Embrey Family Foundation joined the Institute's community of foundation supporters in 2014 and provides valuable general operating support for our work year - round, which enables us to allocate funds where they are needed most, and to
focus our attention on developing new initiatives as we provide leadership to the fields of film, theatre, and new and interactive media.
While Cookie Monster is focusing on building his executive - function skills to help control his impulses to eat cookies, Sesame Workshop is
focusing its attention on developing preschoolers» self - regulation and executive function skills, both core to their school and life success.
Nomura: This time we are
focusing our attention on developing the AI.
Use the READY Report to
focus your attention on developing your strengths and overcoming your challenges.
Not exact matches
This influx of
attention - hungry, iPhone wielding, social media savvy young professionals has caused an increased HR
focus on understanding how to attract,
develop and retain Millennials.
«15 But, of course, though this represents momentary final success, each of the stages must be continually revivified, recreated, and
developed in an unending process if man is to know the living God; if man's knowledge of God is to be real it must grow in an unending cyclic process even though
attention may
focus now
on precision, now
on synthesis, once more
on romance.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would
focus our
attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to
develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.
But since the 1960s a quite different project,
focusing attention again
on the classical quest for ultimate truth in the midst of contemporary, post-Enlightenment culture, has been
developing as...
Sustainable development is an idea
developed in World Council of Churches circles in the 1970s and 1980s, and
focuses attention on how much poor countries should be allowed to
develop before they jeopardise the environment
on which we all depend, although Mr. Carr does not put itquite that way.
«These consulting assignments prioritize where a manufacturer should
focus attention on the overall ingredient supply chain by identifying potential hazards and characterizing the likelihood of risks, which allows the customer to
focus on the most risk - prone areas and
develop prevention strategies,» Waters explains.
Although Southern Eagle remains loyal to Anheuser - Busch — which still accounts for 88 percent of its business — Southern Eagle is
focusing more
attention on craft brands,
developing and reinforcing relationships with local breweries and taking this movement seriously, Busch explains.
The same meticulous
attention she had given to her best - of - breeds she
focused on developing her animal shelter, St. Hubert's Giralda.
What's more impressive is their teaming up with Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) in
developing the Endangered Species line, a line of premium strollers that
focus attention on the plight of Endangered Species around the globe.
A former Plainview - Old Bethpage school board member, Cepeda, 56, says he would
focus his legislative
attention on revamping the assessment system, ensuring mixed - use development at the Nassau Hub and
developing a stable and consistent budget line for public transit.
Adam Gazzaley, professor of neurology, physiology and psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and executive director of Neuroscape, has
developed video games designed to improve memory,
attention and learning that adjust to a player's performance and
focus on different cognitive systems.
Her current research
focuses on developing clinical applications for imaging flow cytometry, with special
attention to transcription factor pathways.
The authors advocate that colleges and universities
focus greater
attention on developing student values and other personal qualities that will produce a new generation of citizens who are committed to creating a more just and equitable society.
Typically
developing children begin to
focus on human faces within the first few hours of life, and they learn to pick up social cues by paying special
attention to other people's eyes.
Work at the institute
focuses on disorders of the
developing brain, such as autism and
attention deficit disorder; diseases of the aging brain, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's; and restoring function to the damaged brain, including brain - machine interfaces and deep brain stimulation.
Sam Aidoo, technical director of the Paralympics Committee of Ghana, worked to
develop sports for people with disabilities in Ghana to
focus national
attention on disability issues in Ghana.
Currently, Dr. Petrucci is
focusing much of her
attention on developing innovative beauty - and food - based products.
A yoga starter kit such as the Sivan Health and Fitness Yoga Set can help your loved one get started
on yoga, a practice which has been known to
develop mindfulness, or the ability to
focus one's
attention with what he / she is currently experiencing.
Here at Training Ground TransformationNATION in our FitCAMP and StrengthCAMP programs (and of course, our seasonal GluteCAMP speciality program), we
focus a large amount of
attention on coaching athletes
on how to properly use their glutes in most of the movements that they do to help them
develop the best booty possible that will give them all of the benefits I am about to share with you.
Not only do we
focus on the building blocks of nutrition, lifestyle, and eating psychology, but we devote time, energy and
attention to helping coaches
develop amazing and transformational coaching skills.
Now with «Beast,» a well -
developed thriller with some horror undertones, Pearce emerges as a fellow to watch, since he keeps the audience with an uneasy feeling throughout while trying to guess the identity of a serial killer and wondering whether the woman
on whom he
focuses so much
attention is in danger of being murdered.
Through their partnership, we are able to allocate funds where they are needed most and to
focus our
attention on strengthening our programs and
developing new initiatives as we provide leadership to the fields of film, theater and new and interactive media.
Since then, I have turned my
attention to the multimedia world by
developing, curating, and editing content driven websites
focused on the health, technology, and environmental fields.
Other benefits highlighted by these stakeholders included: Literacy and numeracy assessments can be used to celebrate learning, identify strengths, needs, barriers to learning and allow teachers to make informed and objective judgements about learning;
Focusing teachers» and schools»
attention on the need for phonics to be taught explicitly and systematically to achieve the necessary level of word reading skills that are required to
develop skilled reading; Early identification of children with learning difficulties or [those who] need additional instruction.
Looking at the study paper there, which has been published recently, the girls start school with more self - regulation skills (things like paying
attention, working independently, staying
focused on tasks), whereas boys
on the other hand, they've got less -
developed [self - regulation skills] and at the same time they've got higher rates of «problem behaviours».
Her research activities
focus on understanding the impact of emotions,
attention, and behaviour
on learning throughout child and adolescent development and
developing innovative self - regulatory interventions for children (KooLKIDS) and youth (Mindfields) to bring about positive change in their lives.
Chike Aguh's work as a teacher led him to the Ed School where he has
developed an intense
focus on education policy and management that has caught the
attention of his classmates and faculty.
Formative assessments help students
develop a growth mindset because they
focus attention on the learning process, rather than
on just the final product.
More recently, the Council also has
focused considerable
attention on developing program evaluation tools that can be used to support both candidate learning and continuous program improvement.
Joshua Furgeson, one of the report's authors, said it shows that a «school that
focuses its resources and
attention on hiring and
developing the best teachers can substantially improve student achievement.»
I just hope that somewhere in the confluence of Superman, Facebook, and Oprah,
attention can be
focused on the long and arduous road ahead if we want to
develop among our teachers and leaders the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure quality learning for all students.
The Social Studies collaborative
focuses on identifying,
developing, and sharing high - quality educational resources that support student and professional learning through rigorous standards, engaging curriculum, balanced assessments, effective professional development and
attention to equity.
How can you
focus learners»
attention on developing comprehension strategies that they can apply more widely?
Teachers who are
developing (coming out of the learning dip) need someone to
focus their
attention on how their progress is impacting students.
By
focusing attention on the effectiveness of teachers in raising student achievement, these progressive states are setting the stage for U.S. schools to climb out of their doldrums and to compete with the top schools around the
developed countries of the world.
Overall, as a group, teachers received lower scores
on the
Attention to Individual or Subgroups of Learners rubric than
on the
Focus and Quality of Evidence rubric, possibly indicating that attending to individual students» thinking and understanding is a skill that needs time to
develop and is not prevalent in novice teachers.
In this position, Lowery will lead Ed Trust's P - 12 team by
developing and implementing powerful strategies to
focus national
attention on inequities in public education as well as the actions necessary to close gaps in opportunity and to improve achievement.
Each year, the Texas ASCD's Influence Committee monitors legislative and policy making meetings and
develops a set of position statements designed to
focus attention on critical issues for educators across the state.
My writing thrives
on giving
focused attention to my ideas, and an old - fashioned journal is the perfect tool for writing down ideas and
developing them without the distractions of my computer.
And unless HP thinks they can give half their
attention to
developing their competitor and still maintain
focus on their own underdog system, they're going to blow it.
There is no doubt that most aspiring traders
focus much of their
attention on how much money they can make, when their primary concern should be
developing as a trader.
In other words,
focusing on developing and maintaining patience while trading the market will cause your equity curve to rise much more consistently than not paying any
attention or little
attention to patience, as most traders do.
The Humane Society of Greater Miami provides every foster with all of the essential supplies needed for proper care as the kittens
develop and mature, such as bottles, formula, litter and blankets; that way, they can
focus their
attention on giving the kitties unconditional love and a proper home in which they can grow.
This year the company is
focusing attention on in - store demos, signage, and
developing an educational DVD they'll send to retailers and also post
on their website.
The
focus on the ground in Oklahoma, of course, will for years to come be
on recovery and rebuilding — hopefully with more
attention across the region to
developing policies and practices that cut losses the next time.
The myopic
focus on anthropogenic climate change is diverting
attention and resources from our critical challenge of
developing and transitioning to alternative transport fuels fast enough to prevent massive economic harm especially to oil importing countries.