offers one of the top MBA entrepreneurship programs among b - schools, awarding over $ 1 million in scholarships annually and offering highly specialized training like Venture Capital Bootcamp, a three - day workshop focused on early - stage investing.

Not surprisingly, the highest - ranked brands on our Canadian list fared well in these two categories — Canadian Tire, for instance, earned high marks for citizenship, likely because of community - focused initiatives like Jumpstart, its charitable - giving program.

A startup like FloSports can benefit from ESPN's struggles by siphoning a relatively small stream of viewers that prefer the choice of specific, narrowly - focused programming, but that doesn't mean FloSports» rise would necessarily hasten ESPN's demise.

Every step of the way, we have focused on making Government work better for business through initiatives like Startup America and BusinessUSA — groundbreaking programs that connect entrepreneurs to resources that can spur their success.

Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey, who also runs mobile payments platform Square Inc., has focused on making Twitter more useful, including streaming programming such as National Football League highlights and recaps of series like «Game of Thrones.»

One the most amazing things about this budget is that one of its three focuses will actually be the opposite of what itâ $ ™ s touting. Youâ $ ™ ll likely hear that $ 14 billion will be spent on infrastructure over the next 10 years (actually you may hear much bigger numbers but they just re-announce existing programs like the -LSB-...]

While 22 percent of mainline Protestants attend churches that offer formal marriage or parenting programs, only 20 percent of conservative Protestants do (though many evangelicals and fundamentalists get family support from parachurch ministries like Focus on the Family).

Part of that comes from the work of Erwan Le Corre, a French parkourist and founder of MovNat, a fitness program focusing on natural movement featured in books like Natural Born Heroes and in videos of Le Corre himself — long haired, shirtless, and running barefoot through the wilderness like some ripped version of Adam — on MovNat's Youtube channel.

Unlike other programs who just want your money, our focus is to cater to each child individually, help them where they need improvement and cap our class numbers to keep the class intimate, so your child does not get lost in the masses and feels like they are truly a part of the whole.

Programs like No Child Left Behind and Common Core — with their focus on «hard skills» and the mastery of content, both very «carpenter» - like approaches to education — have failed children, and teaching has regressed to an emphasis on test preparation.

In looking over the Feingold site, it looks like they've done lots of research on additives, which is great stuff to know, but it doesn't look like they've focused on the economic and political realities of the massive school lunch program.

The program consists of a 20 - week intensive lecture, film, and experiential series that will utilize a combination of classroom - like discussions, auditory and visual aids, and on - going focus - group interactions, as outlined below.

«I Never Thought of Science as Something Like This» - Incorporating an Ecological Perspective Into Science Teacher Learning - Connected Science Learning - March 14, 2018 Learn about how a university - based teacher preparation program, public schools, and local science - focused museums implement an ecological approach to STEM learning in Chicago.

Much like a 2012 study published by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, where educational biologist Wendy Middlemiss and her team tracked the behavior and cortisol levels of 25 infants, ages 4 to 10 months, as they attempted a five - day sleep training program that focused on the cry it out method.

«The amazing thing is how the school smells like real food, like delicious roasting chicken,» said Stanley, of School Food Focus, which launched a similar program in St. Paul, Minn., public schools before taking on the pilot effort in Chicago, whose school district is more than six times bigger.

I just started the program so I can't really report on it just yet but what I like about it is that it's based on four pillars of holistic health: physical, nutritional, emotional, and spiritual — with a strong focus on the mental aspect of weight loss.

On the right the stereotype is typically more racially focused probably because most economies are capitalist markets, and most of the right wing is older so the social programs like social security and medicare don't really offend them.

The bulk of his new proposals focus on upstate jobs programs and tourism, like innovation hot spots, developing three casinos upstate, and promoting New York produced products.

On the other hand, without the rule of having to provide represenative programming the BBC executives could just focus on providing programming they personally like while ignoring the wants of the audience.

Her paper says that instead of expanding such programs, the focus should be on the root causes of children being academically delayed, like growing up in single - parent families.

«It seems like you're spending a lot of time coming up with really different methodologies to count a few dollars and cents,» said Annaka Peterson, a program officer at Oxfam America who focuses on efforts by communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change.

She decided, instead, to focus on aspects of her grad school program she does control, like how she spends her time in the lab, for example, and how she would respond — in the most measured, professional way possible, she decided — to her advisor's social mood swings.

«We'd like to see these programs focus less on direct care and more on larger issues of public health,» Melby said.

«When you have a program like ours — focused on Africa, focused on trying to alleviate poverty and utilize the resources for the benefit of the people — a lot of African Americans become interested,» says Adewumi.

If all you want is to get rid of your man boobs ASAP, and focus on proportions later, then doing the barbell back squat like I suggest in the latest program you purchased from me, is the way to go.

Yoga Burn is a metabolism boosting, body shaping program designed for anyone, beginners and seasoned girls since it uses specific strategies of dynamic sequencing that effect in astounding benefits on your body like getting flexibility, alleviating tight muscles, enhancing health and resistance, feeling energized and rejuvenated, looking younger and fitter and getting the clarity and focus you must be successful.

To truly get the best results using this product, it's advised that you incorporate it with the use of a workout program, like Focus: T25, P90X3, PiYo, or any other good workout routine.

The final two weeks of the program are going to target two major training goals... consolidating the mass gains you made in the second week by focusing on «time - under - tension» style training for your muscles and developing your maximal strength capacity (I like to use the term «human forklift» strength for this).

While we do offer programs that allow for focused muscle growth or fat loss we never lose sight of the ultimate goal... looking, feeling and moving like an athlete!

The moves in this program also don't have any modifications like a lot of other Beachbody programs do, such as Focus T25.

Focus on eating as healthy and whole food of a diet as you can, consider fertility massage or acupuncture, along with stress management or something like Circle + Bloom's IVF and IUI Mind - Body Program.

ACE has created a series of Specialist Programs to help you focus your expertise in specific areas like sports conditioning, fitness nutrition, weight management and behavior change.

As a piece of alternative programming, I'd like to redirect the focus a little bit and explore one of the most fascinating aspects of The Dark Knight: the sound design.

Just like any machine programmed to do a job, David is completely focused on his: loving his «mother» no matter what, never once questioning this pursuit of her reciprocal love.

Focusing solely on graduates of Harvard Business School and on alumni of a program for gifted minority students called A Better Chance (ABC), the author discovered this time that bourgie blacks, like First Lady Michelle Obama, finally feel pretty darn good about being American.

I wanted to get certified as a guidance counselor and liked that I could do it in a developmentally based program that offered a broader sense of education and had an urban focus.

Seung enjoyed the museum focus of the course, and also appreciated its focus on how to adapt active learning in different settings like home and afterschool programs.

All of that begins in teacher preparation programs which must include a focus on content, an understanding of cultural diversity and a strong clinical experience where prospective teachers can watch experienced teachers in action and practice under their supervision - kind of like a medical residency.

Instead of reading like one might read a novel to escape, reading programming language requires the student to focus on one specific idea at a time, to think linearly but in a conceptual way.»

We wanted his students to think and read like programmers, so we focused on computational literacy, which «requires being able to do computer programming at some level,» according to Bruce Sherin of Northwestern University.

There's much to like here, including the way the state reports on the history of the program and its focus on district engagement and continuous improvement.

There are a panoply of «jobs» we might «hire» a pre-K program to perform for families: the job of providing dependable custodial services for working parents; the job of preparing students for elementary school by focusing on high impact areas like early vocabulary exposure; the job of keeping young children healthy during their early years of development.

As gamification matures, I think we will eventually see some accrediting agencies spring up around badging, new programs developed like World of Classcraft, and a growing focus on adding elements that increase learner engagement in all types of learning venues.

Charter schools like the Young Women's Leadership School and those operated by the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), and private networks like the NativityMiguel schools — several dozen of which serve low - income, inner - city students — have proven that proper pedagogy and academic focus can overcome the developmental challenges of preadolescence.

The «new and improved» summer school program CPS proposes sounds a lot like hours and hours of computer test prep: «weekly acceleration / intervention sessions as part of the full school day; access to instructional tool that provides focused lessons based on individual needs,» which CPS calls «personalization» (slide 14 of CPS PowerPoint Presentation)

Like Willits Charter School, the new district charter school will offer classes in ecological literacy and will provide opportunities in community and service learning, as well as project - based learning, including the integration of art, music, and the dramatic and performing arts, into a core - focused educational program.

Singapore's ITE Program is responsible for the development and success of the country's Technical Academy works with a laser - like focus to define the needs of businesses.