Sentences with phrase «idea of their support network»

References are generally used to get a complete picture of a family's application and an idea of their support network.

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Nortel and Newbridge Networks (founded by serial entrepreneur Terry Matthews) made it part of their missions to support and fund the ideas of employees, even if they were not directly related to the core business.

One of the biggest complaints about Facebook — and its all - powerful News Feed algorithm — is that the social network often shows you posts supporting beliefs or ideas you (probably) already have.

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Your ideas, enthusiasm, support, and mad networking skills helped catapult the e-book version of A Year of Biblical Womanhood to # 18 on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Understanding all of this background not only makes for an enriching viewpoint and a tolerance to support networking efforts but actually gives you great fodder, in the form of ideas, for your blog.

A day of: networking, sharing ideas, small - scale workshops (led by us all), giving and receiving support, and generally helping to recharge batteries.

The idea of a support group is to link up with other fathers to share concerns and frustrations, to find ideas for being a better dad in your circumstance, or just to make friends and create a network of people who can be a support to one another.

* NOTE: While not required for becoming an API Parenting Educator, advantages of becoming an API Leader would be the ability to form and facilitate local support group meetings, network with API Leaders all over the world, share meeting ideas, receive continued support and information from API and the Leaders Forum.

♦ Ideas for making the UK's road network ready to support connected and autonomous vehicles are sought as part of a competition launched by the National Infrastructure Commission.

[33] Field was the instigator of the idea of a global Commonwealth network of protected forests, though he failed to raise political interest for a number of years; when HM The Queen came to hear of the idea she supported it enthusiastically, and the initiative was launched as the Queen's Commonwealth Canopy in 2015.

In the waning days of the Bloomberg administration, when many of the mayor's controversial education ideas are once again under attack, one chief target of critics has been the school network structure, which broke up the geographically organized school districts and allowed principals to self - select into one of about 60 support organizations.

To enhance provision of training across the country, Vitae created a suite of workshops and resources and established regional networks for university support staff to exchange ideas and materials.

The idea is the M - PESA users can use a wider network of support, and receive payments more quickly, during dire financial times.

Call it the network model of research: as new contacts form among neurons, a network develops that supports an ever - expanding quantity of information and ideas.

You should consider them part of your support network; they can help you learn the ropes of doing research by showing you how they keep their research records, explaining procedures for ordering materials or interlibrary loans, and discussing your research ideas informally before you present them to your supervisor.

This latter finding is of particular interest, says Christian Doeller of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and might support the idea that humans have a wider network of grid cells that we use to help form memories.

Taken together, these findings support the idea of a global functional relatedness for disease genes and their products, and offer a network ‐ based model for the disease propensity in an individual (Goh et al, in press).

In January 2017, with support from the M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust, the Geophysical Institute, UAF vice chancellor of research, UAF International Arctic Research Center, and UAF IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence, UAF Research Computing Systems engineers deployed Mellanox InfiniBand solutions across multiple racks to form their HPC system.

A special feature is the Buddy Network, supporting the idea of creating a unique international and multicultural environment.

You must have a network of people with whom you can discuss your idea, develop your case for support and who will review your proposal.

Because this fellowship is supported by the National Institutes of Health and the Maine INBRE (IDeA Network for Biomedical Research Excellence) program, projects submitted for the fellowship should have some biomedical relevance, with a preference for projects in the general field of comparative functional genomics (broadly defined).

The Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Skeletal Health and Repair and the Rhode Island IDeA Network for Excellence in Biomedical Research are supported by the National Institutes of Health's Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program under grant numbers P20GM104937 and P20GM103430, respectively.

«This is an example of how the infrastructure development and collaborative network formation supported by the program can enable exciting and productive team approaches to address complex questions and move biomedical science forward,» said W. Fred Taylor, who directs the IDeA program at NIH's National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Sundance really likes to push the idea that it's a «community» — a network of artists converging on the same Utah ski town every January to support each other's work, exchange positive reinforcement, and just bask in the glow of general movie appreciation.

And furthermore, ISKME, the sponsor of the event, received a $ 50,000 matching grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support three groups with additional design workshops, access to ISKME's networks, services and other resources to help incubate their ideas.

Through the Outreach strand, the larger focus of the initiative, researchers develop and support informative and interactive educational experiences which vary in length and time commitment involved as well as those that are designed to meet the needs of different audiences with the ISV network — those new to PZ ideas, those familiar with some PZ frameworks who want to extend their learning to other frameworks and tools, and those with a long history of using certain frameworks who want to deepen and push their practice in new ways.

The importance of an educational support network to bounce ideas off has been incredibly valuable, and we're looking forward to seeing that grow into the future — PCC's 2018 STEM Conference date has just been set for 4 May (look out for your invitation if you're in our area).

Linking up with teachers from other schools and systems through online networks like SAIL can unlock a wealth of new ideas, activities, strategies and support, with students reaping the benefits.»

Funded by the Mayor of London and the Department of Education, the free programme also includes mentoring, twilight networking sessions and access to an online network to share ideas and receive additional support.

Collaboration is also very effective when it comes to effective CPD, so teachers should be given the opportunity to engage in team - working activities, both during and after training, to test ideas from different perspectives, develop new ideas and inclusive practices, and as a method of providing a professional support network.

The development of peer - to - peer networks for improving teach - ing provides teachers with better skills, but also with a social network that can continue to support them and the ongoing exchange of ideas and techniques necessary to increase instructional quality.

Speaking yesterday on previous comments, Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network that supports free school founders, rejected the idea that academies are not already overseen.

A new study based on the Annenberg Institute on School Reform's (AISR) work with the Transatlantic School Innovation Alliance (TISA) adds to the emerging literature supporting the idea that peer networks among educational practitioners, both within and across schools, can improve teaching and learning.In England, there has been a focus over the past decade on developing formal peer networks, especially in urban settings that have traditionally underperformed relative to other areas of the country.

Fueled by a belief in the power of social networks and social capital, these educational networks reflect the idea that when schools work together with one another or with other agencies, they can share their expertise and support one another's development, improvement and success more effectively than they can working on their own.

As schools and districts across the country struggled to find high - quality, well - prepared leadership capable of improving learning, a need emerged to identify and support home - grown, innovative ideas generated by local nonprofit and community organizations, and to create new learning networks through which knowledge about improving leadership could spread to others in the field.

Through this website, social media, the online community and membership in the SPN school network, a variety of resources and ideas will be shared to support your local awareness and advocacy initiatives.

Drawing from the best educational practices, as well as the success of other schools within the Brooklyn Prospect network, we have developed an academic environment where students can explore new ideas in a safe and small school setting with the support of a diverse community of students, families, teachers, and staff.

In addition to funding, winners receive support from Knight's network of influential peers and advisers to help advance their ideas.»

It combines elements of social network, blogging platform and, above all, it is a community with the goal of not just providing its members with an opportunity to present their work, their opinions and ideas, but to give them a voice, by providing a significant promotional support both within the Scriggler membership circles and outside.

But if you do, having a support network of family and friends is vital, because you need someone to vent to, to bounce ideas off of, and to brainstorm with.

Taking the themes of their original process - based project and expanding on them, Bonneviot and de Boer explore networks as support for sustainability and the idea that human networks are, in a sense, natural.

Angry, many of these artists formed a support network, led by Carl Holty, Harry Holtzman, and George L. K. Morris, and they began to meet informally at the studio of Ibram Lassaw, discussing ways to change the perception of their work and to bring more attention to their ideas and ideals.

The Symposium's mission to help develop a worldwide network of support for ceramic art was achieved by bringing together top ceramic artists from around the world for a month - long sharing of ideas and creation of innovative ceramics.

Get yourself a nice, little support network of fellow freelancers who are all working from home and could benefit from some shared company and the chance to bounce ideas off others.

Adding that, «The Sàn Art Board remains committed to the «Sàn Art Laboratory» alumni and being a network of critical support (where we talk to them about their ideas and techniques) that facilitates opportunities at home and abroad.»

Watermill provides a unique environment for emerging artists from around the world to explore new ideas and is a haven for artists, supporting their work among a network of international institutions and venues that embrace new interdisciplinary approaches.

There were a few abnormally harsh winters across the northern hemisphere, when the climate scientists had forecast unusually mild ones, «barbeque summers» that never materialized and suddenly even the global network of thermometers no longer supported the idea of continued warming — the planet had stopped warming.

Abstracts are invited for poster presentations that highlight important issues and facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas to design, build, implement, expand, and provide long - term support for an international Arctic observing systems network.